Steven Orla Kimbrough

Papers & Projects

FLBC: Formal Languages for Business Communication

• "The normative aspect of signalling and the distinction between performative and constative" (Andrew J.I. Jones and Steven O. Kimbrough), Journal of Applied Logic, 2008.
• "A Note on Interpretations for Federated Languages and the Use of Disquotation" (Steven O. Kimbrough), Proceedings of the International Conference on AI and Law, 2005.

Knowledge Discovery in Text

• "On Pattern-Directed Search of Archives and Collections" (Garett O. Dworman, Steven O. Kimbrough, and Chuck Patch), Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 2000.
• "Exemplary documents: a foundation for information retrieval design" (David C. Blair and Steven O. Kimbrough), Information Processing & Management, 2002.
• "On Deriving Indicators from Text" (Steven O. Kimbrough, Thomas Y. Lee and Ulku Oktem), working paper, June 2008.

Vaim: Value-Added Information Mash

Patent applications: Process and system for matching products and markets (number 20030093421) and Categorized Document Bases (number 20070106662).

Algorithmic Game Theory

• "Simple reinforcement learning agents: Pareto beats Nash in an algorithmic game theory study" (Steven O. Kimbrough and Ming Lu), Information Systems and e-Business Management, 2005.
• "Foraging for Trust: Exploring Rationality and the Stag Hunt Game". (Steven O. Kimbrough) in Trust Management: Third International Conference, iTrust 2005, P. Hermann, Valerie Issarny and Simon Shiu, eds., Springer-Verlag GmbH, LNCS: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 3477, 2005, pp. 1-16. Presentation foils.
• "Learning to Collude Tacitly on Production Levels by Oligopolistic Agents" by (Steven O. Kimbrough and Frederic H. Murphy) Computational Economics, 2008. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10614-008-9150-6 and locally.
• Working paper: On Concepts of Rationality in Games by Kimbrough and Axtell. Presented at the 2006 meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy Presentation foils.
• "The High Cost of Stability in Two-Sided Matching: How Much Social Welfare Should be Sacrificed in the Pursuit of Stability?" (Robert L. Axtell and Steven O. Kimbrough). Proceedings of the 2008 World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS-08) Conference home page. Presentation foils.

Heuristics for Management

• "On a Feasible-Infeasible Two-Populatin (FI-2Pop) genetic algorithm for constrained optimization: Distance tracing and no free lunch" (Steven Orla Kimbrough, Gary J. Koehler, Ming Lu, and David Harlan Wood), European Journal of Operational Research, 2008.
• "On Heuristic Mapping of Decision Surfaces for Post-Evaluation Analysis" (Branley, Fradin, Kimbrough and Shafer), 1997.

Teaching, Spring 2008

• Office hours: 9-12 Thuesdays (and by appointment).
• OPIM 101.
• OPIM 319, "Agents, Games and Evolution," Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:00-4:20, in JMHH G88.
• OPIM 325, "Metaheuristics and Management Science," Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:30-5:50, JMHH F94.
• Official listing of OPIM courses.
• Course Web, Blackboard, at Penn.
• Getting a Wharton account so you can get into webCafe. Please remember that you cannot get into webCaf until you obtain a Wharton account. I suggest doing this at your earliest convenience since it takes a day or so to get entered into the system.

  You can also go to F35 to have one created for you. Please let me know if you have any trouble.

Current CV

• CV in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) form, July 20, 2009 version.

Recent Presentations

• "Algorithmic Game Theory: Artificial Agents Play and Learn, Producing Surprising and Instructive Results," Singapore Management University, 11 June 2008. Slides in PDF.
• "Foraging for Trust: Exploring Rationality and the Stag Hunt Game," Steve Kimbrough, INFORMS, San Francisco, 16 November 2005. Foils in PDF.
• "A Look at Simple, Learnable Pricing Policies in Electricity Markets," Steve Kimbrough and Fred Murphy, INFORMS, San Francisco, 13 November 2005. Foils in PDF.
• "Introducing the Fair and Logical Trade Project," CoAla 2005, David Eyers, Alan Abrahams, Steven Kimbrough, Jean Bacon, and Andrew Jones. Foils in PDF. Paper in PDF. Workshop on Contract Architectures and Languages (CoALa2005) 20 September 2005, Enschede, The Netherlands Workshop.
• "Foraging for Trust: Exploring Rationality and the Stag Hunt Game," Steve Kimbrough, keynote talk at the Third International Conference on Trust Management, 25 May 2005, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France. Conference homepage. Foils in PDF.
• "One Thing at a Time: Evaluating Profit and Legality, or On the Contributions of Losers: Exploring the Benefits of Retaining Infeasible Solutions During Search for a Constrained Optimum," GA Tech and CIST, October 2004. Foils in PDF.

Photos: Wisconsin State Historical Society. Chuck Patch's favorite from the Wisconsin State Historical Society Web Site is Three Rennebohm Waitresses .

Useful Links

1. Penn Office of International Travel, and International SOS.
2. U@Penn website or alt.
3. Wharton online grading. Or Grading.
4. Wired story on Hemingway's six words.
5. PubMed, www.pubmed.gov.
6. http://hnt-up-dhcp-440.wharton.upenn.edu/~stevenkimbrough/.
7. Billie Holliday and some jazz all stars.
8. Faculty Senate. SOK is on 2008-10. Duties. Schedule Schedule.
9. BidStepFunction program.
10. Ambidexterity program.
11. Jim Carpenter's poetry machine
12. OPIM Course Register.
13. Wharton-OPIM Undergrad Information.
14. Students who are already enrolled in your class but who do not yet have a Wharton computing account may create one using this site: http://accounts.wharton.upenn.edu.
15. DARTS
16. Sizatola.