Research Interests:

• Software Agent Models, Multi Agent Systems.
• DataBase Systems,Service Oriented Architectures.
• Artificial Intelligence.
• Aspect Oriented Techniques.
• Web Information Retrievals.

Some selected papers                                                                         

• R. Vaculín, K. Sycara, "Specifying and Monitoring Composite Events for Semantic Web Services," in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE European Conference on Web Services. IEEE Computer Society, November 26-28, 2007.

• G. Sukthankar and K. Sycara, "Efficient Plan Recognition for Dynamic Multi-agent Teams," in Proceedings of the Grace Hopper Conference, October 2007.

• P. Velagapudi, O. Prokopyev, K. Sycara, and P. Scerri, "Maintaining Shared Belief in a Large Multiagent Team," in Proceedings of FUSION 2007.

• P. Scerri, S. Owens, B. Yu, and K. Sycara, "A Decentralized Approach to Space Deconfliction," in Proceedings of FUSION 2007.

• R. Glinton, P. Scerri, D. Scerri, and K. Sycara, "An Analysis and Design Methodology for Belief Sharing in Large Groups," in Proceedings of FUSION 2007.

• P. Scerri, R. Glinton, S. Owens, D. Scerri, and K. Sycara, "Geolocation of RF Emitters by Many UAVs," in AIAA Infotech@Aerospace 2007 Conference and Exhibit, 2007.

• P. Scerri, S. Owens, R. Glinton, S. Okamoto, and K. Sycara, "Locating RF Emitters with Large UAV Teams," in Advances in Cooperative Control and Optimization. A shorter version of this paper appears as a poster at AAMAS'07.

• P. Scerri, S. Owens, R. Glinton, and K. Sycara, "Synergistic Integration of Agent Technologies for Military Simulation," in KIMAS'07.

• A. Farinelli, D. Nardi, P. Scerri, and A. Ingenito, "Dealing with Perception Errors in Multi-Robot System Coordination," Poster at IJCAI'07, 2007.

• G. Sukthankar, K. Sycara, J.A. Giampapa, C. Burnett, and A. Preece, "Towards a Model of Agent-Assisted Team Search," in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Science, September 2007.

• R. Vaculín, K. Sycara, "Towards automatic mediation of OWL-S process models," in Proceedings of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, pages 1032-1039. IEEE Computer Society, July 9-13, 2007.

• R. Vaculín, K. Sycara, "Monitoring execution of OWL-S web services," in Proceedings of OWL-S: Experiences and Directions Workshop, European Semantic Web Conference, June 3-7, 2007.

• G. Sukthankar and K. Sycara, "Policy Recognition for Multi-Player Tactical Scenarios," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 07), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2007.

• C. Li, B. Yu, and K. Sycara, "An Incentive Mechanism for Message Relaying in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 07), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2007.

• A. Chechetka and K. Sycara, "Subjective Approximate Solutions for Decentralized POMDPs," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 07), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2007.

• G. Lai, K. Sycara, and C. Li, "A Pareto Optimal Model for Automated Multi-attribute Negotiations," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 07), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2007.