Invited Talks

Ontologies for Flexible Integration: multi-collection inquiry in large digital libraries
Conference on Information, Knowledge, and Knowledge Management (IuK2000). March 2000, Darmstadt, Germany.

Publications

Agent-Based Digital Libraries: Decentralization and Coordination
Peter Weinstein, William P. Birmingham, Edmund Durfee
IEEE Communications Magazine 37(1): 110-115, January 1999.

Integrating Ontological Metadata: algorithms that predict semantic compatibility
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, July 1999.

Comparing Concepts in Differentiated Ontologies
Peter Weinstein and William P. Birmingham
Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management (KAW'99). October 1999, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Agent Communication with Differentiated Ontologies: eight new measures of description compatibility
Peter Weinstein and William P. Birmingham
Technical Report CSE-TR-383-99, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, 1999.

Creating Ontological Metadata for Digital Library Content and Services
Peter Weinstein and William P. Birmingham
International Journal on Digital Libraries, special issue on artificial intelligence for digital libraries, 2(1): 20-37, Springer-Verlag, 1998.

Ontology-Based Metadata: Transforming the MARC Legacy
Peter Weinstein
Proceedings of the Third International ACM Digital Library conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 1998.

Untangling the Web: Technology in the Constructivist Classroom
Peter Weinstein, Jon Margerum-Leys, Marilyn Page
Chapter 8 in Creating and Sustaining the Constructivist Classroom, Bruce A. Marlowe and Marilyn L. Page, Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks CA, 1998.

The Dynamics of the UMDL Service Market Society
Edmund Durfee, Tracy Mullen, Sunju Park, Jose Vidal, Peter Weinstein (alphabetical)
Invited address, Second International Workshop at Cooperative Information Agents: Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery in the Internet. July 1998, Paris, France.

Strategic Reasoning and Adaptation in an Information Economy
Edmund Durfee, Tracy Mullen, Sunju Park, Jose Vidal, Peter Weinstein (alphabetical)
In Intelligent Information Agents, M. Klusch (editor), Springer Verlag, 1998.

Service Classification in a Proto-Organic Society of Agents
Peter Weinstein and William P. Birmingham
Proceedings of the IJCAI-97 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Digital Libraries, August 1997, Nagoya, Japan.

Seed Ontologies: growing digital libraries as distributed, intelligent systems
Peter Weinstein and Gene Alloway
Proceedings of the Second International ACM Digital Library conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 1997.

Matching Requests for Agent Services with Differentiated Vocabulary
Peter Weinstein and William P. Birmingham
Student abstract, Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97).

Runtime Classification of Agent Services
Peter Weinstein and William P. Birmingham
Proceedings of the AAAI-97 Spring Symposium on Ontological Engineering at Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, USA, March 1997.

Customized Metadata for Internet Information
Brian Dunkel, Nandit Soparkar, and Peter Weinstein
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Conventional and Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems (KES '97), Adelaide, Australia, May 1997.

Social Structure and the Development of Self-Esteem in Young Children
Aaron M. Pallas, Doris R. Entwisle, Karl L. Alexander, Peter Weinstein
Social Psychology Quarterly, 1990, Dec Vol 53(4) 302-315.

Other Papers

Agent Communication in Semantically Heterogenous Societies (1997)

Matching Expressions with Differentiated Vocabulary: Technology for Knowledge Sharing in Partially Focused Communities (1996)

An Expert System for Substantive Support of Project Based Education (1995)

Computer Interpretation of Natural Language Explanations in the Model-It Learning Tool (1994)

Learning: A Model of Personal Growth (1985)

A Model of Change: with applications to software engineering and social organization (1983)


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