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Yannis Labrou

Distinguished Engineer


Biography

Yannis Labrou is a distinguished engineer at Verisign Labs, where he leads strategic thinking initiatives based on Verisign's operations.

Yannis brings to Verisign more than 20 years of experience in conceiving, creating, and bringing to fruition innovations; combining big thinking with laboring through the pains of materializing ideas. He has done so in an academic environment, at a start-up company, while conducting government- and DoD/DARPA-sponsored research, and for a global Fortune 200 company.

Yannis was previously a senior researcher at Fujitsu Laboratories of America, a unit of the global R&D arm of Fujitsu Ltd. There, he was responsible for all aspects of the process of creating and commercializing innovation within the group of researchers and developers that he managed, in the application areas of ubiquitous computing, mobile payments, security, and big data search.

Before Fujitsu, Yannis served as director of technology and member of the executive staff of PowerMarket, an enterprise application software (supply chain), VC-funded, start-up company. As one of the earliest employees at PowerMarket, he was engaged in all technology and product-related activities, leading the technology roadmap, intellectual property and technology partnerships, collaborations, and acquisition efforts.

Prior to PowerMarket, Yannis was a research assistant professor at the CSEE Dept. at UMBC, where he taught, participated in standardization efforts, and conducted research in the areas of artificial intelligence, software agents, information retrieval, enterprise software, and supply chain management.

While still in graduate school, he interned at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center.

Yannis received his PhD in computer science from UMBC, where his research focused on software agents, and a diploma in physics from the University of Athens. He has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications, with almost 4,000 citations, and he has been awarded 14 patents from the USPTO. His current research focus is data through the entire lifecycle, from generation to monetization.

Additional publications may be found at Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search.

Publications

Yannis Labrou, Matt Thomas
The Impact of Negative Caching and DNS Resolution Failures. OARC 42
2024
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Aziz Mohaisen, Mansurul Bhuiyan, Yannis Labrou
Name Server Switching: Anomaly Signatures. Usage. Clustering. and Prediction. WISA 2014.
2014
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Matt Thomas, Yannis Labrou, Andy Simpson
The Effectiveness of Block Lists in Preventing Collisions. Workshop and Prize on Root Causes and Mitigation of Name Collisions
2014
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Aziz Mohaisen, Mansurul Bhuiyan, Yannis Labrou
Characterization of the Dynamics and Interactions of Domain Names and Name Server. IEEE CNS 2013
2013
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Ryusuke Masuoka, Yannis Labrou, Zhexuan Song, Bijan Parsia, James Hendler
On Building Task Computing. AgentLink News
2005
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Yannis Labrou, Zhexuan Song, Ryusuke Masuoka
Dynamic Service Discovery and Management in Task Computing. Mobiquitous 2004
2004
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Yannis Labrou, Jonathan Agre, Lusheng Ji, Jesus Molina, Wei-lun Chen
Wireless Wallet. 1st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services. Mobiquitous 2004
2004
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Yannis Labrou, Ryusuke Masuoka, Bijan Parsia, Evren Sirin
Ontology-Enabled Pervasive Computing Applications. IEEE Intelligent Systems
2003
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Yannis Labrou, Ryusuke Masuoka
Task Computing - Semantic-web enabled, user-driven, interactive environments, WWW Based Communities For Knowledge Presentation, Sharing, Mining and Protection. CIC 2003 PSMP Workshop
2003
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Yannis Labrou, Ryusuke Masuoka, Bijan Parsia
Task Computing - the Semantic Web meets Pervasive Computing. Proceedings of ISWC 2003
2003
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Yannis Labrou
Agents and Ontologies for e-Business. The Knowledge Engineering Review
2002
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R. Scott Cost, Yannis Labrou , Tim Finin, A. Omicini, F. Zambonelli, M. Klusch, R. Tolksdorf (editors)
Agent Coordination using an Agent Communication Language. "Coordination of Internet Agents: Models, Technologies and Applications."
2001
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Yannis Labrou, Vladimr Marik , Olga Stepankova (editors)
Standardizing Agent Communication. "Multi-Agent Systems & Applications."
2001
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Yannis Labrou, Benjamin Grosof Frank Dignum, Mark Greaves (editors)
An approach to using XML and a rule-based content language with an Agent Communication Language. "Issues in Agent Communication."
2000
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Yannis Labrou , Tim Finin
History, State of the Art and Challenges for Agent Communication Languages. Informatik/Informatique
2000
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R. Scott Cost, Ye Chen, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou , Yun Peng, Frank Dignum , Mark Greaves (editors)
Using Colored Petri Nets for Conversation Modeling, in "Issues in Agent Communication." Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in AI
2000
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Yannis Labrou, Benjamin Grosof, Hoi Chan
A Declarative Approach to Business Rules in Contracts: Courteous Logic Programs in XML, EC 99 ACM
1999
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Yannis Labrou, Ye Chen, Yun Peng, Tim Finin, Scott Cost, Bill Chu, Ronming Sun, Bob Wilhelm.
A negotiation-based Multi-agent System for supply chain management, Agents-99 Workshop on Agent based Decision-Support for Managing the Internet-Enabled Supply-Chain
1999
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Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin , Yun Peng
Agent Communication Languages: The Current Landscape, Intelligent Systems. IEEE Computer Society
1999
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Yannis Labrou, Yun Peng, Tim Finin, Harry Chen, Ling Wang, R. Scott Cost, Bill Chu, Valerie Cross, Mike Russell, Bill Tolone, Akram Boughannam , Jerry McCobb
An Agent System for Application Initialization in an Integrated Manufacturing Environment. SCI'99 and ISAS'99
1999
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Yannis Labrou, R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff, James Mayfield , Akram Boughannam
An Agent-based Infrastructure for Enterprise Integration, ASA'99 and MA'99
1999
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Yannis Labrou, Benjamin Grosof
An approach to using XML and a rule-based content language with an Agent Communication Language, IJCAI-99 Workshop on Agent Communication Languages
1999
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Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin
Experiments on Using Yahoo categories to describe documents. IJCAI-99 Workshop on Intelligent Information Integration
1999
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Yannis Labrou, R. Scott Cost, Ye Chen, Tim Finin, Yun Peng.
Jackal: A Java-based Tool for Agent Development. Agents-99
1999
Presentations / Panels
Yannis Labrou, R. Scott Cost, Ye Chen, Tim Finin, Yun Peng
Modeling agent conversations with Colored Petri Nets, Agents-99 Workshop on Agent Conversation Policies
1999
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Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin , Yun Peng
The Interoperability Problem: Bringing together Mobile Agents and Agent Communication Languages. HICSS-99 mini-track on Software Agents
1999
Presentations / Panels
Yannis Labrou, R. Scott Cost, Ye Chen, Tim Finin, Yun Peng.
Using Colored Petri Nets for Conversation Modeling. IJCAI-99 Workshop on Agent Communication Languages
1999
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Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin
Yahoo! as an Ontology - Using Yahoo! Categories to Describe Documents, CIKM-99
1999
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Y. Peng, T. Finin, Yannis Labrou, B. Chu, J. Long, W. J. Tolone, A. Boughannam
A Multi-Agent System for Enterprise Integration. International Journal of Agile Manufacturing
1998
Publications / Papers
Y. Peng, T. Finin, Yannis Labrou, B. Chu, J. Long, W. J. Tolone, A. Boughannam
A Multi-Agent System for Enterprise Integration. PAAM-98
1998
Presentations / Panels
Y. Peng, T. Finin, Yannis Labrou, R.S. Cost, B. Chu, J. Long, W. J. Tolone, A. Boughannam
An Agent-Based Approach for Manufacturing Integration - The CIIMPLEX Experience. Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence
1998
Publications / Papers
R.S. Cost, T. Finin, Yannis Labrou, X. Luan, Y. Peng, I. Soboroff, J. Mayfield, A. Boughannam
Jackal: A Java-based Tool for Agent Development. AAAI-98 Workshop on Software Tools for Developing Agents
1998
Presentations / Panels
Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Yun Peng
Mobile Agents can benefit from Standards Efforts in inter-agent communication. IEEE Communications Magazine
1998
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Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin, Michael Wooldridge, Munindar Singh An Rao (editors)
Semantics for an Agent Communication Language. "Intelligent Agents IV: Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages."
1998
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Yannis Labrou, Jeffrey Bradshaw (editor)
KQML as an Agent Communication Language. "Software Agents."
1997
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Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin, Michael Huhns, Munindar Singh (editors), Morgan Kaufmann (publishers)
Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language. "Readings in Agents."
1997
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Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin
Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language. IJCAI-97
1997
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Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin
Semantics for an Agent Communication Language, AAAI-97, ATAL-97
1997
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Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin
Towards a standard for an Agent Communication Language. 1997 American Association for Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium on "Communicative Actions in Humans and Machines"
1997
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Yannis Labrou, Michael Wooldridge, Joerg P. Mueller, Milind Tambe (editors)
Evaluation of KQML as an Agent Communication Language. "Intelligent Agents II: Agent Theories, Architectures, and Language."
1996
Publications / Papers
James Mayfield, Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin
Desiderata for Agent Communication Languages. 1995 American Association for Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium on "Information Gathering in Distributed Environments"
1995
Presentations / Panels
James Mayfield, Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin
Evaluation of KQML as an Agent Communication Language. IJCAI-95, ATAL-95
1995
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Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin
A Semantics Approach for KQML, a general purpose communication language for software agents. CIKM-94
1994
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