Selected Publications (By Publication Type)

Blockchain Science & Technology

  1. K.T. Seow, “Supervisory Control of Blockchain Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 159--171, January 2020, USA. Published online 20 February 2019.

Discrete-Event Systems & Supervisory Control

  1. K.T. Seow, “Supremal Marker-Controllable Subformula of a Given Canonical Temporal-Safety Formula,” IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 66300--66320, June 2022, USA. Published online 15 June 2022.

  2. K.T. Seow, “Supervisory Control of Fair Discrete-Event Systems: A Canonical Temporal Logic Foundation,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 5269--5282, November 2021, USA. Published online 10 November 2020.

  3. Q.H. Ngo and K.T. Seow, “A Hierarchical Consistency Framework for Real-Time Supervisory Control,” Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory & Applications, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 375--426, September 2018, Springer USA. Published online 27 March 2018.

  4. A. Dhananjayan and K.T. Seow, “A Formal Transparency Framework for Validation of Real-Time Discrete-Event Control Requirements Modeled by Timed Transition Graphs,” IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 350--361, June 2015, USA.

  5. Q.H. Ngo and K.T. Seow, “Command and Control of Discrete-Event Systems: Towards On-line Hierarchical Control Based on Feasible System Decomposition,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 1218--1228, October 2014, USA.

  6. A. Dhananjayan and K.T. Seow, “A Metric Temporal Logic Specification Interface for Real-Time Discrete-Event Control,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 1204--1215, September 2014, USA.

  7. Q.H. Ngo and K.T. Seow, “A Time Fidelity Control Foundation for Hierarchical Discrete-Event Systems,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE ’14), August 2014, Taipei, Taiwan.

  8. K.T. Seow, “Organizational Control of Discrete-Event Systems: A Hierarchical Multi-World Supervisor Design,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 23--33, January 2014, USA.

  9. M.T. Pham, A. Dhananjayan and K.T. Seow, “On Specification Transparency: Towards A Formal Framework for Human Designer Comprehensibility of Discrete-Event Control Specifications in Finite Automata,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 139--148, January 2013, USA.

  10. A. Dhananjayan and K.T. Seow, “On Specification Informatics in Discrete-Event Systems: State-Transparency for Clarity of Finite Automata as Control Specifications,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO'12), July 2012, Rome, Italy.

  11. Q.H. Ngo and K.T. Seow, “Hierarchical Control of Discrete-Event Systems: A New Command and Control Design Based on Feasible System Decomposition,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE’12), August 2012, Seoul, Korea.

  12. A. Dhananjayan and K.T. Seow, “Automating Timed Specification Transparency for Human Designer Validation of Real-Time Discrete-Event Control Requirements,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE’12), August 2012, Seoul, Korea.

  13. M.T. Pham, A. Dhananjayan and K.T. Seow, “On the Transparency of Automata as Discrete-Event Control Specifications,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2010, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

  14. K.T. Seow, “A Dynamic Programming Approach to Multi-Level Supervision,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2009, Kobe, Japan.

  15. K.T. Seow, “Integrating Temporal Logic as a State-Based Specification Language for Discrete-Event Control Design in Finite Automata,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 451--464, July 2007, USA.

  16. K.T. Seow, “Syntax-Based Synthesis for Temporal-Safety Supervision,” Automatica, vol. 41, no. 11, pp. 1965--1972, November 2005, Elsevier, USA.

  17. K.T. Seow, “Existence Characterizations of Temporal-Safety Supervisors,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 47, no. 10, pp. 1779--1783, October 2002, USA.

  18. K.T. Seow and R. Devanathan, “A Temporal Logic Approach to Discrete Event Control for the Safety Canonical Class,” Systems and Control Letters, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 205--217, August 1996, Elsevier Science, The Netherlands.

  19. K.T. Seow and R. Devanathan, “A Temporal Logic Approach to Discrete Event Control,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 1995, Nagoya, Japan.

Multiagent Cooperation (Constraint Coordination & Collaborative Assignment)

  1. M.T. Pham and K.T. Seow, “Multiagent Conflict Resolution Planning,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC’13), October 2013, Manchester, UK.

  2. M.T. Pham and K.T. Seow, “On Deconflicting Local Coordination Among Agents,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’12), June 2012, Valencia, Spain.

  3. M.T. Pham and K.T. Seow, “On-line Coordination: Event Interaction and State Communication between Cooperative Agents,” Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 179--192, June 2012, IOS Press, The Netherlands. (Invited paper)

  4. M.T. Pham and K.T. Seow, “Discrete-Event Coordination Design for Distributed Agents,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 70--82, January, 2012, USA.

  5. M.T. Pham and K.T. Seow, “On-line Coordination: Event Interaction and State Communication between Cooperative Agents,” Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT’09), September 2009, Milan, Italy.

  6. M.T. Pham and K.T. Seow, “Towards Synthesizing Optimal Coordination Modules for Distributed Agents,” Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’08), July 2008, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

  7. K.T. Seow, M.T. Pham, C. Ma and M. Yokoo, “Coordination Planning: Applying Control Synthesis Methods for a Class of Distributed Agents,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 405--415, March 2009, USA.

  8. K.T. Seow, K.M. Sim, Y.S. Ong and E.P. Sulaiman, “A BDI Assignment Protocol with New Cooperative-Concession Strategies,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part A,  vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 688--697, May 2008, USA.

  9. K.T. Seow and K.M. Sim, “Collaborative Assignment Using Belief-Desire-Intention Agent Modeling and Negotiation with Speedup Strategies,” Information Sciences, vol. 178, no. 4, pp. 1110--1132, February 2008, Elsevier, USA.

  10. K.T. Seow, K.M. Sim and Y.C. Kwek, “Coalition Formation for Resource Co-allocation Using BDI Assignment Agents,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part C, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 682--693, July 2007, USA.

  11. B.C. Le Dinh and K.T. Seow, “Unifying Distributed Constraint Algorithms in a BDI Negotiation Framework,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’07), May 2007, Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA.

  12. K.T. Seow and K.M. Sim, “Decentralized Assignment Reasoning Using Collaborative Local Mediation,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 1576--1580, November 2006, USA.

  13. K.T. Seow, C. Ma and M. Yokoo, “Multiagent Planning as Control Synthesis,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’04), July 2004, New York City, USA.

  14. K.T. Seow and K.Y. How, “Collaborative Assignment : A Multiagent Negotiation Approach Using BDI Concepts,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’02), July 2002, Bologna, Italy.

Surgical Informatics

  1. A. Laude, P. Aniyath, K.T. Seow, J.W. Kwok, H.B. Fam, W.J. Heng and D. Rajan, “Computer-aided evaluation of cataract surgery: A metric comparison of continuous circular capsulorhexis by trainee and specialist surgeons,” The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting (ARVO’ 15), May 2015,  Denver, Colorado, USA. (Accepted)

Datacenter Networks

  1. M.T. Pham, K.T. Seow and C.H. Foh, “Towards Intelligent Datacenter Traffic Management: Using Automated Fuzzy Inferencing for Elephant Flow Detection,” International Journal of Innovative, Computing Information and Control, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 1669--1685, October 2014, UK.

  2. D. Wong, K.T. Seow, C.H. Foh and R. Kanagavelu, “Towards Reproducible Performance Studies of Datacenter Network Architectures Using An Open-Source Simulation Approach,” Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’13), December 2013, Atlanta, GA, USA.

  3. A. Dhananjayan, K.T. Seow and C.H. Foh, “Lyapunov Stability Analysis of Load Balancing in Datacenter Networks,” Proceedings of the IEEE Globecom 2013 Workshop - Management of Emerging Networks and Services (IEEE MENS’13), December 2013, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Intelligent Service Transportation

  1. K.T. Seow, N.H. Dang and D.-H. Lee,  “A Collaborative Multiagent Taxi-Dispatch System,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 607--616, July 2010, USA.

  2. K.T. Seow and D.-H. Lee, “Performance of Multiagent Taxi-Dispatch on Extended-Runtime Taxi Availability: A Simulation Study,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 231--236, February 2010, USA.

  3. K.T. Seow, N.H. Dang and D.-H. Lee, “Towards an Automated Multiagent Taxi-Dispatch System,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE’07), September 2007, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.

  4. K.T. Seow and M. Pasquier, “Supervising Passenger Land-Transport Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 165--176, September 2004, USA.

  5. M.N Ngo, K.T. Seow, and K.W Wong, “Fuzzy Linear Assignment Problem: An Approach to Vehicle Fleet Deployment,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems  (FUZZ-IEEE’04), July 2004, Budapest, Hungary.

  6. K.T. Seow and M. Pasquier, “Vehicle Route-Sequence Planning Using Temporal Logic,” International Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AIEDAM), vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 31--38, January 2002, Cambridge University Press, U.K.

Manufacturing Systems

  1. K.T. Seow and R. Devanathan, “A Temporal Framework for Assembly Sequence Representation and Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 220--229, April 1994, USA.

  2. K.T. Seow and R. Devanathan, “Temporal Logic Programming for Assembly Sequence Planning,” International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 253-263, September 1993, Elsevier Science, The Netherlands.

  3. K.T. Seow  and  R. Devanathan, “Temporal Logic  Formulation of Assembly Sequence Properties,” Proceedings of the  IEEE International  Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 1992, Nice, France.

AI Robotics

  1. J.H. Kim, D.H. Kim, Y.J. Kim and K.T. Seow, Soccer Robotics, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR Series), (327 pages), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, ISBN: 3-540-21859-9 , September 2004.

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