Publications | The School of Natural and Computing Sciences

Generalised BDI Planning

2024 - Accepted/In press

Oren, N.

Contributions to Conferences: Papers

Responsibility-aware Strategic Reasoning in Probabilistic Multi-Agent Systems

2024 - Accepted/In press

Mu, C., Oren, N., Najib, M.

Contributions to Conferences: Papers

Measuring Responsibility in Multi-Agent Systems

2024

Mu, C., Oren, N.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.00887
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/24802/1/main.pdf

Responsibility-aware Strategic Reasoning in Probabilistic Multi-Agent Systems

2024

Mu, C., Najib, M., Oren, N.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.00146
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/24808/1/main.pdf

Unlocking the potential of sensors for our environment: A call to action from a NERC writing retreat

2024

Bagshaw, L., Bee, E., Bhowmik, D., Bridle, H., Chan, K., Gaura, E., England, P., Halford, A., Lynch, I., Maniatis, G., Martin, P., Mao, F., Mukherjee, K., Naylor, M., Novellino, A., Oren, N., Pope, F., Schaap, A., Watson, C., Van De Wiel, M., Yüksel Ripley, B.

Coventry University. 36 pages

Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.18552/CSMM/2024/0001
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/23262/1/NERC_writing_retreat_2024_Unlocking-potential-of-sensors.pdf

Evaluation of Human-Understandability of Global Model Explanations Using Decision Tree

2024

Sivaprasad, A., Reiter, E., Tintarev, N., Oren, N.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50396-2_3
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22828/1/Sivaprasad_etal_ECAI_Evaluation_of_Human_VOR.pdf
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus; https://ecai2023.eu/; https://xai3ecai2023.github.io/

Inferring Attack Relations for Gradual Semantics

2023

Oren, N., Yun, B.

Argument and Computation, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 327-345

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.3233/AAC-220010
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22581/1/Oren_etYun_AaC_Inferring_Attack_Relations_VOR.pdf
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus; https://abdn.elsevierpure.com/en/publications/3f9ced3c-74b9-4e5d-834f-a652851cf5ab

Detection of haematoma and peri-haematomal regions of intracerebral haemorrhage using lowfield field-cycling imaging – preliminary study results

2023

Macleod, M. J., Senn, N., Malikourti, V., Ross, J., Levi, R., Oren, N., Guttierez, G. G., Waiter, G., Broche, L.

8th World Intracranial Hemorrhage Conference (WICH 2023), OP-10

Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1159/000534450

Evaluation of Human-Understandability of Global Model Explanations using Decision Tree

2023

Sivaprasad, A., Reiter, E., Oren, N., Tintarev, N.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Online: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09917v1
Additional Links: https://ecai2023.eu/; https://xai3ecai2023.github.io/

Kindness Makes You Happy and Happiness Makes You Healthy: Actual Persuasiveness and Personalisation of Persuasive Messages in a Behaviour Change Intervention for Wellbeing

2023

Ciocarlan, A., Masthoff, J., Oren, N.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30933-5_13
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus

Human-Machine Collaboration in Intelligence Analysis: An Expert Evaluation

2023

Toniolo, A., Cerutti, F., Norman, T. J., Oren, N., Allen, J. A., Srivastava, M., Sullivan, P.

Intelligent Systems with Applications (ISWA), vol. 17, 200151

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswa.2022.200151
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/23239/1/Toniolo_etal_ISWA_Human_Machine_Collaboration_VoR.pdf

State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP: a taxonomy and review

2023

Hupkes, D., Giulianelli, M., Dankers, V., Artetxe, M., Elazar, Y., Pimentel, T., Christodoulopoulos, C., Lasri, K., Saphra, N., Sinclair, A., Ulmer, D., Schottmann, F., Batsuren, K., Sun, K., Sinha, K., Khalatbari, L., Ryskina, M., Technology, H., Cotterell, R., Jin, Z.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.03050

Construction Repetition Reduces Information Rate in Dialogue

2022

Giulianelli, M., Sinclair, A., Fernández, R.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Online: https://aclanthology.org/2022.aacl-main.51
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.08321
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/23867/1/Sinclair_etal_AACL_Construction_Repetition_Reduces_VoR.pdf

Structural Persistence in Language Models: Priming as a Window into Abstract Language Representations

2022

Sinclair, A., Jumelet, J., Zuidema, W., Fernández, R.

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, vol. 10, pp. 1031-1050

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00504
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/20553/1/Sinclair_etal_TACL_Structural_Persistance_In_VoR.pdf
Additional Links: https://aclanthology.org/2022.tacl-1.60/

Improving Reasoning Efficiency in ASPIC+ with Backwards Chaining and Partial Arguments

2022

Wu, H., Yun, B., Oren, N.

Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles

Online: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3236/paper7.pdf
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/23281/1/Wu_etal_CEURWP_Improving_Reasoning_Efficiency_VoR.pdf
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus; SAFA 2022 Proceedings

Inverse Problems for Gradual Semantics

2022

Oren, N., Yun, B., Vesic, S., Baptista, M. S.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/377
Additional Links: https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2022/0377.pdf

AnaLog: Testing Analytical and Deductive Logic Learnability in Language Models

2022

Ryb, S., Giulianelli, M., Sinclair, A., Fernández, R.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.starsem-1.5
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22056/1/Ryb_etal_ACLA_AnaLog_Testing_Analytical_VoR.pdf

Representing Pure Nash Equilibria in Argumentation

2022

Yun, B., Vesic, S., Oren, N.

Argument and Computation, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 195-208

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Online: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11020
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.3233/AAC-210007
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21082/1/Yun_etal_AC_Representing_Pure_Nash_VoR.pdf

Utility Functions for Human/Robot Interaction

2022

Yun, B., Croitoru, M., Oren, N.

Contributions to Conferences: Papers

Online: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15SLQCvNCxgsac-IFAE_qnhjaZZxR49Ns/view
Additional Links: RaD-AI 2022

Utility Functions for Human/Robot Interaction

2022

Yun, B., Oren, N., Croitoru, M.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2204.04071
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21379/1/2204.04071v1.pdf
Additional Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04071v1

Analytical Solutions for the Inverse Problem within Gradual Semantics

2022

Oren, N., Yun, B., Libman, A., Baptista, M. S.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.01201
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/19104/1/2203.01201v1.pdf
Additional Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01201v1

The Inverse Problem for Argumentation Gradual Semantics

2022

Oren, N., Yun, B., Vesic, S., Baptista, M. S.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2202.00294
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21380/1/2202.00294v1.pdf
Additional Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00294v1

On probabilistic argumentation and subargument-completeness

2022

Riveret, R., Oren, N.

Journal of Logic and Computation, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 115-128

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exab053
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus

Auto-generating textual data stories using data science pipelines

2021

Wang, R., Gowri Sripada, S., Beacham, N.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1145/3508546.3508642
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus

Commentary to the Commission’s proposal for the “AI Act” – Response to selected issues

2021

Cserne, P., Ducato, R., Zivkovic, P., Brown, A., Couzigou, I., Leontidis, G., Oren, N., Sutherland, C., Sweeney, P., Yuksel Ripley, B.

Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and Websites

Online: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12527-Artificial-intelligence-ethical-and-legal-requirements/F2665397_en
Additional Links: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12527-Artificial-intelligence-ethical-and-legal-requirements_en

In Search of a Goldilocks Zone for Credible AI

2021

Allan, K., Oren, N., Hutchison, J., Martin, D.

Scientific Reports, vol. 11, 13687

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93109-8
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/20790/1/Allan_SR_In_Search_Of_VoR.pdf

A probabilistic deontic argumentation framework

2020

Riveret, R., Oren, N., Sartor, G.

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, vol. 126, pp. 249-271

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2020.08.012
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/17014/1/Riveret_et_al_IJAR_AProbabilisticDeontic_AAM.pdf
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus

Efficient Construction of Structured Argumentation Systems

2020 - Accepted/In press

Yun, B., Oren, N., Croitoru, M.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA200525
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15166/1/Yun_et_al_IOS_EfficientCOnstructionOf_VoR.pdf
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus

Argument-based plan explanation

2020

Oren, N., van Deemter, K., Vasconcelos, W. W.

Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques for AI Planning. SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG, pp. 173-188, 16 pages

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38561-3_9
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus

Landmark-based approaches for goal recognition as planning

2020

Pereira, R. F., Oren, N., Meneguzzi, F.

Artificial Intelligence, vol. 279, 103217

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11739v2
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2019.103217
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15449/1/Pereira_et_al_ArtificialIntelligence_LandmarkBasedApproaches_AAM.pdf
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus

Using Sub-Optimal Plan Detection to Identify Commitment Abandonment in Discrete Environments

2020

Pereira, R. F., Oren, N., Meneguzzi, F.

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, vol. 11, no. 2, 23

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1145/3372119
Additional Links: Cornell University repository; View publication in Scopus

101+ Ideas to Improve Team Collaboration

2020

Scharlau, B.

LeanPub. 57 pages

Books and Reports: Books

Additional Links: Learn how to avoid the team collaboration nightmare scenario. Find out how to apply the professional skills that make working with others easier. Gain insights applicable to writing reports, staging an event, or developing software, plus many other aspects of life.

Be Kind: Adaptive Persuasive Technology for Wellbeing

2020

Ciocarlan, A.

University of Aberdeen. 195 pages.

Other Contributions: Other Contributions

If you think the millennium bug was a hoax, here comes a history lesson

2019

Oren, N.

The Conversation

Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles

Hybrid Mechanisms for On-Demand Transport

2019

Egan, M., Oren, N., Jakob, M.

Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 4500 - 4512

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2018.2886579
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11444/1/ITS_Malcolm.pdf
Additional Links: View publication in Mendeley; https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/en/researchoutput/hybrid-mechanisms-for-ondemand-transport(5b092108-4cd0-436a-8220-5984b467c7a6).html

Can I Influence You? Development of a Scale to Measure Perceived Persuasiveness and Two Studies Showing the Use of the Scale

2019

Thomas, R. J., Masthoff, J., Oren, N.

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2, 24

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2019.00024
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22971/1/Thomas_FAI_CanIInfluence_VOR.pdf
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus

Algorithms for recursive delegation

2019

Afanador, J., Baptista, M. S., Oren, N.

AI Communications, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 303-317

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.3233/AIC-190616
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12775/1/AIComm_An_Adversarial_Algorithm_for_Delegation.pdf
Additional Links: http://pure-ots.abdn.ac.uk:8080/portal/en/researchoutput/algorithms-for-recursive-delegation(d372b924-4277-4d92-9b61-65c877259c41).html; View publication in Mendeley

Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

2019

Scharlau, B. A., McDermott, R.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Additional Links: View publication in Scopus

Adapting online group formation to learners’ conscientiousness, agreeableness and ability

2019

Odo, C., Mastho, J., Beacham, N.

Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles

Additional Links: View publication in Scopus

Adapting Performance And Emotional Support Feedback To Cultural Differences

2019

Adamu Sidi-Ali, M., Masthoff, J., Dennis, M., Kopecky, J., Beacham, N. A.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1145/3320435.3320444
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus; View publication in Mendeley

Prioritized norms in formal argumentation

2019

Liao, B., Oren, N., Torre, L. v. d., Villata, S.

Journal of Logic and Computation, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 215-240

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08034
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exy009
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12064/1/prioritized_norms_formal_4_.pdf
Additional Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08034 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exy009; View publication in Mendeley; http://pure.abdn.ac.uk:8080/portal/en/researchoutput/prioritized-norms-in-formal-argumentation(9e134f8b-a5a6-41cb-b718-155fb8c6bc02).html

Actual persuasiveness: Impact of personality, age, and gender on message type susceptibility

2019

Ciocarlan, A., Masthoff, J., Oren, N.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17287-9_23
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13960/1/Persuasive_Technology_2019_Submission_57_A._Ciocarlan_J._Masthoff_N._Oren.pdf
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus; View publication in Mendeley; https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/en/researchoutput/actual-persuasiveness(171d1667-a165-4d63-aaa4-e9db60795509).html

Group formation for collaborative learning: A systematic literature review

2019

Odo, C., Masthoff, J., Beacham, N.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23207-8_39
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus; View publication in Mendeley

Is ArguMessage Effective? A Critical Evaluation of the Persuasive Message Generation System

2019

Thomas, R. J., Masthoff, J., Oren, N.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17287-9_8
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus; View publication in Mendeley

Model-based characterization of text discourse content to evaluate online group collaboration

2019

Adeniran, A., Masthoff, J., Beacham, N.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23207-8_1
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus; View publication in Mendeley

Policies to Regulate Distributed Data Exchange

2019

Cauvin, S. R., Oren, N., Vasconcelos, W. W.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17294-7_11
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13970/1/AT_2018_paper_10.pdf
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus; View publication in Mendeley; https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/en/researchoutput/policies-to-regulate-distributed-data-exchange(fdf85d06-6693-453e-96c7-2caf7e316dfc).html; http://pure-ots.abdn.ac.uk:8080/portal/en/researchoutput/policies-to-regulate-distributed-data-exchange(fdf85d06-6693-453e-96c7-2caf7e316dfc).html

Human and Technological Resources Needed to Develop and Sustain A City-Wide Educational Data Observatory

2018

Shanks, R., Scharlau, B., Saevanee, H., Stelfox, K.

Responsible Analytics and Data Mining in Education: Global Perspectives on Quality, Support, and Decision-Making. Khan, B. H., Corbeil, J. R., Corbeil, M. E. (eds.). Routledge

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13348/1/S3_4_Shanks_Rachel_V2.pdf; http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13348/2/S3_4_Shanks_Rachel_Figure_1.pdf; http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13348/3/S3_4_Shanks_Rachel_Figure_2.pdf
Additional Links: https://www.routledge.com/Responsible-Analytics-and-Data-Mining-in-Education-Global-Perspectives/Khan-Corbeil-Corbeil/p/book/9781138305908

Adapting exercise selection to performance, effort and self-esteem

2018

Okpo, J. A., Masthoff, J., Dennis, M., Beacham, N.

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 193-227

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1080/13614568.2018.1477999
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus

Kindness is contagious: Study into exploring engagement and adapting persuasive games for wellbeing

2018

Ciocarlan, A., Masthoff, J., Oren, N.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1145/3209219.3209233
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus

Kindness is contagious: Demonstration of a persuasive intervention for wellbeing

2018

Ciocarlan, A., Masthoff, J., Oren, N.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1145/3213586.3225226
Additional Links: View publication in Scopus