[OSL@UIUC]

Open Systems Laboratory

Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research
People
Publications
Utilities
 
 Research Theme 
 Application Areas 
 Complex Systems 
 Dependable Systems 
 Multi-Agent Systems 
 P2P and Web Computing 
 Sensor Networks and Real-Time Systems 
 Concurrent and Distributed Systems 
 Coordination Algorithms 
 Formal Methods 
 Programming Languages and Systems 
 Software Engineering 
 Software and Data 
 Actor Systems 
 Sensor Networks 
 Software Analysis and Testing Tools 
 Simulation software packages, "Taskhard", that were used in the papers ([SIGBED08] [CCMMS08] [SISN07] [KIMAS05]) are at http://osl.cs.uiuc.edu/taskhard.

[Bibliography in .bib format]
  1. Korthikanti, Vijay Anand Reddy, Gul Agha. "Analysis of Parallel Algorithms for Energy Conservation in Scalable Multicore Architectures," International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2009. [PDF] [PPT] [bib]
  2. Korthikanti, Vijay Anand Reddy, Prateek Mittal, Indranil Gupta. "Fair K Mutual Exclusion Algorithm for Peer to Peer Systems," International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2008. [pdf] [ppt] [bib]
  3. Ham, MyungJoo, Gul Agha. " Market-based Coordination Strategies for Physical Multi-Agent Systems," Special Issue on the RTSS Forum on Deeply Embedded Real-Time Computing, ACM SIGBED Review, Volume 5, Number 1, January 2008, 2008. [bib] [pdf] [ppt] [wmv]
  4. Ham, MyungJoo, Gul Agha. "A Study of Coordinated Dynamic Market-Based Task Assignment in Massively Multi-Agent Systems," Coordination and Control in Massively Multi-Agent Systems in Massively Multi-Agent Technology of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5043, pp. 43--63, 2008. [bib] [pdf]
  5. Ham, MyungJoo, Gul Agha. "A Robust Audit Mechanism to Prevent Malicious Behaviors in Multi-Robot Systems," Proccedings of IEEE SASO, pp. 35--44, 2008. [pdf] [ppt] [bib]
  6. Ham, MyungJoo, Gul Agha. "Market-based Coordination Strategies for Large-scale Multi-Agent Systems," System and Information Sciences Notes, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 126--131), 2007. [bib] [pdf] [ppt] [wmv] [wmv]
  7. Karmani, Rajesh Kumar, Timo Latvala, Gul Agha. "On Scaling Multi-Agent Task Reallocation Using Market-Based Approach," In the proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), 2007. [pdf] [slides] [bib]
  8. Tosic, Predrag. "DISTRIBUTED COALITION FORMATION FOR COLLABORATIVE LARGE-SCALE MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS," M.S. thesis, 2006. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  9. Uttamchandani, Sandeep, Li Yin, Guillermo Alvarez, John Palmer, Gul Agha. "Chameleon: a self-evolving, fully-adaptive resource arbitrator for storage systems," To Appear in the Proceedings of the 2005 USENIX Technical Conference, Anaheim, CA, April , 2005. [pdf] [bib]
  10. Yin, Li, Sandeep Uttamchandani, John Palmer, Randy Katz, Gul Agha. "AutoLoop: Automated Action Selection in the ," 6th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY'05), , 2005. [bib]
  11. Uttamchandani, Sandeep, Xiaoxin Yin, John Palmer, Gul Agha. "MonitorMining: Creating Domain Knowledge for System Automation Using a Gray-box Approach," To Appear in Proceedings of the Ninth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Nice, France, May, 2005. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  12. Uttamchandani, Sandeep, Li Yin, John Palmer, Randy Katz, Gul Agha. "Model-based Automation of the Observe-Analyze-Act Loop: Will it become a reality?," position paper submitted for review, 2005. [bib]
  13. Tosic, Predrag, Gul Agha. "Maximal Clique Based Distributed Coalition Formation for Task Allocation in Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems," MMAS'04 Post-Proceedings, Springer-Verlag LNAI series, vol. 3446, pp. 104-120, 2005. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  14. Uttamchandani, Sandeep, Guillermo Alvarez, Gul Agha. "DecisionQoS: an adaptive, self-evolving QoS arbitration module for storage systems," 5th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY 2004), pages 67-76, Yorktown, NY, June , 2004. [pdf] [bib]
  15. Uttamchandani, Sandeep, Kaladhar Voruganti, Sudarshan M. Srinivasan, John Palmer, David Pease. "Polus: Growing Storage QoS Management beyond a ," 3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '04) , 2004. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  16. Moussa, Sherin. "Hybrid Techniques For Performance Enhancement of Document Clustering," MSc. Thesis, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, Egypt, March, 2004. [pdf] [bib]
  17. Tosic, Predrag, Gul Agha. "Maximal Clique Based Distributed Group Formation for Autonomous Agent Coalitions," Coalitions and Teams Workshop (W10), within The Third Int'l Joint Conf. on Agents & Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS '04), Columbia University, New York City, USA, 2004. [pdf] [bib]
  18. Yih, Wen-Tau, Po-Hao Chang, WooYoung Kim. "Mining Online Deal Forums for Hot Deals," 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04), 2004. [pdf] [bib]
  19. Tosic, Predrag, Gul Agha. "Maximal Clique Based Distributed Group Formation for Task Allocation in Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems," Proc. Int'l Workshop on Massively Multi-Agent Systems, Kyoto, Japan, December 10-11, 2004. [pdf] [bib]
  20. Tosic, Predrag, Gul Agha. "Simple Genetic Algorithms for Pattern Learning: The Role of Crossovers," 5th Int'l Workshop on Frontiers in Evolutionary Algorithms (FEA'03), in Proc. Joint Conference on Information Systems, September 26-30, 2003. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  21. Moussa, Sherin. "The Effect of Word Sampling on Document Clustering," WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Volume 2, Issue 1, pages 157-162. January, 2003. [pdf] [bib]
  22. Ahmed, Amr, Nevin Darwish. "GTPOT-RL For Multiagent Teamwork," Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, Vol 50, No 3, June 2003, pp. 537-552. , 2003. [bib]
  23. Moussa, Sherin. "Determining Initial Starting Conditions For Documents Clustering," In Proceedings, 1st International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems (ICICIS 2002) , pages 275-283. Cairo, June, 2002. [pdf] [bib]
  24. Moussa, Sherin. "Analysis of Documents Clustering Using Sampled Agglomerative Technique," In Proceedings, 12th International Conference on Computer Theory and Applications, (ICCTA’2002) , pages 193-197. Alexandria, August, 2002. [pdf] [bib]
  25. Ahmed, Amr. "Reinforcement Learning for Multi-agent Teamwork," MSc. thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt, August, 2002. [bib]