Selected
Publications
Note:
the papers linked from here are not the
final published versions, they are unofficial drafts orvided only for
research and education purpose. The
publishers own the copy right of all published papers.
Book Chapters
- Victor Lesser, Jiaying Shen, Ingo Weber and Xiaoqin Shelley
Zhang, "
Formal Analysis of Negotiation Protocols for Task Allocation",
in the book Negotiation and Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems.
Edited by Fernando Lopes and Helder Coelho, Bentham Science Publishers.
2014. ISBN: 978-1-60805-825-9. Pages.149-190.
- Soheil Sibdari and Xiaoqin Zhang, "Bidding
Strategies of
Automated Agents in Supply Chain Management" in the book Bidding:
Types, Strategies and the Impact of Irrationality, Edited by Ming Lim,
Nova Science Publishers. 2013. ISBN: 978-1-62808-057-5. Pages 25-38.
- Xiaoqin Zhang, Haiping Xu & Bhavesh Shrestha, "Building
Health Care Multi-agent Simulation System With Role-Based Modeling",
in
the book Health Information Systems: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools,
and Applications. Edited by: Raman Paranjape, IGI Global, 2010. Pages
694-716.
Journal
Publications
- Jason B. Williams (UMD student) and Xiaoqin Zhang. Combining
affective intelligence with learning to improve action selection in
decision-making agents. International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent
Systems, 15(1):27-53, April 2019.
- Trib Puri , Soheil Sibdari and Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang, Improving Credit
Scoring
Quality through Virtual Organization (VO) Formation, Journal of
Contemporary Management, Page 25-38. Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2017. Better
Advances Press, Canada.
- Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang and Victor Lesser, Meta-level
Coordination for Solving Distributed Negotiation Chains in
Semi-cooperative Multi-agent Systems, Group Decision and
Negotiation, July 2013, Volume 22, Issue 4, pp 681-713. Springer
Netherlands, Url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10726-012-9287-5.
- Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang, Sungwook Yoon, Phillip DiBona, Darren
Scott Appling, Li Ding, Janardhan Rao Doppa, Derek Green, Jinhong K.
Guo, Ugur Kuter, Geoff Levine, Reid L. MacTavish, Daniel McFarlane,
James R Michaelis, Hala Mostafa, Santiago Ontanon, Charles Parker,
Jainarayan Radhakrishnan, Anton Rebguns, Bhavesh Shrestha (UMD
student), Zhexuan Song, Ethan B. Trewhitt, Huzaifa Zafar, Chongjie
Zhang, Daniel Corkill, Gerald DeJong, Thomas G. Dietterich, Subbarao
Kambhampati, Victor Lesser, Deborah L. McGuinness, Ashwin Ram, Diana
Spears, Prasad Tadepalli, Elizabeth T. Whitaker, Weng-Keen Wong, James
A. Hendler, Martin O. Hofmann, Kenneth Whitebread. An
Ensemble
Architecture for Learning Complex Problem-Solving Techniques From
Demonstration. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and
Technology 3, 4, Article 75 (September 2012), 38 pages.
DOI=10.1145/2337542.2337560 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2337542.2337560 .
- Soheil Sibdari, Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang, and Saban Singh (UMD
student). A
Dynamic Programming Approach for Agent's Bidding Strategy in TAC-SCM
Game. International Journal of Operational Research (IJOR) 2012 -
Vol. 14, No.2 pp. 121 - 134.
- Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang, Ping Xuan and Bhumit Patel (UMD student), "Management
Techniques for Multiagent Virtual Organization", Systemics and
Informatics World Network, Vol. 10, Page 109-120, July, 2010.
- Xiaoqin Zhang, Haiping Xu and Bhavesh Shrestha. An
Integrated Role-Based Approach for Modeling, Designing and Implementing
Multi-Agent Systems. Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society
(JCBS): Special Issue on Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems.
Vol. 13(1): 45-60, July 2007.
- Haiping Xu, Xiaoqin Zhang and Rinkesh J. Patel. Developing
Role-Based Open Multi-Agent Software Systems. International Journal
of Computational Intelligence: Theory and Practice. Vol. 2(1): 39-56,
June 2007.
- Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser and Tom Wagner. Integrative
Negotiation Among Agents Situated in Organizations. IEEE
Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics: Part C, Vol. 36(1):
19-30, January, 2006.
- Qinhe Zheng, Xiaoqin Zhang . Automatic
Formation and analysis of Multi-agent Virtual organization.
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JCBS) Special Issue on
Agents Organizations, Vol. 11(1): 74-89, July, 2005.
- Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor
Lesser and Sherief Abdallah. Efficient
Management of Multi-Linked Negotiation Based on a Formalized Model. Journal of Autonomous
Agents and MultiAgent Systems, Vol. 10 (2): 165-205. (March, 2005).
- Xiaoqin
Zhang, Victor Lesser, Rodion Podorozhny. Multi-Dimensional,
MultiStep Negotiation for Task Allocation in a Cooperative System.
Journal
of Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, Vol. 10 (1): 5-40.
(January, 2005).
-
Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser and Tom Wagner. A
Layered Approach
to Complex Negotiations. (WIAS) Web Intelligence and Agent
Systems:
An International Journal. Vol 2. No. 2. 2004.
- Lesser, V.; Decker, K.; Wagner, T.; Carver, N.;
Garvey, A.;
Horling, B.; Neiman, D.; Podorozhny, R.; NagendraPrasad, M.; Raja, A.;
Vincent, R.; Xuan, P.; Zhang, X.Q. Evolution
of the GPGP/TAEMS
Domain-Independent Coordination Framework.
Journal of Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, Volume
9:1&2,pp.
87-143, 2004.
- Victor
Lesser, Bryan
Horling, Frank Klassner, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, and Shelley XQ.
Zhang. BIG:
An Agent for Resource-Bounded Information Gathering and Decision Making. Artificial Intelligence Journal,
Special Issue on Internet Information Agents, Volume 118, Number 1-2,
pp.
197-244, May 2000, Elsevier Science. Also available as UMass Computer
Science
Technical Report 1998-52.
- Victor
Lesser, Bryan
Horling, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, and Xiaoqin Zhang.
Resource-Bounded Searches
in an
Information Marketplace. IEEE Internet Computing: Agents on
the
Net,
Volume 4, Number 2, pp. 49-57, March 2000, IEEE Computer Society
Publications.
Highly refereed conference publications
- Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang, Vaishnavi Guduguntla, Kalyani Emani,
Gaurav Kulkarni, and Pavan Kaparthi. Get
smart on
information-sharing in social networks. In Fernando G. Tinetti
Hamid R. Arabnia, Leonidas Deligiannidis and Quoc-Nam Tran, editors,
Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Computational
Science and Computational Intelligence, pages 1254-1259. IEEE
Computer Society. ISBN-13: 978-1-7281- 1360-9. December 2018.
Acceptance rate 19%.
- Justin Lovinger and Xiaoqin Zhang, Enhanced
Simplified Memory-bounded A Star (SMA*+), the 3rd Global Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI 2017), Christoph Benzmźller,
Christine
Lisetti and Martin Theobald (editors), vol 50, pages 202-212. October
19-22, 2017. Miami, USA.
- Xiaoqin Zhang, Sadhana Kuthuru, Ramya Mara, and Brahmi
Mamillapalli, Personalized
Recommendation with Confidence, 2016 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Web Intelligence, Page 578-581. October 13-16, 2016.
Omaha, Nebraska.
- Brett Hannan (UMD student), Xiaoqin Zhang,
Kristen Sethares, iHands:
Intelligent Health Advising and Decision-Support Agent, the 2014
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
(IAT 2014). Proceedings. Pages 294-301. August 11-14, 2014, Warsaw,
Poland.
- Zhang, Xiaoqin Shelley, Klein, Mark and Ivan Marsa Maestre, Scalable
Complex
Contract Negotiation With Structured Search and Agenda Management,
the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-14).
Proceedings. Pages 1507-1514. July 27-31, 2014, Quebec City, Canada.
Acceptance rate of 28%.
- Zhang, Xiaoqin Shelley; Klein, Mark, "Hierarchical Negotiation
Model for Complex Problems with Large-Number of Interdependent Issues,"
Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), 2012
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on, vol.2, no., pp.126 -133, 4-7
Dec.
- Xiaoqin Zhang, Soheil Sibdari, Saban Singh (UMD student). An
Optimization Method for Agent's Bidding Strategy in TAC-SCM Game.
Francesco Buccafurri, Giovanni Semeraro (Eds.): E-Commerce and Web
Technologies, 11th International Conference, EC-Web 2010, Bilbao,
Spain, September 1-3, 2010. Proceedings. Pages 172-183. Lecture Notes
in Business Information Processing 61 Springer 2010, ISBN
978-3-642-15207-8.
- Xiaoqin Zhang and Aliasgar Dahodwala (UMD student) and Ping
Xuan, Cooperative
Team Formation among Agents with Social-Relation Awareness,
Proceedings of the IADIS International Intelligent Systems and Agents
2010 (ISA 2010) Conference, Freiburg, Germany, July, 2010. Pages 43-50.
Edited by Ant—nio Palma dos Reis and Ajith P. Abraham. ISBN:
978-972-8939-23-6.
- Xiaoqin (Shelley) Zhang, Sungwook Yoon, Phillip DiBona, Darren
Scott Appling, Li Ding, Janardhan Rao Doppa, Derek Green, Jinhong K.
Guo, Ugur Kuter, Geoff Levine, Reid L. MacTavish, Daniel McFarlane,
James R Michaelis, Hala Mostafa, Santiago Onta–—n, Charles Parker,
Jainarayan Radhakrishnan, Anton Rebguns, Bhavesh Shrestha (UMD
student), Zhexuan Song, Ethan B. Trewhitt, Huzaifa Zafar, Chongjie
Zhang, Daniel Corkill, Gerald DeJong, Thomas G. Dietterich, Subbarao
Kambhampati, Victor Lesser, Deborah L. McGuinness, Ashwin Ram, Diana
Spears, Prasad Tadepalli, Elizabeth T. Whitaker, Weng-Keen Wong, James
A. Hendler, Martin O. Hofmann, Kenneth Whitebread. "An Ensemble
Learning and Problem Solving Architecture for Airspace Management",
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference on Innovative
Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-09). Pages 203-210. July
14-16, 2009. Pasadena, California, USA.
- Anita Raja, Michael Barley and Shelley Xiaoqin Zhang. Towards
Safe
Coordination in MultiAgent Systems, Proceedings of
LNAI Hot Topics : Safety and Security in Multiagent systems: The
Early Years, pp: 1-7, volume 4324, editors: M. Barley, H. Mouratidis,
A. Unruh , D. Spears, P. Scerri, F. Massacci, 2009.
- Danielle J. Stack (UMD student), Xiaoqin Zhang and Christopher
Harding. Developing Intelligent Agent to Support Legacy Software. In
Hamid R. Arabnia, Azita Bahrami (Eds.): Proceedings of the 2008
International Conference on E-Learning, E-Business, Enterprise
Information Systems, and E-Government, EEE 2008, July 14-17, 2008, Las
Vegas, Nevada, USA. Page 165-171. CSREA Press 2008, ISBN 1-60132-063-9.
Acceptance rate 26%.
- Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser. Meta-Level
Coordination for Solving Negotiation Chains in Semi-Cooperative
Multi-Agent Systems. In proceedings of the Sixth International
Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS
07), pages 50-57, May 14-18, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii. Acceptance rate
22%.
- Rodion Podorozhny, Sarfraz Khurshid, Dewayne Perry, and Xiaoqin
Zhang. Verification of Multi-agent
Negotiations using the Alloy Analyzer. In proceedings of the
Integrated Formal Methods Conference, pages 501-517. July 2-5,
2007. (IFM 2007).
Oxford, UK.
- Xiaoqin Zhang, Haiping Xu, Towards
Automated Development of Multi-Agent Systems Using RADE. In
Proceedings of the the 2006 International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (ICAI-06), pages 44-50. June 26-29, 2006. Las Vegas,
Nevada,
USA.
- Haiping
Xu, Xiaqin Zhang, A
Methodology for Role-Based Modeling of Open Multi-Agent Software Systems.
In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise
Information Systems (ICSIS 2005), pages 246-253. May 24-28, 2005.
Miami, USA.
- Shen, Jiaying; Zhang, Xiaoqin; and
Lesser, Victor. Degree
of Local
Cooperation and its Implication on Global Utility. In Proceedings
of Third
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent
Systems
(AAMAS 2004). Volume 2, IEEE Computer Society, pages, 546-553. July
2004. Acceptance rate 23%.
- Xiaoqin
Zhang, Victor Lesser and Tom Wagner. A Two-Level Negotiation Framework for Complex
Negotiations.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC
International
Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2003). pages 311-317. 2003, Halifax, Canada.
Acceptance rate
23%.
- Xiaoqin
Zhang, Victor Lesser and Tom Wagner. Integrative
Negotiation In Complex Organizational Agent Systems. In
Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC International
Conference
on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2003). pp.
140-146. 2003. Halifax, Canada. Acceptance rate 23%.
- Xiaoqin
Zhang, Victor Lesser. Multi-Linked Negotiation in Multi-Agent System. In
Proceedings of the First
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & MultiAgent
Systems
(AAMAS 2002). Pages 1207-1214. July 15-19, 2002,
Bologna,
Italy. Acceptance rate 26%.
- Xiaoqin
Zhang, Rodion Podorozhny, Victor Lesser. Cooperative,
MultiStep Negotiation Over a Multi-Dimensional Utility Function
Multi-Agent
Systems Negotiation. In Proceedings of the IASTED International
Conference, Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2000),
pages 136-142. ASTED/ACTA Press, Banff, Canada, July 2000.
- Justus H.
Piater, Paul
R. Cohen, Xiaoqin Zhang, Michael Atighetchi. A
Randomized ANOVA
Procedure for Comparing Performance Curves. In
Shavlik, J., ed., Machine Learning: Proceedings of the
Fifteenth International Conference (1999), pages 430-438. Morgan
Kaufmann
Publishers, San Francisco, CA.
- Victor
Lesser, Bryan
Horling, Frank Klassner, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner and Shelley XQ.
Zhang. BIG:
A
Resource-Bounded Information Gathering Agent. In
Proceedings of the Fifteenth
National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98). Pages
539 - 546. Acceptance rate 31%.
- Victor
Lesser, Bryan
Horling, Frank Klassner, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, and Shelley
XQ.Zhang. A
Next
Generation Information Gathering Agent. In
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on
Information Systems, Analysis, and Synthesis; in conjunction with the
World
Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI'98),
Orlando,
FL, July 1998.
Refereed symposia / workshop
publications / posters /
short papers
- Prinkle Sharma, Hong Liu, Honggang Wang, Shelley Zhang, Securing
Wireless Communications of Connected Vehicles with Artificial
Intelligence. 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for
Homeland Security. April 25 - 26 2017. Waltham, MA
- Corkill, Daniel; Zhang, Chongjie; da Silva, Bruno; Kim, Yoonheui;
Garant, Daniel; Lesser, Victor; Zhang, Xiaoqin. Biasing the Behavior of
Organizationally Adept Agents (Extended Abstract). Proceedings of the
12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS 2013), Ito, Jonker, Gini, and Shehory, ed., IFAAMAS, pp.
1309-1310. 2013.
- Daniel D. Corkill, Chongjie Zhang, Bruno da Silva, Yoonheui Kim,
Xiaoqin Zhang, and Victor R. Lesser, Using Annotated Guidelines to
Influence the Behavior of Organizationally Adept Agents. Proceedings of
14th International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations,
Institutions, and Norms (COIN), held in conjunction with 11th
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
(AAMAS-12), , pp. 46-60. Valencia, Spain, June 4-8, 2012.
- Xiaoqin Zhang, Haiping Xu, Bhavesh Shrestha. Developing
MAS with Automatic Agent Generation and Dynamic Task Allocation
Mechanisms. In proceedings of the Sixth International Joint
Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 07),
pages 1246-1248. May 14-18, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii.
- Xiaoqin
Zhang, Qinhe Zheng. The Study of
Virtual Organizations Using Multi-agent System. In
Proceedings
of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2005), pages1147-1148. July, 2005.
- Xiaoqin
Zhang, Victor Lesser and Tom Wagner. A
multi-leveled negotiation framework. In
Proceedings of the
Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents &
MultiAgent
Systems (AAMAS 2003), research abstract. Page 1172 -
1173. 2003. Melbourne, Australia.
- Xiaoqin
Zhang, Victor Lesser and Tom Wagner. Efficient
ordering and parameterization of multi-linked negotiation.
In
Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous
Agents
& MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2003), page 1170 - 1171. 2003. Melbourne,
Australia.
- Xiaoqin
Zhang, Victor Lesser and Tom Wagner. Integrative
Negotiation In Complex
Organizational Agent Systems. In the Proceedings of the First
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & MultiAgent
Systems
(AAMAS 2002), pages 503-504. July 15-19, 2002,
Bologna,
Italy.
- Xiaoqin
Zhang, Victor Lesser, Tom Wagner. A
Proposed Approach to Sophisticated
Negotiation. In Proceedings of the AAAI Fall 2001 Symposium on
Negotiation Methods for Autonomous Cooperative Systems, pages 1-10.
AAAI Press.
- Xiaoqin
Zhang, Victor Lesser, Rodion Podorozhny. New Results on Cooperative,
Multi-Step Negotiation Over a Multi-Dimensional Utility Function.
In
Proceedings of the AAAI Fall 2001 Symposium on Negotiation Methods for
Autonomous Cooperative Systems, pages 96-105. AAAI Press.
- Xiaoqin
Zhang, Anita Raja, Barbara Lerner, Victor Lesser, Leon Osterweil and
Thomas
Wagner. Integrating
High-Level and Detailed Agent Coordination into a Layered Architecture.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (1887): Infrastructure for Scalable
Multi-Agent Systems, Wagner/Rana editors, Springer-Verlag, pages 72-79. Also available as UMass Computer
Science Technical Report 1999-029.
- Victor
Lesser, Michael Atighetchi, Brett Benyo, Bryan Horling, Anita Raja,
Regis Vincent, Thomas Wagner, Xuan Ping, Shelley XQ Zhang. The
Intelligent Home Testbed. In Proceedings of the Autonomy Control
Software Workshop (Autonomous Agent Workshop), Seattle, 1999.
Acceptance rate 27%.
- Victor
Lesser, Bryan Horling, Frank Klassner, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, and
Shelley XQ.Zhang. Recent Extensions
to BIG: A Resource-Bounded
Information Gathering Agent. In Proceedings of the AAAI
Workshop
on Intelligent Information Systems, Orlando, Florida 1999,UMASS
Technical Report 1999-13, March, 1999.
- Victor
Lesser, Bryan Horling, Frank Klassner, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, and
Shelley XQ. Zhang. A
Resource-Bounded Interpretation-Centric Approach
to Information Gathering. In Proceedings of the AAAI-98 Workshop
on
Information Integration, 1998.