CASA: Papers

Kremer, R. & Flores, R. (2006). Flexible Conversations Using Social Commitments and a Performatives Hierarchy. F. Dignum et al. (Eds.), Selected Papers from Proceedings of the Agent Communications Workshop, AAMAS'2005 (International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems), Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 2005. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, LNAI 3859, 2006. pp. 93-108.

Kremer, R. & Flores, R. (2005) Using a Performative Subsumption Lattice to Support Commitment-based Conversations. Full paper in Proceedings of the Forth International Joint Conference on Autonomou Agents and MuliAgent Systems (AAMAS'2005), Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25-29, 2005. ACM Press.

Flores, R.A. & Kremer, R.C. (2004) A Pragmatic Approach to Build Conversation Protocols using Social Commitments. Poster in Proceedings of the 3rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, (AAMAS 2004), New York, USA, July 19-23, 2004.

Flores, R.A. & Kremer, R.C. (2004) A Principled Modular Approach to Construct Flexible Conversation Protocols. In A.Y. Tawfik and S.D. Goodwin (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3060, Springer-Verlag, pp. 1-15. ISBN: 3-540-22004-6. (Also in A.Y. Tawfik and S.D. Goodwin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AI'04), London, Ontario, Canada, May 17-19, 2004).

Kremer, R., Flores, R, LaFournie, C. (2003).  "A Performative Type Hierarchy and Other Interesting Considerations in the Design of the CASA Agent Architecture". Advances in Agent Communication. F. Dignum (ed.), Springer Verlag, LNAI series.  2003.  Available: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/papers/AdvancesInAgentCommunication_KremerFloresLaFournie.pdf

Flores, R., Kremer, R. (2003). A Social Approach to Message Connectedness in Conversation Protocols. Unpublished.

Weiming Shen, Robert Kremer, Mihaela Ulieru and Douglas Norrie (2002). An Agent-Based Infrastructure for Internet-Enabled Collaborative Enterprises. International Journal of Production Research (Paper #JEM/CRV/IJPR 0010037.)

Flores, R.A. and Kremer, R.C. (2001).  To Commit or not to Commit: Modelling Agent Conversations for Action.  Computational Intelligence, Special Issue on Agent Communication Languages, B. Chaib-draa and F. Dignum (Eds.), Blackwell Publishers, Volume 18, Number 2. Available: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/papers/ci.pdf

Flores, R.A. & Kremer, R.C. A Model for Flexible Composition of Conversations: How a Simple Conversation got so Complicated, in M.P. Huget, F. Dignum & J.L. Koning (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Agent Communication Languages and Conversation Policies, First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2002), Bologna, Italy, July 15-19, 2002. Available: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/papers/acl2002Flores&Kremer.pdf

Flores, R.A. and Kremer, R.C. (2001) Formal Conversations for the Contract Net Protocol. Proceedings of the Third European Agent Systems Summer School on Multi-agent Systems (EASSS 2001), Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence (ACAI 2001), Student Sessions, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2-13, 2001. ISBN 80-01-02387-7, pp. 109-118. Available: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/papers/acai2001Flores&Kremer.pdf

Flores, R.A. and Kremer, R.C. (2001) Bringing Coherence to Agent Conversations. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents'2001), M. Wooldridge, P. Ciancarini, and G. Weiss (Eds.), Montreal, Canada, May 28-June 1, 2001, pp.85-92. Available:  http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/papers/LNCSaose2001Flores&Kremer.pdf

Roberto A. Flores, Rob C. Kremer & Douglas H. Norrie.  (2000).  “An Architecture for Modeling Internet-based Collaborative Agent Systems.”  Selected Papers from The Autonomous Agents 2000 Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-agent Systems, eds. Thomas A. Wagner & Omer F Rana. Springer, Berlin, 2000. Available: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/papers/LNCSaa2000w13FloresKremer&Norrie.pdf

Kremer, R., Norrie, D. H., Flores, R. & Shen, W. (2000).  An Infrastructure for Flexible, Modular, Multi-user Intelligent Interfaces.  Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Computer Society, Nashville, Tennessee, October 8-11, 2000. pp. 739-744

Kremer, R. & Norrie, D. H.  (2000). Architecture and Design of a Holonic Visual Interface.  Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems Workshop, IEEE Computer Society, Nashville, Tennessee, October 8-11, 2000. pp. 1715-1720. Available: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/papers/SMC2000/SMC2000.pdf

Norrie, D.H., Ulieru, M., Kremer, R., Shen, W. (2000). "Self-Organizing Multi-Agent Architecture for Web-Centric Collaborative Enterprises", Workshop on Web-Based Infrastructures and Coordination Architectures for Collaborative Enterprises, Ninth IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies:  Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA , June 14-16, 2000.

Flores, R. A., Kremer, R. C. & Norrie, D. H. (2000).  “An Architecture for Modeling Internet-based Collaborative Agent Systems.”  Proceedings of the Autonomous Agents 2000 Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-agent Systems, Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, June 3-7, 2000.

Fuhua Lin, Douglas H. Norrie & Rob Kremer.  (2000).  “Incorporating Conversation Managers into Multi-agent Systems.”  Proceedings of the Autonomous Agents 2000 Workshop on Infrastructure Agent Languages and Conversation Policies, Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, June 3-7, 2000, IEEE Press.

Eberlein, A. & Kremer, R. (2000).  The Application of an Intelligent Requirements Engineering Tool in an Agent-Based Framework. Proceedings of 2000 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 7-19, 2000.

Eberlein, A. & Kremer, R. (2000). Integrating the Components of an Intelligent Telecom Design Tool into an Agent-Based Framework.  Proceeding of the Seventh  IEEE International Conference and Workshop on Engineering Computer Based Systems (ECBS'2000).  IEEE Computer Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 3-5, 2000.

Lin, F., Norrie, D.H., Shen, W., Kremer, R. (1999).  A Schema-Based Approach to Specifying Conversation Policies, Issues in Agent Communication, (Eds. Dignum, F., Greaves, M.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 1999.

W. Shen and D. H. Norrie, and R.  Kremer. (1999). Towards an Infrastructure for Internet Enabled Collaborative Agent Systems, Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management (KAW'99), Banff, Alberta, Canada, 16 - 21 October, 1999

Shen, W., Norrie, D.H., and Kremer, R., (1999). Developing Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Using Collaborative Agents, Proceedings of the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Conference (IMS'99), Leuven, Belgium, Sept. 22-24, 1999.

Shen, W., Ulieru, M., Norrie, D.H. and Kremer, R. (1999). Implementing the Internet Enabled Supply Chain through a Collaborative Agent System, Agents’99 Workshop on Agent Based Decision-Support for Managing the Internet-Enabled Supply-Chain, Seattle, WA, June 1999.