Timothy W. Rauenbusch

I am a Computer Scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International. In June 2004, I successfully defended my dissertation at Harvard and moved to San Francisco to join Charlie Ortiz' research group at SRI.

The focus of my work is on team decision making and negotiation. I'm interested in learning how people make decisions together, and how computer systems can work for and with people to make more effective group decisions. On this page, you will find information about my publications and teaching. Please feel free to contact me for more information.

Contact Information

Artificial Intelligence Center
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Avenue EK235
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Tel: 650-859-4693
Email: rauenbusch (at-sign) ai.sri.com

Research Publications

Dissertation:
Timothy W. Rauenbusch (2004). Measuring Information Transmission for Team Decision Making. Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University. [Postscript] [PDF]

Book Chapters and Journal Articles:
CURRICULUM VITAE David E. Wilkins, Stephen F. Smith, Laurence A. Kramer, Thomas J. Lee and Timothy W. Rauenbusch (2007). Airlift mission monitoring and dynamic rescheduling. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. In Press (available online 30 May 2007). [PDF]

Charles L. Ortiz, Jr., Timothy W. Rauenbusch and Eric Hsu (2003). Dynamic resource-bounded negotiation in non-additive domains. In Victor Lesser, Charles L. Ortiz and Milind Tambe (Eds.) Distributed Sensor Networks: A Multiagent Perspective. In Series: Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations, Volume 9. Kluwer Academic Publishers. [Amazon.com Link]

Conference and Workshop Proceedings:
Tapana Gupta, Pradeep Varakantham, Timothy W. Rauenbusch and Milind Tambe (2007). Demonstration of Teamwork in Uncertain Domains using Hybrid BDI-POMDP systems. Demonstration in: Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Honolulu, Hawaii). [PDF]

Timothy W. Rauenbusch, Stuart M. Shieber and Barbara J. Grosz (2005). Computing the Communication Costs of Item Allocation. In: ICAPS-05 Workshop on Planning with and for Multiagent Systems (Monterey, CA). Also appeared as poster in: Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Utrecht, Netherlands). [Postscript] [PDF]

David E. Wilkins, Steven F. Smith, Laurence A. Kramer, Thomas J. Lee, and Timothy W. Rauenbusch (2005). Execution Monitoring and Replanning with Incremental and Collaborative Scheduling. In: ICAPS 2005 Workshop on Multiagent Planning and Scheduling (Monterey, CA). [Postscript] [PDF]

Timothy W. Rauenbusch and Barbara J. Grosz (2003). A Decision Making Procedure for Collaborative Planning. Poster in: Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Melbourne, Australia). [Postscript] [PDF]

Timothy W. Rauenbusch (2002). The Mediation Algorithm for Real Time Negotiation. Poster in: Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Bologna, Italy). 1139–1140. [Postscript] [PDF]

Charles L. Ortiz, Jr., Timothy W. Rauenbusch (2002). Dynamic Negotiation. In: AAAI-02 Workshop on Planning with and for Multiagent Systems (Edmonton, AB). 54–59. [Postscript] [PDF]

Charles L. Ortiz, Jr., Eric Hsu, Marie desJardins, Timothy W. Rauenbusch, Barbara Grosz, Osher Yadgar, Sarit Kraus (2001). Incremental Negotiation and Coalition Formation for Resource-Bound Agents: Preliminary Report. In: AAAI Fall Symposium on Negotiation Methods for Autonomous Cooperative Systems (Cape Cod, MA). 53–62. [Postscript] [PDF]

Timothy W. Rauenbusch (2000). Towards Efficient Negotiation Mechanisms for Collaboration. Poster in: Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI-2000 (Austin, TX). 1091.

Timothy W. Rauenbusch (1996). Quick Start Guide to Eniac. University of Pennsylvania CIS Technical Report MS-CIS-96-39.

Teaching Experience

Guest Lectures
Collaborative Multi-agent Systems, University of California at Berkeley (Dr. Charles L. Ortiz), 2005.
Multi-agent Planning Systems, Harvard University (Professor Barbara J. Grosz), 2005.

Teaching Fellow, Department of Computer Science, Harvard University
CS 96: System Design Projects (Professor Stuart M. Shieber)
CS 285: Multi-agent Planning Systems (Professor Barbara J. Grosz)
CS 182: Intelligent Machines: Reasoning, Actions and Plans (Professor Barbara J. Grosz)
CS 50: Introduction to Computer Science I (Professor Stuart M. Shieber)