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Adele Howe Publications

 
This page includes only my more recent and more cited publications. See my Curriculum Vita for a complete list.

2012-2013

  • D. Hains, D. Whitley, A. Howe, W. Chen, “Hyperplane Initialized Local Search for MAXSAT”, to appear in Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, July 2013.
  • W. Chen, D. Whitley, D. Hains, A. Howe, “Second Order Partial Derivatives for NK-landscapes”, to appear in Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, July 2013.
  • D. Whitley, A. Howe, D. Hains, “Greedy or Not? Best Improving versus First Improving Stochastic Local Search for MAXSAT”, to appear in Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2013. M. Roberts, A. Howe, I. Ray. “A Tale of t Metrics”, to appear in Working Notes of Heuristics and Search for Domain-independent Planning (HSDIP) Workshop at ICAPS 2013, June 2013.
  • M. Urbanska, M. Roberts, I. Ray, A. Howe and Z. Byrne, “Accepting the Inevitable: Factoring the User into Home Computer Security”, short paper in Proceedings of Third ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), February 2013.
  • M. Urbanska, I. Ray, A.E. Howe, and M. Roberts, “Structuring a Vulnerability Description for Comprehensive Single System Security Analysis”, In Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing Working Notes, November 2012.
  • L.D. Whitley, W. Chen, A.E. Howe, “An Empirical Evaluation of O(1) Steepest Descent for NKLandscapes”, in Proceedings of Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2012), Taormina, Italy, September 1-5, 2012.
  • D. Hains, L.D. Whitley and A.E. Howe, “Improving Lin-Kernighan-Helsgaun with Crossover on Clustered Instances of the TSP”, in Proceedings of Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2012), Taormina, Italy, September 1-5, 2012.
  • M. Roberts, A. Howe, I, Ray, M. Urbanska, and Z. Byrne,“Using Planning for a Personalized Security Agent”, In Working Notes of the 2012 AAAI Workshop on Problem Solving Using Classical Planners, July 2012, Toronto, Canada.
  • Z. Byrne, J. Weidert, J. Liff, M. Horvath, C. Smith, A. Howe and I. Ray, "Perceptions of Internet Threats: Behavioral Intent to Click Again", in 2012 Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference, April 2012.
  • A. Howe, I. Ray, M. Roberts, G. Urbanska, Z. Byrne. "The Psychology of Security for the Home Computer User", in 2012 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2012.
  • A. Sutton, L.D. Whitley and A. Howe. 2012. "Computing the moments of k-bounded pseudo-Boolean functions over Hamming spheres of arbitrary radius in polynomial time", Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 425, pp. 58-74.

2010-2011

  • A. Sutton, L.D. Whitley and A.E. Howe, "Mutation Rates of the (1+1)-EA on Bounded Pseudo-Boolean Functions", In Proceedings of the 13th annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO'11), Dublin, Ireland, July 2011.
  • Z. Byrne, J. Liff, J. Weidert, C. Smith, A. Howe and I. Ray, "Start-up Effects in Policy-Capturing: Stabilizing Regression Coefficients After Warm-up", In Proceedings of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference, April 2011.
  • A. Sutton, L.D. Whitley and A.E. Howe, "Approximating the Distribution of Fitness over Hamming Regions", In Proceedings of Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XI (FOGA 2011), Schwarzenberg, Austria, January 2011.
  • D. Hains, L. D. Whitley, A. E. Howe."Revisiting the Big Valley Search Space Structure in the TSP", in Journal of Operations Research Society, Vol. 62, pp. 305-312, September 2010.
  • L.D. Whitley, D. Hains and A. Howe, "A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem using Generalized Partition Crossover", Proceedings of Parallel Problem Solving from Nature XI, September 2010.
  • A. M. Sutton, A. E. Howe, and L. D. Whitley. "Directed Plateau Search for MAX-$k$-SAT." In Proceedings of the Third Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search, Atlanta, GA, July 2010.
  • C. Redman and A. Howe. "Evaluating Multi-Agent Traffic Controllers", In Proceedings of FLAIRS-2010 Conference, May 2010.

2008-2009

  • M. Roberts and A.E. Howe. 2009. "Learning from Planner Performance," Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 173, Issues 5-6, pp. 536-561, April.
  • A. M. Sutton, A. E. Howe, and L. D. Whitley, "A Theoretical Analysis of the k-Satisfiability Search Space", In Proceedings of SLS 2009, Brussels, Belgium, September 2009. Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 5752, (2009) pp. 46-60.
  • A. M. Sutton, A. E. Howe, and L. D. Whitley, "Estimating Bounds on Expected Plateau Size in MAXSAT Problems", In Proceedings of SLS 2009, Brussels, Belgium, September 2009. Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 5752, (2009) pp. 31-45.
  • A.M. Sutton, L.D. Whitley and A.E. Howe, "A polynomial time computation of the exact correlation structure of k-satisfiability landscapes", In Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Montreal, Canada, July 2009.
  • L.D. Whitley, D. Hains and A.E. Howe, "Tunneling Between Optima: Partition Crossover for the TSP'', in Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Montreal, Canada, July 2009.
  • B.M. Kim, Q. Li, A.E. Howe and Y.P. Chen. 2008. "Collaborative Web Agent based on Friend Network", Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 22, No. 3.
  • A.E. Howe and R.D. Forbes, "Re-Considering Neighborhood-Based Collaborative Filtering Parameters in the Context of New Data", poster paper in ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2008, Napa, CA, October.
  • M. Roberts, A.E. Howe, M. desJardins and B. Wilson, "What Makes Planners Predictable?", In Proc. of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling Systems, Sydney, Australia, September 2008.
  • L.D. Whitley, A.M. Sutton and A.E. Howe. "Understanding Elementary Landscapes", In Proc. of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-08), Atlanta, GA, July 2008.

2006-2007

  • L. Barbulescu, A.E. Howe, L. Darrell Whitley, M. Roberts. 2006. "Algorithm Performance Factors for an Oversubscribed Scheduling Application", Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol. 27, December, pp. 577-615.
  • L. Barbulescu, A.E. Howe and L.D. Whitley. 2006. "AFSCN Scheduling: How the Problem and Solution Have Evolved", in Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Vol. 43, No. 9-10, pp. 1023-1037, May.
  • J.P. Watson, A.E. Howe and L.D. Whitley. 2006. "Deconstructing Nowicki and Smutnicki's i-TSAB Tabu Search Algorithm for the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem'', in Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 33, No. 9, pp. 2623-2644, September.
  • A. Sutton, A.E. Howe and L.D. Whitley. "Using Adaptive Priority Weighting to Direct Search in Probabilistic Scheduling", in Proc. of International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling 2007, Providence, RI.
  • D.S. Bolme, J.R. Beveridge and A. Howe. "Person Identification using Text and Image Data'', in Proceedings of the First Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, Washington, D.C., September 2007.
  • Y.M. Lui, J.R. Beveridge, A.E. Howe and L.D. Whitley. "Evolution Stategies for Matching Active Appearance Models to Human Faces'', in Proceedings of the First Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, Washington, D.C., September 2007. Honorable Mention Best Student Paper
  • A. Sutton, D. Whitley, M. Lunacke and A. Howe. 2006. "PSO and Multi-Funnel Landscapes: How Cooperations Might Limit Exploration", Proc.\ of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, July, pp. 75-81. (Nominated for a Best Paper Award).
  • M. Rogers, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley.''Looking for Shortcuts: Infeasible Search Analysis for Oversubscribed Scheduling Problems'', in {\em Proceedings of ICAPS 2006, June, pp. 314-323.
  • A. Sutton, L.D. Whitley and A.E. Howe. 2006. ''Spacetrack: Trading off Quality and Utilization in Oversubscribed Schedules'', in Proceedings of ICAPS 2006 short paper, June, pp. 430-433.
  • B.M. Kim, W. Li and A.E. Howe. "A Decentralized CF Approach Based on Cooperative Agents'', abstract in poster Proceedings of WWW 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2006.

2004-2005

  • J.P. Watson, L.D. Whitley, and A.E. Howe. 2005. "Linking Search Space Structure, Run-Time Dynamics and Problem Difficulty: A Step Toward Demystifying Tabu Search'', in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 24, pp. 221-261, August.
  • E.S. Boese and A.E. Howe. "Effects of Web Document Evolution on Genre Classification,'' in Proceedings of ACM Fourteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 632-639, Bremen, Germany, October 2005.
  • M. Roberts, L.D. Whitley, A.E. Howe and L. Barbulescu. "Random Walks and Neighborhood Bias in Oversubscribed Scheduling''. in Proceedings of MISTA 2005, NY, NY, July 2005.
  • M. Roberts, A. Howe and L.D. Whitley. "Modeling Local Search: A First Step Toward Understanding Hill-Climbing in Oversubscribed Scheduling'', extended abstract in Poster Proceedings of International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2005), Monterey, CA, June 2005.
  • L. Barbulescu, J.P. Watson, L.D. Whitley, A.E. Howe. 2004. "Scheduling Space-Ground Communications for the Air Force Satellite Control Network'', Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 7, Issue 1, pp. 7-34, January.
  • G. Somlo, A.E. Howe. "Filtering for Personal Web Agents'', extended abstract in Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGIR Conference, Sheffield, UK, pp. 588-589, July 2004.
  • L. Barbulescu, L.D. Whitley and A.E. Howe. "Leap Before You Look: An Effective Strategy for Oversubscribed Scheduling'', in Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San Jose, CA, July 2004.
  • G. Somlo, A.E. Howe. "QueryTracker: An Agent for Tracking Persistent Information Needs'', in Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Conference, NY, NY, July 2004.
  • L. Barbulescu, A.E. Howe, L.D. Whitley and M. Roberts. "Trading Places: How to Schedule More in a Multiple Resource Over-Subscribed Scheduling Problem'', In Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Whistler, British Columbia, June 2004.

Older Oft Cited Papers

  • J.P. Watson, J.C. Beck, A.E. Howe, L.D. Whitley. 2003. "Problem Difficulty for Tabu Search in Job-Shop Scheduling", In {\em Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 143, No. 2, pp. 189-217, February.
  • J.P. Watson, L. Barbulescu, L.D. Whitley, A.E. Howe. 2002 "Contrasting Structured and Random Permutation Flow-Shop Scheduling Problems: Search Space Topology and Algorithm Performance", In INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring.
  • D. Dreilinger and A.E. Howe. 1997. "Experiences with Selecting Search Engines using Meta-Search''. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 195--222.
  • A.E. Howe and D. Dreilinger. 1997. "SavvySearch: A Meta-Search Engine that Learns Which Search Engines to Query''. In AI Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 19--25.
  • P.R. Cohen, M.L. Greenberg, D.M. Hart and A.E. Howe. 1989. Trial by Fire: Understanding the Design Requirements for Agents in Complex Environments. AI Magazine. Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 34-48. Reprinted in Nikkei Artificial Intelligence, Nikkei Business Publications, Inc., pp. 102-119. 1990.
  • P.R. Cohen and A.E. Howe. 1988. "How Evaluation Guides AI Research." In AI Magazine, Winter, 1988. Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 35-43. Also, Reprinted in A Sourcebook of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Gerald Hopple and Stephen Andriole (Eds.) TAB Books, Inc. 1990.
  • J.R. Dixon, A.E. Howe, P.R. Cohen, and M.K. Simmons. 1987. DOMINIC I: Progress Towards Domain Independence in Design by Iterative Redesign. In Engineering with Computers, Vol. 2, No. 3, September.
  • A.E. Howe, P.R. Cohen, J.R. Dixon, and M.K. Simmons. 1986. DOMINIC: A Domain-Independent Program for Mechanical Engineering Design. In International Journal for Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 23-28. Also, Reprinted in Expert Systems in Engineering, D.T. Pham (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, NY 1988.
  • A.E. Howe, A. von~Mayrhauser, R.T. Mraz. 1997. "Test Case Generation as an AI Planning Problem''. In Automated Software Engineering, Vol.4, No.1, pp. 77-106.
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Portrait Credit: Amy Boudreau of Western Sky Photography; Mt. Evans: Adele Howe