Publications

2012

Costanza, Enrico, Ramchurn, S.D. and Jennings, N. R. (2012) Understanding Domestic Energy Consumption through Interactive Visualisation: a Field Study. In, Ubicomp 2012, 14th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (to appear) 10pp.

Miller, Sam, Ramchurn, Sarvapali D and Rogers, Alex (2012) Optimal Decentralised Dispatch of Embedded Generation in the Smart Grid. In, Proc. 11th Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Valencia, Spain, (Submitted)

Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Vytelingum, Perukrishnen, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2012) Putting the "Smarts" into the Smart Grid: A Grand Challenge for Artificial Intelligence. Communications of the ACM, 55, (4), 86-97.

Rogers, Alex, Ramchurn, Sarvapali and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2012) Delivering the smart grid: Challenges for autonomous agents and multi-agent systems research. Twenty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12), Toronto, CA, 22 - 26 Jul 2012. 7pp. (In Press)

Voice, Thomas, Ramchurn, Sarvapali and Jennings, Nick (2012) On coalition formation with sparse synergies. In, Proc. 11th Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Valencia, Spain,

2011

Stranders, Ruben, Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Shi, Bing and Jennings, Nick (2011) CollabMap: Augmenting Maps using the Wisdom of Crowds. At Human Computation

Macarthur, Kathryn, Stranders, Ruben, Ramchurn, Sarvapali and Jennings, Nick (2011) A Distributed Anytime Algorithm for Dynamic Task Allocation in Multi-Agent Systems. In, Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), San Francisco, USA, 07 - 11 Aug 2011. AAAI Press, 701-706.

Alam, Muddasser, Rogers, Alex and Ramchurn, Sarvapali (2011) A Negotiation Protocol for Multiple Interdependent Issues Negotiation Over Energy Exchange. In, IJCAI Workshop on AI for an Intelligent Planet, Barcelona,

Macarthur, Kathryn, Vinyals, Meritxell, Farinelli, Alessandro, Ramchurn, Sarvapali and Jennings, Nick (2011) Decentralised Parallel Machine Scheduling for Multi-Agent Task Allocation. In, Fourth International Workshop on Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems, Taipei, Taiwan,

Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Vytelingum, Perukrishnen, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nick (2011) Agent-Based Homeostatic Control for Green Energy in the Smart Grid. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2, (4), article 35.

Osborne, Michael A., Rogers, Alex, Roberts, Stephen J., Ramchurn, Sarvapali D. and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2011) Gaussian Processes for Time Series Prediction. In, Bayesian Time Series Models. , Cambridge University Press, 341-360.

Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Vytelingum, Perukrishnen, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nick (2011) Agent-Based Control for Decentralised Demand Side Management in the Smart Grid. In, The Tenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011), Taipei, Taiwan, 02 - 06 May 2011. , 5-12.

Voice, Thomas, Vytelingum, Perukrishnen, Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nick (2011) Decentralised Control of Micro-Storage in the Smart Grid. In, AAAI-11: Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco, USA, 07 - 11 Aug 2011. , 1421-1426.

Vytelingum, Perukrishnen, Voice, Thomas, Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nick (2011) Theoretical and Practical Foundations of Agent-Based Micro-Storage in the Smart Grid. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 42, 765-813.

2010

Macarthur, Kathryn, Farinelli, Alessandro, Ramchurn, Sarvapali and Jennings, Nick (2010) Efficient, Superstabilizing Decentralised Optimisation for Dynamic Task Allocation Environments. In, Third International Workshop on: Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems (OptMas) at the Ninth Joint Conference on Autonomous and Multi-Agent Systems, Toronto, Canada, , 25-32.

Ramchurn, S. D., Polukarov, Mariya, Farinelli, Alessandro, Jennings, Nick and Trong, Cuong (2010) Coalition Formation with Spatial and Temporal Constraints. In, International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2010), Toronto, Canada, , 1181-1188.

Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Farinelli, Alessandro, Macarthur, Kathryn, Polukarov, Mariya and Jennings, Nick (2010) Decentralised Coordination in RoboCup Rescue. The Computer Journal, 53, (9), 1-15.

Vytelingum, Perukrishnen, Ramchurn, Sarvapali D., Voice, Thomas D., Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2010) Trading agents for the smart electricity grid. In, The Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), Toronto, Canada, 10 - 14 May 2010. , 897-904.

Vytelingum, Perukrishnen, Voice, Thomas D., Ramchurn, Sarvapali D., Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2010) Agent-Based Micro-Storage Management for the Smart Grid. In, The Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010) - Won the Best Paper Award, Toronto, Canada, 10 - 14 May 2010. , 39-46.

2009

van Valkenhoef, Gert, Ramchurn, Sarvapali D., Vytelingum, Perukrishnen, Jennings, Nicholas R. and Verbrugge, Rinek (2009) Continuous double auctions with execution uncertainty. In, Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA-09), Pasadena, US, 13 Jul 2009. 9pp.

Ramchurn, Sarvapali D., Mezzetti, Claudio, Giovannucci, Andrea, Rodriguez, Juan A., Dash, Rajdeep K. and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2009) Trust-Based Mechanisms for Robust and Efficient Task Allocation in the Presence of Execution Uncertainty. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 35, 119-159.

Rahwan, Talal, Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Jennings, Nicholas and Giovannucci, Andrea (2009) An Anytime Algorithm for Optimal Coalition Structure Generation. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 34, 521-567.

2008

Osborne, Michael A, Rogers, Alex, Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Roberts, Stephen J and Jennings, N. R. (2008) Towards Real-Time Information Processing of Sensor Network Data using Computationally Efficient Multi-output Gaussian Processes. In, International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2008), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, , 109-120.

Rogers, Alex, Osborne, Michael A, Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Roberts, Stephen J and Jennings, N. R. (2008) Information Agents for Pervasive Sensor Networks. In, Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2008), Hong Kong, China, , 294-299.

Adams, Niall, Field, Martin, Gelenbe, Erol, Hand, David, Jennings, Nicholas, Leslie, David, Nicholson, David, Ramchurn, Sarvapali and Rogers, Alex (2008) Intelligent Agents for Disaster Management. In, Proceedings of the IARP/EURON Workshop on Robotics for Risky Interventions and Environmental Surveillance (RISE)

2007

Rogers, Alex, Dash, Rajdeep K., Ramchurn, Sarvapali D., Vytelingum, Perukrishnen and Jennings, N. R. (2007) Coordinating Team Players within a Noisy Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournament. Theoretical Computer Science, 377, (1-3), 243-259.

Rahwan, Talal, Ramchurn, Sarvapali D., Dang, Viet D., Giovannucci, Andrea and Jennings, N. R. (2007) Anytime Optimal Coalition Structure Generation. In, 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Vancouver, Canada, , 1184-1190.

Espinoza, , Fredrik, De Roure, David, Hamfors, Ola, Hinz, Lucas, Holmberg, Jesper, Jansson, Carl-Gustaf, Jennings, Nick, Luck, Mike, Lönnqvist, Peter, Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Sandin, Anna, Thompson, Mark and Bylund, Markus (2007) Intrusiveness Management for Focused, Efficient, and Enjoyable Activities. In, The Disappearing Computer: Interaction Design, System Infrastructures and Applications for Smart Environments. , Springer, 143-160.

Rahwan, T., Ramchurn, S.D., Dang, V.D. and Jennings, N. R. (2007) Near-optimal anytime coalition structure generation. In, 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Hyderabad, India, , 2365-2371.

Ramchurn, S.D., Sierra, C., Godo, L. and Jennings, N. R. (2007) Negotiating using rewards. Artificial Intelligence Journal., 171, (10-15), 805-837.

Rogers, Alex, Dash, Rajdeep K., Ramchurn, Sarvapali D., Vytelingum, Perukrishnen and Jennings, N. R. (2007) Error-Correcting Codes for Team Coordination within a Noisy Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournament. In, Kendel, Graham, Yao, Xin and Chong, Siang Yew (eds.) The Iterated Prisoners Dilemma Competition: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary. , World Scientific, 205-229.

2006

Karunatillake, N. C., Jennings, N. R., Rahwan, I. and Ramchurn, S. D. (2006) Managing Social Influences through Argumentation-Based Negotiation. In, Third International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2006), Hakodate, Japan, , 35-52.

Ramchurn, S.D., Sierra, C., Godo, L. and Jennings, N. R. (2006) Negotiating using rewards. In, 5th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Hakodate, Japan, , 400-407.

2005

Blankenburg, B., Dash, R.K., Ramchurn, S.D., Klusch, M. and Jennings, N. R. (2005) Trusted kernel-based coalition formation. In, Proc. 4th Int Joint Conf on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Utrecht, Netherlands, , 989-996.

Ramchurn, S.D. and Jennings, N. R. (2005) Trust in agent-based software. In, Mansell, R. and Collins, B.S. (eds.) Trust and Crime in Information Societies. , Elgar Publishing, 165-204.

2004

Dash, R. K ., Ramchurn, S.D. and Jennings, N. R. (2004) Trust-Based Mechanism Design. In, 3rd Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, New York, USA, 19 - 23 Jul 2004. , 748-755.

Ramchurn, S.D., Deitch, B., Thompson, M.K., de Roure, D. C., Jennings, N. R. and Luck, M. (2004) Minimising intrusiveness in pervasive computing environments using multi-agent negotiation. In, First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (MobiQuitous'04), Boston, Massachussets, USA, 22 - 26 Aug 2004. IEEE, 364-372.

Ramchurn, S.D., Huynh, T.D. and Jennings, N. R. (2004) Trust in Multiagent Systems. The Knowledge Engineering Review, 19, (1), 1-25.

Ramchurn, Sarvapali (2004) Multi-Agent Negotiation using Trust and Persuasion. University of Southampton, ECS, Doctoral Thesis.

Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Sierra, C., Godo, L. and Jennings, N. R. (2004) Devising a trust model for multi-agent interactions using confidence and reputation. International Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, 18, (9-10), 833-852.

2003

Rahwan, I., Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Jennings, N. R., McBurney, P., Parsons, S. and Sonenberg, L. (2003) Argumentation-based negotiation. The Knowledge Engineering Review, 18, (4), 343-375.

Ramchurn, S.D., Jennings, N. R. and Sierra, C. (2003) Persuasive negotiation for autonomous agents: A rhetorical approach. In, IJCAI Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument, Acapulco, Mexico, , 9-17.

Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Sierra, C., Godo, L. and Jennings, N. R. (2003) A computational trust model for multi-agent interactions based on confidence and reputation. In, 6th International Workshop of Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies, Melbourne, Australia, , 69-75.

2002

Panzarasa, P., Ramchurn, S. D. and Jennings, Nick (2002) Intrusiveness, Trust and Argumentation: Using Automated Negotiation to Inhibit the Transmission of Disruptive Information. In, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Social and Organizational Systems, Pittsburgh, PA,