note: this page is out of date. my cv is typically kept more current. please email me if you are looking for publications that you cannot find here. at some point, i'll find time to update this page!

multiagent simulation

Jordan Salvit and Elizabeth Sklar (2010). Toward a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Model of Agent Behavior. In Multi-agent Based Simulation (MABS) Workshop at Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS).

Elizabeth Sklar and Ilknur Icke (2009). Using simulation to evaluate data-driven agents. In Multi-agent Based Simulation IX, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5269, Springer Verlag.

Ilknur Icke and Elizabeth Sklar (2008). Using simulation to evaluate data-driven agent-based learning partners. In Multi-agent Based Simulation (MABS) Workshop at Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS).

Maartje Spoelstra and Elizabeth Sklar (2008). Using Simulation to Model and Understand Group Learning. In Agent Based Systems for Human Learning, International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications, 4:1.

Yuqing Tang, Simon Parsons and Elizabeth Sklar (2007). An agent-based model that relates investment in education to economic prosperity. In Multi-agent Based Simulation (MABS) Workshop at Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS).

Maartje Spoelstra and Elizabeth Sklar (2007). Agent-based Simulation of Group Learning. In Multi-agent Based Simulation (MABS) Workshop at Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS).

Maartje Spoelstra and Elizabeth Sklar (2007). Using simulation to model and understand group learning. In Agent-Based Systems for Human Learning and Entertainment (ABSHLE) Workshop at Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS).

Yuqing Tang, Simon Parsons and Elizabeth Sklar (2007). An agent-based model that relates investment in education to economic prosperity. In Sixth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS).

Yuqing Tang, Simon Parsons and Elizabeth Sklar (2006). Agent-based modeling of human education data. In Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS-2006).

Yuqing Tang, Simon Parsons and Elizabeth Sklar (2006). Modeling human education data: From equation-based modeling to agent-based modeling. In Multi-agent Based Simulation (MABS) Workshop at Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS-2006).

Elizabeth Sklar and Mathew Davies (2005). Multiagent Simulation of Learning Environments. In Fourth International Conference of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2005) (full paper).

Elizabeth Sklar, Mathew Davies and Min San Tan Co (2004). SimEd: Simulating Education as a Multi Agent System. In Third International Conference of Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS-2004). N. Jennings, C. Sierra, L. Sonenberg and M. Tambe (eds.), pp 998-1005 (full paper).

Elizabeth Sklar and Simon Parsons (2004). Towards the Application of Argumentation-based Dialogues for Education. In Third International Conference of Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS-2004). N. Jennings, C. Sierra, L. Sonenberg and M. Tambe (eds.), pp 1420-1421 (poster).

Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons and Mathew Davies (2004). When is it okay to lie? A simple model of contradiction in agent-based dialogues. In First International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2004).

Mathew Davies and Elizabeth Sklar (2003). Modeling Human Learning as a Cooperative Multi Agent Interaction. In AAMAS Workshop on Humans and Multi-Agent Systems, at the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-2003).

Elizabeth Sklar (2003). Agents for Education: When too much intelligence is a bad thing. In Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-2003), T. Sandholm and M. Yokoo (eds), pp. 1118-1119 (poster).

human/multi-robot teams

Arif T. Ozgelen, Michael Constantino, Adiba Ishak, Moses Kingston, Diquan Moore, Samuel Sanchez, J. Pablo Munoz, Simon Parsons, and Elizabeth Sklar (2011). Approaches to Multi-robot Exploration and Localization. In Twentienth Edition of the AAAI Robotics Workshop and Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, USA.

J. Pablo Munoz, Arif T. Ozgelen, and Elizabeth Sklar (2011). Learning from Demonstration in Spatial Exploration. In Twentienth Edition of the AAAI Robotics Workshop and Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Elizabeth Sklar, A. Tuna Ozgelen, J. Pablo Munoz, Joel Gonzalez, Mark Manashirov, Susan L. Epstein, and Simon Parsons (2011). Designing the HRTeam Framework: Lessons Learned from a Rough-and-Ready Human/Multi-Robot Team. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS) at Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS), Taipei, Taiwan.

Elizabeth Sklar, Susan L. Epstein, Simon Parsons, Arif T. Ozgelen, J. Pablo Munoz, and Joel Gonzalez (2011). A framework in which robots and humans help each other. In AAAI 2011 Spring Symposium: Help Me Help You: Bridging the Gaps in Human-Agent Collaboration, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons, Susan Epstein, Arif T. Ozgelen, George Rabanca, Sam Anzaroot, Joel Gonzalez, Jesse Lopez, Mitch Lustig, Linda Ma, Mark Manashirov, J. Pablo Munoz, S. Bruno Salazar, and Miriam Schwartz (2010). Developing a Framework for Team-based Robotics Research. In Nineteenth Edition of the AAAI Robotics Workshop and Exhibition, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Steve Phelps, Kai Cai, Peter McBurney, Jinzhong Niu, Simon Parsons, Elizabeth Sklar (2008). Auctions, evolution, and multi-agent learning. In Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems III (Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2007). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4865, K. Tuyls, A. Nowe, Z. Guessoum and D. Kudenko, editors, Berlin: Springer, pages 188-210.

Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons and Elizabeth Sklar (2007). Some preliminary results on the dynamic behavior of traders in multiple markets. in Proceedings of the Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis.

Simon Parsons, Peter McBurney, Elizabeth Sklar and Michael Wooldridge (2007). On the Relevance of Utterances in Formal Inter-agent Dialogues. in Sixth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS).

Marek Marcinkiewicz, Mikhail Kunin, Simon Parsons, Elizabeth Sklar, and Theodore Raphan (2006). Towards a methodology for stabilizing the gaze of a quadrupedal robot. In Proceedings of RoboCup-2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X.

A. Tuna Ozgelen, Elizabeth Sklar, and Simon Parsons (2006). Automatic acquisition of robot motion and sensor models. In Proceedings of RoboCup-2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X.

Joshua Reich and Elizabeth Sklar (2006). Robot-Sensor Networks for Search and Rescue. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR).

Joshua Reich and Elizabeth Sklar (2006). Toward automatic reconfiguration of robot-sensor networks for urban search and rescue. In Agent Technology for Disaster Management (ATDM) Workshop at Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2006).

Simon Parsons Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai and Elizabeth Sklar (2006). Reducing price fluctuation in continuous double auctions through pricing policy and shout improvment. In Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS-2006).

Elizabeth Sklar, Martijn Schut, Konrad Diwold and Simon Parsons (2006). Exploring coordination properties within populations of distributed agents. In AAAI Spring Symposium on Distributed Plan and Schedule Management.

Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Elizabeth Sklar and Simon Parsons (2004), Exploring auction mechanisms for role assignment in teams of autonomous robots, Eighth International RoboCup Symposium (poster).

Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Marek Marcinkiewicz, Simon Parsons and Elizabeth Sklar (2004), Using Multiagent Coordination Techniques in the RoboCup Four-legged League, In the Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium 2004 on Bridging the multiagent and multirobotic research gap.

Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Marek Marcinkiewicz, Simon Parsons and Elizabeth Sklar (2004), MetroBots Team Description paper, for RoboCup-2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII, technical report.

Michael Littman, Simon Parsons and Elizabeth Sklar (2003), MetroBots Team Description paper, for RoboCup-2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII, technical report.

Steve Phelps, Simon Parsons, Elizabeth Sklar and Peter McBurney (2003), Applying Genetic Programming to Economic Mechanism Design: Evolving a pricing rule for a continuous double auction, Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-2003), T. Sandholm and M. Yokoo (eds), pp. 1096-1097.

Steve Phelps, Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons and Elizabeth Sklar (2002), Co-evolutionary mechanism design: a preliminary report, In Proceedings of AMEC-2002 Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce, at Autonomous Agents and Multagent Systems Conference (AAMAS-2002), Also appears in J. Padget, O. Shehory, D. Parkes, N. Sadeh, W.E. Walsh (eds), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2531, Springer-Verlag, pp 123-142.

Steve Phelps, Simon Parsons, Peter McBurney and Elizabeth Sklar (2002), Co-evolution of Auction Mechanisms and Trading Strategies: Towards a Novel Approach to Microeconomic Design, In Proceedings of ECOMAS-2002 Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Multi-Agent Systems, at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2002).

agent-based behavior modeling

Elizabeth Sklar and M. Q. Azhar (2011). Toward the application of argumentation to interactive learning systems. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Argumentation in Multiagent Systems (ArgMAS) at Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS), Taipei, Taiwan.

Simon Parsons, Elizabeth Sklar, and Peter McBurney (2011). Using argumentation to reason with and about trust. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Argumentation in Multiagent Systems (ArgMAS) at Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS), Taipei, Taiwan.

Simon Parsons, Peter McBurney, Elizabeth Sklar, Yuqing Tang, and Kai Cai (2011). Argumentation-based reasoning in agents with varying degrees of trust. In Tenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Taipei, Taiwan.

Yuqing Tang, Kai Cai, Peter McBurney, Elizabeth Sklar, and Simon Parsons (2011). Using argumentation to reason about trust and belief. Journal of Logic and Computation, Special Issue on Agreement Technologies.

Yuqing Tang, Kai Cai, Elizabeth Sklar, Peter McBurney, and Simon Parsons (2010). A system of argumentation for reasoning about trust. In Proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS), Paris, France.

Simon Parsons, Peter McBurney, and Elizabeth Sklar (2010). Reasoning about trust using argumentation: A position paper. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Argumentation in Multiagent Systems (ArgMAS) at Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS), Toronto, Canada.

Elizabeth Sklar and Debbie Richards (2010). Agent-based systems for human learners. Knowledge Engineering Review, 25(2):111–135, June.

Elizabeth Sklar and Debbie Richards (2006). The use of agents in human learning systems. In Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2006).

Jonah Benton and Elizabeth Sklar (2004). Evolving a Community for Evolving Learners. Learning Technology newsletter, Vol 6, Issue 1.

Elizabeth Sklar (2002). It Takes a Virtual Village: Towards an Automated Interactive Agency. Presented at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Personalized Agents, Falmouth MA, Nov 15-17, 2002.

Elizabeth Sklar, Alan D. Blair, and Jordan B. Pollack (2001). Training Intelligent Agents Using Human Data Collected on the Internet. In Liu, J., Zhong, N., Tang, Y.Y., and Wang, P.S.P. (eds), Agent Engineering, Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 201-226 (ch 8).

Elizabeth Sklar and Jordan B. Pollack (2000). A Framework for Enabling an Internet Learning Community (pdf, archive pdf). In Journal of International Forum of Educational Technology & Society 3(3), Special Issue on On-line Collaborative Learning Environments, pages 393-408.

Elizabeth Sklar and Jordan B. Pollack (2000). An evolutionary approach to guiding students in an educational game. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB-2000).

Elizabeth Sklar (2000). CEL: A Framework for Enabling an Internet Learning Community. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Computer Science, Brandeis University.

Elizabeth Sklar and Jordan Pollack (2000). Using an evolutionary algorithm to guide problem selection in an online educational game. In Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Cognitive Science (ECCS 2000). Best student paper award.

Elizabeth Sklar, Alan D. Blair, Pablo Funes and Jordan Pollack (1999). Training Intelligent Agents Using Human Internet Data. In Proceedings of the First Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-99), pp 354-363. Nominated for best paper award.

Elizabeth Sklar and Jordan B. Pollack (1999). Demonstrating a Community of Evolving Learners. CSCL-99 Interactive Presentation.

Elizabeth Sklar and Jordan B. Pollack (1998). Toward a Community of Evolving Learners. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Learning Sciences (ICLS-98).

Alan D. Blair and Elizabeth Sklar (1999). Exploring evolutionary learning in a simulated hockey environment. In Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-99), pp 197-203.

Alan D. Blair, Elizabeth Sklar and Pablo Funes (1998). Co-evolution, Determinism and Robustness. In McKay, B., et. al. (eds), Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL-98), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1585, Springer-Verlag, pp. 389-396.

Pablo Funes, Elizabeth Sklar, Hugues Juillé and Jordan B. Pollack (1998). Animal-Animat Coevolution: Using the Animal Population as Fitness Function. In Pfeifer, R. et. al. (eds), From Animals to Animats 5: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB-98), MIT Press, pp. 525-533.

Alan D. Blair and Elizabeth Sklar (1998). The evolution of subtle manoeuvres in simulated hockey. In Pfeifer, R. et. al. (eds), From Animals to Animats 5: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB-98). MIT Press.

Elizabeth Sklar, Alan D. Blair and Jordan B. Pollack (1998). Co-Evolutionary Learning: Machines and Humans Schooling Together. In Workshop on Current Trends and Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Education: Fourth World Congress on Expert Systems, G. Ayala (ed.), pp 98-105.

Pablo Funes, Elizabeth Sklar, Hugues Juillé and Jordan B. Pollack (1997). The Internet as a Virtual Ecology: Coevolutionary Arms Races Between Human and Artificial Populations. Brandeis University Computer Science Department Technical Report (CS-97-197).

Elizabeth Sklar and Richard Alterman (1997). Participatory Adaptation. In Steven Pemberton (ed), Computer Human Interaction: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems (CHI-97), p261-262.

data mining and visualization

Elizabeth Sklar, Chipp Jansen, Jonathan Chan, and Michael Byrd (2011). Toward a methodology for agent-based data mining and visualization. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction (ADMI) at Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS), Taipei, Taiwan.

Ilknur Icke and Elizabeth Sklar (2009). Visual Analytics: A Multi-faceted Overview. Technical Report #TR-2009005, Dept of Computer Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Ilknur Icke and Elizabeth Sklar (2008). A Visualization Tool For Student Assessment Data. In From Theory to Practice: Design, Vision and Visualization Workshop at Design, Vision and Visualization (Vis 08).

Elizabeth Sklar, Ilknur Icke, Christopher Camacho, William Liu, Jordan Salvit and Valerie Andrewlevich (2007). Visualizing Academic Assessment Data. in Proceedings of the Assessment of Group and Individual Learning Through Intelligent Visualization (AGILeViz) Workshop at the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference (CSCL).

Elizabeth Sklar, Jordan Salvit, Christopher Camacho, William Liu and Valerie Andrewlevich (2007). An agent-based methodology for analyzing and visualizing educational assessment data. in Sixth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS).

educational robotics

Matthew Meyer and Elizabeth Sklar (2011). When Robots aren’t for Everyone—-A Smorgasbord of Exploratory Computing Experiences. In ACM Computer Science & Information Technology Symposium, New York, NY, USA.

John Cummins, M. Q. Azhar and Elizabeth Sklar (2008). Using Surveyor SRV-1 Robots to Motivate CS1 Students. In AAAI 2008 AI Education Colloquium.

Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons, Sheila Tejada, Susan Lowes, M. Q. Azhar, Samir Chopra, Richard Jansen and Ira Rudowsky (2008). Using artificial intelligence to help bridge students from high school to college. in AAAI Spring Symposium on Using AI to motivate greater participation in Computer Science.

Lori Scarlatos, Susan Lowes, Elizabeth Sklar, Samir Chopra, Simon Parsons, Ira Rudowsky and Heidi Holder (2008). Building Bridges: The 2006 Summer Institute. in Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 23:3, January, pages 23-30.

Susan Imberman, Aleksandr Barkan and Elizabeth Sklar (2007). Extra-curricular Robotics: Entry-level Soccer for Undergraduates. In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Robots and Robot Venues: Resources for AI Education.

Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons, M. Q. Azhar and Valerie Andrewlevich (2006). Educational Robotics in Brooklyn (short version). In Proceedings of the AAAI-06 Mobile Robot Workshop.

Rachel Goldman, M. Q. Azhar and Elizabeth Sklar (2006). From RoboLab to Aibo: A Behavior-based Interface for Educational Robotics, In Proceedings of RoboCup-2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X.

M. Q. Azhar, Rachel Goldman and Elizabeth Sklar (2006). An agent-oriented behavior-based interface for educational robotics. In Agent-Based Systems for Human Learning (ABSHL) Workshop at Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2006).

Kar-Hai Chu, Rachel Goldman, and Elizabeth Sklar (2005). RoboXAP: an agent-based educational robotics simulator. In Agent-based Systems for Human Learning Workshop (ABSHL) at AAMAS-2005.

Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons and Peter Stone (2004). Using RoboCup in university-level computer science education, In Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC), Volume 4, Issue 2 (June 2004) Special issue on robotics in undergraduate education. Part 1.

Elizabeth Sklar and Amy Eguchi (2004). RoboCupJunior -- Four Years Later. Proceedings of the Eighth International RoboCup Symposium (RoboCup-2004) (full paper).

Rachel Goldman, Amy Eguchi and Elizabeth Sklar (2004). Using Educational Robotics to Engage Inner-City Students with Technology.. In Y. Kafai, W. Sandoval, N. Enyedy, A. S. Nixon and F. Herrera (eds), Sixth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS-2004) (full paper), pp 214-221.

Elizabeth Sklar (2004). A long-term approach to improving human-robot interaction: RoboCupJunior Rescue. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-2004), (full paper).

Simon Parsons and Elizabeth Sklar (2004). Teaching AI using LEGO Mindstorms. AAAI Spring Symposium 2004 on Accessible Hands-on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Education.

Jacky Baltes, Elizabeth Sklar and John Anderson (2004). Teaching with RoboCup. AAAI Spring Symposium 2004 on Accessible Hands-on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Education.

Elizabeth Sklar and Amy Eguchi (2004). Learning while Teaching Robotics. AAAI Spring Symposium 2004 on Accessible Hands-on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Education.

Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons and Peter Stone (2003). RoboCup in Higher Education: A Preliminary Report. In Proceedings of Seventh International RoboCup Symposium (RoboCup-2003).

John Anderson, Jacky Baltes, David Livingston, Elizabeth Sklar and Jonah Tower (2003). Toward an Undergraduate League for RoboCup. In Proceedings of Seventh International RoboCup Syposium (RoboCup-2003).

Elizabeth Sklar, Amy Eguchi and Jeffrey Johnson (2003). RoboCupJunior: learning with educational robotics. AI Magazine, 24(2).

Minoru Asada, Oliver Obst, Daniel Polani, Brett Browning, Andrea Bonarini, Masahiro Fujita, Thomas Christaller, Tomoichi Takahashi, Satoshi Tadokoro, Elizabeth Sklar and Gal A. Kaminka (2003), An Overview of RoboCup 2002 Fukuoka/Busan, AI Magazine, 24(2).

Elizabeth Sklar and Simon Parsons (2003). Robotics for beginners: using robot kits to build embodied agents. Tutorial at AAMAS-03, Melbourne, Australia.

Elizabeth Sklar, Emi Eguchi, Jeffrey Johnson (2002). Examining Team Robotics through RoboCupJunior. In Annual conference of Japan Society for Educational Technology, Nagaoka, Japan, November 2002.

Elizabeth Sklar and Simon Parsons (2002), RoboCupJunior: a vehicle for enhancing technical literacy, In Proceedings of the AAAI-02 Mobile Robot Workshop.

Elizabeth Sklar, Amy Eguchi and Jeffrey Johnson (2002), RoboCupJunior: learning with educational robotics, In Proceedings of RoboCup-2002: Robot Soccer World Cup VI, G. Kaminka, P. Lima and R. Rojas (eds.), pp. 238-253, Received Scientific Challenge Award.

Elizabeth Sklar (2002), RoboCupJunior 2002: The state of the league, In Proceedings of RoboCup-2002: Robot Soccer World Cup VI, G. Kaminka, P. Lima and R. Rojas (eds.), pp. 489-495.

Elizabeth Sklar (2002), RoboCupJunior 2002: League Description, technical report.

Elizabeth Sklar, Jeffrey H. Johnson and Henrik Hautop Lund (2002), The Educational Value of Children's Team Robotics: A Case Study of RoboCup Junior, In Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 7th '02).

Elizabeth Sklar, Jeffrey Johnson and Henrik Hautop Lund (2000), Children Learning From Team Robotics: RoboCup Junior 2000, Educational Research Report, Department of Design and Innovation, Faculty of Technology, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. download complete report, with appendices (49 pages)