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| 1. | Pina-Zapata, Alicia; García-Rodriguez, Sara; Karanik, Marcelo Value-Aligned Decisions in Cooperative Environments Proceedings Article In: González-Briones, Alfonso; Inglada, Vicente Julian; Bolock, Alia El; Marco-Detchart, Cedric; Jordan, Jaume; Mason, Karl; Lopes, Fernando; Sharaf, Nada (Ed.): Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Digital Twins: The PAAMS Collection, pp. 76–87, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2025, ISBN: 978-3-031-73058-0. @inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-031-73058-0_7,
title = {Value-Aligned Decisions in Cooperative Environments},
author = {Alicia Pina-Zapata and Sara García-Rodriguez and Marcelo Karanik},
editor = {Alfonso González-Briones and Vicente Julian Inglada and Alia El Bolock and Cedric Marco-Detchart and Jaume Jordan and Karl Mason and Fernando Lopes and Nada Sharaf},
isbn = {978-3-031-73058-0},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-01-01},
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pages = {76–87},
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abstract = {When individuals share resources, they may have to make decisions that don't always maximize their benefits. Unfortunately, some people may have selfish attitudes, which can result in unfair situations that reduce the overall benefits for everyone. One alternative solution to this problem is cooperation. In this approach, individuals give up some benefits to benefit the group. This attitude is heavily influenced by the human values of the individuals involved and can impact the decision-making process. This paper examines how an agent's behaviour in the iterated prisoner's dilemma game, as provided by game theory, can be influenced by Schwartz's ten basic values theory. The experiments show that when the agent follows Schwartz's order of preferences for values, it tends to take cooperative actions. On the other hand, when the agent prioritizes values associated with individualism, it results in low overall benefits.},
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When individuals share resources, they may have to make decisions that don't always maximize their benefits. Unfortunately, some people may have selfish attitudes, which can result in unfair situations that reduce the overall benefits for everyone. One alternative solution to this problem is cooperation. In this approach, individuals give up some benefits to benefit the group. This attitude is heavily influenced by the human values of the individuals involved and can impact the decision-making process. This paper examines how an agent's behaviour in the iterated prisoner's dilemma game, as provided by game theory, can be influenced by Schwartz's ten basic values theory. The experiments show that when the agent follows Schwartz's order of preferences for values, it tends to take cooperative actions. On the other hand, when the agent prioritizes values associated with individualism, it results in low overall benefits. |
| 2. | Fidilio-Allende, Luciana; Arias, Joaquín Private-Safe (Logic-Based) Decision Systems for Energy Assignment in Agricultural Cooperatives Proceedings Article In: González-Briones, Alfonso; Inglada, Vicente Julian; Bolock, Alia El; Marco-Detchart, Cedric; Jordan, Jaume; Mason, Karl; Lopes, Fernando; Sharaf, Nada (Ed.): Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Digital Twins: The PAAMS Collection, pp. 40–51, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2025, ISBN: 978-3-031-73058-0. @inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-031-73058-0_4,
title = {Private-Safe (Logic-Based) Decision Systems for Energy Assignment in Agricultural Cooperatives},
author = {Luciana Fidilio-Allende and Joaquín Arias},
editor = {Alfonso González-Briones and Vicente Julian Inglada and Alia El Bolock and Cedric Marco-Detchart and Jaume Jordan and Karl Mason and Fernando Lopes and Nada Sharaf},
isbn = {978-3-031-73058-0},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-01-01},
booktitle = {Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Digital Twins: The PAAMS Collection},
pages = {40–51},
publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {Technological advances, such as artificial intelligence, would be of great help to improve the agricultural sector, not only in terms of its efficiency, but also to improve environmental and social aspects. One possible application is the automation of decision making –administrative, commercial, logistical, etc.– since it would speed up the decision-making process and improve the results obtained (for example, by considering the common interest in collaborative environments). But, these automated decision makers should only be trusted if they have the ability to explain their decisions, so that they can be properly audited. Logic-based models have an edge over other machine learning techniques in complying with this principle due to their inherent explainability. However, logic based models and their explanations may expose sensitive information, e.g., business secrets. In this work, we propose the use of s(CASP), a reasoner that is capable of providing explanations for their decisions, and to protect the confidentiality of the users we use $$f_CASP$$fCASP, a forgetting operator that removes sensitive data (from the model and the explanations) without affecting the decision. In this paper, we present as use case, the energy assignment in agricultural cooperatives, where the cooperative is responsible for the generation and distribution of the energy. In this scenario, we consider that the energy assignment must follow human values, such as fairness, and not utility functions. To compute the fairness function we use as a guide the principles of the Common Agricultural Policy.},
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Technological advances, such as artificial intelligence, would be of great help to improve the agricultural sector, not only in terms of its efficiency, but also to improve environmental and social aspects. One possible application is the automation of decision making –administrative, commercial, logistical, etc.– since it would speed up the decision-making process and improve the results obtained (for example, by considering the common interest in collaborative environments). But, these automated decision makers should only be trusted if they have the ability to explain their decisions, so that they can be properly audited. Logic-based models have an edge over other machine learning techniques in complying with this principle due to their inherent explainability. However, logic based models and their explanations may expose sensitive information, e.g., business secrets. In this work, we propose the use of s(CASP), a reasoner that is capable of providing explanations for their decisions, and to protect the confidentiality of the users we use $$f_CASP$$fCASP, a forgetting operator that removes sensitive data (from the model and the explanations) without affecting the decision. In this paper, we present as use case, the energy assignment in agricultural cooperatives, where the cooperative is responsible for the generation and distribution of the energy. In this scenario, we consider that the energy assignment must follow human values, such as fairness, and not utility functions. To compute the fairness function we use as a guide the principles of the Common Agricultural Policy. |
| 3. | Gutiérrez-Cejudo, Jorge; Andrés, Francisco Enguix; Lujak, Marin; Casamayor, Carlos Carrascosa; López, Luis Hernández; Rebollo, Miguel; Fernández, Alberto Demo of the Agri-RO5 Architecture for Agrirobot Fleet Simulation Proceedings Article In: Mathieu, Philippe; la Prieta, Fernando De (Ed.): Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Digital Twins: The PAAMS Collection, pp. 337–342, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2025, ISBN: 978-3-031-70415-4. @inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-031-70415-4_30,
title = {Demo of the Agri-RO5 Architecture for Agrirobot Fleet Simulation},
author = {Jorge Gutiérrez-Cejudo and Francisco Enguix Andrés and Marin Lujak and Carlos Carrascosa Casamayor and Luis Hernández López and Miguel Rebollo and Alberto Fernández},
editor = {Philippe Mathieu and Fernando De la Prieta},
isbn = {978-3-031-70415-4},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-01-01},
booktitle = {Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Digital Twins: The PAAMS Collection},
pages = {337–342},
publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {The growing demand for sustainable and high-yield agriculture necessitates the deployment of autonomous, cost-effective, and resilient agricultural robot (agrirobot) fleets, particularly in labor-scarce rural areas with challenging working conditions. This paper presents the demo of the novel multi-agent architecture, Agri-RO5, for realistic simulation of dynamic agrirobot fleet coordination methods. The Agri-RO5 approach tackles the challenges in rural settings, including low connectivity and geographically dispersed farms. Our long-term goal is to develop digital twins to optimize real-world fleet performance. Agri-RO5 is implemented in Unity-3D, Robot Operating System (ROS), and an extension of the existing package Patrolling SIM to achieve high simulation fidelity representing real-world conditions. The integration allows the coordination solution into the controllers of actual physical robotic systems and ensures that simulations closely match real-world scenarios. Our system prioritizes a highly distributed architecture facilitated by incorporating SPADE3 and FIVE. SPADE3 provides a framework for developing and executing scalable multi-agent systems, while FIVE offers the creation of the environment and provides mechanisms to interact with the environment.},
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The growing demand for sustainable and high-yield agriculture necessitates the deployment of autonomous, cost-effective, and resilient agricultural robot (agrirobot) fleets, particularly in labor-scarce rural areas with challenging working conditions. This paper presents the demo of the novel multi-agent architecture, Agri-RO5, for realistic simulation of dynamic agrirobot fleet coordination methods. The Agri-RO5 approach tackles the challenges in rural settings, including low connectivity and geographically dispersed farms. Our long-term goal is to develop digital twins to optimize real-world fleet performance. Agri-RO5 is implemented in Unity-3D, Robot Operating System (ROS), and an extension of the existing package Patrolling SIM to achieve high simulation fidelity representing real-world conditions. The integration allows the coordination solution into the controllers of actual physical robotic systems and ensures that simulations closely match real-world scenarios. Our system prioritizes a highly distributed architecture facilitated by incorporating SPADE3 and FIVE. SPADE3 provides a framework for developing and executing scalable multi-agent systems, while FIVE offers the creation of the environment and provides mechanisms to interact with the environment. |
2024
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| 4. | Karanik, Marcelo; Pina-Zapata, Alicia; García-Rodríguez, Sara Imbalance Management on Free-Floating VSS: A Multi-agent Model Approach Book Chapter In: Progress in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 246–257, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, ISSN: 1611-3349. @inbook{Karanik_2024,
title = {Imbalance Management on Free-Floating VSS: A Multi-agent Model Approach},
author = {Marcelo Karanik and Alicia Pina-Zapata and Sara García-Rodríguez},
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doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-73500-4_21},
issn = {1611-3349},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-11-01},
booktitle = {Progress in Artificial Intelligence},
pages = {246–257},
publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
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| 5. | Fidilio-Allende, L.; Arias, J. fCASP: A forgetting technique for XAI based on goal-directed constraint ASP models Proceedings Article In: 2024. @inproceedings{11705:PROLE:2024:13h,
title = {fCASP: A forgetting technique for XAI based on goal-directed constraint ASP models},
author = {L. Fidilio-Allende and J. Arias},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/11705/PROLE/2024/13},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-06-17},
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| 6. | Lujak, Marin; Salvatore, Alessio; Fernández, Alberto; Giordani, Stefano; Cousy, Kendal How to fairly and efficiently assign tasks in individually rational agents’ coalitions? Models and fairness measures Journal Article In: Computer Science and Information Systems, vol. 21, iss. 1, pp. 269-289, 2024, ISSN: 2406-1018. @article{Lujak_2024,
title = {How to fairly and efficiently assign tasks in individually rational agents’ coalitions? Models and fairness measures},
author = {Marin Lujak and Alessio Salvatore and Alberto Fernández and Stefano Giordani and Kendal Cousy},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/csis230119075l},
doi = {10.2298/csis230119075l},
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| 7. | Cejudo, Jorge Gutiérrez Gutiérrez; Andrés, Francisco Enguix; Lujak, Marin; Casamayor, Carlos Carrascosa Carrascosa; Fernandez, Alberto; López, Luís Hernández Hernández Towards Agrirobot Digital Twins: Agri-RO5— A Multi-Agent Architecture for Dynamic Fleet Simulation Journal Article In: Electronics, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 1–20, 2024, ISSN: 2079-9292. @article{Guti_rrez_Cejudo_2023,
title = {Towards Agrirobot Digital Twins: Agri-RO5— A Multi-Agent Architecture for Dynamic Fleet Simulation},
author = {Jorge Gutiérrez Gutiérrez Cejudo and Francisco Enguix Andrés and Marin Lujak and Carlos Carrascosa Carrascosa Casamayor and Alberto Fernandez and Luís Hernández Hernández López},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics13010080},
doi = {10.3390/electronics13010080},
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year = {2024},
date = {2024-01-01},
urldate = {2024-01-01},
journal = {Electronics},
volume = {13},
number = {1},
pages = {1--20},
publisher = {MDPI AG},
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| 8. | Karanik, Marcelo; Bernabé-Sánchez, Iván; Fernández, Alberto Ontological Modeling and Clustering Techniques for Service Allocation on the Edge: A Comprehensive Framework Journal Article In: Electronics, vol. 13, no. 3, 2024, ISSN: 2079-9292. @article{Karanik2024electronics,
title = {Ontological Modeling and Clustering Techniques for Service Allocation on the Edge: A Comprehensive Framework},
author = {Marcelo Karanik and Iván Bernabé-Sánchez and Alberto Fernández},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/13/3/477},
doi = {10.3390/electronics13030477},
issn = {2079-9292},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-01-01},
journal = {Electronics},
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number = {3},
abstract = {Nowadays, we are in a world of large amounts of heterogeneous devices with varying computational resources, ranging from small devices to large supercomputers, located on the cloud, edge or other abstraction layers in between. At the same time, software tasks need to be performed. They have specific computational or other types of requirements and must also be executed at a particular physical location. Moreover, both services and devices may change dynamically. In this context, methods are needed to effectively schedule efficient allocations of services to computational resources. In this article, we present a framework to address this problem. Our proposal first uses knowledge graphs for describing software requirements and the availability of resources for services and computing nodes, respectively. To this end, we proposed an ontology that extends our previous work. Then, we proposed a hierarchical filtering approach to decide the best allocation of services to computational nodes. We carried out simulations to evaluate four different clustering strategies. The results showed different performances in terms of the number of allocated services and node overload.},
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Nowadays, we are in a world of large amounts of heterogeneous devices with varying computational resources, ranging from small devices to large supercomputers, located on the cloud, edge or other abstraction layers in between. At the same time, software tasks need to be performed. They have specific computational or other types of requirements and must also be executed at a particular physical location. Moreover, both services and devices may change dynamically. In this context, methods are needed to effectively schedule efficient allocations of services to computational resources. In this article, we present a framework to address this problem. Our proposal first uses knowledge graphs for describing software requirements and the availability of resources for services and computing nodes, respectively. To this end, we proposed an ontology that extends our previous work. Then, we proposed a hierarchical filtering approach to decide the best allocation of services to computational nodes. We carried out simulations to evaluate four different clustering strategies. The results showed different performances in terms of the number of allocated services and node overload. |
| 9. | Sánchez, Aitor López; Lujak, Marin; Semet, Frédéric; Billhardt, Holger Dynamic, fair, and efficient routing for cooperative autonomous vehicle fleets Journal Article In: Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 251, pp. 123964, 2024, ISSN: 0957-4174. @article{SANCHEZ2024123964,
title = {Dynamic, fair, and efficient routing for cooperative autonomous vehicle fleets},
author = {Aitor López Sánchez and Marin Lujak and Frédéric Semet and Holger Billhardt},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417424008303},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.123964},
issn = {0957-4174},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-01-01},
journal = {Expert Systems with Applications},
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pages = {123964},
abstract = {This paper addresses challenges in agricultural cooperative autonomous fleet routing through the proposition, modeling, and resolution of the Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem with Fair Profits and Time Windows (DVRP-FPTW). The aim is to dynamically optimize routes for a vehicle fleet serving tasks within assigned time windows, emphasizing fair and efficient solutions. Our DVRP-FPTW accommodates unforeseen events like task modifications or vehicle breakdowns, ensuring adherence to task demand, vehicle capacities, and autonomies. The proposed model incorporates mandatory and optional tasks, including optional ones in operational vehicle routes if not compromising the vehicles’ profits. Including asynchronous and distributed column generation heuristics, the proposed Multi-Agent-based architecture DIMASA for the DVRP-FPTW dynamically adapts to unforeseen events. Systematic Egalitarian social welfare optimization is used to iteratively maximize the profit of the least profitable vehicle, prioritizing fairness across the fleet in light of unforeseen events. This improves upon existing dynamic and multi-period VRP models that rely on prior knowledge of demand changes. Our approach allows vehicle agents to maintain privacy while sharing minimal local data with a fleet coordinator agent. We propose publicly available benchmark instances for both static and dynamic VRP-FPTW. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our DVRP-FPTW model and our multi-agent system solution approach in coordinating large, dynamically evolving cooperative autonomous fleets fairly and efficiently in close to real-time.},
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This paper addresses challenges in agricultural cooperative autonomous fleet routing through the proposition, modeling, and resolution of the Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem with Fair Profits and Time Windows (DVRP-FPTW). The aim is to dynamically optimize routes for a vehicle fleet serving tasks within assigned time windows, emphasizing fair and efficient solutions. Our DVRP-FPTW accommodates unforeseen events like task modifications or vehicle breakdowns, ensuring adherence to task demand, vehicle capacities, and autonomies. The proposed model incorporates mandatory and optional tasks, including optional ones in operational vehicle routes if not compromising the vehicles’ profits. Including asynchronous and distributed column generation heuristics, the proposed Multi-Agent-based architecture DIMASA for the DVRP-FPTW dynamically adapts to unforeseen events. Systematic Egalitarian social welfare optimization is used to iteratively maximize the profit of the least profitable vehicle, prioritizing fairness across the fleet in light of unforeseen events. This improves upon existing dynamic and multi-period VRP models that rely on prior knowledge of demand changes. Our approach allows vehicle agents to maintain privacy while sharing minimal local data with a fleet coordinator agent. We propose publicly available benchmark instances for both static and dynamic VRP-FPTW. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our DVRP-FPTW model and our multi-agent system solution approach in coordinating large, dynamically evolving cooperative autonomous fleets fairly and efficiently in close to real-time. |
| 10. | Karanik, Marcelo; Billhardt, Holger; Fernández, Alberto; Ossowski, Sascha On the relevance of value system structure for automated value-aligned decision-making Proceedings Article In: Proceedings of the 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 679–686, Association for Computing Machinery, Avila, Spain, 2024, ISBN: 9798400702433. @inproceedings{Karanik2024SAC,
title = {On the relevance of value system structure for automated value-aligned decision-making},
author = {Marcelo Karanik and Holger Billhardt and Alberto Fernández and Sascha Ossowski},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3605098.3636057},
doi = {10.1145/3605098.3636057},
isbn = {9798400702433},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-01-01},
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publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
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series = {SAC '24},
abstract = {Technological advances, especially in the field of artificial intelligence, raise subjects related to the behaviour of autonomous systems. The ability to judge how far some behaviour is ethically correct is inherent to humans, and one of the great challenges is to replicate such ability in artificial systems. Engineering, aware that human values must be considered in the decision-making process, is currently focused on developing mechanisms to embed these values into autonomous systems. This article proposes a decision model that enables autonomous intelligent agents to select actions that are aligned with their value system. It considers not only the relevance that different values have for an agent, and how much an action promotes a certain value, but also models in a rigorous manner the interaction of different values within a value system. An instantiation of the model is put forward, based on Schwartz's basic values theory, non-additive fuzzy measures, and the discrete Choquet integral. Then the performance of the approach is illustrated by determining the value alignment of different decisions using the well-known iterated prisoner's dilemma.},
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Technological advances, especially in the field of artificial intelligence, raise subjects related to the behaviour of autonomous systems. The ability to judge how far some behaviour is ethically correct is inherent to humans, and one of the great challenges is to replicate such ability in artificial systems. Engineering, aware that human values must be considered in the decision-making process, is currently focused on developing mechanisms to embed these values into autonomous systems. This article proposes a decision model that enables autonomous intelligent agents to select actions that are aligned with their value system. It considers not only the relevance that different values have for an agent, and how much an action promotes a certain value, but also models in a rigorous manner the interaction of different values within a value system. An instantiation of the model is put forward, based on Schwartz's basic values theory, non-additive fuzzy measures, and the discrete Choquet integral. Then the performance of the approach is illustrated by determining the value alignment of different decisions using the well-known iterated prisoner's dilemma. |
| 11. | Karanik, Marcelo; Billhardt, Holger; Fernández, Alberto; Ossowski, Sascha Exploiting Value System Structure for Value-Aligned Decision-Making Proceedings Article In: Osman, Nardine; Steels, Luc (Ed.): Value Engineering in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 180–196, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2024, ISBN: 978-3-031-58202-8. @inproceedings{VALE2023Karanik,
title = {Exploiting Value System Structure for Value-Aligned Decision-Making},
author = {Marcelo Karanik and Holger Billhardt and Alberto Fernández and Sascha Ossowski},
editor = {Nardine Osman and Luc Steels},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-58202-8_11},
isbn = {978-3-031-58202-8},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-01-01},
booktitle = {Value Engineering in Artificial Intelligence},
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publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence faces a significant challenge in implementing ethical behaviour in autonomous agents. The development of technologies that consider human values in the decision-making process of such agents is crucial. While this feature should be included in the agent's design objectives, the primary goal is to build value-aware agents that act appropriately in changing environments. This requires the creation of mechanisms that support the agent's own value system. This paper presents a model of an agent that makes decisions based on its value system and a value promotion scheme for available actions. The model uses a fuzzy measure to represent the value system, and aggregation operators to determine the action that best aligns with the agent's preferences. Schwartz's basic value theory and Choquet's discrete integral are used as an example of model implementation. Finally, the model is illustrated by determining the value alignment of different decisions in a simplified tax-paying context.},
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Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence faces a significant challenge in implementing ethical behaviour in autonomous agents. The development of technologies that consider human values in the decision-making process of such agents is crucial. While this feature should be included in the agent's design objectives, the primary goal is to build value-aware agents that act appropriately in changing environments. This requires the creation of mechanisms that support the agent's own value system. This paper presents a model of an agent that makes decisions based on its value system and a value promotion scheme for available actions. The model uses a fuzzy measure to represent the value system, and aggregation operators to determine the action that best aligns with the agent's preferences. Schwartz's basic value theory and Choquet's discrete integral are used as an example of model implementation. Finally, the model is illustrated by determining the value alignment of different decisions in a simplified tax-paying context. |
| 12. | Fernández-Martínez, Carmen; Fernández, Alberto Value-Based Reasoning Scenario in Employee Hiring and Onboarding Using Answer Set Programming Proceedings Article In: Osman, Nardine; Steels, Luc (Ed.): Value Engineering in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 251–260, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2024, ISBN: 978-3-031-58202-8. @inproceedings{VALE2023Fernandez,
title = {Value-Based Reasoning Scenario in Employee Hiring and Onboarding Using Answer Set Programming},
author = {Carmen Fernández-Martínez and Alberto Fernández},
editor = {Nardine Osman and Luc Steels},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-58202-8_15},
isbn = {978-3-031-58202-8},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-01-01},
booktitle = {Value Engineering in Artificial Intelligence},
pages = {251–260},
publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {Privacy is one of the values that can be considered in value-based reasoning, mainly to avoid disclosing personal information and prevent, among others, age or gender discrimination. We propose a scenario of practical legal and ethical reasoning based on values that protect against the infringement of labour laws, social conventions, and moral norms in personnel selection and onboarding. It is envisaged as a mix of ethical and legal reasoner. The ethical reasoner focuses on two central human values: trustworthiness and privacy. This paper introduces a Legal and ethical reasoner based on Answer Set Programming (ASP) that enables explainable and trustworthy outcomes in recruiting processes whilst safeguarding users' privacy and disclosing avoidance of protected attributes (gender, religion, pregnancy status, etc.).},
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Privacy is one of the values that can be considered in value-based reasoning, mainly to avoid disclosing personal information and prevent, among others, age or gender discrimination. We propose a scenario of practical legal and ethical reasoning based on values that protect against the infringement of labour laws, social conventions, and moral norms in personnel selection and onboarding. It is envisaged as a mix of ethical and legal reasoner. The ethical reasoner focuses on two central human values: trustworthiness and privacy. This paper introduces a Legal and ethical reasoner based on Answer Set Programming (ASP) that enables explainable and trustworthy outcomes in recruiting processes whilst safeguarding users' privacy and disclosing avoidance of protected attributes (gender, religion, pregnancy status, etc.). |
| 13. | Holgado-Sánchez, Andrés; Arias, Joaquín; Billhardt, Holger; Ossowski, Sascha Algorithms for learning value-aligned policies considering admissibility relaxation Miscellaneous 2024. @misc{holgadosánchez2024algorithmslearningvaluealignedpolicies,
title = {Algorithms for learning value-aligned policies considering admissibility relaxation},
author = {Andrés Holgado-Sánchez and Joaquín Arias and Holger Billhardt and Sascha Ossowski},
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| 14. | Arias, Joaquín; Moreno-Rebato, Mar; Rodríguez-García, José A.; Ossowski, Sascha Automated legal reasoning with discretion to act using s(LAW) Journal Article In: Artificial Intelligence and Law, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 1141–1164, 2024. @article{arias24-artlaw-automatedslaw,
title = {Automated legal reasoning with discretion to act using s(LAW)},
author = {Joaquín Arias and Mar Moreno-Rebato and José A. Rodríguez-García and Sascha Ossowski},
doi = {10.1007/S10506-023-09376-5},
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date = {2024-01-01},
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| 15. | Arias, Joaquín; Moreno-Rebato, Mar; Rodríguez-García, José Antonio; Ossowski, Sascha Towards value-awareness in administrative processes: an approach based on constraint answer set programming Proceedings Article In: 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC'24, pp. 770–778, ACM, 2024. @inproceedings{arias24-sac-valueslaw,
title = {Towards value-awareness in administrative processes: an approach based on constraint answer set programming},
author = {Joaquín Arias and Mar Moreno-Rebato and José Antonio Rodríguez-García and Sascha Ossowski},
doi = {10.1145/3605098.3636022},
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| 16. | Fidilio-Allende, Luciana; Arias, Joaquín Extended abstract: fCASP - A forgetting technique for XAI based on goal-directed constraint ASP models Proceedings Article In: Workshops of the 40th ICLP'24, CEUR-WS.org, 2024. @inproceedings{fidilioallende24-GDE-fcasp,
title = {Extended abstract: fCASP - A forgetting technique for XAI based on goal-directed constraint ASP models},
author = {Luciana Fidilio-Allende and Joaquín Arias},
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| 17. | Holgado-Sánchez, Andrés; Bajo, Javier; Billhardt, Holger; Ossowski, Sascha; Arias, Joaquín Value Learning for Value-Aligned Route Choice Modeling via Inverse Reinforcement Learning Unpublished 2024. @unpublished{holgadosanchez24-vae-valuelearning,
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| 18. | Murugesan, Anitha; Wong, Isaac Hong; Arias, Joaquín; Stroud, Robert; Varadarajan, Srivatsan; Salazar, Elmer; Gupta, Gopal; Bloomfield, Robin; Rushby, John Automating Semantic Analysis of System Assurance Cases using Goal-directed ASP Journal Article In: Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, vol. To Appear, 2024, (Special Issue on ICLP'24). @article{murugesan24-automatingsemanticanalysisassurance,
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| 19. | Vašíček, Ondřej; Arias, Joaquin; Fiedor, Jan; Gupta, Gopal; Hall, Brendan; Křena, Bohuslav; Larson, Brian; Varanasi, Sarat Chandra; Vojnar, Tomáš Early Validation of High-level System Requirements with Event Calculus and Answer Set Programming Journal Article In: Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, vol. To Appear, 2024, (Special Issue on ICLP'24). @article{vasicek24-earlyvalidationhighlevelrequirements,
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| 20. | Zeng, Yankai; Rajashekharan, Abhiramon; Basu, Kinjal; Wang, Huaduo; Arias, Joaquín; Gupta, Gopal A Reliable Common-Sense Reasoning Socialbot Built Using LLMs and Goal-Directed ASP Journal Article In: Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, vol. To Appear, 2024, (Special Issue on ICLP'24). @article{zeng2024reliablecommonsensereasoningsocialbot,
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| 21. | Gupta, Gopal; Salazar, Elmer; Arias, Joaquín Computational Thinking with Logic Programming Proceedings Article In: Workshops of the 40th ICLP'24, CEUR-WS.org, 2024. @inproceedings{gupta24-GDE-computationalthinking,
title = {Computational Thinking with Logic Programming},
author = {Gopal Gupta and Elmer Salazar and Joaquín Arias},
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| 22. | Dasgupta, Sopam; Shakerin, Farhad; Salazar, Elmer; Arias, Joaquín; Gupta, Gopal Causally Constrained Counterfactual Generation using ASP Proceedings Article In: Workshops of the 40th ICLP'24, CEUR-WS.org, 2024. @inproceedings{dasgupta24-GDE-causallycounterfactual,
title = {Causally Constrained Counterfactual Generation using ASP},
author = {Sopam Dasgupta and Farhad Shakerin and Elmer Salazar and Joaquín Arias and Gopal Gupta},
url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3799/paper5GDE24.pdf},
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| 23. | Vašíček, Ondřej; Arias, Joaquín; Fiedor, Jan; Gupta, Gopal; Hall, Brendan; Krena, Bohuslav; Larson, Brian; Varanasi, Sarat Chandra; Vojnar, Tomás Extended Abstract: Early Validation of High-level System Requirements with Event Calculus and Answer Set Programming Proceedings Article In: Workshops of the 40th ICLP'24, CEUR-WS.org, 2024. @inproceedings{vasicek24-GDE-validationEC,
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| 24. | Zeng, Yankai; Rajasekharan, Abhiramon; Basu, Kinjal; Wang, Huaduo; Arias, Joaquín; Gupta, Gopal Extended Abstract: A Reliable Common-Sense Reasoning Socialbot Built Using LLMs and Goal-Directed ASP Proceedings Article In: Workshops of the 40th ICLP'24, CEUR-WS.org, 2024. @inproceedings{zeng24-GDE-socialbot,
title = {Extended Abstract: A Reliable Common-Sense Reasoning Socialbot Built Using LLMs and Goal-Directed ASP},
author = {Yankai Zeng and Abhiramon Rajasekharan and Kinjal Basu and Huaduo Wang and Joaquín Arias and Gopal Gupta},
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| 25. | Zeng, Yankai; Rajasekharan, Abhiramon; Padalkar, Parth; Basu, Kinjal; Arias, Joaquín; Gupta, Gopal Automated Interactive Domain-Specific Conversational Agents that Understand Human Dialogs Proceedings Article In: 26th Int'l. Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, PADL'24, pp. 204–222, Springer, 2024. @inproceedings{zeng24-padl-conversationalagents,
title = {Automated Interactive Domain-Specific Conversational Agents that Understand Human Dialogs},
author = {Yankai Zeng and Abhiramon Rajasekharan and Parth Padalkar and Kinjal Basu and Joaquín Arias and Gopal Gupta},
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| 26. | Varadarajan, Srivatsan; Bloomfield, Robin; Rushby, John; Gupta, Gopal; Murugesan, Anitha; Stroud, Robert J.; Netkachova, Kateryna; Wong, Isaac Hong; Arias, Joaquín Enabling Theory-Based Continuous Assurance: A Coherent Approach with Semantics and Automated Synthesis Proceedings Article In: Workshops of the 43rd SAFECOMP'24, pp. 173–187, Springer, 2024. @inproceedings{varadarajan24-safecomp-assurance,
title = {Enabling Theory-Based Continuous Assurance: A Coherent Approach with Semantics and Automated Synthesis},
author = {Srivatsan Varadarajan and Robin Bloomfield and John Rushby and Gopal Gupta and Anitha Murugesan and Robert J. Stroud and Kateryna Netkachova and Isaac Hong Wong and Joaquín Arias},
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| 27. | Holgado-Sánchez, Andrés; Billhardt, Holger; Ossowski, Sascha; Fernández, Alberto An Ontology for Value Awareness Engineering Conference Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: AWAI, INSTICC SciTePress, 2024, ISSN: 2184-433X. @conference{awai24,
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| 28. | Sánchez, Aitor López; Lujak, Marin; Semet, Frederic; Billhardt, Holger; Bazzan, Ana L. C.; Dusparic, Ivana; Lujak, Marin; Vizzari, Giuseppe How to achieve fair and efficient cooperative vehicle routing? Journal Article In: AI Communications, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 223-245, 2024. @article{doi:10.3233/AIC-220315,
title = {How to achieve fair and efficient cooperative vehicle routing?},
author = {Aitor López Sánchez and Marin Lujak and Frederic Semet and Holger Billhardt and Ana L. C. Bazzan and Ivana Dusparic and Marin Lujak and Giuseppe Vizzari},
url = {https://doi.org/10.3233/AIC-220315},
doi = {10.3233/AIC-220315},
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date = {2024-01-01},
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abstract = {A cooperative is a business entity with the primary objective of providing benefits, services, and goods to its members, who both own and exercise democratic control over it. In the context of a cooperative, a fleet typically consists of vehicles owned by self-concerned individually rational owners who prioritize their own efficiency and the fairness of the system. This fairness refers to how their individual gain aligns with the gain of others. In this paper, we focus on the routing of such cooperative fleets. Considering only the fleet’s efficiency in terms of minimising its overall cost, the studied problem corresponds to the multiple Traveling Salesman Problem (mTSP). However, our interest lies in finding both efficient and fair solutions, so we propose two new variants of this problem that integrate and maximise the fleet’s egalitarian and elitist social welfare. Additionally, to enhance the balance between fleet efficiency and fairness, we propose the systematic elitist and systematic egalitarian social welfare optimisation algorithm. Through simulation results, we observe a wide diversity of routes depending on the approach considered. Therefore, a cooperative may choose a model that best balances its fleet’s efficiency and fairness based on its specific requirements.},
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A cooperative is a business entity with the primary objective of providing benefits, services, and goods to its members, who both own and exercise democratic control over it. In the context of a cooperative, a fleet typically consists of vehicles owned by self-concerned individually rational owners who prioritize their own efficiency and the fairness of the system. This fairness refers to how their individual gain aligns with the gain of others. In this paper, we focus on the routing of such cooperative fleets. Considering only the fleet’s efficiency in terms of minimising its overall cost, the studied problem corresponds to the multiple Traveling Salesman Problem (mTSP). However, our interest lies in finding both efficient and fair solutions, so we propose two new variants of this problem that integrate and maximise the fleet’s egalitarian and elitist social welfare. Additionally, to enhance the balance between fleet efficiency and fairness, we propose the systematic elitist and systematic egalitarian social welfare optimisation algorithm. Through simulation results, we observe a wide diversity of routes depending on the approach considered. Therefore, a cooperative may choose a model that best balances its fleet’s efficiency and fairness based on its specific requirements. |
2023
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| 29. | Bernabé-Sánchez, Iván; Fernández, Alberto; Billhardt, Holger; Ossowski, Sascha Problem Detection in the Edge of IoT Applications Journal Article In: International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 85-97, 2023, ISSN: 1989-1660. @article{Bernabe2023IJIMAI,
title = {Problem Detection in the Edge of IoT Applications},
author = {Iván Bernabé-Sánchez and Alberto Fernández and Holger Billhardt and Sascha Ossowski},
url = {https://www.ijimai.org/journal/sites/default/files/2023-08/ijimai8_3_8_0.pdf},
doi = {10.9781/ijimai.2023.07.007},
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Due to technological advances, Internet of Things (IoT) systems are becoming increasingly complex. They are characterized by being multi-device and geographically distributed, which increases the possibility of errors of different types. In such systems, errors can occur anywhere at any time and fault tolerance becomes an essential characteristic to make them robust and reliable. This paper presents a framework to manage and detect errors and malfunctions of the devices that compose an IoT system. The proposed solution approach takes into account both, simple devices such as sensors or actuators, as well as computationally intensive devices which are distributed geographically. It uses knowledge graphs to model the devices, the system’s topology, the software deployed on each device and the relationships between the different elements. The proposed framework retrieves information from log messages and processes this information automatically to detect anomalous situations or malfunctions that may affect the IoT system. This work also presents the ECO ontology to organize the IoT system information. |
| 30. | Bruns, Ralf; Dunkel, Jürgen; Dötterl, Jeremias; Ossowski, Sascha Evaluating Collaborative and Autonomous Agents in Data-Stream-Supported Coordination of Mobile Crowdsourcing Journal Article In: Sensors, vol. 23, iss. 2, pp. 614, 2023, ISSN: 1424-8220. @article{BDDO23,
title = {Evaluating Collaborative and Autonomous Agents in Data-Stream-Supported Coordination of Mobile Crowdsourcing},
author = {Ralf Bruns and Jürgen Dunkel and Jeremias Dötterl and Sascha Ossowski},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.3390/s23020614 },
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year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-05},
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pages = {614},
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| 31. | Khalid, Qasim; Fernandez, Alberto; Lujak, Marin; Doniec, Arnaud SBEO: Smart Building Evacuation Ontology Journal Article In: Computer Science and Information Systems, vol. 20, iss. 1, pp. 51–76, 2023. @article{Khalid_2023,
title = {SBEO: Smart Building Evacuation Ontology},
author = {Qasim Khalid and Alberto Fernandez and Marin Lujak and Arnaud Doniec},
url = {https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS220118046K},
doi = {10.2298/csis220118046k},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
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issue = {1},
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publisher = {National Library of Serbia},
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| 32. | Karanik, Marcelo; Bernabé-Sánchez, Iván; Fernández, Alberto Edge Service Allocation Based on Clustering Techniques Proceedings Article In: Ossa, Luis Fernando Castillo; Isaza, Gustavo; Cardona, Óscar; Castrillón, Omar Danilo; Rodriguez, Juan Manuel Corchado; la Prieta Pintado, Fernando De (Ed.): Trends in Sustainable Smart Cities and Territories, pp. 429–441, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2023, ISBN: 978-3-031-36957-5. @inproceedings{Karanik2023SSCt,
title = {Edge Service Allocation Based on Clustering Techniques},
author = {Marcelo Karanik and Iván Bernabé-Sánchez and Alberto Fernández},
editor = {Luis Fernando Castillo Ossa and Gustavo Isaza and Óscar Cardona and Omar Danilo Castrillón and Juan Manuel Corchado Rodriguez and Fernando De la Prieta Pintado},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-36957-5_37},
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abstract = {The expansion of the Internet of Things is leading to the emergence of new IoT environments where devices not only act as sensors or actuators but also provide computing, storage and network resources. These resources are close to the local network and have a great potential to deploy IoT services, this is called fog computing. One of the challenges in this context is deciding the allocation of services to suitable computing nodes where they can run. In this paper, we propose a clustering-based method to allocate services to computing nodes along edge-cloud computing environments considering both functional and computational capacities. Additionally, the proposed framework is explained and an experimental example is used to test four clustering strategies. The results show that the proposed clustering approach is an efficient method for service allocation to computing nodes and depending on the selected strategy different workload distributions are obtained. Finally, we present some considerations about the proposed model.},
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The expansion of the Internet of Things is leading to the emergence of new IoT environments where devices not only act as sensors or actuators but also provide computing, storage and network resources. These resources are close to the local network and have a great potential to deploy IoT services, this is called fog computing. One of the challenges in this context is deciding the allocation of services to suitable computing nodes where they can run. In this paper, we propose a clustering-based method to allocate services to computing nodes along edge-cloud computing environments considering both functional and computational capacities. Additionally, the proposed framework is explained and an experimental example is used to test four clustering strategies. The results show that the proposed clustering approach is an efficient method for service allocation to computing nodes and depending on the selected strategy different workload distributions are obtained. Finally, we present some considerations about the proposed model. |
| 33. | Gutiérrez-Cejudo, Jorge; Lujak, Marin; Fernández, Alberto Agrobots Architecture and Agrobots-Sim Simulator for Dynamic Agri-Robot Coordination Book Chapter In: Communications in Computer and Information Science, pp. 5–17, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023, ISSN: 1865-0937. @inbook{Guti_rrez_Cejudo_2023b,
title = {Agrobots Architecture and Agrobots-Sim Simulator for Dynamic Agri-Robot Coordination},
author = {Jorge Gutiérrez-Cejudo and Marin Lujak and Alberto Fernández},
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| 34. | Karanik, Marcelo; Billhardt, Holger; Fernández, Alberto; Ossowski, Sascha Exploiting Value System Structure for Value-Aligned Decision-Making Proceedings Article In: VALE, pp. 180-196, 2023. @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vale/KaranikBFO23,
title = {Exploiting Value System Structure for Value-Aligned Decision-Making},
author = {Marcelo Karanik and Holger Billhardt and Alberto Fernández and Sascha Ossowski},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58202-8_11},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
booktitle = {VALE},
pages = {180-196},
crossref = {conf/vale/2023},
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| 35. | Arias, Joaquín; Moreno-Rebato, Mar; Rodríguez-García, José A.; Ossowski, Sascha Value awareness and process automation: a reflection through school place allocation models Proceedings Article In: ICLP Workshops, 2023. @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/iclp/AriasMRO23,
title = {Value awareness and process automation: a reflection through school place allocation models},
author = {Joaquín Arias and Mar Moreno-Rebato and José A. Rodríguez-García and Sascha Ossowski},
url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3437/short3GDE.pdf},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
booktitle = {ICLP Workshops},
crossref = {conf/iclp/2023w},
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| 36. | Lujak, Marin; Fernández, Alberto; Billhardt, Holger; Ossowski, Sascha; Arias, Joaquín; Sánchez, Aitor López On Value-Aligned Cooperative Multi-agent Task Allocation Proceedings Article In: VALE, pp. 197-216, 2023. @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vale/LujakFBOAS23,
title = {On Value-Aligned Cooperative Multi-agent Task Allocation},
author = {Marin Lujak and Alberto Fernández and Holger Billhardt and Sascha Ossowski and Joaquín Arias and Aitor López Sánchez},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58202-8_12},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
booktitle = {VALE},
pages = {197-216},
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| 37. | Holgado-Sánchez, Andrés; Arias, Joaquín; Moreno-Rebato, Mar; Ossowski, Sascha On Admissible Behaviours for Goal-Oriented Decision-Making of Value-Aware Agents Proceedings Article In: 20th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, EUMAS'23, pp. 415–424, Springer, 2023. @inproceedings{holgadosanchezandres23-eumas-decisionvalues,
title = {On Admissible Behaviours for Goal-Oriented Decision-Making of Value-Aware Agents},
author = {Andrés Holgado-Sánchez and Joaquín Arias and Mar Moreno-Rebato and Sascha Ossowski},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-43264-4_27},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
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| 38. | Holgado-Sánchez, Andrés; Arias, Joaquín; Billhardt, Holger; Ossowski, Sascha Algorithms for Learning Value-Aligned Policies Considering Admissibility Relaxation Proceedings Article In: 1st Int'l. Workshop on Value Engineering in AI, VALE@ECAI'23, pp. 145–164, Springer, 2023. @inproceedings{holgadosanchez23-vae-learningpolicies,
title = {Algorithms for Learning Value-Aligned Policies Considering Admissibility Relaxation},
author = {Andrés Holgado-Sánchez and Joaquín Arias and Holger Billhardt and Sascha Ossowski},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-58202-8_9},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
urldate = {2023-01-01},
booktitle = {1st Int'l. Workshop on Value Engineering in AI, VALE@ECAI'23},
volume = {14520},
pages = {145–164},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {LNCS},
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| 39. | Holgado-Sánchez, Andrés Value-Awareness Engineering: Towards Learning Context-Based Value Taxonomies Proceedings Article In: Malvone, Vadim; Murano, Aniello (Ed.): Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 479–485, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2023, ISBN: 978-3-031-43264-4. @inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-031-43264-4_35,
title = {Value-Awareness Engineering: Towards Learning Context-Based Value Taxonomies},
author = {Andrés Holgado-Sánchez},
editor = {Vadim Malvone and Aniello Murano},
isbn = {978-3-031-43264-4},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
booktitle = {Multi-Agent Systems},
pages = {479–485},
publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {The emerging field of value awareness engineering claims that software agents and systems should be value-aware, i.e. they should be able to explicitly reason about the value-alignment of their actions. Existing approaches characterize values in various ways, from which we defend the recently introduced context-based value taxonomies, which allow a very rich context-dependent value representation while providing alignment explainability. We propose further work in the area, that would strive mainly on the feasibility for a system to learn value taxonomies from streams of value-aware preferences (using CEP rule learning), so the result is human-readable and representative of a complex value system.},
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The emerging field of value awareness engineering claims that software agents and systems should be value-aware, i.e. they should be able to explicitly reason about the value-alignment of their actions. Existing approaches characterize values in various ways, from which we defend the recently introduced context-based value taxonomies, which allow a very rich context-dependent value representation while providing alignment explainability. We propose further work in the area, that would strive mainly on the feasibility for a system to learn value taxonomies from streams of value-aware preferences (using CEP rule learning), so the result is human-readable and representative of a complex value system. |
| 40. | Sánchez, Aitor López; Lujak, Marin; Semet, Frederic; Billhardt, Holger Vehicle Routing Problem with Fair Profits and Time Windows (VRP-FPTW) Proceedings Article In: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 1530-1536, 2023. @inproceedings{10394012,
title = {Vehicle Routing Problem with Fair Profits and Time Windows (VRP-FPTW)},
author = {Aitor López Sánchez and Marin Lujak and Frederic Semet and Holger Billhardt},
doi = {10.1109/SMC53992.2023.10394012},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
booktitle = {2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)},
pages = {1530-1536},
keywords = {Scalability;Collaboration;Organizations;Routing;Robustness;Regulation;Computational efficiency;multi-agent system;distributed computing;column generation;vehicle routing problem;fairness;profit sharing},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
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| 41. | Sánchez, Aitor López; Lujak, Marin; Semet, Frederic; Billhardt, Holger On balancing fairness and efficiency in routing of cooperative vehicle fleets Proceedings Article In: ATT 2022 Agents in Traffic and Transportation, Vienne, Austria, 2022. @inproceedings{lopezsanchez:hal-03778786,
title = {On balancing fairness and efficiency in routing of cooperative vehicle fleets},
author = {Aitor López Sánchez and Marin Lujak and Frederic Semet and Holger Billhardt},
url = {https://hal.science/hal-03778786},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-07-01},
booktitle = {ATT 2022 Agents in Traffic and Transportation},
volume = {3173},
address = {Vienne, Austria},
series = {ATT 2022 Agents in Traffic and Transportation},
keywords = {Vehicle Routing Problem ; multiple traveling salesman problem ; intelligent vehicles ; collaborative routing ; fair and efficient routing},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
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| 42. | Billhardt, Holger; Santos, José-Antonio; Fernández, Alberto; Moreno, Mar; Ossowski, Sascha; Rodríguez, José A. Streamlining advanced taxi assignment strategies based on legal analysis Journal Article In: Neurocomputing, vol. 483, pp. 386-397, 2022. @article{Billhardt_2021b,
title = {Streamlining advanced taxi assignment strategies based on legal analysis},
author = {Holger Billhardt and José-Antonio Santos and Alberto Fernández and Mar Moreno and Sascha Ossowski and José A. Rodríguez},
doi = {10.1016/j.neucom.2021.10.085},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-04-28},
urldate = {2021-11-01},
journal = {Neurocomputing},
volume = {483},
pages = {386-397},
publisher = {Elsevier BV},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
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| 43. | Billhardt, Holger; Fernández, Alberto; Martí, Pasqual; Tejedor, Javier Prieto; Ossowski, Sascha Towards the Prioritised Use of Transportation Infrastructures: The Case of Vehicle-Specific Dynamic Access Restrictions in City Centres Journal Article In: Electronics, vol. 11, no. 4, 2022, ISSN: 2079-9292. @article{electronics11040576,
title = {Towards the Prioritised Use of Transportation Infrastructures: The Case of Vehicle-Specific Dynamic Access Restrictions in City Centres},
author = {Holger Billhardt and Alberto Fernández and Pasqual Martí and Javier Prieto Tejedor and Sascha Ossowski},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/576},
doi = {10.3390/electronics11040576},
issn = {2079-9292},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
journal = {Electronics},
volume = {11},
number = {4},
abstract = {One of the main problems that local authorities of large cities have to face is the regulation of urban mobility. They need to provide the means to allow for the efficient movement of people and distribution of goods. However, the provisioning of transportation services needs to take into account general global objectives, like reducing emissions and having more healthy living environments, which may not always be aligned with individual interests. Urban mobility is usually provided through a transport infrastructure that includes all the elements that support mobility. On many occasions, the capacity of the elements of this infrastructure is lower than the actual demand and thus different transportation activities compete for their use. In this paper, we argue that scarce transport infrastructure elements should be assigned dynamically and in a prioritised manner to transport activities that have a higher utility from the point of view of society; for example, activities that produce less pollution and provide more value to society. In this paper, we define a general model for prioritizing the use of a particular type of transportation infrastructure element called time-unlimited elements, whose usage time is unknown a priori, and illustrate its dynamics through two use cases: vehicle-specific dynamic access restriction in city centres (i) based on the usage levels of available parking spaces and (ii) to assure sustained admissible air quality levels in the city centre. We carry out several experiments using the SUMO traffic simulation tool to evaluate our proposal.},
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One of the main problems that local authorities of large cities have to face is the regulation of urban mobility. They need to provide the means to allow for the efficient movement of people and distribution of goods. However, the provisioning of transportation services needs to take into account general global objectives, like reducing emissions and having more healthy living environments, which may not always be aligned with individual interests. Urban mobility is usually provided through a transport infrastructure that includes all the elements that support mobility. On many occasions, the capacity of the elements of this infrastructure is lower than the actual demand and thus different transportation activities compete for their use. In this paper, we argue that scarce transport infrastructure elements should be assigned dynamically and in a prioritised manner to transport activities that have a higher utility from the point of view of society; for example, activities that produce less pollution and provide more value to society. In this paper, we define a general model for prioritizing the use of a particular type of transportation infrastructure element called time-unlimited elements, whose usage time is unknown a priori, and illustrate its dynamics through two use cases: vehicle-specific dynamic access restriction in city centres (i) based on the usage levels of available parking spaces and (ii) to assure sustained admissible air quality levels in the city centre. We carry out several experiments using the SUMO traffic simulation tool to evaluate our proposal. |
| 44. | Haz, Lidice; Rodríguez-García, Miguel; Fernández, Alberto Detecting Narcissist Dark Triad Psychological Traits from Twitter Conference Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,, INSTICC SciTePress, 2022, ISBN: 978-989-758-547-0. @conference{icaart22,
title = {Detecting Narcissist Dark Triad Psychological Traits from Twitter},
author = {Lidice Haz and Miguel Rodríguez-García and Alberto Fernández},
doi = {10.5220/0010839100003116},
isbn = {978-989-758-547-0},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
pages = {313-322},
publisher = {SciTePress},
organization = {INSTICC},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {conference}
}
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| 45. | Arias, Joaquín; Moreno-Rebato, Mar; Rodríguez-García, José A.; Ossowski, Sascha Modeling Administrative Discretion using Goal-Directed Answer Set
Programming Proceedings Article In: Arias, Joaquín; Calegari, Roberta; Dickens, Luke; Faber, Wolfgang; Fandinno, Jorge; Gupta, Gopal; Hecher, Markus; Inclezan, Daniela; LeBlanc, Emily; Morak, Michael; Salazar, Elmer; Zangari, Jessica (Ed.): Proceedings of the International Conference on Logic Programming 2022
Workshops co-located with the 38th International Conference on Logic
Programming (ICLP 2022), Haifa, Israel, July 31st - August 1st,
2022, CEUR-WS.org, 2022. @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/iclp/AriasMRO22,
title = {Modeling Administrative Discretion using Goal-Directed Answer Set
Programming},
author = {Joaquín Arias and Mar Moreno-Rebato and José A. Rodríguez-García and Sascha Ossowski},
editor = {Joaquín Arias and Roberta Calegari and Luke Dickens and Wolfgang Faber and Jorge Fandinno and Gopal Gupta and Markus Hecher and Daniela Inclezan and Emily LeBlanc and Michael Morak and Elmer Salazar and Jessica Zangari},
url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3193/short1GDE.pdf},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Logic Programming 2022
Workshops co-located with the 38th International Conference on Logic
Programming (ICLP 2022), Haifa, Israel, July 31st - August 1st,
2022},
volume = {3193},
publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
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| 46. | Bruns, Ralf; Dötterl, Jeremias; Dunkel, Jürgen; Ossowski, Sascha A Collaborative Approach to Mobile Crowdsourcing Based on Data Stream
Learning Proceedings Article In: González-Briones, Alfonso; Almeida, Ana; Fernández, Alberto; Bolock, Alia El; Durães, Dalila; Jordán, Jaume; Lopes, Fernando (Ed.): Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems,
and Complex Systems Simulation. The PAAMS Collection - International
Workshops of PAAMS 2022, LÁquila, Italy, July 13-15, 2022, Proceedings, pp. 83–94, Springer, 2022. @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/paams/BrunsDDO22,
title = {A Collaborative Approach to Mobile Crowdsourcing Based on Data Stream
Learning},
author = {Ralf Bruns and Jeremias Dötterl and Jürgen Dunkel and Sascha Ossowski},
editor = {Alfonso González-Briones and Ana Almeida and Alberto Fernández and Alia El Bolock and Dalila Durães and Jaume Jordán and Fernando Lopes},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18697-4_7},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-18697-4_7},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems,
and Complex Systems Simulation. The PAAMS Collection - International
Workshops of PAAMS 2022, LÁquila, Italy, July 13-15, 2022, Proceedings},
volume = {1678},
pages = {83--94},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
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| 47. | Bernabé, Iván; Fernández, Alberto; Billhardt, Holger; Ossowski, Sascha Towards Semantic Modelling of the Edge-Cloud Continuum Proceedings Article In: González-Briones, Alfonso; Almeida, Ana; Fernández, Alberto; Bolock, Alia El; Durães, Dalila; Jordán, Jaume; Lopes, Fernando (Ed.): Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems,
and Complex Systems Simulation. The PAAMS Collection - International
Workshops of PAAMS 2022, LÁquila, Italy, July 13-15, 2022, Proceedings, pp. 71–82, Springer, 2022. @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/paams/Bernabe0BO22,
title = {Towards Semantic Modelling of the Edge-Cloud Continuum},
author = {Iván Bernabé and Alberto Fernández and Holger Billhardt and Sascha Ossowski},
editor = {Alfonso González-Briones and Ana Almeida and Alberto Fernández and Alia El Bolock and Dalila Durães and Jaume Jordán and Fernando Lopes},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18697-4_6},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-18697-4_6},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems,
and Complex Systems Simulation. The PAAMS Collection - International
Workshops of PAAMS 2022, LÁquila, Italy, July 13-15, 2022, Proceedings},
volume = {1678},
pages = {71--82},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
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| 48. | Cousy, Kendal; Lujak, Marin; Salvatore, Alessio; Fernández, Alberto; Giordani, Stefano On Balancing Fairness and Efficiency of Task Assignment in Agent Societies Proceedings Article In: González-Briones, Alfonso; Almeida, Ana; Fernandez, Alberto; Bolock, Alia El; aes, Dalila Dur; Jordán, Jaume; Lopes, Fernando (Ed.): Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complex Systems Simulation. The PAAMS Collection, pp. 95–107, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2022. @inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-031-18697-4_8,
title = {On Balancing Fairness and Efficiency of Task Assignment in Agent Societies},
author = {Kendal Cousy and Marin Lujak and Alessio Salvatore and Alberto Fernández and Stefano Giordani},
editor = {Alfonso González-Briones and Ana Almeida and Alberto Fernandez and Alia El Bolock and Dalila Dur aes and Jaume Jordán and Fernando Lopes},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-18697-4_8},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complex Systems Simulation. The PAAMS Collection},
pages = {95--107},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
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| 49. | Fernández-Martinez, Carmen; Fernández, Alberto HR machine learning on audio and video data Book Chapter In: Handbook of Research on Artificial Intelligence in Human Resource Management, pp. 68-88, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 2022, ISBN: 9781839107528. @inbook{HRmachinelearningonaudioandvideodata,
title = {HR machine learning on audio and video data},
author = {Carmen Fernández-Martinez and Alberto Fernández},
url = {https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781839107528/9781839107528.00013.xml},
isbn = {9781839107528},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {Handbook of Research on Artificial Intelligence in Human Resource Management},
pages = {68-88},
publisher = {Edward Elgar Publishing},
address = {Cheltenham, UK},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
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| 50. | Lujak, Marin; Billhardt, Holger Dynamic Algorithm for on-the-Fly Work and Break Balancing in Emergency Fleets Proceedings Article In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 724-729, 2022. @inproceedings{9945262,
title = {Dynamic Algorithm for on-the-Fly Work and Break Balancing in Emergency Fleets},
author = {Marin Lujak and Holger Billhardt},
doi = {10.1109/SMC53654.2022.9945262},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)},
pages = {724-729},
keywords = {Schedules;Time-frequency analysis;Sensitivity;Heuristic algorithms;Roads;Fatigue;Emergency services;Emergency service;dynamic break scheduling;dynamic shift scheduling;vehicle crew assignment;service operations scheduling},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
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