Contact
Office: Mathematics/Computer Science/Physics Building (BP) 342
Tel: 508-793-7346
Fax: 508-421-3715
Email: pxuan@clarku.edu
Teaching
- CSCI 170: Programming Languages
- CSCI 111: Diving into Computer Science Research Group - Making your own computer games
- (Fall 07) CSCI 220: Database Systems
- (Fall 07) CSCI 160: Algorithms
- (Fall 07) CSCI 110: Diving into Computer Science Research Group - Making your own computer games
Research
Research areas: multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence, real-time systems, planning and scheduling, information systems, data mining and machine learning
Selected publications:
- Ping Xuan. Techniques for Robust Planning in Degradable Multiagent Systems. In P. Scerri, et al, editors, Challenges in the Coordination of Large Scale Multiagent Systems, Springer, 2005.
- Ping Xuan and Victor Lesser. Multi-agent policies: from centralized ones to decentralized ones. In Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-02), Bologna, Italy, 2002.
- Ping Xuan, Victor Lesser, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Communication Decisions in Multi-agent Cooperation: Model and Experiments. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS 2001), Montreal, Canada, 2001.
- Ping Xuan and Victor Lesser. Incorporating uncertainty in agent commitments. In N.R. Jennings and Y. Lesperance, editors, Intelligent Agents VI --- Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL-99), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000.
Education
- PhD, computer science, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, 2002.
- MS, computer science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1998
- BS, physics, Peking University, China, 1994