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Publications

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UMDL Publications

  • Alloway, G., Bos, N., Hamel, K., Hammerman, T., Klann, E., Krajcik, J., Lyons, D., Madden, T., Margerum-Leys, J., Reed, J.,Scala, N., Soloway, E., Vekiri, I., & Wallace, R. M. (1996, July 25-27). Creating an inquiry learning environment using the world wide web. Proceedings, International Conference on the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
  • Alloway, G., Bos, N., Hamel, K., Hammerman, T., Klann, E., Krajcik, J., Lyons, D., Madden, T., Margerum-Leys, J., Reed, J., Scala, N., Soloway, E., Vekiri, I., Wallace,R., (1997) "Creating an Inquiry-Learning Environment Using the World Wide Web", Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Academic Press Ltd., in press.
  • Atkins, Daniel E., Birmingham, William P., Durfee, Edmund H., Glover, Eric, Mullen, Tracy, Rundensteiner, Elke A., Soloway, Elliot, and Vidal, Jose, Wallace, Raven and Wellman, Michael. Toward Inquiry-Based Education Through Interacting Software Agents, IEEE Computer, May 1996, p. 69.
  • Atkins, Daniel E., Frank, R., Lougee, W., and Willis, K. An Overview of Digital Library Initiatives at the University of Michigan, March 6, 1996.
  • Birmingham, W.P. An Agent-Based Architecture for Digital Libraries, D-Lib, July, 1995.
  • Birmingham, W.P., Drabenstott, K.M., Frost, C.O., Warner, A.J., and Willis, K. The University of Michigan Digital Library: This is Not Your Father's Library. In Digital Library '94 Proceedings, June 1994, 53-60
  • Birmingham, W. P., Durfee, E. H., Mullen, T., and Wellman, M. P. The Distributed Agent Architecture of the University of Michigan Digital Library. AAAI Spring Symposium on Information Gathering in Heterogeneous, Distributed Environments, Stanford, CA, AAAI Press. (Postscript File)
  • Bos, N., Student publishing of value-added resources in a WWW digital library. Paper presented at AERA, 1997.
  • Bos, N., Krajcik, J., and Soloway, E., Student publishing in a WWW digital library: goals and instructional support. Paper presented at AERA, 1997, symposium Artifact-building in computer learning environments: supporting students' scientific inquiry. Chair: Philip Bell
  • Crum, Laurie. University of Michigan Digital Library Project. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 38, No. 4, April 1995, 63-64.
  • Crum, Laurie. University of Michigan Digital Library Project, Final Report, Volume I, Telepublishing Survey, TFPL Ltd., June 9, 1995.
  • Durfee, E. H., Kiskis, D. L., and Birmingham, W.P., "The Agent Architecture of the University of Michigan Digital Library", IEE/British Computer Society Proceedings on Software Engineering (Special Issue on Intelligent Agents) 144(1), February 1997.
  • Glover, E., Park, S., Arora, A., Kiskis, D., Durfee, Ed., "A Case Study on the Evolution of Software Tools Selection and Development in a Large-Scale Multiagent System", submitted to AAAI-98 workshop on software tools for developing agents, 1998.
  • Hoffman, J., Kupperman, J., and Wallace, R.,Online learning materials for the science classroom: design methodology and implementation. Paper presented at AERA, 1997.
  • Jackson, Jay. Enhancing access in a national digital library federation, New Edition, School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan, Spring 1995.
  • Jackson, Jay. Update: The U-M Digital Library Project, New Edition, School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan, Winter 1995.
  • Kiskis, D. UMDL Architecture Requirements Analysis. School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan, August, 1995. (Internal Report)
  • Lee, A., Nica, A., and Rundensteiner, "Surviving in an Evolving Environment: View Perservation", Technical Report, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Computer Science and Engineering Division, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1997 (submitted for publication)
  • Lougee, Wendy P. Beyond access: new concepts, new tensions for collection development in a digital environment." Collection Building, vol. 14, no. 3, 1995, p. 19-25.
  • MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K. and White. Kimberly. An Axiomatic Approach to Evaluating and Selecting Digital Payment Mechanisms. (PDF file)
  • Mullen, T. and Wellman, M.P. Market-based negotiation for digital library services. Second USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce, November, 1996.
  • Mullen, T. and Wellman, M.P. A Simple Computational Market for Network Information Services. In First International Conference on Multiagent Systems, June 1995. (Postscript File)
  • Nica, A., Lee, A., and Rundensteiner, "View Sychronization under Capability Changes of Decoupled Information Sources", Technical Report, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Computer Science and Engineering Division, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1997 (submitted for publication)
  • Nica, A. and Rundensteiner, E.A. "DIIM: A Foundation For Translating Loosely-Specified Queries into Executable Plans in Large-Scale Information Systems", in the Proceedings of the Second IFCIS Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS-97), Charleston, South Carolina, June, 1997.
  • Nica, A. and Rundensteiner, E.A. Uniform Structured Document Handling Using a Constraint-based Object Approach, Advances in Digital Libraries (ADL'95), A Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries, Virginia, May 1995. (Postscript File)
  • Park, S., Durfee, E., Birmingham, W., "Emergent Properties of a Market-Based Digital Library with Strategic Agents". In proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMS98), to appear July 1998.
  • Park, S., Durfee, E., Birmingham, W., "A Stochastic Strategy for Multiagent Contracts and the Impact of Deliberation Overhead" (abstract), Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97), p. 840, July 1997.
  • Park, S., "A Computational model of Persistent Beliefs" (abstract), In Proceedings of Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96), p. 1399, July 1996.
  • Park, S., and Durfee, E.H. "Contracting Strategy based on Markov Process Modeling" (abstract), Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, page 1400, July 1996.
  • Park, S., and Durfee, E.H. "An Optimal Contracting Strategy in Digital Library", AAAI-96 Workshop on Agent Modeling, Portland, OR July 1996.
  • Park, S., Durfee, E.H., and Birmingham, W.P. "Advantages of Strategic Thinking in Multiagent Contracts (A Machanism and Analysis)", Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems ICMAS96), pages 259-266, December 1996.
  • Price-Wilkin, John. WWW-to-PAT Gateway: Exploiting an SGML-aware System Through the Web. The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 5, no. 7, 1994, 5-27.
  • Rundensteiner, E., Lee, A., and Nica, A., "On Preserving Views in an Evolving Environment", in the Proceedings of 4th International Workshop KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION MEETS DATABASES (KRDB'97): Intelligent Access to Heterogeneous Information, Athens, Greece, August, 1997.
  • Soloway, Elliot and Wallace, Raven, Does the internet support student inquiry? Don't ask. Communications of the ACM, May 1997, Vol 40, No. 5, 11-16.
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  • Vidal, J., Mullen, T., Weinstein, P., Durfee, E., "The UMDL Service Market Society", (2 page abstract) Autonomous Agents Conference, 1998, http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/jmvidal/papers/umdlsms/
  • Vidal, J., Durfee, E., "Agents Learning about Agents: A Framework for Analysis". Workshop on Learning in Multi-Agent Systems, AAAI97, http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/jmvidal/papers/lmas/
  • Vidal, J., Durfee, E., "Learning Nested Agent Models in an Information Economy." Journal of Experimental and Theorectical Artificial Intelligence (specil issue on learning in distributed artificial intelligence systems). To appear 1998. http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/jmvidal/papers/jetai.ps
  • Vidal, J., Durfee, E., "The Moving Target Function Problem in Multi-Agent Learning." In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS98), to appear, July 1998. http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/jmvidal/papers/mtargetshort.ps
  • Vidal, J.M., and Durfee, E.H. "Agents Modeling Agents in Information Economies", (abstract) Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Page 1415, July 1996.
  • Vidal, J.M., and Durfee, E.H. "Building Agent Models in Economic Societies of Agents", AAAI-96 Workshop on Agent Modeling, Portland, OR, July 1996.
  • Vidal, J.M., and Durfee, E.H. "The Impact of Nested Agent Models in an Information Economy", Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS96), pages 377-384, December 1996.
  • Vidal, J.M., and Durfee, E.H. "Using Recursive Agent Models Effectively", in M. Wooldridge, J. Muller, and M. Tambe (eds.) Intelligent Agents, volume II, pages 171-186, Springer-Verlag, 1996.
  • Vidal, Jose and Durfee, Ed. Task Planning Agents in the UMDL Proceedings from CIKM '95: Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, December 1-2, 1995.
  • Wallace, R. and Kupperman, J. Online search in the science classroom: benefits and possibilities. Paper presented at AERA,1997.
  • Wallace, R., Krajcik, J., Soloway, E., "Digital Libraries in the Science Classroom: An Opportunity for Inquiry", D-Lib Magazine, September 1996
  • Walsh, W., Wellman, M., "A Market Protocol for Distributed Task Allocation", In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-98), to appear, 1998.
  • Walsh, W., Wellman, M., Wurman, P., MacKie-Mason, J., "Some Economics of Market Based Distributed Scheduling", In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-98), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1998.
  • Weinstein, P., Birmingham., W., "Organizing Digital Library Content and Services with Ontologies", submitted to the International Journal on Digital Libraries, special issue on artificial intelligence for digital libraries, 1998.
  • Weinstein, P., "Ontology-Based Metadata", to appear in Proceedings of the Third ACM Digital Library conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June, 1998.
  • Weinstein, P., Birmingham, W., "Matching Requests for Agent Services with Differentiated Vocabulary", Student abstract, In Proceedings of the Second ACM Digitial Library conference, Philadelphia, PA, July 1997.
  • Weinstein, P., Birmingham, W. P. "Service Classification in a Proto-Organic Society of Agents". Proceedings of the IJCAI-97 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Digital Libraries, August 1997, Nagoya, Japan.
  • Weinstein, P., Alloway, G. "Seed Ontologies: growing digital libraries as distributed, intelligent systems". Proceedings of the Second ACM Digital Library conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 1997.
  • Weinstein, P., Birmingham, W. P. "Runtime Classification of Agent Services". Proceedings of the AAAI-97 Spring Symposium on Ontological Engineering at Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, USA, March 1997.
  • Wellman, M.P., Durfee, E.H., Birmingham, W.P. The Digital Library as Community of Information Agents, IEEE Expert 11(3):10-11, June 1996.
  • Wurman, P., Walsh, W., Wellman, M., "Flexible Double Auctions for Electronic Commerce: Theory and Implementation", To appear in a special issue of Decision Support Systems, 1998.
  • Wurman, P., Wellman, M., Walsh, W., "The Michigan Internet AuctionBot: A Configurable Auction Server for Human and Software Agents", In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on autonomous Agents (Agents-98), May 1998.

 

Related Publications

  • Atkins, Daniel E. The Future of Libraries and Library Schools, Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT) International Roundtable for Library and Information Science, Japan, November 1995.
  • Atkins, Daniel E. A Library Educator's Perspective. Speech from the Research Library: The Day After Tomorrow, Association of Research Libraries, Proceedings of the 124th Annual Meeting, May 18-20, 1994, Austin, TX.
  • Bowen, William G. The Foundation's Journal Storage Project (JSTOR), Report of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1994.
  • Cobbs, Liz. U-M project's helping America establish system for electronic libraries, The Ann Arbor News, November 6, 1994.
  • D'Ambrosio, J. and W.P. Birmingham. Preference-directed Design. AI in Engineering, Design, Analysis, and Manufacture, 1995 (to appear).
  • Darr, T.P., and Birmingham, W.P. Automated Design for Concurrent Engineering. IEEE Expert, Vol. 9, No. 5, 1994, 35-42.
  • Drabenstott, K. and Atkins, D. "The Kellogg CRISTAL-ED Project: An Overview of Digital Library Initiatives at the University of Michigan", March, 1996.
  • Durfee, E.H. and Montgomery, T.A. Coordination as Distributed Search in a Hierarchical Behavior Space. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Special Issue on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Vol 21, No. 6, 1991, 1363-1378.
  • Gosling, William A., Margo Crist, Brenda Johnson, Wendy P. Lougee and Beth Forrest Warner. Cooperative efforts in new methods of information delivery: the Michigan experience." Advances in Librarianship, vol. 19, 1995, p. 23-42.
  • Huebel-Drake, M., Finkel, L., Stern, E., Mouradian, M. Planning a Course for Success. Science Teacher, October 1995, Vol. 62, No. 7, p. 18-21.
  • Jacobson, Robert. Desktop libraries: University researchers strive to make vast networked collections a reality. The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. XLIL, No. 11, November 10, 1995.
  • Klein, Amy. Nasa, National Science Foundation give grants to "U." The Michigan Daily, October 11, 1994.
  • Lougee, W., "The University of Michigan Digital Library Program: A Retrospective on Collaboration With the Academy", Library Hi Tech, Volume 16, Number 1, 1998, Issue #61, pp. 7-8, 51-59.
  • Lougee, W., "The Evolving Market for Libraries: Lessons from the Cereal Industry." Serials Librarian, in press.
  • MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K., and White, Kimberley. An Axiomatic Approach to Evaluating and Selecting Digital Payment Mechanisms.
  • Nesbit, Joanne. Digital library project will receive $8.5 million, The University Record, University of Michigan, Vol. 50, No. 7, October 17, 1994.
  • Peters, Paul Evan. Digital libraries are much more than digitized collections, Educom Review, July/August 1995.
  • Pool, Robert. Turning an Info-Glut Into a Library. Science, Vol. 226, No. 7, October 1994, 20-22.
  • Powell, C., Kerr, N., "SMGL Creation and Delivery: The Humanities Text Initiative", D-Lib Magazine, July/August, 1997, ISSN 1082-9873.
  • Shaw, E., Blumson, S., "Making of America: Online Searching and Page Presentation at the University of Michigan", D-Lib Magazine, July/August 1997, ISSN 1082-9873.
  • Stix, Gary. The Speed of Write. Scientific American, December 1994, 106-111.
  • Weise, John. Visual Media Collections Browser for the Earth and Space Sciences
  • Woodford, John. The new "media union" on the North Campus: Building for the Future, Michigan Today, Vol. 27, No. 3, October, 1995.

 

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