Munindar P Singh
Service-Oriented Computing, Business Protocols, Multiagent systems, Communications, Services, Commitments, Business Processes, Norms, Trust, Agents, Security, Privacy, Healthcare processes
Dr. Munindar P. Singh is a professor in the department of computer science at North Carolina State University. From 1989 through 1995, he was with the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC). Munindar's research interests include multiagent systems and service-oriented computing, wherein he addresses the challenges of trust, service discovery, and business processes and protocols in large-scale open environments. Munindar's 1994 book Multiagent Systems, was published by Springer-Verlag. He coedited Readings in Agents, which was published by Morgan Kaufmann in 1998. Munindar edited the Practical Handbook of Internet Computing published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press in October 2004 and coauthored a text, Service-Oriented Computing published by Wiley in 2005. Munindar was the editor-in-chief of IEEE Internet Computing from 1999 to 2002. Munindar is a founding member of the editorial boards of IEEE Internet Computing and Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. He also serves on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology and Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. Previously, he served on the founding steering committee for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and the founding editorial boards of Journal of Web Semantics and Service-Oriented Computing and Applications. Munindar serves on the founding board of directors of IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems. Munindar was general cochair of the 2005 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems and program cochair of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services. Munindar is a Fellow of the IEEE. Munindar's research has been recognized with awards and sponsorship by (alphabetically) Army Research Laboratory, Army Research Office, Cisco Systems, DARPA, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Joint Oceanographic Institutions, National Science Foundation, O3C, and Xerox. Twenty students have received Ph.D. degrees and 27 students have received M.S. degrees under Munindar's direction. Munindar obtained a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993.
Works (578)
Updated: April 4th, 2024 15:32
2024 article
NewsSlant: Analyzing Political News and Its Influence Through a Moral Lens
Haque, A., & Singh, M. P. (2024, January 2). IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS, Vol. 1.
author keywords: Social networking (online); Ethics; Blogs; Media; Annotations; Voting; Organizations; Entity-centric news analysis; moral foundations; news on social media; news reader reactions; news slant; partisan news
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: February 1, 2024
2024 article
The Blame Game: Understanding Blame Assignment in Social Media
Xi, R., & Singh, M. P. P. (2023, April 3). IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS, Vol. 4.
author keywords: Social networking (online); Ethics; Linguistics; Psychology; Social factors; Natural language processing; Data mining; Moral language; moral understanding
open access via arxiv.org (repository)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: April 4, 2023
2024 chapter
Toward a scorecard (and roadmap) for trustworthy AI implementation in organizations
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: February 1, 2024
2023 journal article
A normative approach for resilient multiagent systems
AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS, 37(2).
author keywords: Norms; Multiagent systems; Resilience
TL;DR:
ReNo is a framework that computes probabilistic and temporal guarantees on whether the underlying requirements are met or, if failed, recovered and shows how the social and technical layers can be modeled jointly to enable the construction of resilient systems of autonomous agents.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 4, 2023
2023 conference paper
Conversation Modeling to Predict Derailment
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 926–935.
Event: at Limassol, Cyprus
Source: ORCID
Added: February 1, 2024
2023 article
Deception in Drone Surveillance Missions: Strategic vs. Learning Approaches
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2023 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THEORY, ALGORITHMIC FOUNDATIONS, AND PROTOCOL DESIGN FOR MOBILE NETWORKS AND MOBILE COMPUTING, MOBIHOC 2023, pp. 382–387.
author keywords: Honey drone; defensive deception; unmanned aerial vehicle; mission effectiveness; game theory; deep reinforcement learning
TL;DR:
This work proposes a unique proactive defense using honey drones (HD) for UAVs during surveillance operations to identify the optimal setting using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) or game theory and compares their performance with that of non-HD-based methods.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 11, 2023
2023 article
Embedding AI in society: ethics, policy, governance, and impacts
Pflanzer, M., Dubljevic, V., Bauer, W. A. A., Orcutt, D., List, G., & Singh, M. P. P. (2023, June 24). AI & SOCIETY, Vol. 6.
TL;DR:
This Special Issue on Embedding AI in Society encapsulates findings of a multidisciplinary symposium that sought a deeper and more holistic understanding of how AI does and should shape societal activity.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: July 31, 2023
2023 article
Governing Agents on the Web (Blue Sky Ideas)
COORDINATION, ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, NORMS, AND ETHICS FOR GOVERNANCE OF MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS XVI, COINE 2023, Vol. 14002, pp. 55–73.
TL;DR:
The interplay of multiagent systems with the Web is investigated to identify research challenges related to the governance of Web-based MAS and to derive several research questions that emerge in pursuing the aim of agents on the Web.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: February 1, 2024
2023 journal article
Healthful Connected Living: Vision and Challenges for the Case of Obesity
IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, 27(3), 7–14.
author keywords: Sensors; Obesity; Heart rate variability; Biomedical monitoring; Artificial intelligence; Temperature measurement; Psychology
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: May 11, 2023
2023 conference paper
Kiko: Programming Agents to Enact Interaction Protocols
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS).
Source: ORCID
Added: February 1, 2024
2023 journal article
Maintenance commitments: Conception, semantics, and coherence
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 324.
author keywords: Social commitments; Maintenance; Goals; Belief-Desire-Intention agents; Coherence
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 10, 2023
2023 conference paper
Norm Deviation in Multiagent Systems: A Foundation for Responsible Autonomy
Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 289–297.
Event: at Macau
TL;DR:
This work proposes a conceptual foundation for norm deviation and adopts Habermas's theory of communicative action comprising objective, subjective, and practical validity claims regarding the suitability of deviation and yields reasoning guidelines uniting norms and values by which to develop responsible agents.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: February 4, 2024
2023 conference paper
Representing and Determining Argumentative Relevance in Online Discussions: A General Approach
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 292–302.
Event: at Limassol, Cyprus
TL;DR:
This work proposes a computational approach relying on content reduction and a Siamese neural network architecture for modeling argumentative connections and determining argumentative relevance between texts, and results indicate that this approach is effective in measuring relevance between arguments, and outperforms strong and well-adopted baselines.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: February 1, 2024
2023 journal article
Resisting Multiple Advanced Persistent Threats via Hypergame-Theoretic Defensive Deception
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT, 20(3), 3816–3830.
author keywords: Defensive deception; hypergame theory; expected utility; beliefs; advanced persistent threat; Hyper Nash Equilibrium
TL;DR:
An attack-defense hypergame where multiple advanced persistent threat attackers and a single defender play a repeated game with different perceptions, and the DD strategies showed their highest advantages when the hypergame and machine learning are considered in terms of reduced false positives and negatives of the NIDS, system lifetime, and players’ perceived uncertainties and utilities.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: February 8, 2023
2023 journal article
Toward an Ethical Framework for Smart Cities and the Internet of Things
IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, 27(2), 51–56.
author keywords: Ethics; Smart cities; Government; Regulation; Internet of Things; Business
TL;DR:
A sociotechnical view of smart cities is introduced and it is shown how it may be profitably mapped to the moral foundation theory to provide a comprehensive ethical framework.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: March 23, 2023
2023 journal article
Understanding Responsible Computing via Project Management for Sustainability
IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, 27(6), 37–42.
author keywords: Sociotechnical systems; Project management; Internet; Sustainable development; Business
TL;DR:
A new framework for developing responsible Internet applications is introduced that synthesizes the perspectives of the theory of change, participatory system mapping, and computational sociotechnical systems.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
6. Clean Water and Sanitation
(Web of Science)
7. Affordable and Clean Energy
(Web of Science)
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
(Web of Science)
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(Web of Science)
12. Responsible Consumption and Production
(Web of Science)
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 11, 2023
2023 article
Understanding dynamics of polarization via multiagent social simulation
Haque, A., Ajmeri, N., & Singh, M. P. (2023, January 21). AI & SOCIETY, Vol. 1.
author keywords: Echo chambers; Selective exposure; User tolerance; Social networks
TL;DR:
This work designs a social simulation to analyze how content sharing affects user satisfaction and polarization in a social network and adopts Social Judgment Theory to operationalize attitude shift and model user behavior.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: February 13, 2023
2023 journal article
Wasabi: A Conceptual Model for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
COMPUTER, 56(2), 20–28.
author keywords: Adaptation models; Ethics; Computational modeling; Artificial intelligence
TL;DR:
Wasabi, a novel conceptual model for trustworthy AI based on an adaptation of the well-known ability–benevolence–integrity model of trust to trustworthiness, is proposed.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: February 11, 2023
2022 journal article
A Digital Communication Twin for Addressing Misinformation: Vision, Challenges, Opportunities
IEEE Internet Computing, 26(2), 36–41.
author keywords: Analytical models; Adaptation models; Social networking (online); Pandemics; Computational modeling; Atmospheric modeling; Medical services
TL;DR:
The envisioned solution is sociotechnical in that it relies upon people to push back against the ravages of misinformation but incorporates novel computational support for doing so and envision a digital communication twin platform for misinformation flow in social networks.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: May 17, 2022
2022 conference paper
Consent as a Foundation for Responsible Autonomy
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 36(11), 12301–12306.
Event: at Vancouver
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: February 4, 2024
2022 article
Decentralized Systems
Christie, V. S. H., Kagal, L., Ricci, A., & Singh, M. P. (2022, November 1). IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, Vol. 26, pp. 5–6.
author keywords: Special issues and sections; Computational modeling; InterPlanetary File System; Programming; Internet of Things; Decentralized applications
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 17, 2023
2022 article
FLEUR: Social Values Orientation for Robust Norm Emergence
COORDINATION, ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, NORMS, AND ETHICS FOR GOVERNANCE OF MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS XV, Vol. 13549, pp. 185–200.
author keywords: Agent-based simulation; Norm adherence; Preferences; Social value orientation; Ethics
TL;DR:
This work evaluates the influence of preference distributions in a society on the emergence of prosocial norms and adopts the Social Value Orientation (SVO) framework, which places value preferences along the dimensions of self and other.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 23, 2023
2022 journal article
Governance of Autonomous Agents on theWeb: Challenges and Opportunities
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGY, 22(4).
author keywords: Autonomous agents; norms; policies; preferences; governance
TL;DR:
The need for alignment and joint research across the Multiagent Systems, Semantic Web, and WoT communities is motivated, a conceptual framework for governance of autonomous agents on the Web is introduced, and several research challenges and opportunities are identified.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 15, 2022
2022 article
Honeypot-Based Cyber Deception Against Malicious Reconnaissance via Hypergame Theory
2022 IEEE GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE (GLOBECOM 2022), pp. 3393–3398.
TL;DR:
A two-player hypergame model that characterizes how a defender should deploy low and high-interaction honeypots to defend the network against malicious reconnaissance activities is presented and the numerical results validate the effectiveness of the proposed honeypot system.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 1, 2023
2022 article
Introduction to the Special Issue on Multiagent Systems and Services in the Internet of Things
Ciortea, A., Zhu, X., Pu, C., & Singh, M. P. (2022, November). ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGY, Vol. 22.
TL;DR:
The recent standardization of the Web of Things (WoT) at the IETF and the W3C further facilitates application-layer interoperability in the IoT, and unlocks new practical use cases for multiagent systems.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: March 4, 2023
2022 journal article
Investigating the Emotional Response to COVID-19 News on Twitter: A Topic Modelling and Emotion Classification Approach
IEEE ACCESS, 10, 16883–16897.
author keywords: COVID-19; Media; Social networking (online); Blogs; Emotion recognition; Emotional responses; Pandemics; COVID-19; media; news; emotion; Twitter; RoBERTa model; topic modeling; NLP
TL;DR:
Anger was the most prevalent emotion in user responses to the news coverage of COVID-19, followed by sadness, optimism, and joy, steadily over the period of the study, and optimism was found to be the highest for Filipino media accounts.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: February 17, 2022
2022 journal article
Mandrake: multiagent systems as a basis for programming fault-tolerant decentralized applications
AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS, 36(1).
author keywords: Fault tolerance; Agent programming; Protocols
TL;DR:
Mandrake’s significance lies in demonstrating a straightforward approach for constructing decentralized applications without relying on coordination mechanisms in the infrastructure, thus achieving some of the goals of the founders of networked computing from the 1970s.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: February 28, 2022
2022 journal article
Moral and social ramifications of autonomous vehicles: a qualitative study of the perceptions of professional drivers
Behaviour & Information Technology, 5, 1–8.
author keywords: Autonomous vehicles; interviews; drivers; artificial intelligence; socioeconomic justice
TL;DR:
It is found that although drivers agree that AVs will significantly impact future transportation systems, they are apprehensive about the prospects of reskilling for other jobs and want their employers to be straightforward in how the introduction ofAVs will affect them.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: May 15, 2022
2022 article
Multiagent Foundations for Distributed Systems: A Vision
ENGINEERING MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS, Vol. 13190, pp. 62–71.
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: March 10, 2022
2022 journal article
Prosocial Norm Emergence in Multi-agent Systems
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUTONOMOUS AND ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS, 17(1-2).
author keywords: Fairness; ethics; prosociality; socio-technical systems; decentralized multi-agent systems
TL;DR:
Cha is proposed, a framework for the emergence of prosocial norms that supports continual change to a system and dynamism and incorporates prosocial decision-making based on inequity aversion theory, reflecting an intuition of guilt arising from being antisocial.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: June 7, 2022
2021 journal article
A Gray Box Conceptual Model for Accountability and Ethics in Business Contracts
IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, 25(4), 13–19.
author keywords: Ethics; Computational modeling; Taxonomy; Business; Internet; Contracts
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: August 30, 2021
2021 journal article
A Survey of Defensive Deception: Approaches Using Game Theory and Machine Learning
IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS AND TUTORIALS, 23(4), 2460–2493.
author keywords: Games; Tutorials; Taxonomy; Computer security; Planning; Monitoring; Measurement; Defensive deception; cybersecurity; game theory; machine learning
TL;DR:
This survey focuses on defensive deception research centered on game theory and machine learning, since these are prominent families of artificial intelligence approaches that are widely employed in defensive deception.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 20, 2021
2021 journal article
Accountability as a Foundation for Requirements in Sociotechnical Systems
IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, 25(6), 33–41.
author keywords: Authorization; Hospitals; Contracts; Sociotechnical systems; Law; Internet; Delays
TL;DR:
The metamodel for STSs captures accountability requirements as relational constructs inspired from legal concepts, such as commitments, authorization, and prohibition, and is applied to a healthcare process and shows how it helps address the problems of ineffective interaction.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 11, 2021
2021 journal article
An interpretable framework for investigating the neighborhood effect in POI recommendation
PLOS ONE, 16(8).
MeSH headings : Deep Learning; Geographic Information Systems / statistics & numerical data; Humans; Online Social Networking; Residence Characteristics; Travel / psychology; Travel / statistics & numerical data
TL;DR:
A deep learning-based recommendation framework that exploits the neighborhood effect is proposed, which is more effective than two state-of-the-art matrix factorization-based POI recommendation techniques.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 20, 2021
2021 journal article
Bungie: Improving Fault Tolerance via Extensible Application-Level Protocols
COMPUTER, 54(5), 44–53.
author keywords: Fault tolerance; Protocols; Fault tolerant systems
TL;DR:
Bungie is presented, an approach based on applicationlevel protocols that precisely capture the causality inherent to the interactions among agents that provides abstractions for achieving fault tolerance.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 11, 2021
2021 article
Deserv: Decentralized Serverless Computing
2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB SERVICES, ICWS 2021, pp. 51–60.
author keywords: multiagent systems; protocols; programming model
TL;DR:
Deserv is contributed, the first protocol-based programming model for decentralized applications that is suited to the cloud and demonstrates how to leverage function-as-a-service (FaaS), a popular serverless programming model, to implement agents.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 12, 2021
2021 journal article
Detecting Framing Changes in Topical News
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS, 8(3), 780–791.
author keywords: Obesity; Market research; Benchmark testing; Media; Current measurement; Standards; Sociology; Framing; news media
TL;DR:
This article systematizes the discovery of framing changes through a fully unsupervised computational method that seeks to isolate framing change trends over several years, and highlights the predictive utility of framing change detection, by identifying two domains in which framing changes foreshadowed substantial legislative activity, or preceded judicial interest.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: March 16, 2021
2021 journal article
Foureye: Defensive Deception Against Advanced Persistent Threats via Hypergame Theory
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT, 19(1), 112–129.
author keywords: Games; Uncertainty; Nash equilibrium; Analytical models; Stochastic processes; Reconnaissance; Predictive models; Defensive deception; hypergame theory; uncertainty; attacker; defender; advanced persistent threat
TL;DR:
This work forms a hypergame between an attacker and a defender where they can interpret the same game differently and accordingly choose their best strategy based on their respective beliefs, which gives a chance for defensive deception strategies to manipulate an attacker’s belief, which is the key to the attacker's decision-making.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: March 11, 2022
2021 journal article
Hercule: Representing and Reasoning About Norms as a Foundation for Declarative Contracts Over Blockchain
IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, 25(4), 67–75.
author keywords: Blockchain; History; Smart contracts; Distributed ledger; Law; Authorization; Blockchain; Contract; Regulatory norm; Document store
TL;DR:
Hercule operationalizes declarative contracts over semistructured databases, the underlying representation for practical blockchain such as Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum, and exploits the map-reduce capabilities of such stores to compute norm states.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: August 30, 2021
2021 article
Interaction-Oriented Programming: An Application Semantics Approach for Engineering Decentralized Applications
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2021 ACM SYMPOSIUM ON PRINCIPLES OF DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING (PODC '21), pp. 575–576.
author keywords: Commitments; information protocol; programming model
TL;DR:
This work demonstrates how to specify a decentralized application flexibly and how to engineer correct, fault-tolerant endpoints (agents) for the principals in a straightforward manner and shows how to address application semantics, the holy grail of distributed systems.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: February 7, 2022
2021 journal article
Maintenance of Social Commitments in Multiagent Systems
Proceedings of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 35(13), 11369–11377. https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/17355
Event: at Vancouver
Source: ORCID
Added: May 12, 2022
2021 journal article
Nova: Value-based Negotiation of Norms
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY, 12(4).
author keywords: Sociotechnical systems; conflicting requirements; human-agent negotiation
TL;DR:
This work proposes an agent-based negotiation framework, where agents’ requirements are represented as values, and an agent revises the nMAS specification to promote its values by executing a set of norm revision rules that incorporate ontology-based reasoning.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 2, 2021
2021 article
Sociotechnical Perspectives on AI Ethics and Accountability
Kokciyan, N., Srivastava, B., Huhns, M., & Singh, M. (2021, November). IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, Vol. 25, pp. 5–6.
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 11, 2021
2021 conference paper
Tango: Declarative Semantics for Multiagent Communication Protocols
Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
TL;DR:
A protocol semantics declaratively via inference rules that determine when a message emission or reception becomes enabled during an enactment, and its effect on the local state of an agent is formulates, helping produce parsimonious models and yielding improved protocol verification methods.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: May 12, 2022
2021 journal article
Toward a rational and ethical sociotechnical system of autonomous vehicles: A novel application of multi-criteria decision analysis
PLOS ONE, 16(8), e0256224.
Ed(s): Q. Yuan
MeSH headings : Accidents, Traffic / prevention & control; Attitude; Automation / ethics; Automation / legislation & jurisprudence; Automobile Driving / psychology; Autonomous Vehicles / ethics; Autonomous Vehicles / legislation & jurisprudence; Decision Support Techniques; Humans; Models, Statistical; Morals; Ownership / economics; Surveys and Questionnaires
TL;DR:
The results suggest that two of these scenarios, namely regulated privately-owned introduction or fleet ownership or autonomous vehicles would be less likely to cause harm than either the status quo or the unfettered options.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID, Crossref
Added: August 14, 2021
2020 journal article
An Evaluation of Communication Protocol Languages for Engineering Multiagent Systems
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 69, 1351–1393.
TL;DR:
A rich evaluation of diverse and modern protocol languages is contributed, mapping the findings to a canonical architecture style for multiagent systems, highlighting where the languages depart from the architecture.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: May 12, 2022
2020 journal article
Blockchain-Based Financial Technologies and Cryptocurrencies for Low-Income People: Technical Potential Versus Practical Reality
COMPUTER, 53(1), 53–62.
TL;DR:
Blockchain’s technical potential can be used to serve the needs of unbanked and underbanked populations, but there is no evidence that these needs are being met.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: February 3, 2020
2020 article
Caspar: Extracting and Synthesizing User Stories of Problems from App Reviews
2020 ACM/IEEE 42ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (ICSE 2020), pp. 628–640.
TL;DR:
This work presents Caspar, a method for extracting and synthesizing user-reported mini stories regarding app problems from reviews, and trains an inference model on the extracted action-problem pairs that automatically predicts possible app problems for different use cases.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: June 21, 2021
2020 conference paper
Clouseau: Generating Communication Protocols from Commitments
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(5), 7244–7252.
TL;DR:
Clouseau is contributed, an approach that takes a commitment-based specification of an interaction and generates a communication protocol amenable to decentralized enactment that is correct, safe, and live.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, NC State University Libraries, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 12, 2022
2020 journal article
Computational Governance and Violable Contracts for Blockchain Applications
Computer, 53(1), 53–62.
TL;DR:
The architecture incorporates the notion of a declarative, violable contract and enables flexible governance based on formal organizational structures, correctness verification without obstructing autonomy, and a basis for trust.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 16, 2020
2020 article
Ethics in Self-* Sociotechnical Systems (Tutorial Abstract)
2020 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMIC COMPUTING AND SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS COMPANION (ACSOS-C 2020), pp. 249–249.
Contributors: N. Ajmeri n , P. Murukannaiah* & n
TL;DR:
The surprising capabilities demonstrated by AI technologies overlaid on detailed data and fine-grained control give cause for concern that agents can wield enormous power over human welfare, drawing increasing attention to ethics in AI.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: October 26, 2020
2020 journal article
From Machine Ethics to Internet Ethics: Broadening the Horizon
IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, 24(3), 51–57.
author keywords: Ethics; Internet; Hospitals; Urban areas; Roads; Cognition; Smart phones
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 24, 2020
2020 conference paper
In Opinion Holders’ Shoes: Modeling Cumulative Influence for View Change in Online Argumentation
Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020, 2388–2399.
Event: at Taipei
TL;DR:
The task of predicting the points where a user’s view changes given an entire discussion is addressed, thereby tackling the confusion due to multiple plausible alternatives when considering the entirety of a discussion.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: February 1, 2024
2020 journal article
Protocols Over Things: A Decentralized Programming Model for the Internet of Things
Computer, 53(12), 60–68.
author keywords: Protocols; Internet of Things; Logistics; Programming; Correlation; Decision making
TL;DR:
Protocols over Things, a decentralized programming model that represents an IoT application via a protocol between the parties involved and provides improved performance over network-level delivery guarantees, is contributed.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: November 26, 2020
2019 journal article
A Coupled Operational Semantics for Goals and Commitments
JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH, 65, 31–85.
TL;DR:
This article provides a combined operational semantics for goals and commitments by relating their respective life cycles as a basis for how these concepts cohere for an individual agent and engender cooperation among agents.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 16, 2019
2019 journal article
DESEN: Specification of Sociotechnical Systems via Patterns of Regulation and Control
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 29(1), 1–50.
author keywords: Agent-oriented software engineering; norms; security and privacy requirements; design patterns; simulation
TL;DR:
This work addresses the problem of engineering a sociotechnical system (STS) with respect to its stakeholders’ requirements by incorporating the social dimension into the formal verification process and supports refinement of STS specifications via design patterns to meet stated requirements.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 10, 2020
2019 conference paper
Leveraging Structural and Semantic Correspondence for Attribute-Oriented Aspect Sentiment Discovery
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP). Presented at the Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP).
Event: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
TL;DR:
Trait is proposed, an unsupervised probabilistic model that discovers aspects and sentiments from text and associates them with different attributes using a Markov Random Field and significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines both by generating attribute profiles that accord with intuitions and yielding topics of greater semantic cohesion.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 14, 2020
2019 chapter
Modeling and Analysis of Deception Games Based on Hypergame Theory
In Autonomous Cyber Deception (pp. 49–74).
TL;DR:
This chapter examines how a player’s perception (or misperception) affects their decision-making in choosing a best strategy based on hypergame theory and model a simple cybergame scenario and demonstrates an example probability model using Stochastic Petri Nets.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 14, 2020
2019 conference paper
Requirements Engineering as Science in the Small
2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER). Presented at the 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER).
Event: 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER)
author keywords: Philosophy of science; Foundations of requirements engineering; Requirements engineering process
TL;DR:
It is argued that RE is concerned with the development of models of small universes and thus relates to natural science despite RE having a prescriptive rather than a descriptive nature.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 14, 2020
2019 conference paper
Supple: Multiagent Communication Protocols with Causal Types
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS), 781–789. https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/131277/
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: November 16, 2020
2019 conference paper
The Interplay of Emotions and Norms in Multiagent Systems
Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019-August, 371–377.
Contributors: A. Kalia *, N. Ajmeri n , K. Chan *, J. Cho *, S. Adalı * & n
Event: Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-19}
TL;DR:
This work provides a step-wise process to discover two new Dynamic Bayesian models based on maximizing log-likelihood scores with respect to the data and compares them with the baseline models to discover new insights into the relevant relationships.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: September 29, 2019
2019 journal article
The public and legislative impact of hyperconcentrated topic news
SCIENCE ADVANCES, 5(8).
MeSH headings : Humans; Newspapers as Topic; Periodicals as Topic / legislation & jurisprudence; Periodicals as Topic / statistics & numerical data
TL;DR:
It is shown that specific features of news, such as publishing volume, appear to influence sustained public attention, as measured by annual Google Trends data, and federal legislation, and that federal legislative activity is often foreshadowed by periods of high news volume and similarity between articles.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 4, 2019
2019 journal article
Çorba: crowdsourcing to obtain requirements from regulations and breaches
Empirical Software Engineering, 8.
author keywords: Regulatory norms; Sociotechnical systems; HIPAA
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 14, 2020
2018 journal article
A Conceptual Framework for Engineering Chatbots
IEEE Internet Computing.
Contributors: R. Pandita, M. Vukovic *, A. Kalia *, P. Telang * & n
TL;DR:
This paper outlines a high-level conceptual framework for realizing flexible chatbots founded upon agent-oriented abstractions: goals, plans, and commitments.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2018 journal article
Blockchains for Business Process Management - Challenges and Opportunities
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 9(1), 1–16.
Contributors: M. Dumas *, S. Debois *, F. Daniel *, C. Cabanillas *, J. Brocke *, L. Zhu *, X. Xu *, M. Weske *
author keywords: Blockchain; business process management; research challenges
TL;DR:
The challenges and opportunities of blockchain for business process management (BPM) are outlined and how blockchains could be used in the context of the established BPM lifecycle and how they might become relevant beyond are reflected.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 10, 2019
2018 conference paper
Compositional Correctness in Multiagent Interactions
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS), 1159–1167. https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/123578/
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: November 16, 2020
2018 journal article
Designing Ethical Personal Agents
IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, 22(2), 16–22.
Contributors: P. Murukannaiah *, H. Guo n, N. Ajmeri n & n
TL;DR:
The authors consider the problem of engineering ethical personal agents that would understand the applicable social norms and its users preferences among values and act or recommend actions that promote preferred values, especially in scenarios where the norms conflict.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2018 conference paper
Extraction of Natural Language Requirements from Breach Reports Using Event Inference
2018 5th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering (AIRE). Presented at the 2018 5th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering (AIRE).
Event: 2018 5th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering (AIRE)
author keywords: Event inference; Story Cloze Test; security and privacy requirements; breach reports; recurrent neural networks; Long Short-Term Memory architecture
TL;DR:
A prediction model for inferring held-out sentences based on Paragraph Vector, a document embedding method, and Long Short-Term Memory networks is proposed and found that the presented model performs significantly better than the baseline of using average word vectors.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 14, 2020
2018 journal article
GoCo: planning expressive commitment protocols
AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS, 32(4), 459–502.
Contributors: P. Telang *, N. Yorke-Smith *, M. Magnaguagno *, F. Meneguzzi * & n
author keywords: Commitment protocols; Intelligent agents; Uncertainty; Goal reasoning; HTN planning; Non-determinism
TL;DR:
This article develops a multi-agent plan in the form of a commitment protocol that allows the agents to coordinate in a flexible manner, retaining their autonomy in terms of the goals they adopt so long as their actions adhere to the commitments they have made.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2018 conference paper
Limbic: Author-Based Sentiment Aspect Modeling Regularized with Word Embeddings and Discourse Relations
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Presented at the Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
Event: Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
TL;DR:
Limbic is an unsupervised probabilistic model that addresses the problem of discovering aspects and sentiments and associating them with authors of opinionated texts, and outperforms state-of-the-art models by a substantial margin in topic cohesion and sentiment classification.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 14, 2020
2018 chapter
Normative Multiagent Systems: Foundations and History
In A. Chopra, L. van der Torre, H. Verhagen, & S. Villata (Eds.), Handbook of Normative Multiagent Systems (pp. 3–25). London: College Publications.
Ed(s): A. Chopra, L. van der Torre, H. Verhagen & S. Villata
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: November 16, 2020
2018 conference paper
Robust Norm Emergence by Revealing and Reasoning about Context: Socially Intelligent Agents for Enhancing Privacy
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018-July, 28–34.
Contributors: N. Ajmeri n , H. Guo n, P. Murukannaiah * & n
Event: Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-18}
TL;DR:
This work investigates via simulation the benefits of enriched interactions where deviating agents share selected elements of their contexts and finds that the norms are learned better with fewer sanctions, indicating improved social cohesion and the agents are better able to satisfy their individual goals.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: September 29, 2019
2018 journal article
SoSharP: Recommending Sharing Policies in Multiuser Privacy Scenarios
IEEE Internet Computing.
Contributors: R. Fogues *, J. Such *, P. Murukannaiah * & n
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2018 conference paper
Sociotechnical Systems and Ethics in the Large
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society - AIES '18. Presented at the the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference.
Event: the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference
author keywords: Sociotechnical systems; Multiagent systems; Governance; Norms; Autonomy; Accountability; Moral dilemmas; Decision making
TL;DR:
The conception of ethical STS founded on governance that takes into account stakeholder values, normative constraints on agents, and outcomes (states of the STS) that obtain due to actions taken by agents is presented.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 14, 2020
2018 journal article
Teaching Crowdsourcing: An Experience Report
IEEE Internet Computing, 22(6), 44–52.
TL;DR:
A project assignment is described in which students received the opportunity of practicing crowdsourcing to accomplish a hummed song recognition task, yielding improved comprehension of the concept and high student satisfaction.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education
(Web of Science)
Source: ORCID
Added: September 29, 2019
2018 journal article
Toward effective adoption of secure software development practices
SIMULATION MODELLING PRACTICE AND THEORY, 85, 33–46.
Contributors: n , E. Berglund n, H. Du n, N. Ajmeri n & S. Al-Amin n
author keywords: Multiagent system; Security practices; Adoption; Decision theory; Sanction
TL;DR:
A multiagent simulation framework that incorporates developers and manager roles, where developers maximize task completion and compliance with security policies, and the manager enforces sanctions based on functionality and security of the project is proposed.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 article
A Mechanism for Cooperative Demand-Side Management
2017 IEEE 37TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS (ICDCS 2017), pp. 361–371.
Contributors: M. Huhns *, C. Hang, G. Yuan n & n
author keywords: Demand-side management; Prosocial behaviors
TL;DR:
An algorithmic mechanism that reduces peak total power consumption and encourages prosocial behavior, such as expressing flexibility in one's power consumption, and reporting preferences truthfully is developed.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 review
A Service Computing Manifesto: The Next 10 Years
[Review of ]. COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM, 60(4), 64–72.
Contributors: S. Mistry *, B. Benatallah *, A. Neiat *, Q. Yu *, Q. Sheng *, B. Blake *, L. Chen, M. Huhns *
TL;DR:
Mapping out the challenges and strategies for the widespread adoption of service computing shows clear trends in adoption and a clear road map for the future direction is proposed.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Aragorn: Eliciting and Maintaining Secure Service Policies
Computer, 50(12), 50–58.
Contributors: S. Parsons *, C. Hang, N. Ajmeri n & n
TL;DR:
Services are configured via policies that capture expected behaviors, but stakeholder requirements can change, making policy errors a surprisingly common occurrence, says Aragorn.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: September 29, 2019
2017 journal article
Arnor: Modeling Social Intelligence via Norms to Engineer Privacy-Aware Personal Agents
AAMAS'17: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS. https://publons.com/publon/21294376/
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2017 journal article
Computing Team Process Measures From the Structure and Content of Broadcast Collaborative Communications
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS, 4(2), 26–39.
author keywords: Emergent states; team performance; team processes; text mining
TL;DR:
This work builds on existing work in semantic classification of messages in broadcast communications and proposes a general set of meanings of messages for team processes, and develops a better-defined formal empirical approach for computing team process measures.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Continuous Authentication and Authorization for the Internet of Things
IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, 21(2), 86–90.
Contributors: M. Shahzad n & n
TL;DR:
Some challenges and opportunities in developing continuous authentication and authorization approaches for the IoT are discussed while also a case study of a Wi-Fi-based human authentication system called WiFiU is presented.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
How Good is a Security Policy against Real Breaches? A HIPAA Case Study
Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering.
Contributors: M. Petruso*, L. Williams n, J. Jones *, O. Kafali n & n
author keywords: Security and privacy breaches; social norms; breach ontology; semantic similarity
TL;DR:
This research goal is to help analysts measure the gaps between security policies and reported breaches by developing a systematic process based on semantic reasoning, and proposes SEMAVER, a framework for determining coverage of breaches by policies via comparison of individual policy clauses and breach descriptions.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2017 conference paper
Kont: Computing Tradeoffs in Normative Multiagent Systems
Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 3006–3012. San Francisco: AAAI.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: November 16, 2020
2017 article
Leveraging Sentiment Analysis for Classifying Patient Complaints
ACM-BCB' 2017: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 8TH ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOINFORMATICS, COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY,AND HEALTH INFORMATICS, pp. 44–51.
Contributors: J. Karrass *, T. Catron *, Z. Zhang *, W. Cooper *, A. ElMessiry & n
author keywords: Patient Complaints; NLP; Text Mining
TL;DR:
It is demonstrated that inferring the complaint sentiment leads to improved classification accuracy and is concluded that patient sentiments conveyed in complaints are often overlooked yet can be valuable in analyzing such complaints to identify and mitigate patient safety and provider financial risks.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Sharing Policies in Multiuser Privacy Scenarios: Incorporating Context, Preferences, and Arguments in Decision Making
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-HUMAN INTERACTION, 24(1).
Contributors: R. Fogues *, J. Such *, P. Murukannaiah* & n
author keywords: Privacy; social media; multiuser; argumentation; crowdsourcing
TL;DR:
An inference model is developed and evaluated that predicts the optimal sharing policy given the three types of features in multiuser scenarios where arguments are employed, and the predictions of the model are analyzed to uncover potential scenario types that lead to incorrect predictions and to enhance the understanding of when multiusers scenarios are more or less prone to dispute.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
SoSharP: Recommending Sharing Policies in Multiuser Privacy Scenarios
IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, 21(6), 28–36.
TL;DR:
SoSharP is proposed, an agent-based approach to help users maintain their own and others’ privacy by guiding a selection of sharing policies in multiuser scenarios that learns incrementally and asks for users’ input only when required, reducing users” effort.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Splee: A Declarative Information-Based Language for Multiagent Interaction Protocols
AAMAS'17: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS. https://publons.com/publon/21294377/
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2017 article
The Internet of Things and Multiagent Systems: Decentralized Intelligence in Distributed Computing
2017 IEEE 37TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS (ICDCS 2017), pp. 1738–1747.
author keywords: Governance; Multiagent systems; Decentralization; Sociotechnical systems; Norms
TL;DR:
Decentralized multiagent systems are envisioned as a way to place decentralized intelligence in distributed computing, specifically, by supporting computation at the level of social meanings.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 conference paper
Tosca: Operationalizing Commitments Over Information Protocols
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Presented at the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Event: Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
TL;DR:
Tosca, a technique for automatically synthesizing information protocols from commitment specifications, supports commitment alignment, which is the idea that agents must make compatible inferences about their commitments despite decentralization.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 14, 2020
2017 article
Toward Automating Crowd RE
2017 IEEE 25TH INTERNATIONAL REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING CONFERENCE (RE), pp. 512–515.
Contributors: N. Ajmeri n , P. Murukannaiah * & n
Event: at United States
author keywords: Crowd RE; personality; creativity; smarthome; dataset; data challenges
TL;DR:
A crowd-acquired dataset, consisting of requirements and their ratings on multiple dimensions for the smart homes application domain, is showcased, which contains not only requirements, but also the characteristics of the crowd workers who produced those requirements including their demographics, personality traits, and creative potential.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Triaging Patient Complaints: Monte Carlo Cross-Validation of Six Machine Learning Classifiers
JMIR Medical Informatics.
TL;DR:
Automatic patient triage methods based on modeling patient complaint text can be effective in identifying those patient complaints requiring physician action, thereby enhancing opportunities to encourage physicians to self-regulate.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2016 article
Acquiring Creative Requirements from the Crowd Understanding the Influences of Personality and Creative Potential in Crowd RE
2016 IEEE 24TH INTERNATIONAL REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING CONFERENCE (RE), pp. 176–185.
Contributors: N. Ajmeri* , P. Murukannaiah* & *
Event: at United States
author keywords: Idea generation; crowdsourcing; Crowd RE; creativity; personality; smart home
TL;DR:
It is found that exposing a worker to ideas from previous workers cognitively stimulates the worker to produce creative ideas, and effective strategies based on personality traits and creative potential for selecting a few requirements from a pool of previous requirements to stimulate a worker are identified.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 journal article
Classifying sanctions and designing a conceptual sanctioning process model for socio-technical systems
The Knowledge Engineering Review, 31(2), 142–166.
Contributors: n , J. Sichman *, A. Kalia n, N. Ajmeri n , T. Balke-Visser* & L. Nardin *
TL;DR:
This work proposes a sanction typology that reflects the relevant features of sanctions, and a conceptual sanctioning process model providing a functional structure for sanctioning in STS, and demonstrates its contributions via a motivating scenario from the domain of renewable energy trading.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 29, 2019
2016 review
Classifying sanctions and designing a conceptual sanctioning process model for socio-technical systems
[Review of]. Knowledge Engineering Review, 31(2), 142–166.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 conference paper
Coco: Runtime Reasoning about Conflicting Commitments
Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 17–23. New York: IJCAI.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: November 16, 2020
2016 conference paper
Custard: Computing Norm States over Information Stores
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 1096–1105. Singapore: IFAAMAS.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: January 17, 2021
2016 conference paper
DIGS
Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement - ESEM '16. Presented at the the 10th ACM/IEEE International Symposium.
Event: the 10th ACM/IEEE International Symposium
author keywords: Security goals; security requirements; controlled experiment
TL;DR:
Explicitly providing the additional knowledge for the identification of implied security goals significantly increased the chances of discovering such goals, thereby improving coverage of stakeholder security requirements, even if they are unstated.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Crossref
Added: September 3, 2020
2016 journal article
Engineering Privacy in Social Applications
IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, 20(2), 72–76.
Contributors: P. Murukannaiah n, N. Ajmeri n & n
TL;DR:
Danio, a methodology based on modeling users' expectations in various contexts that simplifies the development of social applications and saves time during implementation and testing, is introduced.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 article
Expressing and Reasoning about Conflicting Norms in Cybersecurity: Poster
SYMPOSIUM AND BOOTCAMP ON THE SCIENCE OF SECURITY, pp. 63–64.
Contributors: J. Doyle n, R. Chirkova n, N. Ajmeri n , J. Jiang n & n
Event: at United States
author keywords: Normative System; Dominance Relation; Norm
TL;DR:
This work adopts a notion of conditional, directed norms as a way to capture the standards of correctness for a collaboration by adapting answer-set programming to compute stable sets of norms with respect to their computed conflicts and dominance.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 journal article
Formal Understanding of Tradeoffs among Liveness and Safety Requirements
IEEE 24TH INTERNATIONAL REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS (REW), 17–18.
Contributors: N. Ajmeri , O. Kafali &
author keywords: Norms; sociotechnical systems; constraint logic programming
Source: ORCID
Added: October 7, 2019
2016 conference paper
Formal understanding of tradeoffs among liveness and safety requirements
2016 IEEE 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW), 17–18.
Event: at United States
TL;DR:
This work proposes metrics to measure liveness and safety, and demonstrates how constraint logic programming is used to compute such metrics.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: NC State University Libraries, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 conference paper
From Social Machines to Social Protocols
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web - WWW '16. Presented at the the 25th International Conference.
Contributors: A. Chopra * & n
Event: the 25th International Conference
TL;DR:
This paper introduces Interaction-Oriented Software Engineering (IOSE) as a paradigm expressly suited to capturing the social basis of STSs, and reinterpret the classical software engineering principles for the STS setting and shows how IOSE is better suited than traditional software engineering for supporting social processes.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 10, 2019
2016 journal article
Güven: estimating trust from communications
Journal of Trust Management, 3(1).
TL;DR:
Güven incorporates a probabilistic model for trust based on commitment outcomes and shows how to train its parameters for each subject based on the subject’s assessments; the results are promising, though imperfect.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 3, 2020
2016 article
NANE: Identifying Misuse Cases Using Temporal Norm Enactments
2016 IEEE 24TH INTERNATIONAL REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING CONFERENCE (RE), pp. 136–145.
Contributors: L. Williams n, O. Kafali n & n
author keywords: Security requirements; sociotechnical systems
TL;DR:
Nane is proposed, a formal framework for identifying misuse cases using a semiautomated process and it is demonstrated how Nane enables monitoring of potential misuses on a healthcare scenario.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 journal article
Normative Requirements in Sociotechnical Systems
IEEE 24TH INTERNATIONAL REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS (REW), 259–260.
Contributors: N. Ajmeri , O. Kafah &
author keywords: Norms; privacy; design patterns
Source: ORCID
Added: October 7, 2019
2016 conference paper
Normative requirements in sociotechnical systems
2016 IEEE 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW), 259–260.
Event: at United States
TL;DR:
This work uses formal verification techniques to understand whether an STS specification meets the functional, security, and privacy requirements of its stakeholders and suggests refinements based on normative design patterns if a requirement is not satisfied.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: NC State University Libraries, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 journal article
Percimo: A Personalized Community Model for Location Estimation in Social Media
PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS ANALYSIS AND MINING ASONAM, 271–278.
Contributors: P. Murukannaiah n, G. Yuan n & n
TL;DR:
This work considers the problem of estimating geo-tags for tweets and develops a comprehensive approach, Percimo, that incorporates textual content, the user's personalized behavior, and the users' social relationships and yields a smaller prediction error than the two state-of-the-art approaches it compares with.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: NC State University Libraries, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 journal article
Privacy Risks in Intelligent User Interfaces
IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, 20(6), 57–61.
TL;DR:
The authors review some of the ways in which user interfaces could glean a users private information; then the authors highlight the risks therein, and discuss ways of mitigating those risks.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 journal article
Revani: Revising and Verifying Normative Specifications for Privacy
IEEE Intelligent Systems, 31(5), 8–15.
Contributors: N. Ajmeri n , O. Kafali & n
TL;DR:
The authors' approach, Revani, understands privacy from the standpoint of sociotechnical systems (STSs), with particular attention on the social elements of STSs, via a combination of technical mechanisms and social norms founded on accountability.
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Sources: NC State University Libraries, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 conference paper
Silk: A Simulation Study of Regulating Open Normative Multiagent Systems
Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 373–379. New York: IJCAI.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: November 16, 2020
2016 journal article
Toward a Normative Approach for Forensicability
Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security.
Contributors: L. Williams n, O. Kafali n & n
author keywords: Forensic logging; security; sociotechnical systems; requirements; social norms
TL;DR:
The goal of this research is to aid software practitioners to implement automated forensic logging by providing a systematic method of using attackers' malicious intentions to decide what needs to be logged.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2016 conference paper
Toward entrepreneurial pedagogies: rethinking professional networking as knowledge making
2016 ieee international professional communication conference (ipcc).
TL;DR:
It is suggested that instructors and students should understand professional social networking as a multilayered practice of learning and sharing collective knowledge.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
(OpenAlex)
Sources: NC State University Libraries, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 journal article
Towards characterization of photo-excited electron transfer and catalysis in natural and artificial systems using XFELs
FARADAY DISCUSSIONS, 194, 621–638.
MeSH headings : Catalysis; Crystallography, X-Ray; Electrons; Lasers; X-Rays
TL;DR:
This work has developed methodology for simultaneously collecting X-ray diffraction data andX-ray emission spectra, using an energy dispersive spectrometer, at ambient conditions, and used this approach to study the room temperature structure and intermediate states of the photosynthetic water oxidizing metallo-protein, photosystem II.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2015 article
A Collaborative Approach to Predicting Service Price for QoS-Aware Service Selection
2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB SERVICES (ICWS), pp. 33–40.
TL;DR:
This work proposes a collaborative approach to predicting a provider's minimum price for a desired QoS based on prior usage experience, and shows the approach can find the optimal service providers efficiently and effectively.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2015 journal article
Combining Practical and Dialectical Commitments for Service Engagements
Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Contributors: J. Madden *, A. Kalia n, P. Telang * & n
TL;DR:
This work introduces a novel bipartite operationalization of dialectical commitments that separates their objective and subjective aspects and thus avoids the problems arising if the authors merely treat dialectical like practical commitments.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2015 conference paper
Combining practical and dialectical commitments for service engagements
Service-oriented computing, (icsoc 2015), 9435, 3–18.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2015 journal article
Composing and Verifying Commitment-Based Multiagent Protocols
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Ijcai). https://publons.com/publon/21294402/
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2015 journal article
Crowdsourcing Cloud-Based Software Development Foreword
Crowdsourcing: Cloud-Based Software Development. https://publons.com/publon/21294395/
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2015 journal article
Crowdsourcing cloud-based software development foreword
Crowdsourcing: Cloud-Based Software Development, V-.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2015 conference paper
Cupid: Commitments in Relational Algebra
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 29(1), 2052–2059. https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/9443
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: January 17, 2021
2015 journal article
Cybersecurity as an Application Domain for Multiagent Systems
PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMOUS AGENTS & MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS). https://publons.com/publon/21294405/
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2015 conference paper
Cybersecurity as an application domain for multiagent systems
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, 2, 1207–1212. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84945191478&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2015 journal article
Deploying a Social Web Graph Over a Semantic Web Framework
Advances in Soft Computing.
Contributors: A. Singh*, S. Upadhyay* & K. Abhishek *
author keywords: Semantic web; Ontology; OWL (Web ontology language); Social web graph; DL (Description logic)
TL;DR:
A Social Web Graph over a Semantic Web Framework that organizes information in triples in addition to having the benefits of a graph to make the information more understandable and easily accessible.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2015 journal article
Generalized Commitment Alignment
PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMOUS AGENTS & MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS). https://publons.com/publon/21294404/
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2015 conference paper
Generalized commitment alignment
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, 1, 453–461. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84944086593&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2015 journal article
Modeling Healthcare Processes Using Commitments: An Empirical Evaluation
Plos One.
Contributors: P. Telang *, A. Kalia n & n
MeSH headings : Breast Neoplasms / diagnosis; Delivery of Health Care / organization & administration; Efficiency, Organizational; Empirical Research; Female; Humans; Interprofessional Relations; Models, Organizational; Physician-Patient Relations
TL;DR:
The study found that Comma is superior to Traditional-HL7 in flexibility and objective quality as validated via Student’s t-test to the 10% level of significance.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2015 conference paper
Modeling analytics as knowledge work: Computing meets organizational psychology
Proceedings - International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, 2015-June(June), 382–387.
Contributors: G. Yuan n, N. Ajmeri n , C. Allred n, P. Telang *, M. Wilson n & n
Event: at United States
TL;DR:
This paper exploits knowledge from organizational psychology to develop a computational organizational model that provides a framework to understand the impact of organizational level variables and worker characteristics on workflow performance, providing a view to create justifiable interventions to improve performance.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: NC State University Libraries, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2015 conference paper
Norms as a Basis for Governing Sociotechnical Systems
Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 4207–4211. Buenos Aires: IJCAI.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: January 17, 2021
2015 journal article
Platys: An Active Learning Framework for Place-Aware Application Development and Its Evaluation
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND METHODOLOGY, 24(3).
Contributors: P. Murukannaiah n & n
author keywords: Experimentation; Measurement; Mobile application development; location-aware; place-aware; context-aware; middleware; place recognition; active learning; semi-supervised learning; usability; privacy
TL;DR:
The results indicate that application developers employing Platys, when compared to those employing the Android API, develop a place-aware application faster and perceive reduced difficulty and produce applications that are easier to understand and potentially more usable and privacy preserving.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
4. Quality Education
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2015 journal article
Platys: From Position to Place-Oriented Mobile Computing
AI MAGAZINE, 36(2), 50–62.
Contributors: I. Rhee n, T. Finin *, L. Zavala*, A. Joshi *, N. Poosamani n, P. Murukannaiah n, n
TL;DR:
The Platys project focuses on developing a high-level, semantic notion of location called place that enables the construction of a large variety of applications that take advantage of place to render relevant content and functionality and thus, improve user experience.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2015 journal article
Positron: Composing Commitment-Based Protocols
Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Contributors: A. Kalia n, S. Gerard*, P. Telang * & n
author keywords: Commitments; Commitment protocols; Agent communication; Communication protocols; Protocol composition; Verification of multiagent systems; Model checking
TL;DR:
Positron incorporates role accountability and role requirements as two integral aspects of protocol composition in order to promote collaboration in STSs through natural requirements elicitation; flexibility enactment; and compliance and validation.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2015 conference paper
Positron: Composing commitment-based protocols
Service-oriented computing, (icsoc 2015), 9435, 19–35.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2015 journal article
Resolving Goal Conflicts via Argumentation-Based Analysis of Competing Hypotheses
IEEE 25TH INTERNATIONAL REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING CONFERENCE (RE), 156–165.
Contributors: P. Murukannaiah n, P. Telang*, A. Kalia n & n
TL;DR:
Arg-ACH systematically captures the trail of a requirements engineer's thought process in resolving conflicts and is superior to ACH with respect to completeness and coverage of belief search; length of belief chaining; ease of use; explicitness of the assumptions made; and repeatability of conclusions across subjects.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: NC State University Libraries, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2015 journal article
Social Contexts and Social Pragmatics
PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMOUS AGENTS & MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS). https://publons.com/publon/21294406/
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2015 conference paper
Social contexts and social pragmatics
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, 3, 1739–1740. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84944706476&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2015 journal article
TRACE: A Dynamic Model of Trust for People-Driven Service Engagements Combining Trust with Risk, Commitments, and Emotions
Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Contributors: A. Kalia n, P. Murukannaiah n & n
TL;DR:
This work considers trust as it arises in and influences people-driven service engagements and considers only commitment as the primary means of estimating trust.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2015 conference paper
TRACE: A dynamic model of trust for people-driven service engagements combining trust with risk, commitments, and emotions
Service-oriented computing, (icsoc 2015), 9435, 353–361.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2015 conference paper
Understanding sanction under variable observability in a secure, collaborative environment
Proceedings of the 2015 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security - HotSoS '15, 21-22-April-2015, 12:1–12:10.
Contributors: H. Du n, B. Narron n, N. Ajmeri n , E. Berglund n, J. Doyle n & n
Event: the 2015 Symposium and Bootcamp at United States
TL;DR:
CARLOS, a multiagent simulation of graduate students performing research within a university lab setting, is presented, to explore the combined effects of sanction and the observability of the sanctioner in a secure, collaborative environment and finds that only the latter hypothesis is supported.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: September 29, 2019
2014 conference paper
A Model of Trust, Moods, and Emotions in Multiagent Systems, and its Empirical Evaluation
Proceedings of the 16th AAMAS Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies (Trust). Presented at the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Paris, France.
Event: International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems at Paris, France
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: January 17, 2021
2014 journal article
Argument schemes for reasoning about trust
Argument and Computation, 5(2-3), 160–190.
Contributors: S. Parsons *, K. Atkinson *, Z. Li*, P. McBurney *, E. Sklar *, n , K. Haigh *, K. Levitt *, J. Rowe*
author keywords: argument representation; formal models of argumentation; social influence
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2014 article
Bliss: Specifying Declarative Service Protocols
2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SERVICES COMPUTING (SCC 2014), pp. 235–242.
author keywords: Business process modeling; Business protocols
TL;DR:
Bliss is a conceptual model for interaction that is based on information flow that increments the information needed to complete the social object that a protocol computes and yields simple steps to help ensure that the resulting protocol adequately captures the given requirements with respect to thesocial object.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2014 conference paper
Characterizing artificial socio-cognitive technical systems
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1283, 336–346. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84910069753&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2014 journal article
Determining Team Hierarchy from Broadcast Communications
Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Contributors: R. Govindan *, D. Ungvarsky*, N. Buchler*, A. Kalia n & n
TL;DR:
A novel approach that takes as input broadcast messages, extracts communication patterns—as well as semantic, communication, and social features—and outputs an organizational hierarchy is contributed.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2014 conference paper
Determining team hierarchy from broadcast communications
Social informatics, socinfo 2014, 8851, 493–507.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2014 book
Determining team hierarchy from broadcast communications
In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 8851, pp. 493–507). http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84914173058&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2014 journal article
Engineering Service Engagements via Commitments
IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, 18(3), 46–54.
Contributors: P. Telang n, A. Kalia n & n
TL;DR:
The Web extra presents the claims regarding Comma's effectiveness as a set of alternative hypotheses, as well as the complete list of MSCs developed via both traditional and Comma approaches.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2014 book
Estimating trust from agents' interactions via commitments
In Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (Vol. 263, pp. 1043–1044).
Contributors: A. Kalia n, Z. Zhang n & n
TL;DR:
A probabilistic model for trust based on commitment outcomes is proposed and it is shown how to train its parameters for each subject based on the subject's trust assessments, which are promising, though imperfect.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2014 conference paper
Estimating trust from agents' interactions via commitments
21st european conference on artificial intelligence (ecai 2014), 263, 1043–1044.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2014 conference paper
Exploiting sentiment homophily for link prediction
RecSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 17–24.
Contributors: G. Yuan n, P. Murukannaiah n, Z. Zhang n & n
author keywords: Social media; Social networks; Link prediction; Sentiment analysis; Topic affiliation
TL;DR:
This work defines a set of sentiment-based features that help predict the likelihood of two users becoming "friends" based on their sentiments toward topics of mutual interest and proposes a factor graph model that incorporates a sentiment- based variant of cognitive balance theory.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2014 conference paper
Extracting normative relationships from business contracts
13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2014, 1, 101–108. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84911401191&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2014 journal article
Licit: Administering Usage Licenses in Federated Environments
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SERVICES COMPUTING, 7(1), 96–108.
Contributors: P. Kediyal n & n
author keywords: IT administration; grid computing; cloud computing; usage licenses; XACML
TL;DR:
This work proposes an approach, Licit, wherein an agent represents each resource sharing site and administers licenses in collaboration with other agents and shows how to represent a variety of usage licenses formally as executable policies and provides a simple information model using which each party can specify both the attributes involved in its licenses.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2014 conference paper
Message from the program chairs
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84906819223&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2014 journal article
Muon: designing multiagent communication protocols from interaction scenarios
AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS, 29(4), 621–657.
Contributors: A. Kalia n & n
author keywords: Commitments; Protocols; Interactions; Dooley graphs
TL;DR:
A conceptual model of message types and causal relationships among them as a foundation for developing commitment-based communication protocols and a robust, reusable characterization of semantic structures reflecting the above model are contributed.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2014 conference paper
Platys: A framework for supporting context-aware personal agents
13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2014, 2, 1689–1690. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84911364009&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2014 conference paper
Protos: Foundations for engineering innovative sociotechnical systems
2014 IEEE 22nd International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2014 - Proceedings, 53–62.
Contributors: A. Chopra *, F. Dalpiaz *, F. Aydemir *, P. Giorgini *, J. Mylopoulos * & n
TL;DR:
This work motivates, Protos, a requirements engineering approach that gives prominence to the interactions of autonomous parties and specifies a sociotechnical system in terms of its participants' social relationships, specifically, commitments.
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Sources: NC State University Libraries, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2014 conference paper
ReNew: A semi-supervised framework for generating domain-specific lexicons and sentiment analysis
52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014 - Proceedings of the Conference, 1, 542–551. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84906923074&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2014 journal article
Supervised Semantic Analysis of Product Reviews Using Weighted k-NN Classifier
11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: NEW GENERATIONS (ITNG).
Contributors: P. Kumar *, A. Srivastava * & *
author keywords: Sentiment Analysis; Weighted k-Nearest Neighbor algorithm; Polarity; k-Nearest Neighbor Classifier; Machine Learning
TL;DR:
This paper presents a Two-Parse algorithm with a training dataset of approximately 7,000 keywords, for automatic product review analysis, which achieves a better efficiency than the classical k-Nearest Neighbor Classifier.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2014 journal article
The Science of Security: Introduction from the Perspective of Secure Collaboration
1ST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON AGENTS & CYBERSECURITY.
author keywords: Science of security; Collaboration; Security Ecosystem
TL;DR:
It is described how security is an element of the governance of such systems and advocate an approach based on a new formulation of norms and accountability.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2014 journal article
The Thing Itself Speaks Accountability as a Foundation for Requirements in Sociotechnical Systems
IEEE 7TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING AND LAW (RELAW). https://publons.com/publon/21294415/
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2014 conference paper
The thing itself speaks: Accountability as a foundation for requirements in sociotechnical systems
2014 IEEE 7th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law, RELAW 2014 - Proceedings, 22–24.
Contributors: A. Chopra * & n
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities
(OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, NC State University Libraries, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2014 journal article
Understanding Location-Based User Experience
IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, 18(6), 72–76.
Contributors: P. Murukannaiah n & n
author keywords: Mobile radio mobility management; User centered design; User interfaces; Context awareness; Mobile computing; Quality of service; mobile computing; location-based services; context-aware services; user experience
TL;DR:
The authors describe how user experience criteria map to location-based applications, the special demands these criteria place on modeling, and how to realize such applications to obtain high-quality user experience.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2014 conference paper
Xipho: Extending tropos to engineer context-aware personal agents
13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2014, 1, 309–316. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84908533940&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2013 conference paper
A first-order formalization of commitments and goals for planning
Proceedings of the 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2013, 697–703. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84893411920&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2013 conference paper
Adaptive process execution in a service cloud: Service selection and scheduling based on machine learning
Proceedings - IEEE 20th International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2013, 324–331.
TL;DR:
This work proposed a machine learning based approach to evolutionarily learn user preferences according to their ratings on historical execution plans, recommend existing or generate new execution plans for business processes that adapt to user preferences.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2013 chapter
Agent Communication
In G. Weiss (Ed.), Multiagent Systems (2nd ed., pp. 101–141). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Ed(s): G. Weiss
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: January 17, 2021
2013 book
Agents and Data Mining Interaction
Ed(s): L. Cao *, Y. Zeng *, A. Symeonidis *, V. Gorodetsky*, P. Yu * & n
Event: 8th International Workshop, ADMI 2012 at Valencia, Spain on June 4-5, 2012
TL;DR:
This lecture discusses the results of research into the idea of organization control as a low overhead way of coordinating the learning of large agent collectives and its relationship to issues in distributed data mining.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 7, 2020
2013 conference paper
An argumentation-based approach to handling trust in distributed decision making
AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report, SS-13-07, 66–71. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84883375594&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2013 conference paper
Argumentation, Evidence, and Schemes: Abstract
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, 37.
Event: International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems at St. Paul, MN on May 6-10, 2013
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: January 17, 2021
2013 journal article
author keywords: usability; augmented reality; mobile applications; mobile computing; user experience; user interfaces
TL;DR:
This article briefly describes AR in terms of its application in natural Web interfaces in order to discuss key concepts involved in AR, and the technical and social challenges that remain.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 book
Can't we all just get along? Agreement technologies and the science of security
In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 1–3).
TL;DR:
The science of security is motivated as an application area for agreement technologies, surveying some key challenges and foundational agreement technologies that provide the relevant representations and reasoning techniques.
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Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2013 conference paper
Evolving protocols and agents in multiagent systems
12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2013, AAMAS 2013, 2, 997–1004. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84899458246&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2013 journal article
Formalizing and Verifying Protocol Refinements
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY, 4(2).
Contributors: S. Gerard n & n
author keywords: Algorithms; Languages; Theory; Verification; Commitments; agent communication; verification of multiagent systems
TL;DR:
Proton is developed, an analysis tool for protocol specifications that overlays a model checker to compute whether one protocol refines another with respect to a stated mapping.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 conference paper
Hierarchical planning about goals and commitments
12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2013, AAMAS 2013, 2, 877–884. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84899450331&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2013 journal article
Identifying business tasks and commitments from email and chat conversations
HP Laboratories Technical Report, (4). http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84874818269&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2013 article
Introduction to Special Section on Trust in Multiagent Systems
Falcone, R., & Singh, M. P. (2013, March). ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY, Vol. 4.
Contributors: R. Falcone * & n
author keywords: Theory; Trust
TL;DR:
This special section emphasizes a high-level notion of trust, such as arises in collaborations among intelligent, socially adept agents, as the elementary units of open computational environments or multiagent systems.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 book
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics): Preface
In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84873816963&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2013 conference paper
Macau: A basis for evaluating reputation systems
IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 191–197. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84896061643&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2013 journal article
Mining Contracts for Business Events and Temporal Constraints in Service Engagements
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SERVICES COMPUTING, 7(3), 427–439.
Contributors: X. Gao * & n
author keywords: Service engagements; contract mining; business events
TL;DR:
This work develops a novel approach employing a hybrid of surface patterns, parsing, and classification to extract business events and their temporal constraints from contract text and uses topic modeling to automatically organize the event terms into clusters.
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Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 conference paper
Monitoring commitments in people-driven service engagements
Proceedings - IEEE 10th International Conference on Services Computing, SCC 2013, 160–167.
Contributors: A. Kalia n, H. Motahari-Nezhad*, C. Bartolini* & n
TL;DR:
This work presents a novel approach for capturing commitment-based engagements that are created dynamically in conversations and monitors commitments identifying their creation, delegation, completion, or cancellation in the conversations.
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Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2013 journal article
Norms as a Basis for Governing Sociotechnical Systems
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY, 5(1).
author keywords: Algorithms; Design; Governance; sociotechnical systems; adaptation
TL;DR:
The approach is motivated by the Ocean Observatory Initiative, a thirty-year $400 million project, which supports a variety of resources dealing with monitoring and studying the world's oceans, which includes autonomous underwater vehicles, ocean gliders, buoys, and other instrumentation as well as more traditional computational resources.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 conference paper
Platys: User-centric place recognition
AAAI Workshop - Technical Report, WS-13-05, 14–20. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84898908253&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2013 conference paper
Positron: Composing Commitment Protocols
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Engineering Multiagent Systems (EMAS). Presented at the International Workshop on Engineering Multiagent Systems, St. Paul, MN.
Event: International Workshop on Engineering Multiagent Systems at St. Paul, MN on May 6-7, 2013
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: January 17, 2021
2013 chapter
Regulated MAS: Social Perspective
In G. Andrighetto, G. Governatori, P. Noriega, & L. W. N. Torre (Eds.), Normative Multi-Agent Systems (Vol. 4, pp. 93–133).
Ed(s): G. Andrighetto, G. Governatori, P. Noriega & L. Torre
TL;DR:
This work aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of EMMARM, which aims to provide real-time information about concrete mechanical properties of E-modulus and its properties as well as suggest ways to improve the quality and quantity of these properties.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
17. Partnerships for the Goals
(OpenAlex)
Sources: NC State University Libraries, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 17, 2021
2013 journal article
Research directions in agent communication
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 4(2), 1–23.
Contributors: A. Chopra *, A. Artikis *, J. Bentahar *, M. Colombetti *, F. Dignum *, N. Fornara *, A. Jones *, n , P. Yolum *
author keywords: Theory; Communication
TL;DR:
This article is an outcome of extensive discussions among agent communication researchers, aimed at taking stock of the field and at developing, criticizing, and refining their positions on specific approaches and future challenges.
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Added: August 6, 2018
2013 journal article
Shin: Generalized Trust Propagation with Limited Evidence
COMPUTER, 46(3), 78–85.
TL;DR:
Shin incorporates a probabilistic method for revising trust estimates in trustees, yielding higher prediction accuracy than traditional approaches that base trust exclusively on a series of referrals culminating with the trustee.
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Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 journal article
TL;DR:
The editorial team at TOIT is going through some changes and the editor-in-chief is gradually bringing in new Associate Editors and he is pleased to introduce them.
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Sources: ORCID, NC State University Libraries, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 chapter
The Uses of Norms
In G. Andrighetto, G. Governatori, P. Noriega, & L. W. N. Torre (Eds.), Normative Multi-Agent Systems (Vol. 4, pp. 191–229).
Ed(s): G. Andrighetto, G. Governatori, P. Noriega & L. Torre
TL;DR:
This chapter presents a variety of applications of norms in sociotechnical systems, data licensing and data collection, understanding software development teams, requirements engineering, assurance, natural resource allocation, wireless grids, autonomous vehicles, serious games, and virtual worlds.
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Sources: NC State University Libraries, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 17, 2021
2013 journal article
The pragmatic Web
IEEE Internet Computing.
Contributors: K. VanderLinden*, N. Colineau* & C. Paris *
TL;DR:
This paper presents a prototype system that produces web presentations describing the programs offered by a public administration agency to the citizenry it serves and particular attention is focused on the system's authoring tool, which allows authors to produce and configure the resources required to drive the tailoring mechanism.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2013 conference paper
Towards an Argumentation-Based Model of Social Interaction
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS). Presented at the International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, St. Paul, MN.
Event: International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems at St. Paul, MN
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: January 17, 2021
2013 conference paper
Trustworthy Decision Making via Commitments
Proceedings of the 15th AAMAS Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies (Trust), 24–35.
Event: International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems at St. Paul, MN
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: January 17, 2021
2013 journal article
TL;DR:
It is not appropriate for TOIT to compete with publications in such established areas for authors and readers, and areas that could just as easily fit within another publication’s scope are deemphasized.
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Sources: ORCID, NC State University Libraries, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2012 journal article
Agent-based organisational governance of services
Multiagent and Grid Systems, 8(1), 3–18.
Contributors: F. Brazier *, V. Dignum *, M. Huhns *, C. Derksen *, F. Dignum *, T. Lessner*, J. Padget *, T. Quillinan*, n
author keywords: Institutions; multi-agent systems; organisations; service engagements; service enactment; governance model
TL;DR:
A conceptual modelling approach is described that integrates organisational and coordination theories to achieve contextualised service governance and allows for the development and analysis of dynamic, flexible, and robust service-oriented business applications.
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Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2012 book
Argument schemes for reasoning about trust
In Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (Vol. 245, pp. 430–441).
author keywords: Argument schemes; critical questions; trust
TL;DR:
A set of schemes is provided, and abstract patterns of reasoning that apply in multiple situations geared towards trust are described, and a set of critical questions is offered that identify the situations in which these schemes can fail.
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Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2012 conference paper
Behind the curtain: Service selection via trust in composite services
Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 19th International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2012, 9–16.
Contributors: C. Hang n, A. Kalia n & n
TL;DR:
This work proposes a statistical approach built on expectation maximized over a finite mixture model that can dynamically punish or reward the constituents of composite services while making only partial observations.
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Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2012 conference paper
Collaborative assessment of functional reliability in wireless networks
2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2012), 425–433.
Contributors: Z. Feng*, K. Pelechrinis *, S. Krishnamurthy *, A. Swami *, F. Wu * & n
Event: 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS)
TL;DR:
This work designs a framework for collaborative assessment of the FR of nodes, with respect to different types of functions, and shows that with this framework, each node is able to determine the FR for every other node in the network with high accuracy.
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Sources: ORCID, Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 10, 2019
2012 conference paper
Comma: A Commitment-Based Business Modeling Methodology and its Empirical Evaluation
AAMAS '12: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2, 1073–1080. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84899460865&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Event: The 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems at Valencia, Spain on June 4-8, 2012
Sources: ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 10, 2019
2012 chapter
Commitments in Multiagent Systems: Some History, Some Confusions, Some Controversies, Some Prospects
In F. Paglieri, L. Tummolini, R. Falcone, & M. Miceli (Eds.), The Goals of Cognition: Essays in Honour of Cristiano Castelfranchi (pp. 613–638). https://www.csc2.ncsu.edu/faculty/mpsingh/papers/mas/Commitments-for-MAS.pdf
Ed(s): F. Paglieri, L. Tummolini, R. Falcone & M. Miceli
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: January 17, 2021
2012 chapter
Emerging Properties of Knowledge Sharing Referral Networks: Considerations of Effectiveness and Fairness
In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Vol. 6573 LNAI (pp. 13–23).
TL;DR:
This paper considers substructures of the network that emerge and cause the above outcomes and considers a more general incentive mechanism that yields high fairness with only a small loss in welfare.
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Sources: ORCID, Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 10, 2019
2012 journal article
Mining Business Contracts for Service Exceptions
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SERVICES COMPUTING, 5(3), 333–344.
Contributors: X. Gao n, n & P. Mehra
author keywords: Contract analysis; service exceptions; text mining
TL;DR:
This work describes a simple but effective unsupervised information extraction approach and tool, Contract Miner, for discovering service exceptions at the phrase level from a large contract repository, and produces promising results in terms of precision and recall when evaluated over a corpus of manually annotated contracts.
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Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2012 journal article
Platys Social: Relating Shared Places and Private Social Circles
IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, 16(3), 53–59.
Contributors: P. Murukannaiah n & n
TL;DR:
Platys Social is a novel approach that learns users' social circles and prioritizes their connections by bringing together contextual information and user interactions.
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Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2012 book
Relating goal and commitment semantics
In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 22–37).
Contributors: P. Telang n, n & N. Yorke-Smith *
TL;DR:
This paper describes how relating the respective lifecycles of goals and commitments yields important desirable properties, including convergence of the configurations of cooperating agents, thereby delineating some theoretically well-founded yet practical modes of cooperation in a multiagent system.
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Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2012 conference paper
Semantics and Verification of Information-Based Protocols
AAMAS '12: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2, 1149–1156. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84899461141&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Event: The 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems at Valencia, Spain on June 4-8, 2012
Sources: ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 10, 2019
2012 journal article
Specifying and verifying cross-organizational business models: An agent-oriented approach
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 5(3), 305–318.
Contributors: P. Telang n & n
author keywords: Methodologies; patterns; specification; model checking
TL;DR:
This paper proposes a simple, yet expressive, declarative way to specify business models at a high level based on the notion of commitments and shows how such a high-level model maps to a conventional operational model.
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Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2012 book
The evolution of interoperability
In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 90–94).
Contributors: A. Chopra * & n
TL;DR:
This note is a retrospective review of the 2006 paper on the properties of protocols, especially interoperability, where commitments had emerged as a preeminent abstraction for capturing the semantics.
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Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2012 book
Towards argumentation with symbolic dempster-shafer evidence
In Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (Vol. 245, pp. 462–469).
Contributors: Y. Tang *, C. Hang n, S. Parsons * & *
TL;DR:
It is shown how logical elements of evidence, associated with numerical degrees of belief, can be combined into arguments with the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence.
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Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2011 journal article
A Probabilistic Approach for Maintaining Trust Based on Evidence
JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH, 40, 221–267.
TL;DR:
This paper builds on a formal model that considers probability and certainty as two dimensions of trust and proposes a mechanism using which an agent can update the amount of trust it places in other agents on an ongoing basis.
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Added: August 6, 2018
2011 conference paper
A Unified Framework for Trust in Composite Networks
Proceedings of the 13th Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies, 1–12. Taipei.
Event: Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies at Taipei, Taiwan on May 2, 2011
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: January 17, 2021
2011 book
Analyzing contract robustness through a model of commitments
In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 17–36).
Contributors: A. Chopra *, N. Oren *, S. Modgil *, N. Desai*, S. Miles *, M. Luck *, n
TL;DR:
This work proposes a powerful approach to assessing the robustness of contracts, and demonstrates a novel conceptual model for contracts that is based on commitments, and offers a methodology for creating commitment-based models of contracts from textual descriptions.
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Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2011 conference paper
Colaba: Collaborative design of cross-organizational processes
2011 Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Systems, Services and Systems-of-Systems, RESS 2011 - Workshop Co-located with the 19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 36–43.
Contributors: A. Chopra * & n
TL;DR:
This paper develops Colaba, a novel approach for the design of a cross-organizational process that contributes argumentation primitives and a representation relevant to business processes that accommodates the diverse perspectives of the roles in a protocol.
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Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2011 conference paper
Commitments with Regulations: Reasoning about Safety and Control in R EGULA
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS), 467–474. Taipei: IFAAMAS.
Event: International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems at Taipei, Taiwan
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: January 17, 2021
2011 conference paper
Commitments with regulations: Reasoning about safety and control in REGULA
10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2011, AAMAS 2011, 1, 433–440. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84899444781&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2011 book
Formal methods in agent-oriented software engineering
In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 213–228).
Contributors: A. El Fallah-Seghrouchni*, J. Gomez-Sanz * & n
TL;DR:
This paper seeks to introduce engineers to the possibilities of applying formal methods for multiagent systems by discussing selected formal methods approaches for multi agent systems for which there is tool support.
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Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2011 journal article
Generalized framework for personalized recommendations in agent networks
AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS, 25(3), 475–498.
Contributors: C. Hang n & n
author keywords: Agent mining; Personalized recommendation; Social networks; Ratings networks; Trust
TL;DR:
A new recommendation approach is proposed, dubbed LocPat, which can recommend trustworthy agents to a requester in an agent network based on similarity scores that reflect both the link structure and the trust values on the edges.
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Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2011 conference paper
Information-driven interaction-oriented programming: BSPL, the blindingly simple protocol language
10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2011, AAMAS 2011, 1, 457–464. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84899440400&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Source: ORCID
Added: December 10, 2019
2011 journal article
Intertemporal Discount Factors as a Measure of Trustworthiness in Electronic Commerce
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING, 23(5), 699–712.
Contributors: C. Hazard n & n
author keywords: Trust; reputation; intertemporal discounting
TL;DR:
It is proved that an agent's discount factor (time preference of utility) is a direct measure of the agent's trustworthiness for a set of reasonably general assumptions and definitions.
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Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2011 conference paper
Kokomo: An empirically evaluated methodology for affective applications
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS), 1, 293–300. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84899438815&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Event: International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems at Taipei, Taiwan
Sources: ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 10, 2019