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Nagendra Prasad, Maram V



PhD Student
Computer Science Department
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
(413) 545-3444 (office)
(413) 545-1249 (fax)
(413) 549-8415 (residence)
nagendra@cs.umass.edu


Research Interests

Distributed problem solving , Distributed Search, Machine Learning, Learning in Multi-agent Systems, Networked Information Gathering Cooperation Among Heterogeneous Agents

Education

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts. September 1991 -- present.
Doctoral Candidate, Computer Science.
Thesis: Learning Situation-specific Control in Multi-agent Systems
Advisor: Dr. Victor R. Lesser
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1990 -- August 1991.
Master of Science
Thesis: Automated Handwriting Recognition: Some isuues and Algorithms
Indian Institute of Technology, July 1988 -- June 1991.
Master of Science (by research): Computer Science
Thesis: Fuzzy and Forgetful L-systems

For a complete list of my publications see:

Resume (Postscript)

Resume (HTML)

My research statement gives peek into my present research momentum.


Selected Publications


  1. M V Nagendra Prasad, and Victor R Lesser "Off-line Learning of Coordination in Functionally Structured Agents for Distributed Data Processing," to be presented at the ICMAS96 Workshop on Learning, Interaction and Organizations in Multiagent Environments, Kyoto, Japan, 1996.

  2. M V Nagendra Prasad, Victor R Lesser and Susan E Lander "Learning Organizational Roles for Negotiated Search in a Multi-agent System," to appear in special issue on Evolution and Learning in Multiagent Systems in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) (1997).

  3. Tim Oates, M. V. NagendraPrasad and Victor R. Lesser "Cooperative Information Gathering: A Distributed Problem Solving Approach," to appear in Journal of Software Engineering, Special Issue on Developing Agent Based Systems.

  4. M V Nagendra Prasad, Keith Decker, Alan Garvey, and Victor Lesser. "Exploring Organizational Designs with TAEMS: A Case Study of Distributed Data Processing", ICMAS-96.

  5. M V Nagendra Prasad, Victor R Lesser and Susan E Lander "Learning Organizational Roles in a Heterogeneous Multi-agent System," ICMAS-96.

  6. M V Nagendra Prasad and Enric Plaza. Corporate Memories as Distributed Case Libraries accepted for presentation at the Corporate Memory & Enterprise Modeling track in the 10th Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, Banff, Canada, 1996.

  7. M V Nagendra Prasad , Susan Lander and Victor R. Lesser. "Cooperative Learning over Composite Search Spaces: Experiences with a Multi-agent Design System" (AAAI-96)

  8. M. V. NagendraPrasad, Victor R. Lesser and Susan Lander "Reasoning and Retrieval in Distributed Case Bases,", in the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Special Issue on Digital Libraries, Vol 7, No. 1, March 1996, pp 74 - 87. Also as UMASS CS Technical Report 95-27, 1995.

  9. Keith Decker, Victor Lesser, M V Nagendra Prasad, and Thomas Wagner MACRON: An Architecture for Multi-agent Cooperative Information Gathering In the Proccedings of the CIKM Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, Baltimore, Maryland, December, 1995


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