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Bookchapters

• [to appear] Torbjørn S. Dahl, Maja J Mataric´ and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, A machine learning method for improving task allocation in distributed multi-robot transportation. To appear in Complex Engineering Systems, Dan Braha, Ali Minai, and Yaneer Bar-Yam (Eds.), Perseus Books, Reading, Massachusetts, 2004. [ps] [pdf]

Journal Articles

• [submitted] Torbjørn S. Dahl, Maja J Mataric´ and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Multi-Robot Task Allocation through Vacancy Chains. Submitted to Autonomous Robots, March, 2004. [ps] [pdf]

• [submitted] Torbjørn S. Dahl and Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Incremental Development of Adaptive Behaviors using Trees of Self-Contained Solutions. Submitted to Adaptive Behavior, July, 2004. [ps] [pdf]

Refereed Conference and Workshop Papers

• Torbjørn S. Dahl, Maja J Mataric´ and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Emergent Robot Differentiation in Distributed Multi-Robot Task Allocation. To appear in the Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS'04), pp191-200, Toulouse, France, June 23 - 25, 2004. [ps] [pdf]

• Torbjørn S. Dahl, Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Evolution-inspired incremental development of complex autonomous intelligence. In the proceedings of the 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS'04), Frans Groen, Nancy M. Amato, Andrea Bonarini, Eiichi Yoshida and Ben Kröse (Eds.), pp395-402, IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 10 - 13, 2004. [ps] [pdf]

• Torbjørn S. Dahl, Maja J Mataric´ and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Multi-Robot Task Allocation through Vacancy Chains. In the Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'03), pp2293-2298, Taipei, Taiwan, September 14 - 19, 2003. [ps] [pdf]

• Torbjørn S. Dahl, Maja J Mataric´ and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Organization in Groups of Robots. In the Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'02), pp1044-1049, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 30 - October 4, 2002. [ps] [pdf]

• Torbjørn S. Dahl and Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Evolution, Adaptation, and Behavioural Holism in Artificial Intelligence. In the Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL'01), pp499-508, Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-14, 2001. [ps] [pdf]

• Torbjørn S. Dahl and Christophe Giraud-Carrier, PLANCS: Classes for Programming Adaptive Behaviour Based Robots. In the Proceeedings of the 2001 Convention on Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB'01), Symposium on Nonconscious Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial, pp9-20, York, UK, March 21 - 24, 2001. [ps] [pdf].

• Torbjørn S. Dahl, The Eel Programming Language and Internal Concurrency in Logic Agents. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in Logic Programming, (ICLP'99) , November 29 - December 4, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1999. [ps] [pdf]

• Siani Pearson, Chris W. Preist, Torbjørn S. Dahl and Eric deKroon, An Agent-Based Approach to Task Allocation in a Computer Support Team. In the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology (PAAM'97), pp365-380, London, UK, April 21-23, 1997.

• Torbjørn S. Dahl, Siani Pearson, and Chris W. Preist, An agent-Based System for Task Allocation Using Object Oriented Prolog. In the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Practical Application of Prolog (PAP'97), pp117-132, London, UK, April 21-23, 1997. [ps] [pdf]

Technical Reports

• Torbjørn S. Dahl, Maja J Mataric´ and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Scheduling with Group Dynamics: A Multi-Robot Task Allocation Algorithm Based on Vacancy Chains, Technical Report CRES-002-07, Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, University of Southern California, 2002. [ps] [pdf]

• Torbjørn S. Dahl, Background Knowledge in the Tertius First Order Knowledge Discovery Tool, Technical Report CSTR-99-006, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, 1999. [ps] [pdf]

• Torbjørn S. Dahl, Eel, a Declarative Language for Programming Adaptive Agents, Technical Report CSTR-98-008, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, 1998. [ps] [pdf]

Theses

• Torbjørn S. Dahl, Behaviour-Based Learning: Evolution-Inspired Development of Adaptive Robot Berhaviours, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, 2002. [pdf]

• Torbjørn S. Dahl, Logic Agent Architectures and Multi-Agent Systems, Masters Thesis, Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, University of London, 1997.

Popular Press

• Torbjørn S. Dahl, The Many Faces of Behavior, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) News, 53, pp12-13, April, 2003. [pdf] [ps]