Professor
Michael N. Huhns
Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Director of the Center for Information Technology
Detailed Resume | Research Interests | Publications
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Dr. Michael N. Huhns holds the NCR Professorship Chair in Computer Science and Engineering at USC. He is the Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and also the Director of the Center for Information Technology, which is a focal point for USC's research, public service, and education efforts in the computer-based exploitation of information. He was recently elected a Fellow of the IEEE and a Senior Member of the ACM.
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.
Before becoming a professor of computer science and engineering at the
University of South Carolina, 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. Prior to 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.
Besides being a Fellow of the IEEE, Dr. Huhns is a member of Sigma
Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, ACM, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, and AAAI. He is
the author of over 200 technical papers in machine intelligence and an
editor of the books Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Volumes
I and II and Readings in Agents. With Prof. Munindar P. Singh of
North Carolina State University, he has recently authored the textbook
Service-Oriented
Computing: Semantics, Processes, Agents for John Wiley
Publishing Co. Dr. Huhns is an associate editor for the Journal of
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, and IEEE Internet
Computing. He is on the editorial boards of the IEEE
Transactions on Mobile Computing, International Journal of
Cooperative Information Systems, Journal of Intelligent
Manufacturing, and 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 Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. He has chaired and served on the
advisory boards and program committees for numerous international
conferences and workshops.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY (a detailed resume is
here)
RESEARCH INTERESTS (a complete list of publications is
here)
My research has ranged broadly over many areas of information
technology, including service-oriented computing, distributed artificial
intelligence and multiagent systems, machine learning, computer vision,
enterprise integration, and computational social systems. Its focus,
however, has been on the three complementary themes of (1) distributing
the loci of computational intelligence, (2) enhancing the intelligence
of the distributed computations, and (3) increasing the effectiveness of
the interactions among the loci. The themes are evident in the
following ontology of my publications:
Multiagent Systems (including negotiation and communication):
Michael N. Huhns, editor, Distributed Artificial
Intelligence, Pitman Publishing Ltd., London, England, 1987.
Service-Oriented Computing (including workflows, ontologies, and
semantics):
Munindar P. Singh and Michael N. Huhns,
Service-Oriented
Computing: Semantics, Processes, Agents, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,
West Sussex, England, 2005. Cooperative Information Systems (including enterprise integration):
Michael N. Huhns, Larry M. Stephens, and Nenad Ivezic, "Automating
Supply-Chain Management," in Proceedings First International
Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS),
Bologna, Italy, pp. 1017-1024, July 2002.
Computational Social Systems (including commitments, ethics, and
emotions):
Munindar P. Singh and Michael N. Huhns, "
Social Abstractions for Information Agents,"
in Intelligent Information Agents, Matthias Klusch, editor,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1999.
Software Engineering (including autonomy and robustness):
Michael N. Huhns, "
Consensus Software: Robustness and Social Good via Widespread
Multiagent Development,"
in Proc. 17th International Conference on Software and Systems
Engineering and their Applications (ICSSEA), Paris, France, vol. 2,
session 7, pp. 37-48, November 2004.
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (including ontologies):
Michael N. Huhns and Larry M. Stephens, "
Semantic Bridging of Independent Enterprise Ontologies,"
in Inter- and Intra-Organizational Integration: Building
International Consensus, Kurt Kosanke et al., editors, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 2002.
Applications and Infrastructure:
Kuhanandha Mahalingam and Michael N. Huhns, "An Ontology Tool for
Distributed Information Environments,"
IEEE Computer, vol. 30, no. 6, pp.80-83, June 1997.
Computer Architecture:
Charles F. Summer, Jr., Robert O. Pettus, Ronald D. Bonnell, Michael
N. Huhns, and Larry M. Stephens, "Multiple-Microcomputer Processing,"
United States Patent No. 4,414,624, 8 November 1983.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition:
Qi Tian and Michael N. Huhns, "
Algorithms for Subpixel Registration,"
Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, vol. 35,
pp. 220-233, August 1986.
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