Our Publications

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2025

• (Jessica Woodgate and Nirav Ajmeri) Combining Normative Ethics Principles to Learn Prosocial Behaviour. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Detroit, May, 2025, pages 1--3. Read more
• (Alex O. Davies, Nirav Ajmeri, and Telmo M. Silva Filho) A Comparative Study of GNNs and Rule-Based Methods for Synthetic Social Network Generation. IEEE Access. vol 13, 2025, pages 32198--32210. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3541091. Read more
• (Alex O. Davies, Nirav Ajmeri, and Telmo M. Silva Filho) A Metric for the Balance of Information in Graph Learning. Proceedings of the 4th Annual AAAI Workshop on AI to Accelerate Science and Engineering (AI2ASE). Philadelphia, Feb, 2025, pages 1--5.
• (Jessica Woodgate, Paul Marshall, and Nirav Ajmeri) Operationalising Rawlsian Ethics for Fairness in Norm-Learning Agents. Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Philadelphia, Feb, 2025, pages 1--9. Read more

2024

• (Seth Bullock, Nirav Ajmeri, Mike Batty, Michaela Black, John Cartlidge, Robert Challen, Cangxiong Chen, Jing Chen, Joan Condell, Leon Danon, Adam Dennett, Alison Heppenstall, Paul Marshall, Phil Morgan, Aisling O'Kane, Laura G. E. Smith, Theresa Smith, and Hywel T. P. Williams) Artificial intelligence for collective intelligence: A national-scale research strategy. Knowledge Engineering Review (KER). vol 39, 2024, pages 1--23.
• (Sz-Ting Tzeng, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh) Value-Based Rationale Improve Social Experience: A Multiagent Simulation Study. Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI). Santiago De Compostela, Oct, 2024, pages 3612--3619.
• (Vaibhav Garg, Hui Guo, Nirav Ajmeri, Saikath Bhattacharya, and Munindar P. Singh) Understanding Mobile App Reviews to Guide Misuse Audits. Communications of the ACM (CACM). vol 67, number xx, 2024, pages 1--9.
• (Jessica Woodgate and Nirav Ajmeri) Macro Ethics Principles for Responsible AI Systems. ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR). vol 56, number 11, 2024, pages 1--37. doi: 10.1145/3672394.
• (Daniel E. Collins, Conor J. Houghton, and Nirav Ajmeri) Fostering Multi-Agent Cooperation through Implicit Responsibility. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Citizen-Centric Multiagent Systems (CMAS). Auckland, May, 2024, pages 1--21.
• (Sz-Ting Tzeng, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh) Norm Enforcement with a Soft Touch: Faster Emergence, Happier Agents. Proceedings of the 23th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Auckland, May, 2024, pages 1--9.

2023

• (Alex O. Davies, Riku Green, Nirav Ajmeri, and Telmo M. Silva Filho) Its All Graph To Me: Single-Model Graph Representation Learning on Multiple Domains. Proceedings of the NeurIPS Workshop on New Frontiers in Graph Learning. 2023, pages 1--15.
• (Alex O. Davies, Nirav Ajmeri, and Telmo M. Silva Filho) Size Matters: Large Graph Generation with HIGGS. Proceedings of the NeurIPS Workshop on Synthetic Data Generation with Generative AI. 2023, pages 1--19.
• (Kopo M Ramokapane, Lizzie Coles-Kemp, Nikhil Patnaik, Rui Huan, Nirav Ajmeri, Genevieve Liveley, and Awais Rashid) Towards Equitable Privacy. Proceedings of the Workshop on Inclusive Privacy and Security (WIPS) @ SOUPS. Aug, 2023, pages 1--6.
• (Daniel E. Collins, Conor J. Houghton, and Nirav Ajmeri) Social Value Orientation and Integral Emotions in Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE). London, May, 2023, pages 1--21.
• (Amanul Haque, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh) Understanding Dynamics of Polarization via Multiagent Social Simulation. AI & Society: Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication. vol 38, number 4, 2023, pages 1373--1389. doi: 10.1007/s00146-022-01626-5.

2022

• (Mehdi Mashayekhi, Nirav Ajmeri, George F. List, and Munindar P. Singh) Prosocial Norm Emergence in Multiagent Systems. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS). vol 17, number 1--2, 2022, pages 3:1--3:24. doi: 10.1145/3540202.
• (Veljko Dubljević, Sean Douglas, Jovan Milojevich, Nirav Ajmeri, William A. Bauer, George F. List, and Munindar P. Singh) Moral and Social Ramifications of Autonomous Vehicles: A Qualitative Study of the Perceptions of Professional Drivers. Behaviour & Information Technology. vol 41, number xx, May, 2022, pages 1--15.
• (Rezvan Mahdavi-Hezaveh, Nirav Ajmeri, and Laurie Williams) Feature toggles as code: Heuristics and metrics for structuring feature toggles. Information and Software Technology (IST). vol 145, January, 2022, pages 1--14. doi: 10.1016/j.infsof.2021.106813.
• (Rishabh Agrawal, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh) Socially Intelligent Genetic Agents for the Emergence of Explicit Norms. Proceedings of the 31th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Vienna, July, 2022, pages 10--16.
• (Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Nirav Ajmeri and Munindar P. Singh) Enhancing Creativity as Innovation via Asynchronous Crowdwork. Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci). Barcelona, June, 2022, pages 66--74.
• (Jessica Woodgate and Nirav Ajmeri) Macro Ethics for Governing Equitable Sociotechnical Systems. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Blue Sky Idea Track. Auckland, May, 2022, pages 1824--1828.
• (Sz-Ting Tzeng, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh) Fleur: Social Values Orientation for Robust Norm Emergence. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE). Auckland, May, 2022, pages 185--200.
• (Phillip Sloan and Nirav Ajmeri) Commitment-Based Negotiation Semantics. Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS). Auckland, May, 2022, pages 1--20.
• (Amanul Haque, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh) Understanding Dynamics of Polarization via Multiagent Social Simulation. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Autonomous Agents for Social Good (AASG). Auckland, May, 2022, pages 1--9.

2021

• (Veljko Dubljević, George F. List, Jovan Milojevich, Nirav Ajmeri, William A. Bauer, Munindar P. Singh, Eleni Bardaka, Thomas A. Birkland, Charles H. W. Edwards, Roger C. Mayer, Ioan Muntean, Thomas M. Powers, Hesham A. Rakha, Vance A. Ricks, and M. Shoaib Samandar) Toward a Rational and Ethical Sociotechnical System of Autonomous Vehicles: A Novel Application of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. PLOS One. vol 16, number 8, August, 2021, pages 1--17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256224.
• (Sz-Ting Tzeng, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh) Noe: Norm Emergence and Robustness Based on Emotions in Multiagent Systems. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE). London, May, 2021, pages 62--77.

2020

• (Nirav Ajmeri, Hui Guo, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, and Munindar P. Singh) Elessar: Ethics in Norm-Aware Agents. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Auckland, May, 2020, pages 16--24.
• (Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Nirav Ajmeri, Catholijn Jonker, and Munindar P. Singh) New Foundations of Ethical Multiagent Systems. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Blue Sky Idea Track. Auckland, May, 2020, pages 1706--1710.
• (Özgur Kafalı, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh) Desen: Specification of Sociotechnical Systems via Patterns of Regulation and Control. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). vol 29, number 1, January, 2020, pages 7:1--7:50.

2019

• (Anup K. Kalia, Nirav Ajmeri, Kevin S. Chan, Jin-Hee Cho, Sibel Adalı, and Munindar P. Singh) The Interplay of Emotions and Norms in Multiagent Systems. Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Macao, August, 2019, pages 371--377.
• (Shubham Goyal, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh) Applying Norms and Sanctions to Promote Cybersecurity Hygiene. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Montreal, May, 2019, pages 1991--1993.

2018

• (Venkatesh T. Dhinakaran, Raseshwari Pulle, Nirav Ajmeri, and Pradeep K. Murukannaiah) App review analysis via active learning: Reducing supervision effort without compromising classification accuracy. Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE). Banff, August, 2018, pages 170--181.
• (Nirav Ajmeri, Hui Guo, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, and Munindar P. Singh) Robust Norm Emergence by Revealing and Reasoning about Context: Socially Intelligent Agents for Enhancing Privacy. Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Stockholm, July, 2018, pages 28--34.
• (Nirav Ajmeri, Hui Guo, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, and Munindar P. Singh) Ethics, Values, and Personal Agents: Poster. Proceedings of the 5th Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSoS). Raleigh, April, 2018, pages 1--1.
• (Nirav Ajmeri, Hui Guo, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, and Munindar P. Singh) Designing Ethical Personal Agents. IEEE Internet Computing. vol 22, number 2, March-April, 2018, pages 16--22.
• (Shams Al-Amin, Nirav Ajmeri, Hongying Du, Emily Z. Berglund, and Munindar P. Singh) Toward Effective Adoption of Secure Software Development Practices. Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory (SIMPAT). vol 85, June, 2018, pages 33--46.
• (Hui Guo, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh) Teaching Crowdsourcing: An Experience Report. IEEE Internet Computing. vol 22, number 6, December, 2018, pages 44--52.

2017

• (Karthik Sheshadri, Nirav Ajmeri, and Jessica Staddon) No (Privacy) News is Good News: An Analysis of New York Times and Guardian Privacy News from 2010 to 2016. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST). Calgary, August, 2017, pages 159--168.
• (Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh) Toward Automating Crowd RE. Proceedings of the IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), Data Track. Lisbon, September, 2017, pages 512--515.
• (Nirav Ajmeri, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Hui Guo, and Munindar P. Singh) Arnor: Modeling Social Intelligence via Norms to Engineer Privacy-Aware Personal Agents. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). São Paulo, May, 2017, pages 230--238.
• (Nirav Ajmeri.) Engineering Socially Intelligent Personal Agents via Norms. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Doctoral Consortium. São Paulo, May, 2017, pages 1822--1823.
• (Nirav Ajmeri, Chung-Wei Hang, Simon Parsons, and Munindar P. Singh) Aragorn: Eliciting and Maintaining Secure Service Policies. IEEE Computer. vol 50, number 12, December, 2017, pages 50--58.
• (Özgür Kafalı, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh) Kont: Computing Tradeoffs in Normative Multiagent Systems. Proceedings of the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). San Francisco, February, 2017, pages 3006--3012.

2016

• (Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh) Acquiring Creative Requirements from the Crowd: Understanding the Influences of Personality and Creative Potential in Crowd RE. Proceedings of the IEEE 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE). Beijing, September, 2016, pages 176--185.
• (Özgür Kafalı, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh) Formal Understanding of Tradeoffs among Liveness and Safety Requirements. Proceedings of the IEEE 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW). Beijing, September, 2016, pages 17--18.
• (Özgür Kafalı, Nirav Ajmeri, Munindar P. Singh) Normative Requirements in Sociotechnical Systems. Proceedings of the IEEE 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW). Beijing, September, 2016, pages 259--260.
• (Özgür Kafalı, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh) Revani: Revision and Verification of Normative Specifications for Privacy. IEEE Intelligent Systems. vol 31, number 5, September, 2016, pages 1--7.
• (Nirav Ajmeri, Jiaming Jiang, Rada Chirkova, Jon Doyle, and Munindar P. Singh) Coco: Runtime Reasoning About Conflicting Commitments. Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). New York, July, 2016, pages 17--23.
• (Jiaming Jiang, Nirav Ajmeri, Rada Chirkova, Jon Doyle, and Munindar P. Singh) Expressing and Reasoning about Conflicting Norms in Cybersecurity: Poster. Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSoS). Pittsburgh, April, 2016, pages 63--64.
• (Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Nirav Ajmeri, Munindar P. Singh) Engineering Privacy in Social Applications.. IEEE Internet Computing. vol 20, number 2, March, 2016, pages 72--76.
• (Luis G. Nardin, Tina Balke, Nirav Ajmeri, Anup K. Kalia, Jaime S. Sichman and Munindar P. Singh) Classifying Sanctions and Designing a Conceptual Sanctioning Process Model for Socio-Technical Systems. The Knowledge Engineering Review (KER). vol 31, number 2, March, 2016, pages 142--166.

2015

• (Guangchao Yuan, Nirav Ajmeri, Chris Allred, Pankaj Telang, Mark Wilson and Munindar P. Singh) Modeling Analytics as Knowledge Work: Computing Meets Organizational Psychology (Work-in-progress paper). Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS). Athens, May, 2015, pages 382--387.
• (Hongying Du, Bennett Y. Narron, Nirav Ajmeri, Emily Berglund, Jon Doyle and Munindar P. Singh) ENGMAS– Understanding Sanction under Variable Observability in a Secure Environment. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Agents and CyberSecurity (ACySE). Istanbul, May, 2015, pages 15--22.
• (Hongying Du, Bennett Y. Narron, Nirav Ajmeri, Emily Berglund, Jon Doyle and Munindar P. Singh) Understanding Sanction under Variable Observability in a Secure, Collaborative Environment. Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSoS). Urbana, April, 2015, pages 12:1--12:10.

2014

• (Anup Kalia, Nirav Ajmeri, Kevin Chan, Jin-Hee Cho, Sibel Adali and Munindar P. Singh) A Model of Trust, Moods, and Emotions in Multiagent Systems and its Empirical Evaluation. Proceedings of the 17th AAMAS Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies (Trust). Paris, May, 2014, pages 1--11.

2013

• (Chung-Wei Hang, Nirav Ajmeri, Munindar P. Singh, and Simon Parsons) Argumentation, Evidence, and Schemes: Abstract. Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS). Saint-Paul, May, 2013, pages 37.
• (Maya Daneva, Egbert van der Veen, Chintan Amrit, Smita Ghaisas, Klaas Sikkel, Ramesh Kumar, Nirav Ajmeri, Uday Ramteerthkar and Roel Wieringa) Agile Requirements Prioritization in Large-scale Outsourced System Projects: An Empirical Study. Journal of Systems and Software (JSS). vol 86, May, 2013, pages 1333--1353.
• (Smita Ghaisas and Nirav Ajmeri) Knowledge-assisted Ontology-based Requirements Evolution. Managing Requirements Knowledge. 2013, pages 143--167.

2012

• (Nirav Ajmeri, Mini. Jain, Preethu Rose, V. S. Sivakumar and Smita Ghaisas) Knowledge-assisted Requirements Reuse in Large Insurance Projects. TACTICS 2012. 2012,

2011

• (Nirav Ajmeri, Kumar Vidhani, Manoj Bhat and Smita Ghaisas) An Ontology-based Method and Tool for cross-Domain Requirements Visualization. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK). Trento, Sep, 2011, pages 22--23.
• (Preethu Rose, Manoj Bhat, Kumar Vidhani, Nirav Ajmeri, Anand Gole and Smita Ghaisas) Intelligent Informatics Platform for Nano-Agriculture. Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International conference on Nanotechnology (Nano). Portland, August, 2011, pages 916--919.

2010

• (Nirav Ajmeri, Riddhima Sejpal and Smita Ghaisas) A Semantic and Collaborative platform for Agile Requirements Evolution. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK). Sydney, September, 2010, pages 32--40.
• (Manish Kumar, Nirav Ajmeri and Smita Ghaisas) Towards Knowledge assisted Agile Requirements Evolution. Proceedings of the 2nd International workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering (RSSE). Cape Town, May, 2010, pages 16--20.
• (Nirav Ajmeri, Manish Kumar, Preethu Rose and Smita Ghaisas) Domain Knowledge Assisted Agile Requirements Evolution (K-gileRE). Proceedings of the 3rd India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC). Mysore, February, 2010,

2009

• (Preethu Rose, Manish Kumar, Nirav Ajmeri, Manas Agrawal, V. Sivakumar and Smita Ghaisas) A method and framework for domain knowledge assisted requirements evolution. Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (CONSEG). Chennai, December, 2009, pages 87--97.