C-MANTIC Research Group

Collaborative Multi-AgeNt/multi-robot Technologies and Intelligent Coordination Research Group

Computer Science Department, College of IS & T, University of Nebraska, Omaha

2012

K. R. Guruprasad and P. Dasgupta, "Egress: An online path planning algorithm for boundary exploration," (accepted) International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Minnesota, MN, 2012.
P. Dasgupta, V. Ufimtsev, C. Nelson and S. Hossain, "Dynamic Reconfiguration in Modular Robots using Graph Partitioning-based Coalitions," (accepted) International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Valencia, Spain, 2012.
A. Munoz-Melendez, P. Dasgupta and W. Lenagh, "A stochastic queuing model for multi-robot task allocation," (accepted) 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Rome, Italy, 2012.
K. R. Guruprasad and P. Dasgupta, "Distributed spatial partitioning of an initially unknown region for a multi-robot coverage application," (accepted) Autonomous Robots and Multrobot Systems (ARMS) workshop (co-located with AAMAS 2012) Valencia, Spain, 2012.
P. Dasgupta, A. Munoz-Melendez and K. R. Guruprasad, "Multi-robot Terrain Coverage and Task Allocation For Autonomous Detection of Landmines," SPIE Conference on Defense, Security and Sensing, Baltimore, MD, 2012.
J. Jumadinova and P. Dasgupta, "Mutlirobot autonomous landmine detection using distributed multisensor information aggregation," SPIE Conference on Defense, Security and Sensing, Baltimore, MD, 2012.
J. Jumadinova and P. Dasgupta, "Multi-sensor Information Processing using Prediction Market-based Belief Aggregation," (accepted) 14th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated E-Commerce (AMEC-XIV) (co-located with AAMAS 2012), [ (arxiv link)]
K. R. Guruprasad, Z. Wilson and P. Dasgupta, "Complete Coverage of an Initially Unknown Environment by Multiple Robots using Voronoi Partition," 2nd International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS), Bangalore, India, 2012. [pdf] [slides] [video]
P. Dasgupta, V. Ufimtsev and C. Nelson, "Dynamic Reconfiguration in Modular Robots using Graph Partitioning," (abstract) 122nd Annual Meeting, Nebraska Academcy of Sciences, Lincoln, NE. [abstract]
S. G. M. Hossain, C. Nelson and P. Dasgupta, "Hardware Design and Testing of ModRED – A Modular Self-reconfigurable Robot System,," (accepted) 2nd ASME/IEEE International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (REMAR), Tianjin, China, 2012.

2011

J. Jumadinova. M. Matache and P. Dasgupta, "Boolean Network-based Prediction Market," IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) , 2011, pp. 171-179. [pdf]
J. Jumadinova and P. Dasgupta, "Distributed Decision Making in a Multi-agent Prediction Market using a Partially Observable Stochastic Game," 13th International Conference on E-Commerce (ICEC) , 2011, pp. (Best Paper Award) [(arxiv link)]
Z. Ramaekers, P. Dasgupta, V. Ufimtsev, S. G. M. Hossain and C. Nelson, "Self-Reconfiguration in Modular Robots using Coalition Games with Uncertainty," AAAI Workshop on Autonomous Action Planning for Autonomous Mobile Robots (PAMR) , 2011, pp. 57-63. [pdf]
Z. Wilson, T. Whipple and P. Dasgupta, “Multi-robot Area Coverage using Dynamic Coverage Information Compression,” 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), 2011, pp. 236-241. [pdf]
K. Cheng, P. Dasgupta and B. Banerjee, “Adaptive Multi-Robot Team Reconfiguration using a Policy-Reuse Reinforcement Learning Approach,” Advanced Agent Technology (AAMAS 2011 workshops: Revised Selected Papers), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), vol. 7068, Springer, pp. 330-345. (extended version of following paper)
K. Cheng, P. Dasgupta and B. Banerjee, “Adaptive Multi-Robot Team Reconfiguration using a Policy-Reuse Reinforcement Learning Approach,” Autonomous Robots and Multi-robot Systems (ARMS) workshop (co-located with AAMAS), 2011. [pdf] [slides]
J. Jumadinova and P. Dasgupta, “Partially Observable Stochastic Game based Multi-agent prediction markets,” (extended abstract), 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2011, pp. 1217-1218. [pdf]
Z. Ramaekers, P. Dasgupta and C. Nelson, “Dynamically reconfiguring modular robots for efficient maneuverability in initially unknown terrains," 121st Annual Meeting, Nebraska Academcy of Sciences, Lincoln, NE. [abstract]
J. Jumadinova and P. Dasgupta, “A Multi-Agent System for Predicting Future Event Outcomes," 3rd Conference on Prediction and Information Markets , Nottingham, UK, 2011. [abstract]
P. Dasgupta, T. Whipple, and K. Cheng, "Effects of Multi-Robot Team Formation on Distributed Area Coverage," International Journal on Swarm Intelligence Research (IJSIR), vol. 2, no. 1, 2011, pp. 44-69. [pdf] (slightly modified version)
J. Jumadinova and P. Dasgupta, "A Multi-Agent System for Analyzing the Effect of Information on Prediction Markets," International Journal of Intelligent Systems., vol. 26, no. 5, 2011, pp. 383-409. [pdf from Wiley Online Library]
P. Dasgupta, "Multi-Robot Task Allocation for Performing Cooperative Foraging Tasks in an Initially Unknown Environment," (book chapter), Innovations in Defense Support Systems - 2 , Springer, Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 338, 2011, pp. 5-20. [ Link to book on Springer Website]

2010

P. Dasgupta and K. Cheng, "Robust Multi-robot Team Formations using Weighted Voting Games," 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2010), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010. [pdf]
K. Cheng and P. Dasgupta, "Multi-agent coalition formation for distributed area coverage," 3rd Practical and Cognitive Agents and Robots (CARE) Workshop, (co-located with IAT 2010), Toronto, Canada, 2010. [pdf]
J. Jumadinova and P. Dasgupta, "A comparison of different automated market-maker strategies," 12th International Workshop on Agent Mediated E-Commerce (AMEC-XII) (co-located with AAMAS 2010), Toronto, Canada, 2010, pp. 141-154. [pdf]
K. Cheng and P. Dasgupta, "Weighted voting game based Multi-robot team formation for distributed area coverage," 3rd Practical and Cognitive Agents and Robots (PCAR) Workshop, (co-located with AAMAS 2010), Toronto, Canada, 2010, pp. 9-15. [pdf] [slides]
C. Nelson, K. Chu and P. Dasgupta, “ModRED: A Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot For Autonomous Extra-terrestrial Exploration and Discovery”, Planetary Rovers Workshop, (co-located with International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2010), Anchorage, AK, 2010.
W. Lenagh and P. Dasgupta, "Levy Distributed Search Behaviors for Mobile Target Locating and Tracking," Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation(BRIMS), Charleston, SC, 2010, pp. 103-109. [pdf]
J. Jumadinova and P. Dasgupta, "Stochastic game based Multi-agent Prediction Markets," UNO Technical Report, (cst-2010-1) [link to UNO Tech Report Website]

2009

K. Cheng, P. Dasgupta, and Yi Wang, ”Distributed Area Coverage Using Robot Flocks,” Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC’09), 2009, pp.678-683. [pdf]
P. Dasgupta, "A Dynamic-bid Auction Algorithm for Cooperative, Distributed Multi-Robot Task Allocation," UNO Tech Report (cst-2009-2). [link to Tech Report Website]
P. Dasgupta, K. Cheng, "Distributed Coverage of Unknown Environments using Multi-robot Swarms with Memory and Communication Constraints," UNO CS Technical Report (cst-2009-1) [link to Tech Report Website]
P. Dasgupta, K. Cheng, and L. Fan, "Flocking-based Distributed Terrain Coverage with Mobile Mini-robots," Proc. IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS'09), Nasville, TN, 2009, pp. 96-103.
L. Fan, P. Dasgupta and Ke Cheng, “Swarming-based Mobile Target Following Using Limited-Capability Mobile Mini-robots,” Proc. IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS'09), Nashville, TN, 2009, pp. 168-175.
P. Dasgupta, “A swarm-based multi-robot system for lunar and Mars surface mapping,” Proceedings of the 119th Annual Meeting, Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Lincoln, NE, 2009, pp. 24.
2008
P. Dasgupta, "A Multi-agent Swarming System for Distributed Automatic Target Recognition," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, Cybernetics, Part A, vol. 38, no. 3, 2008, pp. 549-563.
J, Jumadinova and P. Dasgupta, "Firefly-Inspired Synchronization for Improved Dynamic Pricing in Online Markets," 2nd IEEE Intl. Conf. on Self Adaptation and Self Organization (SASO), 2008, pp. 403-412.
L. Fan and P. Dasgupta, "A Stigmergy-based model for Solving Cooperative Pursuit-Evasion Games in Unknown Environments," 2nd IEEE Intl. Conf. on Self Adaptation and Self Organization (SASO), 2008, pp. 467-468.
J. Jumadinova and P. Dasgupta "Multi-attributed Regret-based Dynamic Pricing," 10th International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC-X), co-located with AAMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, 2008.
K. Cheng and P. Dasgupta, "Coalition game based distributed coverage of unknown environments using robot swarms," International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'08), Estoril, Portugal, 2008, pp. 1191-1194.
P. Dasgupta and E. Antonson, "Heuristics for Uninformed Search Algorithms in Unstructured P2P Networks Inspired by Self-Organizing Social Insect Models," International Conference on Biologically Inspired Collaborative Computing (BICC) 2008, pp.

2007

K, Cheng and P. Dasgupta, "Dynamic Area Coverage using Faulty Multi-agent Swarms" Proc. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2007), Fremont, CA, 2007, pp. 17-24.
P. Dasgupta, and M. Hoeing, "Task Selection in Multi-Agent Swarms using Adaptive Bid Auctions," Proc. of 1st IEEE Intl. Conf. on Self Adaptation and Self Organization (SASO), 2007, Boston, MA, 307-310.
M. Hoeing, P. Dasgupta , et al., "Auction-based Multi-Robot Task Allocation in COMSTAR," Proc. International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'07), Honolulu, HI, 2007, pp. 1435-1442.
P. Dasgupta, "Building Small Worlds in Unstructured P2P Networks using a Multi-agent Bayesian Inference Mechanism," International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'07), Honolulu, HI, May 2007, pp. 936-938.
P. Dasgupta, M. Hoeing, K. Cheng, et al., "Dynamic Pricing Algorithms for Task Allocation in Multi-agent Swarms," Proc. First International Workshop on Coordination and Control in Massively Multi-agent Systems (CCMMS'07), Honolulu, HI, May 2007, pp. 1-15.
R. Bell, “Multi-agent Swarmed Space Exploration System (MASSES),” Proceedings of the 117th Annual Meeting, Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Lincoln, NE, 2007, pp. 23.

2006

M. Hoeing and P. Dasgupta, "Market based Distributed Task Selection in Multi-agent Swarms," IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06), Hong Kong, Dec 2006, pp. 113-116.
P. Dasgupta, `` A Multi-agent Mechanism for Topology Balancing in Unstructured P2P Networks,'' IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06), Hong Kong, 2006, pp. 389-392.
D. Miller, P. Dasgupta, T. Judkins, "Distributed Task Selection in Multi-agent based Swarms using Heuristic Strategies," LNCS vol. 4433 (Proc. 2nd Swarm Robotics Workshop, Rome, Italy), 2006, pp. 158-172.
P. Dasgupta, "Distributed Automatic Target Recognition Using Multi-Agent UAV Swarms," Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'06), Hakodate, Japan, 2006, pp. 479-481.
S. Airiau, S. Sen and P. Dasgupta, "Effect of Joining Decisions on Peer Clusters," Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'06), Hakodate, Japan, 2006, pp. 609-615.
P. Dasgupta, P. M. Melliar-Smith, and L. E. Moser, "Maximizing Welfare Through Coperative Negotiation in a Multi-agent Internet Economy," Intl. Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, vol. 5, no.2, 2006, pp. 331-352.
P. Dasgupta, "Efficient Searching in Peer-to-Peer Networks Using Agent Enabled Ant Algorithms," (Book Chapter) Handbook of Research on Nature-Inspired Computing for Economics and Management, vol. II, (Ed. J. Rennard), Idea Group Publishing, 2006, pp. 721-737.
P. Dasgupta, P. M. Melliar-Smith, L. E. Moser, "Dynamic Pricing Algorithms for Online Sellers using Intelligent Agents," (Book Chapter) Encyclopedia of E-commerce, e-government and mobile commerce, (Ed. M. Khosrow-pour), 2006.

2005 and before

P. Dasgupta,"Adaptive Sharing of Large Resources in P2P Networks," Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'05), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2005, pp. 839-845.
D. Banerjee, S. Saha, S. Sen, P. Dasgupta, "Reciprocal Resource Sharing in P2P Environments", Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'05), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2005, pp. 853-869.(
P. Dasgupta, P. M. Melliar-Smith, "Dynamic Pricing for Time Limited Goods in a Supplier-Driven Electronic Marketplace", Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Springer, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 267-292, 2005.
P. Dasgupta, S. O'Hara, P. Petrov, "A Multi-agent UAV Swarm for Automatic Target Recognition," Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on Defense Applications of Multi-agent Systems (co-located with AAMAS'05), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2005, pp. 4-15.
P. Dasgupta, "Intelligent Agent Enabled Genetic Ant Algorithm for P2P Resource Discovery," Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3601 (Proc. 3rd Workshop on Agent Enabled P2P Computing, New York, NY, 2004), Springer, 2005, pp. 213-220.
P. Dasgupta and Y. Hashimoto, "Multi-attribute Dynamic Pricing for Online Markets Using Intelligent Agents," Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS '04), New York, NY, 2004, pp. 277-284.
P. Dasgupta and Y. Hashimoto, "Eliciting Buyer Preferences Using Intelligent Agents for Multi-attribute Dynamic Pricing," Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, NV, 2004, pp. 790-797.
P. Dasgupta, “Improving Peer-to-Peer Resource Discovery Using Mobile Agent Based Referrals,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2872, Springer, 2004, pp. 186-197. (Preliminary version: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Agent Enabled P2P Computing (co-located with AAMAS'03) , Melbourne, Australia, July 2003, pp 41-54. )
P. Dasgupta, "Intelligent Agent Enabled P2P Search Using Ant Algorithms," Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, NV, 2004, pp. 751-757.
P. Dasgupta and P. Petrov, "COMSTAR: Co-Operative Multi-agent Swarm for Automated Target Recognition," 2nd Annual Swarming Conference, Washington D. C., 2004.
P. Dasgupta, P. M. Melliar-Smith, "Dynamic Consumer Profiling and Tiered Pricing Using Software Agents", Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, vol.3, no 3-4, July-October 2003, pp. 277-296.
P. Dasgupta, “Incentive Driven Node Discovery in a Peer-to-Peer Network Using Mobile Intelligent Agents,” Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, 2003, pp. 750-756.
P. Dasgupta, “A Peer-to-Peer System Architecture for Multi-agent Collaboration,” Advances in Soft Computing, Springer-Verlag, (Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Design Automation, Tulsa, OK), 2003, pp. 483-492.
P. Dasgupta, "Agent based Peer-to-Peer Systems," Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 1, August 4-7, 2002, pp. 663-666.
P. Dasgupta, V. Kalogeraki, "Auctioning Strategies in Agent Enabled Peer-to-Peer Marketplace," Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, NV, June 24-27, 2002, pp. 64-70.
P. Dasgupta, "Fault tolerance in MAgNET: A Mobile Agent E-commerce System," Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, NV, June 24-27, 2002, pp. 733-739.
P. Dasgupta, "Multi-attribute Tiered Pricing to Maximize Sellers' Profits in a Multi-agent economy," First International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet Commerce, Las Vegas, NV, July 9-11, 2001, pp. 360-369.
P. Dasgupta, L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, "Dynamic Tiered Pricing in a Multi-agent economy," International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, NV, June 25-28, 2001, pp. 1142-1148.
P. Dasgupta, R. Das, "Dynamic Pricing with Limited Competitor Information in a Multi-Agent Economy", Cooperative Information Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1901, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems(CoopIS), Eilat, Israel, September 6-8, 2000, pp. 299-310.
P. Dasgupta, R. Das, "Dynamic Service Pricing for Brokers in a Multi-Agent Economy", Proceedings of the Third International Conference for Multi-Agent Systems(ICMAS), Boston, MA, July 4-9, 2000, pp. 375-376. (poster paper)
P. Dasgupta, L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, "The Security Architecture for MAgNET: A Mobile Agent E-commerce System", Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Telecommunications and E-commerce, Dallas,TX, November 16-19, 2000, pp. 289-298.
P. Dasgupta, N. Narasimhan, L. Moser, P.M. Melliar Smith, "MAgNET: Mobile Agents for Networked Electronic Trading", IEEE transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Special Issue on Web Technologies, vol. 24, no. 6, July/August 1999, pp 509-525.
P. Dasgupta, N. Narasimhan, L. Moser, P.M. Melliar Smith, "A Supplier-Driven Electronic Marketplace Using Mobile Agents", Proceedings of the First International Conference on Telecom and E-commerce, Nashville,TN, November 19-22, 1998, pp 42-50.
Other Publications
P. Dasgupta and D. Khazanchi, "An Adaptive Decision Support System for Academic Course Scheduling using Intelligent Software Agents," International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, vol 1, no. 2, 2005, pp. 63-78.
P. Dasgupta and K. Sengupta, "E-commerce in the Indian Insurance Industry: Prospects and Future," Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, vol. 2, no. 1-2, April 2002, pp. 43-60.