Darsana Purushothaman Josyula, Ph.D.
     Assistant Professor
     Department of Computer Science
     218 Computer Science Bldg.
     Bowie State University
     Bowie, MD 20715
     Phone: (301) 860 4456
     darsana_at_cs.umd.edu

Publications

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Michael L. Anderson, Scott Fults, Darsana P. Josyula, Hamid Haridarian, Tim Oates, Don Perlis, Matthew D. Schmill, Shomir Wilson and Dean Wright
The Metacognitive Loop and Reasoning About Anomalies
[In Press] Book Chapter in Metareasoning: Thinking about Thinking

Darsana P. Josyula, Franklin C. Hughes, Harish Vadali and Bette J. Donahue
Modeling Emotions for Choosing Between Deliberation and Action
[Accepted] In Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing - NABIC '09 , 2009

Darsana P. Josyula, Harish Vadali, Bette J. Donahue and Franklin C. Hughes
Modeling Metacognition for learning in Artificial Systems
[Accepted] In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Innovations in Computing - INC '09 , 2009

Darsana P. Josyula, Franklin C. Hughes, Harish Vadali, Bette J. Donahue, Fassil Molla, Michelle Snowden, Jalissa Miles, Ahmed Kamara and Chinomnso Maduka
Metacognition for Self-Regulated Learning in a Dynamic Environment
In Papers from the 2009 SASO Workshop on Metareasoning in Self-Adaptive Systems at the Third IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, (SASO 2009)

Michael L. Anderson, Scott Fults, Darsana P. Josyula, Tim Oates, Don Perlis, Matthew D. Schmill, Shomir Wilson, and Dean Wright
A Self-Help Guide for Autonomous Systems
AI Magazine, Volume 29, Number 2, pages 67-76, Summer 2008

Matthew D. Schmill, Tim Oates, Michael L. Anderson, Darsana P. Josyula, Don Perlis, Shomir Wilson and Scott Fults
The role of metacognition in robust AI systems
In Papers from the Workshop on Metareasoning at the Twenty Third AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence , 2008

Darsana P. Josyula, Scott Fults, Michael Anderson, Shomir Wilson and Don Perlis
Application of MCL in a Dialog Agent
In Papers from the Third Language and Technology Conference (L&TC -07) , 2007

M. Schmill, D. Josyula, M. Anderson, S. Wilson, T. Oates, D. Perlis and S. Fults
Ontologies for Reasoning about Failures in AI Systems
In Proceedings from the Workshop on Metareasoning in Agent Based Systems at the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Sytems , (AAMAS-2007)

Michael L. Anderson, Matt Schmill, Tim Oates, Don Perlis, Darsana Josyula, Dean Wright and Shomir Wilson
Toward Domain-Neutral Human-Level Metacognition
In Papers from the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning , 2007.

Darsana P. Josyula.
A Unified Theory of Acting and Agency for a Universal Interfacing Agent
PhD Thesis, University of Maryland, 2005.

Darsana P. Josyula, Michael L. Anderson, and Don Perlis.
Designing a Universal Interfacing Agent.
In Proceedings of the Second Language and Technology Conference (L&T'05) on Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics., pages 377-381, 2005.

Darsana P. Josyula, Michael L. Anderson, and Don Perlis.
Metacognition for Dropping and Reconsidering Intentions.
In Papers from the 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on Metacognition in Computation, pages 62-67, 2005.

Darsana P. Josyula, Michael L. Anderson, and Don Perlis.
Domain-Independent Reason-Enhanced Controller for Task-ORiented systems - DIRECTOR.
In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04), pages 1014-1015, 2004.

Michael L. Anderson, Darsana P. Josyula, Don Perlis and Khemdut Purang.
Active Logic for More Effective Common Sense Reasoning.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Empirically Successful First Order Reasoning at the Second International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2004)

Darsana P. Josyula, Michael L. Anderson, and Don Perlis.
Towards Domain-independent, Task-oriented, Conversational Adequacy.
In Proceedings of the Eighteenth international Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), pages 1637-1638, 2003.

Michael L. Anderson, Darsana Josyula, and Don Perlis.
Talking to Computers.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligent Systems at the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), 2003.

Michael L. Anderson, Darsana Josyula, Yoshi Okamoto, and Don Perlis.
Time-situated Agency: Active Logic and Intention Formation.
In Proceedings of the Cognitive Agents Workshop at the 25th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence(KI2002), 2002.

Michael L. Anderson, Yoshi Okamoto, Darsana Josyula, and Don Perlis.
The use-mention Distinction and its Importance to HCI.
In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (EDILOG2002), 2002.

Manjit Bhatia, Paul Chi, Waiyian Chong, Darsana P. Josyula, Yoshi Okamoto, Don Perlis, and K. Purang.
Handling Uncertainty with Active Logic.
In Proceedings of the AAAI 2001 Fall Symposium on Using Uncertainty within Computation, 2001.

David R. Traum, Carl F. Andersen, Waiyian Chong, Darsana Josyula, Yoshi Okamoto, Khemdut Purang, Michael O'Donovan-Anderson, and Don Perlis.
Representations of Dialogue State for Domain and Task Independent Meta-dialogue.
Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 3:125-152, 1999.

Carl Andersen, David Traum, Khemdut Purang, Darsana Purushothaman [Josyula], and Don Perlis.
Mixed Initiative Dialogue and Intelligence via Active Logic.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligence at the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), 1999.

Khemdut Purang, Darsana Purushothaman [Josyula], David Traum, Carl Andersen, and Don Perlis.
Practical Reasoning and Plan Execution with Active Logic.
In Proceedings of the IJCAI-99 Workshop on Practical Reasoning and Rationality, pages 30-38, 1999.

Don Perlis, Khemdut Purang, Darsana Purushothaman [Josyula], Carl Andersen, and David Traum.
Modeling Time and Meta-reasoning in Dialogue via Active Logic.
In Working notes of AAAI Fall Symposium on Psychological Models of Communication, 1999.
Darsana Josyula 2009-10