Mihai Boicu                          

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Workshop Papers (51)

Mihai Boicu, Rapid Prototyping of a Cognitive System for Pediatric Telephone Triage Tutoring, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Arlington, VA, 5-6 November 2011.

Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Gheorghe Tecuci, David Schum, Cognitive Assistants for Evidence-Based Reasoning Tasks, Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Advances in Cognitive Systems, Arlington, VA, 4-6 November 2011. Available at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/2011/CA-EBR-Boicu.pdf

Gheorghe Tecuci, David Schum, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Katherine Russell, Toward a Computational Theory of Evidence-based Reasoning, in Proceedings of the 18-th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucharest, Romania, May 24-27, 2011. Available at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/2011/Tecuci_et_al_EBR-2011.pdf

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, David Schum, Benjamin Hamilton, TIACRITIS System and Textbook: Learning Intelligence Analysis through Practice, in Paulo C.G. da Costa, Kathryn B. Laskey (ed.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security – STIDS 2010 (Fairfax, VA, USA, October 27-28, 2010), Springer-Verlag, 2010, Vol-713, 108-115.

David Schum, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Substance-Blind Classification of Evidence for Intelligence Analysis, in Proceedings of the Conference “Ontology for the Intelligence Community,” George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia Campus, 20-22 October 2009. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/2009/Schum-OIC09.pdf

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci and David Schum, Intelligence Analysis Ontology for Cognitive Assistants, In Proceedings of the Conference “Ontology for the Intelligence Community: Towards Effective Exploitation and Integration of Intelligence Resources,” 5pg, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 3 - 5 December 2008.

Vu Le, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, A New Approach to Rapid Construction of Knowledge-Based Tutoring Systems, in Proceeding of the 2008 Technology Enhanced Learning Conference, 8 pages, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 2008.

Mihai Boicu, Vu Le, Dorin Marcu, Cristina Boicu, Marcel Barbulescu, Gheorghe Tecuci. An ITS-Authoring Shell and an Authored ITS for an Ill-Structured Domain, in Proceeding of the Demonstration Program of 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2008), 2008.

Vu Le, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Agent Shell for the Development of Tutoring Systems for Expert Problem Solving Knowledge. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2008), Springer Verlag, 2008. http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/2008/LeV_Agent_Shell_ITS.doc

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Tom Hajduk, Dorin Marcu, Marcel Barbulescu, Cristina Boicu, Vu Le. A Tool for Training and Assistance in Emergency Response Planning. In Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-40, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2007. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/2007/Disciple-VPT%20Hawaii.pdf

Cristina Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu. Learning Complex Problem Solving Expertise from Failures, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'07), Cincinnati, Ohio, December 13-15, 2007. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/2007/Boicu-ICMLA-2007.pdf

Cristina Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu. Lazy Rule Refinement by Knowledge-Based Agents. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'06), Orlando, Florida, USA, 14-16 December 2006.

C. Fowler, Cindy Ayers, David Cammons, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Vu Le, Dorin Marcu, Cristina Boicu, Marcel Barbulescu. Cognitive Assistants for the Analysts: Experiments in the Classroom. In Proceedings of the INFORMS Military Applications Society Conference “Homeland Security for the 21st Century,” Mystic, Connecticut, July 24-26, 2006.

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Cindy Ayers, David Cammons. Cognitive Assistants for Analysts. In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Analysis & Production’s Analysis Conference “The Future of Analysis”, NSA, 2006.

Cristina Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu. A Mixed-Initiative Approach to Rule Refinement for Knowledge-Based Agents, Proceedings of the AAAI-05 Fall Symposium on Mixed-Initiative Problem-Solving Assistants, Arlington, Virginia, November 4-6, 2005.

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Dorin Marcu. Mixed-Initiative Assistant for Modeling Expert’s Reasoning, Proceedings of the AAAI-05 Fall Symposium on Mixed-Initiative Problem-Solving Assistants, Arlington, Virginia, November 4-6, 2005.

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Cindy Ayers, Dorin Marcu, Cristina Boicu, Marcel Barbulescu, Bogdan Stanescu, William Wagner, Vu Le, Denitsa Apostolova, Adrian Ciubotariu. A Learning and Reasoning System for Intelligence Analysis. Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-05, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, July 9-13, 2005. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/2005/BoicuM_Disciple_IA_AAAI05.pdf

Cristina Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu. Rule Refinement by Domain Experts in Complex Knowledge Bases. Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-05, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, July 9-13, 2005. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2005/AAAI205BoicuC_1.pdf

Cristina Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu. Improving Agent Learning through Rule Analysis. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI-05, Las Vegas, USA, June 27-30, 2005. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2005/ICAI3196Boicu.pdf

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Cindy Ayers, David Cammons. Personal Cognitive Assistants for Military Intelligence Analysis: Mixed-Initiative Learning, Tutoring, and Problem Solving. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligence Analysis, McLean, VA, 2-6 May, 2005. https://analysis.mitre.org/proceedings/index.html

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Bogdan Stanescu, Dorin Marcu, Marcel Barbulescu, Cristina Boicu. Design Principles for Learning Agents. In Proceedings of AAAI 2004 Workshop on Intelligent Agent Architectures: Combining the Strengths of Software Engineering and Cognitive Systems, July 26, 2004 - San Jose, California. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/2004/BoicuM_Design_Principles_WSAAAI.pdf

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Bogdan Stanescu, Cristina Boicu, Marcel Barbulescu. A University Research Group Experience with Deploying an Artificial Intelligence Application in the Center of Gravity Analysis Domain. In Proceedings of AAAI 2004 Workshop on Fielding Applications of Artificial Intelligence, July 25, 2004 - San Jose, California.

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Bogdan Stanescu, Cristina Boicu, Marcel Barbulescu. A Learning Agent Shell for Building Knowledge-Based Agents. In Proceedings of the Technology Demonstration Session of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2004, 5-8th October 2004 - Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK, 2004. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2004/2004_Disciple-RKF-demo-paper.pdf

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Bogdan Stanescu, Cristina Boicu, Marcel Barbulescu. Parallel Knowledge Base Development by Subject Matter Experts. in Motta E., Shadbolt N., Stutt A., and Gibbins N. (Editors), Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web, EKAW 2004, LNAI 3257, pp. 265-279, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2004. Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, 5-8th October 2004 - Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2004/Tecuci-EKAW-04.pdf

Michael Bowman., Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu., Jerry Comello, Information Age Warfare – Intelligent Agents in the Classroom and the Strategic Analysis Center, 8 pages, In Proceedings of 24th Army Science Conference, November 29-December 2, 2004, Orlando, Florida. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/2004/BowmanM_Information_Age_Warfare.pdf

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Dorin Marcu, Cristina Boicu, Bogdan Stanescu. Mixed-Initiative Control for Teaching and Learning in Disciple. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligence at IJCAI 2003, Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2003/P02-Boicu.pdf

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu. Toward a Disciple-based Mixed-Initiative Cognitive Assistant. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligence System at IJCAI 2003, Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2003/P14-Tecuci.pdf

Marcel Barbulescu, Catalin Balan, Mihai Boicu and Gheorghe Tecuci. Rapid Development of Large Knowledge Bases. In Proceedings of 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics. Washington, D.C., USA, October 5–8, 2003Available online: at:http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2003/2003_barbulescu-paper.pdf

Cristina Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu. Improving the Representation Space through Exception-Based Learning, In Proceedings of the Sixteen International FLAIRS Conference, May 11-15, St. Augustine, Florida. Available online: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2003/FLAIRS03CBoicu.pdf

Bogdan Stanescu, Cristina Boicu, Gabriel Balan, Marcel Barbulescu, Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci. Ontologies for Learning Agents: Problems, Solutions and Directions. In Proceedings of the IJCAI-20003 Workshop on Ontologies and Distributed Systems, Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Inc. Available online: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2003/Ontology-paper%20_2_.pdf

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Bogdan Stanescu, Cristina Boicu, Jerry Comello, Antonio Lopez, Jim Donlon and William Cleckner. Development and Deployment of a Disciple Agent for Center of Gravity Analysis, in Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, IAAI-2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 2002, AAAI Press/The MIT Press, 2002. Deployed Application Award. Available online: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2002/dddacga.pdf

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Dorin Marcu, Bogdan Stanescu, Cristina Boicu, Catalin Balan, Marcel Barbulescu and Xianjun Hao. Disciple-RKF/COG: Agent Teaching by Subject Matter Experts, in Proceedings of the National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, AAAI Press/The MIT Press, 2002. Available online: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/2002/BoicuM_Disciple_RKF_AAAI.pdf

Cristina Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci and Mihai Boicu. Mixed-Initiative Exception-Based Learning for Knowledge Base Refinement, in Proceedings of the National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, AAAI Press/The MIT Press, 2002.Available online: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2002/mieblkbr.pdf

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Bogdan Stanescu, Dorin Marcu and Cristina E. Cascaval: Automatic Knowledge Acquisition from Subject Matter Experts, in Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), pp. 69-78. 7-9 November 2001, Dallas, Texas. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California, 2001.Available online: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2001/ICTAI.pdf

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Bogdan Stanescu, Gabriel C. Balan and Elena Popovici: Ontologies and the Knowledge Acquisition Bottleneck, in Proceedings of IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Ontologies and Information Sharing, pp. 9-18. Seattle, Washington, August 2001. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, 2001. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2001/2001_ontbottleneck.pdf

Ping Shyr, Gheorghe Tecuci and Mihai Boicu: Evaluation of Mixed-Initiative Knowledge Base Development Methods and Tools, in Proceedings of IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Empirical Methods in AI, pp. 47-53. Seattle, Washington, August 2001. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, 2001. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2001/2000_Eval-W-IJCAI.pdf

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci and Bogdan Stanescu: Mixed-Initiative Agent Teaching and Learning, in Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IC-AI & #39;2001, pp. 122-128. June 25-28, 2001, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California, 2001. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2001/2001_MIATL.pdf

Dorin Marcu, Mihai Boicu, and Gheorghe Tecuci: User-Agent Interactions in Mixed-Initiative Learning, in Proceedings of the 14th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2001), Special Track on Machine Learning, May 2001, Key West, Florida. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, 2001. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2001/2001_flairs.pdf

Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Michael Bowman, and Gheorghe Tecuci. A Mixed-Initiative Approach to Teaching Agents to Do Things, In Proceedings of the Symposium on Learning How to Do Things, The 2000 AAAI Fall Symposium Series, North Falmouth, Massachusetts, November 3-5, 2000. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, 2000. Available online at:http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2000/2000_mboicu.pdf

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Bogdan Stanescu, Liviu Panait, Cristina E. Cascaval. Learnable Representation for Real World Planning, Proceedings of the AAAI-2000 Workshop on Representational Issues for Real-World Planning Systems, pp. 6-11. Austin, Texas, 2000. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, 2000. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2000/2000_boicu-ai-krp.pdf

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu and Dorin Marcu. Learning Agents Teachable by Typical Computer Users, in Proceedings of the AAAI-2000 Workshop on New Research Problems for Machine Learning, pp. 32-36. Austin, Texas, 2000. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, 2000. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2000/tecuci-ai-lat2000[1].pdf

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Dorin Marcu, Michael Bowman, Ping Shyr, Florin Ciucu and Cristian Levcovici. Disciple-COA: From Agent Programming to Agent Teaching, in Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), pp. 73-80. Stanford, California 2000. Morgan Kaufman. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2000/2000_il-final.pdf

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Michael Bowman, Florin Ciucu, and Cristian Levcovici. Rapid Development of a High Performance Knowledge Base for Course of Action Critiquing, in Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Twelfth Conference on Innovative Application of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1046-1053. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, 2000. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2000/AI-to-post2000.pdf

Mihai Boicu and Gheorghe Tecuci. Mixed-Initiative Reasoning for Integrated Domain Modeling, Learning and Problem Solving, in Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Twelfth Conference on Innovative Application of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1064. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, 2000. Available online at:http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2000/2000_mihai-ai-abs.pdf

Michael Bowman, Gheorghe Tecuci and Mihai Boicu. A Methodology for Modeling and Representing Expert Knowledge that Supports Teaching-Based Intelligent Agent Development, in Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Twelfth Conference on Innovative Application of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1065. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, 2000. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/2000/2000_mike-AI-sub.pdf

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Kathryn Wright, Seok W. Lee, Dorin Marcu, and Michael Bowman, "An Integrated Shell and Methodology for Rapid Development of Knowledge-Based Agents", in Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), pp. 250-257. July 18-22, Orlando, Florida, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA. 1999. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/1999/ismrdkba.pdf

Mihai Boicu, Kathryn Wright, Dorin Marcu, Seok W. Lee, Michael Bowman and Gheorghe Tecuci: The Disciple Integrated Shell and Methodology for Rapid Development of Knowledge-Based Agents, in Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), Intelligent Systems Demonstrations, pp. 900–901. July 18-22, Orlando, Florida. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA. 1999. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/1999/DISMRDKBA.pdf

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Kathryn Wright, and Seok W. Lee: Mixed-Initiative Development of Knowledge Bases, in Proceedings of AAAI-1999 Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligence, pp. 51-58. July 18-19, Orlando, Florida, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA. 1999. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/1999/1999_MIDKB-sent.pdf

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Michael Bowman, Dorin Marcu, Seok W. Lee and Kathryn Wright: A Problem-Oriented Approach to Ontology Development", in Proceedings of AAAI-1999 Workshop on Ontology Management, pp. 7-16. July 18-19, Orlando, Florida, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA. 1999. Available online at:http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/1999/ontology-1999.pdf

Kathryn Wright, Mihai Boicu, Seok W. Lee and Gheorghe Tecuci: Building agents from shared ontologies through apprenticeship multistrategy learning, in Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-98, Student Abstract Poster Program, pp. 1207. Madison, Wisconsin, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998. Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/1998/1998_aaai98-sa.pdf

Gheorghe Tecuci, Kathryn Wright, Seok W. Lee, Mihai Boicu, Michael Bowman, and David Webster: A Learning Agent Shell and Methodology for Developing Intelligent Agents, in Proceedings of the AAAI-98 Workshop on Software Tools for Developing Agents, pp. 37-46. Madison, Wisconsin, July 1998.Available online at: http://lac.gmu.edu/publications/data/1998/TS-98final.pdf