Multi-Actor Systems

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As systems based on human-agent collectives grow in scale, complexity and temporal extent, we will increasingly require a principled science that allows us to reason about the computational and human aspects of these systems if we are to avoid developments that are unsafe, unreliable and lack the appropriate safeguards to ensure societal acceptance. Delivering this science is the core research objective of this programme.

 

Publications

2015

Filippo Bistaffa Georgios Chalkiadakis, Alessandro Farinelli ; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D

Recommending Fair Payments for Large-Scale Social Ridesharing Inproceedings

ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (Recsys), 2015.

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2014

Tran-Thanh, Long; Huynh, Trung Dong; Rosenfield, A; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Jennings, Nicholas R

BudgetFix: budget limited crowdsourcing for interdependent task allocation with quality guarantees Inproceedings

13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2014.

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Vinyals, Meritxell; Macarthur, Kathryn; Farinelli, Alessandro; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Jennings, Nicholas R

A message-passing approach to decentralised parallel machine scheduling Journal Article

The Computer Journal, 2014.

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Jennings, Nicholas R; Moreau, Luc; Nicholson, D; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D; Roberts, S; Rodden, T; Rogers, Alex

On human-agent collectives Journal Article

Communications of the ACM, 57 (12), pp. 33-42, 2014.

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2013

Cerquides, Jesus; Farinelli, Alessandro; Meseguer, Pedro; Ramchurn, Sarvapali

A tutorial on optimisation for multi-agent systems Journal Article

The Computer Journal, pp. 1–26, 2013.

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Farinelli, Alessandro; Bicego, Manuele; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Zuchelli, Marco

C-Link: a hierarchical clustering approach to large-scale near-optimal coalition formation Inproceedings

23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press / International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 2013.

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Ramchurn, Sarvapali D; Huynh, Trung Dong; Venanzi, Matteo; Shi, Bing

Collabmap: crowdsourcing maps for emergency planning Inproceedings

The 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference, pp. 326–335, 2013.

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Rigas, Emmanouil; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Bassiliades, Nick; Koutitas, Georgios

Congestion management for urban EV charging systems Inproceedings

4th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), IEEE, 2013.

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Alam, Muddasser; Rogers, Alex; Ramchurn, Sarvapali

Interdependent multi-issue negotiation for energy exchange in remote communities Inproceedings

Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-13), 2013.

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Kleiner, Alexander; Farinelli, Alessandro; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Shi, Bing; Mafioletti, Fabio; Refatto, Riccardo

RMASBench: a benchmarking system for multi-agent coordination in urban search and rescue Inproceedings

International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2013), 2013.

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Huynh, Trung Dong; Ebden, Mark; Venanzi, Matteo; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Roberts, Stephen; Moreau, Luc

Interpretation of Crowdsourced Activities Using Provenance Network Analysis Inproceedings

The First AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2013.

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Svensson, Kim; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Cruz, Francisco; Rodriguez-Aguilar, Juan-Antonio; Cerquides, Jesus

Solving the coalition structure generation problem on a GPU Inproceedings

6th International Workshop on Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems, 2013.

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Alam, Muddasser; Rogers, Alex; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D

Interdependent multi-issue negotiation for energy exchange in remote communities Inproceedings

International Workshop on AI Problems and Approaches for Intelligent Environments (AI4IE), 2013.

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2012

Ramchurn, Sarvapali D; Gerding, Enrico; Jennings, N R; Hu, Jun

Practical distributed coalition formation via heuristic negotiation in social networks Inproceedings

Fifth International Workshop on Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems (OPTMAS), 2012.

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2011

Vytelingum, Perukrishnen; Voice, Thomas; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Rogers, Alex; Jennings, Nick

Theoretical and practical foundations of large-scale agent-based micro-storage in the smart grid Journal Article

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 42 , pp. 765–813, 2011, (AAMAS 2010 iRobot Best Paper Award).

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Macarthur, Kathryn; Stranders, Ruben; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Jennings, Nick

A Distributed Anytime Algorithm for Dynamic Task Allocation in Multi-Agent Systems Inproceedings

Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 701–706, AAAI Press, 2011, (Event Dates: August 7-11, 2011).

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Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Vytelingum, Perukrishnen; Rogers, Alex; Jennings, Nick

Agent-based homeostatic control for green energy in the smart grid Journal Article

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2 (4), pp. 35:1–35:28, 2011.

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Stranders, Ruben; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Shi, Bing; Jennings, Nick

CollabMap: Augmenting Maps using the Wisdom of Crowds Inproceedings

Third Human Computation Workshop, 2011.

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Macarthur, Kathryn; Vinyals, Meritxell; Farinelli, Alessandro; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Jennings, Nick

Decentralised Parallel Machine Scheduling for Multi-Agent Task Allocation Inproceedings

Fourth International Workshop on Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems, 2011, (Event Dates: May 3, 2011).

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Osborne, Michael A; Rogers, Alex; Roberts, Stephen J; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D; Jennings, Nicholas R

Gaussian Processes for Time Series Prediction Incollection

Bayesian Time Series Models, pp. 341–360, Cambridge University Press, 2011, (Chapter: 16).

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2010

Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Farinelli, Alessandro; Macarthur, Kathryn; Polukarov, Mariya; Jennings, Nick

Decentralised Coordination in RoboCup Rescue Journal Article

The Computer Journal, 53 (9), pp. 1–15, 2010.

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Macarthur, Kathryn; Farinelli, Alessandro; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Jennings, Nick

Efficient, Superstabilizing Decentralised Optimisation for Dynamic Task Allocation Environments Inproceedings

Third International Workshop on: Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems (OptMas) at the Ninth Joint Conference on Autonomous and Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 25–32, 2010, (Event Dates: 10 May 2010).

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