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    Book Chapters
  1. Victor Lesser, Jiaying Shen, Ingo Weber and Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang, “ Formal Analysis of Negotiation Protocols for Task Allocation“, in the book Negotiation and Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. Edited by Fernando Lopes and Helder Coelho, Bentham Science Publishers. 2014. ISBN: 978-1-60805-825-9. Pages.149-190.
  2. Soheil Sibdari and Xiaoqin Zhang, “Bidding Strategies of Automated Agents in Supply Chain Management” in the book Bidding: Types, Strategies and the Impact of Irrationality, Edited by Ming Lim, Nova Science Publishers. 2013. ISBN: 978-1-62808-057-5. Pages 25-38.
  3. Xiaoqin Zhang, Haiping Xu & Bhavesh Shrestha, “Building Health Care Multi-agent Simulation System With Role-Based Modeling“, in the book Health Information Systems: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. Edited by: Raman Paranjape, IGI Global, 2010. Pages 694-716. 
    Journal Publications
  1. Jason B. Williams (UMD student) and Xiaoqin Zhang. Combining affective intelligence with learning to improve action selection in decision-making agents. International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, 15(1):27-53, April 2019.
  2. Trib Puri , Soheil Sibdari and Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang, Improving Credit Scoring Quality through Virtual Organization (VO) Formation, Journal of Contemporary Management, Page 25-38. Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2017. Better Advances Press, Canada.
  3. Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang and Victor Lesser, Meta-level Coordination for Solving Distributed Negotiation Chains in Semi-cooperative Multi-agent Systems, Group Decision and Negotiation, July 2013, Volume 22, Issue 4, pp 681-713. Springer Netherlands, Url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10726-012-9287-5.
  4. Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang, Sungwook Yoon, Phillip DiBona, Darren Scott Appling, Li Ding, Janardhan Rao Doppa, Derek Green, Jinhong K. Guo, Ugur Kuter, Geoff Levine, Reid L. MacTavish, Daniel McFarlane, James R Michaelis, Hala Mostafa, Santiago Ontanon, Charles Parker, Jainarayan Radhakrishnan, Anton Rebguns, Bhavesh Shrestha (UMD student), Zhexuan Song, Ethan B. Trewhitt, Huzaifa Zafar, Chongjie Zhang, Daniel Corkill, Gerald DeJong, Thomas G. Dietterich, Subbarao Kambhampati, Victor Lesser, Deborah L. McGuinness, Ashwin Ram, Diana Spears, Prasad Tadepalli, Elizabeth T. Whitaker, Weng-Keen Wong, James A. Hendler, Martin O. Hofmann, Kenneth Whitebread. An Ensemble Architecture for Learning Complex Problem-Solving Techniques From Demonstration. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 3, 4, Article 75 (September 2012), 38 pages. DOI=10.1145/2337542.2337560 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2337542.2337560 .
  5. Soheil Sibdari, Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang, and Saban Singh (UMD student). A Dynamic Programming Approach for Agent’s Bidding Strategy in TAC-SCM Game. International Journal of Operational Research (IJOR) 2012 – Vol. 14, No.2  pp. 121 – 134.
  6. Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang, Ping Xuan and Bhumit Patel (UMD student), “Management Techniques for Multiagent Virtual Organization“, Systemics and Informatics World Network, Vol. 10, Page 109-120, July, 2010.
  7. Xiaoqin Zhang, Haiping Xu and Bhavesh Shrestha. An Integrated Role-Based Approach for Modeling, Designing and Implementing Multi-Agent Systems. Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JCBS): Special Issue on Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems. Vol. 13(1):  45-60, July 2007.
  8. Haiping Xu, Xiaoqin Zhang and Rinkesh J. Patel. Developing Role-Based Open Multi-Agent Software Systems. International Journal of Computational Intelligence: Theory and Practice. Vol. 2(1): 39-56, June 2007.
  9. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser and Tom Wagner. Integrative Negotiation Among Agents Situated in Organizations. IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics: Part C, Vol. 36(1): 19-30, January, 2006.
  10. Qinhe Zheng, Xiaoqin Zhang . Automatic Formation and analysis of Multi-agent Virtual organization. Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JCBS) Special Issue on Agents Organizations, Vol. 11(1): 74-89,  July, 2005.
  11. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser and Sherief Abdallah.  Efficient Management of Multi-Linked Negotiation Based on a Formalized Model.  Journal of Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, Vol. 10 (2): 165-205. (March, 2005).
  12. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser, Rodion Podorozhny. Multi-Dimensional, MultiStep Negotiation for Task Allocation in a Cooperative System. Journal of Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, Vol. 10 (1): 5-40. (January, 2005).
  13. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser and Tom Wagner.  A Layered Approach to Complex Negotiations.  (WIAS) Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal. Vol 2. No. 2. 2004.
  14. Lesser, V.; Decker, K.; Wagner, T.; Carver, N.; Garvey, A.; Horling, B.; Neiman, D.; Podorozhny, R.; NagendraPrasad, M.; Raja, A.; Vincent, R.; Xuan, P.; Zhang, X.Q. Evolution of the GPGP/TAEMS Domain-Independent Coordination Framework.  Journal of Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, Volume 9:1&2,pp. 87-143, 2004.
  15. Victor Lesser, Bryan Horling, Frank Klassner, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, and Shelley XQ. Zhang. BIG: An Agent for Resource-Bounded Information Gathering and Decision Making.Artificial Intelligence Journal, Special Issue on Internet Information Agents, Volume 118, Number 1-2, pp. 197-244, May 2000, Elsevier Science. Also available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 1998-52.
  16. Victor Lesser, Bryan Horling, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, and Xiaoqin Zhang.  Resource-Bounded Searches in an Information Marketplace. IEEE Internet Computing: Agents on the Net, Volume 4, Number 2, pp. 49-57, March 2000, IEEE Computer Society Publications.
    Highly refereed conference publications
  1. Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang, Vaishnavi Guduguntla, Kalyani Emani, Gaurav Kulkarni, and Pavan Kaparthi. Get smart on information-sharing in social networks. In Fernando G. Tinetti Hamid R. Arabnia, Leonidas Deligiannidis and Quoc-Nam Tran, editors, Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, pages 1254-1259. IEEE Computer Society. ISBN-13: 978-1-7281- 1360-9. December 2018.  Acceptance rate 19%.
  2. Justin Lovinger and Xiaoqin Zhang, Enhanced Simplified Memory-bounded A Star (SMA*+), the 3rd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI 2017), Christoph Benzmeller, Christine Lisetti and Martin Theobald (editors), vol 50, pages 202-212. October 19-22, 2017. Miami, USA.
  3. Xiaoqin Zhang, Sadhana Kuthuru, Ramya Mara, and Brahmi Mamillapalli, Personalized Recommendation with Confidence, 2016 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Page 578-581. October 13-16, 2016. Omaha, Nebraska.
  4. Brett Hannan (UMD student), Xiaoqin Zhang, Kristen Sethares, iHands: Intelligent Health Advising and Decision-Support Agent, the 2014 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2014). Proceedings. Pages 294-301. August 11-14, 2014, Warsaw, Poland.
  5. Zhang, Xiaoqin Shelley, Klein, Mark and Ivan Marsa Maestre, Scalable Complex Contract Negotiation With Structured Search and Agenda Management, the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-14). Proceedings. Pages 1507-1514. July 27-31, 2014, Quebec City, Canada. Acceptance rate of 28%.
  6. Zhang, Xiaoqin Shelley; Klein, Mark, “Hierarchical Negotiation Model for Complex Problems with Large-Number of Interdependent Issues,” Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on, vol.2, no., pp.126 -133, 4-7 Dec.
  7. Xiaoqin Zhang, Soheil Sibdari, Saban Singh (UMD student). An Optimization Method for Agent’s Bidding Strategy in TAC-SCM Game. Francesco Buccafurri, Giovanni Semeraro (Eds.): E-Commerce and Web Technologies, 11th International Conference, EC-Web 2010, Bilbao, Spain, September 1-3, 2010. Proceedings. Pages 172-183. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 61 Springer 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-15207-8.
  8. Xiaoqin Zhang and Aliasgar Dahodwala (UMD student)  and Ping Xuan, Cooperative Team Formation among Agents with Social-Relation Awareness, Proceedings of the IADIS International Intelligent Systems and Agents 2010 (ISA 2010) Conference, Freiburg, Germany, July, 2010. Pages 43-50. Edited by Antonio Palma dos Reis and Ajith P. Abraham. ISBN: 978-972-8939-23-6.
  9. Xiaoqin (Shelley) Zhang, Sungwook Yoon, Phillip DiBona, Darren Scott Appling, Li Ding, Janardhan Rao Doppa, Derek Green, Jinhong K. Guo, Ugur Kuter, Geoff Levine, Reid L. MacTavish, Daniel McFarlane, James R Michaelis, Hala Mostafa, Santiago Ontan, Charles Parker, Jainarayan Radhakrishnan, Anton Rebguns, Bhavesh Shrestha (UMD student), Zhexuan Song, Ethan B. Trewhitt, Huzaifa Zafar, Chongjie Zhang, Daniel Corkill, Gerald DeJong, Thomas G. Dietterich, Subbarao Kambhampati, Victor Lesser, Deborah L. McGuinness, Ashwin Ram, Diana Spears, Prasad Tadepalli, Elizabeth T. Whitaker, Weng-Keen Wong, James A. Hendler, Martin O. Hofmann, Kenneth Whitebread. “An Ensemble Learning and Problem Solving Architecture for Airspace Management”, Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-09). Pages 203-210. July 14-16, 2009. Pasadena, California, USA.
  10. Anita Raja, Michael Barley and Shelley Xiaoqin Zhang. Towards Safe Coordination in MultiAgent Systems,  Proceedings of  LNAI Hot Topics :  Safety and Security in Multiagent systems: The Early Years, pp: 1-7, volume 4324, editors: M. Barley, H. Mouratidis, A. Unruh , D. Spears, P. Scerri, F. Massacci, 2009.
  11. Danielle J. Stack (UMD student), Xiaoqin Zhang and Christopher Harding. Developing Intelligent Agent to Support Legacy Software. In Hamid R. Arabnia, Azita Bahrami (Eds.): Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on E-Learning, E-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and E-Government, EEE 2008, July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Page 165-171. CSREA Press 2008, ISBN 1-60132-063-9. Acceptance rate 26%.
  12. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser. Meta-Level Coordination for Solving Negotiation Chains in Semi-Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems. In proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 07), pages 50-57, May 14-18, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii. Acceptance rate 22%.
  13. Rodion Podorozhny, Sarfraz Khurshid, Dewayne Perry, and Xiaoqin Zhang. Verification of Multi-agent Negotiations using the Alloy Analyzer. In proceedings of the Integrated Formal Methods Conference, pages 501-517.  July 2-5, 2007. (IFM 2007).  Oxford, UK.
  14. Xiaoqin Zhang, Haiping Xu, Towards Automated Development of Multi-Agent Systems Using RADE. In Proceedings of the the 2006 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI-06), pages 44-50.  June 26-29, 2006. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
  15. Haiping Xu, Xiaqin Zhang, A Methodology for Role-Based Modeling of Open Multi-Agent Software Systems. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICSIS 2005), pages 246-253. May 24-28, 2005. Miami, USA.
  16. Shen, Jiaying; Zhang, Xiaoqin; and Lesser, Victor. Degree of Local Cooperation and its Implication on Global Utility. In Proceedings of Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2004). Volume 2, IEEE Computer Society, pages, 546-553. July 2004. Acceptance rate 23%.
  17. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser and Tom Wagner. A Two-Level Negotiation Framework for Complex Negotiations. In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2003). pages 311-317. 2003, Halifax, Canada. Acceptance rate 23%.
  18. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser and Tom Wagner.  Integrative Negotiation In Complex Organizational Agent Systems. In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2003). pp. 140-146. 2003. Halifax, Canada. Acceptance rate 23%.
  19. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser. Multi-Linked Negotiation in Multi-Agent System. In Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2002). Pages 1207-1214. July 15-19, 2002, Bologna, Italy. Acceptance rate 26%.
  20. Xiaoqin Zhang, Rodion Podorozhny, Victor Lesser. Cooperative, MultiStep Negotiation Over a Multi-Dimensional Utility Function Multi-Agent Systems Negotiation. In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference, Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2000), pages 136-142. ASTED/ACTA Press, Banff, Canada, July 2000.
  21. Justus H. Piater, Paul R. Cohen, Xiaoqin Zhang, Michael Atighetchi. A Randomized ANOVA Procedure for Comparing Performance Curves.  In Shavlik, J., ed., Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference (1999), pages 430-438. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA.
  22. Victor Lesser, Bryan Horling, Frank Klassner, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner and Shelley XQ. Zhang.   BIG: A Resource-Bounded Information Gathering Agent.  In Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98).  Pages 539 – 546. Acceptance rate 31%.
  23. Victor Lesser, Bryan Horling, Frank Klassner, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, and Shelley XQ.Zhang.   A Next Generation Information Gathering Agent.  In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems, Analysis, and Synthesis; in conjunction with the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI’98), Orlando, FL, July 1998.
    Refereed symposia / workshop publications / posters / short papers
  1. Prinkle Sharma, Hong Liu, Honggang Wang, Shelley Zhang, Securing Wireless Communications of Connected Vehicles with Artificial Intelligence. 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security. April 25 – 26 2017. Waltham, MA.
  2. Corkill, Daniel; Zhang, Chongjie; da Silva, Bruno; Kim, Yoonheui; Garant, Daniel; Lesser, Victor; Zhang, Xiaoqin. Biasing the Behavior of Organizationally Adept Agents (Extended Abstract). Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2013), Ito, Jonker, Gini, and Shehory, ed., IFAAMAS, pp. 1309-1310. 2013.
  3. Daniel D. Corkill, Chongjie Zhang, Bruno da Silva, Yoonheui Kim, Xiaoqin Zhang, and Victor R. Lesser, Using Annotated Guidelines to Influence the Behavior of Organizationally Adept Agents. Proceedings of 14th International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms (COIN), held in conjunction with 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-12), , pp. 46-60. Valencia, Spain, June 4-8, 2012.
  4. Xiaoqin Zhang, Haiping Xu, Bhavesh Shrestha. Developing MAS with Automatic Agent Generation and Dynamic Task Allocation Mechanisms. In proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 07), pages 1246-1248. May 14-18, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  5. Xiaoqin Zhang, Qinhe Zheng. The Study of Virtual Organizations Using Multi-agent System. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2005), pages1147-1148. July, 2005.
  6. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser and Tom Wagner. A multi-leveled negotiation framework. In Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2003), research abstract. Page 1172 – 1173. 2003. Melbourne, Australia.
  7. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser and Tom Wagner. Efficient ordering and parameterization of multi-linked negotiation. In Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2003),  page 1170 – 1171. 2003. Melbourne, Australia.
  8. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser and Tom Wagner. Integrative Negotiation In Complex Organizational Agent Systems. In the Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2002), pages 503-504. July 15-19, 2002, Bologna, Italy.
  9. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser, Tom Wagner. A Proposed Approach to Sophisticated Negotiation. In Proceedings of the AAAI Fall 2001 Symposium on Negotiation Methods for Autonomous Cooperative Systems, pages 1-10. AAAI Press.
    Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser, Rodion Podorozhny. New Results on Cooperative, Multi-Step Negotiation Over a Multi-Dimensional Utility Function. In Proceedings of the AAAI Fall 2001 Symposium on Negotiation Methods for Autonomous Cooperative Systems, pages 96-105. AAAI Press.
  10. Xiaoqin Zhang, Anita Raja, Barbara Lerner, Victor Lesser, Leon Osterweil and Thomas Wagner. Integrating High-Level and Detailed Agent Coordination into a Layered Architecture. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (1887): Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, Wagner/Rana editors, Springer-Verlag, pages 72-79.  Also available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 1999-029.
  11. Victor Lesser, Michael Atighetchi, Brett Benyo, Bryan Horling, Anita Raja, Regis Vincent, Thomas Wagner, Xuan Ping, Shelley XQ Zhang. The Intelligent Home Testbed. In Proceedings of the Autonomy Control Software Workshop (Autonomous Agent Workshop), Seattle, 1999. Acceptance rate 27%.
  12. Victor Lesser, Bryan Horling, Frank Klassner, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, and Shelley XQ.Zhang. Recent Extensions to BIG: A Resource-Bounded Information Gathering Agent.  In Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems, Orlando, Florida 1999,UMASS Technical Report 1999-13, March, 1999.
  13. Victor Lesser, Bryan Horling, Frank Klassner, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, and Shelley XQ. Zhang. A Resource-Bounded Interpretation-Centric Approach to Information Gathering. In Proceedings of the AAAI-98 Workshop on Information Integration, 1998.