2006

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.

2005

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.)

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.

2004

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.

2003

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; 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.

2002

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

2001

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.

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.

1999

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.