Research

Research

My course load primarily consists of cognitive science courses and the same applies for my research interests. I would also be interested in researching software engineering concepts, but I don't think this university considers it a valid research topic. Within the field of cognitive science I'm interested in collaborative behavior, in particular multi-agent systems, and human memory, in particular contextual influence on recall. Below is a list of my publications and bibliography (both of which need updating).

Research Groups

Snerg - The SNePS research group
VR Drama - Virtual Reality drama implemented using SNePS.
CCS - The Center for Cognitive Science

Publications

Trupti Devdas Nayak, Michael Kandefer, and Lunarso Sutanto.
Reinventing the Reinvented Shakey in SNePS (PDF)
SNeRG Technical Note 36, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State Universtiy of New York, Buffalo, NY, April 6, 2004.

Stuart C. Shapiro, Josephine Anstey, David E. Pape, Trupti Devdas Nayak, Michael Kandefer, Orkan Telhan.
MGLAIR Agents in a Virtual Reality Drama (PDF)
Technical Report 2005-08, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, March 30, 2005.

Stuart C. Shapiro, Josephine Anstey, David E. Pape, Trupti Devdas Nayak, Michael Kandefer, & Orkan Telhan.
MGLAIR Agents in Virtual and other Graphical Environments(PDF)
Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, 2005, 1704-1705.

Stuart C. Shapiro and Michael Kandefer.
A SNePS Approach to The Wumpus World Agent or Cassie Meets the Wumpus. (PDF)
In Leora Morgenstern and Maurice Pagnucco, Eds., IJCAI-05 Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action, and Change (NRAC'05): Working Notes, IJCAII, Edinburgh, 2005, 96-103.

Albert Goldfain, Michael W. Kandefer, Stuart C. Shapiro, and Josephine Anstey
Co-Designing Agents. (PDF)
Proceedings of the North East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence (NESCAI '06), Cornell U., Ithaca, NY, 2006, 142-148.

My Research Bibliography

Multi-agent Systems and Collaboration:

Michael Bowling and Peter McCracken (2005).
Coordination and Adaptation in Impromptu Teams.
In: Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Seventeenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence. Published by American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Partha Sarathi Dutta and Sandip Sen.
Forming stable partnerships.
Cognitive Systems Research Volume 4, Issue 3. Pages 211-221. September 2003.

Fong et al (2005).
The Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Interaction Project
AIAA Space 2005. Published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Henry H. Hexmoor.
Representing and Learning Routine Activities.
Unpublished PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University at Buffalo, December, 1995.

Henry Hexmoor and Donald Nute.
Methods for deciding what to do next and learning.
Technical Report 92-23, Department of Computer Science, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, September 1992.

Leora Morgenstern.
Knowledge Preconditions for Actions and Plans.
In: Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 867-874, Milan Italy. 1987

Luìs Nunes and Eugènio Oliveira.
On Learning by Exchanging Advice.
Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior (AISB) Convention. London. April 3-5, 2002.

Paola Rizzo et al.
On Helping Behavior in Cooperative Environments.
In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP '05). Le Chesnay (France), 1995, pp. 96-108.

Onn Shehory and Sarit Kraus.
Task Allocation Via Coalition Formation Among Autonomous Agents.
In: Proceedings of IJCAI. August 1995. pp. 655-661

Gerhard Weiss, ed.
Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence.
The MIT Press, 1999.

General AI (or AI indirectly related to my research):

M. T. Cox (2005).
Metacognition in computation: A selected research review.
In: Artificial Intelligence, 169(2):104-141.

Ernest Davis (1990).
Representations of commonsense knowledge.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA.

John McCarthy (1977).
EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Cambridge, MA, pp. 1038-1044.

John McCarthy (1979).
First Order Theories of Individual Concepts and Propositions.
In: J. E. Hayes and Donald Michie and L. I. Mikulich (eds.), Machine Intelligence 9. pp. 129-147. Ellis Horwood Ltd.

John McCarthy and Patrick C. Hayes (1969).
Some Philosophical Problems from the Standpoint of Artificial Intelligence.
In: B. Meltzer and D. Michie (eds.), Machine Intelligence 4. pp. 463-502. Published by Halsted Press, New York.

S. J. Russell (1999).
Metareasoning.
In: R. A. Wilson and F. Keil (eds.), The Mit Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge, MA, pp. 539\-541. Published by MIT Press.

M. P. Shanahan (1999).
The Event Calculus Explained.
In: M. J. Wooldridge and M. Veloso (eds.), Artificial Intelligence Today. Volume 1600. pp. 409-430.

Stuart C. Shapiro (1993).
Belief Spaces as Sets of Propositions.
In: Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (JETAI), 5(2):225-235.

Other (Most likely used for course work):

T. Bittner and M. Donnelly (2004).
The mereology of stages and persistent entities.
In Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2004.

Mark Heller (1984).
Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects.
In: Philosophical Studies, 46:323-334.

Storrs McCall (1996).
A Model of the Universe.
Oxford University Press, USA.

Theodore Sider (1997).
Four-Dimensionalism.
In: The Philosophical Review, 106(2):197-231.

Judith Jarvis Thomson (2005).
Parthood and Identity Across Time.
In: The Journal of Philosophy, 80(4):201-220.

Michael Tooley (2000).
Time, Tense, and Causation.
Oxford University Press, USA.