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Many of Professor Grosz's papers are available via Harvard's DASH repository.

Decision Making and Intention Management

  • Avshalom Elmalech, David Sarne, and Barbara J. Grosz. Problem Restructuring for Better Decision Making in Recurring Decision Situations. 2014. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Advance Online Publication. DOI: 10.1007/s10458-014-9247-3

  • Gal, Y., Grosz, B.J., Pfeffer, A., Shieber, S., and Allain, A. Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz,  The Influence of Task Contexts on the Decision-making of Humans and Computers  Proceedings of the Sixth International Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT), Roskilde University, Denmark, August 2007.

  • Sarne, David and Grosz, Barbara, “Sharing Experiences to Learn User Characteristics in Dynamic Environments with Sparse Data,” Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS-2007, pp. 202-209.

  • Sarne, David and Grosz, Barbara, “Estimating Information Value in Collaborative Multi-Agent Planning Systems,” Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS-2007, pp. 227-234.

  • Grosz, Barbara J. and Luke Hunsberger. 2005. "The Dynamics of Intentions in Collaborative Intentionality." In Cognitive Systems Research (special issue on Cognition, Joint Action and Collective Intentionality), 7,2-3. Available online http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/jhournal/13890417

  • Marzo, Francesca, Kobi Gal, Avi Pfeffer and Barbara J. Grosz. 2004. "Social Preferences in Negotiations." Presented at the Conference on Collective Intentionality IV, Sienna Italy, Ocober 13-15, 2004.

  • Grosz, Barbara J., Sarit Kraus et al. 2004. "The Influence of Social Dependeancies on Decision-Making: Initial Investigations with a New Game." In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS-2004, pp. 782-789.

  • Gal, Kobi, Avi Pfeffer, Francesca Marzo and Barbara J. Grosz. 2004. "Learning social preferences in games." In Proceedings of AAAI-04 , pp. 226-231.

  • Sanmay Das, Barbara Grosz and Avi Pfeffer. 2002. "Learning and Decision-Making for Intention Reconciliation." In the Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems, Bologna, Italy. July, 2002. pp. 1121-1128.

  • Pedro Sander, Denis Peleshcuk, and Barbara Grosz. 2002. "A Scalable, Distributed Algorithm for Efficient Task Allocation." In the Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems, Bologna, Italy. July, 2002. pp.1191-1198.

  • Alyssa Glass and Barbara Grosz, 2000. "Socially Conscious Decision-Making." In the Proceedings of Agents2000 Conference, Barcelona, Spain, June 3-7, 2000. pp. 217 - 224.

  • Luke Hunsberger and Barbara J. Grosz, 2000. A Combinatorial Auction for Collaborative Planning. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (Boston, Massachusetts), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 151 - 158.

  • David Sullivan, Barbara Grosz, and Sarit Kraus. 2000. Intention Reconciliation by Collaborative Agents." In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (Boston, Massachusetts), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 293-300.

  • David G. Sullivan, Alyssa Glass, Barbara J. Grosz, Sarit Kraus. 1999."Intention reconciliation in the context of teamwork: an initial empirical investigation." In Klusch, M., Shehory, O.M., Weiss, G., eds., Cooperative Information Agents III, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 1652, Springer-Verlag, pp. 149-162.

Collaborative Interfaces

  • Grosz, Barbara J. 2004. "Beyond Mice and Menus." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 149:4, December 2005. pp. 529-523. 

  • Babaian, Tamara, Barbara J. Grosz and Stuart M. Shieber. 2002. "A Writer's Collaborative Aid."  Proceedings of the Intelligent User Interfaces Conference, San Francisco, CA. January 13-16. ACM Press, pp. 7-14.

  • Ortiz, Charles L. and Barbara Grosz. 2002. "Interpreting Information Requests in Context: A Collaborative Web Interface for Distant Learning". Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 5, 429-465, 2002. Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 429-465.

Modeling Collaboration

  • Barbara Grosz and Sarit Kraus. 1999. "The Evolution of SharedPlans."   In Foundations and Theories of Rational Agencies, A. Rao and M. Wooldridge, eds. pp. 227-262.

  • Grosz, Barbara. 1999. "The Contexts of Collaboration." In Cognition, Agency and Rationality, K. Korta, E Sosa, and X. Arrazola, eds. Dordrecht: Kluwer Press, pp. 175-188, (also presented at ICCS-97).

  • Barbara Grosz and Sarit Kraus. 1996. "Collaborative Plans for Complex Group Action." In Artificial Intelligence. 86(2), pp. 269-357.

  • Barbara Grosz. 1996. " Collaborative Systems: 1994 AAAI Presidential Address." 2(17), pp. 67 - 85.

Discourse Structure

  • Karen Lochbaum, Barbara J. Grosz, and Candace Sidner, 1999. "Discourse Structure & Intention Recognition." A Handbook of Natural Language Processing: Techniques and Applications for the Processing of Language as Text. R. Dale, H. Moisl, and H. Somers, eds.

  • Grosz, B.J., and Sidner, C.L., "Attention, Intentions, and the Structure of Discourse", Computational Linguistics, 12:3 (1986)

Discourse Structure & Intonation

  • Christine Nakatani, Julia Hirschberg, and Barbara Grosz. March 1995. "Discourse Structure in Spoken Language: Studies on Speech Corpora."  In Working Notes of the AAAI-95 Spring Symposium in Palo Alto, CA, on Empirical Methods in Discourse Interpretation. pp. 106-112.

  • Barbara Grosz and Julia Hirschberg. 1992. "Some Intonational Characteristics of Discourse Structure." In Ohala et al., eds., Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol. 1, pp. 429-432.

Centering

  • Barbara Grosz and Candace Sidner. 1998. "Lost Intuitions and Forgotten Intentions."  In Centering in Discourse, Marilyn Walker, Aravind Joshi and Ellen Prince, eds., Oxford University Press. pp. 39-51.

  • Barbara Grosz and Yael Ziv. 1998. "Centering, Global Focus, and Right Dislocation.."  In Centering in Discourse, Marilyn Walker, Aravind Joshi, and Ellen Prince, eds., Oxford University Press. pp. 293-307.

  • Barbara Grosz, Aravind Joshi, and Scott Weinstein. June 1995. "Centering: A Framework for Modeling the Local Coherence of Discourse."  In Computational Linguistics 2(21), pp. 203-225.

  • Peter Gordon, Barbara Grosz, and Laura Gillom. 1993. "Pronouns, Names, and the Centering of Attention in Discourse." Cognitive Science 3(17), pp. 311-347.