Steven Orla Kimbrough
University of Pennsylvania, Jon M. Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street, Suite 500, Room 565,
Philadelphia, Pa 19104. 215-898-5133.
Papers & Projects
Agent communication languages. Formal semantics for business, and
generally machine-to-machine, communication. Emphasis on electronic
commerce.
Indicative publications: "The normative aspect of signalling
and the distinction between
performative and constative"
(Andrew J.I. Jones and Steven O. Kimbrough), Journal of Applied
Logic.
"A Note on Interpretations for Federated Languages and the Use of Disquotation" (Steven O. Kimbrough), Proceedings of the International Conference on AI and Law, 2005.
Information retrieval. Pattern-oriented access to information. Data
mining. Text data mining. Information management. Content
management. Practical Reasoning's Core of Discovery. Literature-based
discovery.
Indicative publications: "On Pattern-Directed Search of Archives and Collections" (Garett O. Dworman, Steven O. Kimbrough, and Chuck Patch), Journal of the American Society for Information Science.
"Exemplary documents: a foundation for information retrieval design" (David C. Blair and Steven O. Kimbrough), Information Processing & Management.
Vaim: Value-Added Information Mash
Vaim Faqs (PDF)
Draft: Vaim Design Faqs (PDF)
"Executive Briefing:
Text Mining for Business Intelligence'' (foils in PDF)
MV:Biofuels, example queries
Patent:
7,257,568, "Process and system for matching products and markets,"
August 14, 2007.
Patent applications: Process and system for matching products and markets (number 20030093421) and
Categorized Document Bases (number 20070106662).
Agents, games and strategic interaction, evolution, computational rationality.
Indicative publication: "Simple reinforcement learning agents: Pareto beats
Nash in an algorithmic game theory study" (Steven O. Kimbrough and Ming Lu), Information Systems and e-Business Management.
Deliberation support. Metaheuristics and Management Science (MandMS).
Randomized metaheuristics for constrained optimization. Agent-based
modeling. Experimental algorithmics (empirical investigation of
randomized metaheuristics). Genetic algorithms. Etc.
Indicative publications: "On
a Feasible-Infeasible Two-Populatin (FI-2Pop) genetic algorithm for
constrained optimization: Distance tracing and no free lunch"
(Steven Orla Kimbrough, Gary J. Koehler, Ming Lu, and David Harlan
Wood), European Journal of Operational Research.
"On Heuristic Mapping of Decision Surfaces for Post-Evaluation Analysis" (Branley, Fradin, Kimbrough and Shafer), 1997.
Teaching, Spring 2008
Current CV
Recent Presentations
- "Foraging for Trust: Exploring Rationality and the Stag Hunt
Game," Steve Kimbrough, INFORMS, San Francisco, 16 November 2005.
Foils in PDF.
- "A Look at Simple, Learnable Pricing Policies in Electricity
Markets," Steve Kimbrough and Fred Murphy, INFORMS, San Francisco, 13
November 2005. Foils in PDF.
- "Introducing the Fair and Logical Trade Project," CoAla 2005,
David Eyers,
Alan Abrahams, Steven Kimbrough, Jean Bacon, and Andrew Jones.
Foils in PDF.
Paper in PDF.
Workshop on Contract Architectures and Languages (CoALa2005)
20 September 2005, Enschede, The Netherlands
Workshop.
- "Foraging for Trust: Exploring Rationality and the Stag Hunt
Game," Steve Kimbrough, keynote talk at the Third International
Conference on Trust Management, 25 May 2005, INRIA, Rocquencourt,
France.
Conference homepage.
Foils in PDF.
- "One Thing at a Time: Evaluating Profit and Legality,
or
On the Contributions of Losers: Exploring the Benefits of Retaining
Infeasiblegeneticalgorithmforconstrainedoptimization:
Distancetracingandno Solutions During Search for a Constrained Optimum,"
GA Tech and CIST, October 2004.
Foils in PDF.
Photos: Wisconsin State Historical Society. Chuck Patch's favorite from the Wisconsin State Historical Society Web Site is
Three Rennebohm Waitresses .
Useful Links
- U@Penn website or alt.
- Wired story on Hemingway's six words.
- PubMed, www.pubmed.gov.
- Billie Holliday and some jazz all stars.
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| 18 September 2007