Refereed Publications
"Robot Video Tracking by Comparing Real and Simulated Video Scenes", by Damian M. Lyons and D. Paul Benjamin, Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision, SPIE, San Jose, Calif., January 2009.
"Anomaly and Specification Based Cognitive Approach for Mission-Level Detection and Response", by Paul Rubel, Partha Pal, Michael Atigetchi, Paul Benjamin and Franklin Webber, 11th International Symposium On Recent Advances In Intrusion Detection (RAID 2008), Boston, MA, September 15-17, 2008.
"Using Cognitive Semantics to Integrate Perception and Motion in a Behavior-Based Robot", with Deryle Lonsdale, Damian Lyons and Siddtharth Patel, Proceedings of the 2008 ECSIS Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behavior in Robotic Systems (LAB-RS 2008), IEEE Computer Society, August 6-8, 2008, Edinburgh, Scotland.
"Using A Cognitive Architecture to Automate Cyberdefense Reasoning", with Partha Pal, Franklin Webber, Paul Rubel, Mike Atigetchi, Proceedings of the 2008 ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for Security (BLISS 2008), IEEE Computer Society, August 4-6, 2008, Edinburgh, Scotland.
"Automating Cyber-Defense Management", with Partha Pal, Franklin Webber, Michael Atigetchi and Paul Rubel, Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Recent Advances in Intrusion-Tolerant Systems (WRAITS08), Glasgow, Scotland, 2008.
"A Cognitive Approach to Intrusion Detection", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications 2007 (CISDA2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, April, 2007.pdf
"Embodying a Cognitive Model in a Mobile Robot", with Deryle Lonsdale and Damian Lyons, Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision, Boston, October, 2006.pdf
"Obstacle Avoidance using Predictive Vision based on a Dynamic 3D World Model", with Thomas Achtemichuk and Damian Lyons, Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision, Boston, October, 2006.
"Developing a Cognitive Architecture to be Embedded in the Physical World", with Deryle Lonsdale and Damian Lyons, Proceedings of BRIMS206 (Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation), Baltimore, May, 2006.
"Semantic Encoding of Relational Databases in Wireless Networks", with Adrian Walker, Proceedings of the SPIE Defense Symposium on Data Mining, Intrusion Detection, Information Assurance and Data Networks Security, Orlando, Florida, March-April, 2005. pdf
"VMSoar: A Cognitive Agent for Network Security", with Ranjita Shankar-Iyer and Archana Perumal, Proceedings of the SPIE Defense Symposium on Data Mining, Intrusion Detection, Information Assurance and Data Networks Security, Orlando, Florida, March-April, 2005.
"Designing a Robot Cognitive Architecture with Concurrency and Active Perception", with Damian Lyons and Deryle Lonsdale, Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on the Intersection of Cognitive Science and Robotics, Washington, D.C., October, 2004.
"ADAPT: A Cognitive Architecture for Robotics", with Damian Lyons and Deryle Lonsdale, Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, (ICCM-2004), Pittsburgh, Pa., July, 2004.
"Cognitive Robots: Integrating Perception, Action and Problem Solving in Behavior-based Robots", with Damian Lyons and Deryle Lonsdale, AAMAS-2004 proceedings, pp. 1308-1309, New York City, July, 2004.
"Undergraduate Cybersecurity Projects", D. Paul Benjamin, Charles Border, Robert Montante, Paul Wagner, SIGCSE2003 Proceedings, Reno, Nevada, 2003.
"Evolving Efficient Security Systems Under Budget Constraints Using Genetic Algorithms", Michael L. Gargano, P. Benjamin, W. Edelson, and P. Meisinger, Proc. 34th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, 2003.
"On the Emergence of Intelligent Global Behaviors from Simple Local Actions", International Journal of Systems Science, special issue: Emergent Properties of Complex Systems, Vol. 31, No. 7, pp. 861-872, 2000. pdf
"Connecting Perception and Action by Associating Symmetries in Vision and Language", International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1999.
"Decomposing Robotic Representations by Identifying Local Symmetries and Invariants", Proceedings of the NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, Mexico, 1998.
"A Decomposition Approach to Solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems", Proceedings of the IEEE Seventh Annual Dual-use Technologies & Applications Conference, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997.pdf
"Transforming System Formulations in Robotics for Efficient Perception and Planning", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposia on Intelligence and Systems, Washington, D.C., IEEE Computer Society Press, 1996.
"Reformulating Theories of Action for Efficient Planning", in Theories of Action, Planning and Robot Control: Bridging the Gap, Chitta Baral (ed.), AAAI Press, 1996.
"The Design of Effective Formulations in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics", Proceedings of the Conference on Notational Engineering, George Washington University, May, 1996.
"Formulating Systems", Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, IEEE Computer Society Press, April, 1996.
"Behavior-preserving Transformations of System Formulations", Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Learning Dynamical Systems, Stanford University, March, 1996.
"Formulating Domain Theories for Software Design", Proceedings of the IEEE Sixth Annual Dual-use Technologies & Applications Conference, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1996.
"Reformulating Domain Theories for Reuse in Problem Solving", in Adaptation of Knowledge for Reuse, Papers from the 1995 Fall Symposium, David Aha & Ashwin Ram (eds.), AAAI Press, 1995.
"Analyzing Languages of Action for the Purpose of Synthesis", in Extending Theories of Action: Formal Theory & Practical Applications: Papers from the 1995 AAAI Symposium, Craig Boutilier & Moises Goldszmidt (eds.), AAAI Press, 1995.
"Prototype and Delegation-based Approach in Expert System Design", by Jarernsri L. Mitrpanont, K. M. George, and D. Paul Benjamin, Proceedings of the Computers in Engineering Symposium, Energy-sources Technology Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1994.
"Formulating Patterns in Problem Solving", Annals of Mathematics and AI, Vol. 10, pp.1-23, 1994.
"Reformulating Path Planning Problems by Task-preserving Abstraction", Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 9, pp. 1-9, 1992.
"Towards an Effective Theory of Reformulation", in Proceedings of the Workshop on Change of Representation and Problem Reformulation, Michael R. Lowry (ed.), NASA Ames Research Center Technical Report FIA-92-06, pp.13-27, April, 1992.
"Integrating Perception with Problem Solving", D. Paul Benjamin, Alec Cameron, Leo Dorst, Madeleine Rosar, and Hsiang-Lung Wu, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Integrated Intelligent Architectures, Stanford University, March, 1991.
"An Algebraic Approach to Abstraction and Representation Change", by D. Paul Benjamin, Leo Dorst, Indur Mandhyan, and Madeleine Rosar, in Proceedings of the AAAI-90 Workshop on Automatic Generation of Approximations and Abstractions, Boston, July, 1990.
"A Metalevel Manifesto", in Machine Learning, Meta-Reasoning, and Logics, Pavel B. Brazdil and Kurt Konolige (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.
"An Overview of Adaptive Task Planning", by Damian Lyons, Richard Pelavin, Antonius Hendriks, and D. Paul Benjamin, in Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Planning in Uncertain, Unpredictable, and Changing Environments, Stanford, 1990.
"An Introduction to the Decomposition of Task Representations in Autonomous Systems", D. Paul Benjamin, Leo Dorst, Indur Mandhyan, and Madeleine Rosar, in Change of Representation and Inductive Bias, D. Paul Benjamin (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989.
"A Method for Creating Hierarchical Representations that Serialize Subgoals", in Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Search and Planning, Stanford University, 1989.
"Using a Metatheory as a Functional Representation", International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 3(3), pp. 295-314, 1988.
"Learning Search Control Knowledge Within a Metalevel Representation", Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Explanation-Based Learning, Stanford University, 1988.
"Learning Strategies by Reasoning about Rules", Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI87), 1987.
"Extraction and Generalization of Expert Advice", doctoral dissertation, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 1985.
"A Production System for Learning Plans from an Expert", D. Paul Benjamin and Malcolm C. Harrison, Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI83), 1983.