Book chapters Francois Michaud, Monica Nicolescu, "Behavior-Based Robotics", In Bruno Siciliano, Oussama Khatib (Ed.), Springer Handbook of Robotics, (in press), 2014. Richard Kelley, Alireza Tavakkoli, Chris King, Amol Ambardekar, Liesl Wigand, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, "Intent Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction", in Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition, Gita Sukthankar, Christopher Geib, Hung Hai Bui, David Pynadath and Robert Goldman Editors, Elsevier, pp. 343-365, 2013. [Link] Richard Kelley, Alireza Tavakkoli, Christopher King, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, "Understanding Activities and Intentions for Human-Robot Interaction", in Advances in Human-Robot Interaction, Daisuke Chugo (editor), In-Tech, pages 288-305, February 2010. [PDF] Sara Nasser, Adrienne Breland, Frederick C. Harris Jr., Monica Nicolescu, and Gregory L. Vert, "Fuzzy Genome Sequence Assembly for Single and Environmental Genomes", in Fuzzy Systems in Bioinformatics, Bioengineering and Computational Biology, Springer Book Series on Studies in Computational Intelligence, 2009. [PDF] Monica Nicolescu, Maja J Mataric´, "Task Learning Through Imitation and Human-Robot Interaction", in Models and Mechanisms of Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions, Kerstin Dautenhahn and Chrystopher Nehaniv Eds., pages 407-424, 2006. [PDF] Journal articles Banafsheh Rekabdar, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, Mohammad Taghi Saffar, Richard Kelley, "A Scale and Translation Invariant Approach for Early Classification of Spatio-Temporal Patterns using Spiking Neural Networks", to appear in Neural Processing Letters, 2015. Banafsheh Rekabdar, Monica Nicolescu, Richard Kelley, Mircea Nicolescu, "An Unsupervised Approach to Learning and Early Detection of Spatio-Temporal Patterns Using Spiking Neural Networks", in Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, January 2015. [LINK] Abbas Roayaei Ardakany, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, "Improving Gender Classification Using an Extended Set of Local Binary Pattern", in International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management, vol. 5, no. 3, pages 47-66, July-September 2014.[LINK] Amol Ambardekar, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis and Monica Nicolescu, "Vehicle Classification Framework: A Comparative Study", Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2014:29, pages 1-13, Springer, June 2014. [LINK] Monica Nicolescu, "Improving the modeling of dog-owner interactions for the design of social robots", in Interactive Studies Journal, vol. 15, no 2, pages 180-183, 2014. [PDF] Bradford Towle Jr, and Monica Nicolescu, "An Auction Behavior-Based Robotic Architecture for Service Robotics", in Intelligent Service Robotics, 1-18, 2014. [PDF] [LINK] Amol Ambardekar, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis, Monica Nicolescu, "Visual Traffic Surveillance Framework: Classification to Event Detection", Journal of Electronic Imaging - Special Issue on Video Surveillance and Transportation Imaging Applications, vol. 22, no. 4, pages 1-17, October-December 2013. [PDF] Richard Kelley, Alireza Tavakkoli, Chris King, Amol Ambardekar, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, "Context-Based Bayesian Intent Recognition", in IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, 4(3), 215-225, 2012. [PDF] [LINK] Richard Kelley, Enrique Schaerer, Micaela Gomez, and Monica Nicolescu, "Liability in Robotics: An International Perspective on Robots as Animals", in Advanced Robotics, Vol. 24, No. 13, pp. 1861-1871, 2010. [PDF] Richard Kelley, Christopher King, Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, George Bebis, "An Architecture for Understanding Intent Using a Novel Hidden Markov Formulation", International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Special Issue on Cognitive Humanoid Robots, vol. 5, no. 2, pages 1-22, 2008. [PDF] Monica Nicolescu, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Adam Olenderski, Eric Fritzinger, "Learning Behavior Fusion from Observation", Interactive Studies Journal, Special Issue on Robot and Human Interactive Communication , vol. 9, no. 2, pages 319-352, 2008. [PDF] Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis, Monica Nicolescu, "A Support Vector Data Description Approach for Background Modeling in Videos with Quasi-Stationary Backgrounds", in the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 2008. [PDF] Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis, Monica Nicolescu, "Non-Parametric Statistical Background Modeling for Efficient Foreground Region Detection", Machine Vision and Applications, April 2008. [PDF] Junxian Wang, George Bebis, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, Ronald Miller, "Improving Target Detection by Coupling It with Tracking", Machine Vision and Applications, February 2008. [PDF] Monica Nicolescu, Ryan Leigh, Adam Olenderski, Sushil Louis, Sergiu Dascalu, Chris Miles, Juan Quiroz, Ryan Aleson, "A Training Simulation System with Realistic Autonomous Ship Control", Computational Intelligence, Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence Methods for Ambient Intelligence, vol. 23, no. 4, pages 497-516, November 2007. [PDF] Jorge Usabiaga, George Bebis, Ali Erol, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, "Recognizing Simple Human Actions Using 3D Head Movement", Computational Intelligence, Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence Methods for Ambient Intelligence, vol. 23, no. 4, pages 484-496, November 2007. [PDF] Sara Nasser, Gregory Vert, Monica Nicolescu, Alison Murray "Multi Sequence Assembly for Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes Using Fuzzy Logic", IEEE International Journal of Information Technology and Intelligent Computing, vol. 2, no. 4, 2007. [PDF] Monica Nicolescu, Maja J Mataric´, "Learning and Interacting in Human-Robot Domains", Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans , Vol. 31, No. 5, pages 419-430, Chelsea C. White and Kerstin Dautenhahn Eds., September, 2001. [PDF] Refereed conference publications Banafsheh Rekabdar, Monica Nicolescu, Richard Kelley, Mircea Nicolescu, "Unsupervised Learning of Spatio-Temporal Patterns Using Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity", to appear in the Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, Quebec City, Canada, August 2014. [Link] Siming Liu, Sushil J. Louis, and Monica Nicolescu, "Comparing Heuristic Search Methods for Finding Effective Group Behaviors in RTS Game", in 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), pages 1371-1378, 2013. [PDF] [Link] Siming Liu, Sushil J. Louis, and Monica Nicolescu, "Using Cigar for Finding Effective Group Behaviors in RTS Game", in 2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games (CIG), pages 1-8. IEEE, 2013. [PDF] [Link] Bradford Towle, Monica N. Nicolescu, "Incorporating a Reusable Human Robot Interface with an Auction Behavior-Based Robotic Architecture", in IEEE, ACM 4th International Workshop on Collaborative Robots and Human Robot Interaction, pp. 203 - 209, 2013. [PDF] [Link] Abbas Roayaei Ardakany, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, "An Extended Local Binary Pattern for Gender Classification", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, pages 1-6, Anaheim, California, December 2013. [PDF] [Link] Liesl Wigand, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, "A Developmental Approach to Concept Learning", Proceedings of the International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, pages 337-344, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2013. [PDF] [Link] Mike Oberberger, Sushil Louis, Monica Nicolescu, "Evolving Team Tactics using Potential Fields", in Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications, pp 1-9, 2013. [Link] Bradford Towle, Monica Nicolescu, "Real-World Implementation of an Auction Behavior-Based Robotic Architecture (ABBRA)", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), 2012. [PDF] [Link] Katie Browne, Monica Nicolescu, "Learning to Generalize from Demonstrations", in Proceedings of AIMSA 2012 Workshop on Advances in Robot Learning and Human-Robot Interaction, 2012. [PDF] Richard Kelley, Liesl Wigand, Brian Hamilton, Katie Browne, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, "Deep Networks for Predicting Human Intent with Respect to Objects", in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Boston, MA, 2012. [Link] Richard Kelley, Amol Ambardekar, Liesl Wigand, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, "Point Clouds and Range Images for Intent Recognition and Human-Robot Interaction", in Proceedings of the Advanced Reasoning with Depth Cameras Workshop (in conjunction with the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference), Los Angeles, California, June 2011. [PDF] Bradford A. Towle Jr. and Monica Nicolescu, "Applying Dynamic Conditions to the Auction Behavior-Based Robotic Architecture", in Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, NV, July 18-21, 2011. [PDF] Richard Kelley, Christopher King, Amol Ambardekar, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu and Alireza Tavakkoli, "Integrating Context into Intent Recognition Systems", in the "7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics", pages 315-320, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June, 2010. [PDF] Amol Ambardekar, Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, and Monica Nicolescu, "A Developmental Framework for Visual Learning in Robotics", in the 2010 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition, July 12-15, Las Vegas, USA, 2010. [PDF] Bradford A. Towle Jr., Monica Nicolescu, "Fusing Multiple Sensors through Behaviors with the Distributed Architecture", in the "IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems", pages 115-120, September 5-7, 2010. [PDF] [LINK] Brad Towle, Monica Nicolescu, and Sergiu Dascalu, "Towards Integrating Role Playing Game Constructs in Real-Time Strategy Games", in "19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering", San Francisco, USA, June 16-18, 2010. [PDF] Saul Byberg Reed, Tyson Richard Curtis Reed, Sergiu Dascalu, Monica Nicolescu, "Recursive, Hyperspherical Behavioral Learning for Robotic Control", in "World Automation Congress", Kobe, Japan, September 19-22, 2010. [PDF] [LINK] Adrienne Breland, Karen Schlauch, Monica Nicolescu, and Frederick Harris, "An Annotated k-deep Prefix Tree for (1-k)-mer Based Sequence Comparisons", in the "ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology", August 2-4, New York, USA, 2010. [PDF] [LINK] Mukesh Motwani, Nishith Tirpankar, Rakhi Motwani, Monica Nicolescu, Frederick C.Harris, Jr., "Towards Benchmarking Of Video Motion Tracking Algorithms", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Signal Acquisition and Processing (ICSAP 2010), February 9-10, 2010, Bangalore, India. [Link] Richard Kelley, Monica Nicolescu, "Stochastic Models of Intent Recognition", the 9th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Reno, NV, April 30 - May 2, 2009. Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, George Bebis, "Efficient Background Modeling through Incremental Support Vector Data Description", SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Sparks, Nevada, April 2009. Richard Kelley, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, Sushil Louis, "An Evolutionary Approach to Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Generative Stochastic Models", the 40th International Symposium on Robotics, Barcelona, Spain, March 10-13, 2009. [PDF] Amol Ambardekar, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, "Object Tracking Using Piecewise Feature Clustering", Proceedings of the International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing, Cambridge, UK, July 2009. [PDF] Enrique Schaerer, Richard Kelley, Monica Nicolescu, "Robots as Animals: A Framework for Liability and Responsibility in Human-Robot Interactions", the 18th IEEE Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Toyama, Japan, Sep-Oct 2009. [LINK] Richard Kelley, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, "Grammar-Based Robot Control", Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Budapest, Hungary, pages 1153-1154, May, 2009. [PDF] [LINK] Sara Nasser, Adrienne Breland, Frederick Harris Jr, Monica Nicolescu, "A Fuzzy Classifier to Taxonomically Group DNA Fragments within a Metagenome", in Proceedings of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Conference, New York, NY, May, 2008. [PDF] Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, George Bebis, "Efficient Background Modeling through Incremental Support Vector Data Description", in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tampa, Florida, December 2008. [PDF] Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, George Bebis, "Incremental SVDD Training: Improving Efficiency of Background Modeling in Videos", in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, August 2008. [PDF] Richard Kelley, Alireza Tavakkoli, Christopher King, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis, "Understanding Human Intentions via Hidden Markov Models in Autonomous Mobile Robots", Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pages 367-374, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 2008. [PDF] Alireza Tavakkoli, Richard Kelley, Christopher King, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, George Bebis, "A Vision-Based Architecture for Intent Recognition", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Visual Computing, pages 173-182, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, November 2007. [PDF] Monica Nicolescu, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Austin Stanhope, "Fusing Robot Behaviors for Human-Level Tasks", in Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 07), London, UK, July 11-13, 2007.[PDF] Anil Shankar, Juan Quiroz, Sergiu Dascalu, Sushil Louis, Monica Nicolescu "Sycophant: An API for Research in Context-Aware User Interfaces", in Proceedings, International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, Cap Esterel, France, Aug25-31, 2007.[PDF] Jeff C. LaCombe, Eric L. Wang, Monica Nicolescu, Pablo Rivera, B. Poe "Design Experiences with a Student Satellite Program", in Proceedings, the American Society for Engineering Education, Pacific Southwest Section Conference, Reno, NV, USA, April 12-13, 2007.[PDF] Sara Nasser, Gregory Vert, Monica Nicolescu, "Fuzzy Classification of Genome Sequences Prior to Assembly Based on Similarity Measures", in Proceedings, the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Conference San Diego, CA, June 24-27, 2007. [PDF] Christopher King, Xavier Palathingal, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, "A Vision-Based Architecture for Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction", in Proceedings, the IASTED International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Chamonix, France, March 14-16, 2007.[PDF] Christopher King, Xavier Palathingal, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, "A Control Architecture for Long-Term Autonomy of Robotic Assistants", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Visual Computing, pages 375-384, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, November 2007. [PDF] Sara Nasser, Gregory Vert, Monica Nicolescu, "Multiple Sequence Alignment using Fuzzy Logic", in Proceedings, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Honolulu, HI, April 1-5, 2007. [PDF] Monica Nicolescu, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Adam Olenderski, "Learning Behavior Fusion Estimation from Demonstration", in Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 06), Hatfield, UK, pages 340-345, September 6-8, 2006. [Link] Monica Nicolescu, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Adam Olenderski, "Behavior Fusion Estimation for Robot Learning from Demonstration", in Proceedings, IEEE 2006 Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems (DIS06), Prague, Czech Republic, pages 31-36, June 15-16, 2006. [PDF] Adam Olenderski, Monica Nicolescu, Sushil Louis, "A Behavior-Based Architecture for Realistic Autonomous Ship Control", in Proceedings, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG06), Reno, NV, USA, May 22-24, 2006. [PDF] Michael Capps, Joseph Liu, Edward Resnik, Monica Nicolescu, "Specification and Design of a High Risk Surveillance Vehicle", in Proceedings, International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP 2005), Las Vegas, NV, USA, June 27-30, 2005. Ryan Leigh, Tony Morelli, Sushil Louis, Monica Nicolescu, Chris Miles, "Finding Attack Strategies for Predator Swarms Using Genetic Algorithms", in Proceedings, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND, September 2-5, 2005. [PDF] Adam Olenderski, Monica Nicolescu, Sushil Louis, "Robot Learning by Demonstration Using Forward Models of Schema-Based Behaviors", in Proceedings, International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Barcelona, SPAIN, September 14-17, 2005. [PDF] Monica Nicolescu, Maja J Mataric´, "Natural Methods for Robot Task Learning: Instructive Demonstration, Generalization and Practice", in Proceedings, Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA, July 14-18, 2003 (best student paper nomination). [PDF] Monica Nicolescu, Maja J Mataric´, "Linking Perception and Action in a Control Architecture for Human-Robot Domains", Proceedings, Thirty-Sixth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-36), Hawaii, USA, January 6-9, 2003 (best paper award). [PS], [PDF] Monica Nicolescu, Maja J Mataric´, "A Hierarchical Architecture for Behavior-Based Robots", Proceedings, First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, pages 227-233, Bologna, ITALY, July 15-19, 2002. [PS], [PDF] Monica Nicolescu, Maja J Mataric´, "Experience-Based Representation Construction: Learning from Human and Robot Teachers", Proceedings, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pages 740-745, Maui, Hawaii, USA, October 29 - November 3, 2001. [PS], [PDF] Monica Nicolescu, Maja J Mataric´, "Experience-Based Learning of Task Representations from Human-robot Interaction", Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, pages 463-468, Banff, Alberta, CANADA, July 29 - August 1, 2001. [PS], [PDF] Refereed conference posters Monica Nicolescu, Maja J Mataric´, "Learning Cooperation From Human-Robot Interaction", Proceedings, 5th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), pages 477-478, Knoxville, TN, October 4-6, 2000. [PS], [PDF] Monica Nicolescu, Maja J Mataric´, "Deriving and Using Abstract Representation in Behavior-Based Systems", Proceedings, Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Student poster, page 1087, Austin, Texas, July 30-August 3, 2000. [PS], [PDF] Invited workshop publications Monica Nicolescu, Maja J Mataric´, "Extending Behavior-Based Systems Capabilities Using An Abstract Behavior Representation", Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Parallel Cognition, pages 27-34, North Falmouth, MA, November 3-5, 2000. [PS], [PDF] Refereed workshop and symposia publications Odest C. Jenkins, Monica Nicolescu, Maja J Mataric´, "Autonomy and Supervision for Robot Skills and Tasks Learned from Demonstration", in Proceedings, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Workshop on Supervisory Control of Learning and Adaptive Systems, San Jose, CA, July 25, 2004. [PDF] Monica Nicolescu, Maja J Mataric´, "Natural Methods for Learning and Generalization in Human-Robot Domains", in Proceedings, the AAAI Spring Symposium on Human Interaction with Autonomous Systems in Complex Environments, Palo Alto, CA, March 24-26, 2003. Monica Nicolescu, Maja J Mataric´, "Learning Task Representations from Experienced Demonstrations" , Proceedings, the AAAI Fall Symposium on Anchoring Symbols to Sensor Data in Single and Multiple Robot Systems, North Falmouth, MA, November 2-4, 2001. Technical reports Monica Nicolescu, Maja J Mataric´, "Natural Methods for Learning and Generalization in Human-Robot Domains", USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems Technical Report CRES-02-006, December 2002. [PDF] Monica Nicolescu, Maja J Mataric´, "Learning and Interacting in Human-Robot Domains", USC Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems Technical Report IRIS-01-395, January 2001. [PS], [PDF] Monica Nicolescu, Maja J Mataric´, "Extending Behavior-Based Systems Capabilities Using An Abstract Behavior Representation", USC Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems Technical Report IRIS-00-389, July 2000. [PS], [PDF] Thesis Monica Nicolescu "Natural Methods for Learning and Generalization in Human-Robot Domains", USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems Technical Report CRES-02-006, December 2002. [PDF]