Keith S. Decker
CURRICULUM VITAE
Research Interests
Distributed
problem
solving , multi-agent
systems, real-time
problem
solving
, computational
organization
design, parallel
and distributed planning
and
scheduling,
multi-agent learning, human-computer team coordination, computational
sustainability, distributed
information
gathering and retrieval, bioinformatics.
Education
- University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts. September 1987 -- May 1995.
- Doctor of Philosophy: Computer
Science.
- PhD Thesis: Environment
Centered Analysis & Design of Coordination Mechanisms
- Advisor: Dr. Victor R. Lesser
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy,
New
York.
September 1984 -- June 1987.
- Master of Science: Computer Science
- Master's Thesis: DESCANT: A distributed expert system control
architecture
for non-independant tasks
- Advisor: Dr. Piero P. Bonissone
- Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh,
PA. September 1980 -- June 1984.
- Bachelor of Science: Applied Math / Computer Science
Employment
- Associate Professor, Department of Computer and
Information
Sciences,
University of Delaware. June 2002 --- present.
- Consultant, NewVectors,
LLC. [ONR STIFLE] December 2006 — March 2009.
- Consultant, Active
Computing, Inc. [DARPA Coordinators] September 2006 — September 2008.
- Consultant, CACI
Dynamic
Systems, Inc. [DARPA Coordinators] January 2005 — August 2006.
- Research Fellow,
Intelligent Agents and Multimedia, Department of Electronics and
Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK. September 2002 — June
2003.
- Co-Director, Delaware Biomedical Research
Infrastructure
Network
Bioinformatics Core. September 2001 --- August 2004.
- Research Scientist, Quantum Leap Innovations, August
1999
--- present.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and
Information
Sciences,
University of Delaware. September 1996 --- June 2002.
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Robotics Institute,
School
of
Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. August 1995 --- August
1996.
- Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of
Computer Science,
University of Massachusetts. March 1995 --- August 1995.
- Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science,
University of
Massachusetts. September 1987 --- March 1995.
- Computer Scientist, General Electric Corporate Research
and
Development,
Schenectady, New York. June 1984 --- September 1987.
- Computer Programmer, Carnegie-Mellon University Computer
Science
Department, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 1982 -- May 1984.
- Computer Science Co-op, IBM Communication Products
Division,
Research
Triangle Park, North Carolina. May 1983 --- August 1983.
- Computer Science Co-op, Harris Computer Systems
Division,
Fort Lauderdale,
Florida. May 1982 --- August 1982.
Awards
DARPA
Information Processing Technology Office. Special Recognition
award “For foundational research in
generalized coordination technologies. Your superior research efforts
and vision fostered the development of a new paradigm which enables
loosely coupled distributed autonomous systems to work effectively
together. This paradigm is an important technical discriminator for the
Department of Defense and for the United States.” May 2006.
Patents
US 7,512,558 B1 Automated
Method and System for
Facilitating Market Transactions. J Elad, A. Johnson, R. Aulews,
D. Chester, D. Cleaver, K. Decker, D. Paules, T. Pelaia. Mar 2009.
US
7,092,928 B1 Intelligent
Portal Engine. J Elad, A. Johnson, D. Cleaver, D. Chester, K.
Decker, T. Roper, I. Phillips. Aug 2006.
Highly Refereed Conference Papers
- S. Kamboj, K. Decker. W. Kempton, Deploying Power Grid-Integrated
Electric Vehicles as a Multi-Agent System. In Proceedings of the
Tenth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011), pp 13–20, 2011. Nominated
for the Best Application Paper Award. [Acceptance
22%].
- J. Atlas and K. Decker. Coordination for Uncertain Outcomes using
Distributed Neighbor Exchange. In Proceedings of the Ninth
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS 2010), pp 1047–1054, 2010. [Acceptance 24%]
- L. Jin, K. Decker, and C. Schmidt. BioPlanner: A Plan Adaptation
Approach for the Discovery of Biological Pathways across Species. In Proceedings
of the Twenty-First Annual
Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
(IAAI-09), pp. 99-106, 2009.
- J. Atlas, T. Estrada, K. Decker, M. Taufer. Balancing Scientist
Needs and Volunteer Preferences in Volunteer Computing using Constraint
Optimization. In Proc. International
Conference on Computational Science 2009 (ICCS-09), LNCS-5544,
Springer, pp 143–152, 2009.
[** Note: I removed my name from
all papers submitted by my students to AAMAS-09, for which I was
Program Co-Chair. These papers were reviewed blindly by reviewers, and
final decisions were made by the other Co-Chair without my
involvement.
I list them here because presumably you're on the web page looking for
paper links, not evaluating my CV!!]
- **S. Kamboj. Analyzing the tradeoffs between breakup and
cloning in
the context of organizational self-design [Full Paper], To appear
in Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009). (Full Paper
Acceptance Rate: 22.3
- **J. Atlas. A Distributed Constraint Optimization Approach for
Coordination under Uncertainty [extended abstract]. To appear in
AAMAS09. Acceptance Rate: 22% full, 20% extended abstract.
- ** L. Jin. Stability Oriented Task-Structure Based Multi-Agent
Re-Planning [extended abstract]. To appear in AAMAS09. Acceptance
Rate:
22% full, 20% extended abstract.
- J. Atlas, K. Decker. A Complete Distributed Constraint
Optimization Method For Non-Traditional Pseudotree Arrangements. In Proceedings
of the Sixth International
Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS
07),
pp 736-743, May 2007. [Acceptance 22%]
- S. Kamboj, K. Decker, K. Organizational Self-Design in
Semi-dynamic Environments. In Proceedings
of
the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 07), pp 1220-1227, May 2007.
[Nominated for Best Student paper] [Acceptance 22%]
- W. Chen, K. Decker. Analyzing characteristics of task structures
to develop GPGP coordination mechanisms. In Proceedings
of the Fifth International
Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS
06),
pp. 662–669, May 2006. [Acceptance 23%]
- T. Harvey, K. Decker, S. Carberry. Multi-agent decision support
via user-modelling. In Proceedings
of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 05), July 2005. [Acceptance 24%]
- T. Harvey, S. Carberry, K. Decker. Tailored Responses for
Decision Support. In User Modeling
2005: 10th International Conference, L. Ardissono, P. Brna, A.
Mitrovic (eds). LNCS-3538, Springer, 2005.
- W. Chen, K. Decker. The Analysis of Coordination in an
Information System Application - Emergency Medical Services. in Agent-Oriented
Information Systems,
P. Bresciani, P. Giorgini, B. Henderson-Sellers, and M. Winikoff
(Eds.), pp. 36–51, LNAI-3508, Springer, 2005.
- S. Miles, J. Papay, V. Dialani, M. Luck, K. Decker, T. Payne and
L. Moreau. Personalised Grid Service Discovery. IEE
Proceedings Software Special Issue on
Performance Engineering, 150(4), pp 252-256, 2003.
- R. Lawley, K. Decker, M. Luck, T. Payne, L. Moreau. Automated
Negotiation for Grid Notification Services. In Proceedings
of the Ninth International
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par),
Springer-Verlag LNCS 2790, pages 384-393, Klagenfurt, Austria, 2003.
- T. Paulussen, N. Jennings, K. Decker, A. Heinzl. Distributed
Patient Scheduling in Hospitals. In Proceedings
of
the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, pp.1224– 1229, Mexico, 2003.
- S. Khan, R. Makkena, F. McGeary, K. Decker, W. Gillis, and C.J.
Schmidt. A Multi-Agent System for the Quantitive Simulation of
Biological Networks. In Proceedings
of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems, 2003.
- S. Khan, K. Decker, W. Gillis, and C.J. Schmidt. A Multi-Agent
System-driven AI Planning Approach to Biological Pathway Discovery. In Proceedings
of the International
Conference on Automated Planning, 2003.
- K. Decker, S. Khan, C. Schmidt, D. Michaud. Extending
a
Multi-Agent
System for Genomic Annotation. In Proceedings of the Fifth
International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, Modena,
September 2001. LNAI 2182, Springer-Verlag, 2001.
- K. Decker, X. Zheng, C.Schmidt. A
Multi-Agent System for
Automated Genetic Annotation. In Proceedings of the Fifth
International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 433--440,
Montreal, June 2001.
- John Graham and Keith Decker. Towards a
Distributed,
Environment-Centered Agent Framework. In Proceedings of the
1999
Intl. Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
[ATAL-99],
Orlando,
July
1999.
- Keith Decker and Jinjiang Li. Coordinated
Hospital
Patient
Scheduling. In Proceedings of the Third International
Conference
on Multi-Agent Systems, Paris, France, July 1998. A longer version
is here.
- Keith Decker, Katia Sycara, and Mike Williamson. Middle-Agents
for
the Internet. In Proceedings of the 15th International
Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Nagoya, Japan, August 1997.
- Keith Decker, Anandeep Pannu, Katia Sycara, and Mike Williamson, Designing
behaviors
for Information Agents. In Proceedings of the First
International
Conference on Autonomous Agents, Marina del Rey, February 1997.
- M.V. Nagendra Prasad, Keith Decker, Alan Garvey, and Victor
Lesser, Exploring
Organizational
Designs
with
TAEMS: A Case Study of Distributed Data
Processing.
In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on
Multi-agent
Systems, Kyoto, Japan, December1996.
- Keith S. Decker and Victor R. Lesser. Designing
a
Family of Coordination Algorithms. In Proceedings of the
First
International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, San Francisco,
July
1995. Selected for reprinting, see Book Chapters below.
- Keith S. Decker and Victor R. Lesser. An
approach
to analyzing the need for meta-level communication. In Proceedings
of
the
Thirteenth
International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
Chambéry,
August
1993.
- Keith S. Decker and Victor R. Lesser. A
one-shot dynamic coordination algorithm for distributed sensor
networks.
In Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence,
pages 210--216, Washington, July 1993.
- Keith S. Decker and Victor R. Lesser. Quantitative
modeling
of complex computational task environments. In Proceedings
of
the
Eleventh
National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages
217--224, Washington, July 1993. A more complete version is here.
- Keith S. Decker, Alan J. Garvey, Marty A. Humphrey, and Victor R.
Lesser.
Effects of parallelism on blackboard system scheduling. In Proceedings
of
the
Twelfth
International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
pages
15--21, Sydney, Australia, August 1991.
- Piero P. Bonissone, Steven S. Gans, and Keith S. Decker. RUM: A
layered
architecture for reasoning with uncertainty. In Proceedings of the
Tenth
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August
1987.
Book Chapters
- W. Chen, R. Levy, K. Decker. Integrated Multi-Agent Coordination.
In Intelligent Systems for Operations,
edited by Barin Nag, IGI Global Publications, (2010).
- S. Kamboj, K. Decker. The use of Organizational Self-Design for
generating organizations in worth-oriented domains, In Handbook
of Research on Multi-Agent
Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models,
edited
by Virginia Dignum, IGI Global Publications, Chapter 22, (2009).
- S. Kamboj and K. Decker. Exploring Robustness in the context of
Organizational Self-Design. In Coordination,
Organizations,
Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems IV (COIN IV),
edited by Jomi F. Hubner et al., Springer Lecture Notes in Articial
Intelligence 5428, pp 8095 (2009).
- L. Moreau, M. Luck, S. Miles, J. Papay, K. Decker and T. Payne.
Agents and the Grid. In Methodologies
and Software Engineering for Agent Systems, F. Bergenti, M.
Gleizes and F. Zam- bonelli eds., Kluwer Publishing, pp 413–430, 2004.
- K. Decker. A Vision for Multi-Agent Systems Programming. in Programming
Multiagent Systems: languages,
frameworks, techniques and tools, M. Dastani, J. Dix, A.
Seghrouchni eds. Springer-Verlag LNAI–3067,PP. 1–17, 2004.
- W. Chen and K. Decker. Applying Coordination Mechanisms for
Dependency Relationships Under Various Environments. In Multi-Agent
Systems: An Application Science,
T. Wagner, editor. Kluwer (Springer) 2004.
- F. McGeary and K. Decker. Employment Decisions Supporting
Organizations of Autonomous Agents. in Multi-Agent-Based
Simulation III,
Hales, D., Edmonds, B., Norling, E. and Rouchier, J. eds. Springer,
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 2927, pp. 8–25, 2003.
- Keith S. Decker. Coordinating
Human
and
Computer
Agents. In Wolfram Conen, Gustaf Neumann, editors, Coordination
Technology
for
Collaborative Applications - Organizations, Processes,
and
Agents. LNCS #1364, pp. 77--98, Springer-Verlag, 1998.
- Katia Sycara, Keith Decker, and Dajun Zeng. Intelligent Agents in
Portfolio
Management. In N. Jennings and M. Wooldridge, editors, Agent
Technology:
Foundations, Applications, and Markets. Chapter 14, Springer 1998,
pp. 267-283.
- Keith S. Decker. Task
Environment
Centered Simulation. In M. Prietula, K. Carley, and L.
Gasser, editors, Simulating Organizations: Computational Models of
Institutions
and Groups. AAAI Press/MIT Press, 1998.
- Keith S. Decker and Victor R. Lesser. Designing
a
Family of Coordination Algorithms. Reprinted in M. Huhns and M.
Singh,
editors, Readings in Agents. Morgan Kaufmann,1997.
- Keith S. Decker, Katia Sycara, and Mike Williamson. Cloning in
Intelligent,
Adaptive Information Agents. In C. Zhang and D. Lukose, editors, Multi-Agent
Systems:
Methodologies
and
Applications, Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence #1286, Springer-Verlag, 1997.
- Keith S. Decker. Distributed
Artificial
Intelligence
Testbeds. In G. O'Hare and N. Jennings, editors, Foundations
of Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Wiley Inter-Science, 1995
(Chapter
3, invited).
- Keith S. Decker. TÆMS: A framework for analysis and design of
coordination
mechanisms. In G. O'Hare and N. Jennings, editors, Foundations of
Distributed
Artificial Intelligence. Wiley Inter-Science, 1995 (Chapter 16,
invited).
See also here.
- Keith S. Decker, Alan J. Garvey, Victor R. Lesser, and Marty A.
Humphrey.
An approach to modeling environment and task characteristics for
coordination.
In Charles J. Petrie, Jr., editor, Enterprise Integration Modeling:
Proceedings of the First International Conference, pages 379--388.
MIT Press, 1992.
- Keith S. Decker, Edmund H. Durfee, and Victor R. Lesser.
Evaluating
research
in cooperative distributed problem solving. In L. Gasser and M. N.
Huhns,
editors, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Vol. II, pages
485--519.
Pitman Publishing Ltd., 1989.
- D. Besemer, K. Decker, D. Politi, J. Schnoor. A Synergy of
Industrial
and
Academic Education. In R. Fairley and P. Freeman, editors, Issues
in
Software Engineering Education, pages 399--413. Springer-Verlag,
1989.
Also includes transcript of my panel session, pages 527--563.
- Piero P. Bonissone and Keith S. Decker. Selecting uncertainty
calculi
and
granularity: An experiment in trading-off precision and complexity. In
L. N. Kanal and J. F. Lemmer, editors, Uncertainty in Artificial
Intelligence.
North Holland, 1986.
Journal Articles
- B. Boman, T. Dinhu, K. Decker, B. Emerick, C. Raymond, G. Schleiniger.
Why Do Fibonacci Numbers Appear in Patterns of Growth in Nature? A Model
for Tissue Renewal Based on Asymmetric Cell Division. Fibonacci
Quarterly, 55(5), pp. 30–41, 2016.
- Q. Chen, J. Watson, S. Marengo, K. Decker, I. Coleman, P. Nelson
and R. Sikes. Gene expression in the LNCaP human prostate cancer
progression model: Progression associated expression in vitro
corresponds to expression changes associated with prostate cancer
progression in vivo (short communication). Cancer
Letters, 244(2), pp.
274-288, 2006.
- M. Huhns, M. Singh, M. Burstein, K. Decker, E. Durfee, T. Finin,
L. Gasser, H. Goradia, N. Jennings, K. Lakkaraju, H. Nakashima, V.
Parunak, J. Rosenschein, A. Ruvinsky, G. Sukthankar, S. Swarup, K.
Sycara, M. Tambe, T. Wagner, L. Zavala. Research Directions for
Service-Oriented Multi-Agent Systems. IEEE
Internet
Computing, Nov/Dec, pp. 65–70, 2005.
- V. Lesser, K. Decker et al. Evolution of the GPGP/TAEMS
Domain-Independent Coordination Framework. Autonomous
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems,
9(1), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 87-143. July 2004.
- S. Khan, G. Situ, K. Decker, and C.J. Schmdt. GO-Figure: a tool
to visualize automated Gene Ontology annotation. Bioinformatics(19),pp.
2484–2485,
2003.
- H. Kim, C.J. Schmidt, K.S. Decker and M.G. Emara. A
double-screening method to identify reliable candidate non-synonymous
SNPs from chicken EST data. Animal
Genetics. 34(4) pp. 249–254, 2003.
- J. Graham, K. Decker, M. Mersic. DECAF: A Flexible Multi-Agent
System
Architecture. Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems. 7(1–2):
7–27, 2003.
- Keith Decker, Salim Khan, Carl Schmidt, Gang Situ, Ravi Makkena,
Dennis
Michaud. Biomas:
A
multi-agent
system for
genomic annotation International Journal of Cooperative
Information Systems, 11
(3-4): 265-292, 2002
- K. Decker. Coordinating Intelligent Agents. In Foundations
and Applications of
Multi-Agent Systems: UKMAS 1996-2000, M. D’Inverno, M. Fisher,
M. Luck, C. Priest, eds. Springer-Verlag 2002.
- Keith Decker and Jinjiang Li. Coordinating
mutually
exclusive
resources
using GPGP. Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent
Systems, 3(2): 133--158, 2000.
- Keith Decker and Katia Sycara. Intelligent
Adaptive
Information
Agents. Journal of Intelligent Information
Systems, 9 : 239--260, 1997.
- Katia Sycara, Keith Decker, Anandeep Pannu, Mike Williamson, and
Dajun
Zeng. Distributed
Intelligent
Agents. IEEE Expert, 11(6):36--46, December 1996.
- Keith S. Decker and Victor R. Lesser. Quantitative
modeling
of complex environments. International Journal of
Intelligent
Systems in Accounting, Finance, and Management, 2(4):215--234,
December
1993. Special issue on ``Mathematical and Computational Models of
Organizations:
Models and Characteristics of Agent Behavior''. A more complete version
is here.
- Keith S. Decker and Victor R. Lesser. Analyzing
a
quantitative coordination relationship. Group Decision and
Negotiation,
2(3):195--217, 1993.
- Keith S. Decker, Alan J. Garvey, Marty A. Humphrey, and Victor R.
Lesser. Control
heuristics
for
scheduling
in a parallel blackboard system. International
Journal
of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 7(2):243--264,
1993.
- Keith S. Decker, Alan J. Garvey, Marty A. Humphrey, and Victor R.
Lesser. A
real-time control architecture for an approximate processing
blackboard
system.International Journal of Pattern Recognition and
Artificial
Intelligence, 7(2):265--284, 1993.
- Keith S. Decker and Victor R. Lesser. Generalizing
the
partial global planning algorithm. International Journal of
Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, 1(2):319--346,
June
1992.
- Keith S. Decker, Victor R. Lesser, and Robert C. Whitehair. Extending
a
blackboard architecture for approximate processing. The
Journal
of Real-Time Systems, 2(1/2):47--79, 1990.
- Keith S. Decker. Distributed problem solving: A survey. IEEE
Transactions
on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 17(5):729--740, September 1987.
Invited Talks & Articles
- “Multi-Agent Systems: Cooperative and Self-interested Approaches to
Coordination,” Seminar, Talks Institute for Financial Services Analytics
(IFSA), UD, March 2017.
- “V2G: Electric Vehicle Coalitions for Vehicle-To-Grid Power
Regulation,” Invited speaker, 4th International Workshop on Multi-Agent
Systems and Collaborative Technologies (I-MASC 2013), May 2013.
- “V2G: Electric Vehicle Coalitions for Vehicle-To-Grid Power
Regulation,” Invited speaker, 2nd International Conference on
Computational Sustainability, MIT, June 2010.
- “Exploring the Formation of Electric Vehicle Coalitions for
Vehicle-To-Grid Power Regulation”, Invited Speaker, First Intl. Wrkshp.
on Agent Tech for Energy Systems, held at AAMAS-2010, Toronto, May 2010.
- “Three Stories [about Computational Thinking],” Talk at
Wilmginton Charter, March 2010.
- “Agent Oriented Methodologies and Programming Languages: Towards
Practical Systems,” Panel Chair, AAMAS-09, May 2009.
- “Coordinating Intelligent Agents,” Invited Speaker, Intelligent
Automation, Incorporated, Febru- ary 2009.
- “Three Stories [about Computational Thinking],” Panel
presentation, CS Research Day, Univer- sity of Delaware, November 2008.
- “Advanced Topics in Planning and Scheduling: Coordinating
Distributed Planning and Scheduling Agents”, Tutorial, with Brad
Clement and Stephen F. Smith, AAAI-07.
- “A Retrospective on Coordination”, Invited Dinner Speaker, DARPA
COORDINATORS PI Meeting, May 2006.
- “Agent-based Support for Genomic Annotation”, Invited Speaker,
Knowledge-Based Bioinformatics Workshop, Montreal, September 2005.
- “Multiagent Planning: A Survey of Research and Applications”,
Tutorial, with Bradley Clement, IJCAI-05, Edinburgh, 2005.
- “Multiagent Planning: A Survey of Research and Applications”,
Tutorial, with Bradley Clement, AAMAS-05, Utrecht, July 2005.
- “Multiagent Planning: A Survey of Research and Applications”,
Tutorial, with Bradley Clement, AAAI-05, Pittsburgh, July 2005.
- Invited participant, International Working Retreat on Research
Directions in Multiagent Systems, Kiawah Island SC, May 2005.
- “Challenge Problem Scenarios in TÆMS”, Invited Speaker, DARPA
COORDINATORS Kickoff PI Meeting, Alexandria, VA, April 2005.
- “Coordinating Intelligent Agents”, Invited speaker, DuPont
Experimental Station, March 2004.
- “Coordinating Intelligent Agents”, Invited speaker, Illinois
Institute of Technology, Chicago, November 2003.
- “Where the computing and life sciences meet”, a workshop by Keith
Decker with help from Jeff Ning, part of the 2003 Explorations in
Biotechnology and Bioengineering program, Johns Hopkins University
Center for Talented Youth, October 2003.
- “Research Objectives for Coordination”, invited speaker,
DARPA/IPTO Program Development Meeting, Chicago, August 2003.
- “Coordination”, Invited Lecturer, European Agent Systems Summer
School, Barcelona, Spain, February 2003.
- “Agent Architectures and Applications: DECAF and BioMAS”, Invited
Speaker, Intelligent Agents and Multimedia, Department of Electronics
and Computer Science, University of Southamp- ton, October 2002.
- “DECAF: A multi-agent system for automated genomic annotation”,
Invited speaker, Agents in Bioinformatics, Network Tools and
Applications in Biology (NETTAB), July 2002.
- “Coordinating Intelligent Agents”, Invited Speaker,
Lockeed-Martin Advanced Technology Lab- oratories, September 2001.
- “A Multi-Agent System for Automated Genetic Annotation”, Invited
speaker, Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, August 2001.
- “Software Agents: An Introduction and Examples”, Invited speaker,
Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, August 2001.
- J. Bryson, K. Decker, S. DeLoach, M. Huhns, M. Wooldridge. Panel
Summary: Agent De- velopment Tools. In C. Castelfranchi and Y.
Lesperance, eds., Intelligent Agents VII. LNAI, Springer-Verlag, 2001.
- S. Bussman, P. Ciancarini, K. Decker, M. Huhns, and M.
Wooldridge. Panel Summary: Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. In N.
Jennings and Y. Lesperance, editors, Intelligent Agents VI: Agent
Theories, Architectures, and Languages. LNAI #1757, pp 248–250,
Springer 2000.
- “Individuals vs. Collectives: From Viewpoints to Computation”,
German DFG ( German Na- tional Science Foundation equivalent) Workshop
on Socionics, Kloster-Seeon, Germany, June 2000.
- “Designing Behaviors for Intelligent Agents,” Invited Speaker,
University of Iowa, March 2000.
- “Designing Behaviors for Intelligent Agents,” Invited Speaker,
MITRE Knowledge and Agents Technical Exchange Meeting, November 1999.
- “Artificial Intelligence,” Invited lecturer, Science—the Cutting
Edge, Academy of Lifelong Learn- ing, October 1999.
- "Coordination", Invited Lecturer, European Agent Systems Summer
School,
Utrect/Amsterdam, the netherlands, July 1999.
- "Coordinating Intelligent Agents," UK Workshop on Multi-Agent
Systems,
Manchester UK, December 1998.
- Participant (invitation only), International Workshop on
Multi-Agent
Systems,
MIT Endicott House, October 12-14, 1998
- "Coordinating Intelligent Agents," NASA /UVA Workshop on
Intelligent
Agents
and Their Potential for Future Design and Synthesis Environments, NASA
Langley, September 1998.
- Participant (invitation only), International Workshop on
Multi-Agent
Systems,
MIT Endicott House, October 12-14, 1997
- ``Designing Behaviors for Information Agents,'' Presented at
University
of Maryland, Baltimore County, October 6, 1997
- ``Task-Environment Centered Design of Organizations,'' Presented
at the
Symposium on Distributed Cognition, 1997 Cognitive Science Conference,
Stanford University, August 1997.
- ``Distributed Coordination and Multi-Agent Organizations,''
Presented
at
the NSF Workshop on Intelligent Agents, Porto Alegre, Brazil, March
1997.
- ``Applying Organization Theory to the Analysis and Design of
Multi-Agent
Systems,'' Presented at the NSF Workshop on Coordination Theory and
Collaboration
Technology, University of Michigan, March 1995.
- ``Environment Centered Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems,''
Presented
at Washington University, Rice University, Purdue University, and
Columbia
University, Spring 1995.
- ``Task Environment Centered Design of Organizations,'' Presented
at the
TIMS College on Organization Fourth Annual Workshop on Mathematical and
Computational Organization Theory, April 23, 1994.
- ``Environment Centered Analysis and Design of Coordination
Mechanisms,''
Presented at the University of Pennsylvania, February 22, 1994.
- ``Modeling Complex Computational Task Environments,'' Presented
at BBN,
Cambridge, MA., September 15, 1993.
- Keith S. Decker. Blackboard Systems. IEEE Expert,
6(5):71--72,
October
1991.
- Keith S. Decker and Victor R. Lesser. Extending the partial
global
planning
framework for cooperative distributed problem solving network control.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Innovative Approaches to
Planning,
Scheduling and Control, pages 396--408, San Diego, November 1990.
Morgan
Kaufmann.
Selected Reports and Presentations
- M. Saponaro, H. Wei, K. Decker. Learning Efficient Intervention
Policies for Wearable Devices [Short Paper] in Proceedings of IEEE/ACM
CHASE-2017, 2017
- M. Saponaro, K. Decker. Analysis of Meta-level Communication for
Distributed Resource Allocation Problems [Short Paper]. in Proceedings
of the 16th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2017). (Short Acceptance Rate: 22%)
- B. Boman, T. Dinhu, K. Decker, B. Emerick, G. Schleiniger. Why do
Fibonacci numbers appear in patterns of growth in nature: Clues from
modeling asymmetric cell division. 17th Intl. Conf. on Fibonacci Numbers
and thier Applications, Caen, 2016.
- M. Saponaro, K. Decker, B. Boman and G. Schleiniger. Investigation of
Normal Colonic Crypt Behaviors Through Agent-based Simulations. Proc. of
the Agent-Directed Simulation (ADS) Symposium, Spring Simulation
Multi-Conference, The Society for Modeling & Simulation, San Diego
2013.
- K. Decker, P. Anday, L. Sun, and C. Schmidt. Using Expression Data to
help Pathway Curation. Proc. of the Workshop on Integrative Data
Analysis in Systems Biology (IDASB 2012), BIBM- 2012, Philadelphia 2012.
- C. Schmidt, L. Sun, C. Arighi, K. Decker, K. Vijay-Shanker, M. Torii,
C. O. Tudor, C. Wu, and P D’Eustachio. Pathway Curation: Application of
Text?Mining Tools eGIFT and RLIMS?P. Proc. of the Workshop on
Integrative Data Analysis in Systems Biology (IDASB 2012), BIBM- 2012,
Philadelphia 2012.
- Kamboj, Pearce, Kempton, Trnka, Kern, Decker. Exploring the formation
of Electric Vehicle Coalitions for Vehicle-To-Grid Power Regulation.
Proceedings of the First International Work- shop on Agent Technologies
for Energy Systems, at AAMAS-2010.
- L. Jin and K. Decker. Ontology Oriented Exploration of an HTN Planning
Domain through Hypotheses and Diagnostic Execution. Proceedings of the
Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling, at
ICAPS-2010.
- H. V. Parunak, T. Belding, R. Bisson, S. Brueckner, K. Decker, E.
Downs, R. Hilscher. Stigmer-gic Modeling of Hierarchical Task
Networks. In Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Multi-Agent Based
Simulation, AAMAS-09.
- S. Kamboj and K. Decker. Exploring Robustness In The Context Of
Orga- nizational Self- Design, in Proceedings of the 2008 AAAI Workshop
on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems
(COIN@AAAI 2008), June 2008.
- J. Atlas, M. Warner, K. Decker. A Memory Bounded Hybrid Approach
to Distributed Constraint Optimization. In Proceedings of the
International Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR) at
AAMAS-08, pp. 37-51, May 2008.
- J. Atlas, K. Decker. Task Scheduling for Uncertainty using
Constraint Optimization. In AAMAS- 07 Workshop on Coordinating Agents’
Plans and Schedules (CAPS-07), pp. 25-28, May 2007.
- W.Chen, K. Decker. An Integrated Multi-Agent Coordination
Including Planning, Scheduling, and Task Execution. In AAMAS-07
Workshop on Coordinating Agents’ Plans and Schedules (CAPS-07), May
2007.
- S. Kamboj and K. Decker. Organizational Self-Design in
Semi-dynamic Environments”, In IJCAI-07 workshop on Agent
Organizations: Models and Simulations (AOMSIJCAI 07). Jan- uary 2007.
- S. Kamboj, K. Decker. Poster: Organizational Self-Design in
Semi-dynamic Environments (3 page poster). In Proceedings of the Fifth
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems (AAMAS 06), pp. 335-337, May 2006. [127 full, 135 poster, 550
submissions]
- L. Jin, K. Steiner, C. Schmidt, G. Situ, S. Kamboj, K. Hlaing, M.
Conner, H. Kim, M. Emara, and K. Decker. A multiagent framwork to
integrate and visualize gene expression information. In IEEE-ICDM
Workshop on MultiAgent Data Warehousing and MultiAgent Data Mining,
ICDM- 05, Houston, Nov 2005.
- J. Atlas, K. Decker, M. Swany. Flexible Grid Workflows using
TÆMS. In Workshop on Ex- ploring Planning and Scheduling for Web
Services, Grid and Autonomic Computing, AAAI-05, Pittsburgh, July 2005.
- W. Chen and K. Decker. Managing Multi-Agent Coordination,
Planning, and Scheduling (poster). In Proceedings of the Third
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems,
New York, 2004.
- P. Lord, C. Wroe, R. Stevens, C. Goble, S. Miles, L. Moreau, K.
Decker, T. Payne and J. Papay. Semantic and Personalised Service
Discovery. In WI/IAT 2003 Workshop on Knowledge Grids and Grid
Intelligence. pp. 100-107. Halifax, Canada, October 2003
- P. Lord, C. Wroe, R. Stevens, C. Goble, S. Miles, L. Moreau, K.
Decker, T. Payne, and J. Papay. Semantic and personalised service
discovery. In Proceedings of the UK OST e-Science second All Hands
Meeting 2003 (AHM’03), pages 787-794, Nottingham, UK, September 2003.
- S. Miles, J. Papay, V. Dialani, M. Luck, K. Decker, T. Payne, L.
Moreau. Personalised Grid Service Discovery. 19th Annual UK Performance
Engineering Workshop (UKPEW 2003), pp. 131–140, University of Warwick,
Conventry, England, July 2003.
- F. McGeary and K. Decker. Simulation of Economic Actors Using
Limitedly Rational Au- tonomous Agents (poster). Proceedings of the
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems,
2003.
- W. Chen and K. Decker. Coordination Mechanisms for Dependency
Relationships among Mul- tiple Agents (poster). First International
Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi- Agent Systems, ACM
Press, July 2002.
- M. Mostagir and K. Decker. A Multi-agent system architecture for
active networks (poster). First International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, ACM Press, July 2002.
- W. Chen and K. Decker. Applying coordination mechanisms for
Dependency Relationships under Various Environments. Toward an
Application Science: MAS Problem Spaces and Their Implications to
Achieving Globally Coherent Behavior, AAMAS-02 Workshop, July 2002.
- K. Decker, S. Khan, C. Schmidt, D. Michaud. BioMAS: a Multi-Agent
System for Genomic Annotation (A Summary). Bioinformatics and
Multi-Agent Systems (BIXMAS 2002), AAMAS- 02 Workshop, July 2002.
- H. Kim, C.J. Schmidt, K.S. Decker and M.G. Emara. Chicken SNP
discovery by EST data mining. Plant and Animal Genome X meeting, San
Diego, CA. 2002.
- M.G. Emara, H. Kim, C.J. Schmidt, K.S. Decker and H.S. Lillehoj.
Genetic markers and their application in poultry breeding. 91th Annual
meeting of Poultry Science Association. 2002.
- H. Kim, C.J. Schmidt, K.S. Decker and M.G. Emara. Development of
a Chicken SNPs database at the University of Delaware. 91th Annual
meeting of Poultry Science Association. 2002.
- T. Harvey and K. Decker. Planning Ahead to provide Scheduler
Choice. Workshop on Infras- tructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems,
5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 105–113, May
2001.
- F. McGeary and K. Decker. DECAF Programming: Agents for
Undergraduates. Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent
Systems, 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 53–60,
May 2001.
- T. Harvey and K. Decker. Planning Alternatives for an Intelligent
Scheduler, IJCAI-2001 Work- shop on AI and Manufacturing, August 2001.
- C.J. Schmidt, B.F. Kingham, E. Ney, V. Zelnik, J.Kopek, V.
Majerciak, X. Zheng and K. Decker. Nucleotide sequence of herpesvirus
of turkeys and integration of a herpesvirus database. In K.A. Schat,
R.M. Morgan, M.S. Parcells and J.L. Spencer, Eds., Current Progress on
Marek’s Disease Research, pp. 303-304, American Association of Avian
Pathologists, 2001.
- D. Michaud, K. Decker, P. Dhurjati. A Bioinformatics Framework to
Integrate Biological Knowl- edge with Methods for Analyzing Gene
Expression Data. Session on Biochemical reaction engi- neering, NASCRE
1, Houston, Jan. 2001.
- J. Graham, D. McHugh, F. McGeary, M. Windley, D. Cleaver, and K.
Decker. A Program- ming and Execution Environment for Distributed
Multi-Agent Systems. Workshop on Agents in Industry, 4th International
Conference on Autonomous Agents, June 2000.
- F. McGeary and K. Decker. Producer Behavior in a Virtual Food
Court. Proceedings of Computational Analysis of Social and
Organizational Systems Conference (CASOS), July 2000.
- D. Michaud, P. Dhurjati, and K. Decker. Intelligent Multi-Agent
System for Information Man- agement and Interpretation in Biotechnology
Applications (full paper). American Institute of Chemical Engineers
(AIChE) Annual Meeting, 2000.
- D. Michaud, V. Agrawal, P. Dhurjati, and K. Decker. Intelligent
Multi-Agent System for In- formation Management and Interpretation in
Biotechnology Applications (Poster), 13th Annual Mid-Atlantic
Bio-engineering Consortium, 2000.
- Terrence Harvey, Keith Decker, and Owen Rambow. Integrating
the
Communicative
Plans of Multiple, Independent Agents. Workshop on Communicative
Agents:
The use of natural language in embodied systems, Third International
Conference
on Autonomous Agents, May 1999.
- J. Barbour and K. Decker. Coordinated Planning for
Distributed
Agents.
AAAI Fall Symposium on Distributed Continual Planning, October, 1998.
- K. Decker, T. Finin, C. Manning, M. Singh, and J. Treur. Implementing
multi-agent
systems:
languages,
frameworks,
and standards (a report
from the 1997 IWMAS workshop). AAAI-98 Workshop on Software Tools for
Developing
Agents, AAAI-TR WS-98-10, August 1998.
- L. Obrst, M. Woytowitz, D. Rock, S. Lander, K. Gallagher, K.
Decker. Agent-Based
Integrated
product Teams. Proc. Engineering Information and Management
Symposium (EIM97) of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences,
September, 1997.
- Mike Williamson, Keith Decker, and Katia Sycara. Executing
Decision-theoretic
Plans
in
Multi-agent
Environments. AAAI Fall Symposium
on Plan Execution, AAAI Report FS-96-01. November 1996.
- Mike Williamson, Keith Decker, and Katia Sycara. Unified
Information
and
Control
Flow
in Hierarchical Task Networks. Working
Notes of the AAAI-96 workshop on "Theories of Action, Planning, and
Control".
August 1996.
- Keith Decker, Katia Sycara, and Mike Williamson. Modeling
Information
Agents:
Advertisements,
Organizational
Roles, and Dynamic Behavior.
Working Notes of the AAAI-96 workshop on "Agent Modeling". AAAI Report
WS-96-02. August 1996.
- Keith Decker, Mike Williamson, and Katia Sycara. Intelligent
Adaptive
Information
Agents. Working Notes of the AAAI-96 workshop
on "Intelligent Adaptive Agents". AAAI tech report "Intelligent
Adaptive
Agents". WS-96-04 August 1996.
- Keith Decker, Victor Lesser, M.V. Nagendra Prasad, and Thomas
Wagner MACRON:
An Architecture for Multi-agent Cooperative Information Gathering.
In Proceedings of the CIKM Workshop on Intelligent Information
Agents,
Baltimore, Maryland, December, 1995
- Keith Decker and Victor Lesser. Coordination
Assistance
for Mixed Human and Computational Agents. In Proceedings
of
the
Second
International Conference on Concurrent Engineering Research
and Applications, McLean, Virginia, August 1995. Also UMASS
Computer
Science TR-95-31.
- Tim Oates, M.V. Nagendra Prasad, Victor Lesser, and Keith Decker.
A
Distributed
Problem Solving Approach to Cooperative Information Gathering. AAAI
Spring Symposium on Information Gathering in Distributed Environments,
Stanford
University,
March
1995.
- Keith S. Decker and Victor R. Lesser. Designing
a
Family of Coordination Algorithms. In Proceedings of the 13th
International Distributed AI Workshop, Washington, July 1994. Also
UMASS Computer Science TR-94-14, January 1994.
- Keith S. Decker and Victor R. Lesser. Communication
in
the
Service
of
Coordination. AAAI Workshop on Planning for
Interagent
Communication, Seattle, July 1994.
- Alan J. Garvey, Keith S. Decker, and Victor R. Lesser. A
Negotiation-based Interface Between a Real-time Scheduler and a
Decision-maker.AAAI
Workshop on Models of Conflict Management, Seattle, July 1994.
Also
UMASS Computer Science TR-94-8, January 1994.
- Keith S. Decker and Victor R. Lesser. Task
Environment
Centered
Design
of
Organizations. AAAI Spring Symposium
on Computational Organization Design, Stanford University, March
21-23,
1994. An experimental HTML version is located HERE.
- Keith S. Decker, Alan J. Garvey, Victor R. Lesser, and Marty A.
Humphrey.
A blackboard system for real-time control of approximate processing. In
Proceedings
of the 25th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences,
January
1992.
- Keith S. Decker, Alan J. Garvey, Victor R. Lesser, and Marty A.
Humphrey.
Real-Time Control of Approximate Processing. In Proceedings of the
Fifth
Annual AAAI Workshop on Blackboard Systems, Anaheim, July 1991.
- Keith S. Decker and Victor R. Lesser. A scenario for cooperative
distributed
problem solving. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop
on Distributed AI, Texas, October 1990.
- Keith S. Decker, Marty A. Humphrey, and Victor R. Lesser. Effects
of
Parallelism
in Blackboard System Scheduling. In Proceedings of the Fourth
Annual
AAAI Workshop on Blackboard Systems, Boston, July 1990.
- Keith S. Decker and Victor R. Lesser. Some initial thoughts on a
generic
architecture for {CDPS} network control. In Proceedings of the
Ninth
Workshop on Distributed AI, September 1989. Also in COINS
TR-90-81.
- Keith S. Decker, Marty A. Humphrey, and Victor R. Lesser.
Experimenting
with control in the {DVMT}. In Proceedings of the Third Annual AAAI
Workshop on Blackboard Systems, Detroit, August 1989. Also COINS
TR-89-85.
- Keith S. Decker. DESCANT: A distributed expert system control
architecture
for non-independant tasks. Master's thesis, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute,
May 1987. Also GE Corporate R&D Tech Report 87-CRD-030.
Professional Activities
- Editorial board, Autonomous
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems,
Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Editorial board, The
Knowledge Engineering Review,
Cambridge University Press (2005--2015).
Editorial board, International
Journal of Agent-Oriented
Software Engineering, Inderscience Publishers.
- Program Co-Chair, 13th International Conference on
Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-agent Systems (PAAMS-15). [73
submissions, 20 full papers accepted]
Program Co-Chair, 8th
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS-09). [651
submissions, 132 full papers accepted]
Treasurer, 7th
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS- 08).
Workshop Program co-Chair,
AAAI, Boston, 2006.
Workshop Programme Chair,
First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems, Bologna, 2002
Co-editor, IEEE Internet
Computing, Special Issue "Agents on the Net", March/April 2000.
Workshop Programme Chair,
International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Barcelona, 2000
Publicity Chair, Second
International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Minneapolis, 1998
Co-chair, Workshop on
Bioinformatics and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS-02, Bologna 2002.
Senior Program Committee, Intl. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents &
Multi-Agent Systems [AAMAS] 2005, 2006
Organizing Committee, ECAI Workshop on Coordination in Emergent Agent
Societies, 2004, 2006.
Organizing Committee, AAAI Spring Symposium on Semantic Web Services,
2003.
Organizing Committee, AAMAS-03 Workshop on Representations and
Approaches for Time-Critical Decentralized Resource Allocation
Organizing Committee, AAMAS-02 Workshop Toward an Application Science:
MAS Problem Spaces and their Implications to Achieving Globally
Coherent Behavior
Organizing Committee, Agents-2000 Wksp on Infrastructure for Scalable
Multi-Agent Systems
Organizing Committee, ECAI-2000 Wksp on Modeling Artificial Societies
& Hybrid Organizations, 2000
Organizing Committee, AAAI Fall Symposium on Distributed Continual
Planning, 1998
Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and
Biomedicine [BIBM], 2009, 2010
Program Committee, AAAI 96, 97, 2006, 2008
Program Committee, Intl. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents &
Multi-Agent Systems [AAMAS] 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010
Program Committee, Agent Oriented Software Engineering 2006, 2007.
Program Committee, Engineering Societies in the Agents World 2002,
2003, 2007.
Program Committee, First International Conference on Coordination and
Control in Massively Multi-Agent Systems 2007
Program Committee, Fall AAAI Symposium Regarding the Intelligence in
Distributed Intelligent Systems, 2007
Program Committee, ESAW Workshop (Engineering Societies in the Agents’
World) 2007 Program Committee, Intl. Semantic Web Conference [ISWC]
2005.
Program Committee, Intl. Workshop on Coordinating Agents’ Plans and
Schedules (CAPS) 2007.
Program Committee, 17th SBIA (Brazilian Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence) 2004
Program Committee, International Conference on Multi-Agent
Systems[ICMAS], 96, 98, 00
Program Committee, Intl. Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and
Languages [ATAL], 97–01
Program Committee, International Workshop on Cooperative Information
Agents [CIA], 98, 01 Program Committee, Australian DAI Workshop 95, 96,
97 Program Committee, AI Planning Systems (AIPS) 00 Program Committee,
Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS) 2000
Program Committee, First ECAI Workshop on New Trends in Real-Time
Artificial Intelligence (NTeRTAIn) 2006.
Program Committee, Workshop on Agents in Computer Games, 3rd
International Conference on Computers and Games (CG’02).
Reviewer, IJCAI 95, 97, 99, 2003, 2005
- Reviewer, ECAI 2000, 2010
Reviewer, Artificial Intelligence
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Reviewer, IEEE Expert Reviewer, National Science Foundation
Reviewer, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Reviewer, International Journal of Intelligent Systems
Reviewer, International Journal of Intelligent & Cooperative
Information Systems
Reviewer, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
Reviewer, International Journal of Intelligent Systems in Accounting,
Finance, and Management Reviewer, Journal of Management Information
Systems
Reviewer, The Computer Journal Reviewer, ACM/Baltzer Journal on Special
Topics in Mobile Networking and Applications (MONET)
Reviewer, In Silico Biology
Reviewer, ASME Design for Manufacturing Conference 98
Reviewer, AAAI Doctoral Consortium 99
Reviewer, AAAI Workshops 2000
Co-chair, Fifth AAAI Workshop on Blackboard Systems, Anahiem, CA 1991
decker@udel.edu
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