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Instilling Organisational Values in Firefighters through Simulation-Based Training
Nardine Osman, Manel Rodriguez-Soto, Jordi Sabater-Mir
In firefighting and other emergency operations, decisions made under pressure carry profound ethical weight and can significantly impact incident outcomes and firefighter safety. T…
Can Poverty Be Reduced by Acting on Discrimination? An Agent-based Model for Policy Making
Alba Aguilera, Nieves Montes, Georgina Curto +2
In the last decades, there has been a deceleration in the rates of poverty reduction, suggesting that traditional redistributive approaches to poverty mitigation could be losing ef…
Leveraging Diversity in Online Interactions
Nardine Osman, Bruno Rosell i Gui, Carles Sierra
This paper addresses the issue of connecting people online to help them find support with their day-to-day problems. We make use of declarative norms for mediating online interacti…
Human Values in Multiagent Systems
Nardine Osman, Mark d'Inverno
One of the major challenges we face with ethical AI today is developing computational systems whose reasoning and behaviour are provably aligned with human values. Human values, ho…
An Agent-Based Model for Poverty and Discrimination Policy-Making
Nieves Montes, Georgina Curto, Nardine Osman +1
The deceleration of global poverty reduction in the last decades suggests that traditional redistribution policies are losing their effectiveness. Alternative ways to work towards…
Value Engineering for Autonomous Agents
Nieves Montes, Nardine Osman, Carles Sierra +1
Machine Ethics (ME) is concerned with the design of Artificial Moral Agents (AMAs), i.e. autonomous agents capable of reasoning and behaving according to moral values. Previous app…
uHelp: intelligent volunteer search for mutual help communities
Nardine Osman, Bruno Rosell, Carles Sierra +3
When people need help with their day-to-day activities, they turn to family, friends or neighbours. But despite an increasingly networked world, technology falls short in finding s…
Combining Theory of Mind and Abduction for Cooperation under Imperfect Information
Nieves Montes, Nardine Osman, Carles Sierra
In this paper, we formalise and implement an agent model for cooperation under imperfect information. It is based on Theory of Mind (the cognitive ability to understand the mental…
Value alignment: a formal approach
Carles Sierra, Nardine Osman, Pablo Noriega +2
principles that should govern autonomous AI systems. It essentially states that a system's goals and behaviour should be aligned with human values. But how to ensure value alignmen…
A Computational Model of the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework
Nieves Montes
The Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework is a conceptual toolbox put forward by Elinor Ostrom and colleagues in an effort to identify and delineate the universal…
Learning for Detecting Norm Violation in Online Communities
Thiago Freitas dos Santos, Nardine Osman, Marco Schorlemmer
In this paper, we focus on normative systems for online communities. The paper addresses the issue that arises when different community members interpret these norms in different w…
MORE: Merged Opinions Reputation Model
Nardine Osman, Alessandro Provetti, Valerio Riggi +1
Reputation is generally defined as the opinion of a group on an aspect of a thing. This paper presents a reputation model that follows a probabilistic modelling of opinions based o…