Bo An's Homepage

	ban@cs.umass.edu
	Department of Computer Science
	University of Massachusetts, Amherst
	140 Governor's Drive
	Amherst, MA 01003
	Office Number: (413) 545-3444

I have just defended my dissertation in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. My advisor is professor Victor Lesser. I'm now a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Southern California. My new webpage is here.

Research Interests

Artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, automated negotiation, resource (task) allocation, distributed systems, electronic commerce, game theory.

Education

Ph.D. study, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 2006---
M.Sc., Computer Science, Chongqing Univerisity, China, 2006
B.Sc., Computer Science, Chongqing Univerisity, China, 2003

Selected Publications

Bo An, Victor Lesser, Kwang Mong Sim. Strategic agents for multi-resource negotiation. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, to appear.
Bo An, Victor Lesser, David Irwin, Michael Zink. Automated negotiation with decommitment for dynamic resource allocation in cloud computing. Proc. of the 9th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'10), pp.981-988, May 2010.
Bo An, Nicola Gatti, Victor Lesser. Searching for pure strategy equilibria in bilateral bargaining with one-sided uncertainty. Proc. of the 9th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'10), pp.1607-1608, May 2010. Technical Report
Bo An, Victor Lesser. Characterizing contract-based multi-agent resource allocation in networks. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 575-586, June 2010.
Bo An, Nicola Gatti, Victor Lesser. Bilateral bargaining with one-sided two-type uncertainty. Proc. of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 09), Sep. 2009.
Bo An, Nicola Gatti, Victor Lesser. Extending alternating-offers bargaining in one-to-many and many-to-many settings. Proc. of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 09), Sep. 2009.
Kwang Mong Sim, Bo An. Evolving best-response strategies for market-driven agents using aggregative fitness GA. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 284-298, May 2009.
Bo An, Fred Douglis, Fan Ye. Heuristics for negotiation schedules in multi-plan optimization. Proc. of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 08), pp.551-558, 2008.
Bo An, Victor Lesser, Kwang Mong Sim. Decommitment in multi-resource negotiation. Proc. of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 08), pp.1553-1556, 2008.
Michael Krainin, Bo An, Victor Lesser. An application of automated negotiation to distributed task allocation. Proc. of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2007), pp.138-145, 2007.
Bo An, Zhiqi Shen, Chunyan Miao, Daijie Cheng. Algorithms for transitive dependence based coalition formation. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 234-245, Aug. 2007.
Bo An, Kwang Mong Sim, Chunyan Miao, Zhiqi Shen. Decision making of negotiation agents using Markov Chains. Multiagent and Grid Systems Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 5-23, 2008.
Bo An, Kwang Mong Sim, Victor Lesser. Evolving the best-response strategy to decide when to make a proposal. Proc. of the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp.1035-1042, 2007.
Bo An, Chunyan Miao, Zhiqi Shen. Market based resource allocation with incomplete information. Proc. of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 07), pp.1193-1198, 2007.
Bo An, Kwang Mong Sim, Lianggui Tang, Shuangqing Li, Daijie Cheng. Continuous time negotiation mechanism for software agents. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 1261-1272, Dec. 2006.
Bo An, Chunyan Miao, Daijie Cheng. A coalition formation framework based on transitive dependence. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems,, Vol.E88-D, No.12, pp.2672-2680, Dec. 2005.

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