Michael N. Huhns

 

Publications: Computational Social Systems, Including Commitments, Ethics, and Emotion

 

September 14, 2025

 

Papers in Journals

 

1.      Nadin Kokciyan, Biplav Srivastava, Michael N. Huhns, and Munindar P. Singh, “Sociotechnical Perspectives on AI Ethics and Accountability,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 25, no. 6, November/December 2021, pp. 5-6. [PDF]
https://doi.org/10.1109/MIC.2021.3117611

2.      Mahmoud Barhamgi, Michael N. Huhns, Charith Perera, and Pinar Yolum, “Introduction to the Special Section on Human-centered Security, Privacy, and Trust in the Internet of Things,” ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, vol. 21, no. 1, Article 16, January 2021. [PDF]
https://doi.org/10.1145/3445790

3.      Pinar Yolum and Michael N. Huhns, “Agents for Social Media,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 21, no. 6, November/December 2017, pp. 5-7. [PDF] https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2017.4180847

4.      Kuldar Taveter, Hongying Du, and Michael N. Huhns, “Engineering societal information systems by agent-oriented modeling,” Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, vol. 4, no. 3, August 2012, pp. 227-252. [PDF]

5.      Zakaria Maamar, Hakim Hacid, and Michael N. Huhns, “Why Web Services Need Social Networks,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 15, no. 2, March/April 2011, pp. 90-94. [PDF]

6.      Karthik Iyer and Michael N. Huhns, “A Procedure for the Allocation of Two-Dimensional Resources in a Multiagent System,” International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, vol. 18, nos. 3 4, September & December, 2009, pp. 381-422. [PDF]

7.      Karthik Iyer and Michael N. Huhns, “Negotiation criteria for multiagent resource allocation,” The Knowledge Engineering Review, vol. 24, no. 2, 2009, pp. 111-135. [PDF]
http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A55XsTdE

8.      Jeff Heflin and Michael N. Huhns, “The Zen of the Web,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 7, no. 5, September/October 2003, pp. 30-33. [PDF]

9.      Ashok U. Mallya and Michael N. Huhns, “Commitments Among Agents,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 7, no. 4, July/August 2003, pp. 90-93. [PDF]

10.   Michael N. Huhns, “Being and Acting Rational,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 91-93, March/April 2003. [PDF]

11.   Michael N. Huhns and Duncan A. Buell, “Trusted Autonomy,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 6, no. 3, May/June 2002, pp. 78-80. [PDF]

12.   Michael N. Huhns, “Agent Societies: Magnitude and Duration,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 6, no. 1, January/February 2002, pp. 79-81. [PDF]

13.   John R. Rose and Michael N. Huhns, “Philosophical Agents,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 5, no. 3, May/June 2001, pp. 104-106. [PDF]

14.   Paul A. Buhler and Michael N. Huhns, “Trust and Persistence,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 5, no. 2, March/April 2001, pp. 85-87. [PDF]

15.   Piotr Gmytrasiewicz and Michael N. Huhns, “The Emergence of Language among Autonomous Agents,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 4, no. 4, July/August 2000, pp. 90-92. [PDF]

16.   Michael N. Huhns and Anuj K. Malhotra, “Negotiating for Goods and Services,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 3, no. 4, July/August 1999, pp. 97-99. [PDF]

17.   Michael N. Huhns and Jose M. Vidal, “Online Auctions,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 3, no. 3, May/June 1999, pp. 103-105. [PDF]

18.   Michael N. Huhns and Abdulla Mohamed, “Benevolent Agents,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 3, no. 2, March/April 1999, pp. 96-98. [PDF]

19.   Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, “Cognitive Agents,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 2, no. 6, November/December 1998, pp. 87-89. [PDF]

20.   Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, “Personal Assistants,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 2, no. 5, September/October 1998, pp. 90-92. [PDF]

21.   Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, “Agent Jurisprudence,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 2, no. 2, March/April 1998, pp. 90-91. [PDF]

22.   Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, “Anthropoid Agents,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 2, no. 1, January/February 1998, pp. 94-95. [PDF]

23.   Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, “Conversational Agents,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 1, no. 2, March/April 1997, pp. 73-75. [PDF]

 

Chapters in Books

 

1.      Jiangbo Dang, Devendra Shrotri, and Michael N. Huhns, “Distributed Coordination of an Agent Society Based on Obligations and Commitments to Negotiated Agreements,” in Coordination of Large Scale Multiagent Systems, Paul Scerri, Régis Vincent, and Roger T. Mailler, editors, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin, 2005. [PDF]

2.      Jiangbo Dang and Michael N. Huhns, “Towards Service Coalitions: Coordinating the Commitments in a Workflow,” in Multiagent System Technologies: Third German Conference, MATES 2005, Torsten Eymann, Franziska Klügl, Winfried Lamersdorf, Matthias Klusch, and Michael N. Huhns, editors, Springer Verlag, vol. LNAI 3550, Berlin, pp. 59-70, 2005. [PDF]

3.      John R. Rose, William H. Turkett, Michael N. Huhns, and Soumik Sinha Roy, “An Evaluation of Philosophical Agent Architectures for Mission Robustness,” in Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems: First International Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts WRAC, Walt Truszkowski, Mike Hinchey, and Chris Rouff, editors, Springer, vol. LNCS 2564, Berlin, 2003, pp. 201-214. [PDF]

4.      Abdulla M. Mohamed and Michael N. Huhns, “Multiagent Benevolence as a Societal Norm,” in Social Order in Multiagent Systems, Rosaria Conte and Chris Dellarocas, editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 2001, pp. 65-83. [PDF]

5.      Munindar P. Singh and Michael N. Huhns, “Social Abstractions for Information Agents,” in Intelligent Information Agents, Matthias Klusch, editor, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1999. [PDF]

6.      Michael N. Huhns and Larry M. Stephens, “Multiagent Systems and Societies of Agents,” in Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Gerhard Weiss, editor, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. [PDF]

7.      Michael N. Huhns, “Foreword,” in Multiagent Systems: A Theoretical Framework for Intentions, Know-How, and Communications, by Munindar P. Singh, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Lecture Notes in AI, Volume 799, 1991, pp. vii-xii. [PDF]

8.      Michael N. Huhns and David M. Bridgeland, “Distributed Truth Maintenance,” in Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems 1990, S. M. Deen, editor, Springer-Verlag, London, England, pp. 133-147, 1991.

 

Papers in Refereed Proceedings

 

1.      Bharath Muppasani, Protik Nag, Vignesh Narayanan, Biplav Srivastava, and Michael Huhns, “Towards Effective Planning Strategies for Dynamic Opinion Networks (poster),” Proc. NeurIPS, December 2024.

2.      Bharath Muppasani, Vishal Pallagani, Biplav Srivastava, Raghava Mutharaju, Michael N. Huhns, and Vignesh Narayanan, “A Planning Ontology to Represent and Exploit Planning Knowledge for Performance Efficiency,” 8th International Conference on Data Science and Management of Data (CODS-COMAD), December 2024.

3.      Bharath Muppasani, Vignesh Narayanan, Biplav Srivastava, and Michael Huhns, “Expressive and Flexible Simulation of Information Spread Strategies in Social Networks Using Planning,” Demo Track, Proc. AAAI-24, vol. 38, no. 21, pp. 23820-23822, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, February 2024.
[Selected as Best Demo.]

4.      Vignesh Narayanan, Bharath Muppasani, Sai Teja Paladi, Biplav Srivastava, and Michael Huhns, “Modeling and Steering Multi-Dimensional Opinion Networks with Aggregated Measurements,” Proceedings SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems, May 2023.

5.      Hongying Du and Michael N. Huhns, “Determining the Effect of Personality Types on Human-Agent Interactions,” Proc. 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Atlanta, GA, November 2013. [PDF]

6.      Kuldar Taveter, Hongying Du, and Michael N. Huhns, “Method for Rapid Prototyping of Societal Information Systems,” Proc. Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation, Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Wroclaw, Poland, September 2012, pp. 1257 – 1264. [PDF]

7.      Hongying Du, Kuldar Taveter, and Michael N. Huhns, “Simulating a Societal Information System for Healthcare,” Proc. Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation, Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Wroclaw, Poland, September 2012, pp. 1275 – 1282. [PDF]

8.      Viji R. Avali and Michael N. Huhns, “A Formalization of Continuous Commitments among Multiple Agents,” IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Milan, Italy, September 2009, pp. 96-99. [PDF]

9.      Alicia Ruvinsky and Michael N. Huhns, “Human Behavior in Mixed Human-Agent Societies (Extended Abstract),” in Proc. 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-09), Budapest, Hungary, May 2009, pp. 1165-1166. [PDF]

10.   Alicia Ruvinsky and Michael N. Huhns, “Simulating Human Behaviors in Agent Societies (Short Paper),” in Proc. 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-08), Estoril, Portugal, May 2008, pp. 1513-1516. [PDF]

11.   Hong Jiang, Jose M. Vidal, and Michael N. Huhns, “EBDI: An Architecture for Emotional Agents,” Proc. 6th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-07), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2007, pp. 38-40. [PDF]

12.   Hong Jiang, José M. Vidal, and Michael N. Huhns, “Incorporating Emotions into Automated Negotiation,” Proc. Agent Construction and Emotions (ACE 2006): Modeling the Cognitive Antecedents and Consequences of Emotion, Vienna, Austria, April 2006. [PDF]

13.   Karthik Iyer and Michael N. Huhns, “Multiagent Negotiation for Fair and Unbiased Resource Allocation,” On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE, Robert Meersman and Zahir Tari, editors, Agia Napa, Cyprus, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3760, October 2005, pp. 453-465. [PDF]

14.   Jiangbo Dang and Michael N. Huhns, “Coalition Deal Negotiation for Services,” Proc. 1st International Workshop on Rational, Robust, and Secure Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems, Utrecht, July 2005. [PDF]

15.   Jiangbo Dang and Michael N. Huhns, “An Extended Protocol for Multiple-Issue Concurrent Negotiation,” Proc. Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), Pittsburgh, July 2005, pp. 65-70. [PDF]

16.   James E. Just, Mark R. Cornwell, and Michael N. Huhns, “Facilitating Human Collaboration with Agents,” Proc. 38th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, Big Island, Hawaii, January 2005. [PDF]

17.   James E. Just, Mark R. Cornwell, and Michael N. Huhns, “Agents for Establishing Ad Hoc Cross-Organizational Teams,” International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Beijing, China, September 2004, pp. 526-530.

18.   Abdulla M. Mohamed and Michael N. Huhns, “Benevolent Agents in Multiagent Systems,” in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Multiagent Systems, Boston, MA, July 2000, pp. 419-420. [PDF]

19.   Abdulla M. Mohamed and Michael N. Huhns, “Multiagent Benevolence as a Societal Norm,” in Proceedings First Workshop on Norms in Multiagent Systems, Barcelona, Spain, June 2000. [PDF]

20.   Michael N. Huhns and David M. Bridgeland, “Distributed Truth Maintenance,” in Proceedings of 10th International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Chapter 28, Bandera, TX, October 1990.

21.   David M. Bridgeland and Michael N. Huhns, “Distributed Truth Maintenance,” in Proceedings of AAAI-90, Boston, MA, July 1990, pp. 72-77. [PDF]

22.   Michael N. Huhns, L. M. Stephens, and D. B. Lenat, “Cooperation for DAI through Common-Sense Knowledge (Extended Abstract),” in Proceedings 8th Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Lake Arrowhead, CA, May 1988. [PDF]

 

 

Technical Reports and Other Papers

 

1.      Karthik Iyer and Michael N. Huhns, “On the Applicability of Sperner’s Lemma for Multiagent Resource Allocation,” USC CSE Technical Report TR-2007-010, July 2007. [PDF]

2.      Karthik Iyer and Michael N. Huhns, “A Procedure for the Allocation of Two-Dimensional Cylindrical-Shaped Resources in a Multiagent System,” USC CSE Technical Report TR-2007-009, July 2007. [PDF]

3.      Abdulla M. Mohamed and Michael N. Huhns, “Benevolent Agents,” USC CIT Technical Report, October 1998. [PDF]

4.      Michael N. Huhns, Larry M. Stephens, and Michael A. Gray, “Cooperative Problem Solving through Common-Sense Knowledge,” MCC Technical Report Number ACT-AI-218-89, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX, June 1989.

 

Patents

 

1.      Biplav Srivastava, Tarmo Koppel, Michael N. Huhns, Michael A. Matthews, and Danielle McElwain, “System and Method for Building Teams,” United States Patent No. US-20230112486-A1, 13 April 2023.