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This project is sponsored by National Science Foundation under grant # IIS-0138690. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Agent Papers

QueryTracker: An Agent for Tracking Persistent Information Needs (ps.gz )
	Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Conference (AAMAS-04) , New York, NY, July 2004 G. Somlo and A.E. Howe.

Planning Papers

Directing a Portfolio with Learning (ps.gz pdf)
	Working Notes of AAAI 2006 Workshop on Learning for Search, Boston, MA, July 2006 M. Roberts and A.E. Howe.
Exploiting Portfolio Strategy to Explore the Interaction of Problems and Algorithms in AI Planning (ps.gz pdf)
	In Proceedings Of International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-06) Doctoral Consortium M. Roberts.
A Critical Assessment of Benchmark Comparison in Planning (ps.gz pdf)
	in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol. 17, pp. 1-33, July 2002 A.E. Howe and E. Dahlman.
AI Planner Assisted Test Generation
	in Software Quality Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 225-259, November 2002 A.K. Amschler Andrews , C. Zhu, M. Scheetz, E. Dahlman, and A. Howe.

Evaluation and Modeling Papers

Understanding Algorithm Performance on an Oversubscribed Scheduling Application (ps.gz pdf)
	Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (to appear) L. Barbulescu, A.E. Howe, L.D. Whitley, and M. Roberts.
Deconstructing Nowicki and Smutnicki's i-TSAB Tabu Search Algorithm for the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem (ps.gz pdf)
	in Journal of Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 33, No. 9, pp 2623-2644, September 2006 J.P. Watson, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley.
Looking for Shortcuts: Infeasible Search Analysis for Oversubscribed Scheduling Problems (ps.gz pdf)
	in Proceedings of International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-06) M.F. Rogers, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley.
Spacetrack: Trading off Quality and Utilization in Oversubscribed Schedules (ps.gz pdf)
	Short Paper in Proceedings of International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-06) A.M. Sutton, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley.
PSO and Multifunnel Landscapes: How cooperation might limit exploration (ps.gz pdf)
	in Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-06) A.M. Sutton, L.D. Whitley, A.E. Howe, and M. Lunacek.
AFSCN Scheduling: How the Problem and Solution Have Evolved (ps.gz pdf)
	in Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Vol. 43, No. 9-10, pp. 1023-1037 L. Barbulescu, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley.
Linking Search Space Structure, Run-time Dynamics and Problem Difficulty: A Step Toward Demystifying Tabu Search (ps.gz pdf)
	in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol. 24, pp. 221-261, August 2005 J.P. Watson, L.D. Whitley, and A.E. Howe.
Random Walks and Neighborhood Bias in Oversubscribed Scheduling (ps.gz pdf)
	Proceedings of Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling (MISTA-05), July 2005 M. Roberts, L.D. Whitley, A.E. Howe, and L. Barbelescu.
Modeling Local Search: A First Step Toward Understanding Hill-climbing Search in Oversubscribed Scheduling (ps.gz pdf)
	Extended Abstract in Poster Proceeding of International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-05), June 2005 M. Roberts, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley.
Leap Before You Look: An Effective Strategy in an Oversubscribed Scheduling Problem (ps.gz pdf)
	in Proceedings of National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04) , San Jose, CA, July 2004 L. Barbulescu, L.D. Whitley, and A.E. Howe.
Trading Places: How to Schedule More in a Multi-Resource Oversubscribed Scheduling Problem (ps.gz pdf)
	Runner Up for Best Student Paper Award in Proceedings of International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-04) , Whistler, BC, June 2004 L. Barbulescu, A.E. Howe, L.D. Whitley, and M. Roberts.
Scheduling Space-Ground Communications for the Air Force Satellite Control Network (ps.gz pdf)
	in Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 7, Issue 1, pp. 7-34, January 2004 L. Barbulescu, J.P. Watson, L.D. Whitley, and A.E. Howe.
A Dynamic Model of Tabu Search for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem (ps.gz pdf)
	Best Paper Award Proceedings of Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling, Nottingham, Eng., August 2003 J.P. Watson, L.D. Whitley and A.E. Howe.
Problem Difficulty for Tabu Search in Job-Shop Scheduling (ps.gz pdf)
	in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 143, No. 2, pp. 189-217, February 2003 J.P. Watson, J.C. Beck, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley.
An Analysis of Iterated Local Search for Job-Shop Scheduling (ps.gz pdf)
	in Proceedings of the Fifth Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC-2003), Japan, September 2003 J.P. Watson, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley.
Satellite Range Scheduling: A Comparison of Genetic, Heuristic and Local Search (ps.gz pdf)
	in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSNVII), Granada Spain, September 2002 L. Barbulescu, A.E. Howe, J.P. Watson, and L.D. Whitley.
Contrasting Structured and Random Permutation Flow-Shop Scheduling Problems: Search Space Topology and Algorithm Performance (ps.gz pdf)
	in INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 2002 J.P. Watson, L. Barbulescu, L.D. Whitley, and A.E. Howe.