Publications

n     Francis, A. (2000). Context Sensitive Asynchronous Memory: An Experience-Based Method for Managing Information Access in Intelligent Agents Ph.D. Thesis Dissertation. Georgia Tech. 2000.

n     Ram, A. & Francis, A.G. (1996) Multi-plan adaptation and retrieval in an experience-based agent. In David Leake, Ed., Case-Based Reasoning: Experiences, Lessons, Future Directions. MIT Press.

n     Francis, A.G., Devaney, M., Ram, A. & Santamaria, J.C. (2001) Scaling Spreading Activation for Production Information Retrieval. In Arabina, H.R., (Ed.)  Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence IC-AI’2001, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26-29, 2001. CSREA Press.

n     Francis, A.G., Ram, A., and Devaney, M. (2000). IRIA: The Information Research Intelligent Assistant. In Arabina, H.R., (Ed.)  Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence IC-AI’2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26-29, 2000. CSREA Press.

n     Ram, P., Francis, A., Devaney, M., & Ram, A. (2000). Virtual Sherlock: an intelligent computer based PBL system for undergraduate chemistry. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education, Linköping, Sweden, September 17-20, 2000.

n     desJardins, M., Francis, A.G., & Wolverton, M. (1998) Hybrid Planning: An approach to integrating generative and case-based planning. In Case-Based Reasoning Integrations: Proceedings from the 1998 AAAI Workshop, AAAI Technical Report WS-98-15, AAAI Press, 1998.

n     Francis, A.G. & Ram, A. (1997) Can your architecture do this? A proposal for impasse-driven asynchronous memory retrieval and integration.  In Proceedings of the AAAI-97 Workshop on Robots, Softbots and Immobots: Theories of Action, Planning and Control.

n     Francis, A.G. & Ram, A. (1995) Multi-plan adaptation and retrieval in an experience-based agent. In Proceedings, AAAI 1995 Fall Symposium on Adaptation of Knowledge For Reuse.

n     Francis, A.G. & Ram, A. (1995) A Comparative Utility Analysis of Case-Based Reasoning and Control-Rule Problem Solving. In Proceedings of ECML-95: the 8th European Conference on Machine Learning.

n     Francis, A.G., & Ram, A. (1994) A comparative utility analysis of case-based reasoning and control-rule learning systems. In Proceedings of the AAAI-94 Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning.

n     Francis, A.G., & Ram, A. (1993) Computational models of the utility problem and their application to a utility analysis of case-based reasoning. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Compilation and Speedup Learning (KCSL 93), June 30, 1993

n     Francis, A.G., & Ram, A. (1993) The Utility Problem in Case-Based Reasoning. Abstracted in Case-Based Reasoning: Papers from the 1993 Workshop, July 11-12, Washington, D.C., Technical Report WS-93-01, AAAI Press.

n     Scaling Spreading Activation for Production Information Retrieval Paper Presentation, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence IC-AI’2001, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26-29, 2001. CSREA Press.

n     Scaling Spreading Activation for Production Information Retrieval Paper Presentation, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence IC-AI’2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26-29, 2000. CSREA Press.

n     Francis, A.G. (1995) “Sibling Rivalry.” (fiction) The Leading Edge: Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, 30. Provo, Utah.