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  1. What Are You Looking Forward to? Deliberate Positivity as a Promising Strategy for Conversational Agents

    Article • ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maria Gini

  2. EasyCaption: Investigating the Impact of Prolonged Exposure to Captioning on VR HMD on General Population

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  3. WisCompanion: Integrating the Socratic Method with ChatGPT-Based AI for Enhanced Explainability in Emotional Support for Older Adults

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  4. An empirical characterization of ODE models of swarm behaviors in common foraging scenarios

    Article • Autonomous Robots, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  5. SIERRA: A Modular Framework for Accelerating Research and Improving Reproducibility

    Article • May 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  6. A Correlated Random Walk Model to Rapidly Approximate Hitting Time Distributions in Multi-robot Systems

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  7. Quirk or Palmer: A Comparative Study of Modal Verb Frameworks with Annotated Datasets

    Article • January 2023, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Maria Gini

  8. Analysis of Exploration in Swarm Robotic Systems

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  9. Measuring Physiological Markers of Stress During Conversational Agent Interactions

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  10. Report from a panel at Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS).

    Article • AI Matters, September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Michael Luck, Maria Gini

  11. More Trees or Larger Trees: Parallelizing Monte Carlo Tree Search

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Games, September 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  12. Tell Me About Your Day: Designing a Conversational Agent for Time and Stress Management

    Article • November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  13. C-Nav: Distributed coordination in crowded multi-agent navigation

    Article • Robotics and Autonomous Systems, November 2020, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  14. Spoken Dialogue Systems for Medication Management

    Article • August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  15. Swarm Engineering Through Quantitative Measurement of Swarm Robotic Principles in a 10,000 Robot Swarm

    Article • August 2019, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence

    Maria Gini

  16. Iterated Local Search for Time-extended Multi-robot Task Allocation with Spatio-temporal and Capacity Constraints

    Article • Journal of Intelligent Systems, April 2019, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dalila Boughaci, Maria Gini

  17. Using word embeddings to generate data-driven human agent decision-making from natural language

    Article • GeoInformatica, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  18. Effects of Communication Restriction on Online Multi-robot Exploration in Bounded Environments

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  19. Lazy max-sum for allocation of tasks with growing costs

    Article • Robotics and Autonomous Systems, December 2018, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  20. Broadening applicability of swarm-robotic foraging through constraint relaxation

    Article • May 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  21. ALAN: adaptive learning for multi-agent navigation

    Article • Autonomous Robots, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  22. Communication-Restricted Exploration for Search Teams

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  23. Decentralized multi-robot allocation of tasks with temporal and precedence constraints

    Article • Advanced Robotics, November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Gini

  24. Determining child orientation from overhead video: A multiple kernel learning approach

    Article • October 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  25. Reports of the Workshops of the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

    Article • AI Magazine, September 2017, Wiley

    Maria Gini

  26. A taxonomy for task allocation problems with temporal and ordering constraints

    Article • Robotics and Autonomous Systems, April 2017, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  27. Special Issue on New Research Frontiers for Intelligent Autonomous Systems

    Article • Robotics and Autonomous Systems, April 2017, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  28. Max-Sum for Allocation of Changing Cost Tasks

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  29. Decentralized allocation of tasks with temporal and precedence constraints to a team of robots

    Article • December 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  30. Efficient heuristics for a time-extended multi-robot task allocation problem

    Article • November 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Dalila Boughaci, Maria Gini

  31. On Optimizing Airline Ticket Purchase Timing

    Article • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, October 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maria Gini

  32. Exploiting Spatial Locality and Heterogeneity of Agents for Search and Rescue Teamwork*

    Article • Journal of Field Robotics, May 2015, Wiley

    Maria Gini

  33. Anytime navigation with Progressive Hindsight optimization

    Article • September 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  34. A framework for predicting trajectories using global and local information

    Article • May 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maria Gini

  35. Agent-assisted supply chain management: Analysis and lessons learned

    Article • Decision Support Systems, January 2014, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  36. Multiagent Decision Making on Transportation Networks

    Article • Journal of Information Processing, January 2014, Information Processing Society of Japan

    Maria Gini

  37. Cooperation without Exploitation between Self-interested Agents

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  38. Improving Agent Team Performance through Helper Agents

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  39. Improving Prediction in TAC SCM by Integrating Multivariate and Temporal Aspects via PLS Regression

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  40. Task Allocation for Spatially and Temporally Distributed Tasks

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  41. Real-Time Tactical and Strategic Sales Management for Intelligent Agents Guided by Economic Regimes

    Article • Information Systems Research, December 2012, INFORMS

    Maria Gini

  42. Advisor Agent Support for Issue Tracking in Medical Device Development

    Article • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2012, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

    Maria Gini

  43. XRobots: A flexible language for programming mobile robots based on hierarchical state machines

    Article • May 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  44. Compositionality of Team Mental Models in Relation to Sharedness and Team Performance

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  45. Sustainable multi-robot patrol of an open polyline

    Article • May 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  46. Learning Belief Connections in a Model for Situation Awareness

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  47. Multi-Agent Systems for Energy Management

    Article • Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, October 2010, SAGE Publications

    Maria Gini

  48. Flexible decision support in dynamic inter-organisational networks

    Article • European Journal of Information Systems, August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Gini

  49. Advances in autonomous robots for service and entertainment

    Article • Robotics and Autonomous Systems, July 2010, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  50. Repeated auctions for robust task execution by a robot team

    Article • Robotics and Autonomous Systems, July 2010, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  51. Analyzing Market Interactions in a Multi-agent Supply Chain Environment

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  52. Automated Analysis of Auction Traces

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  53. Coordinating Decisions in a Supply-Chain Trading Agent

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  54. Decision and Coordination Strategies for RoboCup Rescue Agents

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  55. Swarm Dispersion via Potential Fields, Leader Election, and Counting Hops

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  56. Detecting and forecasting economic regimes in multi-agent automated exchanges

    Article • Decision Support Systems, November 2009, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  57. Ontology-Driven Decision Support in Dynamic Supply-Chains

    Article • July 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  58. Predicting opponent resource allocations when qualitative and contextual information is not available

    Article • April 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maria Gini

  59. Flexible decision control in an autonomous trading agent

    Article • Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, March 2009, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  60. Flexible Decision Support in a DynamicBusiness Network

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  61. Preferences of agents in decentralized task allocation

    Article • AI Communications, January 2009, SAGE Publications

    Maria Gini

  62. Performance Evaluation of a Multi-Robot Search & Retrieval System: Experiences with MinDART

    Article • Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, May 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  63. Appearance-based mapping using minimalistic sensor models

    Article • Autonomous Robots, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  64. Performance Evaluation of Repeated Auctions for Robust Task Execution

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  65. Agents Preferences in Decentralized Task Allocation

    Article • January 2008, IOS Press

    Maria Gini

  66. Appearance-based mapping using minimalistic sensor models

    Article • Autonomous Robots, December 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  67. A predictive empirical model for pricing and resource allocation decisions

    Article • August 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maria Gini

  68. Decentralized task allocation using magnet

    Article • August 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maria Gini

  69. Using Robots to Raise Interest in Technology Among Underrepresented Groups

    Article • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, June 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  70. Good Experimental Methodologies for Robotic Mapping: A Proposal

    Article • April 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  71. Building Segment-Based Maps Without Pose Information

    Article • Proceedings of the IEEE, July 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  72. Implantable medical devices as agents and part of multiagent systems

    Article • May 2006, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maria Gini

  73. Dispersion and exploration algorithms for robots in unknown environments

    Article • May 2006, SPIE

    Maria Gini

  74. Identifying and Forecasting Economic Regimes in TAC SCM

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  75. MAGNET: A Multi-Agent System using Auctions with Temporal and Precedence Constraints

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  76. Design and implementation of a secure multi-agent marketplace

    Article • Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, December 2004, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  77. A comparison of maximum likelihood methods for appearance-based minimalistic SLAM

    Article • January 2004, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  78. Map building without odometry information

    Article • January 2004, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  79. Resource scheduling and load balancing in distributed robotic control systems

    Article • Robotics and Autonomous Systems, September 2003, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  80. Introduction

    Article • Robotics and Autonomous Systems, September 2003, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  81. Asking the right question: Risk and expectation in multiagent contracting

    Article • Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturing, August 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Maria Gini

  82. Guest Introduction

    Article • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, May 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  83. An evolutionary framework for studying behaviors of economic agents

    Article • January 2003, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maria Gini

  84. Article • Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  85. Security model for a multi-agent marketplace

    Article • January 2003, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maria Gini

  86. Sharing control [multiple miniature robots]

    Article • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, December 2002, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  87. Performance of a distributed robotic system using shared communications channels

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, October 2002, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  88. A Multi-Agent Negotiation Testbed for Contracting Tasks with Temporal and Precedence Constraints

    Article • International Journal of Electronic Commerce, October 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Gini

  89. Agent-Based Approaches to B2B Electronic Commerce

    Article • International Journal of Electronic Commerce, October 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Gini

  90. A robot team for surveillance tasks: Design and architecture

    Article • Robotics and Autonomous Systems, August 2002, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  91. Bidtree Ordering in IDA Combinatorial Auction Winner-Determination with Side Constraints

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  92. Performance of a Distributed Robotic System Using Shared Communication Channels

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  93. Risk and expectations in a-priori time allocation in multi-agent contracting

    Article • January 2002, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maria Gini

  94. <title>Performance of a distributed robotic system using shared communications channels</title>

    Article • October 2001, SPIE

    Maria Gini

  95. Dynamic scheduling of a fixed bandwidth communications channel for controlling multiple robots

    Article • May 2001, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maria Gini

  96. Exploring decision processes in multi-agent automated contracting

    Article • May 2001, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maria Gini

  97. Decision processes in agent-based automated contracting

    Article • IEEE Internet Computing, January 2001, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  98. Mixed-initiative decision support in agent-based automated contracting

    Article • June 2000, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maria Gini

  99. Enlisting rangers and scouts for reconnaissance and surveillance

    Article • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, January 2000, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  100. Partitioning-based clustering for Web document categorization

    Article • Decision Support Systems, December 1999, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  101. Bid Evaluation and Selection in the MAGNET Automated Contracting System

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  102. Document Categorization and Query Generation on the World Wide Web Using WebACE

    Article • Artificial Intelligence Review, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  103. Repeatability of Real World Training Experiments: A Case Study

    Article • Autonomous Robots, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  104. A client‐side Web agent for document categorization

    Article • Internet Research, December 1998, Emerald

    Maria Gini

  105. Magma an agent based virtual market for electronic commerce

    Article • Applied Artificial Intelligence, September 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Gini

  106. Sensor explication: knowledge-based robotic plan execution through logical objects

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B (Cybernetics), August 1997, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  107. Diagnosing congenital heart defects using the Fallot computational model

    Article • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, May 1997, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  108. Logical sensor/actuator : knowledge-based robotic plan execution

    Article • Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, April 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Gini

  109. A case-based approach to planar linkage design

    Article • Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, April 1997, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  110. Measuring the Effectiveness of Reinforcement Learning for Behavior-Based Robots

    Article • Adaptive Behavior, January 1997, SAGE Publications

    Maria Gini

  111. Robust strategies for diagnosing manufacturing defects

    Article • Applied Artificial Intelligence, October 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Gini

  112. Designing and Building Autonomous Minirobots

    Article • Computer Science Education, January 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Gini

  113. Robot navigation in a known environment with unknown moving obstacles

    Article • Autonomous Robots, January 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  114. Toward Real-Time Motion Planning

    Article • January 1994, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  115. Error management for robot programming

    Article • Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, February 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  116. An Empirical Study of Sensing and Defaulting in Planning

    Article • January 1992, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  117. Path tracking through uncharted moving obstacles

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, January 1990, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  118. An object-oriented approach to robot programming

    Article • Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems, February 1989, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  119. The future of robot programming

    Article • Robotica, July 1987, Cambridge University Press

    Maria Gini

  120. Reliable real‐time robot operation employing intelligent forward recovery

    Article • Journal of Robotic Systems, September 1986, Wiley

    Maria Gini

  121. From goals to manipulator programs

    Article • Computers in Industry, June 1986, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  122. Robotic programs for manipulation can use a frame-based model of the world

    Article • ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, April 1985, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Giuseppina Carla Gini, Maria Gini

  123. A software laboratory for visual inspection and recognition

    Article • Pattern Recognition, January 1985, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  124. Robot Languages in the Eighties

    Article • January 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  125. Standardization issues in robot languages

    Article • Computers and Standards, January 1985, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  126. The integration of manipulation and vision for assembly and quality control

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, March 1983, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Gini

  127. Explicit programming languages in industrial robots

    Article • Journal of Manufacturing Systems, January 1983, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  128. ADA: A language for robot programming?

    Article • Computers in Industry, December 1982, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  129. Interactive development of object handling programs

    Article • Computer Languages, January 1982, Elsevier

    Prof Giuseppina Carla Gini, Maria Gini

  130. DETERMINISTIC AND N0NDETERMIN1STIC PROGRAMMING IN ROBOT SYSTEMS

    Article • Cybernetics & Systems, January 1981, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Gini

  131. Quasinatural language in consultation systems

    Article • Information Sciences, July 1980, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  132. A serial model for computer assisted medical diagnosis

    Article • International Journal of Bio-Medical Computing, March 1980, Elsevier

    Maria Gini

  133. A multi-task system for robot programming

    Article • ACM SIGPLAN Notices, May 1979, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maria Gini

  134. SOFTWARE FEATURES FOR INTELLIGENT INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS

    Article • Kybernetes, February 1979, Emerald

    Maria Gini

  135. Conniver programs by logical point of view

    Article • January 1975, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  136. A Market-Pressure-Based Performance Evaluator for TAC-SCM

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  137. Dynamic task allocation for robots via auctions

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  138. No fear: University of Minnesota Robotics Day Camp introduces local youth to hands-on technologies

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  139. Robotic Swarm Dispersion Using Wireless Intensity Signals

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  140. Merging Partial Maps Without Using Odometry

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  141. Visual servoing of a miniature robot toward a marked target

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  142. System architecture for versatile autonomous and teleoperated control of multiple miniature robots

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  143. Partitioning input space for reinforcement learning for control

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  144. Achieving Goals Through Interaction With Sensors And Actuators

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  145. On reusing linkage designs

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  146. The role of knowledge in the architecture of a robust robot control

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Maria Gini

  147. Programming a vision system

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  148. Programming languages for manipulation and vision in industrial robots

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini

  149. Towards automatic error recovery in robot programs

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gini