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He is a professor of computer science and engineering at the
University of South Carolina, where he also directs the Center for Information
Technology. Prior to this, he conducted research on the Argo,
Antares, RAD, Carnot, and InfoSleuth projects at the Microelectronics
and Computer Technology Corporation as a Senior Member of the Research
Division. He was also an adjunct professor in computer sciences at the
University of Texas. Before joining MCC, he was an associate professor
at the University of South Carolina, a research assistant in image
processing at the University of Southern California, and a radar systems
engineer at Hughes Aircraft Company.
Dr. Huhns is a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, ACM, IEEE
(Senior Member), and AAAI. He is the author of over 100 technical
papers in machine intelligence and an editor of the books Distributed
Artificial Intelligence, Volumes I and II and Readings in
Agents. Dr. Huhns is an associate editor for IEEE Intelligent
Systems, the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems, and IEEE Internet Computing. He is on the editorial
boards of the International Journal of Cooperative Information
Systems, the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, and the
Journal of Emerging Mechanical Engineering Technology. He is a
founder and board member for the International Foundation for
Cooperative Information Systems and the International Foundation for
Multiagent Systems, for which he is also the Treasurer. He has chaired
and served on the advisory boards and program committees for many other
international conferences and workshops.
Multiagent Systems for Workflow
A Multiagent Treatment of Agenthood
Guest Editorial on Multiagent Learning
Ontology Tools for Semantic Reconciliation in Distributed
Heterogeneous Information Environments
Agent Foundations for Cooperative Information Systems
An Ontology Tool for Distributed Information
Environments
The Carnot Heterogeneous Database Project: Implemented
Applications
Carnot Prototype
A Mediated Approach to Open, Large-scale Information
Management
Declarative Representations of Multiagent Systems
Plausible Inferencing Using Extended CompositionRESEARCH INTERESTS
Information technology, including distributed artificial intelligence
and multiagent systems, machine learning, enterprise modeling and
integration, and distributed database sysems.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Huhns received the B.S.E.E. degree in 1969 from the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
engineering in 1971 and 1975, respectively, from the University of
Southern California, Los Angeles.
A FEW PUBLICATIONS
Social
Abstractions for Information Agents
(with Munindar
P. Singh), in Intelligent Information Agents, Matthias Klusch,
editor, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, to appear 1999.
(with Munindar P. Singh), in International Journal of
Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management
Volume 8, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1999, pp. 105-117.
(with M.P. Singh), in Applied Artificial Intelligence:
An International Journal, Volume 13, No. 1-2, January-March 1999,
pp. 3-10.
(with Gerhard Weiss), in Machine Learning
(special issue on Multiagent Learning), vol. 33, no. 2-3,
November/December 1998, pp. 123-128.
(with Kuhanandha Mahalingam), in Intelligent Automation and Soft
Computing: An International Journal (special issue on Distributed
Intelligent Systems, Mohamed Kamel and Mohammad Jamshidi, editors), 1998.
in Proceedings Third International Conference on the Practical Application
of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology, London, England,
March 1998.
(with Kuha Mahalingam), IEEE Computer, vol. 30, no. 6,
June 1997, pp. 80-83.
(with Munindar P. Singh, Philip E. Cannata, Nigel Jacobs,
Tomasz Ksiezyk, Kayliang Ong, Amit P. Sheth, Christine Tomlinson, and
Darrell Woelk), in Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal,
volume 5, number 2, April 1997, pp. 207-225.
(with Darrell Woelk, Philip Cannata, Nigel Jacobs, Tomasz Ksiezyk,
Greg Lavender, Greg Meredith, Kayliang Ong, Wei-Min Shen, Munindar Singh,
and Christine Tomlinson), in Omran Bukhres and Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (eds.)
Object-Oriented Multidatabase Systems, Prentice Hall International,
chapter 18, 1996, pp. 621-651.
(with Munindar P. Singh), IEEE International Phoenix Conference on
Computers and Communications, Phoenix, Arizona, March 1995.
(with Larry M. Stephens and Munindar P. Singh),
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering,
volume 5, number 5, October 1993, pp. 721-739.
(with Larry M. Stephens),
Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, Detroit, MI, August 1989, pp. 1420-1425.