Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty
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Ping XuanAssistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Clark University Worcester, MA 01610-1477 (508) 793-7345 phone email: Personal Web Page: http://cs.clarku.edu/~pxuan/ |
| Professor Xuan received a B.S. in physics from Peking University (China) in 1994, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1998 and 2002, respectively. He has been at Clark since 2003.
Current Research and TeachingProfessor Xuan’s research interests include multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence, real-time systems, planning and scheduling, information systems, data mining and machine learning.
Selected Publications(A complete list can be found on his personal web page.)Ping Xuan. Techniques for Robust Planning in Degradable Multiagent Systems. In P. Scerri, et al, editors, Challenges in the Coordination of Large Scale Multiagent Systems, Springer, 2005. Ping Xuan and Victor Lesser. Multi-agent policies: from centralized ones to decentralized ones. In Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-02), Bologna , Italy , 2002. Ping Xuan, Victor Lesser, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Communication Decisions in Multi-agent Cooperation: Model and Experiments. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS 2001), Montreal , Canada , 2001. Ping Xuan and Victor Lesser. Incorporating uncertainty in agent commitments. In N.R. Jennings and Y. Lesperance, editors, Intelligent Agents VI --- Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL-99), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag , Berlin , 2000.
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