PUBLICATIONS

 

If you are interested in the following papers or would like to have an electronic copy of the papers, please e-mail us at lksoh@cse.unl.edu.

 

Supporting and Scaffolding Human Coalitions

L.-K. Soh and N. Khandaker (2007).  Forming and Scaffolding Human Coalitions with a Multiagent Framework, in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’2007), Hawaii.

N. Khandaker and L.-K. Soh (2007).  Formation and Scaffolding Human Coalitions in I-MINDS – A Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environment, in Technical Report of the AAMAS’2007 Workshop on Agent-Based Systems for Human Learning and Entertainment (ABSHLE).

Multiagent Coalition Formation and Negotiation

L.-K. Soh, C. Tsatsoulis, and H. Sevay (2003).  A Satisficing, Learning, and Negotiated Coalition Formation Architecture, in Distributed Sensor Networks: A Multiagent Perspective, V. Lesser, M. Tambe and C. Ortiz (eds.), Kluwer Publishing, Chapter 7, pp.109-138.

X. Li and L.-K. Soh (2005) Hybrid Negotiation for Resource Coordination in Multiagent Systems, Web Agents and Intelligent Systems, 3(4):231-259. 

L.-K. Soh and C. Tsatsoulis (2005).  A Real-Time Negotiation Model and A Multi-Agent Sensor Network Implementation, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 11:215-271. 

Li, X. and L.-K. Soh (2004).  Learning How to Plan and Instantiate a Plan in Multi-Agent Coalition Formation, in Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT2004), Beijing, China, September 20-24, 133-139. 

L.-K. Soh and X. Li (2004).  Multiagent Coalition Formation for Distributed, Adaptive Resource Allocation, in Proceedings of the ICAI’2004, Las Vegas, NV, June 21-24, pp. 372-378.

L.-K. Soh and X. Li (2004).  Adaptive, Confidence-Based Multiagent Negotiation Strategy, in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’2004), New York, NY, July 19-23, pp. 1048-1055.

X. Li and L.-K. Soh (2003).  The Use of Hybrid Negotiation in Resource Coordination among Agents, in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT2003), Halifax, Canada, October 13-17, 133-139. 

L.-K. Soh and X. Li (2003).  An Integrated Multilevel Learning Approach to Multiagent Coalition Formation, Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Acapulco, Mexico, August 12-15, 619-624.

L.-K. Soh and X. Li (2003).  A Learning-Based Coalition Formation Model for Multiagent Systems, Proceedings of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’03), Melbourne, Australia, 1120-1121.

L.-K. Soh and C. Tsatsoulis (2003).  Utility-Based Multiagent Coalition Formation with Incomplete Information and Time Constraints, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Washington, D.C., 1481-1486.

L.-K. Soh and C. Tsatsoulis (2002).  Satisficing Coalition Formation among Agents, Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Bologna, Italy.

L.-K. Soh and C. Tsatsoulis (2001).  Reflective Negotiating Agents for Real-Time Multisensor Target Tracking, in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’01), August 6-11, Seattle, WA, pp. 1121-1127.

L.-K. Soh, C. Tsatsoulis, M. Jones, and A. Agah (2001). Evolving Cases for Case-Based Reasoning Multiagent Negotiations, in Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’01), July 7-11, San Francisco, CA, p. 909.

X. Li and L.-K. Soh (2004).  Investigating Reinforcement Learning in Multiagent Coalition Formation, Technical Report WS-04-06 of the AAAI’2004 Workshop on Forming and Maintaining Coalitions and Teams in Adaptive Multiagent Systems, San Jose, CA, July 26, pp. 22-28.

Li, X., Q. Tao, and L.-K. Soh (2004).  Learning Negotiation Approach Selection with SVM, in Proceedings of the AAMAS 2004 Workshop on Learning, New York, NY, July, pp. 56-57.

Li, X. and L.-K. Soh (2004).  Learning-Based Multi-Phase Coalition Formation, in Proceedings of the AMAS 2004 Workshop on Coalitions and Teams, New York, NY, July, pp. 9-16.

L.-K. Soh and C. Tsatsoulis (2002).  Learning to Form Negotiation Coalitions in a Multiagent System, Working Notes of AAAI Spring Symposium on Collaborative Learning Agents, Stanford, CA, March 25-27, pp. 106-112.

L.-K. Soh and C. Tsatsoulis (2002).  Allocation Algorithms in Dynamic Negotiation-Based Coalition Formation, in the Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Workshop on Teamwork and Coalition Formation, Bologna, Italy, July 15-19.

L.-K. Soh and C. Tsatsoulis (2002).  Real-Time Satisficing Multiagent Coalition Formation, in the Working Notes of the AAAI Workshop on Coalition Formation in Dynamic Multiagent Environments, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 28-August 1, pp. 7-15.

L.-K. Soh and C. Tsatsoulis (2001).  Agent-Based Argumentative Negotiations with Case-Based Reasoning, Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium Series on Negotiation Methods for Autonomous Cooperative Systems, November 1-4, North Falmouth, MA, pp. 16-25.

Multiagent Cooperative Learning

L.-K. Soh and J. Luo (2004).  Cautious Cooperative Learning for Automated Reasoning in a Multiagent System, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press.

L.-K. Soh and C. Chen (2004). Balancing Ontological and Operational Factors in Refining Multiagent Neighborhoods, to appear in AAMAS’2005, Utrecht, Netherlands.

C. Chen and L.-K. Soh (2004).  Adaptive Learning to Optimize Resource Management in a Multiagent Framework, in Proceedings of the ICAI’2004, Las Vegas, NV, June 21-24, pp. 386-389.

L.-K. Soh (2004).  Cautious Cooperative Learning with Case-Based Reasoning, in Proceedings of the FLAIRS’2004, May 16-19, Miami Beach, FL, pp. 196-201.

L.-K. Soh (2004).  Experience-Based Resource Description and Selection in Multiagent Information Retrieval, in Proceedings of the FLAIRS’2004, May 16-19, Miami Beach, FL, pp. 8-13.

L.-K. Soh and J. Luo (2003).  Combining Individual and Cooperative Learning for Multiagent Negotiations, Proceedings of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’03), Melbourne, Australia, 1122-1123.

L.-K. Soh (2004).  On Cooperative Learning Teams for Multiagent Team Formation, Technical Report WS-04-06 of the AAAI’2004 Workshop on Forming and Maintaining Coalitions and Teams in Adaptive Multiagent Systems, San Jose, CA, July 26, pp. 37-44.

L.-K. Soh (2004).  Using Multiagent Profiling for Distributed Information Retrieval, to in Proceedings of the AAMAS 2004 Workshop on Modeling Other Agents from Observations (MOO’04), New York, NY, July, pp. 121-124.

L.-K. Soh (2003).  Collaborative Understanding of Distributed Ontologies in a Multiagent Framework: Design and Experiments, in Proceedings of AAMAS 2003 Workshop on Ontology in Agent Systems (OAS), Melbourne, Australia, pp. 47-54.

L.-K. Soh and J. Luo (2003).  Muiltiagent Case-Based Reasoning through Individual and Cooperative Learning, Proceedings of the IJCAI 2003 Workshop on Agents and Automated Reasoning, Acapulco, Mexico, 44-51.

L.-K. Soh (2002).  A Multiagent Framework for Collaborative Conceptual Learning Using a Dempster-Shafer Belief System, Working Notes of AAAI Spring Symposium on Collaborative Learning Agents, Stanford, CA, March 25-27, pp. 9-16.

L.-K. Soh (2002).  Multiagent Distributed Ontology Learning, the Working Notes of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Workshop on Ontologies in Agent System, Bologna, Italy, July 15-19.

Intelligent Agents in Intelligent Tutoring

L.-K. Soh (2007).  Integrated Introspective Case-Based Learning for Intelligent Tutoring Systems, accepted to the 22nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’07), July 22-26, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

L.-K. Soh and T. Blank (2007).  Integrating Case-Based Reasoning and Multistrategy Learning for a Self-Improving Intelligent Tutoring System, accepted to International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. 

L.-K. Soh (2005).  Agent-Supported Interface for Online Tutoring, in C. Ghaoui (ed.) (2005) Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction, 348-354, London, UK: Idea Group Reference.

L.-K. Soh and L. D. Miller (2005).  Analyzing Student Motivation and Self-Efficacy in Using an Intelligent Tutoring System, in Proceedings of International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE’2005), November 28 – December 2, Singapore, 896-899. 

L.-K. Soh and T. Blank (2005).  An Intelligent Agent that Learns How to Tutor Students: Design and Results, in Proceedings of International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE’2005), November 28 – December 2, Singapore, 420-427.  Best Paper Award.

 L.-K. Soh, T. Blank, and L.D. Miller (2005). Intelligent Agents that Learn to Deliver Online Materials to Students Better: Agent Design, Simulation and Assumptions, in C. Chaoui, M. Jain, V. Bannore, and L. C. Jain (eds.) Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing: Knowledge-Based Virtual Education, Chapter 3, Volume 178, May 2005, pp. 49-80.

L.-K. Soh, T. Blank, L. D. Miller, and S. Person (2005).  ILMDA: An Intelligent Learning Materials Delivery Agent and Simulation, Proceedings of the International Electro-Information Technology Conference, May 22-25, Lincoln, NE.

T. Blank, L. D. Miller, L.-K. Soh and S. Person (2004). Case-Based Learning Mechanisms to Deliver Learning Materials, Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA’2004), Louisville, KY, December 16-18, pp. 423-428.

Multiagent Systems in Computer-Aided Education

L.-K. Soh, N. Khandaker, and H. Jiang (2007).  I-MINDS: A Multiagent System for Intelligent Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning and Classroom Management, submitted to Int. Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. Accepted with minor revisions (May 2007)

N. Khandaker, L.-K. Soh, and H. Jiang (2006).  Student Learning and Team Formation in a Structured CSCL Environment, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE), Beijing, China, November 30-December 4, pp. 185-192.

L.-K. Soh, N. Khandaker, and H. Jiang (2006).  Multiagent Coalition Formation for Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning, in Proceedings of the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI’2006), July 17-20, Boston, MA, pp. 1844-1851.

L.-K. Soh, N. Khandaker, X. Liu, and H. Jiang (2006).  A Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning System with Multiagent Intelligence, in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’2006), May 8-12, Hakodate, Japan, pp. 1556-1563. 

L.-K. Soh and H. Jiang (2006).  Commercializing a Multiagent-Supported Collaborative System, in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’2006), May 8-12, Hakodate, Japan, pp. 1522-1529. 

L.-K. Soh and H. Jiang (2005).  Intelligent Multiagent Cooperative Learning System, in C. Ghaoui (ed.) (2005) Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction, 18-23, London, UK: Idea Group Reference. 

L.-K. Soh, N. Khandaker, X. Liu, and H. Jiang (2005).  Computer-Supported Structured Cooperative Learning, in Proceedings of International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE’2005), November 28 – December 2, Singapore, 428-435. 

X. Zhang, L.-K. Soh, H. Jiang, and X. Liu (2005). Using Multiagent Intelligence to Support Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning, in C. Chaoui, M. Jain, V. Bannore, and L. C. Jain (eds.) Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing: Knowledge-Based Virtual Education, Chapter 5, Volume 178, May 2005, pp. 111-140.

L.-K. Soh, X. Zhang, X. Liu, and H. Jiang (2005). Intelligent Collaborating Agents to Support Teaching and Learning, in PytlikZillig, M. Bodvarsson, and R. Bruning (Eds.) Technology-Based Education: Bringing Researchers and Practitioners Together, Chapter 10, pp. 203-224, Information Age Publishing.

L.-K. Soh, X. Liu, X. Zhang, J. Al-Jaroodi, H. Jiang, P. Vermuri (2004).  I-MINDS: An Agent-Oriented Information System for Applications in Education, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI 3030) Series Agent-Oriented Information Systems, Springer-Verlag, pp.16-31.

X. Zhang, L.-K. Soh, X. Liu, and H. Jiang (2005).  Intelligent Collaborating Agents to Support Teaching and Learning, Proceedings of the International Electro-Information Technology Conference, May 22-25, Lincoln, NE..

Soh, L.-K., H. Jiang, and C. Ansorge (2004).  Agent-Based Cooperative Learning: A Proof-of-Concept Experiment, Proceedings of the 35th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’2004), March 3-7, Norfolk, VA, pp. 368-372.

X. Liu, X. Zhang, L.-K. Soh, J. Al-Jaroodi, and H. Jiang (2003).  A Distributed, Multiagent Infrastructure for Real-Time, Virtual Classrooms, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE2003), Hong Kong, China, December 2-5, pp. 640-647.

X. Liu, X. Zhang, J. Al-Jaroodi, P. Vemuri, H. Jiang, and L.-K. Soh (2003).  I-MINDS: An Application of Multiagent System Intelligence to On-Line Education, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Washington, D.C., October, 4864-4871.

L.-K. Soh, X. Liu, X. Zhang, J. Al-Jaroodi, H. Jiang, P. Vermuri (2003).  I-MINDS: An Agent-Oriented Information System for Applications in Education, in Proceedings of AAMAS 2003 Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS), Melbourne, Australia, pp. 2-8.

Intelligent Agents in Other Applications

J. Kite and L.-K. Soh (2005).  An Online Survey Framework Using the Life Events Calendar, Proceedings of the International Electro-Information Technology Conference, May 22-25, Lincoln, NE.

T. Blank, L.-K. Soh and S. Scott (2004).  Creating a SVM to Play Strong Poker, Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA’2004), Louisville, KY, December 16-18, pp. 150-155.

J. Glasser and L.-K. Soh (2004).  Learning in a Real-Time, Dynamic Environment, Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA’2004), Louisville, KY, December 16-18, pp. 57-64.

G. Yu, L.-K. Soh, and A. Bond (2005).  K-Means Clustering with Multiresolution Peak Detection, Proceedings of the International Electro-Information Technology Conference, May 22-25, Lincoln, NE.

L.-K. Soh, H. Sevay, and C. Tsatsoulis (1998).  MAGE:  Multi-Agent Graphical Environment, in the Proceedings of the 1999 AAAI Symposium Spring Series, Intelligent Agents in Cyberspace, pp. 128-135.

Teaching Multiagent Systems

Soh, L.-K. (2004). Using Game Days to Teach a Multiagent Systems Class, Proceedings of the 35th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’2004), March 3-7, Norfolk, VA, pp. 219-223.

L.-K. Soh (2003).  Teaching with Game Days:  Designs, Expectations, and Lessons Learned, in Proceedings of the 38th American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Midwest Section Conference, University of Missouri-Rolla, MO, September 10-12.

Surveys

C. Tsatsoulis and L.-K. Soh (2000). Intelligent Agents in Telecommunication Networks, in Computational Intelligence in Telecommunications Networks, W. Pedrycz and A. V. Vasilakos (eds.), CRC Press, Chapter 19, pp. 480-504.

Ph.D. Dissertations and M.S. Theses and Project Reports

Jared Kite, M.S. Thesis (Advisor), 2003-2007, June 2007: A Flexible Framework for Knowledge Engineering and Automation of An Adaptive Conversational Case-Retrieval System

Xin Li, Ph.D. CS (Advisor), 2001-2007 (April 12, 2007): Improving Multi-Agent Coalition Formation in Complex Environments

Todd Blank, M.S. Thesis, CS (Advisor), 2003-2005, November 2005:  ILMDA: An Intelligent Tutoring System with Integrated Learning

Nobel Khandaker, MS. Thesis, CS (Advisor), 2004-2005, August 2005:  VALCAM – An Auction Based Learning Enabled Multiagent Coalition Formation Algorithm for Real-World Applications

Kye Halsted, M.S. Project, CS (Advisor), 2002-2004, December 2004: Predator/Prey Domains: Analyzing Multiagent Communication in a Noisy Environment

Xuesong Zhang, M.S. Thesis, CS (Co-Advisor), 2002-2004, December 2004: I-MINDS: An Intelligent Multiagent System Supported Teaching and Cooperative Learning Environment

Suresh Namala, M.S. Project, CS (Advisor), 2002-2004, November 2004: An Intelligence Module for I-MINDS

Chao Chen, M.S. Thesis, CS (Advisor), 2002-2004, November 2004: A Multiagent Approach Using Ontology and Operational Learning to Improve Distributed Information Retrieval

Ashok Thirunavukkarasu, M.S. Project, CS (Advisor), 2003-2004, July 2004: Relaxed Database Retrieval

Jeremy Glasser, M.S. Thesis, CS (Advisor), 2002-2004, May 2004: Using Adaptive Agents to Create a Continuous Challenge in Computer Games

Jingfei Xu, M.S. Project, CS (Advisor), 2002-2003, July 2003: Operational Distributed Ontology Learning in a Multi-Agent System

Juan Luo, M.S. Project, CS (Advisor), 2001-2003, May 2003: Case-Based Learning Behavior in a Real Time Multi-Agent System

 


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