Publications

Edited Books:

 Joao Alexandre Leite, Andrea Omicini, Paolo Torroni, Pınar Yolum (Eds.): Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies II,
Second International Workshop, DALT 2004, New York, NY, USA, Springer 2005, LNCS 3476, ISBN 3-540-26172-9

Pınar Yolum, Tunga Gungor, Fikret Gurgen, Can Ozturan (Eds.): Computer and Information Sciences,
20th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS), Springer 2005, LNCS 3733, ISBN 3-540-29414-7

Trust, Referral Networks, and WWW:

"Ontology-Based Service Representation and Selection" (with Murat Sensoy), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2007. To appear.

"On Choosing An Efficient Service Selection Mechanism In Dynamic Environments" (with Murat Sensoy), AAMAS Workshop on Agent-Mediated E-Commerce (AMEC), 2007

"Learning Consumer Preferences Using Semantic Similarity" (with Reyhan Aydogan), 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2007

"Cooperative Evolution of Service Ontologies" (with Murat Sensoy), 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2007 (Poster)

"Experience-Based Service Provider Selection in Agent Mediated E-Commerce" (with Murat Sensoy, Canan Pembe, Hande Zirtiloglu, and Ayse Bener), In: International Journal of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 20(3), pp. 325--335, April 2007.

"Learning Consumer Preference for Content-Oriented Negotiation" (with Reyhan Aydogan), AAMAS Workshop on Business Agents and the Semantic Web (BaseWeb), 2006, pp. 43--52.

Trust Strategies for ART Testbed Game (with Ozgur Kafali), AAMAS Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies (Trust), 2006, pp. 43--50.

A Comparative Study of Reasoning Techniques for Service Selection (with Murat Sensoy), AAMAS Workshop on Agents and P2P Computing (AP2PC), 2006, pp. 91-102.

A Context-Aware Approach for Service Selection Using Ontologies (with Murat Sensoy), 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2006, pp. 931-938.

"Engineering Self-Organizing Referral Networks for Trustworthy Service Selection" (with Munindar P. Singh)
    IEEE Transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics. May 2005.

"Dynamic Communities in Referral Networks" (with Munindar P. Singh)
    Web Intelligence and Agent Systems Journal. Vol:1 No:2 pages 105--116, 2003.

"Web Structure"
    Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, Munindar P. Singh, ed. 2004.

"Emergent Properties of Referral Systems" (with Munindar P. Singh)
    2nd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-03), pp.592--597.

"Emergent Personalized Communities in Referral Networks" (with Munindar P. Singh)
    IJCAI Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization (ITWP), 2003.

" Trustworthy Service Caching: Cooperative Search in P2P Information Systems" (with Yathiraj Udupi and Munindar P. Singh)
    AAMAS Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems, 2003.
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3030, pp. 33-46, Springer Verlag

"Self-Organizing Referral Networks: A Process View of Trust and Authority" (with Munindar P. Singh)
    AAMAS Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications, 2003.
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.2977, pp.195-211, Springer Verlag.

"Achieving Trust via Service Graphs" (with Munindar P. Singh)
    AAMAS Workshop on Trust, Fraud, Deception and Privacy, 2003.
(An extended version appears in International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), 2004.
LNCS 3290, Springer Verlag. pp. 509--525 )

"An Agent-Based Approach for Trustworthy Service Location" (with Munindar P. Singh)
    1st International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing, Bologna, Italy. 2002.
    Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2530, pages 45--56, Springer Verlag.

"Flexible Caching in Peer-to-Peer Information Systems" (with Munindar P. Singh)
    Agent-Oriented Information Systems, Bologna, Italy. 2002

Commitments and Multiagent Interaction Protocols:

"Design Time Analysis of Multiagent Protocols"
Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal, Elsevier, 2007. In press.

"Enacting Protocols by Commitment Concession" (with Munindar Singh)
6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2007.

"Predicting Exceptions in Agent-Based Supply Chains" (with Albert Ozkohen)
Sixth International Workshop Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW-05), Springer Verlag.

"Towards Design Tools for Protocol Development" 4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-05)
(Extends "Correctness Requirements for Multiagent Commitment Protocols"
    In International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences
    LNCS 3280, Springer Verlag.)

"Resolving Commitments Among Autonomous Agents". (with Ashok U. Mallya and Munindar P. Singh)
Proceedings of the AAMAS-03 Workshop on Agent Communications Languages and Conversation Policies, 2003.
    Advances in Agent Communication, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2922, pp.166--182, Springer-Verlag 2004.

"Reasoning About Commitments in the Event Calculus: An Approach for Specifying and Executing Protocols" (with Munindar P. Singh)
    Annals of Mathematics and AI, Vol:42(1-3), 2004.

"Flexible Protocol Specification and Execution: Applying Event Calculus Planning using Commitments" (with Munindar P. Singh)
    1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-02), pp.527--534.

"Commitment Machines" (with Munindar P. Singh)
    In Intelligent Agents VIII,
    Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol: 2333. pp.235--247, Springer Verlag

"Synthesizing Finite State Machines for Communication Protocols" (with Munindar P. Singh)
    Technical Report 2001-06, Department of Computer Science, North
    Carolina State University, Raleigh

"Designing and Executing Protocols Using the Event Calculus" (with Munindar P. Singh)
    Proceedings of the Autonomous Agents Conference, (Agents 2001),
    Montreal.  (Poster)

"Commitment-Based Enhancement of E-Commerce Protocols"(with Munindar P. Singh)
    Proceedings of the Workshop on Web-based Infrastructures and
    Coordination Architectures for Collaborative Enterprises, Part of
    the Eighth Workshop-Conference on Enabling Technologies:
    Infrastructure for Enterprises (WET ICE), June 2000
 

Multiagent Organizations and Incident Management:

"A Framework for Formal Modeling and Analyis of Organizations" (with CM. Jonker, A. Sharpanskykh and J. Treur)
In: Applied Intelligence, Springer. To appear.

"A Labeled Graph Approach to Analyze Organizational Performance" (with M. Hoogendoorn and J. Treur)
In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT'06. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2006, To appear.

"Analysis of Meeting Protocols by Formalisation, Simulation and Verification" (with with C.M. Jonker, M. Schut, J. Treur)
In: Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organisation Theory. In press, 2006.

"Design Operators to Support Organizational Design" (with C.M. Jonker, A. Sharpanskykh, J. Treur)
In: J. Gero (ed.), Proc. of the Second International Conference on Design, Computing, and Cognition, DCC'06. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, To appear, 2006.

"A Labeled Graph Approach to Support Analysis of Organizational Performance" (with Mark Hoogendoorn and Jan Treur)
    Proc. of the AAMAS Workshop on Agent-based Technologies and applications for enterprise interOPerability (ATOP), 2005.

"Formal Modeling and Analysis of Organizations" (with Egon L. van den Broek, Catholijn M. Jonker, Alexei Sharpanskykh, and Jan Treur)
    Proc. of the AAMAS Workshop on Organizations to Organization-Oriented Programming (OOOP), 2005.

"Formal Analysis of Meeting Protocols" (with Catholijn Jonker, Martijn Schut, and Jan Treur)
    Proc. of the First Joint Workshop on Multi-Agent and Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MAMABS). LNCS 3415, pp. 114--129, 2005.

"A Formal Reuse-Based Approach for Interactively Designing Organizations" (with Catholijn Jonker and Jan Treur)
    Proc. of the Fifth International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE). LNCS 3382, pp. 221--237, 2005.

"Automated Support for Adaptive Incident Management" (with Abbink, H., Dijk, R. van, Dobos, T., Hoogendoorn, M., Jonker, C.M., Konur, S., Maanen, P.P. van, Popova, V., Sharpanskykh, A., Tooren, P. van, Treur, J., Valk, J., Xu, L.)
    Proc. of the First International Workshop on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM). 2004.

"Formal Analysis of Empirical Traces in Incident Management" (with Hoogendoorn, M., Jonker, C.M., Konur, S., Maanen, P.P. van, Popova, V., Sharpanskykh, A., Treur, J., Xu, L.,) Proc. of the 24th International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag. 2004.
Other:

"Yazilimlar Arasi Kural Disi Durumlari Isleme Icin Etmen Tabanli Bir Yaklasim" (Albert Ozkohen'le birlikte). Ulusal Yazilim Muhendisligi Sempozyumu, 2005.

"The Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents: An E-commerce Perspective"
    ACM SIGecomm Exchanges, Issue 2.2 Spring, 2001



Pınar Yolum
Department of Computer Engineering
Bogazici University
TR-34342 Bebek, Istanbul, TURKEY
Fax: +90 212 2872461
Email: pinar.yolum AT boun DOT edu DOT tr