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Naghi's Home Page (nagendra@cs.umass.edu)
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
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- M V Nagendra Prasad, Victor R Lesser and Susan E Lander
"Learning Organizational Roles in a Heterogeneous Multi-agent System,"
ICMAS-96.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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
Other Pages
DIS Lab
HOT LIST
Volunteers in Service of Education in India (VSEI)
More info in the works, Watch for this space ;-)