George Thomas

Research

My thesis work deals with Coordination and Task Allocation using Market-based Mechanisms in Cooperative Multiagent and Multirobot Systems. I have also research interests in Ontologies and Machine Learning with applications in Bioinformatics.

Publications

Task Allocation in Multiagent Systems

G. Thomas and A.B. Williams, "Allocating Heterogeneous Tasks to Heterogeneous Robot Teams", In AAAI Workshop on Auction Mechanisms for Robot Coordination, pages 80-85, Boston, Massachusetts, July 17, 2006.
G. Thomas and A.B. Williams, "Roles in the Context of Multiagent Task Relationships", in AAAI Fall Symposium on Roles, An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Arlington, Virginia, November 4-6, 2005.
G. Thomas, A. Howard, A.B. Williams, and A. Alston, "Multi-Robot Task Allocation in Lunar Mission Construction Scenarios", In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Hawaii, USA, October 10-12 2005.

Ontologies and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

G. Thomas, M.A. Grassi, J.R. Lee, A.O. Edwards, M.B. Gorin, R. Klein, T.L. Casavant, T.E. Scheetz, E.M. Stone, and A.B. Williams,"IDOCS: Intelligent Distributed Ontology Consensus System - The Use of Machine Learning in Retinal Drusen Phenotyping", In Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (IOVS), May 2007, Vol 48, No.5.
T.R. Inniss, M. Light, G. Thomas, J.R. Lee, M.A. Grassi, A.B. Williams, "Towards Applying Text Mining and Natural Language Processing for Biomedical Ontology Acquisition", In ACM First International Workshop on Text Mining in Bioinformatics (TMBIO) November 10, 2006.
A.B. Williams, T. Krygowski, G. Thomas, "Using Agents to Reach an Ontology Consensus", First Int'l Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, July 15-19, Bologna, Italy, 2002.

Contact

Email

Paper Mail: George Thomas; Computer Science; 14 MLH; The University of Iowa; Iowa City, IA 52242; USA

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