Presentations

Coordinating Agent’s Meta-level Control
AAAI 2008, Workshop on Metareasoning: Thinking about Thinking, Chicago, IL, July 2008.

Controlling Deliberation in a Markov Decision Process-Based Agent,
AAMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 2008.

Design Paradigms for Meta-Control in Multi-Agent Systems
AAMAS 2007 Workshop on Metareasoning in Agent Based Systems, Honolulu, HI, May 2007.

Introspective Self-Explanation in Analytical Agents
AAMAS 2007 Workshop on Metareasoning in Agent Based Systems, Honolulu, HI, May 2007.

Reasoning about Information Foraging
Pacific National Labs, Pasco, WA, July 2006.

Leveraging Problem Classification in Online Meta-Cognition
COORDINATORs Phase-2 Kickoff Meeting, LasVegas NV, May 23, 2006.

Leveraging Problem Classification in Online Meta-Cognition
AAAI 2006 Spring Symposium on Distributed Plan and Schedule Management, Stanford, CA, March 2006.

Doing the Right Thing in Multi-Agent Systems
Invited Talk, Computer and Information Sciences Colloquium Series, Temple University, Philadelphia. February 24, 2006

A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Information Foraging
Visual Analytics Center, UNCC, December 1, 2005

MetaCognition in Coordinators
COORDINATORs PI Meeting, Boston MA, September 2005.

Reasoning about Coordination Costs in Resource-Bounded Multi-Agent Systems. AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium on Bridging the multiagent and multirobotic research gap, Stanford, CA, March 2004.

Meta-level Control in Bounded-Rational Agents
Department Seminar, University of Maryland Baltimore County. December 2003.

Meta-level Control in Bounded-Rational Agents
Invited Talk at Machine Learning and Friends Lunch Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. April 2003.

Meta-level Control in Multi-Agent Systems.
AAAI/KDD/UAI-2002 Joint Workshop on Real-Time Decision Support and Diagnosis Systems, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. July 2002.

Reasoning about Uncertainty in Agent Control.
Joint meeting of the 5th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2001) and the 7th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS 2001), Orlando, FL, July 22-25, 2001.

Toward Robust Agent Control in Uncertain Environments.
Autonomous Agents 2000, Barcelona, Spain. Jun 2000

Integrating High-Level and Detailed Agent Coordination into a Layered Architecture
Workshop on MAS Infrastructure and Requirements. Autonomous Agents 2000, Barcelona, Spain

Reasoning about Uncertainty in Design-to-Criteria Scheduling
AAAI Spring Symposium Series 2000, Stanford, CA, Mar 22, 2000

Applying Design-to-Criteria scheduling to leverage ongoing Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) mission management.
Addendum to DARPA review meeting on CEROS. Oahu, Hawaii, Jan 31, 2000

Extensions to BIG: A Resource-Bounded Information Gathering System
AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems, Orlando, FL. July 1999.

BIG: A Resource-Bounded Information Gathering agent.
AAAI'98, Madison Wisconsin, July 27, 1998.
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The JIL->TAEMS->MDP Transformation.
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