Selected Publications

Areas:

Scheduling
Planning
Evaluation and Modeling
WWW Information Agents
AI and Software Engineering

• "Problem Difficulty for Tabu Search in Job-Shop Scheduling",(gzip'ed postscript),
  In Artificial Intelligence, February 2003.
  Jean Paul Watson, J. Christopher Beck, Adele Howe, L. Darrell Whitley.

• "Satellite Range Scheduling: A Comparison of Genetic, Heuristic and Local Search"(gzip'ed postscript),
  In Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature(PPSNVII), Granada, Spain, September 2002.
  Laura Barbulescu, Adele Howe, Jean Paul Watson, L. Darrell Whitley

• "Contrasting Structured and Random Permutation Flow-Shop Scheduling Problems: Search Space Topology and Algorithm Performance", (gzip'ed postscript),
  in INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 2002.
  Jean Paul Watson, Laura Barbulescu, L. Darrell Whitley, A.E. Howe.

• "Toward a Descriptive Model Of Local Search Cost in Job-Shop Scheduling",(gzip'ed postscript),
  in Sixth European Conference on Planning (ECP'01), Toledo, Spain, September 2001.
  Jean Paul Watson, J. Christopher Beck, Laura Barbulescu, L. Darrell Whitley, A.E. Howe.

• "A Critical Assessment of Benchmark Comparison in Planning", (gzip'ed postscript),
  In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, July 2002.
  Adele Howe, Eric Dahlman.

• "Evaluating Robustness in a Two Layer Simulated Robot Architecture",(gzip'ed postscript),
  in Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence,Vol. 12, No. 2, 2000,
  Larry Pyeatt and Adele Howe.

• "The Impact of Approximate Evaluation on the Performance of Search Algorithms for Warehouse Scheduling",(gzip'ed postscript),
  in Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 2, 1999,
  Jean Paul Watson, S. Rana, L. Darrell Whitley, and Adele Howe.

• "A Parallel Algorithm for POMDP Solution" (gzip'ed postscript),
  in Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Planning (ECP-99), Sept. 1999,
  Larry Pyeatt and Adele Howe.

• "Exploiting Competitive Planner Performance" (gzip'ed postscript),
  in Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Planning (ECP-99), Durham, England, September 1999,
  Adele Howe, Eric DahlmanC. Hansen, A. vonMayrhauser and M. Scheetz.

• "Algorithm Performance and Problem Structure for Flow-shop Scheduling" (gzip'ed postscript),
  In Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), Orlando, FL July 1999. ,
  J.P. Watson, L. Barbulescu, A.E. Howe, and L. D. Whitley.

• Understanding Planner Behavior. (gzip'ed postscript)
  In Artificial Intelligence, Special issue on Planning Systems. Vol. 76, No. 1-2, pp. 125-166. 1995.
  Adele Howe and Paul Cohen

• Improving the Reliability of AI Planning Systems by Analyzing their Failure Recovery.(gzip'ed postscript)
  In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Special Issue on Dependability of AI Systems. February 1995.
  Adele Howe

• "Modeling Discrete Event Sequences as State Transition Diagrams" (gzip'ed postscript)
  to appear in Proceedings of the Second Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis, August 1997,
  Adele Howe and Gabriel Somlo.

• Detecting Imperfect Patterns in Event Streams Using Local Search.
  In Learning from Data: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics V. D. Fisher and H. Lenz (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, 1996.
  Adele Howe

• Methods for Finding Influences on Program Failure.(gzip'ed postscript)
  In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, November 1994.
  Adele Howe and Aaron Fuegi

• Detecting and Explaining Dependencies in Execution Traces
  In Selecting Models from Data: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics IV, P. Cheeseman and R.W. Oldford, Eds., pp. 161-182, Springer-Verlag, 1994.
  Adele Howe and Paul Cohen

• "Using Web Helper Agent Profiles in Query Generation" (gzip'ed postscript, pdf)
  In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) 2003 Conference, Melbourne, Australia, July 2003.
  Gabriel Somlo and Adele Howe

• Adaptive Lightweight Text Filtering(gzip'ed postscript)
  , in Fourth International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2001.
  Gabriel Somlo and Adele Howe

• Incremental Clustering for Profile Maintenance in Information Gathering Web Agents(gzip'ed postscript)
  , in Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Montreal, Canada, May. 2001.
  Gabriel Somlo and Adele Howe

• SavvySearch: A Meta-Search Engine that Learns which Search Engines to Query" (gzip'ed postscript)
  In AI Magazine,Vol. 18., No. 2, 1997.
  Adele Howe and Daniel Dreilinger.

• " Experiences with Selecting Search Engines using Meta-Search" (gzip'ed postscript)
  in ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Vol. 15, No. 3, 1997.
  Daniel Dreilinger and Adele Howe.

• "An Information Gathering Agent for Querying Web Search Engines" (compressed postscript),
  Colorado State University, Computer Science Department Technical Report 96-111,
  Daniel Dreilinger and Adele Howe.

• "Modeling Intelligent System Execution as State Transition Diagrams to Support Debugging"(gzip'ed postscript),
  In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Automated Debugging, May 1997.
  Adele Howe and Gabriel Somlo.

• "Test Case Generation as an AI Planning Problem"(gzip'ed postscript),
  In Automated Software Engineering, Vol.4, No.1, pp. 77-106, January, 1997.
  Adele Howe, Anneliese von Mayrhauser and Richard Mraz.

• "Constructing Transition Models of AI Planner Behavior" (gzip'ed postscript),
  In Proceedings of KBSE-96,
  Adele Howe and Larry Pyeatt.

• System Testing with an AI Planner. (gzip'ed postscript)
  In Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE-95), October 1995,
  Richard T. Mraz, Adele Howe, Anneliese von Mayrhauser, and Li Li.