Michael N. Huhns

 

Publications: Multiagent Systems

 

September 14, 2025

 

Books

 

1.      Alessio Lomuscio, Paul Scerri, Ana Bazzan, and Michael Huhns, editors, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2014), May 5-9, 2014, Paris, France. ISBN 978-1-4503-2738-1. [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. [AAMAS 2007 (ifaamas.org)]

3.      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.

4.      Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, editors, Readings in Agents, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1997. ISBN: 1558604952

5.      Les Gasser and Michael N. Huhns, editors, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Volume II, Pitman Publishing, London, 1989. ISBN: 9781558600928

6.      Michael N. Huhns, editor, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Pitman Publishing Ltd., London, England, 1987. ISBN: 9780323137591

 

Papers in Journals

 

1.      Michael N. Huhns, “A Robotic Web,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 17, no. 6, November/December 2013, pp. 4-7. [PDF]

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

3.      Jose M. Vidal, Paul A. Buhler, and Michael N. Huhns, “Inside an Agent,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 5, no. 1, January/February 2001, pp. 86-90. [PDF]

4.      Michael N. Huhns and Sreenath Seshadri, “Sensors + Agents + Networks = Aware Agents,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 4, no. 3, May/June 2000, pp. 84-86. [PDF]

5.      Munindar P. Singh and Michael N. Huhns, “Multiagent Systems for Workflow,” in International Journal of Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, Volume 8, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1999, pp. 105-117. [PDF]

6.      Michael N. Huhns, “Networking Embedded Agents,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 3, no. 1, January/February 1999, pp. 91-93. [PDF]

7.      Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, “A Multiagent Treatment of Agenthood,” Applied Artificial Intelligence: An International Journal, vol. 13, no. 1-2, January/March 1999, pp. 3-10. [PDF]

8.      Michael N. Huhns and Gerhard Weiss, “Guest Editorial on Multiagent Learning,” Machine Learning vol. 33, no. 2/3, November/December 1998, pp. 123-128. [PDF]

9.      Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, “Workflow Agents,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 2, no. 4, July/August 1998, pp. 94-96. [PDF]

10.   Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, “All Agents Are Not Created Equal,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 2, no. 3, May/June 1998, pp. 90-92. [PDF]

11.   Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, “The Agent Test,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 1, no. 5, September/October 1997, pp. 78-79. [PDF]

12.   Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, “Mobile Agents,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 1, no. 3, May/June 1997, pp. 80-82. [PDF]

13.   Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, “Agents Are Everywhere!” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 1, no. 1, January/February 1997, p. 87. [PDF]

14.   Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, “Formal Methods in CIS: Multiagent Systems,” International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, vol. 6, no. 1, March 1997, pp. 1-2. [PDF]

15.   Munindar P. Singh, Michael N. Huhns, and Larry M. Stephens, “Declarative Representations of Multiagent Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 5, no. 5, October 1993, pp. 721-739. [PDF]

16.   Michael N. Huhns, R. D. Bonnell, L. M. Stephens, and U. Mukhopadhyay, “The MINDS Project:  Multiple Intelligent Node Document Servers,” (abstract), AI Magazine, vol. 6, no. 3, Fall 1985, pp. 236-237. [PDF]

17.   Ju-Yuan D. Yang, Michael N. Huhns, and Larry M. Stephens, “An Architecture for Control and Communications in Distributed Artificial Intelligence Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 15, no. 3, May 1985, pp. 316-326. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.1985.6313366

 

Chapters in Books

 

1.      Michael N. Huhns and Larry M. Stephens, “Multiagent Systems for Internet Applications,” in Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, Chapter 18, Chapman Hall and CRC Press, 2004. [PDF]

2.      Michael N. Huhns, “Software Agents: The Future of Web Services,” in Agent Technologies, Infrastructures, Tools, and Applications for E-Services, Ryszard Kowalcyk, Jörg P. Müller, Hua Tianfiled, and Rainer Unland, editors, Springer Verlag, vol. LNAI 2592, Berlin, pp. 1-18, 2003. [PDF]

3.      Michael N. Huhns and Larry M. Stephens, “Multiagent Systems and Societies of Agents,” in Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Gerhard Weiss, editor, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. [PS]

4.      Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, “Multiagent Systems in Information-Rich Environments,” in Cooperative Information Agents II, Matthias Klusch and Gerhard Weiss, editors, Springer-Verlag, vol. LNCS 1435, Berlin, pp. 79-93, 1998. [PDF]

5.      Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, “Managing Heterogeneous Transaction Workflows with Cooperating Agents,” in Agent Technology: Foundations, Applications and Markets, Nicholas R. Jennings and Michael J. Wooldridge, editors, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 219-240, 1998. [PDF]

6.      Munindar P. Singh and Michael N. Huhns, “Challenges for Machine Learning in Cooperative Information Systems,” in Distributed Artificial Intelligence Meets Machine Learning, Gerhard Weiss, editor, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1221, Berlin, pp. 11-24, May 1997. [PDF]

7.      L. Glicoes, R. Staats, and M. N. Huhns, “A Multiagent Environment for Department of Defense Distribution,” in Adaption and Learning in Multiagent Systems, Gerhard Weiss and Sandip Sen, editors, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1042, Berlin, pp. 53-84, 1996. [PDF]

8.      Michael N. Huhns, “Foreword,” in Multiagent Systems: A Theoretical Framework for Intentions, Know-How, and Communications, by Munindar P. Singh, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Lecture Notes in AI, Volume 799, pp. vii-xii, 1991.

9.      L. Gasser and M. N. Huhns, “Themes in Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research,” in Distributed Artificial Intelligence Volume II, Les Gasser and Michael N. Huhns, editors, Pitman Publishing Ltd., London, England, 1989.

10.   Michael N. Huhns, Uttam Mukhopadhyay, Larry M. Stephens, and Ronald D. Bonnell, “DAI for Document Retrieval: The MINDS Project,” in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Michael N. Huhns, editor, Pitman Publishing Ltd., London, England, 1987.

 

Papers in Refereed Proceedings

 

1.      Michael N. Huhns, “From DPS to MAS to …:  Continuing the Trends,” in Proc. 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-09), Budapest, Hungary, May 2009, pp. 43-48. [PDF]

2.      John R. Rose, Michael N. Huhns, Soumik Sinha Roy, and William H. Turkett, Jr., “An Agent Architecture for Long-Term Robustness,” in Proceedings First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Bologna, Italy, July 2002, pp. 1149-1156. [PDF]

3.      John R. Rose and Michael N. Huhns, “An Agent Architecture for Comprehensive Mission Robustness,” in Proceedings of the Goddard/JPL Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts, Tyson’s Corner, VA, Section IV, January 2002, pp. 1-2. [PDF]

4.      Michael N. Huhns, “MINDS: DAI for Information Retrieval,” Sixth Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Sea Ranch, CA, December 1985. [SLIDES]

5.      R. D. Bonnell, Michael N. Huhns, L. M. Stephens, and U. Mukhopadhyay, “MINDS: Multiple Intelligent Node Document Servers,” in Proceedings of IEEE First International Conference on Office Automation, New Orleans, LA, December 1984, pp. 125-136. [PDF]

6.      Michael N. Huhns, “The MINDS Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence,” in Fifth Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Ridgefield, CT, October 1984.

7.      Michael N. Huhns, Larry M. Stephens, and Ronald D. Bonnell, “Control and Cooperation in Distributed Expert Systems,” in Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon, Orlando, Florida, April 1983. [PDF]

 

Technical Reports and Other Papers

 

1.      Michael N. Huhns, “Future of Software Agent Technology,” USC CIT Technical Report, November 1998.

2.      Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, “Distributed Communicating Agents: Guide for Installation and Operation,” MCC Technical Report Number Carnot-017-92(Q), Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, January 1992. [PDF]

3.      David M. Bridgeland, Natraj Arni, and Michael N. Huhns, “A DAI Communications Aide,” MCC Technical Report Number ACT-RA-317-90, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, October 1990.

4.      Michael N. Huhns and Larry M. Stephens, “Distributed Artificial Intelligence:  A Tutorial,” MCC Technical Report Number ACT-RA-244-90, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, July 1990.

5.      Munindar P. Singh, Michael N. Huhns, and Larry M. Stephens, “Declarative Representations of Multiagent Systems,” MCC Technical Report Number ACT-RA-220-90, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, July 1990.

6.      Michael N. Huhns and David M. Bridgeland, “ROI for DAI,” MCC Technical Report Number ACT-RA-215-90, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, June 1990. [PDF]

7.      Michael N. Huhns and Larry M. Stephens, “Distributed Knowledge-Based Systems for Antares:  Research Plan,” MCC Technical Report Number ACA-AI-056-88-Q, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, February 1988. [PDF]

8.      Ju-Yuan D. Yang, Michael N. Huhns, and Larry M. Stephens, “Dynamic Planning for the Control of Distributed Problem Solving,” USCMI Technical Report 83-10, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, June 1983. [PDF]

9.      Michael N. Huhns, Larry M. Stephens, and Ju-Yuan D. Yang, “A Structure for Distributed Expert Systems Based on Dynamic Planning,” USCMI Technical Report 83-05, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, January 1983.

 

Tutorials

 

1.      “Research Directions in Multiagent Systems and Service-Oriented Computing,” presented at Fort Monmouth, NJ, November 2005.

2.      “Agents and Multiagents in the Internet and Intranets,” presented at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, Sweden, August 1999.

3.      “Principles of Agents and Multiagent Systems: Social, Ethical, and Legal Abstractions and Reasoning,” presented at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, Sweden, August 1999.

4.      “Agents and Multiagents in Information-Rich Applications,” presented at Agents’ World, Paris, France, July 1998.

5.      “Agents at Work: Promises, Paradigms, Problems,” presented at International Conference on Data Engineering, New Orleans, LA, February 1996.

6.      “Agent Technologies,” presented at Third International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS-95), Vienna, Austria, May 1995.

7.      “Distributed Artificial Intelligence for Information Systems,” presented at Second International Conference on Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems (CKBS-94), Keele, UK, June 1994.

8.      “Distributed Artificial Intelligence for Information Systems,” presented at Second International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS-94), Toronto, Canada, May 1994.

9.      “Distributed Artificial Intelligence,” presented at Third International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Charleston, SC, July 1990.