Papers by Thomas Russ

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Journal Papers

"Simplifying Construction of Complex Workflows for Non-Expert Users of the Southern California Earthquake Center Community Modeling Environment", Philip Maechling, Hans Chalupsky, Maureen Dougherty, Ewa Deelman, Yolanda Gil, Sridhar Gullapalli, Vipin Gupta, Carl, Jihie Kim, Gaurang Mehta, Brian Mendenhall, Thomas Russ, Gurmeet Singh, Marc Spraragen, Garrick Staples and Karan Vahi, ACM SIGMOD Record Special issue on Scientific Workflows, Vol. 34 No. 3, pp. 24-30, 2005.
Abstract. The full paper is available in PDF (7pp).
"Electric Elves: Agent Technology for Supporting Human Organizations", Hans Chalupsky, Yolanda Gil, Craig A. Knoblock, Kristina Lerman, Jean Oh, David V. Pynadath, Thomas A. Russ and Milind Tambe. In AI Magazine 23:2, pp. 11-24, Summer 2002.
Abstract. The full paper is available in PDF or PostScript (10pp).
"Building and (Re)Using an Ontology of Air Campaign Planning", Andre Valente, Thomas Russ, Robert MacGregor and William Swartout. In IEEE Intelligent Systems 14:1, pp. 27-36, Jan-Feb, 1999.
Abstract. Reprints are available from IEEE.
"Use of Data Abstraction Methods to Simplify Monitoring", Thomas A. Russ. In Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 7, pp. 497-514, 1995.
Abstract. The full paper is available in PDF via Science Direct. (22pp.)
"Using Hindsight in Medical Decision Making", Thomas A. Russ. In Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 32:1, pp. 81-90, May 1990.
Also published in Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, pp. 38-44, 1989.
Abstract. The full paper is available in PostScript (18pp).

Conference Papers

"DataFinder: Using Ontologies and Reasoning to Enhance Metadata Search", Thomas A. Russ and Hans Chalupsky. Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract IN43A-0326, 2005.
Abstract only.
"Evaluating Expert-authored Rules for Military Reasoning", Mike Pool, Kenneth S. Murray, Julie Fitzgerald, Mala Mehrotra, Robert Schrag, Jim Blythe, Jihie Kim, Hans Chalupsky, Pierluigi Miraglia, Thomas Russ and Dave Schneider. In John H. Gennari, Bruce W. Porter and Yolanda Gil (eds), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2003), Sanibel Island, FL, USA, pp. 96-104, October 23-25, 2003.
Abstract. The full paper is available in PDF (8pp.).
"Electric Elves: Applying Agent Technology to Support Human Organizations", Hans Chalupsky, Yolanda Gil, Craig A. Knoblock, Kristina Lerman, Jean Oh, David V. Pynadath, Thomas A. Russ and Milind Tambe. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, pp. 51-58, 2001.
Abstract. See also the AI Magazine paper.
"WhyNot: Debugging Failed Queries in Large Knowledge Bases", Hans Chalupsky and Thomas A. Russ. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence , pp. 870-877, 2002.
Abstract. The full paper is available in PDF (8pp).
"Coordinating Advice and Actual Treatment", Thomas A. Russ. In Martin D. Fox, Mary Anne F. Epstein, et al., editors, Proceedings of the 1991 IEEE Seventeenth Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, pp. 261-262, April 1991.
Abstract. The full paper is available in PostScript (3pp).

Technical Reports, Theses, and Manuals

VEIL Final Report
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 1997.
The full paper is available in PDF. (68pp, 2.9MB)
Reasoning with Time Dependent Data, Thomas Anton Russ. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science technical report MIT/LCS/TR-545, August 1991. This technical report is the same as Dr. Russ' PhD thesis.
Abstract. The full paper is available in PostScript and PDF, formatted for two-sided reproduction (161pp).
Temporal Control Structure Reference Manual, Thomas A. Russ. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science technical manual MIT/LCS/TM-331, June 1987.
This manual is available in PostScript and PDF (62pp).

Workshop Reports

Electric Elves: Immersing an Agent Organization in a Human Organization

Socially Intelligent Agents: The Human in the Loop. Papers from the {AAAI} Fall Symposium.

, AAAI Technical Report FS-00-04, pp. 150-154, November 3-5, 2000. North Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Abstract.

"Practical Experiences in Trading Off Ontology Usability and Reusability", Thomas Russ, Andre Valente, Robert MacGregor and William Swartout. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Banff Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-based Systems Workshop , October 16-21, 1999. Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Abstract.
This paper is available in PDF and PostScript (20pp).
"Toward Distributed Use of Large-Scale Ontologies", Bill Swartout, Ramesh Patil, Kevin Knight and Tom Russ. In Proceedings of the Tenth Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-based Systems Workshop , November 9-14, 1996. Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Abstract.
This paper is the reference to Ontosaurus.
"VEIL: Combining Semantic Knowledge with Image Understanding"
Thomas A. Russ, Robert M. MacGregor, Behnam Salemi, Keith Price and Ram Nevatia. ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, 1996.
Also published in RADIUS: Image Understanding for Imagery Intelligence.
Morgan Kaufman. ISBN 1-55860-450-2. pp. 409-418.
Abstract. Table of Contents. The full paper is also available in compressed PostScript or PDF. (8pp)
"Knowledge Representation for Computer Vision: The VEIL Project"
Keith Price, Thomas Russ and Robert MacGregor. ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, 1994.
Abstract. The full paper is available in compressed PostScript or PDF. (9pp)

"Use of Abstraction to Simplify Monitoring", Thomas A. Russ. In Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Interpreting Clinical Data. Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium., AAAI Technical Report SS-94-01, pp. 134-138, March 1994.
Abstract. The full paper is available in PostScript (5pp).

An expanded version appeared in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (see above)

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