Xiaoqin Zhang

Assistant Professor

DION   302C
Phone: 508-999-8294
Fax:   508-999-9144
E-mail: x2zhang@umassd.edu
Office Hours (Spring, 2008): Mon. 10 AM - 12 PM;  Wed. & Fri. 10 - 11 AM.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Teaching 

Spring 2008

CIS 455 - Bioinformatics

Past Courses
CIS 160 - Exploring Computer Programming With Animation
CIS 180 - Object Oriented Programming
CIS 210 - Understanding  E-commerce Technologies
CIS 261 - Computer programming, FORTRAN
CIS 360 - Algorithms and Data Structures
CIS 412 - Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
CIS 561 - Artificial Intelligence
CIS 563 - MultiAgent Systems

CIS Seminar Series - CIS 599 Graduate Seminar Course

Research 

My research interests include multi-agent systems, sophisticated negotiation and cooperation in multi-agent systems, intelligent agent architecture designing, agent control and reasoning under uncertainty, learning in multi-agent systems, information gathering, e-commerce, distributed systems and artificial intelligence.

Current Grants

1. Research Grant from DAPRA/IPTO (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency / Information Processing Technology Office) on Generalized Integrated Learning Architecture (GILA).


2. Research Grant from ONR (Office of Naval Research) on Build User Interface Agent to Enhance Underwater Vehicle Launch Dynamics Simulation (UVLDS).

Presentations

Meta-Level Coordination for Solving Negotiation Chains in Semi-Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems. In the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. May 14-18 2007. Honolulu, Hawaii.

Towards Automated Development of Multi-Agent Systems Using RADE. In 2006 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI-06). June 26-29, 2006. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Invited Talk At UMass Lowell (May 3,2006)  -  download
  Automatic formation and Analysis of Virtual Organization
 
 CIS Seminar (April 04,2003)  -  download
  Integrative Negotiation In Complex Organizational Agent Systems

Publications