Journal Papers

1. Pradeep Varakantham, Ranjit Nair, Yoonheui Kim, Milind Tambe and Makoto Yokoo. Exploiting Locality of Interaction in Network Distributed POMDPs. Submitted to Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (JAAMAS).

2. Rajiv Maheswaran, Jonathan Pearce, Emma Bowring, Pradeep Varakantham and Milind Tambe. Privacy Loss in Distributed Constraint Reasoning: A Quantitative Framework for Analysis and its Applications. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems , JAAMAS-2006

Conference Papers

1. Tapana Gupta, Janusz Marecki, Pradeep Varakantham, Makoto Yokoo and Milind Tambe. Not All Agents are Equal: Scaling up Distributed POMDPs for Agent Networks. Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, AAMAS-2008.

2. Pradeep Varakantham, Janusz Marecki, Makoto Yokoo and Milind Tambe. Letting loose a SPIDER on a network of POMDPs: Generating quality guaranteed policies. Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, AAMAS-2007.

3. Pradeep Varakantham, Rajiv Maheswaran, Tapana Gupta and Milind Tambe. Towards efficient computation of quality bounded solutions in POMDPs. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-2007.

4. Pradeep Varakantham, Ranjit Nair, Milind Tambe and Makoto Yokoo. Winning back the CUP for Distributed POMDPs: Planning over continuous belief spaces. Proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, AAMAS-2006.

5. Pradeep Varakantham, Rajiv Maheswaran, and Milind Tambe. Exploiting Belief Bounds: Practical POMDPs for Personal Assistant Agents. Proceedings of the fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, AAMAS-2005.

6. Ranjit Nair, Pradeep Varakantham, Milind Tambe and Makoto Yokoo: Networked Distributed POMDPs: A Synthesis of Distributed Constraint Optimization and POMDPs, Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-2005 .

7. Rajiv Maheswaran, Jonathan Pearce, Pradeep Varakantham, Emma Bowring, and Milind Tambe. Valuations of Possible States (VPS): A Unifying Quantitative Framework for Evaluating Privacy in Collaboration. Proceedings of the fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, AAMAS-2005.

8. M. Tambe, E. Bowring, H. Jung, G. Kaminka, R. Maheswaran, J. Marecki, P. J. Modi, R. Nair, J. Pearce, P. Paruchuri, D. Pynadath, P. Scerri, N. Schurr, Pradeep Varakantham. Conflicts in teamwork: Hybrids to the rescue. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS-2005.

9. Rajiv Maheswaran, Milind Tambe, Emma Bowring, Jonathan Pearce, Pradeep Varakantham. Taking DCOP to the Real World : Efficient Complete Solutions for Distributed Event Scheduling. Proceedings of the third International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, AAMAS-2004.

Symposium Papers

1. Milind Tambe, Emma Bowring, Jonathan Pearce, Pradeep Varakantham, Paul Scerri, David Pynadath. Electric Elves: What Went Wrong and Why . Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on "What Went Wrong and Why" , 2006.

2. Yoonheui Kim, Ranjit Nair, Pradeep Varakantham, Milind Tambe and Makoto Yokoo. Exploiting locality of interaction in Network Distributed POMDPs . Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on "Distributed Plan and Schedule Management", 2006.

3. Pradeep Varakantham, Rajiv Maheswaran, and Milind Tambe. Practical POMDPs for Personal Assistant Agents. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on "Persistent Assistants", 2005.

4. Rajiv Maheswaran, Jonathan Pearce, Pradeep Varakantham, Emma Bowring, and Milind Tambe. Valuations of Possible Worlds (VPW): A Unifying Quantitative Framework for Analysis of Privacy Loss Among Collaborative Personal Assistant Agents. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on "Persistent Assistants", 2005.

Workshop Papers

1. Pradeep Varakantham, Rajiv Maheswaran, Milind Tambe. Implementation Techniques for Solving POMDPs in Personal Assistant Domains. Proceedings of the PROMAS workshop at AAMAS, 2005.

2. Ranjit Nair, Pradeep Varakantham, Makoto Yokoo and Milind Tambe. Networked Distributed POMDPs: A Synergy of Distributed Constraint Optimization and POMDPs. Poster paper in proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-2005.

3. Ranjit Nair, Pradeep Varakantham, Milind Tambe and Makoto Yokoo. Networked Distributed POMDPs: Applying Distributed POMDPs to Large Scale Problems. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on the Coordination of Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems at AAMAS, 2005.

4. Ranjit Nair, Pradeep Varakantham, Makoto Yokoo and Milind Tambe. Exploiting Interaction Structure in Networked Distributed POMDPs. Proceedings of the Planning and Scheduling workshop at ICAPS, 2005.

5. Pradeep Varakantham, Rajiv Maheswaran, and Milind Tambe. Agent Modeling in Partially Observable Domains. Proceedings of the AAMAS Workshop on Agent Modeling using Observations, 2004.

Book Chapters

1. Pradeep Varakantham, Rajiv Maheswaran, Milind Tambe. Implementation Techniques for Solving POMDPs in Personal Assistant Domains. To appear, Programming Multiagent Systems (PROMAS). Springer Press Book Chapter, 2006.

2. Rajiv Maheswaran, Milind Tambe, Pradeep Varakantham and Karen Myers. Adjustable Autonomy Challenges in Personal Assistant Agents: A Position Paper. Proceedings of Autonomy'03.

Professional Activities

1. Program Committee, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI (2007).

2. Reviewer, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR).

3. Reviewer, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent systems (JAAMAS).

4. Reviewer, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI (2005, 2007).

5. Reviewer, Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, AAMAS (2006).

6. Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part B (2005).

7. Reviewer, Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (2004).

8. Reviewer, Physics of Life Reviews (2004)