Professor
Michael N. Huhns
Director of the Center for Information Technology

Research Interests | Biography | Publications
 











CONTACT INFORMATION

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Swearingen Engineering Center
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
huhns@sc.edu
Phone: +1 (803) 777-5921
Fax: +1 (803) 777-3767

RESEARCH 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.

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.

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.

Multiagent Systems for Workflow
(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.

A Multiagent Treatment of Agenthood
(with M.P. Singh), in Applied Artificial Intelligence: An International Journal, Volume 13, No. 1-2, January-March 1999, pp. 3-10.

Guest Editorial on Multiagent Learning
(with Gerhard Weiss), in Machine Learning (special issue on Multiagent Learning), vol. 33, no. 2-3, November/December 1998, pp. 123-128.

Ontology Tools for Semantic Reconciliation in Distributed Heterogeneous Information Environments
(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.

Agent Foundations for Cooperative Information Systems
in Proceedings Third International Conference on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology, London, England, March 1998.

An Ontology Tool for Distributed Information Environments
(with Kuha Mahalingam), IEEE Computer, vol. 30, no. 6, June 1997, pp. 80-83.

The Carnot Heterogeneous Database Project: Implemented Applications
(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.

Carnot Prototype
(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.

A Mediated Approach to Open, Large-scale Information Management
(with Munindar P. Singh), IEEE International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, Phoenix, Arizona, March 1995.

Declarative Representations of Multiagent Systems
(with Larry M. Stephens and Munindar P. Singh), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, volume 5, number 5, October 1993, pp. 721-739.

Plausible Inferencing Using Extended Composition
(with Larry M. Stephens), Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Detroit, MI, August 1989, pp. 1420-1425.