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Jiaying Shen

Department of Computer Science

140 Governor’s Drive

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Amherst, MA 01003

(413) 545-3444

jyshen@cs.umass.edu

http://www.cs.umass.edu/~jyshen/

Research interests

 

 

Formalizing agent interaction in Multi-Agent Systems, especially Communication and Negotiation; Decision-Theoretic Planning; Distributed Sensor Interpretation; Machine Learning; Game Theory; and Planning Under Uncertainty.

 

Education

 

 

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Expected

Sept. 2006

 

Communication Management in Distributed Sensor Interpretation

Advisor: Victor Lesser

 

 

M.S., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2002

“Controlling Information Exchange in Distributed Bayesian Networks”

Advisor: Victor Lesser

 

 

B.E., Computer Science and Applications, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

1998

 

“Word Parsing in Chinese Documents”

Advisor: Ruzhan Lu

 

 

B.E., Industrial Management Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (minor)

1998

 

AWARDS

 

 

FIPA Software Prototypes Track Demonstration Award

Honorable mention

Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents)

2001

 

 

Excellent Bachelor's Thesis

“Word Parsing in Chinese Documents”

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

1998

 

 

Travel Scholarships

National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent

    Systems (AAMAS)

Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents)

Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS)

Second European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS)

 

2005

2003, 2004

 

2001

2000

2000

 

Research experience

 

 

Research Assistant – University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2000 – Present

Multi-Agent Systems Lab

·     Communication  Management in Distributed Sensor Interpretation

Developed a decision-theoretic framework to model the tradeoff between communication cost and solution quality for Distributed Sensor Interpretation Problems represented using a Distributed Bayesian Network representation.

·     OAR: A Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Negotiation

Developed a formal framework to determine how agents should interact in an evolving environment in order to achieve their different goals.

·     Autonomous Negotiating Teams (ANTs)

Developed innovative, domain-independent Java/C++ tools for real-time negotiation among large numbers of agents. Built software agents for a distributed sensor network tracking system.

 

Research Assistant – Shanghai Jiao Tong University

1998-1999

·     Word Parsing in Chinese Documents

Developed a word parser for Chinese documents that automatically parses a document to separate words and eliminates ambiguities.

 

Publications and papers

 

 

Journal Publications

·     Shen, Hao; Shen, Jiaying. Existence of Resolvable Group Divisible Designs with Block Size Four I. Discrete Mathematics, Volume 254, Elsevier, pp. 513-525. 2002.

·     Shen, Hao; Shen, Jiaying. Further Results on the Existence of Labeled Resolvable Block Designs. Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Volume B4, Number 2, pp. 52-56. 1999.

Highly Refereed Conference Publications

·     Shen, Jiaying; and Lesser, Victor. Communication Management Using Abstraction in Distributed Bayesian Networks. Proceedings of Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2006), May 2006 (to appear).

·     Shen, Jiaying; Becker, Raphen; and Lesser, Victor. Agent Interaction in Distributed MDPs and its Implications on Complexity. Proceedings of Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2006), May 2006 (to appear).

·     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.

·     Horling, Bryan, Vincent, Regis, Mailler, Roger, Shen, Jiaying, Becker, Raphen, Rawlins, Kyle and Lesser, Victor. Distributed Sensor Network for Real Time Tracking. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM Press, pp. 417-424. June 2001.

Other Publications

·     Shen, Jiaying; and Lesser, Victor. Communication Management Using Abstraction in Distributed Bayesian Networks. Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 05), New York: ACM Press, pp. 1115-1116. July 2005. (Extended Abstract; Presented as Poster.)

·     Horling, Bryan; Mailler, Roger; Shen, Jiaying; Vincent, Regis, and Lesser, Victor. Using Autonomy, Organizational Design and Negotiation in a Distributed Sensor Network. Distributed Sensor Networks: A multiagent perspective, Lesser, Victor; Ortiz, Charles; and Tambe, Milind, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 139-183. 2003. Book chapter.

·     Shen, Jiaying; Adler, Micah; Lesser, Victor. A Formal Study of Distributed Resource Allocation Strategies in Multi-Agent Systems. January 2003.

·     Shen, Jiaying; Lesser, Victor; and Carver, Norman. Controlling Information Exchange in Distributed Bayesian Networks. UMASS Tech Report 02-22. 2002.

·     Mailler, Roger; Vincent, Regis; Lesser, Victor; Middlekoop, Tim; and Shen, Jiaying. Soft Real-Time, Cooperative Negotiation for Distributed Resource Allocation. AAAI Fall Symposium on Negotiation Methods for Autonomous Cooperative Systems. November 2001.

·     Shen, Jiaying, Lesser, Victor, and Carver, Norman. Reasoning about Remote Data in CDPS with Distributed Bayesian Network. Proceedings of Multi-Agent Systems and Applications - ACAI 2001 & EASSS 2001 Student Sessions. July 2001.

 

GRANT PROPOSAL WRITING

 

 

·     Co-wrote proposal for research project “Distributed Interpretation in a Communication-Limited Environment”, funded by the Digital Society and Technologies (DST) program of the National Science Foundation, to run from May 2005 to April 2008. PIs: Prof. Norman Carver (NSF Grant No. IIS-0414945) and Prof. Victor Lesser (NSF Grant No. IIS-0414711).

·     Co-wrote proposal for research project “Formalization, Optimization, and Adaption of the Organization Functional Structure in Multiagent Systems”. PI: Prof. Victor Lesser.

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

 

Guest Lecturer – University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Fall 2004

ComSci 683 Artificial Intelligence

Presented lectures on Search algorithms.

 

Master Project Advisor University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Fall 2004

Master project Co-adviser: Ingo Weber, “Modeling and Analyzing Cooperation Parameters in a Multi-Agent System”.

 

Teaching AssistantUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst

 Fall 1999

ComSci 105 – Computer Literacy

Lead four lab sections; graded lab reports, homework and exams; held office hours.

 

PROFESSIONAL service

 

 

Program Committee Member

"Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Domains", workshop at AAMAS-06

 

2006

 

Reviewer

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

 

2005

 

Secretary

Shanghai International Conference on Designs, Codes and Finite Geometries,

Organized and coordinated the conference.

 

1999, 2002

 

Presentations

 

 

Communication Management Using Abstraction in Distributed Bayesian Networks. Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 05). (Poster Presentation.)

2005

 

 

OAR: A Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Negotiation. Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 05)

2005

 

 

Degree of Local Cooperation and its Implication on Global Utility. Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 04)

2004

 

 

Minimizing Communication Cost in a Distributed Bayesian Network using a Decentralized MDP, Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS 03)

2003

 

References

 

 

Prof. Victor Lesser

Department of Computer Science

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Amherst, MA 01003

Phone: (413) 545-1322

Fax: (413) 545-1249

Email: lesser@cs.umass.edu

 

Prof. Shlomo Zilberstein

Department of Computer Science

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Amherst, MA 01003

Phone: (413) 545-4189

Fax: (413) 545-1249

Email: shlomo@cs.umass.edu

 

Prof. Norman Carver

Computer Science Department

Southern Illinois University

mailcode 4511

Carbondale, IL 62901

Phone: (618) 453-6048

Fax: (618) 453-6044

Email: carver@cs.siu.edu

 

Prof. Xiaoqin Zhang

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Computer and Information Science 

285 Old Westport Road

North Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300

Phone: (508)999-8294

Fax: (508)999-9144

Email: x2zhang@umassd.edu

 

Prof. Deepak Ganesan

Department of Computer Science

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Amherst, MA 01003

Phone: (413) 545-2450

Fax: (413) 545-1249

Email: dganesan@cs.umass.edu

 

jyshen@cs.umass.edu