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Kiko: Programming Agents to Enact Interaction Protocols
Samuel H. Christie, Munindar P. Singh, Amit K. Chopra
Realizing a multiagent system involves implementing member agents who interact based on a protocol while making decisions in a decentralized manner. Current programming models for…
CoSiNES: Contrastive Siamese Network for Entity Standardization
Jiaqing Yuan, Michele Merler, Mihir Choudhury +3
Entity standardization maps noisy mentions from free-form text to standard entities in a knowledge base. The unique challenge of this task relative to other entity-related tasks is…
Conversation Modeling to Predict Derailment
Jiaqing Yuan, Munindar P. Singh
Conversations among online users sometimes derail, i.e., break down into personal attacks. Such derailment has a negative impact on the healthy growth of cyberspace communities. Th…
PACO: Provocation Involving Action, Culture, and Oppression
Vaibhav Garg, Ganning Xu, Munindar P. Singh
In India, people identify with a particular group based on certain attributes such as religion. The same religious groups are often provoked against each other. Previous studies sh…
Extracting Incidents, Effects, and Requested Advice from MeToo Posts
Vaibhav Garg, Jiaqing Yuan, Rujie Xi +1
Survivors of sexual harassment frequently share their experiences on social media, revealing their feelings and emotions and seeking advice. We observed that on Reddit, survivors r…
Understanding Mobile App Reviews to Guide Misuse Audits
Vaibhav Garg, Hui Guo, Nirav Ajmeri +2
Problem: We address the challenge in responsible computing where an exploitable mobile app is misused by one app user (an abuser) against another user or bystander (victim). We int…
The blame game: Understanding blame assignment in social media
Ruijie Xi, Munindar P. Singh
Cognitive and psychological studies on morality have proposed underlying linguistic and semantic factors. However, laboratory experiments in the philosophical literature often lack…
Morality in the mundane: Categorizing moral reasoning in real-life social situations
Ruijie Xi, Munindar P. Singh
Moral reasoning reflects how people acquire and apply moral rules in particular situations. With increasingly social interactions happening online, social media data provides an un…
Socially Intelligent Genetic Agents for the Emergence of Explicit Norms
Rishabh Agrawal, Nirav Ajmeri, Munindar P. Singh
Norms help regulate a society. Norms may be explicit (represented in structured form) or implicit. We address the emergence of explicit norms by developing agents who provide and r…
Consent as a Foundation for Responsible Autonomy
Munindar P. Singh
This paper focuses on a dynamic aspect of responsible autonomy, namely, to make intelligent agents be responsible at run time. That is, it considers settings where decision making…
Pippi: Practical Protocol Instantiation
Samuel H. Christie, Amit K. Chopra, Munindar P. Singh
A protocol specifies interactions between roles, which together constitute a multiagent system (MAS). Enacting a protocol presupposes that agents are bound to the its roles. Existi…
Governance of Autonomous Agents on the Web: Challenges and Opportunities
Timotheus Kampik, Adnane Mansour, Olivier Boissier +6
The study of autonomous agents has a long tradition in the Multiagent Systems and the Semantic Web communities, with applications ranging from automating business processes to pers…
Foureye: Defensive Deception based on Hypergame Theory Against Advanced Persistent Threats
Zelin Wan, Jin-Hee Cho, Mu Zhu +3
Defensive deception techniques have emerged as a promising proactive defense mechanism to mislead an attacker and thereby achieve attack failure. However, most game-theoretic defen…
Moral and Social Ramifications of Autonomous Vehicles
Veljko Dubljević, Sean Douglas, Jovan Milojevich +4
Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) raise important social and ethical concerns, especially about accountability, dignity, and justice. We focus on the specific concerns arising from how AV…
Game-Theoretic and Machine Learning-based Approaches for Defensive Deception: A Survey
Mu Zhu, Ahmed H. Anwar, Zelin Wan +3
Defensive deception is a promising approach for cyber defense. Via defensive deception, the defender can anticipate attacker actions; it can mislead or lure attacker, or hide real…
Prosocial Norm Emergence in Multiagent Systems
Mehdi Mashayekhi, Nirav Ajmeri, George F. List +1
Multiagent systems provide a basis for developing systems of autonomous entities and thus find application in a variety of domains. We consider a setting where not only the member…
Octa: Omissions and Conflicts in Target-Aspect Sentiment Analysis
Zhe Zhang, Chung-Wei Hang, Munindar P. Singh
Sentiments in opinionated text are often determined by both aspects and target words (or targets). We observe that targets and aspects interrelate in subtle ways, often yielding co…
Norms and Sanctions as a Basis for Promoting Cybersecurity Practices
Nirav Ajmeri, Shubham Goyal, Munindar P. Singh
Many cybersecurity breaches occur due to users not following good cybersecurity practices, chief among them being regulations for applying software patches to operating systems, up…
Optimizing Vulnerability-Driven Honey Traffic Using Game Theory
Iffat Anjum, Mohammad Sujan Miah, Mu Zhu +4
Enterprises are increasingly concerned about adversaries that slowly and deliberately exploit resources over the course of months or even years. A key step in this kill chain is ne…
Leveraging Structural and Semantic Correspondence for Attribute-Oriented Aspect Sentiment Discovery
Zhe Zhang, Munindar P. Singh
Opinionated text often involves attributes such as authorship and location that influence the sentiments expressed for different aspects. We posit that structural and semantic corr…
An Evaluation of Communication Protocol Languages for Engineering Multiagent Systems
Amit K. Chopra, Samuel H. Christie, Munindar P. Singh
Communication protocols are central to engineering decentralized multiagent systems. Modern protocol languages are typically formal and address aspects of decentralization, such as…
The Causal Link between News Framing and Legislation
Karthik Sheshadri, Chung-Wei Hang, Munindar Singh
We demonstrate that framing, a subjective aspect of news, is a causal precursor to both significant public perception changes, and to federal legislation. We posit, counter-intuiti…
Framing Matters: Predicting Framing Changes and Legislation from Topic News Patterns
Karthik Sheshadri, Chung-Wei Hang, Munindar Singh
News has traditionally been well researched, with studies ranging from sentiment analysis to event detection and topic tracking. We extend the focus to two surprisingly under-resea…
Violable Contracts and Governance for Blockchain Applications
Munindar P. Singh, Amit K. Chopra
We examine blockchain technologies, especially smart contracts, as a platform for decentralized applications. By providing a basis for consensus, blockchain promises to upend busin…