Recent publications by topic (Since 1993)

• Multi agent systems,
• Robotics,
• Uncertainty,
• Knowledge Based Systems,
• Miscelania

Some publications are not available electronically. If you want a hardcopy or further information please contact me at sierra@iiia.csic.es.

IIIA - Institut d'Investigació en Intel.ligència Artificial

CSIC - Spanish Scientific Research Council

Campus Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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Multi Agent Systems

Index of topics

• Pablo Noriega, Carles Sierra: Subastas y sistemas multiagente, Boletin AEPIA, (in press).
• Noyda Matos, Carles Sierra: Evolutionary computing and negotiating agents, AMET98 (workshop of Agents98), pp. 91-111.
• Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, Francisco J. Martin, Pablo Noriega, Pere Garcia, Carles Sierra: Towards a Test-bed for trading Agents in Electronic Auction Markets, AICOMM, (in press).
• Peyman Faratin, C. Sierra, Nick R. Jennings: Negotiation decision functions for autonomous agents, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, (in press).
• Simon Parsons, C. Sierra, Nick R. Jennings: Agents that reason and negotiate by arguing, Journal of Logic and Computation, (in press).
• Noyda Matos, C. Sierra, Nick R. Jennings: Determining Successful Negotiation Strategies: An Evolutionary Approach, ICMAS98, (in press).
• Tim Norman, C. Sierra, Nick R. Jennings: Rights and commitments in multi-agent agreements, ICMAS98, (in press).
• J. A. Ródriguez-Aguilar, F. J. Martín, P. Noriega, P. Garcia, C. Sierra: Competitive Scenarios for Heterogeneus Trading Agents, Agents98, pp. 293-300.
• S. Parsons, C. Sierra, N. Jennings: Multi-context Argumentative agents, Common Sense 98 (in press).
• C. Sierra, N. R. Jennings, P.Noriega, S. Parsons: A framework for argumentation-based negotiation. Intelligent Agents IV LNAI 1365, pp 177-192. (A summary in spanish to be published at the AEPIA bulletin.)
• C. Sierra, P. Noriega: A formal framework for accountable agent interactions,The Fifth Bar-Ilan Sympossium on Foundations of Artificial Intelligence. Ramat-Gan, Israel, June 16-18, pp 23-24, 1997.
• C. Sierra, P. Faratin, N. R. Jennings: A Service-Oriented Negotiation Model between Autonomous Agents, MAAMAW'97, Ronneby, Sweden. LNAI 1237, pp. 17-35, 1997.
• J. A. Rodriguez, P. Noriega, C. Sierra, J. Padget: A Java-based Electronic Auction House Second International Conference on The Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology: PAAM'97, London, pp. 207-224, 1997.
• C. Di Napoli, M. Giordano, M. Mango Furnari, C. Sierra, P. Noriega: A PVM Implementation of the Fishmarket Multiagent System , Int. Congress on Expert Systems and Applications, Cancun, Mexico, 1996.
• P. Noriega, C. Sierra: Towards Layered Dialogical Agents . Proceedings of the ECAI'96 Workshop Agents Theories, Architectures and Languages, ATAL'96. Budapest, pp. 69-81. (L.N.A.I. Springer, in press), 1996.

Robotics

Index of topics

• Maite Lopez-Sanchez, Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, Carles Sierra: Possibility theory-based environment modelling by means of behaviour-based autonomous robots, ECAI98, (in press).
• M. López-Sánchez, F. Esteva, R. López de Màntaras, C. Sierra, J. Amat: Map Generation by Cooperative Low-Cost Robots in Structured Unknown Environments, Autonomous Robots, 5, 53-61,Kluwer.
• M. López, R. López de Mántaras, C. Sierra: Incremental map generation by low cost robots based on possibility/necessity grids. UAI'97, 1997, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Uncertainty in AI. pp. 351-357, Rhode Island, USA.
• J. Amat, R. López de Mántaras, C. Sierra: Cooperative Autonomous Low-cost Robots for Exploring Unknown Environments. Experimental Robotics IV (O. Khatib & K. Salisbury, eds.), Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Springer-Verlag, n 223, pp. 40-49, 1997.
• R. López de Mántaras, J. Amat, F. Esteva, M. López, C. Sierra: Generation of Unknown Environment Maps by Cooperative Low-Cost Robots. First International Conference on Autonomous Agents. W. Lewis Johnson (ed.). Marina del Rey. ACM Press. pp. 164-169, 1997.
• J. Amat, R. López de Màntaras, C. Sierra:Cooperative Autonomous Low-cost Robots for exploring Unknown Environments, Preprints Fourth International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, ISER'95. Stanford, California, pp. 28-33, 1995.

Uncertainty

Index of topics

• J. Puyol, L.Godo, C. Sierra: Specialisation Calculus and Communication, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR). Vol18, n 1-2, pp. 107-130. (HTML  Version)
• L. Godo, R. López de Mántaras, C. Sierra, A. Verdaguer: MILORD: The Architecture and the Management of Linguistically Expressed Uncertainty, Chapter 23 In FUZZY INFORMATION ENGINEERING: A GUIDED TOUR OF APPLICATIONS, D. Dubois, H. Prade, and R. R. Yager (eds.), John Wiley & Sons, New York 1997, http://WWW.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/11/14766-4.html, (Reprint of the AVIGNON-87 paper which obtained the DIGITAL award).
• J. Agustí, F. Esteva, P. García, L. Godo, R. López de Mántaras, C. Sierra: Local Multi-valued Logics in Modular Expert Systems. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. Taylor & Francis Pub., Vol. 6 num. 3, pp. 303-321, 1994.
• Ll. Godo, W. van der Hoek, J.J. Ch. Meyer, C. Sierra: Many-Valued Epistemic States. Application to a Reflective Architecture: MILORD-II. Proceedings of the 5th International conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty, IPMU'94. Paris, Vol. II, pp. 950-956, 1994.
• J. Puyol, C. Sierra: Milord II. (F. Esteva, P. García, Eds.) Tecnologías y Lógica Fuzzy (Actas del IV Congreso de la Asociación Española de Tecnologías y Lógica Fuzzy) Blanes, pp. 353-354,1994.

Knowledge-based systems

Index of topics

• Josep Puyol, Lluís Godo, Carles Sierra: Handling fuzzy information in Milord II, INCOM98, (in press).
• Pilar Barrufet, J. Puyol-Gruart, Carles Sierra, Terap-IA, a Knowledge-Based System for Pneumonia Treatment. Proceedings of the International ICSC Symposium on Engineering of Intelligent Systems EIS'98. Volume 1, pp. 176-182.
• M. Domingo, L. Godo, C. Sierra: Handling Imperfect knowledge in Milord II for the identification of marine sponges, in T. Hunter and S.Parsons editors, Untertainty applications in AI, Springer. (In press.)
• J. Puyol, C. Sierra; Milord II: A Language Description , Mathware, vol 4, n 3, pp. 299-338.
• M. Domingo, C. Sierra: A Knowledge Level Analysis of Taxonomic Domains International Journal of Intelligent Systems. John Wiley & Sons. Vol 12 (2) 105-135, 1997.
• C. Sierra, L. Godo, R. López de Mántaras, M. Manzano: Descriptive Dynamic Logic and its Applications to Reflective Architectures. Future Generation Computer Systems Journal. Elsevier. Special issue on Reflection and Meta-level AI Architectures . Vol. 12, pp. 157-171, 1996.
• L. Godo, W. van der Hoek, J.J. Ch. Meyer, C. Sierra: Many-valued Epistemic States. Application to a Reflective Architecture: Milord-II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, num. 945, pp. 440-452, 1995.
• C. Sierra, L. Godo, R. López de Màntaras: A Dynamic Logic Framework for Reflective Architectures. IJCAI'95 Workshop: On Reflection and Meta-Level Architectures and their Application in AI. Montréal, Canada, pp. 94-102, 1995.
• M. Belmonte, C. Sierra, R. López de Mántaras: RENOIR A Expert System Using Fuzzy Logic for Rheumatology Diagnosis. International Journal of Intelligent Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Vol. 9, num. 11, pp. 985-1000. 1995.
• C. Hernández, J. Sancho, M. Belmonte, C. Sierra, F. Sanz: Validation of the Medical Expert System RENOIR . Computers and Biomedical Research, Academic Press, Vol. 27, num. 6, pp. 456-471, 1994.
• C. Hernández, J. Sancho, M. Belmonte, A. Patak, F. Sanz , C. Sierra: Validation of the Medical Expert System RENOIR. (Jay Liebowitz, Ed.) Moving Towards Expert Systems Globally in the 21st Century. Cognizant Communication Corporation, pp.510-518, 1994.
• L. Godo, C. Sierra: Knowledge base refinement in Milord. Proceedings of 14th IMACS World Congress. Atlanta, USA, "invited paper", 1994.
• C. Sierra: Medical expert systems through an example in microbiology. Annales de Biologie Clinique, Vol. 51, num. 3-4-5, pp. 224-226, 1993.
• C. Sierra, L. Godo: Specifying Simple Scheduling Tasks in a Reflective and Modular Architecture. (Treur, J. & Wetter, Th. Eds), Formal Specification of Complex Reasoning Systems. Ellis Horwood, pp. 199-232, 1993.
• A. Verdaguer, A. Patak, J. Sancho, C. Sierra, F. Sanz: Validation of the Medical Expert System PNEUMON-IA. (Jan H. van Bemmel and Alex T. McCray, Eds.) Yearbook of Medical Informatics 1993. IMIA's Publications, pp. 446-461, 1993.
• M. Belmonte, C. Sierra, R. López de Mántaras, F. Sanz, J. Sancho, M. Mirevitlles: RENOIR: Development and Validation of an Expert System For inflamatory Arthopathies and Collagen Diseases. Scientific Abstracts of 57th Annual Meeting American College of Rheumatology, S142, 1993.

Miscelanea

Index of topics

• C. Sierra: Tècniques de Programació en Intel.ligència Artificial, Ediciones UPC, col. TIA2. 102 pgs. (In Catalan), 1994.