PhD thesis, University of Waterloo (2003). Reasoning about Interaction in Mixed-Initiative Artificial Intelligence Systems. Supervisor: Dr. Robin Cohen.
MMath thesis, University of Waterloo (1998). Designing More Interactive Interface Agents. Supervisor: Dr. Robin Cohen.
Refereed Publications in Journals and Conference Proceedings
Zeinab Noorian, Stephen Marsh and Michael Fleming (2011). Prob-Cog: an Adaptive Filtering Model for Trust Evaluation. To appear, International Conference on Trust Management (IFIPTM 11), July 2011.
Henry Bediako-Asare, Scott Buffett and Michael W. Fleming (2011). Utility Estimation in Large Preference Graphs Using A* Search. Proceedings of the 24th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 50-55.
Zeinab Noorian, Stephen Marsh and Michael Fleming (2011). Multi-Layer Cognitive Filtering by Behavioural Modeling. Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Mutiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011), pages 871-878.
Yevgen Biletskiy, Hamidreza Baghi, Igor Keleberda, Michael Fleming (2009). An adjustable Personalization of Search and Delivery of Learning Objects to Learners, Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, 36(5), pp. 9113-9120.
Mian Qin, Scott Buffett and Michael W. Fleming (2008). Predicting User Preferences via Similarity-Based Clustering. Proceedings of the 21st Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 222--233.
Scott Buffett and Michael W. Fleming (2007). Persistently Effective Query Selection in Preference Elicitation. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2007), pages 491-497.
Shaoju Chen, Scott Buffett and Michael W. Fleming (2007). Reasoning with Conditional Preferences across Attributes. 20th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 369-380.
Scott Buffett, Luc Comeau, Bruce Spencer and Michael W. Fleming (2006). Learning Opponents' Preferences in Multi-Object Automated Negotiation. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Electronic Commerce, pages 11-18.
Scott Buffett, Luc Comeau, Michael W. Fleming and Bruce Spencer (2005). MONOLOGUE: A Tool for Negotiating Exchanges of Private Information in E-Commerce. Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, pages 169-178.
Scott Buffett, Nathan Scott, Bruce Spencer, Michael M. Richter and Michael W. Fleming (2004). Determining Internet Users' Values for Private Information. In Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, pages 79-88.
Michael Fleming (2004). The Use of Increasingly Specific User Models in the Design of Mixed-Initiative Systems. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 434-438.
Michael Fleming, Ryan Gunther and Robert Rosebrugh (2003). A database of categories. Journal of Symbolic Computation, Volume 35, No. 2, pages 127-135.
Michael Fleming and Robin Cohen (2001). A User Modeling Approach to Determining System Initiative in Mixed-Initiative AI Systems. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on User Modeling, pages 54-63.
Michael Fleming and Robin Cohen (2000). Mixed-Initiative Translation of Web Pages. In Proceedings of the 4th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2000), pages 25-29.
Michael Fleming and Robin Cohen (1999). User Modeling in the Design of Interactive Interface Agents. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on User Modeling, pages 67-76.
C.A. Baker, Michael Fleming and Nabil Shalaby (1996). Large sets of affine planes of order 4: a preliminary report. Congressus Numerantium 121, pages 77-85.
Book chapters
Robin Cohen and Michael Fleming (2003). Adjusting the autonomy in mixed-initiative systems by reasoning about interaction. In H. Hexmoor, R. Falcone and C. Castelfranchi (editors), Agent Autonomy. Kluwer Publishers.
Peer-reviewed workshop papers
Scott Buffett and Michael W. Fleming (2007). Applying a Preference Modeling Structure to User Privacy. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Sustaining Privacy in Autonomous Collaborative Environments.
Robin Cohen, Michael Y.K. Cheng and Michael W. Fleming (2005). Why bother about bother: Is it worth it to ask the user? Proceedings of the AAAI 2005 Fall Symposium on Mixed-Initiative Problem-Solving Assistants.
Michael Fleming and Robin Cohen (2004). A Decision procedure for autonomous agents to reason about interaction with humans. In Proceedings of the AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium on Interaction between Humans and Autonomous Systems over Extended Operation, pages 81-86.
Michael Fleming and Robin Cohen (2003). Reasoning about interaction in mixed-initiative AI systems. In Papers from the IJCAI-03 Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligent Systems.
Michael Fleming and Robin Cohen (2001). A utility-based theory of initiative in mixed-initiative systems. In Papers from the IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Delegation, Autonomy, and Control: Interacting with Autonomous Agents, pages 58-65.
Michael Fleming and Robin Cohen (2001). Dialogue as Decision Making Under Uncertainty: The Case of Mixed-Initiative AI Systems. In Proceedings of NAACL-2001 Adaptation in Dialogue Systems Workshop.
Michael Fleming and Robin Cohen (2000). System initiative influenced by underlying representations in mixed-initiative planning systems. In Papers from the 2000 AAAI Workshop on Representational Issues for Real-World Planning Systems, pages 18-21.
Robin Cohen and Michael Fleming (2000). Plans underlying mixed-initiative intelligent interfaces. In Papers from the 2000 IUI workshop on Using Plans in Intelligent User Interfaces, pages 23-25.
Michael Fleming and Robin Cohen (1999). Towards a Methodology for Designing and Evaluating Mixed-Initiative AI Systems. In Papers from the 1999 AAAI Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligence, pages 130-134.
Michael Fleming and Robin Cohen (1998). Interactive Interface Agents as Recommender Systems. In Papers from the 1998 AAAI Workshop on Recommender Systems, pages 42-46.
Michael Fleming and Robin Cohen (1998). Designing More Interactive Interface Agents. In Papers from the 1998 AAAI Workshop on Software Tools for Developing Agents, pages 125-126.