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://sern.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 Unpublished.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://sern.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://sern.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://sern.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://sern.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/papers/LNCSaose2001Flores&Kremer.pdf

Jacobsen, D. M., Kremer, R., & Shaw, M. L. G. (2000). Web-Based Distance Education Learning Environments in Graduate Software Engineering. The International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning (IJCEELLL), Special Theme Issue: "Internet based learning and the future of education". Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, Geneva, Switzerland.  [On-line]. Available: http://www.mscp.edte.utwente.nl/ptk/

Jacobsen, D. M., Kremer, R., & Shaw, M. L. G. (2000). Experiments with Distance Learning in Software Engineering Graduate Courses. Inroads: Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Bulletin, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 32(2), 56-59. [On-line]. Available: http://www.acm.org/sigcse/bulletin/

Ulieru, M., Norrie, D., Kremer, R., Shen, W. (2000).  A Multi-Resolution Collaborative Architecture for web-Centric Global Manufacturing, Information Science, volume 127, Journal no.: 7669, ISSN #0020-0255, August 2000.

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://sern.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/papers/LNCSaa2000w13FloresKremer&Norrie.pdf

Jacobsen, D. M. & Kremer, R. (2000) Online Testing and Grading Using WebCT in Computer Science.  Proceedings of the WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet (Webnet 2000).  Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, San Antonio, Texas, October 20 - November 4, 2000.

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://sern.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.

Jacobsen, D.M., Wijngaards, M., Kremer, R., Shaw, M. (1999). The Learning Web: A Comparison of Learning Environments in Concurrent Classroom and Distance Education Sections of a Software Engineering Graduate Course.  Proceedings of ED-MEDIA & ED-TELECOM 1999: World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia & Educational Telecommunication, June 19 to 24, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Kremer, R., Jacobsen, D.M., Wijngaards, N., Shaw, M. (1999). The Learning Web: The Instructor’s Experience In Concurrent Classroom and Distance Education Sections of a Software Engineering Graduate Course. ED-MEDIA & ED-TELECOM 1999: World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia & Educational Telecommunication, June 19 to 24, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Wijngaards, N. J.E., Jacobsen, D. M., Kremer, R., & Shaw, M. L. G. (1999). The Learning Web: A Technical Evaluation of WebCT in Concurrent Classroom and Distance Education Sections of a Software Engineering Graduate Course. Proceedings of ED-MEDIA & ED-TELECOM 99 World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia & Educational Telecommunication, Seattle, WA, June 19-24. [On-line]. Available: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dmjacobs/seng/edmedia99_wijngaards2.html

Jacobsen, D. M., Kremer, R., & Shaw, M. L. G. (1999). An Examination of Distance Education Learning Environments in Two Software Engineering Graduate Courses. Proceedings of Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education 1999 (WCCCE'99), Hosted by British Columbia Computers in Education Committee & Computer Science Department, Okanagan University College, Kelowna, BC, May 6 & 7, 1999. [On-line]. Available: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dmjacobs/seng/wccce99_paper.html

Lin, F.,  Norrie, D.H.,  Shen, W., Kremer, R.. (1999). A Schema-based Approach to Specifying Conversation Policies, Proceedings of Agents'99 Workshop on Agent Based Decision-Support for Managing the Internet-Enabled Supply-Chain, Seattle, WA, May 1-5, 1999,.

Jacobsen, M., Kremer, R., & Shaw, M. (1999). An Examination of Distance Education Learning Environments in Two Software Engineering Graduate Courses. New Currents in Teaching and Technology, 6 (4), May. [On-line]. Available: http://www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/Newsletters/Currents/Vol6.4/twosoftware.html

Jacobsen, M., Kremer, R., & Flores, R. (1999). On-line testing and grading: WebCT in Computer Science. New Currents in Teaching and Technology, 6 (3), April. [On-line]. Available: http://www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/Newsletters/Currents/Vol6.3/webct.html

Jacobsen, D. M., Wijngaards, N. J. E., Kremer, R., Shaw, M. L. G., & Gaines, B. (1999). The comparative evaluation of classroom and distance sections of an industrial software engineering graduate course. Proceedings of M/SET 99: International Conference on Mathematics/Science Education & Technology, San Antonio, Texas, March 1-4, 1999.  Available: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dmjacobs/seng/mset99_paper.html

Gaines, B., Jacobsen, D. M., Kremer, R., Shaw, M. W., Wijngaards, N. (1998). The comparative evaluation of a classroom and distance industrial software engineering graduate course. TeleLearning 1998 - Building Global Telelearning Communities, Vancouver, British Columbia, November 14 – 17, 1998.

Kremer, R. (1998).  Visual Languages for Knowledge Representation, KAW'98: Eleventh Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management, Voyager Inn, Banff, Alberta, Canada, April 18-23, 1998

Lucose, D., Kremer, R..  (1998). Visual Modeling of Problem Solving Methods using Annotated Flow Chart and Executable Conceptual Structures.  Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing and Intelligent Multimedia Applications, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.  February 9-11, 1998.

Kremer, R. (1997). A Concept Mapping Tool to Handle Multiple Formalisms. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium, Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Management, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, May, 1997.  American Association for Artificial Intelligence.  pp. 86-93.

Kremer, R. (1997). Constraint Graphs: A Concept Map Meta-Language.  PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada.  May, 1997.  Available: http://sern.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/dissertation/index.html

Kremer, R., Lukose, D. & Gaines, B. R. (1997). Knowledge Modeling using Annotated Flow Chart. Lukose, D., Delugach, H., Keeler, M., Searle, L. & Sowa, J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Seattle, Washington, June,1997, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1257, Springer, Berlin. pp. 213-227. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0027872

Kremer, R. (1997). Persistent Object Systems.   Knowledge Science Institute, University of Calgary.   Available: http://sern.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/papers/Persist/Persist.html

Kremer, R. (1997). Multi-user Interactive Concept Maps for the Learning Web. Müldner, T. & Reeves, T.C. (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA/ED-TELECOM 97: World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia and Telecommunications. Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, June, 1997. pp 601-606.

Kremer, R. (1996). Toward a Multi-User, Programmable Web Concept Mapping "Shell" to Handle Multiple Formalisms. Gaines, B. R. & Musen, M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Banff Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop. Banff, Alberta.  SRDG Publications, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada.  pp. 48.1-48.20.

Kremer, R. & Gaines, B. R. (1996). Embedded Interactive Concept Maps in Web Documents. Maurer, H.  (Ed.), Proceedings of WebNet'96: World Conference of the Web Society. San Francisco, CA, USA. Ed. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Charlottesville, VA.  pp. 273-280.

Lukose, D., Mineau G., Mugnier M., Moller J., Martin P., Kremer R. & Piero Zairi G. (1995).  Conceptual Structures for Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Modeling. Ellis, G. et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Santa Cruz, California, August, 1995. G. Springer, Berlin.

Kremer, R. (1995).  The Design of a Concept Mapping Environment for Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Representation.  Gaines, B. R. & Musen, M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th Banff Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop. Banff, Alberta. . SRDG Publications, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada.  pp. 23.1-23.19.  http://sern.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/papers/KAW95.html

Kremer, R. (1994). Concept Mapping: Informal to Formal.  Tepfenhart, W., Dick, J. & Sowa, J.  (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Knowledge Acquisition Using Conceptual Graphs Theory Workshop. University of Maryland College Park, MD., Aug 19, 1994. pp. 152-167. Available: http://sern.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/papers/ICCS94.html

Kremer, R. & Gaines, B. R. (1994). Groupware Concept Mapping Techniques. Proceedings SIGDOC'94: ACM 12th Annual International Conference on Systems Documentation, Banff, Canada. ACM Press, New York. pp. 156-165.  Available: http://sern.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/papers/sigdoc94.html

Kremer, R. (1993).  A Concept Map Based Approach to the Shared Workspace. MSc. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.  Available: http://sern.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/MScThesis/index.html

Kremer, R. (1991). Experience in Applying KRS to an Actual Business Problem. Boose, J. & Gaines, B. R. (Eds.)  Proceedings of the 6th Banff Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop. Banff, Canada. SRDG Publications, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada.  pp. 11.1-11.12. Available: http://sern.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/papers/KAW91.html
 


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