John S. Baras

Research Interests

• Cooperative control
• Swarm intelligence
• Markov decision Processes
• Applications of Graph theory in switched control systems

Publications

1. P. Hovareshti, V. Gupta, and J. Baras, "On Sensor Scheduling using Smart Sensors", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, December 12-14, 2007.
2. P. Hovareshti, J. S. Baras and V. Gupta, "Probabilistic Switching and Convergence Rate in Consensus Problems", Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Chicago, Illinois, September 26-28, 2007.
3. J. S. Baras and P. Hovareshti, "Effects of Graph Topology on Performance of Distributed Algorithms for Networked Control and Sensing", Workshop on Networked Distributed Systems for Intelligent Sensing and Control, Filoxenia, Kalamata, Greece, June 30, 2007.
4. P. Hovareshti and J. S. Baras, "Consensus Problems on Small World Graphs: A Structural Study", International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston, MA, June 25-30, 2006. ISR TR 2006-10, Institute for Systems Research, College Park, MD, 2006.
5. P. Hovareshti and J. S. Baras, "Decentralized control of networks of dynamic agents with invariant nodes: A probabilistic view", CSHCN TR 2004-20, Center for Satellite and Hybrid Communication Networks, College Park, MD, 2004.
6. J.S. Baras, X. Tan and P. Hovareshti, "Decentralized control of autonomous vehicles", Proceedings of 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawai, December 9-12 2003. A preliminary version available as ISR Technical Report TR 2003-14.
7. D. Dharmaraju, A. Roy-Chowdhury, P. Hovareshti, and J.S. Baras, "INORA-a unified signaling and routing mechanism for QoS support in mobile ad hoc networks", Proceedings of International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August 18-21 2002.

Internships

• IAI, Intelligent Automation Inc. Summer 2006

Contact Information

Office Address:

AVW 2239
A.V. Williams Building 115
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742.
Phone: 301 - 405 - 6558

Email: hovaresp@umd.edu

Personal Webpage: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~hovaresp/