Joseph Andrew Giampapa

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Key Responsibilities

Joseph Giampapa leads research and development efforts that leverage his expertise in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems (AAMAS), agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS), artificial intelligence (AI), and language technologies, for the purposes of achieving understanding, control, predictability and justified confidence in the behavior of distributed, autonomous, and socio-technical computer systems. Some representative projects are:

• Development of multi-system assurance techniques and technologies for electrical power grid SCADA systems.
• Development of assurance techniques for autonomous, distributed, and non-teleoperated robotic teams.
• Development of assurance techniques for human cyber-physical systems (HCPSs).
• Analysis of heuristics for the distributed optimization of multiple objective, multiply constrained distributed entities (multi-objective DCOP)
• Analysis and development of techniques for the automatic certification of a composite information system (e.g. Edge, cloud or SOA systems)
• Design and development of automatic policy enforcement mechanisms, such as granting topic-based need-to-know privileges to access restricted information or techniques for automatically applying normative reasoning to computer-mediated human activity

Professional Background

Joseph Giampapa is a senior member of the technical staff at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. Prior to that, he served for over eleven years in the CMU School of Computer Science (SCS) Robotics Institute (RI), where he was a research computer scientist and project manager in the Intelligent Agents Lab. Over the course of roughly twenty sponsored research projects he investigated the following research topics:

• Principles for the architecture and design of autonomous multi-agent systems, including techniques for transitioning and interoperating with stand-alone and legacy software systems,
• Ad hoc interoperability across multi-agent system boundaries,
• Autonomous agent assistance for humans working in and across multiple normative policy environments,
• Theories of teamwork and team cooperation, including the integration of robot, agent, and person teams,
• Autonomous agent-mediated multi-level information fusion,
• Autonomous agent-mediated secure information workflows and document routing,
• Topic-based need-to-know information assurance,
• And others,

attracting investment from sponsors: Lockheed-Martin, Navy Personnel Research, Studies, and Technology (NPRST), Cyrusoft, Finmeccanica, and L3-Com.

Prior to joining the Robotics Institute, Joseph Giampapa was a researcher in the SCS Language Technologies Institute (LTI), where he developed and maintained the English language semantic analysis and automatic disambiguation components of the Catalyst multi-lingual automatic machine translation system. Catalyst is in use by Caterpillar for the automatic translation of its technical documentation from English to multiple target languages with 98 - 100% accuracy.

Before joining CMU, Joseph Giampapa designed and managed industrial software development projects for Olivetti in Milan, Italy: one was a tax evasion detection product line based on AI technologies and data mining techniques; another was a fault tolerant multi-protocol data communications gateway and message switching center for a major European commercial passenger airline.

University Teaching Experience

Electrical and Computer Engineering research seminar 18-890, Modeling and Simulating Energy Grids (MSEG), with prof. Gabriela Hug-Glanzmann, 12 and 15 credit hours and paid summer research.

Electrical and Computer Engineering research seminar 18-890, Simulation of Distributed Coordination Algorithms Overlaid on Networks (SDCAON), with prof. Radu Marculescu, 12 and 15 credit hours and paid summer research.

Thesis Referee for doctoral thesis in the program, "Ingegneria Informatica" at the Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica of the University of Rome "La Sapienza". Doctor candidate: Giuseppe Paolo Settembre. Thesis title: Multi-agent Approach to Situation Assessment. 

Thesis Reader and advisor for Information Networking Institute master's student, Gregor Kronenberger. Thesis topic: The evaluation of autonomous agent team coordination protocols in wireless ad hoc networks. 

Thesis Reader and advisor for Information Networking Institute master's student, Kevin C. Lee. Thesis topic: MIGSOCK II, TCP sockets for the strong mobility of network applications. 

Thesis Reader and advisor for Information Networking Institute master's student, Austin Fath. Thesis topic: THISTLE, a multi-agent system for automatically resolving network interoperability problems. 

Thesis Reader and advisor for Information Networking Institute master's students, Bryan Kuntz and Karthik Rajan. Thesis topic: MIGSOCK, TCP sockets for strong mobility of network applications.

Teaching Assistant for Tepper School Master of Science in Electronic Commerce (MSEC) Program 20-854.

Program Committee Member and Publication Reviewer

Program Committee Member and Reviewer for numerous academic journals, conferences, workshops, symposia and book proposals.

• International Joint Conferences on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2002 – 2010, program committee, 2010
• International Conference on Autonomous Agents Conferences (Agents), 2000 – 2001
• Artificial Intelligence and the Web (AIWeb), a technical conference track of AAAI, 2007
• ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (CHI), 2008
• International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI) program committee, 2005 – 2011
• IEEE Workshop on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation (CoMetS), program committee, 2010 - 2011
• JCAI Workshop on Cognitive Modeling of Agents and Multi-Agent Interactions (CMAMAI), 2003
• European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) program committee, 2002
• European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 2007
• Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation (HuCom) program committee, 2010, reviewer for HuCom journal articles, 2010
• IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) program committee, 2003 – 2011, Vice Chair, 2007
• IEEE Internet Computing (IC) magazine, 2007
• International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) program committee, 2009 – 2011
• International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR), 2003
• IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), 2007 – 2009
• International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) program committee, 2004 – 2011
• IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), 2006
• International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2003
• International Journal of Production Economics (IJPE) Special Issue on Robust Supply Chains under Uncertainty, 2009
• International Journal of Semantic Computing (IJSC), 2008 – 2009
• International Journal on Simulation Systems Science and Technology (IJSSST), 2006 – 2007
• International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics (IMCIC) program committee, 2010 - 2011
• International Journal of Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (JWIAS), Journal of the Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), 2009 – 2010
• Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS), 2001
• Knowledge Communication and Peer Reviewing (KCPR), book proposal reviewer, 2006
• International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS) program committee, 2010 - 2011, post proceedings reviewer, 2010
• INSTICC International Workshop on Multi-Agent Robotic Systems (MARS) program committee, 2006
• European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR) Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Case-Based Reasoning (MICBR) program committee, 2002
• Oxford University Press, New York, book proposal reviewer, 2003
• IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PERCOM), 2003
• International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA) programcommittee, 2009 – 2011
• IJCAI Workshop on Representation, Reasoning, and Learning in Computer Games program committee, 2005
• RoboCup Symposium, 2001, 2005
• Elsevier Science of Computer Programming (SCP) journal, 2008 – 2009
• Summer Computer Simulation Conference (SCSC) program committee, 2010
• Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS) program committee, 2003–2004
• Member of the Evaluation Committee for two editions of the book, Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems, LNCS, Springer, 2003, 2005
• IEEE International Workshop on Software Patterns: Addressing Challenges (SPAC), 2007
•  World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (WMSCI) program committee, 2003 – 2011

Research Grant Proposal Reviewer

Grant Proposal Reviewer for scientific and commercial research and development (R&D) grand proposals that are sponsored by federal, state, and foreign governments.

• International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS), 2008
• State of Kentucky Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program, 2007
• State of Michigan 21st Century Jobs Fund Competition, 2006
• United States Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF) First Steps to Market Grants Program, 2004
• Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO) Computer Science Open Competition, 2003

Publications (recent or significant)

• Edge Enabled Systems
  Zacharie Hall, Rick Kazman, Daniel Plakosh, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Kurt Wallau. Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) SOLUTIONS Series George Mason University Symposium on Critical Issues in C4I, May 2010.
• An Overview of Distributed Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization
  Andres Diaz Pace, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Mark Klein, and John Goodenough. Presentation, March 2010. pp. 85.
• Agent Support for Policy-driven Collaborative Mission Planning
  Katia Sycara, Timothy J. Norman, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Martin Kollingbaum, Christopher Burnett, Daniele Masato, Mairi McCallum, and Michael H. Strub.The Computer Journal, August, 2009. 
• Automated Aiding Strategies for Decentralized Planning with Interdependent Policies
  Martin Kollingbaum, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Katia Sycara, Timothy J. Norman, Christopher Burnett, and Daniele Masato. Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), May, 2009.
• Communications for Agent-based Human Team Support
  Gita Sukthankar, Katia Sycara, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Christopher Burnett. Chapter in Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems, Virginia Dignum, ed., IGI-Global Handbook of Research, Information Science Reference, Hershey, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 2009, pp. 285-313.
• An Integrated Approach to High-Level Information Fusion
  Katia Sycara, Robin Glinton, Bin Yu, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Sean R. Owens, Michael Lewis, and LTC Charles Grindle. Information Fusion, Vol. 10, No. 1, January, 2009, pp. 25-50.
• Toward Identifying Process Models in Ad Hoc and Distributed Teams
  Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Katia Sycara, and Gita Sukthankar. Proceedings of the First International Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation (HuCom 2008), December, 2008, pp. 55-62.
• Agent Support for Mission Planning Under Policy Constraints
  Christopher Burnett, Daniele Masato, Mairi McCallum, Timothy J. Norman, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Martin Kollingbaum, and Katia Sycara. Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance, September, 2008.
• A Model of Human Teamwork for Agent-Assisted Search Operations
  Gita Sukthankar, Katia Sycara, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Christopher Burnett. NATO Research and Technology Organisation: Human Factors and Medicine Panel Symposium (NATO HFM-142/RTO Symposium), April, 2008.
• Towards a Model of Agent-Assisted Team Search
  Gita Sukthankar, Katia Sycara, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Christopher Burnett, and Alun Preece. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Science, September, 2007.
• An Integrated Framework for High Level Information Fusion
  Katia Sycara, Robin Glinton, Bin Yu, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Sean R. Owens, Michael Lewis, and LTC Charles Grindle. International Journal of Information Fusion, April, 2007.
• Bilateral Negotiation Decisions with Uncertain Dynamic Outside Options
  Cuihong Li, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Katia Sycara. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Special Issue on Game-theoretic Analysis and Stochastic Simulation of Negotiation Agents, Vol. 36, No. 1, January, 2006.
• An Agent-Based C4ISR Testbed
  Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Katia Sycara, Sean R. Owens, Robin Glinton, Young-Woo Seo, Bin Yu, Charles E. Grindle, Yang Xu, and Michael Lewis. Eighth International Conference on Information Fusion, July, 2005.
• An Evidential Model of Multisensor Decision Fusion for Force Aggregation and Classification
  Bin Yu, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Sean R. Owens, and Katia Sycara. Eighth International Conference on Information Fusion, July, 2005.
• Intent Inference Using a Potential Field Model of Environmental Influences
  Robin Glinton, Sean R. Owens, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Katia Sycara, Michael Lewis, and Chuck Grindle.
  Eighth International Conference on Information Fusion, July, 2005.
• Task Allocation in Teams for Launch and Range Operations
  Katia Sycara, Paul Scerri, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Samvith Srinivas, and Michael Lewis. 12th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, July, 2005.
• Techniques and Directions for Building Very Large Agent Teams
  Paul Scerri, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Katia Sycara. 2005 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems, KIMAS'05: Modeling, Exploration, and Engineering, April, 2005, pp. 79--84.
• Modeling Multi-attribute Negotiations in the Navy Detailing Process
  Guoming Lai, Cuihong Li, Katia Sycara, and Joseph Andrew Giampapa. Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-05-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2005.
• Extending the OneSAF Testbed into a C4ISR Testbed
  Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Katia Sycara, Sean R. Owens, Robin Glinton, Young-Woo Seo, Bin Yu, Charles E. Grindle, and Michael Lewis. SIMULATION: Special Issue on Military Simulation Systems and Command and Control Systems Interoperability, Vol. 80, No. 12, December, 2004.
• Literature Review on Multi-attribute Negotiations
  Guoming Lai, Cuihong Li, Katia Sycara, and Joseph Andrew Giampapa. Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-66, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2004.
• Installation, Running and Editing Instructions for the ClassificationBox Text Classification Tool
  Michael Rectenwald, Young-Woo Seo, Kevin Lee, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Katia Sycara. Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-58, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2004.
• Proof of Concept System for Automatically Determining `Need-to-Know' Access Privileges: Installation Notes and User Guide
  Michael Rectenwald, Kevin Lee, Young-Woo Seo, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Katia Sycara. Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-56, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2004.
• Automating Terrain Analysis: Algorithms for Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield
  Charles Grindle, Michael Lewis, Robin Glinton, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Sean R. Owens, and Katia Sycara. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting, September, 2004, pp. 533--537. 
• A Multi-Agent System for Automatically Resolving Network Interoperability Problems
  Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Katia Sycara, Austin Fath, Aaron Steinfeld, and Daniel Siewiorek. Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 2004), July, 2004, pp. 1462 -- 1463.
• A Multi-Agent System for Enforcing ``Need-To-Know' Security Policies
  Young-Woo Seo, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Katia Sycara. Sixth International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS-2004), July, 2004.
• Bilateral Negotiation Decisions with Uncertain Dynamic Outside Options
  Cuihong Li, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Katia Sycara The First IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Contracting, July, 2004, pp. 54--61.
• Terrain-Based Information Fusion and Inference
  Robin Glinton, Sean R. Owens, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Katia Sycara, Charles E. Grindle, and C. Michael Lewis. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Fusion, July, 2004.  
• Uncertain Information Fusion for Force Aggregation and Classification in Airborne Sensor Networks
  Bin Yu, Katia Sycara, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Sean R. Owens. AAAI-04 Workshop on Sensor Networks, July, 2004.
• Integrating Context for Information Fusion: Automating Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield
  Robin Glinton, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Sean R. Owens, Katia Sycara, Charles E. Grindle, and C. Michael Lewis. Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Human Performance, Situation Awareness, and Automation Technology, March, 2004.
• Financial News Analysis for Intelligent Portfolio Management
  Young-Woo Seo, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Katia Sycara. Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-04, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2004.
• A Solution for Bilateral Negotiations in the Navy Detailing Process
  Cuihong Li, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Katia Sycara. Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-48, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2003.
• Decentralized Matching Schemes for the Navy Detailing Process
  Wei Yang, Katia Sycara, and Joseph Andrew Giampapa. Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-51, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2003.
• RETSINA Agent Name Service Documentation
  Michael Rectenwald, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Brent K. Langley, and Katia Sycara. Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2003.
• A Review of Research Literature on Bilateral Negotiations
  Cuihong Li, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Katia Sycara. Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-41, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2003.  
• Modelling Bilateral Negotiations in the Navy Detailing Process
  Cuihong Li, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Katia Sycara. Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-47, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2003.
• Two-Sided Matching for the U.S. Navy Detailing Process with Market Complication
  Wei Yang, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Katia Sycara. Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-49, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2003.
• Evaluation Criteria for the MORSE Simulation Environment
  Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Sandra L. Esch, Bonnie E. John, Rahul Singh, and Katia Sycara. Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-38, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2003.  
• User Guide for MORSE Command Simulation: Setup and Running Instructions
  Michael Rectenwald, Rahul Singh, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Katia Sycara, Sandra Esch, and Bonnie John.
  Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-40, Robotics Institute / Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2003.
• User Guide for MORSEStation Range Operations Simulation
  Michael Rectenwald, Rahul Singh, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Sandy Sesch, Katia Sycara, and Bonnie John.Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-37, Robotics Institute / Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2003.
• An Examination of Remote Access Help Desk Cases
  Aaron Steinfeld, Ritika Sanghi, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Daniel Siewiorek, and Katia Sycara. Tech. report CMU-CS-03-190, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2003.
• The RETSINA MAS Infrastructure
  Katia Sycara, Massimo Paolucci, Martin Van Velsen, and Joseph Andrew Giampapa. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Vol. 7, No. 1/2, July, 2003, pp. 29--48.
• The RETSINA MAS, a Case Study
  Katia Sycara, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Brent K. Langley, and Massimo Paolucci. Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems: Research Issues and Practical Applications, Alessandro Garcia, Carlos Lucena, Franco Zambonelli, Andrea Omici, Jaelson Castro, ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2003, pp. 232--250.
• Team-Oriented Agent Coordination in the RETSINA Multi-Agent System.
  Joseph Andrew Giampapa and Katia Sycara. Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-02-34, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2002.
• Text Classification for Intelligent Portfolio Management
  Young-Woo Seo, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Katia Sycara. Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-02-14, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2002.
• Conversational Case-Based Planning for Agent Team Coordination
  Joseph Andrew Giampapa and Katia Sycara. Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 2001, July, 2001, pp. 189--203.
• Configuration Management for Multi-Agent Systems
  Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Octavio H. Juarez-Espinosa, and Katia Sycara. The 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2001), June, 2001, pp. 230-231. 
• The RETSINA MAS Infrastructure
  Katia Sycara, Massimo Paolucci, Martin Van Velsen, and Joseph Andrew Giampapa. Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-01-05, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2001.
•  Agent Interoperation Across Multagent System Boundaries
  Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Massimo Paolucci, and Katia Sycara. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000), June, 2000.
  

   

Teams

Principal Investigator of Department of Energy grant, Designing SCADA Systems for the Self-Verifiability of Their Security & Survivability, FY2011, co-PI Gabriela Hug-Glanzmann.

Principal Investigator of the Independent Research and Development (IRaD) project, Analyzing ULS System Behavior and Evolution through Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS), March – September 2010.

SEI Research, Technology, and System Solutions (RTSS) program.

RTSS Concept Lab Steering Committee.

RTSS System of Systems Software Assurance (SoSSA) research initiative.

RTSS Ultra-Large-Scale (ULS) Systems research initiative.

Education

• MS, Computer Science, Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University,
• BS, Computer Science, Computer Science Department, Brandeis University

Professional Memberships

• International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)
• Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)
• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

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