Education

· Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Image Processing)
University of Southern California – 1975
Dissertation: Optimum Restoration of Quantized Correlated Signals

· M.S. in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory)
University of Southern California – 1971

· B.S. in Electrical Engineering
University of Michigan – 1969

Professional Experience

2004 to Present

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

NCR Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Director, USC Center for Information Technology

· I am currently teaching courses in information technology and conducting research in service-oriented computing, cooperative information systems, ontologies, software agent systems, and bioinformatics. There are 6 faculty members and more than 12 graduate students associated with my Center for Information Technology.

1995 to 2004

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Director, USC Center for Information Technology

1985 to 1995

Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, Texas

Senior MTS, Research Division

· InfoSleuth Project: Investigated architectures for cooperative software agents to be used for the advertising, locating, retrieving, and fusing of information from open environments, such as the Internet and corporate networks.

· Carnot Project: Researched enterprise information integration and workflow automation, based on software agent technology, with applications to telecommunications, concurrent engineering, and heterogeneous distributed information systems. Responsible for the semantic services layer of the Carnot system architecture, and cofounder of this $12M project.

· Reasoning Architectures Project: Managed the development team for the RAD distributed expert system platform.

· Antares Project: Led a research team investigating distributed artificial intelligence.

· Argo Project: Led a research team investigating machine learning by analogy, with applications to automated VLSI design based on VHDL.

· Proteus Project: Codeveloper of MCC's Proteus expert system shell.

1994 to 1995

University of Texas, Austin, Texas

Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Sciences

1979 to 1985

University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina

Associate Professor, College of Engineering

Graduate Director, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department

Director, USC Center for Machine Intelligence

Responsible for the formation and operation of the Center for Machine Intelligence. Responsible for all facets of the graduate program in Electrical and Computer Engineering, including admission, curriculum, and academic standards. Taught undergraduate and graduate courses in computer engineering, particularly in the area of machine intelligence. Notable research was the MINDS (Multiple Intelligent Node Document Servers) Project for NCR Corporation, combining database theory and distributed artificial intelligence for information retrieval; this research represented the first commercial application of distributed AI. Other significant projects included the use of computer vision for nondestructive evaluation; the GRAMMAR Project, which led to a system for correcting English prose; and the development of a multiple computer system for the Navy, where each node was a bit-sliced VAX with a distributed OS in microcode (this system was carried through prototyping to a production phase).

1975 to 1979

University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina

Assistant Professor, College of Engineering

Director, Image Processing Laboratory

1971 to 1975

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

Research Assistant, Image Processing Institute

1969 to 1971

Hughes Aircraft Company, Fullerton, California

Radar Systems Engineer

1966 to 1969

Fruehauf Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Manufacturing Engineer

Graduate Student Advisement

I have supervised 7 Ph.D. dissertations, and I am currently the dissertation advisor for 5 Ph.D. candidates. I have also supervised 40 M.S. theses and 149 graduate student research projects.

Grants and Contracts (funded)

1. Palmetto Health, Inc., “SeniorSMART,” 2008.

2. DTO, “Combining Facts and Expert Opinion in Analytical Models via Logical and Probabilistic Reasoning,” 2006 – 2010.

3. DARPA, “COORDINATORs,” BAA 04-29, 2005 – 2007.

4. ARDA, “Prior and Tacit Knowledge for NIMD,” 2004 – 2006.

5. U.S. Army (TACOM), “Jidoka Project,” 2004 – 2005.

6. DARPA, “Visual Soldier Project,” BAA 03-02, 2004 – 2005.

7. USDA, “Pathogen Information System: Agent-Based Infrastructure and Bayesian Analysis,” 2002-2005.

8. ARDA, “Topsail,” 2004.

9. South Carolina Budget and Control Board, “Database Systems for Fleet Management,” 2002-2005.

10. DARPA, “Genoa II: Collaboration Technologies for the Intelligence Community,” BAA 02-08, 2002-2004.

11. ARDA, “OmniSeer: Novel Intelligence from Massive Data,” 2002-2004.

12. USDA, “Cooperating Intelligent Software Agents for Genomics,” 2001-2002.

13. NASA, “Achieving Comprehensive Mission Robustness,” NASA Institute for Advanced Computation, 2001.

14. NSF, “Robust Software with Errors through Team-Oriented Programming,” Computation and Social Systems Program, 2000-2003.

15. DARPA, “Autonomous Negotiating Teams,” BAA 99-05, 1999-2003.

16. DARPA, “Cooperating Agent-Based Systems,” BAA 98-01, 1998-2002.

17. DARPA, “Autonomous Networked Tactical Sentries,” BAA 96-26, 1997-2000.

18. DARPA, “Logistics Information Access via Cooperating Agents,” BAA 95-30, 1996-1999.

19. South Carolina DHEC, “Distributed Database Systems,” 1996-1997.

20. EPA, “Ontology Development for Heterogeneous Database Integration,” 1996-1997.

21. NIST, “Healthcare Information Infrastructure Technology (HIIT),” ATP 94-04, 1994-1998.

22. ARPA, “Clinical Associate Consortium (CAC),” BAA 94-13, 1994-1998.

23. ARPA, “Scalable Information Management via Intelligent Mediation,” BAA 94-01, 1994-1997.

24. ARPA, “Agile Manufacturing Information Infrastructure Program (AMII),” BAA 93-20, 1993-1995.

25. ARPA, “Extending MCC's Carnot Technologies to Component-Based, Mediated Software Development,” BAA93-11, 1993-1995.

26. NCR Corporation, “A Distributed Expert System Approach to FileReady,” 1984-1985.

27. U.S. Army, “Nondestructive Evaluation Using Image Processing,” 1983.

28. U.S. Navy, “Microcomputer Feasibility Breadboard Construction,” 1979-1981.

29. U.S. Navy, “Multiple Microcomputer Control Algorithm Investigation,” 1978-1979.

30. NSF, “Solid State Refreshed Display for Digital Image Processing,” 1977-1979.

31. NIH, “Microwave Enhancement for Thermographic Tumor Detection,” 1978.

32. Department of Energy, “Study of Advanced Professional Requirements Relative to Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering,” 1977-1978.

33. NASA, “Determining the Ecological Effects of the Santee-Cooper River Rediversion,” 1978-1984.

34. NASA, “Image Processing Equipment for Remote Sensing,” 1977.

35. ARPA, “Image Processing Research,” 1971-1975.

Publications and Presentations

Books

1. Ryszard Kowalczyk, Michael Huhns, Matthias Klusch, Zakaria Maamar, and Quoc Bao Vo, editors, Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering, Springer, vol. LNCS 5006, Berlin, 2008. [Publication Website]

2. Michael N. Huhns and Onn Shehory, editors, Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 07), International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, USA, May 2007.

3. Munindar P. Singh and Michael N. Huhns, Service-Oriented Computing: Semantics, Processes, Agents, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, West Sussex, England, 2005. [Publication Website]

4. Torsten Eymann, Franziska Klügl, Winfried Lamersdorf, Matthias Klusch, and Michael N. Huhns, editors, Multiagent System Technologies: Third German Conference, MATES 2005, Springer Verlag, vol. LNAI 3550, Berlin, 2005.

5. Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, editors, Readings in Agents, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1997.

6. Michael N. Huhns, Mike Papazoglou, and Gunter Schlageter, editors, Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1993.

7. Les Gasser and Michael N. Huhns, editors, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Volume II, Pitman Publishing, London, 1989.

8. Michael N. Huhns, editor, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Pitman Publishing Ltd., London, England, 1987.

Papers in Journals

1. Jingshan Huang, Jiangbo Dang, Michael N. Huhns, and W. Jim Zheng, “Use artificial neural network to align biological ontologies,” BMC Genomics, vol. 9, September 16, 2008.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/S2/S16

2. M. Brian Blake and Michael N. Huhns, “Web-Scale Workflow: Integrating Distributed Services,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 12, no. 1, January/February 2008, pp. 55-59.

3. Michael N. Huhns, “Services Must Become More Agent-Like,” Wirtschaftsinformatik, vol. 50, no. 1, January 2008, pp. 5-7.

4. Jingshan Huang, Jiangbo Dang, and Michael N. Huhns, “Ontology Alignment as a Basis for Mobile Service Integration and Invocation,” Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, vol. 3, no. 2, 2007, pp. 138-158. [PDF]

5. Jiangbo Dang and Michael N. Huhns, “Concurrent Multiple-Issue Negotiation for Internet-Based Services,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 10, no. 6, November/December 2006, pp. 42-49. [PDF]

6. Michael N. Huhns et al., “Research Directions for Service-Oriented Multiagent Systems,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 9, no. 6, November/December 2005, pp. 65-70. [PDF]

7. Mark Burstein, Christoph Bussler, Tim Finin, Michael Huhns, Massimo Paolucci, Amit Sheth, Stuart Williams, and Michael Zaremba, “A Semantic Web Services Architecture,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 9, no. 5, September/October 2005, pp. 72-81. [PDF]

8. Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, “Service-Oriented Computing: Key Concepts and Principles,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 9, no. 1, January/February 2005, pp. 75-81. [PDF]

9. Hamada Ghenniwa, Michael N. Huhns, and Weiming Shen, “eMarketplaces for Enterprise and Cross Enterprise Integration,” Data and Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier, vol. 52, no. 1, January 2005, pp. 33-59. http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0169023X04000874

10. Larry M. Stephens, Aurovinda K. Gangam, and Michael N. Huhns, “Constructing Consensus Ontologies for the Semantic Web: A Conceptual Approach,” World Wide Web Journal, Kluwer Academic Publishers, vol. 7, no. 4, December 2004, pp. 421-442. [PDF]

11. Michael N. Huhns, “The Sentient Web,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 7, no. 6, November/December 2003, pp. 90-92. [PDF]

12. Jeff Heflin and Michael N. Huhns, “The Zen of the Web,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 7, no. 5, September/October 2003, pp. 30-33. [PDF]

13. Ashok U. Mallya and Michael N. Huhns, “Commitments Among Agents,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 7, no. 4, July/August 2003, pp. 90-93. [PDF]

14. Michael N. Huhns, “Consensus Software: Robustness and Social Good,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 7, no. 3, May/June 2003, pp. 91-93. [PDF]

15. Michael N. Huhns, “Being and Acting Rational,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 7, no. 2, March/April 2003, pp. 91-93. [PDF]

16. William H. Turkett Jr., John R. Rose, and Michael N. Huhns, “Massive Deliberation,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 7, no. 1, January/February 2003, pp. 79-82. [PDF]

17. Csilla Farkas and Michael N. Huhns, “Making Agents Secure on the Semantic Web,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 6, no. 6, November/December 2002, pp. 76-79. [PDF]

18. Michael N. Huhns, Larry M. Stephens, John W. Keele, Jim E. Wray, Warren M. Snelling, Greg P. Harhay, and Randy R. Bradley, “Weaving a Computing Fabric,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 6, no. 5, September/October 2002, pp. 88-91. [PDF]

19. Michael N. Huhns, “Agents as Web Services,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 6, no. 4, July/August 2002, pp. 93-95. [PDF]

20. Michael N. Huhns and Duncan A. Buell, “Trusted Autonomy,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 6, no. 3, May/June 2002, pp. 78-80. [PDF]

21. Michael N. Huhns and Vance T. Holderfield, “Robust Software,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 6, no. 2, March/April 2002, pp. 78-80. [PDF]

22. Michael N. Huhns, “Agent Societies: Magnitude and Duration,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 6, no. 1, January/February 2002, pp. 79-81. [PDF]

23. Marco G. Valtorta and Michael N. Huhns, “Probability and Agents,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 5, no. 6, November/December 2001, pp. 78-80. [PDF]