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In Press

Baars, B.J., U. Ramamurthy, and S. Franklin. In Review. How deliberate, spontaneous and unwanted memories emerge in a computational model of consciousness. In Involuntary Conscious Memory, ed. J.H. Mace. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing (View: PDF )

Bogner, M., J. Maletic, and S. Franklin. In Press. ConAg: a reusable framework for developing "conscious" software agents. The International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools. (View: PDF )

2006

Franklin, S. and F. G. Patterson, Jr. (2006). The Lida Architecture:  Adding New Modes of Learning to an Intelligent, Autonomous, Software Agent. Integrated Design and Process Technology, IDPT-2006, San Diego, CA, Society for Design and Process Science. (View: PDF )


Franklin, S. and Ferkin, M. 2006.
An Ontology for Comparative Cognition: A Functional Approach. In Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews. 1:36-52. (View: PDF )

2005

Kelemen, A., S. Franklin, and Y. Liang. (2005). Constraint Satisfaction in "Conscious" Software Agents - A Practical Application. Applied Artificial Intelligence 19:491-514 (View: PDF )

Kelemen, A., S. Franklin, and Y. Liang. Learning High Quality Decisions with Neural Networks in "Conscious" Software Agents. Journal of World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society on Systems, 4:1482-1492. (View: Doc)

D'Mello S., Ramamurthy U., and Franklin S. (2005). Encoding and Retrieval Efficiency of Episodic Data in a Modified Sparse Distributed MemorySystem. Proceedings   of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive ScienceSociety (in press). Stresa, Italy (View: PDF or Doc)

Franklin S, Baars BJ, Ramamurthy U, Ventura M (2005). The Role of Consciousness in Memory. Brains, Minds and Media, Vol.1, bmm150 (urn:nbn:de:0009-3-1505) (View : pdf)

Uma Ramamurthy, Sidney K. D'Mello, and Stan Franklin. "Role of Consciousness in Episodic Memory Processes" (ASSC9 Abstract) presented at the Nineth Conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness - (Pasadena, CA, 2005)

Franklin, S. 2005. A "Consciousness" Based Architecture for a Functioning Mind. In Visions of Mind, ed. D. Davis. Hershey, PA: IDEA Group, Inc. (View : pdf)

 

2004

Uma Ramamurthy and Stan Franklin."Self-Preservation Mechanisms for Cognitive Software Agents"  , First World Congress on Lateral-Computing (WCLC2004) (Bangalore, India, December 17-19, 2004).

Franklin Stan and Lee McCauley; Feelings and Emotions as Motivators and Learning Facilitators. Architectures for Modeling Emotions. AAAI Spring Symposia Technical Series Technical Reports SS-04-02. (View: PDF or Doc)

Franklin, S., and D. Jones; 2004, A Triage Information Agent (TIA) based on the IDA Technology. AAAI Fall Symposium on Dialogue Systems for Health Communication; American Association for Artificial Intelligence; Washington,DC, USA. October22-24,2004. (View:Pdf or doc)

Uma Ramamurthy, Sidney K. D'Mello, and Stan Franklin. " Modified Sparse Distributed Memory as Transient Episodic Memory for Cognitive Software Agents " , IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - SMC2004 (PDF) (The Hague, Netherlands, October 10-13, 2004).

 

2003

Franklin, S. 2003. An Autonomous Software Agent for Navy Personnel Work: A Case Study. In Human Interaction with Autonomous Systems in Complex Environments: Papers from 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium, ed. D. Kortenkamp, and M. Freed. Palo Alto: AAAI.( View:Doc )

Franklin, S. 2003. IDA: A Conscious Artifact? Journal of Consciousness Studies 10:47-66

Bernard Baars and Stan Franklin. “How conscious experience and working memory interact”. Trends in Cognitive Sciences Vol7 No.4 April2003.

Uma Ramamurthy, Sidney K. D'Mello, and Stan Franklin. "Modeling Memory Systems with Global Workspace Theory" (ASSC7 Abstract) presented at the Seventh Conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness - ASSC7 (Memphis, May 30 - June 2, 2003).

Franklin Stan;2003. How the IDA model supports the Crick and Koch Framework.

Franklin Stan;March 2003. A computer-based model of Crick and Koch’s Framework for Consciousness. Editorial Review: Science & Consciousness Review. (View PDF)

 

2002

Franklin Stan; Sept 2002. IDA on Will: It’s no Illusion. Editorial Review: Science & Consciousness Review.

Negatu, A., and S. Franklin. 2002. An action selection mechanism for 'conscious' software agents. Cognitive Science Quarterly 2:363-386.

Kelemen, A., Y. Liang, and S. Franklin. 2002. A Comparative Study of Different Machine Learning Approaches for Decision Making. In Recent Advances in Simulation, Computational Methods and Soft Computing, ed. E.Mastorakis. Piraeus, Greece: WSEAS Press.

McCauley, L., and S. Franklin. 2002. A Large-Scale Multi-Agent System for Navy Personnel Distribution. Connection Science 14:371-385.

Kelemen, A., Y. Liang, R. Kozma, and S. Franklin. 2002. Optimizing Intelligent Agents Constraint Satisfaction with Neural Networks. In Innovations in Intelligent Systems, ed. A. Abraham, and B. Nath. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag.

 

2001

Franklin, S.; 2001. An Agent Architecture Potentially Capable of Robust Autonomy. AAAI Spring Symposium on Robust Autonomy; American Association for Artificial Intelligence; Stanford, CA; March 2001. (View – Doc or PDF)

Franklin, S. 2001. Automating Human Information Agents. In Practical Applications of Intelligent Agents, ed. Z. Chen, and L. C. Jain. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. (View: Doc or PDF)

Franklin, S. 2001. Conscious Software: A Computational View of Mind. In Soft Computing Agents: New Trends for Designing Autonomous Systems, ed. V. Loia, and S. Sessa. Berlin: Springer (Physica-Verlag), 1 - 46.

Franklin, S., and A. Graesser. 2001. Modeling Cognition with Software Agents. In CogSci2001: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, ed. J. D. Moore, and K. Stenning. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; August 1-4, 2001. (View: Doc or PDF)

Kondadadi, R., and S. Franklin. 2001. Deliberative Decision Making in “Conscious” Software Agents. In Proceedings Of Sixth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB-01). (View: Doc or PDF)

Ramamurthy, U., A. Negatu, and S. Franklin; 200 Learning Mechanisms for Intelligent Systems. SSGRR-2001 International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education and e-Science on the Internet L'Aquila, Italy. August 6-12, 2001.

 

2000

Bogner, M., U. Ramamurthy, and S. Franklin. 2000. “Consciousness” and Conceptual Learning in a Socially Situated Agent. In Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology, ed. K. Dautenhahn. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (View – Doc or PS)

Franklin, S. 2000. A "Consciousness" Based Architecture for a Functioning Mind. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Designing a Functioning Mind, Birmingham, England, April 2000, ed. A. Sloman. (View: Doc or PDF)

Franklin, S. 2000. Building Life-Like "Conscious" Software Agents. Artificial Intelligence Communications 13:183-193.

Franklin, S. 2000. Deliberation and Voluntary Action in “Conscious” Software Agents. Neural Network World 10:505-521. (View – Doc or PDF)

Franklin, S. 2000. Learning in "Conscious" Software Agents. In Workshop on Development and Learning, ed. J. Wang. Michigan State University; East Lansing, Michigan, USA: NSF; DARPA; April 5-7, 2000.

Franklin, S. 2000. Modeling Consciousness and Cognition in Software Agents. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Groeningen, NL, March 2000, ed. N. Taatgen. (View: Doc or PDF)

Kondadati, R., D. Dasgupta, and S. Franklin 2000 An Evolutionary Approach for Job Assignment. Ninth International ISCA Conference on Intelligent Systems, ISCA.

McCauley, L., S. Franklin, and M. Bogner. 2000. An Emotion-Based "Conscious" Software Agent Architecture. In Affective Interactions, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence ed., vol. 1814, ed. A. Paiva. Berlin: Springer.

Song, H., and S. Franklin. 2000. A Behavior Instantiation Agent Architecture. Connection Science 12:21–44.

 

1999

Anwar, Ashraf and Franklin, Stan. (Forthcoming). Sparse distributed memory as a tool for "Conscious" Software Agents".

"Consciousness" And Conceptual Learning In A Socially Situated Agent by Myles Bogner, Uma Ramamurthy, and Stan Franklin, Chapter in Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology (Editor: Kerstin Dautenhahn). Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, Advances in Consciousness Research Series, 19. 1999 (PDF)

Anwar, A., D. Dasgupta, and S. Franklin. 1999. Using Genetic Algorithms for Sparse Distributed Memory Initialization. International Conference Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO). July 1999.

Bogner, Myles. 1999. Realizing "consciousness" in software agents (in PDF). Doctoral dissertation, The University of Memphis.

Franklin, S. 1999 Action Selection and Language Generation in "Conscious" Software Agents. Workshop on Behavior Planning for Life-Like Characters and Avatars I3. Sitges, Spain March 1999.

Franklin, S., and A. Graesser. 1999. A Software Agent Model of Consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition 8:285-305.

McCauley, Lee, Franklin, Stan, and Bogner, Myles. An Emotion-Based "Conscious" Software Agent Architecture. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Affect in Interactions Towards a New Generation of Interfaces, Siena, Italy, October 21-22, 1999. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Negatu, A., and S. Franklin; 1999. Behavioral learning for adaptive software agents Intelligent Systems: ISCA 5th International Conference; International Society for Computers and Their Applications - ISCA; Denver, Colorado; June 1999.

 

1998

Franklin, S., A. Kelemen, and L. McCauley. 1998. IDA: A Cognitive Agent Architecture. In IEEE Conf on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. IEEE Press.

McCauley, T. L., and S. Franklin. 1998. An Architecture for Emotion. In AAAI Fall Symposium Emotional and Intelligent: The Tangled Knot of Cognition. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

Ramamurthy, U., S. Franklin, and A. Negatu. 1998. Learning Concepts in Software Agents. In From animals to animats 5: Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, ed. R. Pfeifer, B. Blumberg, J.-A. Meyer, and S. W. Wilson. Cambridge,Mass: MIT Press.

Ramamurthy, U., M. Bogner, and S. Franklin. 1998. Conscious Learning in an Adaptive Software Agent. In Proceedings of the Second Asia Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, ed. X. Yao, R. I. McKay, C. S. Newton, J. H. Kim, and T. Furuhashi. Canberra, Australia: University of New South Wales. (View – PDF or PS)

Zhang, Zhaohua, Dasgupta, Dipankar, and Franklin, Stan 1998. Metacognition in software agents using classifier systems. Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Madison, Wisconsin. Cambridge: MIT Press, 83-88. (View:Doc )

Zhang, Zhaohua, Franklin, Stan, Olde, Brent, Wan, Yun and Graesser, Art. 1998. Natural language sensing for autonomous agents. Proc. IEEE Joint Symposia on Intelligence and Systems, Rockville, Maryland, 374-81.

 

1997

Franklin, Stan and Graesser, Art 1997. Is it an Agent, or just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents (with Art Graesser) Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, published as Intelligent Agents III, Springer-Verlag, 1997, 21-35.

Franklin, Stan, Autonomous Agents as Embodied AI Cybernetics and Systems, special issue on Epistomological Issues in Embodied AI, 28:6 1997 499-520.

Franklin, Stan, Doran, J. E., Jennings, N., E., and Norman T., J., On Cooperation in Multi-Agent Systems, The Knowledge Engineering Review Vol 12 (3) 1997, 309-314.

Franklin, Stan, Global Workspace Agents, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 4 (4) 1997, 322-234.

 

1996

Franklin, S., A. Graesser, B. Olde, H. Song, and A. Negatu; 1996. “Virtual Mattie: an Intelligent Clerical Agent”. Symposium on Embodied Cognition and Action; AAAI; Cambridge, MA; Nov.

Franklin, Stan, Song, Hongjun, and Negatu, Aregahegn, SUMPY: A Fuzzy Software Agent ed. F. C. Harris, Jr., Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of the ISCA 5th International Conference, (Reno Nevada, June 1996) Raleigh NC: International Society for Computers and Their Applications - ISCA, 124-129.

 

1995

Franklin, Stan, Artificial Minds, MIT Press.

 

1994

Franklin, Stan, Zhou, Lijia, Character Recognition Agents, Proceedings of Artificial Life IV, MIT Press, 1994, 301-306.