Publications

Research groups

• Networking and Mobile Computing Laboratory (NetMoC)
• Computational Frontiers Laboratory
• Interdisciplinary Information Science Laboratory (I2Lab)

What I am working on right now?

• Grid coordination with self-interested agents, X. Bai, K. Sivoncik, D. Turgut and L. B{\"o}l{\"o}ni, submitted to the International Journal of Applied Intelligence (Springer). [bibtex]
• Launch Commit Criteria Monitoring Agent G.S. Semmel, S.R. Davis, K. W. Leucht, D. A. Rowe, A. O. Kelly and L. Bölöni, Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS05) [bibtex]
• NESTA: NASA Engineering Shuttle Telemetry Agent Glenn S. Semmel, Steven R. Davis, Kurt W. Leucht, Dan A. Rowe, Kevin E. Smith and Ladislau L. Bölöni The Seventeenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-05). Winner of the AAAI Deployed Application Award. [bibtex]
• n-Cycle: a set of algorithms for task distribution on a commodity grid L. Bölöni, D. Turgut and D. C. Marinescu IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid CCGrid 2005, 9-12 May 2005, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
• Rapid distribution of tasks on a commodity grid L. Bölöni, D. Turgut, T. Kocak, Y. Ji, and D. C. Marinescu European Grid Conference EGC'2005, February 14 -16 2005, Science Park Amsterdam, The Netherlands, published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 3470, Advances in Grid Computing - EGC 2005, P.M.A. Sloot, A.G. Hoekstra, T. Priol, A. Reinefeld, M. Bubak, editors, pp 721-730, Springer, June 2005. [bibtex]
• Intelligent grids Xin Bai, Han Yu, Guoqiang Wang, Yongchang Ji, Gabriela M. Marinescu, Dan C. Marinescu, and Ladislau Bölöni to appear as a chapter of book “Grid Computing: Software Environments and Tools”, (Jose C. Cunha and O.F. Rana, Eds.), Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2004
• Coordination in Intelligent Grid Environments Xin Bai, Han Yu, Guoqiang Wang, Yongchang Ji, Gabriela M. Marinescu, Dan C. Marinescu, and Ladislau Bölöni Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 93, Issue 3, pp 613- 630, March 2005. [bibtex]
• Convoy driving through ad-hoc coalition formation M.A. Khan and L. Bölöni Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2005), pp 98-105, March 7 - 10, 2005, San Francisco. [bibtex]
• A Cluster-based Energy Balancing Scheme in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks J. Ai, D. Turgut, and L. Bölöni accepted at the 4th International Conference on Networking ICN'05, April 17-21, 2005 – Reunion Island [bibtex]
• Characterizing resource allocation heuristics for heterogeneous computing systems S. Ali, T.D. Braun, H.J. Seigel, A.A. Maciejewski, N. Beck, L. Bölöni, M. Maheswaran, A.I. Reuther, J.P. Robertson, M.D. Theys and B. Yao in Advances in Computers: Volume 63: Parallel, Distributed, and Pervasive Computing, Guest Edited by Ali R. Hurson (ISBN: 0-12-012163-8). [bibtex] [publisher website]
• From the philosophy of personal identity to the laws of agent societies L. Bölöni Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium"From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation" at the 17th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2004), Vienna, Austria, April 2004.
• Adaptation and mutation in multi-agent systems and beyond, Ladislau Bölöni and Dan C Marinescu, in R. Khosla, N. Ichalkaranje and L. Jain ``Design of Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems - Human Centeredness, Architectures, Learning and Adaptation'', pp 315--354, Springer 2005. [bibtex]

Autonomous agents

• A Component Agent Model - from Theory to Implementation  Ladislau Bölöni and Dan C.Marinescu, AT2AI-2 Second International Symposium "From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation", Vienna, Austria, April 2000.
• A Multi-Plane State Machine Agent Model Ladislau Bölöni and Dan C.Marinescu, poster presentation at the Fourth International Conference on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS (Agents 2000) Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, June 2000.
• An Object-Oriented Framework for Building Collaborative Network Agents ,  Ladislau Bölöni and Dan C.Marinescu,in Intelligent Systems and Interfaces, (A. Kandel, K. Hoffmann,  D.Mlynek, and N.H. Teodorescu, eds). Kluewer Publising House, (1999).
• Intelligent QoS Support for an Adaptive Video Service.  Kyungkoo Jun, Ladislau Bölöni, David Yau,Dan C. Marinescu. Proceedings of the Information Resources Management Association International Conference, May 21-24, 2000, Anchorage Alaska.
• Agent-Based Resource Discovery Kyungkoo Jun, Ladislau Bölöni, Krzysztof Palacz and Dan C. Marinescu, Proceedings of the 9th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop HCW'00, pages 43-52, Cancun, Mexico, May 2000. [bibtex]
• A Framework for Building Collaborative Network Agents Ladislau Bölöni, and Dan C.Marinescu, CSD-TR #99-001.
• The Design of Software agents for a Network of PDE Solvers. Panagiota Tsompanopoulou, Ladislau Bölöni, Dan C.Marinescu and John R. Rice. Workshop on Autonomous Agents in Scientific Computing at Autonomous Agents 1999, Seattle.
• Software engineering challenges for mutable agent systems, Ladislau Bölöni, Majid Ali Khan, Xin Bai, Guoqiang Wang, Yongchang Jiand Dan C Marinescu, 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS), Portland, Oregon, USA
• Agents with Non-Anthropomorphic Lifecycles, L. Bölöni, Paul DeJung and D. Turgut, Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent Architectures, Conference of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence AAAI-2004, San Jose, CA, Aug. 2004.
• Collaborative UAV exploration in hostile environments. L. J. Luotsinen, A. J. Gonzalez, and L. Bölöni, 24th, Army Science Conference, Orlando FL, Nov 29-Dec 2, 2004.
• The Bond 3 Agent System - A White Paper Ladislau Bölöni
• Software engineering challenges for mutable agent systems, L. Bölöni, M. A. Khan, X. Bai, G. Wang, Y. Ji and D.C. Marinescu, in C. Lucena, A. Garcia, A. Romanovsky, J. Castro, and P. Alencar (editors) "Advances in Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems", pp 149-167, Springer Verlag 2004. [bibtex]

• A Cluster-based Energy Balancing Scheme in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks J. Ai, D. Turgut, and L. Bölöni accepted at the 4th International Conference on Networking ICN'05, April 17-21, 2005 – Reunion Island [bibtex]
• Secure DSR against Forwarding Misbehaviour J. Kong, J. Ai, D. Turgut and L. Bölöni Vehicular Technology Conference. Fall 2004.
• Ad Hoc Grids: Communication and Computing in a Power Constrained Environment, Dan C. Marinescu, Gabriela M. Marinescu, Yongchang Ji, Ladislau Bölöni, and Howard Jay Siegel, Workshop on Energy-Efficient Wireless Communications and Networks (EWCN) 2003, Phoenix, USA, 2003

• Bond Objects - a white paper. Ladislau Bölöni, Purdue University Computer Science Technical Report CSD-TR #98-002, February 1998.
• Subprotocols: an object-oriented solution forsemantic understanding of messages in a distributed object system Ladislau Bölöni, Ruibing Hao, Kyungkoo Jun, and Dan C. Marinescu.Proceedings of the International Conference on Software EngineeringApplied to Networking and Parallel/ Distributed Computing,Rheims, France, May 2000.
• An Aspect-Oriented Approach to Distributed Object Security, Ruibing Hao, Ladislau Bölöni, Kyungkoo Jun, and Dan C. Marinescu, Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications ISCC'99, pp 23-31, IEEE Press, 1999 .
• The Bond System Monitor. Kyungkoo Jun,Ladislau Bölöni, Ruibing Hao, and Dan C. Marinescu. CSD-TR #98-026,August 1998.
• A Subscription-based Monitoring Modelfor Distributed Object Systems. Kyungkoo Jun, Ladislau Bölöni,Ruibing Hao, and Dan C. Marinescu,  October 1998. 
• Biological Metaphors in the Design of Complex Software Systems, Ladislau Bölöni and D.C. Marinescu, Journal of Future Computer Systems, 2001/17, pp 345-360, Elsevier. [bibtex]
• Robust Scheduling of Metaprograms Ladislau Bölöni and Dan C. Marinescu. Proceedings of 8-th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop HCW'99, San Juan, Puerto Rico, pp. 146-155, IEEE Computer Society, 1999.
• Three Theorems on Robustness of Metaprogram Schedules Ladislau Bölöni and Dan C. Marinescu, Proc. ACM ICS Workshop on Scheduling Algorithms for Parallel/Distributed Computing, Rhodes, IEEE Press, pp. 1-6, 1999.
• Structural Biology Metaphors Applied to the Design of a Distributed Object System. Ladislau Bölöni, Ruibing Hao, Kyungkoo Jun, and Dan C. Marinescu. Proceedings of 13th International Parallel Processing Symposium and 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing - the Second Workshop on Biologically Inspired Solutions to Parallel Processing Problems, San Juan, Puerto Rico, pp. 275-283, Springer, April 1999
• An Alternative Model for Scheduling on a Computational Grid Dan. C. Marinescu, Ladislau Bölöni, Ruibing Hao, and Kyungkoo Jun. Proceedings of ISCIS'98, the Thirteenth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Antalya, pp. 473-480, IOP Press, 1998.
• A Comparison Study of Static Mapping Heuristics for a Class of Meta-tasks on Heterogeneous Computing Systems Tracy D. Braun, Howard Jay Siegel, Noah Beck, Ladislau Bölöni, Richard F. Freun, Debra Hensgen, Muthucumaru Maheshwaran, Albert I. Reuther, James P. Robertson, Mitchell D. Theys and Bin Yao Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, volume 61, pp 810-837, June 2001, also in Proceedings of Heterogeneous Computed Workshop, HCW'99 , pp 15, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 1999 [bibtex]
• A Taxonomy for Describing Matching and Scheduling Heuristics for Mixed-Machine Heterogeneous Computing Systems Tracy D. Braun, Howard Jay Siegel, Noah Beck, Ladislau Bölöni, Richard F. Freun, Debra Hensgen, Muthucumaru Maheshwaran, Albert I. Reuther, James P. Robertson, Mitchell D. Theys and Bin Yao Proceedings of the 17th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems 1998, pp 330
• QoS and Reliability models for network computing.Ladislau Bölöni, Kyungkoo Jun, Dan C. Marinescu, CSD-TR#97-051,November 1997.
• Towards an Agent Framework For Grid Computing , Majid Ali Khan, Shankar K. Vaithianathan, Kresimir Sivoncik and Ladislau Bölöni, CIPC-03 Second International Advanced Research workshop on Concurrent Information Processing and Computing, Sinaia, Romania, 2003.
• Towards an agent framework for grid computing, Majid Ali Khan, Shankar K. Vaithianathan, Kresimir Sivoncik and Ladislau Bölöni, International Scientific Journal of Computing, to appear 2004.
• Highly Distributed Resource Discovery and Allocation in the Grid, Taskin Kocak and Ladislau Bölöni, Proceedings of the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Hiroshima, Japan, July 2004.

Kraken: a knowledge management application for scientific researchers.

GOFAI: a fuzzy approach to semantic networks.

Some knowledge representation issues were handled as part of the Bond agent framework.

• Partial merging of semi-structured knowledgebases L. Bölöni and D. Turgut 8th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES'2004) Wellington, New Zealand, Sept 2004.
• A Survey of Merging Techniques and Tools for Ontologies M. Zipparo, D. Turgut and L. Bölöni, 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, July 2004.

• Hyperacuity in Time: A CNN model of a Time-Coding Pathway of Sound Localization , K. Lotz, L. Bölöni, T. Roska and J.Hámori, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Volume 46, Number 8, pp 994-1002, August 1999. [bibtex]
• A cellular neural network model of the time-coding pathway of sound localization-hyperacuity in time K. Lotz, L. Bölöni, T. Roska and J.Hámori in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, volume II., pages = 670-675, June 1996. [bibtex]
• CNN Model for Illusory Contour Detection in Primate Cerebral Cortex L. Bölöni, Second Hungarian Vision Conference - Szeged, Hungary 1995
• Neural Dynamics Of The Kohonen Feature Map Applied In Speech Recognition L. Bölöni, Journal of Automation, Computers and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 3, No 1, 1994.
• Cellular Neural Network Implementation of the Hopfield networks L. Bölöni, Analogical and Neural Computing Laboratory report 1994.
• Auditory Processing with Cochlear Nucleus Simulation L. Bölöni, Analogical and Neural Computing Laboratory report 1994.