Publications

Books, Book Chapters

• Jomi Hubner, Eric T. Matson, Olivier Boissier, Virginia Dignum.  COIN IV, Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings AAMAS '08/AAAI '08.  Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence(LNAI), vol. 5428.  Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2009. 
• Eric T. Matson, Raj Bhatnagar. Knowledge Sharing Between Agents in a Transitioning Organization, Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN) III, (Sichman, J.S., Padget, J., Ossowski, S., Noriega, P., editors), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence(LNAI), vol. 4870, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2008. 
• Pablo Noriega, Javier Vazquez-Salceda, Guido Boella, Olivier Boissier, Virginia Dignum, Nicoletta Fornara, Eric Matson. COIN II, Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems II. Proceedings AAMAS '06/ECAI '06. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), vol. 4386. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2007.
• Olivier Boissier, Julian Padget, Virginia Dignum, Gabriela Lindemann, Eric Matson, Sascha Ossowski, Jaime Simao Sichman and Javier Vazquez Salceda (eds.). COIN I, Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems I, Proceedings ANIREM '05/OOOP '05. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence(LNAI), vol. 3913. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2006.

Journal Articles

• Eric Matson, Raj Bhatnagar. Evaluation of Properties in the Transition of Capability-based Agent Organizations. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (WIAS) Journal, IOS Press, vol. 7, issue 1, 2009.
• Scott DeLoach, Wallamitien Oyenan, Eric Matson. A Capabilities-based Model for Adaptive Organizations. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. Volume 16, no. 1, February 2008, pp. 13-56.
• Eric Matson, Scott DeLoach, Robyn Pauly. Building Interest in Math and Science for Rural and Underserved Elementary School Children Using Robots. Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research Special Issue on Resources for Pre-college Education, Vol 5, Issue 3, July - December 2004.
• Scott A. DeLoach, Eric T. Matson, Yonghua Li. Exploiting Agent Oriented Software Engineering in the Design of a Cooperative Robotics Search and Rescue System. The International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 17 (5), pp. 817-835, August 2003.

Conference and Workshops

• Anthony Smith and Eric T. Matson, Use of Antennas as Sensors to Discover Signals to Form Mobile Broadband Networks, Proceeding of the 2009 IEEE Sensors Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, October 25-28, 2009. 
• Eric T. Matson, Transition Process Distinction in Multiagent Organization, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2009),  Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy, September 15-19,  2009. (Acceptance rate 18%)
• Eric T. Matson, Anthony Smith and J. Eric Deitz, Application of Adaptive Wireless Sensor Organizations to Secure Spatial Domains, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (IEEE  HST 2009), Waltham, MA, May 11 - 12, 2009.
• Eric T. Matson. POLAR: A Graphical, Integrated Development Environment for Agent Organizations, The 9th Annual International Workshop, Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW 08), Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne (ENSM-SE), Saint-Etienne, France, 24-26 September, 2008. 
• Eric T. Matson, Raj Bhatnagar.  From Sensor Networks to Sensor Organizations.  Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications V Conference, SPIE Symposium on Defense & Security 2008, April 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA.
• Eric Matson, Raj Bhatnagar. Knowledge Sharing Between Agents in a Transitioning Organization, Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN), 2007 Multi-agent Logics, Languages and Organizations Federated Workshops (MALLOW '07), Durham University, Durham, U.K., September 3-7, 2007.
• Eric Matson, Raj Bhatnagar. Organization Capable Intelligent Sensors. Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications V Conference, SPIE Symposium on Defense & Security 2007, April 9-13 April 2007, Orlando, Florida, USA.
• Eric Matson, Raj Bhatnagar. Properties of Capability Based Agent Organization Transition. 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2006), Hong Kong, December 18-22, 2006. (Acceptance rate 25%)
• Eric Matson, Abstraction of Transition Properties in Multiagent Organizations. Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2005), Compiegne University of Technology, Compiegne, France, September 19-22, 2005. (Acceptance rate 25%)
• Eric Matson, Reasoning on Temporal Effects of Agent Organization Transition. Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI '05), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27-30, 2005. (Acceptance rate 38%)
• Eric Matson, Scott DeLoach, Formal Transition in Agent Organizations, IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Intensive Multiagent Systems (KIMAS '05), Waltham, MA, April 18-21, 2005.
• Eric Matson, Scott DeLoach, Autonomous Organization-Based Adaptive Information Systems, IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Intensive Multiagent Systems (KIMAS '05), Waltham, MA, April 18-21, 2005.
• Scott DeLoach, Eric Matson. An Organizational Model for Designing Adaptive Multiagent Systems. Agent Organizations: Theory and Practice at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04), July 25-29, 2004, San Jose, CA.
• Eric Matson, Scott DeLoach. Integrating Robotic Sensor and Effector Capabilities With Multiagent Organizations. Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI '04), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 21-24, 2004.
• Eric Matson, Scott DeLoach. Using Robots to Increase Interest of Technical Disciplines in Rural and Underserved Schools, 2004 Annual ASEE Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 20-23, 2004. (4 papers selected from over 600 submissions, top 1%).
• Eric Matson, Scott DeLoach, Enabling Intra-Robotic Capabilities Adaptation Using An Organization-Based Multiagent System. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IEEE ICRA 2004), April 26 - May 1, 2004. New Orleans, LA USA. (Acceptance rate: 57%)
• Eric Matson, Scott DeLoach. Capability in Organization Based Multiagent Systems, Proceedings of the Intelligent and Computer Systems (IS '03) Conference, Information Society. Institute Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 13-17, 2003.
• Dave Gustafson, Eric Matson. Taxonomy of Cooperative Robotic Systems, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC '03), Washington D.C., USA, October 5-8, 2003.
• Eric Matson, Scott DeLoach. Organization-based Adaptive Information Systems for Battlefield Situational Analysis, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (IEEE KIMAS '03), Boston, MA, October 1-3, 2003. (Acceptance rate 22%)
• Scott DeLoach, Eric Matson. Autonomously Reorganizing Information Systems. 2003 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Homeland Security (ICATHS). September 25-26, 2003. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
• Eric Matson,Robyn Pauly, Scott DeLoach. Robotic Simulators to Develop Logic and Critical Thinking Skills in K-6 School Children , 38th ASEE Midwest Section Conference, Rolla, Missouri, September 10-12, 2003.
• Eric Matson,Robyn Pauly, Scott DeLoach. The Impact of the Robot Roadshow Program to Increase Interest of Technical Disciplines in Rural and Under Served Schools , 38th ASEE Midwest Section Conference, Rolla, Missouri, September 10-12, 2003.
• Eric Matson, Scott DeLoach. Using Dynamic Capability Evaluation to Organize a Team of Cooperative, Autonomous Robots, Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI '03), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 23-26, 2003. (Acceptance Rate 37%)
• Eric Matson, Scott DeLoach. Organizational Model for Cooperative and Sustaining Robotic Ecologies, Proceedings of Robosphere 2002 Workshop, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, November 14-15, 2002.
• Eric Matson. UmbrellaDB: Heterogeneous Data Source Access Using a Virtual Database Architecture, Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC '02), Hammamet, Tunisia, October 6-9, 2002.
• Eric Matson, Scott DeLoach. Using Robots to Increase Interest of Technical Disciplines in Rural and Underserved Schools, Proceedings of the 37th ASEE Midwest Section Conference, Norman, Oklahoma, September 11-13, 2002. \textit{Awarded Best Paper of ASEE Midwest Section Conference, Awarded National ASEE Best Zone III Paper of the Year.}
• Eric Matson. UmbrellaDB: Unified Query Engine for Heterogeneous Data Sources, MSE Thesis, Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, August 2002.
• Eric Matson. Architecture to Enable Dynamic Reorganization of Cooperative Robotic Teams, Proceedings of the 2002 AAAI Robot Competition and Exhibition, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. July 27 - August 1, 2002.
• Scott DeLoach, Eric Matson and Yonghua Li. Applying Agent Oriented Software Engineering to Cooperative Robotics, Proceedings of the 15th International FLAIRS Conference(FLAIRS 2002). Pensacola, Florida. May 16-18, 2002. (Acceptance rate 67%)