[OSL@UIUC]

Open Systems Laboratory

Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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 Complex Systems 
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 Multi-Agent Systems 
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Multi-Agent Systems

[Bibliography in .bib format]
  1. Moussa, Sherin, Gul Agha. "A Multi-agent Simulator for Resource Management in Smart Spaces," to appear in Proceedings of The International Workshop on Mobile Systems, E-commerce, and Agent Technology (MSEAT'2009), in conjunction with The Second IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing (U-Media'2009), Taiwan, December, 2009. [bib]
  2. Moussa, Sherin, Gul Agha. "An Agent-based Framework for Inhabitants’ Untraceability in Ubiquitous Environments," to appear in Proceedings of The 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (@WAS ERPAS'2009), Kuala Lampur. Malaysia, December, 2009. [bib]
  3. Moussa, Sherin, Gul Agha. "Integrating Encrypted Mobile Agents with Smart Homes," to appear in Proceedings of The Third International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS'2009), Cairo, Egypt, December, 2009. [bib]
  4. 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]
  5. 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]
  6. 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]
  7. 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]
  8. 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]
  9. Tosic, Predrag. "Computational Complexity of Counting in Sparsely Networked Discrete Dynamical Systems," InterJournal, paper #1738, www.interjournal.org, 2006. [pdf] [bib]
  10. Tosic, Predrag. "Modeling and Analysis of the Collective Dynamics of Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems: A Cellular and Network Automata based Approach," Department of Computer Science Technical Report (based on doctoral dissertation), UIUC, 2006. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  11. Tosic, Predrag. "On Modeling and Analyzing Sparsely Networked Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems with Cellular and Graph Automata," The Second Workshop on Modeling of Complex Systems with Cellular Automata (MCSCA06), in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Science ICCS'06 (part III); Springer's LNCS series, vol. 3993, pp. 272 - 280, 2006. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  12. Tosic, Predrag. "DISTRIBUTED COALITION FORMATION FOR COLLABORATIVE LARGE-SCALE MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS," M.S. thesis, 2006. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  13. Jang, Myeong-Wuk. "Efficient Communication and Coordination for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems," Ph.D. Dissertation, 2006. [pdf] [bib]
  14. Kwon, YoungMin, Sameer Sundresh, Kirill Mechitov, Gul Agha. "ActorNet: An Actor Platform for Wireless Sensor Networks," Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 1297-1300, 2006. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  15. Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Amr Ahmed, Gul Agha. "Efficient Communication in Multi-Agent Systems," Software Engineering for Scale Multi-Agent Systems III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3390, Springer-Verlag, pp. 236-253, 2005. [pdf] [bib]
  16. Ahmed, Amr, Abhilash Patel, Tom Brown, MyungJoo Ham, Myeong-Wuk Jang, Gul Agha. "Task Assignment for a Physical Agent Team via a Dynamic Forward/Reverse Auction Mechanism," The International Conference of Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems KIMAS '05: Modeling, Evolutions and Engineering, pp. 311-317, April 18 - 21, 2005. [pdf] [bib]
  17. 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]
  18. Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Gul Agha. "Adaptive Agent Allocation for Massivley Multi-agent Applications," Massively Multi-Agent Systems I, LNCS(LNAI) 3446, Springer-Verlag, pp. 25-39, 2005. [bib]
  19. Tosic, Predrag. "Cellular Automata for Distributed Computing: Models of Agent Interaction and Their Implications," IEEE Int'l Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics SMC'05 (CD-Rom); held in Waikoloa, The Big Island of Hawaii, October 10-12, 2005. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  20. Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Gul Agha. "Agent Framework Services to Reduce Agent Communication Overhead in Large-scale Agent-based Simulations," Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (Accepted in October), 2005. [bib]
  21. Tosic, Predrag, Gul Agha. "On Computational Complexity of Predicting Dynamical Evolution of Large Agent Ensembles," Proceedings of the Third European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems EUMAS '05, pp. 415-426, Flemish Academy of Sciences; held in Brussels, Belgium, December 7-8, 2005. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  22. Brown, Tom. "Decentralized Coordination with Crash Failures," , 2005. [pdf] [bib]
  23. Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Gul Agha. "Scalable Agent Distribution Mechanisms for Large-Scale UAV Simulations," The International Conference of Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems KIMAS '05: Scalable Agents Session, pp. 85-90, April 18-21, Waltham, Massachusetts, 2005. [pdf] [bib]
  24. Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Gul Agha. "Dynamic Agent Allocation for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Applications," International Workshop on Massively Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 19-33, Kyoto, Japan, December 10-11, 2004. [pdf] [bib]
  25. Agha, Gul, Carlos A. Varela. "Worldwide Computing Middleware," CRC Practical Handbook on Internet Computing, Editor: M. Singh, Invited Chapter., 2004. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  26. Tosic, Predrag, Gul Agha. "Characterizing Configuration Spaces of Simple Threshold Cellular Automata," Proc. ACRI 2004 ( 6th Int'l Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 25-27, Springer-Verlag LNCS series, vol. 3305, pp. 861 - 870, 2004. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  27. Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Amr Ahmed, Gul Agha. "A Flexible Coordination Framework for Application-Oriented Matchmaking and Brokering Services," Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2004-2430, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April, 2004. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  28. Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Gul Agha. "On Efficient Communication and Service Agent Discovery in Multi-agent Systems," Third International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS '04), pp. 27-33, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 24-25, 2004. [pdf] [bib]
  29. Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Amr Ahmed, Gul Agha. "ATSpace: A Middle Agent to Support Application-Oriented Matchmaking and Brokering Services," IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT(Intelligent Agent Technology)-2004, pp. 393-396, Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2004. [pdf] [bib]
  30. Tosic, Predrag, Gul Agha. "Concurrency vs. Sequential Interleavings in 1-D Threshold Cellular Automata," Proc. IEEE - IPDPS '04 (APDCM Workshop), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, April 26-30, 2004. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  31. Tosic, Predrag, Gul Agha. "Towards a Hierarchical Taxonomy of Autonomous Agents," Proc. IEEE Int'l Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (IEEE-SMC'04), The Hague, The Netherlands, Oct. 10-13, 2004. [pdf] [bib]
  32. 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]
  33. Chang, Po-Hao. "An Adaptive Distributed Object Framework for the Web," The combined 14th Workshop for PhD Students in Object-Oriented Systems and Doctoral Symposium, 2004. [pdf] [bib]
  34. 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]
  35. Patel, Abhilash. "A Swapping Mechanism for Dynamic Task Assignment in Multi-Agent Systems," Master's thesis, 2004. [pdf] [bib]
  36. Ziaei, Reza, Gul Agha. "SynchNet: A Petri Net Based Coordination Language for Distributed Objects," Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE), 2003. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  37. Sundresh, Sameer, Gul Agha, Kirill Mechitov, WooYoung Kim, YoungMin Kwon. "Coordination Services for Wireless Sensor Networks," International Workshop on Advanced Sensors, Structural Health Monitoring and Smart Structures, 2003. [doc] [pdf] [bib]
  38. Tosic, Predrag, Myeong-Wuk Jang, Smitha Reddy, Joshua Chia, Liping Chen, Gul Agha. "Modeling a System of UAVs on a Mission," Proc. 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI '03), pp. 508-514, July 27-30, 2003. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  39. Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Smitha Reddy, Predrag Tosic, Liping Chen, Gul Agha. "An Actor-based Simulation for Studying UAV Coordination," 15th European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2003), pp. 593-601, Delft, The Netherlands, October 26-29, 2003. [pdf] [bib]
  40. Tosic, Predrag, Gul Agha. "Understanding and Modeling Agent Autonomy in Dynamic Multi-Agent, Multi-Task Environments," Proc. First European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS '03) (Day 2, Panel 2 section), Oxford, England (UK), December 18-19, 2003. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  41. 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]
  42. Jamali, Nadeem, Gul Agha. "CyberOrgs: A Model for Decentralized Resource Control in Multi Agent Systems ," Proceedings of Workshop on Representations and Approaches for Time-Critical Decentralized Resource/Role/Task Allocation, at the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 03), Melbourne, Australia, July, 2003. [bib] [pdf]
  43. Milojicic, Dejan, Gul Agha, Philippe Bernadat, Deepika Chauhan, Shai Guday, Nadeem Jamali, Dan Lambright, Franco Travostino. "Case Studies in Security and Resource Management for Mobile Object Systems," Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, vol 2.1, pp 45-79, 2002. [pdf] [bib]
  44. Ahmed, Amr. "Reinforcement Learning for Multi-agent Teamwork," MSc. thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt, August, 2002. [bib]
  45. Sen, Koushik, Gul Agha. "Thin Middleware for Ubiquitous Computing," Process Coordination and Ubiquitous Computing, CRC Press, 2002. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  46. Agha, Gul, Prasanna Thati, Reza Razavi. "Actors: A Model for Reasoning about Open Distributed Systems," Formal methods for distributed processing: a survey of object-oriented approaches, 2001. [bib] [pdf]
  47. Varela, Carlos A.. "Worldwide Computing with Universal Actors: Linguistic Abstractions for Naming, Migration, and Coordination," Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April, 2001. [pdf] [ps.gz] [bib]
  48. Agha, Gul, Nadeem Jamali, Carlos A. Varela. "Agent Naming and Coordination: Actor Based Models and Infrastructures," in A. Omicini et al. (editors), Coordination of Internet Agents: Models, Technologies and Applications, Chap. 9, Springer Verlag, 2001. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  49. Thati, Prasanna, Po-Hao Chang, Gul Agha. "Crawlets: Agents for high performance web search engines," IEEE International Conference on Mobile Agents (MA), 2001. [ps] [bib]
  50. Mohindra, Ajay, Apratim Purakayastha, Prasanna Thati. "Exploiting non-determinism for reliability of mobile agent systems," International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2000. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  51. Venkatasubramanian, Nalini, Gul Agha, Carolyn Talcott. "A MetaObject Framework for QoS-Based Distributed Resource Management," Third International Symposium on Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments (ISCOPE '99), December, 1999. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  52. Varela, Carlos A., Gul Agha. "A Hierarchical Model for Coordination of Concurrent Activities," International Conference on Coordination (COORDINATION '99), LNCS 1594, pp 166-, 1999. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  53. Agha, Gul, Nadeem Jamali. "Concurrent Programming for Distributed Artificial Intelligence," in G. Weiss (Editor), Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Chap. 12, pp 505-534, MIT Press, 1999. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  54. Jamali, Nadeem, Prasanna Thati, Gul Agha. "An Actor-based architecture for customizing and controlling agent ensembles," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 14, no. 2, April, 1999. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  55. Venkatasubramanian, Nalini. "Resource Management in Open Distributed Systems with Applications to Distributed Multimedia," University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  56. Vardhan, Abhay. "Distributed Garbage Collection of Active Objects: A Transformation and its Applications to Java Programming," MS Thesis, University of Illinois, 1998. [pdf] [bib]
  57. Agha, Gul. "Abstracting Interaction Patterns: A Programming Paradigm for Open Distributed Systems," in Elie Najm and Jean-Bernard Stefani (editors), Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems, pp 135-153, Chapman and Hall (on behalf of the International Federation for Information Processing), 1997. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
  58. Venkatasubramanian, Nalini, Gul Agha. "An Actor Based Framework for Managing Multimedia QoS," Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (MISC '97), Como, Italy, pp 54-62, September, 1997. [pdf] [bib]