Current Work
- Risk-Managed Solutions for Combinatorial Auctions, with Barry O'Sullivan, in preparation for submission to The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR).
Recent Publications
- Tarik Hadzic, Alan Holland and Barry O'Sullivan, Reasoning about Optimal Collections of Solutions, To appear in the Fifteenth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-09), Springer Verlag, 5732, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2009.
- Alan Holland, A Prediction Market for Toxic Assets, To appear in Proceedings of the Twentieth Irish Conference on Artificial Intellligence and Cognitive Science (AICS) 2009, Springer Verlag LNAI xxxx, Dublin, Ireland. (A news article discussing the concept promoted in this paper was published by Communications of the ACM).).
- Alan Holland, Strategic Interaction in Ratcheted Gas Storage , Proc. of 7th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, 2009. (INDIN09), June 2009, Cardiff, Wales.
- Alan Holland, Welfare Losses in Commodity Storage Games (Short Paper) , Proc. of 8th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), May 2009, Budapest, Hungary. (see full INDIN09 paper above)
- Alan Holland, A Decision Support Tool for Energy Storage Optimization , Proceedings of 20th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2008), Oct 2008.
- Alan Holland, A Game Theoretic Analysis of Shared Natural Gas Storage Facilities , Proceedings of the 19th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Aug 2008.
- Alan Holland, A Hybrid Model for Optimizing Gas Storage Utilisation, Proceedings of the 19th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Aug 2008. See ICTAI'08 paper above for full version.
- Chenjie Zhu, Alan Holland and Barry O'Sullivan Towards Category Management in Combinatorial Auctions , Proceedings of the 19th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Aug 2008.
- Eoin O’Mahony, Emmanuel Hebrard, Alan Holland, Conor Nugent and Barry O’Sullivan, Using Case-based Reasoning in an Algorithm Portfolio for Constraint Solving , Proceedings of the 19th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Aug 2008. (First place in international CSP Solver Competition 2008)
- Alan Holland, A Kelly Criterion Approach to Dynamic Algorithm Portfolio Balancing, Proceedings of the 18th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitice Science (AICS-07), Dublin, Ireland, August 2007
- Alan Holland and Barry O'Sullivan, Truthful Risk-Managed Combinatorial Auctions , Proceedings of IJCAI-07, Hyderabad, India, January 2007
- Alan Holland, Optimization of Injection/Withdrawal Schedules for Natural Gas Storage Facilities, Proceedings of the Twenty-seventh SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-2007), Springer Verlag, Cambridge, England, December 2007
- Alan Holland, Injection/Withdrawal Scheduling for Natural Gas Storage Facilities , Proceedings of Symposium of Applied Computing 2007, ACM Press, Seoul, South Korea, March 2007.
- Alan Holland, Stochastic Optimisation for a Gas Storage Facility, Demonstrations Track, Principles and Practices of Constraint Programming (CP-2006), Sept 2006, Nantes, France.
- Lynne Cosgrave, Alan Holland, PJ O'Halloran, Barry O'Sullivan, Combinatorial Auctions for Commercial Property, Demonstrations Track, Principles and Practices of Constraint Programming (CP-2006), Nantes, France, September 2006.
- Alan Holland, The Design of Strategic Dilemmas for Entertainment Computing, Proceedings of Irish IT&T Conference, Carlow, Ireland, October 2006
- Alan Holland, Risk Management for Combinatorial Auctions, PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University College Cork, Ireland, July 2005.
- Alan Holland and Barry O'Sullivan, Weighted Super Solutions for Constraint Programs , Proceedings of AAAI-05, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 2005
- Alan Holland and Barry O'Sullivan, Robust Solutions for Combinatorial Auctions , ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, June 2005, Vancouver, Canada
- Alan Holland and Barry O'Sullivan, Weighted Super Solutions for Constraint Programs , Technical Report: Number UCC-CS-2004-12-02, December 2004
- Alan Holland and Barry O'Sullivan, Super solutions for combinatorial auctions, Workshop on Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints, ECAI 2004, Valencia, Spain (ppt)
- Alan Holland and Barry O'Sullivan, Super solutions for combinatorial auctions, ERCIM/Colognet Constraints Workshop, 2004, Springer LNAI, Lausanne (ppt)
- Alan Holland and Barry O'Sullivan, Towards Fast Vickrey-Pricing using Constraint Programming , Artificial Intelligence Review, 21, 335-352, 2004
- Alan Holland and Barry O'Sullivan, Fast Vickrey-pricing for the Assignment Problem, Ercim/Colognet Constraints Workshop '03, Budapest.
- Alan Holland, Barry
O'Callaghan, Barry O'Sullivan, Supporting Constraint-Aided Conceptual Design from First Principles in Autodesk Inventor
in Proceedings of IEA/AIE, Springer, LNCS , Canada, May, 2004.
- Alan Holland, Barry
O'Callaghan, Barry O'Sullivan, A Constraint-Aided Conceptual Design Environment
for Autodesk Inventor in Proceedings of CP-2003 , 2003.
- Alan Holland, Barry
O'Callaghan, Barry O'Sullivan : A Constraint-Aided Conceptual Design
Environment for Autodesk Inventor in Proceedings of the ERCIM/CologNet
International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming ,
2003.
- Alan Holland, Barry
O'Sullivan : Efficient Vickrey-Pricing for Grid Service Providers in
Proceedings of the ERCIM/CologNet International Workshop on Constraint Solving
and Constraint Logic Programming , 2003.
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