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  1. Walamitien Oyenan and Scott DeLoach. "Towards a Systematic Approach for Designing Autonomic Systems." Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal. Volume 8, no. 1, 2010, pp. xx-xx.

  2. Scott DeLoach, Lin Padgham, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, and John Thangarajah. Using Three AOSE Toolkits to Develop a Sample Design. International Journal of Agent Oriented Software Engineering. Volume 3, no. 4, 2009, 2009, pp 416-476.

  3. Scott A. DeLoach. Moving Multiagent Systems from Research to Practice. International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. Volume 3, no. 4, 2009, pp. 378-382.

  4. Eric Matson, Scott A. DeLoach, Raj Bhatnagar. Evaluation of Properties in the Transition of Capability Based Agent Organization. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal. Volume 7, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1-21.

  5. Scott A. DeLoach. OMACS: a Framework for Adaptive, Complex Systems. in Virginia Dignum (ed.) Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models. IGI Global: Hershey, PA. ISBN: 1-60566-256-9 (March 2009). This chapter copyright 2008, IGI Global, www.igi-pub.com. Posted by permission of the publisher.

  6. Scott A. DeLoach, Walamitien Oyenan & Eric T. Matson. A Capabilities-Based Model for Artificial Organizations. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. Volume 16, no. 1, February 2008, pp. 13-56. DOI: 10.1007/s10458-007-9019-4.

  7. Eugene Santos Jr., Scott A. DeLoach, Michael T. Cox. Achieving Dynamic, Multi-Commander, Multi-Mission Planning and Execution. Journal of Applied Intelligence. Volume 25, no. 3, December 2006, pp. 335–357.

  8. Scott A. DeLoach & Madhukar Kumar. Multiagent Systems Engineering: a Case Study. In Agent-Oriented Methodologies. Brian Henderson-Sellers and Paolo Giorgini (eds). Idea Group, 2005. (Repulished in Intelligence Integration in Distributed Knowledge Management. Dariusz Krol and Ngoc Thanh Ngyuyen (eds). Information Science Reference (IGI Global), 2009).

  9. Eric Matson, Scott A. DeLoach, and Robyn Pauly. Building Interest in Math and Science for Rural and Underserved Elementary School Children Using Robot. Journal of STEM Education Volume 5, no. 3 & 4, July-December 2004, pp. 35-46.

  10. Scott A. DeLoach. The MaSE Methodology. In Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems. The Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Handbook Series : Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations , Vol. 11. Bergenti, Federico; Gleizes, Marie-Pierre; Zambonelli, Franco (Eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishing (available via Springer), 2004.

  11. Scott A. DeLoach, Eric T. Matson, Yonghua Li. Exploiting Agent Oriented Software Engineering in the Design of a Cooperative Robotics Search and Rescue System. The International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 17 (5), pp. 817-835, August 2003.

  12. Scott A. DeLoach, Mark F. Wood and Clint H. Sparkman, Multiagent Systems Engineering, The International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Volume 11 no. 3, June 2001.

  13. Scott A. DeLoach & Thomas C. Hartrum, A Theory-Based Representation for Object-Oriented Domain Models. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Volume 26 no. 6, June 2000.

Refereed Publications

2009

  1. Scott A. DeLoach & Matthew Miller. A Goal Model for Adaptive Complex Systems. International Conference on Knowledge-Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS 2009). St. Louis, MO, October 11-14, 2009.
  2. Scott J. Harmon, Scott A. DeLoach, and Robby. Abstract Requirement Analysis in Multiagent System Design, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT ‘09). Milan Italy, September 2009. 
  3. Walamitien Oyenan, Scott DeLoach, & Gurdip Singh. Exploiting Reusable Organizations to Reduce Complexity in Multiagent System Design. Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE 2009), Budapest Hungary, May 2009. 
  4. Walamitien Oyenan, Scott DeLoach, & Gurdip Singh. A Service-Oriented Approach for Integrating Multiagent System Designs. Proceedings of the Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), Decker, Sichman, Sierra, and Castelfranchi (eds.), May, 10–15, 2009, Budapest, Hungary.
  5. Scott Harmon, Scott DeLoach, & Robby. From Abstract Qualities to Concrete Specification using Guidance Policies. Proceedings of the Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), Decker, Sichman, Sierra, and Castelfranchi (eds.), May, 10–15, 2009, Budapest, Hungary.
  6. Juan C. Garca-Ojeda, Scott A. DeLoach, and Robby, agentTool III: From Process Definition to Code Generation, Proc. of 8th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), Decker, Sichman, Sierra, and Castelfranchi (eds.), May, 10–15., 2009, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 1393-1394.
  7. Juan C. Garcia-Ojeda, Scott A. DeLoach, and Robby. agentTool Process Editor: Supporting the Design of Tailored Agent-based Processes. Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. March 8 - 12, 2009.

    2008
     

  8. Scott J. Harmon, Scott A. DeLoach, Robby, and Doina Caragea. Leveraging Organizational Guidance Policies with Learning to Self-Tune Multiagent Systems Leveraging Organizational Guidance Policies with Learning to Self-Tune Multiagent Systems. Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Isola di San Servolo (Venice), Italy, October 20-24, 2008.

  9. Lin Padgham, Michael Winikoff, Scott DeLoach, and Massimo Cossentino. A Unified Graphical Notation for AOSE. Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Agent Oriented Software Engineering, Estoril Portugal, May 2008.

  10. Scott A. DeLoach. Developing a Multiagent Conference Management System Using the O-MaSE Process Framework. In Michael Luck (eds.), Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VIII: The 8th International Workshop on Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE 2007), LNCS 4951, 171-185, Springer-Verlag: Berlin.

  11. Juan C. Garcia-Ojeda, Scott A. DeLoach, Robby, Walamitien H. Oyenan and Jorge Valenzuela. O-MaSE: A Customizable Approach to Developing Multiagent Development Processes. In Michael Luck (eds.), Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VIII: The 8th International Workshop on Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE 2007), LNCS 4951, 1-15, Springer-Verlag: Berlin.

    2007

  12. Walamitien Oyenan and Scott A. DeLoach. Design and Evaluation of a Multiagent Autonomic Information System. International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07). Fremont, California. November 2007.

  13. Scott Harmon, Scott A. DeLoach, and Robby. Trace-based Specification of Law and Guidance Policies for Multiagent Systems. The Eighth Annual International Workshop "Engineering Societies in the Agents World" (ESAW 07) Athens, Greece, October, 2007.

  14. Scott A. DeLoach and Jorge L. Valenzuela. An Agent-Environment Interaction Model. in L. Padgham and F. Zambonelli (Eds.): AOSE 2006, LNCS 4405, pp. 1-18, 2007. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2007.

    2006

  15. Christopher Zhong and Scott A. DeLoach. An Investigation of Reorganization Algorithms. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2006). June 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, CSREA Press, 2006.

  16. Robby, Scott A. DeLoach, Valeriy A. Kolesnikov. Using Design Metrics for Predicting System Flexibility. in L. Baresi, R. Heckel (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE 2006), Vienna, Austria, March 27-28, 2006. Springer, LNCS Vol 3922, 2006.

  17. Scott A. DeLoach. Multiagent Systems Engineering of Organization-based Multiagent Systems. 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS'05). May 15-16, 2005, St. Louis, MO. Springer LNCS Vol 3914, 2006, pp 109 - 125.

    2005

  18. Eric Matson & Scott A. DeLoach. Formal Transition in Agent Organizations, IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Intensive Multiagent Systems (KIMAS '05), Waltham, MA, April 18-21, 2005.

  19. Eric Matson & Scott A. DeLoach. Autonomous Organization-Based Adaptive Information Systems, IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Intensive Multiagent Systems (KIMAS '05), Waltham, MA, April 18-21, 2005.

    2004

  20. David Gustafson, Venkata Prashant Rapaka, Scott DeLoach. A Comparison of Algorithms for Teams of Robots. Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. October 10-13 2004 The Hague, The Netherlands.

  21. Scott A. DeLoach, Eric Matson. An Organizational Model for Designing Adaptive Multiagent Systems. The AAAI-04 Workshop on Agent Organizations: Theory and Practice (AOTP 2004). Technical Report WS-04-02. AAAI Press. pp. 66-73. July 25-29, 2004, San Jose, California.

  22. Eric Matson & Scott A. DeLoach. Integrating Robotic Sensor and Effector Capabilities with Multi-Agent Organizations. Proceedings of The 2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'04). Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. June 21 - 24, 2004.

  23. Eric Matson, Scott A. DeLoach. Using Robots to Increase Interest of Technical Disciplines in Rural and Underserved Schools, 36th 2004 ASEE Annual Conference, June 20-23, 2004. Salt Lake City, Utah. Selected as National Best Zone Paper Award.

  24. Eric Matson & Scott A. DeLoach. Enabling Intra-Robotic Capabilities Adaptation Using an Organization-Based Multiagent System. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2004). April 26 – May 1, 2004. New Orleans, LA.

    2003

  25. Eric Matson & Scott A. DeLoach. An Organization-Based Adaptive Information System for Battlefield Situational Analysis. Proceedings of the International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems: KIMAS'03: Modeling, Exploration, and Engineering. 30 Sep – 3 Oct 2003. Boston, MA.

  26. Scott DeLoach and Eric Matson. Autonomously Reorganizing Information Systems. 2003 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Homeland Security (ICATHS). September 25-26, 2003. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

  27. Eric Matson, Robyn Pauly, Scott DeLoach. Robotic Simulators to Develop Logic and Critical Thinking Skills in K-6 School Children, 38th ASEE Midwest Section Conference, Rolla, Missouri, September 10-12, 2003.

  28. Eric Matson, Robyn Pauly, Scott DeLoach. The Impact of the Robot Roadshow Program to Increase Interest of Technical Disciplines in Rural and Under Served School, 38th ASEE Midwest Section Conference, Rolla, Missouri, September 10-12, 2003.

  29. Eric Matson and Scott DeLoach. Using Dynamic Capability Evaluation to Organize a Team of Cooperative, Autonomous Robots. Proceedings of The 2003 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'03) June 23-26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

  30. Athie Self & Scott A. DeLoach. Designing and Specifying Mobility within the Multiagent Systems Engineering Methodology. Special Track on Agents, Interactions, Mobility, and Systems (AIMS) at The 18th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2003). March 9 - 12, 2003, Melbourne, Florida, USA.

    2002

  31. Eric Matson, Scott A. DeLoach. Organizational Model for Cooperative and Sustaining Robotic Ecologies. Proceedings of Robosphere 2002, a workshop on Self Sustaining Robotic Ecologies. NASA Ames Research Center November 14-15, 2002.

  32. Eric Matson, Scott DeLoach. Using Robots to Increase Interest of Technical Disciplines in Rural and Underserved Schools, 36th ASEE Midwest Section Conference, Norman, Oklahoma, September 11-13, 2002. Received Outstanding Paper Award.

  33. Jonathan DiLeo, Timothy Jacobs, and Scott DeLoach. Integrating Ontologies into Multiagent Systems Engineering. Fourth International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS-2002). 15-16 July 2002, Bologna (Italy).

  34. Scott A. DeLoach, Analysis and Design of Multiagent Systems Using Hybrid Coordination Media Proceedings of Software Engineering in Multiagent Systems (SEMAS 2002). Orlando, Florida. July 18, 2002.

  35. Scott A. DeLoach, "Modeling Organizational Rules in the Multiagent Systems Engineering Methodology" Proceedings of the 15th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'2002). Calgary, Alberta, Canada. May 27-29, 2002. (LNAI format)

  36. Scott A. DeLoach, Eric T. Matson, and Yonghua Li. "Applying Agent Oriented Software Engineering to Cooperative Robotics," Proceedings of the The 15th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS 2002). pp. 391 - 396. Pensacola, Florida. May 16-18, 2002.

    2001

  37. Clint H. Sparkman, Scott A. DeLoach, and Athie L. Self "Automated Derivation of Complex Agent Architectures from Analysis Specifications," Proceedings of the Second International Workshop On Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE-2001), Montreal, Canada, May 29th 2001.

  38. Scott A. O’Malley and Scott A. DeLoach "Determining When to Use an Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Paradigm," Proceedings of the Second International Workshop On Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE-2001), Montreal, Canada, May 29th 2001.

  39. Scott A. DeLoach, Specifying Agent Behavior as Concurrent Tasks: Defining the Behavior of Social Agents. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Autonomous Agents, Montreal Canada, May 28 - June 1, 2001.

  40. Scott A. DeLoach. Analysis and Design using MaSE and agentTool, Proceedings of the 12th Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference (MAICS 2001). Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, March 31 - April 1, 2001.

  41. Scott A. DeLoach & Mark Wood, Developing Multiagent Systems with agentTool. in Intelligent Agents VII. Agent Theories Architectures and Languages, 7th International Workshop ( ATAL 2000, Boston, MA, USA, July 7-9, 2000), C. Castelfranchi, Y. Lesperance (Eds.). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 1986, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2001.

  42. Joanna Bryson, Keith Decker, Scott DeLoach, Michael Huhns, & Michael Wooldridge. Agent Development Tools, in Intelligent Agents VII. Agent Theories Architectures and Languages, 7th International Workshop ( ATAL 2000, Boston, MA, USA, July 7-9, 2000), C. Castelfranchi, Y. Lesperance (Eds.). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 1986, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2001.

  43. Mark Wood & Scott A. DeLoach. An Overview of the Multiagent Systems Engineering Methodology, in Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. P. Ciancarini, M. Wooldridge, (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 1957, Springer Verlag, Berlin, January 2001.

    2000

  44. Marc J. Raphael & Scott A. DeLoach. A Knowledge Base for Knowledge-Based Multiagent System Construction, National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON) to Dayton, OH, October 10-12, 2000.

  45. Scott A. O'Malley, Athie L. Self, & Scott A. DeLoach. Comparing Performance of Static versus Mobile Multiagent Systems, National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON) Dayton, OH, October 10-12, 2000.

  46. Timothy Lacey & Scott A. DeLoach, Verification of Agent Behavioral Models. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2000). CSREA Press, Vol II, pp 557-563. June 26 - 29, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada.

  47. J. Todd McDonald, Michael L. Talbert, and Scott A. DeLoach , Heterogeneous Database Integration Using Agent Oriented Information Systems. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2000). CSREA Press, Vol III, pp. 1359-1365. June 26 - 29, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada.

  48. Jeffrey Smith, Mieczyslaw Kokar, Kenneth Baclawski and Scott DeLoach, Category Theoretic Approaches of Representing Precise UML Semantics. ECOOP'2000 Workshop on Defining Precise Semantics for UML. Sophia Antipolis, 13 June 2000.

  49. Mark Wood & Scott A. DeLoach, An Overview of the Multiagent Systems Engineering Methodology. The First International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE-2000), June 10, 2000 - Limerick, Ireland

  50. Timothy Lacey & Scott A. DeLoach, Automatic Verification of Multiagent Conversations, Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference, pp. 93-100, AAAI Press, April 15 - 16, 2000, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

    1999

  51. Kenneth Baclawski, Scott A. DeLoach, Mieczyslaw M. Kokar, and Jeffrey Smith. Object-Oriented Transformation. In Behavioral Specifications of Businesses and Systems, H. Kilov, B. Rumpe, I. Simmonds, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts, 1999.

  52. Scott A. DeLoach & Mieczyslaw M. Kokar. Category Theory Approach to Fusion of Wavelet-Based Features. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion '99). Sunnyvale CA. July 6-8 1999.

  53. Thomas C. Hartrum & Scott A. DeLoach. Design Issues for Mixed-Initiative Agent Systems. AAAI-99 Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligence. Orlando FL, July 18 1999.

  54. Scott A. DeLoach. Multiagent Systems Engineering: a Methodology and Language for Designing Agent Systems. Proceedings of Agent Oriented Information Systems '99 (AOIS'99), pp. 45-57. Seattle WA, 1 May 1999.

    1998

  55. Kenneth Baclawski, Scott A. DeLoach, Mieczyslaw M. Kokar, and Jeffrey Smith. Object-Oriented Parsing and Transformation. Proceedings of Seventh OOPSLA Workshop on Behavioral Semantics of OO Business and System Specifications, at OOPSLA'98, Vancouver Canada, October 1998.

    1995

  56. Scott DeLoach, Paul Bailor, and Thomas Hartrum. Representing Object Models as Theories. Proceedings of the 10th Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference, November 1995.

    1988

  57. Scott A. DeLoach. An Interface-Based Ada Programming Support Environment, ACM Ada Letters, May-June, 1988.

Other Publications

  1. Scott J. Harmon, Scott A. DeLoach, and Robby. Guidance and Law Policies in Multiagent Systems. Multiagent & Cooperative Robotics Laboratory Technical Report No. MACR-TR-2007-02. Kansas State University. March 17, 2007.

  2. Scott A. DeLoach & Walamitien H. Oyenan. An Organizational Model and Dynamic Goal Model for Autonomous, Adaptive Systems. Multiagent & Cooperative Robotics Laboratory Technical Report No. MACR-TR-2006-01. Kansas State University. March 13, 2006.

  3. Eugene Santos, Jr., Scott DeLoach, Michael T. Cox. MADGS: An Architecture for Dynamic, Multi-Commander, Multi-Mission Planning and Execution. IDIS Laboratory Technical Report No. 105. University of Connecticut. September 2003.

  4. Michael T. Cox, Thomas Hartrum, Scott DeLoach,1 and S. Narayanan. Agent-Based Mixed-Initiative Collaboration: The ABMIC project final report. Wright State University Technical Report WSU-CS-02-01, July 2002.

  5. Scott A. DeLoach, Specifying Agent Behavior as Concurrent Tasks: Defining the Behavior of Social Agents. Technical Report, Air Force Institute of Technology, AFIT/EN-TR-00-03, July 2000.

  6. Scott A. DeLoach & Mark Wood, Multiagent Systems Engineering: the Analysis Phase. Technical Report, Air Force Institute of Technology, AFIT/EN-TR-00-02, June 2000.

  7. Formal Transformations from Graphically-Based Object-Oriented Representations to Theory-Based Specifications, PhD Thesis, Air Force Institute of Technology, AFIT/DS/ENG/96-05, 1996. (PDF 1.8mb) (zipped PS 758kb)

  8. An Interface-Based Ada Programming Support Environment, MS Thesis, Air Force Institute of Technology, AFIT/GCE/MA/87D-1, 1987.

  9. Environment Portability and Extensibility Measures, Technical Report, Air Force Institute of Technology, AFIT-EN-TM-87-7, 10 August 1987.

  10. Essays on Software Environments, Technical Report, Air Force Institute of Technology, AFIT-ENC-TR-86-5, 1986.