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View article: The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Selected Galaxy Clusters Catalog
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Selected Galaxy Clusters Catalog Open
We present the results of a search for galaxy clusters in the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) microwave sky maps covering 16293 square degrees in three frequency bands, using data obtained over the lifetime of the pr…
View article: Optimising team dynamics: The role of AI in enhancing challenge-based learning participation experience and outcomes
Optimising team dynamics: The role of AI in enhancing challenge-based learning participation experience and outcomes Open
The approach of exposing students to real-world challenges to foster collaboration and solution formulation has garnered attention from scholars and practitioners across various disciplines. Often called Challenge-based learning (CBL), thi…
View article: Grounded Predictions of Teamwork as a One-Shot Game: A Multiagent Multi-Armed Bandits Approach
Grounded Predictions of Teamwork as a One-Shot Game: A Multiagent Multi-Armed Bandits Approach Open
Humans possess innate collaborative capacities. However, effective teamwork often remains challenging. This study delves into the feasibility of collaboration within teams of rational, self-interested agents who engage in teamwork without …
View article: An explanation-oriented inquiry dialogue game for expert collaborative recommendations
An explanation-oriented inquiry dialogue game for expert collaborative recommendations Open
This work presents a requirement analysis for collaborative dialogues among medical experts and an inquiry dialogue game based on this analysis for incorporating explainability into multiagent system design. The game allows experts with di…
View article: Can Poverty Be Reduced by Acting on Discrimination? An Agent-based Model for Policy Making
Can Poverty Be Reduced by Acting on Discrimination? An Agent-based Model for Policy Making Open
In the last decades, there has been a deceleration in the rates of poverty reduction, suggesting that traditional redistributive approaches to poverty mitigation could be losing effectiveness, and alternative insights to advance the number…
View article: Awareness in robotics: An early perspective from the viewpoint of the EIC Pathfinder Challenge "Awareness Inside''
Awareness in robotics: An early perspective from the viewpoint of the EIC Pathfinder Challenge "Awareness Inside'' Open
Consciousness has been historically a heavily debated topic in engineering, science, and philosophy. On the contrary, awareness had less success in raising the interest of scholars in the past. However, things are changing as more and more…
View article: Awareness in Robotics: An Early Perspective from the Viewpoint of the EIC Pathfinder Challenge “Awareness Inside”
Awareness in Robotics: An Early Perspective from the Viewpoint of the EIC Pathfinder Challenge “Awareness Inside” Open
View article: Towards Value Awareness in the Medical Field
Towards Value Awareness in the Medical Field Open
View article: Correction to: The AI4Citizen pilot: Pipelining AI-based technologies to support school-work alternation programmes
Correction to: The AI4Citizen pilot: Pipelining AI-based technologies to support school-work alternation programmes Open
View article: Price of anarchy of traffic assignment with exponential cost functions
Price of anarchy of traffic assignment with exponential cost functions Open
View article: Leveraging Diversity in Online Interactions
Leveraging Diversity in Online Interactions Open
This paper addresses the issue of connecting people online to help them find support with their day-to-day problems. We make use of declarative norms for mediating online interactions, and we specifically focus on the issue of leveraging d…
View article: Combining theory of mind and abductive reasoning in agent-oriented programming
Combining theory of mind and abductive reasoning in agent-oriented programming Open
View article: A Computational Model of Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development Framework (Extended Abstract)
A Computational Model of Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development Framework (Extended Abstract) Open
Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework represents a comprehensive theoretical effort to identify and outline the variables that determine the outcome in any social interaction. Taking inspiration from it, we define…
View article: The AI4Citizen pilot: Pipelining AI-based technologies to support school-work alternation programmes
The AI4Citizen pilot: Pipelining AI-based technologies to support school-work alternation programmes Open
The School-Work Alternation (SWA) programme was developed (under a European Commission call) to bridge the gaps and establish a well-tuned partnership between education and the job market. This work details the development of the AI4Citize…
View article: Price of Anarchy of Traffic Assignment with Exponential Cost Functions
Price of Anarchy of Traffic Assignment with Exponential Cost Functions Open
The advancement of technologies for autonomous vehicles (AVs) provides great potential for intelligent traffic control and management in the future. The deployment of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to…
View article: An Agent-Based Model for Poverty and Discrimination Policy-Making
An Agent-Based Model for Poverty and Discrimination Policy-Making Open
The deceleration of global poverty reduction in the last decades suggests that traditional redistribution policies are losing their effectiveness. Alternative ways to work towards the #1 United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (poverty…
View article: Value Engineering for Autonomous Agents
Value Engineering for Autonomous Agents Open
Machine Ethics (ME) is concerned with the design of Artificial Moral Agents (AMAs), i.e. autonomous agents capable of reasoning and behaving according to moral values. Previous approaches have treated values as labels associated with some …
View article: uHelp: intelligent volunteer search for mutual help communities
uHelp: intelligent volunteer search for mutual help communities Open
When people need help with their day-to-day activities, they turn to family, friends or neighbours. But despite an increasingly networked world, technology falls short in finding suitable volunteers. In this paper, we propose uHelp, a plat…
View article: Combining Theory of Mind and Abduction for Cooperation under Imperfect Information
Combining Theory of Mind and Abduction for Cooperation under Imperfect Information Open
In this paper, we formalise and implement an agent model for cooperation under imperfect information. It is based on Theory of Mind (the cognitive ability to understand the mental state of others) and abductive reasoning (the inference par…
View article: Synthesis and Properties of Optimally Value-Aligned Normative Systems
Synthesis and Properties of Optimally Value-Aligned Normative Systems Open
The value alignment problem is concerned with the design of systems that provably abide by our human values. One approach to this challenge is through the leverage of prescriptive norms that, if carefully designed, are able to steer a mult…
View article: A computational model of Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development framework
A computational model of Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development framework Open
The Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework developed by Elinor Ostrom and colleagues provides great conceptual clarity on the immensely varied topic of social interactions. In this work, we propose a computational model to …
View article: Towards Healthy Engagement with Online Debates
Towards Healthy Engagement with Online Debates Open
Online debates allow for large-scale participation by users with different opinions, values, and backgrounds. While this is beneficial for democratic discourse, such debates often tend to be cognitively demanding due to the high quantity a…
View article: A norm optimisation approach to SDGs: tackling poverty by acting on discrimination
A norm optimisation approach to SDGs: tackling poverty by acting on discrimination Open
Policies that seek to mitigate poverty by acting on equal opportunity have been found to aggravate discrimination against the poor (aporophobia), since individuals are made responsible for not progressing in the social hierarchy. Only a mi…
View article: Probabilistic Models for Competence Assessment in Education
Probabilistic Models for Competence Assessment in Education Open
Probabilistic models of competence assessment join the benefits of automation with human judgment. We start this paper by replicating two preexisting probabilistic models of peer assessment (PG1-bias and PAAS). Despite the use that both ma…
View article: Value alignment: a formal approach
Value alignment: a formal approach Open
principles that should govern autonomous AI systems. It essentially states that a system's goals and behaviour should be aligned with human values. But how to ensure value alignment? In this paper we first provide a formal model to represe…
View article: Enabling Game-Theoretical Analysis of Social Rules
Enabling Game-Theoretical Analysis of Social Rules Open
In the field of normative multiagent systems, the relationship between a game structure and its underpinning agent interaction rules is hardly ever addressed in a systematic manner. In this work, we introduce the Action Situation Language …
View article: Empowering Users in Online Open Communities
Empowering Users in Online Open Communities Open
In this paper, we propose an architecture supporting online open communities , where by open communities, we mean communities where previously unknown people can join, possibly for a limited amount of time. The fundamental question that we…
View article: A concise review on multi-agent teams: contributions and research opportunities
A concise review on multi-agent teams: contributions and research opportunities Open
View article: Value-Guided Synthesis of Parametric Normative Systems.
Value-Guided Synthesis of Parametric Normative Systems. Open
[EN]In recent years there has been an increasing interest in ensuring that autonomous systems behave consistently with human values. A popular approach to this challenge is through the incorporation of norms that regulate behaviour in an e…
View article: Value-Alignment Equilibrium in Multiagent Systems
Value-Alignment Equilibrium in Multiagent Systems Open