Below are the most significant publications of this research group. For the complete and most up-to-date list of publications, please visit individual members' home pages.

2010

S. Abdallah (2010). Using Graph Analysis to Study Networks of Adaptive Agent. In: Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) (acceptance rate 23%).

C. Zhang, S. Abdallah, and V. Lesser (2010). Self-Organization for Coordinating Decentralized Reinforcement Learning. In: Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) (acceptance rate 23%)

I. Rahwan and F. Tohmé (2010). Collective Argument Evaluation as Judgement Aggregation. In: Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Toronto, Canada. (acceptance rate 23%)

A. Belesiotis, M. Rovatsos and I. Rahwan (2010). Agreeing on Plans through Iterated Disputes. In: Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Toronto, Canada. (acceptance rate 23%)

2009

S. Abdallah (2009). Generalizing Unweighted Network Measures Using the Effective Cardinality. Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis (SNA), International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. (acceptance rate 29%)

I. Rahwan, K. Larson and F. Tohmé (2009). A Characterisation of Strategy-Proofness for Grounded Argumentation Semantics. In: Proceedings of the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Pasadena, California, USA.

Y. Gal, S. D'souza, P. Pasquier, I. Rahwan and S. Abdallah (2009). The Effects of Goal Revelation on Computer-Mediated Negotiation. In: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

A. Alshamsi, S. Abdallah and I. Rahwan (2009). Multiagent Self-Organization for a Taxi Dispatch System. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS).

C. Zhang, S. Abdallah, and V. Lesser (2009). Integrating Organizational Control into Multi-Agent Learning. In: Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) (Acceptance rate 22%)

N. C. Karunatillake, N. R. Jennings, I. Rahwan and P. McBurney (to appear). Dialogue Games that Agents Play within a Society. Artificial Intelligence, Vol 173, No 9-10, pages 935-981.

B. Subagdja, L. Sonenberg and I. Rahwan (2009). Intentional Learning Agent Architecture. Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. Vol 18, No 3, pages 417-470

I. Rahwan and G. R. Simari (Eds.) (2009). Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence, Springer.  [Pre-order from Springer]

2008

S. Abdallah and V. Lesser (2008) A Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Algorithm with Non-linear Dynamics. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 33, pages 521-549.

S. Abdallah and V. Lesser (2008). Non-linear Dynamics in Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Algorithms. In: Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Estoril, Portugal.

C. Zhang, S. Abdallah, and V. Lesser (2008). Efficient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning through Automated Supervision. In: Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Estoril, Portugal.

I. Rahwan and K. Larson (2008). Pareto Optimality in Abstract Argumentation. In: Proceedings of 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). AAAI Press, California, USA. (Acceptance rate 24%)

I. Rahwan and K. Larson (2008). Mechanism Design for Abstract Argumentation. In: Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Estoril, Portugal.

I. Rahwan (2008). Mass Argumentation and the Semantic Web. Journal of Web Semantics. Vol 6, No 1, pages 29-37.

I. Rahwan and B. Banihashemi (2008). Arguments in OWL: A Progress Report. In A. Hunter (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA), Toulouse, France. IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Acceptance rate 54% full papers)

2007

S. Abdallah and V. Lesser. Multiagent Reinforcement Learning and Self-organization in a Network of Agents. In Proceedings of 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems, AAMAS, 2007 (acceptance rate 22%) runner-up for "Best Paper Award"

I. Rahwan, F. Zablith and C. Reed. Laying the Foundations for a World Wide Argument Web. Artificial Intelligence Journal, Vol 21, No 6, pages 489-527.

I. Rahwan, L. Sonenberg, N. R. Jennings and P. McBurney (2007). STRATUM: A Methodology for Designing Heuristic Agent Negotiation Strategies. Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol 21, No 6, pages 489-527.

I. Rahwan, F. Zablith, and C. Reed (2007). Towards Large Scale Argumentation Support on the Semantic Web. In: Proceedings of 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). AAAI Press, California, USA. (Acceptance rate 27%)

I. Rahwan, P. Pasquier, L. Sonenberg, and F. Dignum (2007). On the Benefits of Exploiting Underlying Goals in Argument-based Negotiation. In: Proceedings of 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). AAAI Press, California, USA. (Acceptance rate 27%)

P. Pasquier, L. Sonenberg, I. Rahwan, F. Dignum, R. Hollands (2007). An Empirical Study of Interest-based Negotiation. In: Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC). ACM Press, USA. (Acceptance rate 50%) Winner of the Best Paper Award

C. Guttmann, I. Rahwan, and M. Georgeff (2007). A Study of an Approach to the Collective Iterative Task Allocation Problem. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT), IEEE Press, USA. (Acceptance rate 20%)

I. Rahwan, S. Parsons, and C. Reed (Eds.) (2007). Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS), in conjunction with AAMAS 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

N. Maudet, S. Parsons and I. Rahwan (Eds.) (2007). Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, ArgMAS 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006 Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 4766, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.

I. Rahwan, P. McBurney (2007). Argumentation Technology. IEEE Intelligent Systems, November/December, Vol. 22, no. 6, pages 21-23.

I. Rahwan and P. McBurney (Eds.) (2007). Special Issue on Argumentation Technology, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 22, no. 6, November/December.

2006

S. Abdallah and V. Lesser. Learning the Task Allocation Game. In Proceedings of 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, 2006 (acceptance rate 24%).

I. Rahwan, L. Amgoud (2006). An Argumentation-based Approach for Practical Reasoning. Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Hakodate, Japan, ACM Press, New York, USA, pages 347-354. (Acceptance rate 23%)

N. Karunatillake, N. R. Jennings, I. Rahwan and S. D. Ramchurn (2006). Managing Social Influences through Argumentation-based Negotiation. Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Hakodate, Japan, ACM Press, New York, USA, pages 426-428.

C. Chesñevar, J. McGinnis, S. Modgil, I. Rahwan, C. Reed, G. Simari, M. South, G. Vreeswijk and S. Willmott (2006). Towards an Argument Interchange Format. The Knowledge Engineering Review, Vol 21, No 4, pages 293-316.

I. Rahwan, T. Juan and L. Sterling (2006). Integrating Social Modelling and Agent Interaction through Goal-Oriented Analysis. Computer Systems Science & Engineering. Vol 21, No 2.

P. Pasquier, I. Rahwan, F. Dignum and L. Sonenberg (2006). Argumentation and Persuasion in the Cognitive Coherence Theory. In P. Dunne and T. Bench-Capon (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA), Liverpool, UK. IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pages 223-234. (Acceptance rate 58%)

I. Rahwan and P. V. Sakeer (2006). Towards Representing and Querying Arguments on the Semantic Web. In P. Dunne and T. Bench-Capon (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA), Liverpool, UK. IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pages 3-14. (Acceptance rate 58%)

B. Subagdja, I. Rahwan and L. Sonenberg (2006). Learning as Abductive Deliberation. In Q. Yang and G. Webb (Eds.), PRICAI 2006: Trends in Artificial Intelligence: 9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Guilin, China, August 7-11, 2006 Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 4099, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pages 11-20. (Acceptance rate 14.1%)

S. Parsons, N. Maudet, P. Moraitis, and I. Rahwan (Eds.) (2006). Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems Second International Workshop, ArgMAS 2005, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 26, 2005, Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 4049, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.

M. Rovatsos, I. Rahwan, F. Fischer and G. Weiss (2006). Practical Strategic Reasoning and Adaptation in Rational Argument-Based Negotiation. In S. Parsons, N. Maudet, P. Moraitis, I. Rahwan and (Eds.) Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Second International Workshop, ArgMAS 2005 Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 26, 2005 Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol 4049, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pages 122-137.

2005

XiaoQin Zhang, Victor Lesser, Sherief Abdallah. Efficient Management of Multi-Linked Negotiation Based on a Formalized Model. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Volume 10, Number 2, March 2005

S. Abdallah and V. Lesser. Modeling Task Allocation Using a Decision Theoretic Model. In Proceedings of 4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, 2005 (acceptance rate 24%)

J. Ostwald, V. Lesser, and S. Abdallah. Combinatorial Auctions for Resource Allocation in a Distributed Sensor Network. In proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium, (RTSS'05), IEEE Computer Society Press. December 2005 (acceptance rate 21%)

N. Karunatillake, N. R. Jennings, I. Rahwan and T. Norman (2005). Argument-based Negotiation in a Social Context. Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Utrecht, The Netherlands.

N. Karunatillake, N. R. Jennings, I. Rahwan and T. Norman (2005). Arguing and Negotiating in the Presence of Social Influences. In M. Pechoucek, P. Petta, and L.Z. Varga (Eds.) Proceedings of the 4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol 3690, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pages 223-235.

I. Rahwan, F. Koch, C. Graham, J. A. Kattan and L. Sonenberg (2005). Goal-directed Automated Negotiation for Supporting Mobile User Coordination. In A. Dey, B. Kokonov, D. Leake and R. Turner (Eds.) Modeling and Using Context: 5th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2005, Paris, France, July 2005, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol 3554, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany. (Acceptance rate 19%)

I. Rahwan (2005). Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Guest Editorial. Vol 11, No 2, pages 115-125.

I. Rahwan, P. Moraitis and C. Reed (Eds.) (2005). Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Proceedings of the First International Workshop (ArgMAS'04): Expanded and Invited Contributions, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 3366, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.

2004

S. Abdallah and V. Lesser. Organization-Based Cooperative Coaltion Formation. In Proceedings of Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT, 2004 (acceptance rate 16%)

2003

I. Rahwan, S. D. Ramchurn, N. R. Jennings, P. McBurney, S. Parsons and L. Sonenberg (2003). Argumentation-Based Negotiation. The Knowledge Engineering Review, Volume 18, No. 4, pages 343-375.

I. Rahwan, L. Sonenberg and F. Dignum (2003). Towards Interest-Based Negotiation. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Melbourne, Australia, ACM Press, NY, USA, pp. 773-780. (Acceptance Rate: 24.7%)

R. Ashri, I. Rahwan and M. Luck (2003). Architectures for Negotiating Agents. In V. Marik, J. Muller and Pechoucek (eds.) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III: Proceedings of the 3rd International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS), Prague, Czech Republic, volume 2691 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 136-146, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.

2002

I. Rahwan, R. Kowalczyk and H. H. Pham (2002). Intelligent Agents for Automated One-to-Many E-Commerce Negotiation. Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC ), Melbourne, Australia, pp. 197-204.