Adele Howe: Publications

New Submissions and Papers to Appear

• "Learning from Planner Performance," accepted to Artificial Intelligence.
  M. Roberts and A.E. Howe.

• "What Makes Planners Predictable?"(pdf),
  to appear in Proc. of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling Systems, Sydney, Australia, September 2008.
  M. Roberts, A.E. Howe, M. desJardins and B. Wilson,

• "Understanding Elementary Landscapes" (pdf),
  to appear in Proc. of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-08), Atlanta, GA, July 2008.
  L.D. Whitley, A.M. Sutton and A.E. Howe.

Selected Publications

2007-2008

• "Collaborative Web Agent based on Friend Network", in Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2008.
  B.M. Kim, Q. Li, A.E.Howe and Y.P. Chen.

• "Using Adaptive Priority Weighting to Direct Search in Probabilistic Scheduling"(pdf),
  in Proc. of International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling 2007, Providence, RI.
  A. Sutton, A.E. Howe and L.D. Whitley.

• "Person Identification using Text and Image Data", in Proceedings of the First Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, Washington, D.C., September 2007.
  D.S. Bolme, J.R. Beveridge and A. Howe.

• "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
  Y.M. Lui, J.R. Beveridge, A.E. Howe and L.D. Whitley.

2005-2006

• "Algorithm Performance Factors for an Oversubscribed Scheduling Application" (pdf),
  Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol. 27, December, pp. 577-615, 2006.
  L. Barbulescu, A.E. Howe, L. Darrell Whitley, M. Roberts.

• "Looking for Shortcuts: Infeasible Search Analysis for Oversubscribed Scheduling Problems" (pdf),
  in Proceedings of ICAPS 2006, June, pp. 314-323.
  M. Rogers, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley.

• "Spacetrack: Trading off Quality and Utilization in Oversubscribed Schedules" (pdf),
  in Proceedings of ICAPS 2006, short paper, June, pp. 430-433.
  A. Sutton, L.D. Whitley and A.E. Howe.

• "A Decentralized CF Approach Based on Cooperative Agents", abstract in Poster Proceedings of WWW 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2006.
  B.M. Kim, W. Li, and A.E. Howe.

• "AFSCN Scheduling: How the Problem and Solution Have Evolved" (pdf),
  in Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Vol. 43, No. 9-10, pp. 1023-1037, May 2006.
  L. Barbulescu, A.E. Howe and L.D. Whitley.

• "Deconstructing Nowicki and Smutnicki's i-TSAB Tabu Search Algorithm for the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem" (pdf),
  in Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 33, No. 9, pp. 2623-2644, September 2006.
  J.P. Watson, A.E. Howe and L.D. Whitley.

• "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.
  E.S. Boese and A.E. Howe.

• "Linking Search Space Structure, Run-Time Dynamics and Problem Difficulty: A Step Toward Demystifying Tabu Search" (pdf),
  in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 24, pp. 221-261, August 2005.
  J.P. Watson, L.D. Whitley, and A.E. Howe.

• "Random Walks and Neighborhood Bias in Oversubscribed Scheduling". in Proceedings of MISTA 2005, NY, NY, July 2005.
  M. Roberts, L.D. Whitley, A.E. Howe and L. Barbulescu.

• "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.
  M. Roberts, A. Howe and L.D. Whitley.

2003-2004

• "Scheduling Space-Ground Communications for the Air Force Satellite Control Network",(pdf)
  Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 7, Issue 1, pp. 7-34, January 2004.
  L. Barbulescu, J.P. Watson, L.D. Whitley, A.E. Howe.

• "Leap Before You Look: An Effective Strategy in an Oversubscribed Problem",(pdf)
  in Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Artificial Intelligence Conference, July 2004.
  Laura Barbulescu, L.D. Whitley and A. Howe.

• "Filtering for Personal Web Agents", extended abstract in Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGIR Conference, Sheffield, UK, pp. 588-589, July 2004.
  G. Somlo, A.E. Howe.

• "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

• "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.