Robust Intelligence: Rational Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty

Funding: 2016: $120,000
2017: $140,000
2018: $120,000

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2016

Summary: This project seeks to bridge the gap between theory and practice with an innovative framework for rational decision-making under risk and uncertainty. 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. The project aims to open the door to transformational technologies that may drive new entrepreneurial opportunities in agent-based global services.

Publications:

Aravanis, T, Peppas, P & Williams, M-A 2021, 'An investigation of parametrized difference revision operators', Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 89, no. 1-2, pp. 7-28.
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van Rijmenam, M, Erekhinskaya, T, Schweitzer, J & Williams, M-A 2019, 'Avoid being the Turkey: How big data analytics changes the game of strategy in times of ambiguity and uncertainty', Long Range Planning, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 101841-101841.
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Gärdenfors, P, Williams, MA, Johnston, B, Billingsley, R, Vitale, J, Peppas, P & Clark, J 1970, 'Event boards as tools for holistic AI', CEUR Workshop Proceedings, International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition, CEUR, Palermo, Italy, pp. 1-10.

Gudi, SLKC, Ojha, S, Sidra, Johnston, B & Williams, M-A 1970, 'A Proactive Robot Tutor Based on Emotional Intelligence', Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications, Springer International Publishing, Korea, pp. 113-120.
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Madhisetty, S & Williams, M-A 1970, 'The Role of Trust and Control in Managing Privacy When Photos and Videos Are Stored or Shared', Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Future Technologies Conference, Springer International Publishing, Vancouver, BC (Canada), pp. 127-140.
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Madhisetty, S, Williams, M-A, Massy-Greene, J, Franco, L & El Khoury, M 1970, 'How to Manage Privacy in Photos after Publication', Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Greece, pp. 162-168.
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Ojha, S, Gudi, SLKC, Vitale, J, Williams, M-A & Johnston, B 1970, 'I Remember What You Did: A Behavioural Guide-Robot', Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications, Springer International Publishing, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 273-282.
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Skillicorn, D, Alsadhan, N, Billingsley, R & Williams, M-A 1970, 'Measuring Human Emotion in Short Documents to Improve Social Robot and Agent Interactions', ADCAIJ : Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal, Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Springer International Publishing, Kingston, Canada, pp. 29-41.
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Peppas, P & Williams, MA 1970, 'Parametrised difference revision', Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference, KR 2018, International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Tempe, USA, pp. 277-286.

Agrawal, S & Williams, M-A 1970, 'Robot Authority and Human Obedience', Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI '17: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, ACM, Vienna, Austria, pp. 57-58.
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Aravanis, T, Peppas, P & Williams, M-A 1970, 'Epistemic-entrenchment Characterization of Parikh’s Axiom', Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 772-778.
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Billingsley, R, Billingsley, J, Gärdenfors, P, Peppas, P, Prade, H, Skillicorn, DB & Williams, M-A 1970, 'The Altruistic Robot: Do What I Want, Not Just What I Say.', SUM, International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management, Springer, Granada, Spain, pp. 149-162.
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Tonkin, M, Vitale, J, Ojha, S, Clark, J, Pfeiffer, S, Judge, W, Wang, X & Williams, M-A 1970, 'Embodiment, Privacy and Social Robots: May I Remember You?', Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), International Conference on Social Robotics, Springer International Publishing, Tsukuba, Japan, pp. 506-515.
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Van Rijmenam, M, Schweitzer, J & Williams, M-A 2017, 'A Distributed Future:How Blockchain Affects Strategic Management, Organisation Design & Governance', Academy of Management, USA, pp. 14807-14807.
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Surden, H & Williams, M-A 2016, 'How Self-Driving Cars Work', SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Surden, H & Williams, M-A 2016, 'Technological Opacity, Predictability, and Self-Driving Cars', Cardozo Law Review, vol. 38, pp. 1-52.

Peppas, P & Williams, M-A 1970, 'Kinetic Consistency and Relevance in Belief Revision', Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Logics in Artificial Intelligence, European Conference, Springer International Publishing, Larnaca, Cyprus, pp. 401-414.
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Raza, SA, Johnston, B & Williams, MA 1970, 'Reward from demonstration in interactive reinforcement learning', Proceedings of the 29th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2016, pp. 414-417.

Romat, H, Williams, M-A, Wang, X, Johnston, B, Bard, H & ACM 1970, 'Natural Human-Robot Interaction Using Social Cues', ELEVENTH ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN ROBOT INTERATION (HRI'16), ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI), IEEE, Christchurch, New Zealand, pp. 503-504.
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Vitale, J, Williams, M-A & Johnston, B 1970, 'The face-space duality hypothesis: a computational model', Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, pp. 514-519.

Antoniou, G & Williams, MA 1997, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, MIT Press.
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FOR Codes: Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics, Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences, Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Intelligent robotics, Expanding knowledge in psychology

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.