Professor Mary-Anne Williams
Professor

Professor Mary-Anne Williams

PhD, Artificial Intelligence, University of Sydney, 1994

Master of Laws (LL.M.), Innovation, Law and Technology, University of Edinburgh, 2008

Master of Science, Computer Science, 1991

Business School
School of Management and Governance

I am the Michael J Crouch Chair for Innovation at UNSW where I collaborate to grow entrepreneurship and accelerate innovative thinking in Australia. Micheal Crouch was an inspiring Australian entrepreneur and business leader. He was a visionary and extraordinarily generous benefactor. In 2017 Michael Crouch was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for eminent service to the community through philanthropic contributions to youth, cultural, medical research and health care organisations, to business in the areas of manufacturing and international trade, and as a supporter of innovation and higher education.

Prior to taking up this exciting role I spent 18 years as founder and director of the Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab (The Magic Lab), Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute at UTS. The Magic Lab was a pioneer with unique transdisciplinary capabilities in key areas of innovation and enterprise. It specialised in technology-enabled innovation and build solutions using AI, Design Thinking, Experimentation, and Analytics. Our industry and government partners included South Western Sydney Local Health District, IBM, Google, Disrupt, Linkedin, bigtincan, Willow Garage (now Savioke), Amazon, Visual Risk, CBA, Denmark's National Bank, Samsung, Sony, and Softbank.

Location
School of Management UNSW Business School
  • Books | 2010
    2010, Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, Bi Y; Williams M-A, (ed.), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15280-1
  • Book Chapters | 2001
    2001, 'An Operational Measure of Similarity Based on Change', in Applied Logic Series, Springer Netherlands, pp. 135 - 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9817-0_6
    Book Chapters | 2001
    2001, 'Introduction', in Applied Logic Series, Springer Netherlands, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9817-0_1
    Book Chapters | 2001
    2001, 'Introduction', in Frontiers in Belief Revision, Springer Nature, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9817-0_1
    Book Chapters | 1999
    1999, 'A framework for multi-agent belief revision part I: The role of ontology', in , pp. 168 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46695-9_15
    Book Chapters | 1999
    1999, 'A practical approach to fusing prioritized knowledge bases', in , pp. 222 - 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48159-1_16
    Book Chapters | 1998
    1998, 'Applications of belief revision', in , pp. 287 - 316, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bfb0055503
    Book Chapters | 1998
    1998, 'From belief revision to design revision: Applying theory change to changing requirements', in , pp. 206 - 220, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-64413-X_37
    Book Chapters | 1998
    1998, 'Some approaches to reasoning with incomplete and changing information', in , pp. 9 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-64413-X_26
    Book Chapters | 1996
    1996, 'CIN: An Intelligent Information Management Toolkit', in Advanced IT Tools, Springer US, pp. 395 - 401, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34979-4_44
    Book Chapters | 1994
    1994, 'On the logic of theory base change', in , pp. 86 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bfb0021966
    Book Chapters | 1994
    1994, 'TRANSMUTATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS', in Doyle J; Sandewall E; Torasso P (ed.), Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, MORGAN KAUFMANN PUB INC, pp. 619 - 629, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-1-4832-1452-8.50152-4
    Book Chapters |
    'Learning Personalized Ontologies from Text', in Personalized Information Retrieval and Access, IGI Global, pp. 1 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-510-8.ch001
  • Edited Books | 2019
    williams M-A, (ed.), 2019, RoboCup 2019: Robot World Cup XXIII, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35699-6
    Edited Books | 2014
    2014, Preface
    Edited Books | 2012
    Ge SS; Khatib O; Cabibihan J-J; Simmons R; Williams M-A, (eds.), 2012, Social Robotics, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34103-8
    Edited Books | 2010
    2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics): Preface
    Edited Books | 2001
    Williams M-A; Rott H, (ed.), 2001, Frontiers in Belief Revision, Springer Netherlands, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9817-0
    Edited Books | 1996
    Alferes JJ; Pereira LM; Orlowska E, (eds.), 1996, Logics in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61630-6
  • Journal articles | 2022
    Herse S; Vitale J; Williams M-A, 2022, 'Using Agent Features to Influence User Trust, Decision Making and Task Outcome during Human-Agent Collaboration', International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
    Journal articles | 2022
    Raza SA; Vitale J; Tonkin M; Johnston B; Billingsley R; Herse S; Williams MA, 2022, 'An in-the-wild study to find type of questions people ask to a social robot providing question-answering service', Intelligent Service Robotics, 15, pp. 411 - 426, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11370-022-00411-z
    Journal articles | 2021
    Anshar M; Williams MA, 2021, 'Simplified Pain Matrix Method for Artificial Pain Activation Embedded into Robot Framework', International Journal of Social Robotics, 13, pp. 187 - 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12369-020-00632-1
    Journal articles | 2021
    Aravanis T; Peppas P; Williams MA, 2021, 'An investigation of parametrized difference revision operators', Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 89, pp. 7 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10472-019-09625-x
    Journal articles | 2021
    Ojha S; Vitale J; Williams MA, 2021, 'Computational Emotion Models: A Thematic Review', International Journal of Social Robotics, 13, pp. 1253 - 1279, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12369-020-00713-1
    Journal articles | 2020
    Aravanis T; Peppas P; Williams MA, 2020, 'A study of possible-worlds semantics of relevance-sensitive belief revision', Journal of Logic and Computation, 30, pp. 1125 - 1142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/LOGCOM/EXAA029
    Journal articles | 2020
    Aravanis TI; Peppas P; Williams MA, 2020, 'Incompatibilities between iterated and relevance-sensitive belief revision', Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 69, pp. 85 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1613/jair.1.11871
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Human feedback as action assignment in interactive reinforcement learning', ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3404197
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Special Issue on Robot and Human Interactive Communication 2020 (Part II)', Advanced Robotics, 34, pp. 1545, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2020.1854936
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Special Issue on Robot and Human Interactive Communication 2020', Advanced Robotics, 34, pp. 1279, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2020.1831718
    Journal articles | 2019
    Aravanis TI; Peppas P; Williams MA, 2019, 'Full characterization of parikh's relevance-sensitive axiom for belief revision', Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 66, pp. 765 - 792, http://dx.doi.org/10.1613/jair.1.11838
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Avoid being the Turkey: How big data analytics changes the game of strategy in times of ambiguity and uncertainty', Long Range Planning, 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2018.05.007
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'The Artificial Intelligence race: Will Australia lead or lose?', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 152, pp. 105 - 114
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Well-M3N: A Maximum-Margin Approach to Unsupervised Structured Prediction', IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 3, pp. 427 - 439, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TETCI.2018.2876524
    Journal articles | 2018
    Anshar M; Williams MA, 2018, 'Evolving robot empathy towards humans with motor disabilities through artificial pain generation', AIMS Neuroscience, 5, pp. 56 - 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/NEUROSCIENCE.2018.1.56
    Journal articles | 2018
    Ojha S; Williams MA; Johnston B, 2018, 'The Essence of Ethical Reasoning in Robot-Emotion Processing', International Journal of Social Robotics, 10, pp. 211 - 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12369-017-0459-y
    Journal articles | 2017
    2017, 'A Distributed Future:How Blockchain Affects Strategic Management, Organisation Design & Governance', Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017, pp. 14807 - 14807, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2017.14807abstract
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, 'Evolving synthetic pain into an adaptive self-awareness framework for robots', Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 16, pp. 8 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bica.2015.10.002
    Journal articles | 2015
    Peppas P; Williams MA; Chopra S; Foo N, 2015, 'Relevance in belief revision', Artificial Intelligence, 229, pp. 126 - 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2015.08.007
    Journal articles | 2014
    Cabibihan JJ; Williams MA; Simmons R, 2014, 'When Robots Engage Humans', International Journal of Social Robotics, 6, pp. 311 - 313, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12369-014-0249-8
    Journal articles | 2014
    Vitale J; Williams MA; Johnston B; Boccignone G, 2014, 'Affective facial expression processing via simulation: A probabilistic model', Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 10, pp. 30 - 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bica.2014.11.005
    Journal articles | 2012
    Peppas P; Koutras CD; Williams MA, 2012, 'Maps in multiple belief change', ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2362355.2362358
    Journal articles | 2011
    2011, 'The expansion continues: Stitching together the breadth of disciplines impinging on Artificial Intelligence', Artificial Intelligence, 175, pp. 929, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2011.01.004
    Journal articles | 2010
    2010, 'A framework for iterated belief revision using possibilistic counterparts to jeffrey's rule', Fundamenta Informaticae, 99, pp. 147 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/FI-2010-243
    Journal articles | 2010
    2010, 'The expanding breadth of artificial intelligence research', Artificial Intelligence, 174, pp. 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2009.12.001
    Journal articles | 2009
    Williams MA; McCarthy J; Gärdenfors P; Stanton C; Karol A, 2009, 'A grounding framework', Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 19, pp. 272 - 296, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10458-009-9082-0
    Journal articles | 2009
    2009, 'Introduction: Practical cognitive agents and robots', Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 19, pp. 245 - 247, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10458-009-9077-x
    Journal articles | 2008
    2008, 'Book review', Artificial Intelligence, 172, pp. 1967 - 1972, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2008.10.003
    Journal articles | 2008
    2008, 'Editorial', Artificial Intelligence, 172, pp. 1943, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2008.10.004
    Journal articles | 2007
    2007, 'Editorial Note', Artificial Intelligence, 171, pp. 1093, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2007.11.001
    Journal articles | 2007
    2007, 'Extended Evolutionary Fast Learn-to-Walk Approach for Four-Legged Robots', Journal of Bionic Engineering, 4, pp. 255 - 263, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1672-6529(07)60039-0
    Journal articles | 2004
    2004, 'Weakening conflicting information for iterated revision and knowledge integration', Artificial Intelligence, 153, pp. 339 - 371, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2003.08.003
    Journal articles | 2003
    2003, 'Belief revision and organisational knowledge dynamics', Journal of the Operational Research Society, 54, pp. 914 - 923, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601592
    Journal articles | 2002
    Benferhat S; Dubois D; Prade H; Williams MA, 2002, 'A practical approach to revising prioritized knowledge bases', Studia Logica, 70, pp. 105 - 130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1014658309853
    Journal articles | 2001
    2001, 'A framework for multi-agent belief revision', Studia Logica, 67, pp. 291 - 312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1010555305483
    Journal articles | 2001
    2001, 'Prolegomena to concise theories of action', Studia Logica, 67, pp. 403 - 418, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1010516501232
    Journal articles | 1999
    1999, 'Practical approach to revising prioritized knowledge bases', International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems, Proceedings, KES, pp. 170 - 173
    Journal articles | 1997
    1997, 'Reasoning with Incomplete and Changing Information: The CIN Project', Information Sciences, 99, pp. 83 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0020-0255(96)00269-1
    Journal articles | 1995
    1995, 'Constructive modelings for theory change', Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 36, pp. 120 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1305/ndjfl/1040308831
    Journal articles |
    Surden H; Williams M-A, 'How Self-Driving Cars Work', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2784465
    Journal articles |
    Surden H; Williams M-A, 'Technological Opacity, Predictability, and Self-Driving Cars', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2747491
  • Conference Papers | 2021
    Alam S; Johnston B; Vitale J; Williams MA, 2021, 'Would you trust a robot with your mental health? The interaction of emotion and logic in persuasive backfiring', in 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2021, pp. 384 - 391, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN50785.2021.9515385
    Conference Papers | 2021
    Herse S; Vitale J; Johnston B; Williams MA, 2021, 'Using trust to determine user decision making & task outcome during a human-agent collaborative task', in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 73 - 82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3434073.3444673
    Conference Presentations | 2021
    2021, 'Designing human-robot interaction with social intelligence', pp. iii - iv, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3434073.3444865
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Dawson N; Rizoiu MA; Johnston B; Williams MA, 2020, 'Predicting Skill Shortages in Labor Markets: A Machine Learning Approach', in Proceedings - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2020, pp. 3052 - 3061, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BigData50022.2020.9377773
    Conference Papers | 2020
    2020, 'Modelling belief-revision functions at extended languages', in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp. 601 - 607, http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/FAIA200144
    Preprints | 2020
    2020, Predicting Skill Shortages in Labor Markets: A Machine Learning Approach, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2004.01311
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Aravanis T; Peppas P; Williams MA, 2019, 'Observations on darwiche and Pearl's approach for iterated belief revision', in IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1509 - 1515, http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/209
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Dawson N; Rizoiu MA; Johnston B; Williams MA, 2019, 'Adaptively selecting occupations to detect skill shortages from online job ads', in Proceedings - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2019, pp. 1637 - 1643, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BigData47090.2019.9005967
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Madhisetty S; Williams MA, 2019, 'Managing privacy through key performance indicators when photos and videos are shared via social media', in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, pp. 1103 - 1117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01177-2_80
    Conference Papers | 2019
    2019, 'A proactive robot tutor based on emotional intelligence', in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, pp. 113 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78452-6_11
    Conference Papers | 2019
    2019, 'Event boards as tools for holistic AI', in CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp. 1 - 10
    Conference Papers | 2019
    2019, 'How to manage privacy in photos after publication', in ICEIS 2019 - Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, pp. 162 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0007614001620168
    Conference Papers | 2019
    2019, 'I remember what you did: A behavioural guide-robot', in in Kim JH. et al. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 751. Springer, pp. 273 - 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78452-6_23
    Conference Papers | 2019
    2019, 'Integrating personality and mood with agent emotions', in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, pp. 2147 - 2149
    Conference Papers | 2019
    2019, 'Measuring Human Emotion in Short Documents to Improve Social Robot and Agent Interactions', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 29 - 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18305-9_3
    Conference Papers | 2019
    2019, 'Privacy First: Designing Responsible and Inclusive Social Robot Applications for in the Wild Studies', in 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN46459.2019.8956461
    Conference Papers | 2019
    2019, 'The role of trust and control in managing privacy when photos and videos are stored or shared', in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, pp. 127 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02683-7_11
    Conference Papers | 2019
    2019, 'UTS Unleashed! RoboCup@Home SSPL Champions 2019', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 603 - 615, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35699-6_49
    Preprints | 2019
    2019, Adaptively selecting occupations to detect skill shortages from online job ads, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1911.02302
    Preprints | 2019
    2019, Fog Robotics: A Summary, Challenges and Future Scope, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1908.04935
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Agrawal S; Williams MA, 2018, 'Would You Obey an Aggressive Robot: A Human-Robot Interaction Field Study', in RO-MAN 2018 - 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 240 - 246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525615
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Herse S; Vitale J; Ebrahimian D; Tonkin M; Ojha S; Sidra S; Johnston B; Phillips S; Gudi SLKC; Clark J; Judge W; Williams MA, 2018, 'Bon Appetit! Robot Persuasion for Food Recommendation', in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 125 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3173386.3177028
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Tonkin M; Vitale J; Herse S; Williams MA; Judge W; Wang X, 2018, 'Design Methodology for the UX of HRI: A Field Study of a Commercial Social Robot at an Airport', in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 407 - 415, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3171221.3171270
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Vitale J; Tonkin M; Herse S; Ojha S; Clark J; Williams MA; Wang X; Judge W, 2018, 'Be More Transparent and Users Will Like You: A Robot Privacy and User Experience Design Experiment', in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 379 - 387, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3171221.3171269
    Conference Papers | 2018
    2018, 'Do You Trust Me, Blindly? Factors Influencing Trust Towards a Robot Recommender System', in RO-MAN 2018 - 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 7 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525581
    Conference Papers | 2018
    2018, 'Evolving artificial pain from fault detection through pattern data analysis', in 2017 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, RCAR 2017, pp. 694 - 699, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RCAR.2017.8311945
    Conference Papers | 2018
    2018, 'Fog robotics for efficient, fluent and robust human-robot interaction', in NCA 2018 - 2018 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NCA.2018.8548077
    Conference Papers | 2018
    2018, 'Iterated belief revision and dalal⇔s operator', in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3200947.3201038
    Conference Papers | 2018
    2018, 'Parametrised difference revision', in Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference, KR 2018, pp. 277 - 286
    Preprints | 2018
    2018, Fog Robotics for Efficient, Fluent and Robust Human-Robot Interaction, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1811.05578
    Preprints | 2018
    2018, The Design Space of Social Robots, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1801.04857
    Conference Papers | 2017
    Aravanis T; Peppas P; Williams MA, 2017, 'Epistemic-entrenchment characterization of Parikh's axiom', in IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 772 - 778, http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/107
    Conference Papers | 2017
    Billingsley R; Prade H; Richard G; Williams MA, 2017, 'Towards analogy-based decision - A proposal', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 28 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59692-1_3
    Conference Papers | 2017
    Tonkin M; Vitale J; Ojha S; Clark J; Pfeiffer S; Judge W; Wang X; Williams MA, 2017, 'Embodiment, Privacy and Social Robots: May I Remember You?', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 506 - 515, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70022-9_50
    Conference Papers | 2017
    Tonkin M; Vitale J; Ojha S; Williams MA; Fuller P; Judge W; Wang X, 2017, 'Would you like to sample'l Robot engagement in a shopping centre', in RO-MAN 2017 - 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 42 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172278
    Conference Papers | 2017
    2017, 'A Domain-Independent Approach of Cognitive Appraisal Augmented by Higher Cognitive Layer of Ethical Reasoning', in CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition, pp. 2833 - 2838
    Conference Papers | 2017
    2017, 'Emotion in robot decision making', in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, pp. 221 - 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31293-4_18
    Conference Papers | 2017
    2017, 'Facial Motor Information is Sufficient for Identity Recognition', in CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition, pp. 3447 - 3452
    Conference Papers | 2017
    2017, 'Framework for privacy in photos and videos when using social media', in ICEIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, pp. 331 - 336, http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0006073803310336
    Conference Papers | 2017
    2017, 'Potential based reward shaping using learning to rank', in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 261 - 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3038421
    Conference Papers | 2017
    2017, 'Privacy by design in machine learning data collection: A user experience experimentation', in AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report, pp. 439 - 442
    Conference Papers | 2017
    2017, 'Robot authority and human obedience: A study of human behaviour using a robot security guard', in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 57 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3038387
    Conference Papers | 2017
    2017, 'The altruistic robot: Do what i want, not just what i say', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 149 - 162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67582-4_11
    Conference Papers | 2017
    2017, 'Unconventional formats of background knowledge from human teacher in reward shaping', in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 373 - 374, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3034817
    Preprints | 2017
    2017, Social Robot Modelling of Human Affective State, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1705.00786
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Ojha S; Williams MA, 2016, 'Ethically-guided emotional responses for social robots: Should I be angry?', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 233 - 242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_23
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Peppas P; Williams MA, 2016, 'Kinetic consistency and relevance in belief revision', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 401 - 414, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48758-8_26
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Romat H; Williams MA; Wang X; Johnston B; Bard H, 2016, 'Natural human-robot interaction using social cues', in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 503 - 504, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2016.7451827
    Conference Papers | 2016
    2016, 'Decision-theoretic human-robot interaction: Designing reasonable and rational robot behavior', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 72 - 82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_8
    Conference Papers | 2016
    2016, 'On designing socially acceptable reward shaping', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 860 - 869, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_84
    Conference Papers | 2016
    2016, 'Reward from demonstration in interactive reinforcement learning', in Proceedings of the 29th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2016, pp. 414 - 417
    Conference Papers | 2016
    2016, 'Static action recognition by efficient greedy inference', in 2016 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WACV.2016.7477686
    Conference Papers | 2016
    2016, 'The face-space duality hypothesis: a computational model', in Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016, pp. 514 - 519
    Conference Papers | 2015
    2015, 'Smooth robot motion with an Optimal Redundancy Resolution for PR2 robot based on an analytic inverse kinematic solution', in IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp. 338 - 345, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2015.7363572
    Conference Papers | 2014
    2014, 'Belief change and semiorders', in Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, pp. 160 - 167
    Conference Papers | 2014
    2014, 'Classical conditioning in social robots', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 279 - 289, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11973-1_29
    Conference Papers | 2014
    2014, 'Constructive models for contraction with intransitive plausibility indifference', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 355 - 367, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11558-0_25
    Conference Papers | 2014
    2014, 'Directing human attention with pointing', in IEEE RO-MAN 2014 - 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication: Human-Robot Co-Existence: Adaptive Interfaces and Systems for Daily Life, Therapy, Assistance and Socially Engaging Interactions, pp. 174 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926249
    Conference Papers | 2014
    2014, 'Socially impaired robots: Human social disorders and robots’ socio-emotional intelligence', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 350 - 359, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11973-1_36
    Conference Papers | 2014
    2014, 'The Fugitive', in HRI'14: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2014 ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION, IEEE, GERMANY, Bielefeld, pp. 111 - 111, presented at 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), GERMANY, Bielefeld, 03 March 2014 - 06 March 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2559636.2559653
    Preprints | 2014
    2014, Affective Facial Expression Processing via Simulation: A Probabilistic Model, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1411.0582
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Abidi S; Williams M; Johnston B, 2013, 'Human pointing as a robot directive', in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 67 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2013.6483504
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Chen S; Williams MA, 2013, 'Grounding Privacy-by-Design for information systems', in Proceedings - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2013
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Navarro KF; Gay V; Golliard L; Johnston B; Leijdekkers P; Vaughan E; Wang X; Williams MA, 2013, 'SocialCycle: What can a mobile app do to encourage cycling?', in Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN, pp. 24 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LCNW.2013.6758494
    Conference Papers | 2013
    2013, 'Credibility-based twitter social network analysis', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 323 - 331, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37401-2_33
    Conference Papers | 2013
    2013, 'From infinite to finite belief contraction', in COMMONSENSE 2013 - 11th International Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning
    Conference Papers | 2013
    2013, 'Habituation and sensitisation learning in ASMO cognitive architecture', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 249 - 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02675-6_25
    Conference Papers | 2013
    2013, 'Interpreting robot pointing behavior', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 148 - 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02675-6_15
    Conference Papers | 2013
    2013, 'Recognition and representation of robot skills in real time: A theoretical analysis', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 127 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02675-6_13
    Conference Papers | 2013
    2013, 'Robot reasoning using first order bayesian networks', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39515-4_1
    Conference Papers | 2012
    Chen S; Williams MA, 2012, 'Information makes a difference for privacy design', in Proceedings - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2012
    Conference Papers | 2012
    Haider S; Abidi SR; Williams MA, 2012, 'On evolving a dynamic bipedal walk using Partial Fourier Series', in 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2012 - Conference Digest, pp. 8 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6490935
    Conference Papers | 2012
    Williams MA, 2012, 'Robot social intelligence', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 45 - 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34103-8_5
    Conference Papers | 2012
    2012, 'Perceiving forces, bumps, and touches from proprioceptive expectations', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 377 - 388, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32060-6_32
    Conference Papers | 2012
    2012, 'Real-time human-robot interactive coaching system with full-body control interface', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 562 - 573, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32060-6_48
    Conference Papers | 2012
    2012, 'Reports of the AAAI 2011 conference workshops', in AI Magazine, pp. 57 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v33i1.2390
    Conference Papers | 2012
    2012, 'Social networking for robots to share knowledge, skills and know-how', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 418 - 427, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34103-8_42
    Conference Papers | 2012
    2012, 'Teaching coordinated strategies to soccer robots via imitation', in 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2012 - Conference Digest, pp. 1434 - 1439, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491170
    Conference Papers | 2011
    Chen S; Williams MA, 2011, 'Grounding data purpose and data usage for better privacy requirements: An information system perspective', in PACIS 2011 - 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Quality Research in Pacific
    Conference Papers | 2011
    2011, 'An ontological study of data purpose for privacy policy enforcement', in Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011, pp. 1208 - 1213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.128
    Conference Papers | 2011
    2011, 'Innate and learned emotion network', in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp. 263 - 268, http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-959-2-263
    Conference Papers | 2011
    2011, 'Mitigating Risk in Web-Based Social Network Service Selection: Follow the Leader', in Matskin M; Perry M; Mahmood Z (eds.), PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERNET AND WEB APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES (ICIW 2011), IARIA XPS PRESS, NETHERLANDS, St Maarten, pp. 156 - 164, presented at 6th International Conference on Internet andWeb Applications and Services (ICIW) / 1st International Workshop on Enterprise Cloud Computing - Strategies and Solutions (ECCSS), NETHERLANDS, St Maarten, 20 March 2011 - 25 March 2011, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000396417400023&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 2011
    2011, 'Reports of the AAAI 2010 spring symposia', in AI Magazine, pp. 115 - 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v31i3.2304
    Conference Papers | 2011
    2011, 'Risk, uncertainty and possible worlds', in Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011, pp. 1278 - 1283, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.130
    Conference Papers | 2011
    2011, 'Visualizing the shape of quality: An application in the context of intellectual property', in CEUR Workshop Proceedings
    Conference Papers | 2010
    Chen S; Williams MA, 2010, 'Modeling privacy requirements for quality manipulation of information on social networking sites', in AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report, pp. 42 - 47
    Conference Papers | 2010
    Chen S; Williams MA, 2010, 'Privacy: An ontological problem', in PACIS 2010 - 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, pp. 1402 - 1413
    Conference Papers | 2010
    2010, 'A graphical model for risk analysis and management', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 256 - 269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15280-1_25
    Conference Papers | 2010
    2010, 'A practical risk management framework for intelligent information systems', in PACIS 2010 - 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, pp. 1866 - 1873
    Conference Papers | 2010
    2010, 'AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report: Preface', in AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report
    Conference Papers | 2010
    2010, 'ACM International Conference Proceeding Series: Preface and introduction', in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
    Conference Papers | 2010
    2010, 'An IS contribution to the UN Millennium Development Goals: Next generation vaccination management in the developing world', in ACIS 2010 Proceedings - 21st Australasian Conference on Information Systems
    Conference Papers | 2010
    2010, 'Anticipation as a strategy: A design paradigm for robotics', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 341 - 353, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15280-1_32
    Conference Papers | 2010
    2010, 'Attention in the ASMO cognitive architecture', in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp. 98 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-661-4-98
    Conference Papers | 2010
    2010, 'Autonomy: Life and being', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 137 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15280-1_15
    Conference Papers | 2010
    2010, 'Conceptual ternary diagrams for shape perception: A preliminary step', in AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report, pp. 34 - 38
    Conference Papers | 2010
    2010, 'Credibility-based social network recommendation: Follow the leader', in ACIS 2010 Proceedings - 21st Australasian Conference on Information Systems
    Conference Papers | 2010
    2010, 'Towards a comprehensive requirements architecture for privacy-aware social recommender systems', in Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series, pp. 33 - 41
    Conference Papers | 2010
    2010, 'Web service reputation prediction based on customer feedback forecasting model', in Proceedings - IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop, EDOC, pp. 33 - 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2010.16
    Conference Papers | 2010
    2010, 'World-class is-enabled business innovation: A case study of is leadership, strategy & governance', in PACIS 2010 - 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, pp. 1814 - 1821
    Conference Papers | 2009
    Al-Sharawneh J; Williams MA, 2009, 'A social network approach in semantic web services selection using follow the leader behavior', in Proceedings - IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop, EDOC, pp. 310 - 319, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2009.5331986
    Conference Papers | 2009
    Chen S; Williams MA, 2009, 'Privacy in social networks: A comparative study', in PACIS 2009 - 13th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: IT Services in a Global Environment
    Conference Papers | 2009
    Johnston B; Williams MA, 2009, 'A formal framework for the symbol grounding problem', in Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2009, pp. 79 - 84
    Conference Papers | 2009
    2009, 'A general framework for revising belief bases using qualitative Jeffrey's rule', in Commonsense 2009 - Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, pp. 7 - 12
    Conference Papers | 2009
    2009, 'A general framework for revising belief bases using qualitative jeffrey's rule', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 612 - 621, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04125-9_64
    Conference Papers | 2009
    2009, 'ABMS: Agent-based modeling and simulation in web service selection', in Proceedings - International Conference on Management and Service Science, MASS 2009, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICMSS.2009.5301897
    Conference Papers | 2009
    2009, 'Autonomous learning of commonsense simulations', in Commonsense 2009 - Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, pp. 73 - 78
    Conference Papers | 2009
    2009, 'Conservative and reward-driven behavior selection in a commonsense reasoning framework', in AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report, pp. 14 - 19
    Conference Papers | 2009
    2009, 'Evidence transmutations: gathering admissible evidence using belief revision', in Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, pp. 216 - 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1568234.1568261
    Conference Papers | 2009
    2009, 'Preface', in Commonsense 2009 - Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning
    Conference Papers | 2009
    2009, 'Privacy management, the law & business strategies: A case for privacy driven design', in Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009, pp. 60 - 67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CSE.2009.478
    Conference Papers | 2009
    2009, 'Privacy management, the law and global business strategies: A case for privacy driven design', in AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report, pp. 71 - 79
    Conference Papers | 2009
    2009, 'The role of attention in robot self-awareness', in Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 1047 - 1053, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2009.5326155
    Conference Papers | 2008
    Chen S; Williams MA, 2008, 'Learning personalized ontologies from text: A review on an inherently transdisciplinary area', in Personalized Information Retrieval and Access: Concepts, Methods and Practices, pp. 1 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-510-8.ch001
    Conference Papers | 2008
    Williams MA, 2008, 'Representation = Grounded information', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 473 - 484, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89197-0_44
    Conference Papers | 2008
    2008, 'Comirit: Commonsense reasoning by integrating simulation and logic', in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp. 200 - 211
    Conference Papers | 2008
    2008, 'Grounded representation driven robot motion design', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 520 - 527, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68847-1_56
    Conference Papers | 2008
    2008, 'Ontology based object categorization for robots', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 219 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89447-6_21
    Conference Papers | 2008
    2008, 'Strategies for business in virtual worlds: Case studies in Second Life', in PACIS 2008 - 12th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Leveraging ICT for Resilient Organizations and Sustainable Growth in the Asia Pacific Region
    Conference Papers | 2007
    2007, 'A generic framework for approximate simulation in commonsense reasoning systems', in AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report, pp. 71 - 76
    Conference Papers | 2007
    2007, 'Understanding the mobile experience economy: A key to richer more effective M-business technologies, models and strategies', in Conference Proceedings - 6th International Conference on the Management of Mobile Business, ICMB 2007, pp. 12 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICMB.2007.70
    Conference Papers | 2006
    2006, 'A novel and practical approach towards color constancy for mobile robots using overlapping color space signatures', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 444 - 451, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11780519_40
    Conference Papers | 2006
    2006, 'ACM International Conference Proceeding Series: Preface', in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
    Conference Papers | 2006
    2006, 'Distributed sensor fusion for object tracking', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 504 - 511, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11780519_47
    Conference Papers | 2006
    2006, 'Grounded representation driven robot design', in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 63 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1232425.1232436
    Conference Papers | 2006
    2006, 'Legged robot gait locus generation based on genetic algorithms', in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 51 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1232425.1232435
    Conference Papers | 2006
    2006, 'The evolution of IS: Treasury decision support & management past, present & future', in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, pp. 89 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34732-5_9
    Conference Papers | 2005
    2005, 'An innovative interactive Web-enabled learning space for exploring intelligent mobile sensor networks and their business applications', in 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile Business, ICMB 2005, pp. 249 - 254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICMB.2005.18
    Conference Papers | 2005
    2005, 'Smart sensor networks: Communication, collaboration and business decision making in distributed complex environments', in 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile Business, ICMB 2005, pp. 242 - 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICMB.2005.94
    Conference Papers | 2005
    2005, 'Strategic management of technology-enabled disruptive innovation: Next generation web technologies', in Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, CIMCA 2005 and International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet, pp. 113 - 120
    Conference Papers | 2005
    2005, 'Understanding human strategies for change: An empirical study', in Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on the Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, pp. 137 - 149
    Conference Papers | 2004
    Tran QN; Low GC; Williams M, 2004, 'A preliminary comparative feature analysis of multi-agent systems development methodologies', in CAISE 04, Riga, Latvia, pp. 157 - 168, presented at CAISE 04, Riga, Latvia
    Conference Papers | 2004
    2004, 'Case based game play in the RoboCup four-legged league part i the theoretical model', in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science), pp. 739 - 747, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25940-4_73
    Conference Papers | 2004
    2004, 'Grounding robot sensory and symbolic information using the semantic web', in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science), pp. 757 - 764, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25940-4_75
    Conference Papers | 2003
    2003, '2003 AAAI Spring Symposium Series', in AI Magazine, pp. 131 - 139
    Conference Papers | 2003
    2003, 'A Feature Analysis Framework for Evaluating Multi-Agent System Development Methodologies', in 14th International Symposium, ISMIS 2003, Maebashi Citry, Japan, pp. 613 - 617, presented at 14th International Symposium, ISMIS 2003, Maebashi Citry, Japan, 28 October 2003 - 31 October 2003
    Conference Papers | 2003
    2003, 'An evaluation of intelligent agent based innovation in the wholesale financial services industry', in IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, pp. 91 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35692-1_6
    Conference Papers | 2003
    2003, 'Multi-level clustering and reasoning about its clusters using region connection calculus', in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science), pp. 283 - 294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36175-8_28
    Conference Papers | 2002
    2002, 'Trustworthiness of information sources and information pedigrees', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 290 - 306, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45448-9_21
    Conference Papers | 2001
    2001, 'Agent based architecture for internet marketing', in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science), pp. 158 - 169, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45408-x_17
    Conference Papers | 2001
    2001, 'Reasoning about categories in conceptual spaces', in IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 385 - 392
    Conference Papers | 2001
    2001, 'Updating epistemic states', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 297 - 308, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45656-2_26
    Conference Papers | 2001
    2001, 'Weakening conflicting information for iterated revision and knowledge integration', in IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 109 - 115
    Conference Papers | 1998
    1998, 'Revising default theories', in Proceedings of the International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, pp. 423 - 430
    Conference Papers | 1997
    1997, 'Anytime belief revision', in IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 74 - 79
    Conference Papers | 1997
    1997, 'Belief revision as database update', in Proceedings - Intelligent Information Systems, IIS 1997, pp. 410 - 414, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IIS.1997.645321
    Conference Papers | 1996
    1996, 'A system for computing constrained default logic extensions', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 237 - 250
    Conference Papers | 1996
    1996, 'Default reasoning and belief revision in the CIN project', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 691 - 693, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61313-7_110
    Conference Papers | 1995
    1995, 'Conditionalizing expectations', in ANZIIS 1995 - Proceedings of the 3rd Australian and New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information Systems, pp. 111 - 116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ANZIIS.1995.705724
    Conference Papers | 1995
    1995, 'Determining explanations using transmutations', in Mellish CS (ed.), IJCAI-95 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, VOLS 1 AND 2, MORGAN KAUFMANN PUB INC, CANADA, MONTREAL, pp. 822 - 827, presented at 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95), CANADA, MONTREAL, 20 August 1995 - 25 August 1995, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1995BE63Q00107&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Preprints |
    Dawson N; Rizoiu M-A; Johnston B; Williams M-A, Predicting Skill Shortages in Labor Markets: A Machine Learning Approach, , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3681132
    Conference Papers |
    'Strategic Management of Technology-Enabled Disruptive Innovation: Next Generation Web Technologies', in International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation and International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce (CIMCA-IAWTIC'06), IEEE, presented at International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation and International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce (CIMCA-IAWTIC'06), http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cimca.2005.1631251

AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL GRANTS

  1. Australia Research Council Discovery Project 2016 - 2018 $380,000; Project Title: Robust Intelligence: Rational Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty; Chief Investigator: Mary-Anne Williams; Partners: Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University, Sweden), Henri Prade (CNRS); Summary: Intelligent agents exercise profound and growing impact in business and society. However, significant problems arise in intelligent agent deployment as their theoretical underpinnings do not ensure rational decision making in complex real-world settings. This project will bridge the gap between theory and practice with an innovative framework for rational decision making under risk and uncertainty. It will open the door to transformational technologies that will drive new entrepreneurial opportunities in agent-based global services.
  2. Australia Research Council Linkage Project 2012 - 2014 $335,000 + significant in-kind support; Project Title: A Framework for Physical and Social Collaboration: Towards the Smarter Planet Vision; Chief Investigators: Mary-Anne Williams, and Benjamin Johnston; Partner: IBM Australia; Summary: This project developed a new approach to intelligent collaborative technologies by advancing the theory of collaborative action and developing an innovative framework and practical methods which will allow intelligent systems to undertake the collaborative actions required for applications in transport, energy management, sustainability, and healthcare.
  3. Australia Research Council Discovery Project 2012 - 2014 $320,000; Project Title: Adaptive Cyber-Physical Technologies with Attention Driven Common-sense Behaviours; Chief Investigator: Mary-Anne Williams; Partner Investigator: Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University, Sweden); Summary: This project focused on intelligent cyber-physical systems for open, complex and changing environments presents enormous scientific challenges. It developed an innovative framework, methods and tools that provide cyber-physical technologies with attention based common-sense capabilities for adapting to new, unexpected and unforeseen situations.
  4. Australia Research Council Linkage Project 2011 - 2014 $280,000 + significant in kind support; Project Title: Establishing a Next Generation Framework to Determine the Influence of Intelligent Water Metering on Householder Attitudes and Behaviours; Chief Investigators: Stuart B White, Rodney A Stewart, Mary-Anne Williams, Damien P Giurco, Kelvin R O'Hallora; Partners: Mid Coast Water and the Institute of Sustainable Futures; Summary: This project tested competing theories on how householders respond to interactive water consumption data from smart meters. The outcome is a novel framework for intelligent water management; underpinned by innovative research into causal mechanisms linking data communication to knowledge, and the impact of knowledge on attitudes and behaviours.
  5. Australia Research Council Discovery Project 2008 - 2011 $270,000; Project Title: Developing and Managing Sustainable Technology-enabled Innovation Capabilities; Chief Investigators: Steve Elliot (University of Sydney) and Mary-Anne Williams; Summary: This project helped organisations develop sustainable innovation capabilities using disruptive technologies.
  6. Australia Research Council Discovery Project 2007 - 2011 $340,000; Project Title: Planning, Communication, and Collaboration in Cognitive Systems; Chief Investigator: Mary-Anne Williams; Partner: Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University, Sweden); Summary: This project developed a better understanding of collaboration in complex environments.
  7. Australia Research Council Discovery Project 2004 – 2007 $150,000; Project Title: Intelligent Agent and Semantic Web empowered eFinance: A Knowledge Management Approach to enable and sustain Innovation; Chief Investigators: Mary-Anne Williams and Steve Elliot (University of Sydney) Partner: Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck, Austria); Summary: This research project made strong theoretical advances by developing an integrated and scalable knowledge engineering approach to the problems confronting Australian Industry.
  8. Australia Research Council Discovery Project 2002 – 2006 $200,000; Project Title: Agent-Oriented Concept Management; Chief Investigator: Mary-Anne Williams; Partner: Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University, Sweden); Summary: In order for agents to communicate effectively they must share concepts, and attribute the same meaning to shared concepts. We developed a innovative approach to concept management a new area of research with important application to intelligent systems.
  9. Australia Research Council Project 2000 - 2003 $200,000; Project Title: Information and Knowledge Integration; Chief Investigator: Mary-Anne Williams; Partner: Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete, Greece); Summary: One of the key issues in global information infrastructures like the World Wide Web and enterprise networks is the ability to combine information from different sources in meaningful ways.
  10. Australia Research Council Project 1998 - 2001 $180,000; Project Title: Exception-Tolerant Information Systems for Managing Uncertain Information; Chief Investigators: Mary-Anne Williams; Partners: Didier Dubois and Henri Prade (CNRS, France); Summary: This project designed and developed exception-tolerant techniques to allow business systems to perform effectively when using qualitatively uncertain information.
  11. Australia Research Council Project 1997 - 2000 $200,000; Project Title: Reasoning with Changing and Incomplete Information Project; Chief Investigators: Mary-Anne Williams and Grigoris Antoniou; Summary: Developed a decision making framework for handling decisions based on changing and incomplete information using techniques from Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.
  12. Australia Research Council Project 1996 - 1999 $170,000; Project Title: Entrenchment Based Reasoning about Action; Chief Investigators: Norman Foo UNSW, Pavlos Peppas and Mary-Anne Williams; Summary: This project developed innovative algorithms for challenging planning problems that allowed for changing requirements.

Fellow, AAAI 2022

Most Outstanding Faculty Advisor, Enactus Australia

Google International Faculty Award Machine Learning 2021-2022

Google International Faculty Award Machine Learning 2019 - 2020

Australasian Artificial Intelligence Distinguished Research Contribution Award 2019

Fellow, Australia Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), 2015

Fellow, Australian Computer Society (ACS), 2014

Pauli Fellowship, Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, 2008

IBM Faculty Award2007

University of Edinburgh Law School Fellowship Award 2006 - 2008

Commonwealth Fellowship, Australian Academy of Science 1996

British Council Fellowship 1996

Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award 1994 Comp Sc Association (CORE)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can enhance, improve and scale human expertise is dramatically changing and impacting our social and working lives, influencing how we perceive and interact with the physical and digital world. 

Society is rapidly moving into the AI-Age where individuals, citizens, societal groups, businesses, governments and the global economy increasingly rely on the perceptions, decisions and actions of AI. 

Human-AI collaboration is the study of how humans and AI work together to accomplish tasks and shared goals. 

My research focuses on addressing the significant barriers and risks that prevent AI from delivering the extraordinary benefits it has the potential to generate. Today, AI can outperform humans in making predictions, but it cannot explain its predictions to humans. People are often unable to find the insights fro blackbox AI technologies to fully realise the benefit of AI. Without insights and understanding, humans cannot demonstrate the extent to which AI algorithms are safe, fair and responsible. This is an urgent problem that needs to be solve. We need robust AI solutions to unlock the benefits for business, society and humanity.

A related research focus is explainable AI. Today, however, AI is not transparent or accountable, unable to explain perceptions, decisions and actions. AI that cannot explain its behaviour and decisions is a significant problem for business, government and society. 

People need explanations to develop trust and confidence in AI, execute AI recommendations, and accept AI actions and outcomes. Furthermore, regulators insist that business, industry and government demonstrate that their AI algorithms comply with the law. How will AI systems avoid discrimination against specific groups, and comply with anti-discrimination law?

My current focus is on developing new approaches to eXplainable AI (XAI) as a means of making AI more transparent, accountable, and trustworthy. Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to have a profound impact on all aspects of business, government and civil society. To help bring more clarity and to explore potential solutions to the rapidly growing urgent issues, we launched the AI Policy Hub in 2018.

You can find one of my papers at the Royal Society that outlines how Australia can lead in the new AI-driven world. It is provides a summary of a presentation to the four esteemed national academies at NSW Government House in Australia in November 2018. 

My Research Supervision

 

 

 

CURRENT PhD Students

  • Lauren Hass Jones: Adventure Thinking and Business Strategy. 

 

GRADUATED PhD Students

2023

  • Sidra Alam: Persuasion in Human-Robot Collaboration: Exploring intelligent and robust persuasive behaviours to support human-robot collaboration. Co-supervised with Benjamin Johnston and Jaime Valls Miro.

2022

  • Sarita Herse: Building Trusted Technology in Human-Centric Intelligent Environments. Sarita has a Bachelor of Psychology with Honours from UNSW. She received the Best Paper Award – International Conference on Social Robotics 2019, and was co-supervised with Benjamin Johnston, Jonathan Vitale and Christopher Jackson.

2021

  • Nikolas Dawson: Economic Impact of AI and the Future of Work. Nik was awarded a fellowship to work at the United Nations and a 2020 OECD Future of Work Fellowship. Nik was co-supervised together with Benjamin Johnston and Marian-Andrei Rizoiu.
  • Sammy Pfeiffer, Autonomy for Intelligent Social Robots: Exploring mechanism to help robots make autonomous decisions as they carry out their missions unsupervised.  Sammy is co-supervised with Benjamin Johnston.
  • Meg Tonkin, Sociable Human-Robot Interaction. Meg won the Social Robot Design Award in 2018. Meg was co-supervised with Benjamin Johnston.

2020

  • Suman Ohja: Ethics and Emotion using Artificial Intelligence: Exploring how to embed ethics into social robots decision making. Gained First Place in the Master of IT at The University of Sydney in 2015. 
2019
  • Mahya Mirzaei Poueinag: Disruptive Innovation: Integrating Business Analytics and Design Thinking. CBA Top-Up. 99.8 ATAR B Aeronautical Space Engineering at the University of Sydney, Funded on an APA with ARC Discovery and CBA Top-Up. Awarded 2xIBM PhD Fellowships US$40K. Also joined UTS Hatchery+ Entrepreneurship Program. Supervised with Benjamin Johnston.  
  • Srinivas Madhisetty: Managing Privacy in Photos and Videos in Social Media Applications. Supervised with Benjamin Johnston. 
2018
  • Syed Ali Raza, Reinforcement Learning using Human Demonstration. ARC-funded scholarship and project focused on machine learning techniques for teaching robots new behaviours through human demonstration. Supervised with Benjamin Johnston. 
  • Mark.van Rijmenam, Organisations in times of disruption: Towards a data-driven framework for sustained competitive advantage. Supervised with Jochen Schweitzer.
2017
  • Jonathan Vitale, Cognitive Robotics. International Student Italy. Funded on an ARC Discovery complimentary APA. Supervised with Benjamin Johnston. 
  • Muhammad Anshar, Designing New Automated Behaviours and Skills. International Student Indonesia. Funded on a 4-Year Endeavour Leadership Scholarship.  
2016
  • Wei Wang, Social Network for Automated Share Information and Skills. International Student, IBM PhD Fellowship. Supervised with Benjamin Johnston. 
  • Shaukat Abedi, Semi-Supervised and Unsupervised Extensions to Maximum-Margin Structured Prediction: ARC-funded scholarship and project focused on machine learning techniques for recognising human activity. Supervised with Massimo Picardi.  
  • Nima Ramezani Taghiabadi, Optimising Robot Motion. Funded on APA with CBA Top-Up. Previously working as a researcher at the German Research Institute in AI. Now working as a Senior Data Scientist at CBA.  
2015
  • Rony Novianto, Attention-based Cognitive Architecture: funded on an ARC Discovery Project. Received an Endeavour Fellowship to work at Lund University Sweden 2011, and an IBM PhD Fellowship 2012. Supervised with Benjamin Johnston. 
  • Edward Wei, Designing an innovative human-ai decision system for marketing managers to predict customer choices.
2014
  • Shan Chen, Privacy and Personal Information Management: funded on an APA and ARC Discovery Project. Received an Endeavour Fellowship to work at Indiana University at Bloomington USA in 2012.  
  • Edward Wei, Learning How to Make Good Decisions: co-supervised with Professor Jordan Louviere.
2013
  • Xun Wang, An Innovative Framework for Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Management: funded on an ARC Discovery Project. Received IBM PhD Fellowship 2010-2011. Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow. Currently leads the CBA's Social Robotics program.
2012
  • Jebrin Sharawneh, Recommendation in Social Networks using AI: funded on an APA. Received a Best Paper Award at a top-tier conference in Information Systems. Currently, developing a Start-Up based on an AI recommender system he developed for his PhD.  
2011
  • Benjamin Johnston, Commonsense Reasoning: First Class Honours & University Medal, University of Queensland. Won 2011 UTS Chancellor’s Award for the Best PhD Dissertation. Nominated to ACM Best Dissertation. Won the Kurzweil Prize for Most Creative Idea in Artificial Intelligence 2011. UTS Chancellor’s Post-Doc 2012 - 2015.  
2009
  • Muh Anshar, High-Performance Robot Motion: Master of Science (International Student). Funded on an Endeavour Scholarship. Returned to undertake a PhD.
2008
  • Christopher Stanton, Grounding Representations. First Class Honours, Dean’s Medal University of Newcastle. Funded on a Faculty Scholarship. 
2006
  • Numi Tran, Agent-Oriented System Design Methodology. (First Class Honours and the University Medal University of Newcastle).  
2004
  • Suku SInna, A New Approach to Marketing: Classifying Customers using Conceptual Spaces. Currently, leading his own AI start-up.  
2002
  • Wei Liu, A New Approach to Belief Revision. PhD was funded on a highly competitive IPRS. Currently, Associate Professor at UWA.