Joseph P. Bigus - Publications

Papers

• The conference paper Bringing Planning to Business Applications with ABLE (with B. Srivastava, D. A. Schlosnagle), In Proc. International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2004), New York, USA, May 17-18, 2004.
  
  
• The paper ABLE: A toolkit for building multiagent autonomic systems (IBM Systems Journal, Volume 41, Number 3, 2002) describes ABLE's architecture and JavaBean component design.
  
  
• The paper Managing Web server Performance with Autotune Agents (IBM Systems Journal, Volume 42, Number 1, 2003) describes using ABLE agents in performance management.
  
  
• The journal paper "Using Control Theory to Achieve Service Level Objectives in Performance Management," S Parekh, N Gandhi, JL Hellerstein, D Tilbury, TS Jayram, J Bigus, Real Time Systems Journal, Vol.23, No. 1-2, 2002.
  
  
• The conference poster The Agent Building and Learning Environment in Proc. Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000), Barcelona, Spain.
  
  
• The conference paper "AutoTune: A Generic Agent for Automated Performance Tuning," JP Bigus, JL Hellerstein, TS Jayram, and MS Squillante, Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi Agent Technology, 2000.
  
  
• The conference paper Computer System Performance Modeling Using Neural Networks, 1994 International Neural Network Society Conference.
  
  
• The conference paper Applying Neural Networks to Computer System Performance Tuning, 1994 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks.
  
  
• My Ph.D thesis Adaptive Operating System Control Using Neural Networks, 1993, (Ph.D. Dissertation) Lehigh University , Bethlehem PA.
  
  
• The conference paper Integrating Neural Networks and Knowledge-Based systems in a Commercial Environment, 1990 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.
  
  

• The article Features and Facets of ABLE (developerWorks, October 2004) provides an introduction to ABLE.
  
  
• The article Adding Rules to Applications (developerWorks, February 2005) shows how to write and run simple business rules or complex inferencing rules, ARL’s syntax and capabilities, how to work with Java™ objects from ARL, how to write and debug rules in Eclipse, how to run rulesets from Java applications, demonstrates procedural and inferencing rule engines, and shows the benefits of using rules written for inferencing rule engines.
  
  
• The article Use Autonomic Computing for Problem Determination (developerWorks, July 2004) describes using ABLE rules with the Autonomic Management Engine.
  
  
• The article ETTK Self-healing and Optimizing Demo (developerWorks, July 2003) uses ABLE as the heart of its MAPE loop (Monitor, analyze, plan, execute).
  
  
• Neural Networks: Technology for the 90's,  News 3X/400 Magazine, January, 1990.

• The book chapter Agents (with Jennifer Bigus) in The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, 2005, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, Munindar P. Singh ed. provides an overview of software agents, bots, and their applications.
  
  
• The book Constructing Intelligent Agents Using Java: Professional Developer's Guide (John Wiley & Sons, 2001, second edition, Bigus, J.P. and Bigus, J.) provides background on the ABLE project and describes many uses of intelligent agents with example Java code.
  
  
• The book chapter Pervasive Computing in The Business Case for e-Business (IBM Press, 2001, Keith Rutledge, ed.) describes how pervasive computing plays a key role in e-Business.
  
  
• The book Constructing Intelligent Agents with Java (John Wiley & Sons, 1997, Bigus, J.P. and Bigus, J.) describes many uses of intelligent agents with example Java code.
  
  
• The book Data Mining with Neural Networks (McGraw-Hill, 1996, Bigus, J.P.) provides an introduction to data mining for business applications. ABLE contains several neural network algorithms.
  
  

• Opportunities for Neural Networks in Performance Management, 1992,  Neural Networks ITL
• Neural Networks for Control: A Review, 1992,  Neural Networks ITL
• Neural Network Utility (NNU/2),  1992,  Neural Networks ITL
• On Integrating Neural Networks and  Rule-Based Systems, 1990,  ITL Conference On Expert Systems
• Applying Neural Networks, 1990,  ITL Conference on Expert Systems
• An AS/400 Neural Network Development Environment, 1989,  ITL Conference on Expert Systems
• Integrating Neural Networks and AS/400 KnowledgeTool, 1989,  ITL Conference on Expert Systems
• The Neural Network Utility Package, 1989, IBM Technical Report
• A Neural Network Simulator, 1988,  ITL Conference on Expert Systems