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  KAoS Policy and Domain Services

Publications:

Bradshaw, J. M., Dutfield, S., Benoit, P., & Woolley, J. D. (1997). KAoS: Toward an industrial-strength generic agent architecture. In J. M. Bradshaw (Ed.), Software Agents. (pp. 375-418). Cambridge, MA: AAAI Press/The MIT Press.

Bradshaw, J. M., Greaves, M., Holmback, H., Jansen, W., Karygiannis, T., Silverman, B., Suri, N., & Wong, A. (1999). Agents for the masses: Is it possible to make development of sophisticated agents simple enough to be practical? IEEE Intelligent Systems(March-April), 53-63.

Bradshaw, J. M., Suri, N., Breedy, M. R., Canas, A., Davis, R., Ford, K. M., Hoffman, R., Jeffers, R., Kulkarni, S., Lott, J., Reichherzer, T., & Uszok, A. (2002). Terraforming cyberspace. In D. C. Marinescu & C. Lee (Ed.), Process Coordination and Ubiquitous Computing. (pp. 165-185). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. Updated and expanded version of an article that originally appeared in IEEE Intelligent Systems, July 2001, pp. 49-56.

Bradshaw, J. M., Beautement, P., Breedy, M. R., Bunch, L., Drakunov, S. V., Feltovich, P., Hoffman, R. R., Jeffers, R., Johnson, M., Kulkarni, S., Lott, J., Raj, A. K., Suri, N., & Uszok, A. (2003). Making agents acceptable to people. In N. Zhong and J. Liu (Eds.), Handbook of Intelligent Information Technology. Amsterdam: IOS Press, in press.

Bradshaw, J. M., Uszok, A., Jeffers, R., Suri, N., Hayes, P., Burstein, M. H., Acquisti, A., Benyo, B., Breedy, M. R., Carvalho, M., Diller, D., Johnson, M., Kulkarni, S., Lott, J., Sierhuis, M., & Van Hoof, R. (2003). Representation and reasoning for DAML-based policy and domain services in KAoS and Nomads. Proceedings of the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Conference (AAMAS 2003). Melbourne, Australia, New York, NY: ACM Press, in press.

Feltovich, P., Bradshaw, J. M., Jeffers, R., & Uszok, A. (2003). Order and KAoS: Using policy to represent agent cultures. Proceedings of the AAMAS 03 Workshop on Humans and Multi-Agent Systems. Melbourne, Australia.

Greaves, M., Holmback, H., & Bradshaw, J. M. (1999). What is a conversation policy? M. Greaves & J. M. Bradshaw (Ed.), Proceedings of the Autonomous Agents '99 Workshop on Specifying and Implementing Conversation Policies, (pp. 1-9). Seattle, WA.

Johnson, M., Chang, P., Jeffers, R., Bradshaw, J. M., Soo, V.-W., Breedy, M. R., Bunch, L., Kulkarni, S., Lott, J., Suri, N., & Uszok, A. (2003). KAoS semantic policy and domain services: An application of DAML to Web services-based grid architectures. Proceedings of the AAMAS 03 Workshop on Web Services and Agent-Based Engineering. Melbourne, Australia

Suri, N., Bradshaw, J. M., Burstein, M. H., Uszok, A., Benyo, B., Breedy, M. R., Carvalho, M., Diller, D., Groth, P. T., Jeffers, R., Johnson, M., Kulkarni, S., & Lott, J. (2003). DAML-based policy enforcement for semantic data transformation and filtering in multi-agent systems. Proceedings of the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Conference (AAMAS 2003). Melbourne, Australia, New York, NY: ACM Press,

Tonti, G., Bradshaw, J. M., Jeffers, R., Montanari, R., Suri, N., & Uszok, A. (2003). Semantic Web languages for policy representation and reasoning: A comparison of KAoS, Rei, and Ponder. Submitted to the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 03). Sanibel Island, Florida.

Uszok, A., Bradshaw, J. M., Jeffers, R., Suri, N., Hayes, P., Breedy, M. R., Bunch, L., Johnson, M., Kulkarni, S., & Lott, J. (2003). KAoS policy and domain services: Toward a description-logic approach to policy representation, deconfliction, and enforcement. Proceedings of Policy 2003. Como, Italy, in press.

Uszok, A., Bradshaw, J. M., Hayes, P., Jeffers, R., Johnson, M., Kulkarni, S., Breedy, M. R., Lott, J., & Bunch, L. (2003). DAML reality check: A case study of KAoS domain and policy services. Submitted to the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 03). Sanibel Island, Florida.