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Bruce Abramson, JD, PhD

Please contact Bruce Abramson for assistance with The Law & Economics of Technology.

A complete CV, with academic honors and awards, bar admissions; grants, awards, and research contracts is available upon request.

  • The Secret Circuit: The Little-Known Court Where the Rules of the Information Age Unfold (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
  • India’s Journey Toward an Effective Patent System. Policy Research working paper no. WPS 4301 (World Bank, 2007).
  • Digital Phoenix: Why the Information Economy Collapsed and How it Will Rise Again. (MIT Press, 2005) (Simplified Chinese version, ShangHai Yuandong Press, 2008).
  • Probability Forecasting. Edited with Robert Clemen. Special issue of the International Journal of Forecasting 11(1), 1995.
  • The Expected-Outcome Model of Two-Player Games. Part of the series, Research Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Morgan Kaufmann, 1991).
  • Making the Best Use of Experts to Evaluate Damages in Intellectual Property Disputes. The Trademark Reporter 106(6): 1094-1112, Nov.-Dec. 2016
  • Trolling Around the Patent/Antitrust Interface: The Roots of the NPE Challenge and the  Role of Antitrust in Patent Reform. The Antitrust Bulletin 59:2, Summer 2014. 
  • Patent Strategy in the Modern Economy. The Licensing Journal, 34(2): 12‐18, February 2014.
  • Preventing and Predicting Software License Disputes, SRR Journal, Spring 2011, 107.
  • Are “Online Markets” Real and Relevant? From Monster/Hotjobs to Google/DoubleClick, Journal of Competition Law and Economics 2008; doi: 10.1093/joclec/nhn026, 2008.
  • Topics in Medical Economics: Medical Malpractice (with Joseph Bernstein and Duncan MacCourt) Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 90:1777-1782, 2008.
  • Intellectual Property and the Alleged Collapsing of Aftermarkets. Rutgers Law Journal, 38: 399-472, 2007.
  • Phoenix Rising over the Aegean? Economic Lessons of the Early Information Age, In ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΟ ΤΕΕ ~ Ελληνική Βιομηχανία: προς την οικονομία της γνώσης (Technical Chamber of Greece, 2006).
  • The Fettered Liberty to Integrate: Legal Implications of Software Engineering. With Dmitri Mehlhorn. Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, 10: 209-224, 2004.
  • From Investor Fantasy to Regulatory Nightmare: Bad Network Economics and the Internet’s Inevitable Monopolists. Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, 16: 159-228, 2002.
  • Promoting Innovation in the Software Industry: A First Principles Approach to Intellectual Property Reform. Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, 8: 75-156, 2002.
  • Analyzing Antitrust Analysis: The Roles of Fact and Economic Theory in Summary Judgment Adjudication. Antitrust Law Journal 69: 303-343, 2001.
  • Blue Smoke or Science? The Challenge of Assessing Expertise Offered as Advocacy. Whittier Law Review 22: 723−778, 2001. Reprinted as Defense Law Journal 51: 233-286, 2002.
  • Hailfinder: Bayesian Prediction of Severe Weather. With John Brown, Ward Edwards, Allan Murphy, and Robert Winkler. International Journal of Forecasting 12: 57–71, 1996.
  • Probabilistic Forecasts from Probabilistic Models: A Case Study in the Oil Market. With Anthony Finizza. International Journal of Forecasting 11: 63–72, 1995.
  • Probability Forecasting. With Robert Clemen. Intl. Journal of Forecasting 11: 1–4, 1995.
  • Decision-Analytic Networks in Artificial Intelligence. With Izhar Matzkevich. Management Science 41: 1–22, 1995.
  • Probabilistic Multi-Knowledge-Base Systems. With Keung-Chi Ng. Journal of Applied Intelligence 4: 19–236, 1994.
  • The Constructed Producer Behavior Approach to Oil Market Forecasting. With Anthony Finizza. In Proceedings, IAEE 16th Annual North American Conference (International Association for Energy Economics, 1994), 332–341.
  • The Design of Belief Network-Based Systems: A Case Study in the World Oil Market. Computers and Electrical Engineering 20: 163–180, 1993.
  • Towards an Art and Science of Knowledge Engineering: A Case for Belief Networks. With Keung-Chi Ng. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 5: 705–712, 1993.
  • A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Integrating Sensors into AI Plans. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 23: 366–373, 1993.
  • A Belief Network-Based System that Forecasts the Oil Market by Constructing Producer Behavior. With Anthony Finizza. In Proceedings, IAEE 15th Annual North American Conference (International Association for Energy Economics, 1993), 152–159.
  • Some Complexity Considerations in the Combination of Belief Networks. With Izhar Matzkevich. In Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence – 93, D. Heckerman and A.J. Mamdani, eds. (Morgan Kaufmann, 1993), 152–158.
  • Deriving a Minimal I-Map of a Belief Network Relative to a Target Ordering. With Izhar Matzkevich. In Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence – 93, D. Heckerman and A.J. Mamdani, eds. (Morgan Kaufmann, 1993), 159–165.
  • Consensus Diagnosis: A Simulation Study. With Keung-Chi Ng. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 22: 916–928, 1992.
  • On the Design of Belief Networks for Knowledge-Based Systems. In Artificial Intelligence Frontiers in Statistics, D.J. Hand, ed. (Chapman and Hall, 1992), 67–81.
  • The Topological Fusion of Bayes Nets. With Izhar Matzkevich. In Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence – 92, D. Dubois, M.P. Wellman, B. D’Ambrosio, and P. Smets, eds. (Morgan Kaufmann, 1992), 191–199.
  • Using Belief Networks to Forecast Oil Prices. With Anthony Finizza. International Journal of Forecasting 7: 299–316, 1991.
  • A Sensitivity Analysis of Pathfinder: A Follow-Up Study. With Keung-Chi Ng. In Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence – 91, B. D’Ambrosio, P. Smets, and P.P. Bonissone, eds. (Morgan Kaufmann, 1991), 242–248.
  • On Knowledge Representation in Belief Networks. In Uncertainty in Knowledge Bases, B. Bouchon-Meunier, R.R. Yager, and L. Zadeh, eds. (Springer-Verlag, 1991), 86–96.
  • Dynamic Tradeoff Evaluation for Real-Time Spacecraft Monitoring. With Ursula Schwuttke and Les Gasser. In Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Workshop on Space Operations, Applications, and Research, NASA Conference Publication 3127, 1991.
  • A Sensitivity Analysis of Pathfinder: A Follow-Up Study. With Keung-Chi Ng. Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1990, 204-211.
  • Competent Systems: Effective, Efficient, Deliverable. Journal of Interactive Instructional Development 3: 3–8, 1990.
  • On Learning and Testing Evaluation Functions. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 2: 241–251, 1990.
  • The Statistics of State-Spaces. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 2: 5–20, 1990.
  • An Analysis of Expected-Outcome. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 2: 55–73, 1990.
  • Uncertainty Management in Expert Systems. With Keung-Chi Ng. IEEE Expert 5: 29–48, 1990.
  • Expected-Outcome: A General Model of Static Evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 12: 182–193, 1990.
  • Control Strategies for Two-Player Games. ACM Computing Surveys 21: 137–161, 1989.
  • Divide-and-Conquer Under Global Constraints: A Solution to the N-Queens Problem. With Moti Yung. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 6: 649–662, 1989.
  • Review of “A Theory of Heuristic Information in Game-Tree Search,” by Chun-Hung Tzeng. Mathematical Reviews 6364, 1989.
  • A Model of Two-Player Evaluation Functions. With Richard Korf. In Proceedings, Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI, 1987), 90–94.
  • An Explanation of and Cure for Minimax Pathology. In Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, L. Kanal and J. Lemmer, eds. (North Holland, 1986), 495–504.

* Excludes papers in conference proceedings that were subsumed by later journal articles or book chapters.