Jiaying Shen


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In May 1998 I received my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong Univerisity in China. In September 1999 I joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst as a graduate student. Here I work with Professor Victor Lesser at the Multi-Agent Systems Lab. In May 2002, I received my MS in Computer Science and in May 2005 I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis proposal. I am currently working on my thesis and plan to graduate in the summer of 2006.

Research Interests

  • Communication Optimization in Distributed Sensor Networks
  • Formalization of Negotiation in Multi-Agent Systems
  • Optimal Control of Multi-Agent Systems
  • Planning Under Uncertainty
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Game Theory

Selected Publications*

Shen, Jiaying; and Lesser, Victor. Communication Management Using Abstraction in Distributed Bayesian Networks. Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, ACM Press, pp. 622-629. 2006.

Shen, Jiaying; Becker, Raphen; and Lesser, Victor. Agent Interaction in Distributed MDPs and its Implications on Complexity. Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, ACM, pp. 529-536. 2006.

Shen, Jiaying; Weber, Ingo; and Lesser, Victor. OAR: A Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Negotiation. Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 05), AAAI, pp. 176-183. July 2005.

Shen, Jiaying; Zhang, Xiaoqin; and Lesser, Victor. Degree of Local Cooperation and its Implication on Global Utility. Proceedings of Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2004), Volume 2, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 546-553. July 2004.

Shen, Jiaying; Lesser, Victor; Carver, Norman. Minimizing Communication Cost in a Distributed Bayesian Network using a Decentralized MDP. Proceedings of Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2003), Volume AAMAS03, ACM Press, pp. 678-685. July 2003. Also submitted as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 2002-52.

* A complete list of my publications can be found here.

Contact Information

Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts
140 Governor's Drive
Amherst, MA 01003

(413) 545-3444
jyshen@cs.umass.edu

jyshen@cs.umass.edu