Publications

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/atal/RodriguezT24,

title = {Explainable Agents (XAg) by Design},

author = {Sebastian Rodriguez and John Thangarajah},

editor = {Mehdi Dastani and Jaime Simão Sichman and Natasha Alechina and Virginia Dignum},

url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3635637.3663263},

doi = {10.5555/3635637.3663263},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents 

 and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2024, Auckland, New Zealand, May 6-10, 

 2024},

pages = {2712–2716},

publisher = {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 

 / ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/atal/RodriguezTD24,

title = {Design Patterns for Explainable Agents (XAg)},

author = {Sebastian Rodriguez and John Thangarajah and Andrew Davey},

editor = {Mehdi Dastani and Jaime Simão Sichman and Natasha Alechina and Virginia Dignum},

url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3635637.3663023},

doi = {10.5555/3635637.3663023},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents 

 and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2024, Auckland, New Zealand, May 6-10, 

 2024},

pages = {1621–1629},

publisher = {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 

 / ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ijcai/DannYA0MT23,

title = {Multi-Agent Intention Recognition and Progression},

author = {Michael Dann and Yuan Yao and Natasha Alechina and Brian Logan and Felipe Meneguzzi and John Thangarajah},

url = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2023/11},

doi = {10.24963/IJCAI.2023/11},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on 

 Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2023, 19th-25th August 2023, Macao, 

 SAR, China},

pages = {91–99},

publisher = {ijcai.org},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/atal/RodriguezTW23,

title = {A Behaviour-Driven Approach for Testing Requirements via User and 

 System Stories in Agent Systems},

author = {Sebastian Rodriguez and John Thangarajah and Michael Winikoff},

editor = {Noa Agmon and Bo An and Alessandro Ricci and William Yeoh},

url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3545946.3598761},

doi = {10.5555/3545946.3598761},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents 

 and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2023, London, United Kingdom, 29 May 

 2023 - 2 June 2023},

pages = {1182–1190},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/atal/WuYA0T23,

title = {Intention Progression with Maintenance Goals},

author = {Di Wu and Yuan Yao and Natasha Alechina and Brian Logan and John Thangarajah},

editor = {Noa Agmon and Bo An and Alessandro Ricci and William Yeoh},

url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3545946.3598947},

doi = {10.5555/3545946.3598947},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents 

 and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2023, London, United Kingdom, 29 May 

 2023 - 2 June 2023},

pages = {2400–2402},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ausai/LeongPT23,

title = {Story Sifting Using Object Detection Techniques},

author = {Wilkins Leong and Julie Porteous and John Thangarajah},

editor = {Tongliang Liu and Geoffrey I. Webb and Lin Yue and Dadong Wang},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8388-9_4},

doi = {10.1007/978-981-99-8388-9_4},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {AI 2023: Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 36th Australasian 

 Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2023, Brisbane, 

 QLD, Australia, November 28 - December 1, 2023, Proceedings, Part 

 I},

volume = {14471},

pages = {42–54},

publisher = {Springer},

series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ausai/ChesterDZT23,

title = {SAGE: Generating Symbolic Goals for Myopic Models in Deep Reinforcement 

 Learning},

author = {Andrew Chester and Michael Dann and Fabio Zambetta and John Thangarajah},

editor = {Tongliang Liu and Geoffrey I. Webb and Lin Yue and Dadong Wang},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8391-9_22},

doi = {10.1007/978-981-99-8391-9_22},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {AI 2023: Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 36th Australasian 

 Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2023, Brisbane, 

 QLD, Australia, November 28 - December 1, 2023, Proceedings, Part 

 II},

volume = {14472},

pages = {274–285},

publisher = {Springer},

series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/dicta/MudiyanselageTTWCV23,

title = {Preliminary Study of Pseudo-PET Image Synthesis of Glucose Metabolism 

 from Early-Phase PET Images of an Uncorrelated Radiotracer},

author = {Prabath Hetti Mudiyanselage and Ruwan B. Tennakoon and John Thangarajah and Robert Ware and Jason H. Callahan and Lucy Vivash},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/DICTA60407.2023.00040},

doi = {10.1109/DICTA60407.2023.00040},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and 

 Applications, DICTA 2023, Port Macquarie, Australia, November 28 

 - Dec. 1, 2023},

pages = {237–244},

publisher = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/atal/DannT023,

title = {Feedback-Guided Intention Scheduling for BDI Agents},

author = {Michael Dann and John Thangarajah and Minyi Li},

editor = {Noa Agmon and Bo An and Alessandro Ricci and William Yeoh},

url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3545946.3598760},

doi = {10.5555/3545946.3598760},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents 

 and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2023, London, United Kingdom, 29 May 

 2023 - 2 June 2023},

pages = {1173–1181},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/atal/RodriguezTWS22,

title = {Testing Requirements via User and System Stories in Agent Systems},

author = {Sebastian Rodriguez and John Thangarajah and Michael Winikoff and Dhirendra Singh},

editor = {Piotr Faliszewski and Viviana Mascardi and Catherine Pelachaud and Matthew E. Taylor},

url = {https://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2022/pdfs/p1119.pdf},

doi = {10.5555/3535850.3535975},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent 

 Systems, AAMAS 2022, Auckland, New Zealand, May 9-13, 2022},

pages = {1119--1127},

publisher = {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 

 (IFAAMAS)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/atal/LeongPT22,

title = {Automated Story Sifting Using Story Arcs},

author = {Wilkins Leong and Julie Porteous and John Thangarajah},

editor = {Piotr Faliszewski and Viviana Mascardi and Catherine Pelachaud and Matthew E. Taylor},

url = {https://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2022/pdfs/p1669.pdf},

doi = {10.5555/3535850.3536071},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent 

 Systems, AAMAS 2022, Auckland, New Zealand, May 9-13, 2022},

pages = {1669--1671},

publisher = {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 

 (IFAAMAS)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ijcai/Dann0A0T22,

title = {Multi-Agent Intention Progression with Reward Machines},

author = {Michael Dann and Yuan Yao and Natasha Alechina and Brian Logan and John Thangarajah},

editor = {Luc De Raedt},

url = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/31},

doi = {10.24963/ijcai.2022/31},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on 

 Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23-29 July 

 2022},

pages = {215--222},

publisher = {ijcai.org},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ijcai/LeongPT22,

title = {Automated Sifting of Stories from Simulated Storyworlds},

author = {Wilkins Leong and Julie Porteous and John Thangarajah},

editor = {Luc De Raedt},

url = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/686},

doi = {10.24963/ijcai.2022/686},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on 

 Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23-29 July 

 2022},

pages = {4950--4956},

publisher = {ijcai.org},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/pkdd/ChesterDZT22,

title = {Oracle-SAGE: Planning Ahead in Graph-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning},

author = {Andrew Chester and Michael Dann and Fabio Zambetta and John Thangarajah},

editor = {Massih-Reza Amini and Stéphane Canu and Asja Fischer and Tias Guns and Petra Kralj Novak and Grigorios Tsoumakas},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26412-2_4},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-26412-2_4},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, 

 ECML PKDD 2022, Grenoble, France, September 19-23, 2022, Proceedings, 

 Part IV},

volume = {13716},

pages = {52–67},

publisher = {Springer},

series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/iclr/DannT21,

title = {Adapting to Reward Progressivity via Spectral Reinforcement Learning},

author = {Michael Dann and John Thangarajah},

url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=dyjPVUc2KB},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {9th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2021, 

 Virtual Event, Austria, May 3-7, 2021},

publisher = {OpenReview.net},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ijcai/Dann0LT21,

title = {Multi-Agent Intention Progression with Black-Box Agents},

author = {Michael Dann and Yuan Yao and Brian Logan and John Thangarajah},

editor = {Zhi-Hua Zhou},

url = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/19},

doi = {10.24963/ijcai.2021/19},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial 

 Intelligence, IJCAI 2021, Virtual Event / Montreal, Canada, 19-27 

 August 2021},

pages = {132--138},

publisher = {ijcai.org},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/atal/RodriguezTW21,

title = {User and System Stories: An Agile Approach for Managing Requirements 

 in AOSE},

author = {Sebastian Rodriguez and John Thangarajah and Michael Winikoff},

editor = {Frank Dignum and Alessio Lomuscio and Ulle Endriss and Ann Nowé},

url = {https://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2021/pdfs/p1064.pdf},

doi = {10.5555/3463952.3464076},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {AAMAS '21: 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and 

 Multiagent Systems, Virtual Event, United Kingdom, May 3-7, 2021},

pages = {1064--1072},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/atal/0007ALT21,

title = {Intention Progression using Quantitative Summary Information},

author = {Yuan Yao and Natasha Alechina and Brian Logan and John Thangarajah},

editor = {Frank Dignum and Alessio Lomuscio and Ulle Endriss and Ann Nowé},

url = {https://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2021/pdfs/p1416.pdf},

doi = {10.5555/3463952.3464115},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {AAMAS '21: 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and 

 Multiagent Systems, Virtual Event, United Kingdom, May 3-7, 2021},

pages = {1416--1424},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/aaai/EvertszT20,

title = {A Framework for Engineering Human/Agent Teaming Systems},

author = {Rick Evertsz and John Thangarajah},

url = {https://aaai.org/ojs/index.php/AAAI/article/view/5629},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

booktitle = {The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 

 2020, The Thirty-Second Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence 

 Conference, IAAI 2020, The Tenth AAAI Symposium on Educational 

 Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2020, New York, NY, USA, 

 February 7-12, 2020},

pages = {2477--2484},

publisher = {AAAI Press},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ijcai/0007ALT20,

title = {Intention Progression under Uncertainty},

author = {Yuan Yao and Natasha Alechina and Brian Logan and John Thangarajah},

editor = {Christian Bessiere},

url = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/2},

doi = {10.24963/ijcai.2020/2},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on 

 Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2020},

pages = {10--16},

publisher = {ijcai.org},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/atal/DannT0L20,

title = {Intention-Aware Multiagent Scheduling},

author = {Michael Dann and John Thangarajah and Yuan Yao and Brian Logan},

editor = {Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni and Gita Sukthankar and Bo An and Neil Yorke-Smith},

url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3398761.3398799},

doi = {10.5555/3398761.3398799},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents 

 and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS '20, Auckland, New Zealand, May 9-13, 

 2020},

pages = {285--293},

publisher = {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/aaai/DannZT19,

title = {Deriving Subgoals Autonomously to Accelerate Learning in Sparse Reward 

 Domains},

author = {Michael Dann and Fabio Zambetta and John Thangarajah},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.3301881},

doi = {10.1609/aaai.v33i01.3301881},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2019, The Thirty-First Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence 

 Conference, IAAI 2019, The Ninth AAAI Symposium on Educational 

 Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2019, Honolulu, Hawaii, 

 USA, January 27 - February 1, 2019},

pages = {881--889},

publisher = {AAAI Press},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/atal/LoganTY17,

title = {Progressing Intention Progression: A Call for a Goal-Plan Tree Contest},

author = {Brian Logan and John Thangarajah and Neil Yorke-Smith},

url = {https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5osGljhBbIMZWd6cXN4eERiSzQ},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent 

 Systems, AAMAS 2017, São Paulo, Brazil, May 8-12, 2017},

pages = {768--772},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/atal/DannZT17,

title = {Reusing Skills for First-Time Solution of Navigation Tasks in Platform 

 Videogames},

author = {Michael Dann and Fabio Zambetta and John Thangarajah},

url = {https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5osGljhBbIMMHV0TkRNMDNmRk0},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent 

 Systems, AAMAS 2017, São Paulo, Brazil, May 8-12, 2017},

pages = {1517--1519},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{yadavijcai2017,

title = {Agent Design Consistency Checking via Planning},

author = {Nitin Yadav and John Thangarajah and Sebastian Sardina},

url = {https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5osGljhBbIMMUZDbmdfY1N6d3M},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)},

pages = {458-464},

address = {Melbourne, Australia},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{dannijcai2017,

title = {Real-Time Solution of Navigation Tasks in Infinite Mario via Skill Reuse},

author = {Michael Dann and Fabio Zambetta and John Thangarajah},

url = {https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/0219.pdf},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)},

pages = {1582-1588},

address = {Melbourne, Australia},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/er/EvertszTP17,

title = {The Conceptual Modelling of Dynamic Teams for Autonomous Systems},

author = {Rick Evertsz and John Thangarajah and Michael Papasimeon},

url = {https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5osGljhBbIMaTEyRllBUU5EZnM},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {Conceptual Modeling - 36th International Conference, ER 2017, Valencia, Spain, November 6-9, 2017, Proceedings},

pages = {311--324},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Carole2016,

title = {BDI modelling and simulation of human behaviours in bushfires},

author = {Carole Adam and Geoffrey Danet and John Thangarajah and Julie Dugdale},

url = {https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5osGljhBbIMOExTODVjajF1VWc},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-10-01},

booktitle = {ISCRAM-med 2016},

pages = {to appear},

address = {Madrid, Spain},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Yao//:16c,

title = {Intention Selection with Deadlines},

author = {Yuan Yao and Brian Logan and John Thangarajah},

editor = {G. A. Kaminka and M. Fox and P. Bouquet and Hullermeijer E. and Dignum F. and Dignum V. and Harmalen F.},

url = {https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5osGljhBbIMZjU0UW1IanJpWEE},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-08-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2016)},

pages = {2558-2565},

publisher = {IOS Press},

address = {The Hague, The Netherlands},

organization = {ECCAI},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{NitinEcai2016,

title = {Checking the Conformance of Requirements in Agent Designs Using ATL.},

author = {Nitin Yadav and John Thangarajah},

editor = {G. A. Kaminka and M. Fox and P. Bouquet and Hullermeijer E. and Dignum F. and Dignum V. and Harmalen F.},

url = {https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5osGljhBbIMTW05UWd2UjUyR2s},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-08-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2016)},

pages = {243-251},

publisher = {IOS Press},

address = {The Hague, The Netherlands},

organization = {ECCAI},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/aaai/YaoLT16,

title = {Robust Execution of BDI Agent Programs by Exploiting Synergies Between 

 Intentions},

author = {Yuan Yao and Brian Logan and John Thangarajah},

url = {https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5osGljhBbIMZjU0UW1IanJpWEE/view?usp=sharing},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 

 February 12-17, 2016, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.},

pages = {2558--2565},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/atal/AbusharkTMWH16,

title = {Requirements Specification in The Prometheus Methodology via Activity Diagrams},

author = {Yoosef Abushark and John Thangarajah and Tim Miller and Michael Winikoff and James Harland},

url = {https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5osGljhBbIMVUIzNElWeUhDNE0},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, Singapore, May 9-13, 2016},

pages = {1247--1248},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}