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2007

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Thomas Hajduk, Dorin Marcu, Marcel Barbulescu, Cristina
Boicu
, Vu Le. A Tool for Training and Assistance in Emergency Response Planning. In
Proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. January 3-6, 2007. Waikoloa,
Big Island, Hawaii.

2006

Cristina Boicu. An Integrated Approach to Rule Refinement for Instructable Knowledge-Based
Agents. PhD Dissertation in Computer Science, Learning Agents Center, Volgenau School of
Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Fall 2006.

Cristina Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu. 2006. Lazy Rule Refinement by Knowledge-
Based Agents. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Machine Learning and
Applications (ICMLA-2006). December 14-16, 2006, Orlando, Florida.

Christopher Fowler, David Cammons, Cindy Ayers, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Vu Le, Dorin
Marcu, Cristina Boicu, Marcel Barbulescu. 2006. Cognitive Assistants for the Analysts:
Experiments in the Classroom. In Proceedings of the Homeland Security for the 21st Century
Conference, Mystic, Connecticut, July 24-26, 2006.

2005

Cristina Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu. 2005. Rule Refinement by Domain Experts in
Complex Knowledge Bases. In the Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference of Artificial
Intelligence, AAAI-2005. July 9-13, 2005, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Cristina Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu. 2005. Improving Agent Learning through Rule
Analysis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI-2005.
June 27-30, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California.

Cristina Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu. 2005. A Mixed-Initiative Approach to Rule
Refinement for Knowledge-Based Agents. In Proceedings of the AAAI-05 Fall Symposium on
Mixed-Initiative Problem-Solving Assistants, AAAI 2005 Fall Symposium Series, November 4-6,
2005, Arlington, Virginia.

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Cristina Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Bogdan Stanescu, Marcel
Barbulescu. 2005. The Disciple-RKF Learning and Reasoning Agent. In Computational
Intelligence Journal (Special Issue on Learning to Improve Reasoning), Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 462-
479, Blackwell Publishing Inc.

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Cindy Ayers, Dorin Marcu, Cristina Boicu, Marcel Barbulescu,
Bogdan Stanescu, William Wagner, Vu Le, Denitsa Apostolova, Adrian Ciubotariu. 2005. A
Learning and Reasoning System for Intelligence Analysis. In Proceedings of the Twentieth
National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-05, July 9-13 2005, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

2004

Cristina Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci. 2004. Mixed-Initiative Ontology Learning. In Proceedings of
the 2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI-2004, June 21-24, 2004, Las
Vegas, Nevada. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California.

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Bogdan Stanescu, Cristina Boicu, Marcel
Barbulescu. 2004. Parallel Knowledge Base Development by Subject Matter Experts. in Motta E.,
Shadbolt N., Stutt A., and Gibbins N. (Editors), Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic
Web, EKAW 2004, LNAI 3257, pp. 265-279, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2004.
Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge
Management, 5-8th October 2004 - Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK.

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Bogdan Stanescu, Cristina Boicu, Marcel
Barbulescu 2004. A University Research Group Experience with Deploying an Artificial
Intelligence Application in the Center of Gravity Analysis Domain. In Proceedings of AAAI-2004
Workshop on Fielding Applications of Artificial Intelligence, July 25, 2004, San Jose, AAAI Press,
Menlo Park, CA.

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Bogdan Stanescu, Dorin Marcu, Marcel Barbulescu, Cristina
Boicu
2004. Design Principles for Learning Agents. In Proceedings of AAAI-2004 Workshop on
Intelligent Agent Architectures: Combining the Strengths of Software Engineering and Cognitive
Systems, July 26, 2004, San Jose, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA.

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Bogdan Stanescu, Cristina Boicu, Marcel
Barbulescu 2004. A Learning Agent Shell for Building Knowledge-Based Agents. In Proceedings
of the Technology Demonstration Session of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge
Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2004, 5-8th October 2004 - Whittlebury Hall,
Northamptonshire, UK.

2003

Cristina Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu. 2003. Improving the Representation
Space through Exception-Based Learning. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth International FLAIRS
Conference (Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society). Saint Augustine, Florida, AAAI
Press, Menlo Park, CA, pp. 336-340.

Bogdan Stanescu, Cristina Boicu, Gabriel Balan, Marcel Barbulescu, Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe
Tecuci. 2003. Ontologies for Learning Agents: Problems, Solutions and Directions. In Proceedings
of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2003) Workshop
on Ontologies and Distributed Systems. Acapulco, Mexico, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA,
pp. 75-82.

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Dorin Marcu, Cristina Boicu, Bogdan Stanescu. 2003. Mixed-
Initiative Control for Teaching and Learning in Disciple. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2003) Workshop on Mixed-
Initiative Intelligent Systems. Acapulco, Mexico, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, pp. 9-16.

2002

Cristina Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu. 2002. Mixed-Initiative Exception-Based Learning
for Knowledge Base Refinement. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference of
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2002/IAAI-02). Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, AAAI Press/The MIT
Press.

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Bogdan Stanescu, Cristina Boicu, and Jerome
Comello. 2002. Training and Using Disciple Agents: A Case Study in the Military Center of
Gravity Analysis Domain. AI Magazine, Winter 2002, Volume 23, No. 4, pp. 51–68. AAAI Press,
Menlo Park, California .

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Bogdan Stanescu, Cristina Boicu, Jerry Comello,
Antonio Lopez, James Donlon, William Cleckner. 2002. Development and Deployment of a
Disciple Agent for Center of Gravity Analysis. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Innovative
Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-02). Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, AAAI
Press/The MIT Press, pp. 853 – 860. Innovative Application Award.

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Dorin Marcu, Bogdan Stanescu, Cristina Boicu, Catalin Balan,
Marcel Barbulescu, and Xianjun Hao. 2002. Disciple-RKF/COG: Agent Teaching by Subject
Matter Experts. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
Intelligent Systems Demonstrations (AAAI-2002). Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, AAAI Press/The
MIT Press, pp. 992 - 993

2001

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Bogdan Stanescu, Dorin Marcu, Cristina Cascaval (now Boicu)
2001. Automatic Knowledge Acquisition from Subject Matter Experts. In Proceedings of
Thirteenth International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI, pp. 69-78. IEEE
Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California.

2000

Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Michael Bowman, Dorin Marcu, Ping Shyr, Cristina Cascaval
(now Boicu)
. 2000. An Experiment in Agent Teaching by Subject Matter Experts. International
Journal of Human-Computer Studies, vol. 53, pp. 583-610.

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Bogdan Stanescu, Liviu Panait, Cristina Cascaval (now Boicu).
2000. Learnable Representation for Real World Planning. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth
National Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Representational Issues for Real-
World Planning Systems, pp. 6-11, July 30 – Aug 3, 2000, Austin, Texas. AAAI Press, Menlo
Park, California.