Learning Agents Center

Learning Agents Center

Publications




2024

Tecuci G. (2024). Demystifying Artificial Intelligence, Research Report, Learning Agents Center, George Mason University, February.

2023

Tecuci G., How Intelligent is Artificial Intelligence, Evidence Dialogues, 2023.

2021

Tanyu, B.F., Abbaspour, A., Alimohammadlou, Y., Tecuci, G. (2021). Landslide susceptibility analyses using Random Forest, C4.5, and C5.0 with balanced and unbalanced datasets, Catena 203 (2021) 105355, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105355

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Kaiser, L., Boicu, M. (2021). Shared Model of Sense-making for Human-Machine Collaboration, The 2021 AAAI Fall Symposium "AI in Government and Public Sector," Arlington, VA, November 4-6.

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D. (2021). A Framework for Deep Anticipatory Intelligence Analysis, The 2021 AAAI Fall Symposium "Cognitive Systems for Anticipatory Thinking - 3rd Wave Autonomy," Arlington, VA, November 4-6.

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Bagavathiannan, M., Mirsky, S., Robertson, A. (2021). Argumentation-based Approach to Scientific Investigation: The Role of Cover Crops in Weed Suppression, The 2021 AAAI Fall Symposium "Where AI meets Food Security: Intelligent Approaches for Climate-Aware Agriculture," Arlington, VA, November 4-6.

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Mirsky, S., Robertson, A. (2021). Prediction-Driven Knowledge Discovery from Data and Prior Knowledge, The 2021 AAAI Fall Symposium "Science-Guided AI," Arlington, VA, November 4-6.

Tecuci, G. (2021). Inquiry-based Teaching of Critical Thinking Skills in Science with sInvestigator, Learning Agents Center, George Mason University, January.

Meckl, S., Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, M. (2021). Automating the Investigation of Sophisticated Cyber Threats with Cognitive Agents, in Dasgupta, P., Collins, J., Mittu, R. (Eds.) Adversary-Aware Learning Techniques and Trends in Cybersecurity, DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-55692-1, ISBN 978-3-030-55691-4, Springer International Publishing, pp.125-146.

2020

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Kaiser, L., Tausczik, Y., Holincheck, N. (2020). A System for Structured Intelligence Analysis and Its Evaluation, 172 pages, Research Report, Learning Agents Center, George Mason University, November.

Huang, J., An, Z., Meckl, S., Tecuci, G., Marcu, D. (2020). Complementary Approaches to Instructable Agents for Advanced Persistent Threats Detection, Studies in Informatics and Control, 29(3). Impact Factor 2019: 2.102.

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Parekh, A., Ding, X. (2020). sInvestigator: Facilitating Inquiry-based Teaching and Learning of Critical Thinking Skills, Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference, George Mason University, September 21-25.

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, M, Kaiser, L. (2020). Instructing a Cognitive Agent to Perform Sensemaking in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, 19 pages, Eighth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS 2020), online, Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, August 10-12.

2019

Tecuci, G., Meckl, S., Marcu, D., Boicu, M. (2019). Instructable Cognitive Agents for Autonomous Evidence-Based Reasoning, Advances in Cognitive Systems, 8. Also in Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, Technical Report Number COLAB2-TR-4, pp.183-204, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, August 2-5.

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, M., Meckl, S., Uttamsingh, C. (2019). Toward a Computational Theory of Evidence-Based Reasoning for Instructable Cognitive Agents. In Proceedings of the 2019 AAAI Fall Symposium "Artificial Intelligence in Government and Public Sector,", Arlington, VA, November 7-9.

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, M., Uttamsingh, C. (2019). Anticipatory Intelligence Analysis with Cogent: Current Status and Future Directions, In Proceedings of the 2019 AAAI Fall Symposium "Cognitive Systems for Anticipatory Thinking", Arlington, VA, November 7-9.

Holincheck, N., Galanti, T., Trefil, J., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D. (2019). Developing Computational Thinking in Scientific Inquiry: Use of sInvestigator in Problem Solving, The 2019 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 5-9.

2018

Tecuci, G. (2018). Editorial, Special Issue on Evidence-based Reasoning and Applications, Computing in Science and Engineering, 20(6), pp.1-2, November/December.

Tecuci, G., Kaiser, L., Marcu, D., Uttamsingh, C., Boicu, M. (2018). Evidence-based Reasoning in Intelligence Analysis: Structured Methodology and System, Special Issue on Evidence-based Reasoning and Applications, Computing in Science and Engineering, 20(6), pp.9-21, November/December.

Tecuci, G., Meckl, S., Marcu, D., Boicu, M. (2018). Evidence-based Detection of Advanced Persistent Threats, Special Issue on Evidence-based Reasoning and Applications, Computing in Science and Engineering, 20(6), pp.54-65, November/December.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Kaiser, L., Tausczik, Y., Holincheck, N., Uttamsingh, C., Galanti, T., Motti, V. (2018). Co-Arg: Cogent Argumentation with Crowd Elicitation, GMU CREATE Program Final Report, 188 pages, November.

Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Tecuci, G., Kaiser, L., Uttamsingh, C., Kalale, N. (2018). Co-Arg: Cogent Argumentation with Crowd Elicitation, Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Fall Symposium "Artificial Intelligence in Government and Public Sector", Arlington, VA, October 18-20, Technical Report, AAAI Press: Palo Alto, CA, arXiv:1810.01541 [cs.AI], https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01541v1

Meckl, S, Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, M. (2018). Integrating Collaborative Cognitive Assistants into Cybersecurity Operations Centers, Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Fall Symposium "Adversary-Aware Learning Techniques and Trends in Cybersecurity", October 18-20, Arlington, VA, Technical Report, AAAI Press: Palo Alto, CA, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2269, pp.28-35, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2269/

Galanti, T. M., Holincheck, N., Tecuci, G., Trefil, J., Boicu, M., Marcu, D. (2018). Building information literacy: Using sInvestigator to evaluate the credibility of internet sources, The 2018 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, New York, NY, April 13-17.

Holincheck, N., Galanti, T., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Trefil, J., Marcu, D. (2018). Developing Critical Thinking Skills with sInvestigator, The 2018 Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE) International Conference, Baltimore, MD, January 3-6.

2017

Meckl, S., Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, M., Zaman, A.B. (2017). Collaborative Cognitive Assistants for Advanced Persistent Threat Detection, Proceedings of the 2017 AAAI Fall Symposium "Cognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector Applications," pp.171-178, Arlington, VA, November 9-11, Technical Reports FS-17-01-FS-17-05, AAAI Press: Palo Alto, CA.

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, M., Schum, D.A. (2017). Structured Analysis with Cogent: Integrating Analyst's Imaginative Reasoning with Computer's Critical Reasoning, 22 pages, The 58th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA): Understanding Change in World Politics, Baltimore, MD, February 22-25.

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, M., Schum, D.A. (2017). Intelligence Analysis as Discovery of Evidence, Hypotheses, and Arguments: Connecting the Dots, Career Course at the 58th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA): Understanding Change in World Politics, Baltimore, MD, February 22-25.

2016

Boicu, M., Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Trefil, J., Holincheck, N. (2016). Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning of Science with Cognitive Assistants, in Proceedings of the 2016 AAAI Fall Symposium "Cognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector Applications," pp.133-140, Arlington, VA, November 17-19, Technical Report FS-16-02, AAAI Press, Palo Alto, CA.

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, M., Schum, D.A. (2016). Knowledge Engineering: Building Cognitive Assistants for Evidence-based Reasoning, Cambridge University Press.

Tecuci, G., Schum, D.A., Marcu, D., Boicu, M. (2016). Intelligence Analysis as Discovery of Evidence, Hypotheses, and Arguments: Connecting the Dots, Cambridge University Press.

Tecuci, G., Boicu M., Marcu, D., Schum, D.A. (2016). Evidence-based Reasoning: Computational Theory and Cognitive Assistants, Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology (ROMJIST). http://www.imt.ro/romjist/home.htm

Tanyu, B.F., Tecuci, G., Delamater, P., Delano, H. (2016). Natural Hazard Security: Forecasting Landslides, Multidisciplinary Security Symposium, Mason Global Center, February 12. https://securitysymposium.gmu.edu/

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, M., Schum, D. (2016). Cognitive Assistants for Intelligence Analysis: Theory, Textbooks, and Tools, Multidisciplinary Security Symposium, Mason Global Center, February 12. https://securitysymposium.gmu.edu/

Tecuci, G., Meckl, S., Boicu, M., Marcu, D. (2016). Evidence-Based Theory and Learning Agents for Cybersecurity, Multidisciplinary Security Symposium, Mason Global Center, February 12. https://securitysymposium.gmu.edu/

2015

Meckl, S., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D. (2015). Towards an Operational Semantic Theory of Cyber Defense Against Advanced Persistent Threats, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security - STIDS, Fairfax, VA, November 18-20.

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, M., Schum, D.A. (2015). COGENT: Cognitive Agent for Cogent Analysis, Proceedings of the 2015 AAAI Fall Symposium "Cognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector Applications", Arlington, VA, November 12-14.

Boicu, M., Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Lukes, L., Sprague, D., Trefil, J., Urban, K. (2015). Teaching Critical Thinking Skills for Evidence-Based Reasoning Across the Curriculum Using COGENT, poster at the 2015 Innovations in Teaching & Learning (ITL) conference, "The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching", George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, September 18.

Bartee, T.Q., Brown, N., Tecuci, G. (2015). Integrated Environment for Persistent Intelligence Processing, poster at the 4th Annual Science of Multi-INT (SOMI) Workshop, TASC Heritage Conference Center, Chantilly, VA, September 15-17.

2014

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, M., Schum, D.A. (2014). Connecting the Dots through the Discovery of Evidence, Hypotheses, and Arguments from Masses of Data, 2014 George Mason and IBM Symposium on Diverse Data Analytics Applications, Fairfax, VA, November 4.

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, M., Schum, D.A. (2014). Cognitive Assistants for Intelligence Analysis: Theory, Textbooks, and Tools, 2014 NGA Academic Research Program (NARP) Symposium and Workshops, The National Academy of Sciences Keck Center. Washington, DC, September 9-11. Presentation and Poster.

Schum, D.A., Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, M. (2014). Toward Cognitive Assistants for Complex Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Intelligent Decision Technologies, 8(3), pp.231-250, July (online date: May 14, 2014).

Tecuci, G., Schum, D.A., Marcu, D., Boicu, M. (2014). Computational Approach and Cognitive Assistant for Evidence-Based Reasoning in Intelligence Analysis, International Journal of Intelligent Defence Support Systems, 5(2), pp.146-172.

2013

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Schum, D. (2013). How Learning Enables Intelligence Analysts to Rapidly Develop Practical Cognitive Assistants, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'13), Miami, Florida, December 4-7.

Tecuci, G., Schum, D.A., Marcu, D., Boicu, M. (2013). Recognizing and Countering Biases in Intelligence Analysis with TIACRITIS, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security - STIDS, Fairfax, VA, November 13-14.

Tecuci, G., Schum, D.A., Boicu, M., Marcu, D. (2013). Actionable Intelligence: Continuous Discovery of Evidence, Hypotheses, and Arguments from Masses of Data, presentation at the Technical Showcase for the White House Data to Knowledge to Action event, November 12. http://www.nitrd.gov/nitrdgroups/index.php?title=Data_to_Knowledge_to_Action

Russell, K. (2013). Computer Abduction, Research Report 10, Learning Agents Center, George Mason University, October 25.

Boicu, M. (2013). Forward, in Jarvis, D., Jarvis, J., Ronnquist, R., Jain, L.C. (eds.) Multiagent Systems and Applications, Volume 2: Development using the GORITE BDI Framework, Springer-Verlag.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Schum, D. (2013). COGENT: Cognitive Agent for Cogent Analysis, poster at the NGA Technical Day, Springfield, VA, May 7.

2012

Boicu, M., Tecuci, G., Marcu, D. (2012). Rapid Argumentation Capture from Analysis Reports: The Case Study of Aum Shinrikyo, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security - STIDS 2012, Fairfax, VA, October 23-26.

Tecuci, G. (2012). Artificial Intelligence, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics, 4, pp.168-180, doi: 10.1002/wics.200.

2011

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, M., Schum, D.A., Russell K. (2011). Computational Theory and Cognitive Assistant for Intelligence Analysis, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security - STIDS 2011, pp.68-75, Fairfax, VA, November 16-18.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Schum, D.A., Russell K. (2011). Development of Cognitive Assistants by Subject Matter Experts, invited talk at The Sixth International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security - STIDS 2011, Fairfax, VA, November 16-18.

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

Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Tecuci, G., Schum, D. (2011). Cognitive Assistants for Evidence-Based Reasoning Tasks, AAAI Fall Symposium on Advances in Cognitive Systems, Arlington, VA, November 4-6.

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, M., Schum, D.A. (2011). A Computational Theory of Intelligence Analysis, Poster and Demo Session at the 2011 National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Academic Research Program Symposium and Workshops (NARP-11), The National Academy of Sciences Keck Center, Washington, D.C., August 29.

Dawid, P., Schum, D., Hepler, A. (2011). Inference Networks: Bayes and Wigmore, Evidence, Inference and Inquiry, The British Academy, Oxford University Press, pp.119-150.

Schum, D. (2011). Classifying Forms and Combinations of Evidence: Necessary in a Science of Evidence, Evidence, Inference and Inquiry, The British Academy, Oxford University Press, pp.11-36.

Tecuci, G., Schum, D., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Russell, K. (2011). Toward a Computational Theory of Evidence-based Reasoning, 18th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, May 24-27.

Schum, D.A., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Russell, K. (2011). Disciple Cognitive Assistants for Complex Decision Making under Uncertainty, Research Report 9, 56 pages, Learning Agents Center, George Mason University, April 25.

Tecuci, G., Schum, D.A., Boicu, M., Marcu, D. (2011). Introduction to Intelligence Analysis: A Hands-on Approach with TIACRITIS, 220 pages, Learning Agents Center, George Mason University.

2010

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Schum, D., Russell, K. (2010). Cognitive Agents that Learn, Tutor, and Assist in Problem Solving, invited talk at The 9th Int. Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, ICMLA, Washington, D.C., December 12-14, http://www.icmla-conference.org/icmla10/.

Tecuci, G., Schum, D., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Hamilton, B., Wible, B. (2010). Teaching Intelligence Analysis with TIACRITIS, American Intelligence Journal, 28(2), December.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Schum, D. (2010). Disciple Cognitive Agents: Learning, Problem Solving Assistance, and Tutoring, in Samsonovich A.V. et al. (eds.) Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, p.169, IOS Press.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Schum, D., Hamilton, B. (2010). TIACRITIS System and Textbook: Learning Intelligence Analysis through Practice, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security - STIDS 2010.

Tecuci, G., Schum, D.A., Boicu, M., Marcu, D. (2010). Computational Theory of Intelligence Analysis, Poster and Demo Session at the 2010 NGA Academic Research Program Symposium and Workshops, The National Academy of Sciences Keck Center, Washington, D.C., September 14-17.

Tecuci, G., Schum, D., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Hamilton, B. (2010). Intelligence Analysis as Agent-Assisted Discovery of Evidence, Hypotheses and Arguments, in Phillips-Wren, G., Jain, L.C., Nakamatsu, K., Howlett, R.J. (eds.) Advances in Intelligent Decision Technologies, SIST 4, pp.1-10, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M. (2010). Agent Learning for Mixed-Initiative Knowledge Acquisition, Final Report for the AFOSR Grant # FA9550-07-1-0268, 35 pages, Learning Agents Center, Fairfax, VA 22030, February 28.

2009

Schum, D., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D. (2009). Substance-Blind Classification of Evidence for Intelligence Analysis, Proceedings of the Conference "Ontology for the Intelligence Community", George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, October 20-22.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Schum, D., Marcu, D. (2009). Coping with the Complexity of Intelligence Analysis: Cognitive Assistants for Evidence-Based Reasoning, Research Report 7, 45 pages, Learning Agents Center, August, (updated October 2009, March 2010).

Schum, D. (2009). Science of Evidence: Contributions from Law and Probability, Law, Probability, and Risk, 8, pp.197-231.

Schum, D., Tecuci G., Boicu M. (2009). Analyzing Evidence and Its Chain of Custody: A Mixed-Initiative Computational Approach, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 22(2), pp.298-319, Taylor & Francis Group LLC. doi:10.1080/08850600802698259 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08850600802698259)
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Marcu, D. (2009). Learning of Mixed-Initiative Human-Computer Interaction Models, Ph.D. Dissertation in Computer Science, Learning Agents Center, Volgenau School of IT&E, George Mason University, January.

2008

Boicu, M., Tecuci, G., Schum, D. (2008). Intelligence Analysis Ontology for Cognitive Assistants, Proceedings of the Conference "Ontology for the Intelligence Community: Towards Effective Exploitation and Integration of Intelligence Resources", George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, December 3-4.

Le, V., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M. (2008). A New Approach to Rapid Construction of Knowledge-Based Tutoring Systems, Proceeding of the 2008 Technology Enhanced Learning Conference, 8 pages, Hanoi, Vietnam, December.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M. (2008). Learning-Based Knowledge Representation, Research Report 4, 26 pages, Learning Agents Center, September 8.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M. (2008). A Guide for Ontology Development with Disciple, Research Report 3, 38 pages, Learning Agents Center, August 22.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Comello, J. (with contributions from Marcu, D., Boicu, C., Barbulescu, M., Le, V., Cleckner, W.) (2008). Agent-Assisted Center of Gravity Analysis, CD with Disciple-COG and Lecture Notes used in courses at the US Army War College and Air War College, GMU Press, ISBN 978-0-615-23812-8.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Boicu, C., Barbulescu, M. (2008). Disciple-LTA: Learning, Tutoring and Analytic Assistance, Journal of Intelligence Community Research and Development (JICRD), July.

Boicu, M., Le, V., Marcu, D., Boicu, C., Barbulescu, M., Tecuci, G. (2008). An ITS-Authoring Shell and an Authored ITS for an Ill-Structured Domain, Proceeding of the Demonstration Program of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Le, V., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M. (2008). Agent Shell for the Development of Tutoring Systems for Expert Problem Solving Knowledge, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS2008), LNCS 5091, pp.228-238, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, Montreal.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M. (2008). Intelligent Assistants for Distributed Knowledge Acquisition, Integration, Validation, and Maintenance, Final Report for the AFRL Grant # FA8750-04-1-0257, 36 pages, Learning Agents Center, Fairfax, VA, April 4.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Barbulescu, M., Boicu, C., Le, V., Hajduk, T. (2008). Teaching Virtual Experts for Multi-Domain Collaborative Planning, Journal of Software, 3(3), pp.38-59, March.

Le, V. (2008). Abstraction of Reasoning for Problem Solving and Tutoring Assistants, Ph.D. Dissertation in Information Technology, Learning Agents Center, Volgenau School of IT&E, George Mason University, Spring.

2007

Boicu, C., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M. (2007). Learning Complex Problem Solving Expertise from Failures, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'07), Cincinnati, OH, December 13-15.

Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, M., Le, V. (2007). Mixed-Initiative Assumption-Based Reasoning for Complex Decision-Making, Studies in Informatics and Control, 16(4), December.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Cox, M.T. (Guest Editors) (2007). AI Magazine, Special Issue on Mixed-Initiative Assistants, 28(2), Summer.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Cox M.T. (2007). Seven Aspects of Mixed-Initiative Reasoning: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Mixed-Initiative Assistants, AI Magazine, 28(2), pp.11-18, Summer.

Schum, D. (2007). Lessons and Stories about Concepts Encountered in Disciple-LTA, Research Report 2, Learning Agents Center, August 21.

Schum, D., Morris, J. (2007). Assessing the Competence and Credibility of Human Sources of Intelligence Evidence: Contributions from Law and Probability, Law, Probability and Risk, 6, pp.247-274.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Boicu, C., Barbulescu, M., Ayers, C., Cammons D. (2007). Cognitive Assistants for Analysts, Journal of Intelligence Community Research and Development (JICRD). Also published in Auger, J., Wimbish, W. (eds.) Proteus Futures Digest: A Compilation of Selected Works Derived from the 2006 Proteus Workshop, pp.303-329, Joint publication of the National Intelligence University, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and US Army War College Center for Strategic Leadership.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Ayers, C., Marcu, D., Le, V., Boicu, C., Barbulescu, M. (2007). Disciple-LTA: Analyst's Cognitive Assistant, Research Report 1, 17 pages, Learning Agents Center, March 10.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Hajduk, T., Marcu, D., Barbulescu, M., Boicu, C., Le, V., (2007). A Tool for Training and Assistance in Emergency Response Planning, Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-40, HI, January 3-6.

2006

Boicu, C. (2006). An Integrated Approach to Rule Refinement for Instructable Knowledge-Based Agents, Ph.D. Dissertation in Computer Science, Learning Agents Center, Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Fall.

Boicu, C., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M. (2006). Lazy Rule Refinement by Knowledge-Based Agents, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'06), Orlando, FL, December 14-16.

Le, V. (2006). Learning and Tutoring Agent Shell: A New Approach to Building Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Expert Problem Solving Knowledge, Ph.D. Proposal Presentation, George Mason University, August.

Fowler, C., Ayers, C., Cammons, D., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Le, V., Marcu, D., Boicu, C., Barbulescu, M. (2006). Cognitive Assistants for the Analysts: Experiments in the Classroom, Proceedings of the INFORMS Military Applications Society Conference "Homeland Security for the 21st Century," Mystic, CT, July 24-26.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Ayers, C., Cammons, D. (2006). Cognitive Assistants for Analysts, in Proceedings of the 4th Annual Analysis & Production's Analysis Conference "The Future of Analysis", NSA.

2005

Boicu, M., Tecuci, G. (2005). Learning Best Concept Approximations from Examples, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research, 1(1), pp.85-97.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Boicu, C., Marcu, D., Stanescu, B., Barbulescu, M. (2005). The Disciple-RKF Learning and Reasoning Agent, Computational Intelligence, 21(4), pp.462-479.

Boicu, C., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M. (2005). 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, VA, November 4-6.

Boicu, M., Tecuci, G., Marcu, D. (2005). Mixed-Initiative Assistant for Modeling Expert's Reasoning, Proceedings of the AAAI-05 Fall Symposium on Mixed-Initiative Problem-Solving Assistants, Arlington, VA, November 4-6.

Boicu, M., Tecuci, G., Ayers, C., Marcu, D., Boicu, C., Barbulescu, M., Stanescu, B., Wagner, W., Le, V., Apostolova, D., Ciubotariu, A. (2005). A Learning and Reasoning System for Intelligence Analysis, Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-05, Pittsburgh, PA, July 9-13.

Boicu, C., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M. (2005). Rule Refinement by Domain Experts in Complex Knowledge Bases, Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-05, Pittsburgh, PA, July 9-13.

Boicu, C., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M. (2005). Improving Agent Learning through Rule Analysis, Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI-05, Las Vegas, NV, June 27-30.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Ayers, C., Cammons, D. (2005). Personal Cognitive Assistants for Military Intelligence Analysis: Mixed-Initiative Learning, Tutoring, and Problem Solving, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligence Analysis, McLean, VA, May 2-6.

2004

Bowman, M., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Comello, J. (2004). Information Age Warfare - Intelligent Agents in the Classroom and the Strategic Analysis Center, 24th Army Science Conference, 8 pages, Orlando, FL, November 29 - December 2.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Stanescu, B., Boicu, C., Barbulescu, M. (2004). A Learning Agent Shell for Building Knowledge-Based Agents, Proceedings of the Technology Demonstration Session of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2004, Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK, October 5-8.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Stanescu, B., Boicu, C., Barbulescu, M. (2004). A University Research Group Experience with Deploying an Artificial Intelligence Application in the Center of Gravity Analysis Domain, Proceedings of AAAI-2004 Workshop on Fielding Applications of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, San Jose, CA, July 25.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Stanescu, B., Boicu, C., Barbulescu, M. (2004). Parallel Knowledge Base Development by Subject Matter Experts, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2004, Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK, October 5-8. Also in Motta, E., Shadbolt, N., Stutt, A., Gibbins, N. (eds.) Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web, LNAI 3257, pp.265-279, Springer-Verlag.

Boicu, M., Tecuci, G., Stanescu, B., Marcu, D., Barbulescu, M., Boicu, C. (2004). Design Principles for Learning Agents, Proceedings of AAAI-2004 Workshop on Intelligent Agent Architectures: Combining the Strengths of Software Engineering and Cognitive Systems, AAAI Press, San Jose, CA, July 26.

Boicu, C., Tecuci, G. (2004). Mixed-Initiative Ontology Learning, Proceedings of the 2004 International conference on Artificial Intelligence, IC-AI'2004, IEEE Computer Society, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, NV, June 21-24.

Tufis, D., Tecuci, G., Rusu, A., Isac, I. (eds.) (2004). Mihai Draganescu In Media Res, (in Romanian and English), 260 pages, Romanian Academy Press, Bucharest, Romania.

2003

Barbulescu, M., Balan, G., Boicu, M., Tecuci, G. (2003). Rapid Development of Large Knowledge Bases, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, 3, pp.2169-2174, Washington D.C., October 5-8.

Tecuci, G., Aha, D., Boicu, M., Cox, M., Ferguson, G., Tate, A. (eds.) (2003). Proceedings of the IJCAI-03 Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligent Systems, 143 pages, Acapulco, Mexico, August.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D. (2003). Toward a Disciple-based Mixed-Initiative Cognitive Assistant, Proceedings of IJCAI-2003 Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligent Systems, pp.131-137, AAAI Press, Acapulco, Mexico, August.

Boicu, M., Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Boicu, C., Stanescu, B. (2003). Mixed-Initiative Control for Teaching and Learning in Disciple, Proceedings of IJCAI-2003 Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligent Systems, pp.9-16, AAAI Press, Acapulco, Mexico, August.

Stanescu, B., Boicu, C., Balan, G., Barbulescu, M., Boicu, M., Tecuci, G. (2003). Ontologies for Learning Agents: Problems, Solutions and Directions, Proceedings of the IJCAI-03 Workshop on Ontologies and Distributed Systems, pp.75-82, AAAI Press, Acapulco, Mexico, August.

Boicu, C., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D. (2003). Improving the Representation Space through Exception-Based Learning, Proceedings of the 16th International FLAIRS Conference, FLAIRS-2003, Special Track on Machine Learning, pp.336-340, AAAI Press, Key West, FL, May.

2002

Boicu, M. (2002). Modeling and Learning with Incomplete Knowledge, Ph.D. Thesis in Information Technology, Learning Agents Laboratory, School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Stanescu, B., Boicu, C., Comello, J. (2002). Training and Using Disciple Agents: A Case Study in the Military Center of Gravity Analysis Domain, AI Magazine, 24(4), pp.51-68, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Stanescu, B., Boicu, C., Comello, J., Lopez, A., Donlon, J., Cleckner, W. (2002). Development and Deployment of a Disciple Agent for Center of Gravity Analysis, Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference of Artificial Intelligence and the Fourteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-02/IAAI-02, pp.853-860, AAAI Press/The MIT Press, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July, Deployed Application Award.

Boicu, M., Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Stanescu, B., Boicu, C., Balan, C., Barbulescu, M. Hao, X. (2002). Disciple-RKF/COG: Agent Teaching by Subject Matter Experts, Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference of Artificial Intelligence and the Fourteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-02/IAAI-02, pp.992-993, AAAI Press/The MIT Press, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July.

Boicu, C., Tecuci, G., and Boicu, M. (2002). Mixed-Initiative Exception-Based Learning for Knowledge Base Refinement, Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference of Artificial Intelligence and the Fourteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-02/IAAI-02, pp.947-948, AAAI Press/The MIT Press, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July.

Cleckner, W., Tecuci, G., Comello, J. (2002). Teaching Strategic Center of Gravity Analysis Through Learning Agent Technologies, Proceedings of the Military Operations Research Symposium, Ft. Leavenworth, June.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M. (2002). Military Applications of the Disciple Learning Agent, Chapter 8 in Jain, L. (ed.) Advanced Information Systems in Defense and Related Applications, pp.337-376, Springer Verlag.

Bowman, M. (2002). A Methodology for Modeling Expert Knowledge that Supports Teaching-Based Development of Agents, Ph.D. Dissertation in Information Technology, School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

Fowler, C.W., Cleckner, W., Lopez, A., Tecuci, G., Comello, J. (2002). Strategic Center of Gravity Analysis for Military Operations other than War through Learning Agent Technologies, Proceedings of the Army Operations Research Symposium, AORS-2002, October.

Lopez, T., Comello, J., Bowman, M., Tecuci, G., Donlon, J. (2002). Clausewitz Meets Learning Agent Technology, Military Review, November-December, US Army CGSF, Fort Leavenworth, KS.

2001

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Bowman, M., Marcu, D., with a preface by Burke, M. (2001). An Innovative Application from the DARPA Knowledge Bases Programs: Rapid Development of a Course of Action Critiquer, AI Magazine, 22(2), pp.43-61, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA.

Bowman, M., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M. (2001). Intelligent Agents: Tools for the Command Post and Commander, Army Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ALT), November-December, pp.34-35.

Boicu, M., Tecuci, G., Stanescu, B., Marcu, D., Cascaval, C.E. (2001). Automatic Knowledge Acquisition from Subject Matter Experts, Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), pp.69-78, IEEE Computer Society, Dallas, TX, November 7-9.

Cleckner, W., Tecuci G., Comello J. (2001). Instructable Agents for Strategic Center of Gravity Analysis, Proceedings of the Army Operations Research Symposium, AORS-2001, 5 pages, October.

Bowman, M., Tecuci, G., Ceruti, M. (2001). Application of Disciple to Decision Making in Complex and Constrained Environments, Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference, pp.2932-2940, October.

Boicu, M., Tecuci, G., Stanescu, B., Balan, G.C., Popovici, E. (2001). Ontologies and the Knowledge Acquisition Bottleneck, Proceedings of IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Ontologies and Information Sharing, pp.9-18, AAAI Press, Seattle, WA, August.

Shyr, P., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M. (2001). Evaluation of Mixed-Initiative Knowledge Base Development Methods and Tools, Proceedings of IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Empirical Methods in AI, pp.47-53, AAAI Press, Seattle, WA, August.

Bowman, M., Lopez, T., Donlon, J., Tecuci, G. (2001). Teaching Intelligent Agents: Software Design Methodology, CROSSTALK: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, 14(6), pp.10-14, June.

Boicu, M., Tecuci, G., Stanescu, B. (2001). Mixed-Initiative Agent Teaching and Learning, Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IC-AI'2001, pp.122-128, IEEE Computer Society, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, NV, June 25-28.

Marcu, D., Boicu, M., Tecuci, G., User-Agent Interactions in Mixed-Initiative Learning, Proceedings of the 14th International FLAIRS Conference, (FLAIRS-2001), Special Track on Machine Learning, AAAI Press, Key West, FL, May.

Bowman, M., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M. (2001). Intelligent Agents in the Command Post, Military Review, March-April, pp.46-53, US Army CGSG, Fort Leavenworth, KS.

Bowman, M., Lopez, A.M. Jr., Tecuci, G. (2001). Ontology Development for Military Applications, Proceedings of the Southeastern Regional ACM Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 16-17.

2000

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Bowman, M., Marcu, D., Shyr, P., Cascaval, C. (2000). An Experiment in Agent Teaching by Subject Matter Experts, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53, pp.583-610.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Wright, K., Lee, S.W., Marcu, D. Bowman, M. (2000). A Tutoring Based Approach to the Development of Intelligent Agents, in Teodorescu, H.N., Mlynek, D., Kandel, A., Zimmermann, H.J. (eds.) Intelligent Systems and Interfaces,, Kluwer Academic Press.

Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Bowman, M., Tecuci, G. (2000). A Mixed-Initiative Approach to Teaching Agents to Do Things, Proceedings of the 2000 AAAI Fall Symposium Series, Symposium on Learning How to Do Things, North Falmouth, MA, November 3-5.

Boicu, M., Tecuci, G., Stanescu, B., Panait, L., Cascaval, C. (2000). Learnable Representation for Real World Planning, Proceedings of the AAAI-2000 Workshop on Representational Issues for Real-World Planning Systems, Austin, TX.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D. (2000). Learning Agents Teachable by Typical Computer Users, Proceedings of the AAAI-2000 Workshop on New Research Problems for Machine Learning, Austin, TX.

Boicu, M., Tecuci, G., Marcu, D., Bowman, M., Shyr, P., Ciucu, F., Levcovici, C. (2000). Disciple-COA: From Agent Programming to Agent Teaching, Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning, (ICML), Morgan Kaufman, Stanford, CA.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Bowman, M., Ciucu, F., Levcovici, C. (2000). Rapid Development of a High Performance Knowledge Base for Course of Action Critiquing, Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Twelfth Conference on Innovative Application of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, TX, July.

Boicu, M., Tecuci, G. (2000). Mixed-Initiative Reasoning for Integrated Domain Modeling, Learning and Problem Solving, Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Twelfth Conference on Innovative Application of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, TX, July.

Bowman, M., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M. (2000). A Methodology for Modeling and Representing Expert Knowledge that Supports Teaching-Based Intelligent Agent Development, Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Twelfth Conference on Innovative Application of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, TX, July.

Rezazad, H., Tecuci, G. (2000). Development of an Intelligent Agent for the Design of Local Area Networks, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, June 26-29.

1999

Tecuci, G., Keeling, H. (1999). Developing an Intelligent Educational Agent with Disciple, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 10(3-4).

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M. Wright, K., Lee, S.W., Marcu, D., Bowman, M. (1999). An Integrated Shell and Methodology for Rapid Development of Knowledge-Based Agents, Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), AAAI Press, Orlando, FL, July 18-22.

Boicu, M., Wright, K., Marcu, D., Lee, S.W., Bowman, M., Tecuci, G. (1999). The Disciple Integrated Shell and Methodology for Rapid Development of Knowledge-Based Agents, Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), Intelligent Systems Demonstrations, AAAI Press, Orlando, FL, July 18-22.

Lee, S.W., Tecuci G. (1999). Knowledge Base Revision through Exception-driven Discovery and Learning, Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), Student Abstract Program, AAAI PressOrlando, FL, July 18-22.

Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Wright, K., Lee, S.W. (1999). Mixed-Initiative Development of Knowledge Bases, Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligence, AAAI Press, Orlando, FL, July 18-19.

Boicu, M., Tecuci, G., Bowman, M., Marcu, D., Lee, S.W., Wright, K. (1999). A Problem-Oriented Approach to Ontology Creation and Maintenance, Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Ontology Management, AAAI Press, Orlando, FL, July 18-19.

1998

Tecuci, G. (1998). BUILDING INTELLIGENT AGENTS: An Apprenticeship Multistrategy Learning Theory, Methodology, Tool and Case Studies", Academic Press, 320 pages, ISBN:0126851255.

Keeling, H. (1998). A Methodology for Building Verified and Validated Intelligent Educational Agents - Through an Integration of Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition, PhD Dissertation, School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

Wright, K., Boicu, M., Lee, S.W., Tecuci, G. (1998). Building agents from shared ontologies through apprenticeship multistrategy learning, Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-98, Student Abstract Poster Program, Morgan Kaufmann, Madison, WI.

Tecuci, G., Keeling, H. (1998). Teaching an Agent to Test Students, in Shavlik, J. (ed.) Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference (ICML '98), Morgan Kaufmann, pp.565-573, Madison, WI.

Tecuci, G., Keeling, H. (1998). Developing Intelligent Educational Agents with the Disciple Learning Agent Shell, in Goettl, B.P., Halff, H.M., Redfield, C.L., Shute, V.J. (eds.) Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Springer Verlag, pp.454-463. Best Paper Award.

Hamburger, H., Tecuci, G. (1998). Toward a Unification of Human-Computer Learning and Tutoring, in Goettl, B.P., Halff, H.M., Redfield, C.L., Shute, V.J. (eds.) Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Springer Verlag, pp.444-453.

Tecuci, G., Wright, K., Lee, S.W., Boicu, M., Bowman, M., Webster, D. (1998). A Learning Agent Shell and Methodology for Developing Intelligent Agents, The AAAI-98 Workshop on Software Tools for Developing Agents, AAAI Press, pp.37-46, Madison, WI, July.

Tecuci, G., Keeling, H., Dybala, T., Wright, K., Webster, D. (1998). The Disciple Learning Agent Shell and a Disciple Test Generation Agent, Exhibit at the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS'98, San Antonio, TX.

Hamburger, H., Tecuci, G. (1998). Architecture of a Pedagogical Agent for Human-Computer Learning and Tutoring, Proceedings of the ITS-98 Workshop on Pedagogical Agents, pp.54-58, San Antonio, TX.

Tecuci, G., Keeling, H. (1998). Efficient Development of Intelligent Test Generation Agents with the Disciple Learning Agent Shell, Proceedings of the ITS'98 Workshop on Efficient ITS Development, San Antonio, TX.

1997

Tecuci, G. (1997). Constructing and Refining Knowledge Bases, Presentation at the HPKB East Coast Introductory Meeting, Boston, MA, April 1.

Tecuci, G. (1997). Constructing and Refining Knowledge Bases, Poster presentation at the HPKB Kick-off Meeting, Staunton, VA, June 3-5.

Tecuci, G., Wright, K. (1997). Demonstration: Building a Workarounds Knowledge Base, A summarization of the workarounds demonstration presented at the HPKB December '97 PI meeting, San Diego, CA.

Lee, O., Tecuci, G. (1997). MTLS: A Tool for Extending and Modifying Knowledge Bases, Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-97), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 524-531, Newport Beach, CA, November 5-7.

1996

Ockkeun, L. (1996). Interactive Inference-based Multistrategy Learning and Discovery, Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

Dybala, T. (1996). Shared Expertise Model for Building Interactive Learning Agents, Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

Hieb, M.R. (1996). Training Instructable Agents Through Plausible Version Space Learning, Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax VA.

Tecuci, G., Hieb, M.R. (1996). Teaching Intelligent Agents: The Disciple Approach", International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 8(3), pp.259-285.

Dybala, T., Tecuci, G., Rezazad, H. (1996). The Shared Expertise Model for Teaching Interactive Design Assistants, International Journal of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 9(6), pp.611-626, December.

Ku, S., Suh, Y.-H., Tecuci, G. (1996). Building an Intelligent Business Process Reengineering System: A Case-Based Approach, International Journal of Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, 5(1), pp.25-39, March.

Dybala, T., Tecuci, G., Keeling, H. (1996). Building Disciple Agents: Selected Validation and Verification Issues, Proceedings of the AAAI-96 Workshop on Validation and Verification of Knowledge-Based Systems, Portland, OR, August.

Hieb, M.R., Tecuci, G., Pullen, J.M. (1996). Training a ModSAF Command Agent Through Demonstration, Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation, Orlando, FL, July.

Hieb, M.R., Tecuci, G. (1996). Training an Agent Interactively Through an Integration of Multistrategy Learning and Knowledge Acquisition, Proceedings of the AAAI-96 Spring Symposium: Acquisition, Learning and Demonstration: Automating Tasks for Users, March.

1995

Tecuci, G., Kodratoff, Y. (eds.) (1995). Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition: Integrated Approaches, 325 pages, Academic Press.

Gordon, D., Daley, R., Shavlik, J., Subramanian, D., Tecuci, G. (eds.) (1995). Proceedings of the ML'95 Workshop, Agents that Learn from Other Agents, Tahoe City, CA, July.

Tecuci, G., Hieb, M.R., Dybala, T. (1995). Teaching an Automated Agent to Monitor the Electrical Power System of an Orbital Satellite, Telematics and Informatics, Pergamon Journals/Elsevier Science, 12(3-4), pp.229-245.

Tecuci, G. (1995). Building Knowledge Bases through Multistrategy Learning and Knowledge Acquisition, in Tecuci, G., Kodratoff, Y. (eds.) Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition: Integrated Approaches, Academic Press, pp. 13-50.

Dybala, T, Tecuci, G. (1995). Shared Expertise Space - A Learning-oriented Model for Computer Aided Engineering Design, Proceedings of the IJCAI-95 Workshop on Machine Learning in Engineering, Montreal, Canada, August.

Tecuci, G., Calinoiu, S., Marcu, D. (1995). Using Multistrategy Learning as a Framework for Building Knowledge-Based Systems, Proceedings of the Intelligent Computer Communication - ICC'95, pp.224-227, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 28-30.

Liang, Y., Golshan, A., Tecuci, G. (1995). Apprenticeship Learning of Domain Models, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering SEKE'95, Rockville, MD, June.

Tecuci, G., Hieb, M.R., Dybala, T. (1995). Building an Adaptive Agent to Monitor and Repair the Electrical Power System of an Orbital Satellite, Proceedings of the Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Information Technologies, NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, MD, May.

Hieb, M.R., Tecuci, G., Pullen, J.M., Ceranowicz, A., Hille, D. (1995). A Methodology and Tool for Rapid Construction and Modification of Adaptive Command Agents for Distributed Interactive Simulations, Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation, Orlando, FL, March.

Hille, D., Hieb, M.R., Tecuci, G., Pullen, J.M. (1995). Methods for Transforming Terrain Data into Abstract Models through Semantic Terrain Transformations, Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation, Orlando, FL, March.

Tecuci, G. (1995). Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, updated and extended, 279 pages, Spring.

Tecuci, G. (1995). Lecture Notes on Machine Learning, Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, updated and extended, 209 pages, Spring.

Tecuci, G. (1995). Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition: Integrated Approaches, Tutorial Notes, The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI-95, 143 pages, Montreal, Canada, August.

1994

Tecuci, G., Hieb, M.R., Hille, D., Pullen, J.M. (1994). Building Adaptive Autonomous Agents for Adversarial Domains, Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Planning and Learning, November.

Tecuci, G. (1994). Lecture Notes on Knowledge Acquisition and Problem Solving, Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, updated and extended, 236 pages, Fall.

Tecuci, G., Kedar, S., Kodratoff, Y. (guest eds.) (1994). Knowledge Acquisition Journal, Special issue on the integration of machine learning and knowledge acquisition, 6(2), pp.89-214.

Tecuci, G., Kedar, S., Kodratoff, Y. (1994). Editorial, Knowledge Acquisition Journal, Special issue on the integration of machine learning and knowledge acquisition, 6(2), pp. 89-91.

Tecuci, G., Duff, D. (1994). A Framework for Knowledge Base Refinement through Multistrategy Learning and Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Acquisition Journal, 6(2), pp.137-162.

Tecuci, G., Hieb, M.R. (1994). Consistency-driven Knowledge Elicitation: Using a Learning- oriented Knowledge Representation that Supports Knowledge Elicitation in NeoDISCIPLE, Knowledge Acquisition Journal, 6(1), pp.23-46.

Hille, D., Hieb, M.R., Tecuci, G. (1994). CAPTAIN: Building Agents that Plan and Learn, Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation, May.

Michalski, R.S., Tecuci, G. (eds.) (1994). Machine Learning: A Multistrategy Approach, IV, 782 pages, Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA.

Tecuci, G. (1994). An Inference-Based Framework for Multistrategy Learning, in Michalski, R.S., Tecuci, G. (eds.) Machine Learning: A Multistrategy Approach, IV, Morgan Kaufmann, pp.107-138.

1993

Tecuci, G. (guest ed.) (1993). Informatica, Special issue on multistrategy learning, 17(4), December.

Hieb, M.R., Hille, D., Tecuci, G. (1993). Designing A Computer Opponent for Wargames: Integrating Planning, Knowledge Acquisition and Learning in WARGLES, Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium Series.

Tecuci, G. (1993). Multistrategy Approaches to Learning: Why and How, Informatica, Special issue on multistrategy learning, 17(4), pp.327-330, December.

Tecuci, G., Kedar, S., Kodratoff, Y. (eds.) (1993). Proceedings of the IJCAI-93 Workshop on Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition: Common Issues, Contrasting Methods, and Integrated Approaches, 269 pages, Chambery, France, August.

Tecuci, G. (1993). Plausible Justification Trees: A Framework for the Deep and Dynamic Integration of Learning Strategies, Machine Learning Journal, 11, pp.237-261.

Michalski, R.S., Tecuci, G. (1993). Multistrategy Learning, in Kent, A., Williams, J.G. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, Marcel Dekker, Inc. of New York, 12.

Tecuci, G., Duff, D. (1993). Integrating Multistrategy Learning and Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge Base Refinement, Proceedings of the IJCAI-93 Workshop on Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition, Chambery, France, pp. 187-205.

Lee, O., Tecuci, G. (1993). MTLS: An Inference-based Multistrategy Learning System, Proceedings of InfoScience '93, Seoul, Korea, October 21-22.

Michalski, R.S., Tecuci, G. (1993). Multistrategy Learning, Tutorial at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-93, 109 pages, Chambery, France, August.

Michalski, R.S., Tecuci, G. (1993). Multistrategy Learning, Tutorial at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-93, 105 pages, Washington D.C., July.

Michalski, R.S., Tecuci, G. (eds.) (1993). Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Multistrategy Learning (MSL93), 325 pages, Harpers Ferry, WV, May.

Tecuci, G., Duff, D. (1993). Knowledge Base Refinement Through a Validation of Plausible Reasoning, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Multistrategy Learning (MSL93), pp.76-91, Harpers Ferry, WV, May.

1992

Tecuci, G. (1992). Automating Knowledge Acquisition as Extending, Updating and Improving a Knowledge Base, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 22(6), pp.1444-1460, November/December.

Tecuci, G., Hieb, M. (1992). Consistency Driven Knowledge Elicitation Within a Learning Oriented Representation of Knowledge, Proceedings of the AAAI-92 Workshop on Knowledge Representation Aspects of Knowledge Acquisition, San Jose, CA.

Tecuci, G. (1992). Cooperation in Knowledge Base Refinement, in Sleeman, D., Edwards, P. (eds.) Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference (ML92), Morgan Kaufmann, pp.445-450, San Mateo, CA.

1991

Michalski, R.S., Tecuci, G. (eds.) (1991). Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Multistrategy Learning, 435 pages, Harpers Ferry, WV, November.

Tecuci, G. (1991). Learning as Understanding the External World, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Multistrategy Learning, Harpers Ferry, WV, November.

Tecuci, G., Michalski, R.S. (1991). Input 'Understanding' as a Basis for Multistrategy Task- adaptive Learning, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Charlotte, NC, October, in Ras, Z., Zemankova, M. (eds.) Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, pp.419-428.

Tecuci, G. (1991). Steps Toward Automating Knowledge Acquisition for Expert Systems, Proceedings of the AAAI-91 Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition: From Science to Technology to Tools, Anaheim, CA, July.

Tecuci, G., Michalski, R.S. (1991). A Method for Multistrategy Task-adaptive Learning Based on Plausible Justifications, in Birnbaum, L., Collins, G. (eds.) Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference, Morgan Kaufmann, pp.549-553, Chicago, IL, June.

Tecuci, G. (1991). A Multistrategy Learning Approach to Domain Modeling and Knowledge Acquisition, Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning, Porto, Portugal, March 6-8, in Kodratoff, Y. (ed.) Machine Learning EWSL-91, Springer-Verlag, pp.14-32.

1990

Tecuci, G., Kodratoff, Y. (1990). How to Learn it with DISCIPLE, LRI Research Report 586, 101p, Orsay, France, August.

Tecuci, G., Kodratoff, Y. (1990). Reducing Uncertainty Through Learning, LRI Research Report 585, 12p, Orsay, France, August.

Tecuci, G., Kodratoff, Y. (1990). Apprenticeship Learning in Imperfect Domain Theories, in Kodratoff, Y., Michalski, R.S. (eds.) Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, III, Morgan Kaufmann, pp.514-551.

Kodratoff, Y., Rouveirol, C., Tecuci, G., Duval, B. (1990). Symbolic Approaches to Uncertainty, in Ras, Z.W., Zemankova, M. (eds.) INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS: State of the Art and Future Directions, Ellis Horwood, pp. 257-291.

1989

Tecuci, G., Kodratoff, Y., Bodnaru, Z., Brunet, T. (1989). DISCIPLE: an Expert and Learning System, Studies and Researches in Computers and Informatics, 2, pp.12-25. An earlier version was presented at Expert Systems 87, Brighton, and appeared in Moralee, D.S. (ed.) (1987). Research and Development in Expert Systems IV, Cambridge University Press, pp.234-245.

Tecuci, G., Kodratoff, Y. (1989). Multistrategy Learning in Non-homogeneous Domain Theories, in Segre, A. (ed.) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Machine Learning, Morgan Kaufmann, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June.

Kodratoff, Y., Tecuci, G. (1989). The Central Role of Explanations in DISCIPLE, in Morik, K. (ed.) Knowledge Representation Organization in Machine Learning, Springer-Verlag, pp.135-147. Reprinted from Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Representation and Organization in Machine Learning, Schloss Eringerfeld, Germany, 1987.

1988

Tecuci, G. (1988). DISCIPLE: A Theory, Methodology and System for Learning Expert Knowledge, 197 pages, These de Docteur en Science, University of Paris-South, France, July, (in English).

Kodratoff, Y., Tecuci, G. (1988). Learning Based on Conceptual Distance, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 10, pp.897-909, November.

Kodratoff, Y., Tecuci, G. (1988). Techniques of Design and DISCIPLE Learning Apprentice, International Journal on Expert Systems: Research and Applications, 1(1), pp.39-66. Reprinted in Buchanan, B., Wilkins, D. (eds.) (1993). Readings in Knowledge Acquisition and Learning: Automating the Construction and the Improvement of Programs, Morgan Kaufmann.

Kodratoff, Y., Tecuci, G. (1988). Learning at Different Levels of Knowledge, in Boose, J., Gaines, B., Linster, M. (eds.) Proceedings of the European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (EKAW'88), Bonn, Germany, June.

1987

Kodratoff, Y., Tecuci, G. (1987). DISCIPLE: a Learning Apprentice System for Weak Theory Domains, Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, Milano, Italy, August.

Kodratoff, Y., Tecuci, G. (1987). What is an Explanation in DISCIPLE, Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Machine Learning, Morgan Kaufmann, Irvine, CA, June.

Tecuci, G. (1987). Steps Towards Second Generation Expert Systems, The Fourth International Conference AIISR-87, Smolenice, Czecho-Slovakia, October, in Plander, I. (ed.) International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Information-control Systems for Robots II, North-Holland.

Petrescu, M., Tecuci, G. (1987). Integrating Learning with Expert Systems, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucharest, Romania, May.

1986

Kodratoff, Y., Tecuci, G. (1986). Rule Learning in DISCIPLE, Proceedings of the First European Working Session on Learning, Orsay, France, February. A new version appeared in Kodratoff, Y., Hutchinson, A. (eds.) (1989). Machine and Human Learning, Michael Horwood, pp.265-277.