Orchid Project

@inproceedings{
  orchid254,
  booktitle = {CHI 2016},
  title = {It is too hot: an in-situ study of three designs for heating },
  author = {Alper Alan and Mike Shann and Enrico Costanza and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and Sven Seuken},
  year = {2016},
  keywords = {Energy Management, Applications},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/254/1/proceedings.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid260,
  booktitle = {AAMAS 16: 15th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems},
  title = {Online planning for collaborative search and rescue by heterogeneous robot teams},
  author = {Z Beck and W L Teacy and Alex Rogers and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2016},
keywords = {Human-Agent Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, Mechanism Design, Machine Learning, Applications, Agile Teaming, Incentive Engineering} }

@article{
  orchid251,
  title = {Human-agent collaboration for disaster response },
  author = {Sarvapali D Ramchurn and Feng Wu and J.E. Fischer and Steven Reece and W Jiang and Stephen J Roberts and T Rodden and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2016},
  pages = {1--30},
  journal = {Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems},
keywords = {Disaster Recovery, Human-Agent Interaction, Accountable Information Infrastructure, Applications, Agile Teaming, Flexible Autonomy, Incentive Engineering} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid257,
  booktitle = {AAMAS 16: 15th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems},
  title = {Bid2Charge: Market user interface design for electric vehicle charging},
  author = {Sebastian Stein and Enrico H Gerding and A Nadea and Avi Rosenfeld and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2016},
keywords = {Energy Management, Human-Agent Interaction, Applications, Incentive Engineering} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid258,
  booktitle = {AAMAS 16: 15th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems},
  title = {Fault tolerant mechanism design for general task allocation},
  author = {D Zhao and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2016},
keywords = {Mechanism Design, Applications, Incentive Engineering} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid233,
  booktitle = {The 1st International Workshop on Smart Cities: People, Technology and Data},
  title = {Managing energy tariffs with agents: a field study of a future smart energy system at home.},
  author = {Alper Alan and Enrico Costanza and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and J.E. Fischer and T Rodden and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2015},
  keywords = {Energy Management, Human-Computer Interaction, Applications},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/233/1/alan.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid221,
  booktitle = {CHI 2015},
  title = {Building a Bird's Eye View: Collaborative Work},
  author = {J.E. Fischer and S Reeves and T Rodden and Steven Reece and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and David Jones},
  year = {2015},
keywords = {Human-Agent Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction, Applications} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid240,
  booktitle = {ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems},
  title = {Consumer targeting in residential demand response programmes },
  author = {James Holyhead and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and Alex Rogers},
  year = {2015},
  keywords = {Energy Management, Applications},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/240/1/eEnergy2015%5fprePrint.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid228,
  booktitle = {AAMAS-15 : 14th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems },
  title = {ADA-HEAT: A general adaptive intelligent agent for domestic heating control},
  author = {Athanasios Aris Panagopoulos and Moody Alam and Alex Rogers and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2015},
keywords = {Energy Management, Human-Agent Interaction, Applications, Agile Teaming} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid242,
  booktitle = {IJCAI 15},
  title = {A Study of Human-Agent Collaboration for Multi-UAV Task Allocation in Dynamic Environments},
  author = {Sarvapali D Ramchurn and J.E. Fischer and Yuki Ikuno and Feng Wu and J Flann and Antony Waldock},
  year = {2015},
  keywords = {Disaster Recovery, Human-Agent Interaction, Applications, Agile Teaming, Flexible Autonomy},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/242/1/ramchurn%5fetal%5fijcai.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid230,
  booktitle = {AAMAS-15 : 14th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems },
  title = {HAC-ER: A disaster response system based on human-agent collectives},
  author = {Sarvapali D Ramchurn and Edwin Simpson and J.E. Fischer and T. Dong Huynh and Yuki Ikuno and Steven Reece and W Jiang and Feng Wu and J Flann and Stephen J Roberts and T Rodden and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2015},
keywords = {Disaster Recovery, Human-Agent Interaction, Accountable Information Infrastructure, Applications, Agile Teaming, Flexible Autonomy, Incentive Engineering} }

@article{
  orchid226,
  title = {Human-agent collaboration for disaster response},
  author = {Sarvapali D Ramchurn and Feng Wu and J.E. Fischer and Steven Reece and W Jiang and Stephen J Roberts and T Rodden and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2015},
  journal = {Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. },
keywords = {Disaster Recovery, Human-Agent Interaction, Applications} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid253,
  booktitle = {HCOMP 2015: Third AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing},
  title = {CrowdAR: augmenting live video with a real-time crowd},
  author = {Elliot Salisbury and Sebastian Stein and Sarvapali D Ramchurn},
  year = {2015},
  keywords = {Crowd-sourcing, Applications},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/253/1/salisbury%5fhcomp2015.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid243,
  booktitle = {AAMAS-15 : 14th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems },
  title = {Real-time opinion aggregation methods for crowd robotics},
  author = {Elliot Salisbury and Sebastian Stein and Sarvapali D Ramchurn},
  year = {2015},
  keywords = {Crowd-sourcing, Mechanism Design, Applications},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/243/1/document.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid236,
  booktitle = {WWW 15},
  title = {Language Understanding in the Wild: Combining Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning},
  author = {Edwin Simpson and Matteo Venanzi and Steven Reece and Pushmeet Kohli and John Guiver and Stephen J Roberts and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2015},
  pages = {992--1002},
  keywords = {Crowd-sourcing, Machine Learning, Applications, Incentive Engineering},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/236/1/WWW15-BCCWords.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid227,
  booktitle = {AAMAS-15 : 14th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems },
  title = {Observation modelling for vision-based target search by unmanned aerial vehicles},
  author = {W L Teacy and S Julier and R De Nardi and Alex Rogers and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2015},
keywords = {Human-Robot Interaction, Machine Learning, Applications, Agile Teaming} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid248,
  booktitle = {he Third AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP-2015)},
  title = {The ACTIVE CROWD TOOLKIT: An Open-Source Tool for Benchmarking Active Learning Algorithms for Crowdsourcing Research},
  author = {Matteo Venanzi and Oliver Parson and Alex Rogers and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2015},
  keywords = {Crowd-sourcing, Mechanism Design, Machine Learning, Applications},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/248/1/main.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid239,
  booktitle = {IJCAI 15},
  title = {Agile Planning for Real-World Disaster Response.},
  author = {Feng Wu and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and W Jiang and J.E. Fischer and T Rodden and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2015},
  keywords = {Agent-based Computing, Disaster Recovery, Mechanism Design, Applications, Agile Teaming, Flexible Autonomy, Incentive Engineering},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/239/1/main.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid229,
  booktitle = {AAMAS-15 : 14th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems },
  title = {Coordinating measurements for air pollution monitoring in participatory sensing settings},
  author = {Alexandros Zenonos and Sebastian Stein and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2015},
keywords = {Human-Agent Interaction, Machine Learning, Applications} }

@article{
  orchid204,
  number = {217},
  month = {August},
  title = {An Unsupervised Training Method for Non-intrusive Appliance Load Monitoring},
  author = {Oliver Parson and Siddhartha Ghosh and Mark Weal and Alex Rogers},
  year = {2014},
  pages = {1--19},
  journal = {Artificial Intelligence},
  keywords = {Energy Management, Applications, Agile Teaming},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/204/1/nialm-aij.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid244,
  booktitle = {ACM BuildSys 2014},
  title = {Applying Extended Kalman Filters to Adaptive Thermal Modelling in Homes},
  author = {Moody Alam and Athanasios Aris Panagopoulos and Alex Rogers and Nicholas R Jennings and James Scott},
  year = {2014},
  keywords = {Energy Management, Applications, Agile Teaming},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/244/1/Alam-Final.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid223,
  booktitle = { International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy)},
  title = {NILMTK: An Open Source Toolkit for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring },
  author = {Nipun Batra and Jack Kelly and Oliver Parson and Haimonti Dutta and William Knottenbelt and Alex Rogers and Amarjeet Singh and Mani Srivastava},
  year = {2014},
  keywords = {Energy Management, Applications, Agile Teaming},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/223/1/NILMTK.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid181,
  booktitle = {ACM CHI 2014},
  title = {Doing the Laundry with Agents: a Field Trial of a Future Smart Energy System in the Home.},
  author = {Enrico Costanza and J.E. Fischer and J Colley and T Rodden and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2014},
  keywords = {Energy Management, Human-Agent Interaction, Applications},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/181/1/battery%25202.2%5fb%5fauthor.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid205,
  booktitle = {ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp ?14).},
  title = {Energy Advisors at Work: Charity Work Practices to Support People in Fuel Poverty},
  author = {J.E. Fischer and Enrico Costanza and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and J Colley and T Rodden},
  year = {2014},
  keywords = {Energy Management, Applications},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/205/1/UbiComp2014%5fEnergy-Advisors-at-Work%5fauthor-version.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid192,
  booktitle = {11th Int. Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP ?14)},
  title = {Supporting Team Coordination on the Ground: Requirements from a Mixed Reality Game. },
  author = {J.E. Fischer and W Jiang and A Kerne and C Greenhalgh and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and Steven Reece and N Pantidi and T Rodden},
  year = {2014},
  keywords = {Disaster Recovery, Human-Agent Interaction, Applications, Flexible Autonomy},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/192/1/COOP2014-Fischer-author-version.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid212,
  booktitle = {12th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM)},
  title = {Supporting Tool for Cooperative Work Analysis Based on Distributed Cognition},
  author = {S. Inoue and Stuart Moran and K. Nakata},
  year = {2014},
keywords = {Human-Computer Interaction, Applications} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid182,
  booktitle = {Third IEEE Workshop on the Social Implications of Pervasive Computing for Sustainable Living },
  title = {Using Adaptive Architecture to Support Yoga Practices: Social Considerations for Design},
  author = {N Jaeger and Stuart Moran and H Schnadelbach},
  year = {2014},
keywords = {Human-Computer Interaction, Applications} }

@article{
  orchid198,
  title = {On human-agent collectives},
  author = {Nicholas R Jennings and Luc Moreau and David Nicholson and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and Stephen J Roberts and T Rodden and Alex Rogers},
  year = {2014},
  journal = {Communications of the ACM },
  keywords = {Agent-based Computing, Crowd-sourcing, Disaster Recovery, Energy Management, Human Computation, Provenance, Ubiquitous Computing, Accountable Information Infrastructure, Applications, Agile Teaming, Flexible Autonomy, Incentive Engineering},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/198/1/CACM%2520HAC%2520ARTICLE%2520%2520final.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid191,
  booktitle = {2014 Int. Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems },
  title = {Social Implications of Agent-based Planning Support for Human Teams. },
  author = {W Jiang and J.E. Fischer and C Greenhalgh and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and Feng Wu and Nicholas R Jennings and T Rodden},
  year = {2014},
  keywords = {Disaster Recovery, Human-Computer Interaction, Applications},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/191/1/CTS2014-Jiang-author-version.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid183,
  booktitle = {Third IEEE Workshop on the Social Implications of Pervasive Computing for Sustainable Living },
  title = {Social Networks and Ubiquitous monitoring: An Application of the PSA-BI Model.},
  author = {Stuart Moran},
  year = {2014},
keywords = {Human-Computer Interaction, Applications} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid184,
  booktitle = {Third IEEE Workshop on the Social Implications of Pervasive Computing for Sustainable Living },
  title = {Field Testing a Rare Species Bioacoustic Smartphone Application: Challenges and Considerations.},
  author = {N Pantidi and Stuart Moran and Khaled Bachour and T Rodden and Davide Zilli and Geoff V. Merrett and Alex Rogers},
  year = {2014},
keywords = {Human-Computer Interaction, Applications} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid209,
  booktitle = {23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)},
  title = {Community-Based Bayesian Aggregation Models for Crowdsourcing},
  author = {Matteo Venanzi and John Guiver and Gabriella Kazai and Pushmeet Kohli and Milad Shokouhi},
  year = {2014},
  keywords = {Crowd-sourcing, Applications, Incentive Engineering},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/209/1/vkgsk%5fwww2014.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid208,
  booktitle = {Third Workshop on Design Patterns in Games. Foundations in Digital Games Conference 2014},
  title = {Introducing Pattern Cards for Mixed Reality Game Design},
  author = {Richard Wetzel},
  year = {2014},
  keywords = {Human-Computer Interaction, Applications, Flexible Autonomy},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/208/1/dpg2014%5fpaper%5f03%281%29.pdf} }

@article{
  orchid222,
  volume = {51},
  title = {A Hidden Markov Model-Based Acoustic Cicada Detector for Crowdsourced Smartphone Biodiversity Monitoring.},
  author = {Davide Zilli and Oliver Parson and Geoff V. Merrett and Alex Rogers},
  year = {2014},
  pages = {805--827},
  journal = {Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research},
  keywords = {Crowd-sourcing, Human-Agent Interaction, Applications, Agile Teaming},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/222/1/zilli14a.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid149,
  booktitle = {Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)},
  month = {July},
  title = {Learning periodic human behaviour models from sparse data for crowdsourcing aid delivery in developing countries},
  author = {James McInerney and Alex Rogers and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2013},
  pages = {401--410},
  keywords = {Crowd-sourcing, Applications, Incentive Engineering},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/149/1/uai.pdf} }

@article{
  orchid146,
  title = {Agent-Based Decentralised Coordination for Sensor Networks using the Max-Sum Algorithm},
  author = {Alessandro Farinelli and Alex Rogers and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2013},
  journal = {Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems },
  keywords = {Agent-based Computing, Applications, Agile Teaming},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/146/1/main.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid206,
  booktitle = {DE2013: Open Digital ? The Fourth Annual Digital Economy All Hands Meeting},
  title = {Fuel Poverty and the Work of Energy Advisors},
  author = {J.E. Fischer and Enrico Costanza and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and Alex Rogers and T Rodden},
  year = {2013},
  keywords = {Energy Management, Applications},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/206/1/de2013%5fsubmission%5f66.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid98,
  booktitle = {International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces },
  title = {Recommending energy tariffs and load shifting based on smart household usage profiling},
  author = {J.E. Fischer and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and Michael A Osborne and Oliver Parson and T. Dong Huynh and Moody Alam and N Pantidi and Stuart Moran and Khaled Bachour and Steven Reece and Enrico Costanza and T Rodden and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2013},
  pages = {383--394},
  keywords = {Energy Management, Accountable Information Infrastructure, Applications, Agile Teaming, Flexible Autonomy},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/98/1/IUI2013-agentswitch-camera-ready.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid136,
  booktitle = {Twenty-Sixth Conference of the Association for the Advancement for Artificial Intelligence},
  title = {Competing with humans at fantasy football: team formation in large partially-observable domains.},
  author = {Tim Matthews and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and G Chalkiadakis},
  year = {2013},
  pages = {1394--1400},
  keywords = {Machine Learning, Applications, Agile Teaming},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/136/1/fantasyFootball2012cr.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid128,
  booktitle = {ACM Web Science},
  title = {Collabmap: crowdsourcing maps for emergency planning.},
  author = {Sarvapali D Ramchurn and T. Dong Huynh and Matteo Venanzi and Bing Shi},
  year = {2013},
  keywords = {Crowd-sourcing, Disaster Recovery, Applications},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/128/1/websci2013%5fsubmission%5f87.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid179,
  booktitle = {12th Int. Conf on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems},
  title = {AgentSwitch: towards smart electricity tariff selection },
  author = {Sarvapali D Ramchurn and Michael A Osborne and Oliver Parson and Talal Rahwan and Sasan Maleki and Steven Reece and T. Dong Huynh and Moody Alam and J.E. Fischer and T Rodden and Luc Moreau and Stephen J Roberts},
  year = {2013},
  pages = {981--988},
  keywords = {Energy Management, Applications},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/179/1/fp454s-ramchurn.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid134,
  booktitle = {Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES 2013),},
  title = {Activity prediction for agent-based home energy management.},
  author = {Ngoc Cuong Truong and Long Tran-Thanh and Enrico Costanza and Sarvapali D Ramchurn},
  year = {2013},
  keywords = {Energy Management, Human-Agent Interaction, Applications, Agile Teaming},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/134/1/ates2013.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid82,
  booktitle = {4th International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks},
  month = {September},
  title = {Improving location prediction services for new users with probabilistic latent semantic analysis},
  author = {James McInerney and Alex Rogers and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2012},
  keywords = {Human-Agent Interaction, Machine Learning, Ubiquitous Computing, Applications, Flexible Autonomy},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/82/1/paper%5flbsn.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid57,
  booktitle = {14th ACM Int. Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing},
  month = {September},
  title = {Understanding domestic energy consumption through interactive visualisation: a field study},
  author = {Enrico Costanza and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2012},
  pages = {216--225},
  keywords = {Human-Computer Interaction, Applications, Agile Teaming},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/57/1/fe.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid49,
  booktitle = {Twenty-Sixth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12)},
  month = {July},
  title = {Non-intrusive load monitoring using prior models of general appliance types},
  author = {Oliver Parson and Siddhartha Ghosh and Mark Weal and Alex Rogers},
  year = {2012},
  keywords = {Energy Management, Machine Learning, Applications, Agile Teaming},
  howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/49/1/nialm.pdf},
abstract = {Non-intrusive appliance load monitoring is the process of disaggregating a household's total electricity consumption into its contributing appliances. In this paper we propose an approach by which individual appliances can be iteratively separated from an aggregate load. Unlike existing approaches, our approach does not require training data to be collected by sub-metering individual appliances, nor does it assume complete knowledge of the appliances present in the household. Instead, we propose an approach in which prior models of general appliance types are tuned to specific appliance instances using only signatures extracted from the aggregate load. The tuned appliance models are then used to estimate each appliance's load, which is subsequently subtracted from the aggregate load. This process is applied iteratively until all appliances for which prior behaviour models are known have been disaggregated. We evaluate the accuracy of our approach using the REDD data set, and show the disaggregation performance when using our training approach is comparable to when sub-metered training data is used. We also present a deployment of our system as a live application and demonstrate the potential for personalised energy saving feedback.} }

@incollection{
  orchid69,
  month = {June},
  author = {James McInerney and Sebastian Stein and Alex Rogers and Nicholas R Jennings},
  booktitle = {Mobile Data Challenge by Nokia},
  address = {Newcastle upon Tyne, UK},
  title = {Exploring periods of low predictability in daily life mobility.},
  publisher = {Nokia},
  journal = {Mobile Data Challenge by Nokia},
  year = {2012},
  keywords = {Human-Agent Interaction, Applications, Agile Teaming},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/69/1/paper%5fextended%5fpast2.pdf} }

@article{
  orchid30,
  month = {May},
  title = {Deploying the Max-Sum Algorithm for Coordination and Task Allocation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Live Aerial Imagery Collection.},
  author = {Francesco {Delle Fave} and Alex Rogers and Zhe Xu and Salah Sukkarieh and Nicholas R Jennings},
  publisher = {IEEE, St Pauls, USA},
  year = {2012},
  journal = {Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  keywords = {Decentralised Control, Applications, Agile Teaming},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/30/1/sample%5fnew.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid45,
  booktitle = {ACM Converence on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work},
  month = {February},
  title = {Serious Mixed Reality Games},
  author = {J.E. Fischer and M Flintham and D Price and J Goulding and N Pantidi and T Rodden},
  year = {2012},
  keywords = {Human-Agent Interaction, Applications, Flexible Autonomy},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/45/1/CSCW12-SeriousMRG-1%5fmdf%5fkxp%5fjog%5fjef-chAcc%20-%20FischerEtAl%5fSeriousMRG.pdf} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid48,
  booktitle = {IAAI 2012: The Twenty-Fourth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference},
  title = {A methodology for deploying the max-sum algorithm and a case study on unmanned aerial vehicles.},
  author = {Francesco {Delle Fave} and Alessandro Farinelli and Alex Rogers and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2012},
  journal = {IAAI 2012: The Twenty-Fourth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference},
  keywords = {Disaster Recovery, Applications, Agile Teaming},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/48/1/delle%5ffave%5fiaai%5f2012.pdf} }

@article{
  orchid107,
  volume = {21},
  number = {1},
  title = {Pursuing Leisure: Reflections on Theme Park Visiting},
  author = {A. Durrant and D.S. Kirk and S. Benford and T Rodden},
  year = {2012},
  pages = {1--37},
  journal = {Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)},
keywords = {Human-Agent Interaction, Applications, Flexible Autonomy} }

@article{
  orchid42,
  title = {Optimal decentralised dispatch of embedded generation in the smart grid},
  author = {Sam Miller and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and Alex Rogers},
  publisher = {AAMAS},
  year = {2012},
  journal = {Proc. 11th Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.},
  keywords = {Decentralised Control, Applications, Agile Teaming},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/42/1/AAMAS2012GenCoordCameraReady.pdf} }

@article{
  orchid11,
  volume = {9},
  number = {1},
  title = {Real-Time Information Processing of Environmental Sensor Network Data},
  author = {Michael A Osborne and Stephen J Roberts and Alex Rogers and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2012},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks},
  keywords = {Agent-based Computing, Applications, Incentive Engineering},
  howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/11/1/tosn%5fgp%5frevised.pdf},
abstract = {In this paper, we consider the problem faced by a sensor network operator who must infer, in real-time, the value of some environmental parameter that is being monitored at discrete points in space and time by a sensor network. We describe a powerful and generic approach built upon an efficient multi-output Gaussian process that facilitates this information acquisition and processing. Our algorithm allows effective inference even with minimal domain knowledge, and we further introduce a formulation of Bayesian Monte Carlo to permit the principled management of the hyperparameters introduced by our flexible models. We demonstrate how our methods can be applied in cases where the data is delayed, intermittently missing, censored and/or correlated. We validate our approach using data collected from three networks of weather sensors and show that it yields better inference performance than both conventional independent Gaussian processes and the Kalman filter. Finally, we show that our formalism efficiently re-uses previous computations by following an online update procedure as new data sequentially arrives, and that this results in a four-fold increase in computational speed in the largest cases considered.} }

@incollection{
  orchid32,
  booktitle = {Decision Making with Imperfect Decision Makers},
  title = {Dynamic Bayesian Combination of Multiple Imperfect Classifiers},
  author = {Edwin Simpson and Stephen J Roberts and Ioannis Psorakis and Chris Lintott},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = {2012},
  series = {Intelligient Systems Reference Library},
  keywords = {Machine Learning, Applications, Incentive Engineering},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/32/1/galaxyZooSN%5fsimpson%5fetal.pdf} }

@article{
  orchid28,
  title = {A model-based online mechanism with pre-commitment and its application to electric vehicle charging},
  author = {Sebastian Stein and Enrico H Gerding and Valentin Robu and Nicholas R Jennings},
  publisher = {AAMAS},
  year = {2012},
  journal = {Proc. 11th Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems,},
  keywords = {Mechanism Design, Applications, Incentive Engineering},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/28/1/camera%5fready%5ffinal.pdf} }

@article{
  orchid26,
  title = {Decentralised channel allocation and information sharing for teams of cooperative agents},
  author = {Sebastian Stein and S Williamson and Nicholas R Jennings},
  publisher = {AAMAS},
  year = {2012},
  journal = {Proc. 11th Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems,},
  keywords = {Decentralised Control, Applications, Agile Teaming, Incentive Engineering},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/26/1/camera%5fready%5ffinal.pdf} }

@article{
  orchid12,
  volume = {25},
  number = {2},
  title = {Long?Term Information Collection with Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensors: A Multi?Armed Bandit Based Approac},
  author = {Long Tran-Thanh and Alex Rogers and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2012},
  pages = {352--394},
  journal = {Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems},
  keywords = {Agent-based Computing, Applications, Incentive Engineering},
  howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/12/1/LTT%5fJAAMAS2010.pdf},
abstract = {This paper reports on the development of a multi?agent approach to long-term information collection in networks of energy harvesting wireless sensors. In particular, we focus on developing energy management and data routing policies that adapt their behaviour according to the energy that is harvested, in order to maximise the amount of information collected given the available energy budget. In so doing, we introduce a new energy management technique, based on multi?armed bandit learning, that allows each agent to adaptively allocate its energy budget across the tasks of data sampling, receiving and transmitting. By using this approach, each agent can learn the optimal energy budget settings that give it efficient information collection in the long run. Then, we propose two novel decentralised multi?hop algorithms for data routing. The first proveably maximises the information throughput in the network, but can sometimes involve high communication cost. The second algorithm provides near?optimal performance, but with reduced computational and communication costs. Finally, we demonstrate that, by using our approaches for energy management and routing, we can achieve a 120% improvement in long term information collection against state?of?the?art benchmarks.} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid7,
  month = {December},
  author = {Edwin Simpson and Stephen J Roberts and Arfon Smith and Chris Lintott},
  booktitle = {NIPS 2011},
  address = {Oxford},
  title = {Bayesian Combination of Multiple, Imperfect Classifiers},
  publisher = {University of Oxford},
  pages = {1--8},
  year = {2011},
  keywords = {Machine Learning, Applications, Incentive Engineering},
  howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/7/1/vbibcc%5fworkshop.pdf},
abstract = {Classifier combination methods need to make best use of the outputs of multiple, imperfect classifiers to enable higher accuracy classifications. In many situations, such as when human decisions need to be combined, the base decisions can vary enormously in reliability. A Bayesian approach to such uncertain combination allows us to infer the differences in performance between individuals and to incorporate any available prior knowledge about their abilities when training data is sparse. In this paper we explore Bayesian classifier combination, using the computationally efficient framework of variational Bayesian inference. We apply the approach to real data from a large citizen science project, Galaxy Zoo Supernovae, and show that our method far outperforms other established approaches to imperfect decision combination. We go on to analyse the putative community structure of the decision makers, based on their inferred decision making strategies, and show that natural groupings are formed.} }

@article{
  orchid20,
  volume = {175},
  number = {14},
  month = {September},
  author = {Sebastian Stein and Enrico H Gerding and Alex Rogers and Kate Larson and Nicholas R Jennings},
  title = {Algorithms and mechanisms for procuring services with uncertain durations using redundancy },
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  year = {2011},
  journal = {Artificial Intelligence},
  pages = {2021--2060},
  keywords = {Mechanism Design, Applications, Incentive Engineering},
  howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/20/1/SteinAIJ.pdf},
abstract = {In emerging service-oriented systems, such as computational clouds or grids, software agents are able to automatically procure distributed services to complete computational tasks. However, service execution times are often highly uncertain and service providers may have incentives to lie strategically about this uncertainty to win more customers. In this paper, we argue that techniques from the field of artificial intelligence are instrumental to addressing these challenges. To this end, we first propose a new decision-theoretic algorithm that allows a single service consumer agent to procure services for a computational task with a strict deadline. Crucially, this algorithm uses redundancy in a principled manner to mitigate uncertain execution times and maximise the consumer[modifier letter apostrophe]s expected utility. We present both an optimal variant that uses a novel branch-and-bound formulation, and a fast heuristic that achieves near-optimal performance. Using simulations, we demonstrate that our algorithms outperform approaches that do not employ redundancy by up to 130% in some settings. Next, as the algorithms require private information about the providers[modifier letter apostrophe] capabilities, we show how techniques from mechanism design can be used to incentivise truthfulness. As no existing work in this area deals with uncertain execution times and redundant invocations, we extend the state of the art by proposing a number of payment schemes for these settings. In a detailed analysis, we prove that our mechanisms fulfil a range of desirable economic properties, including incentive compatibility, and we discuss suboptimal variants that scale to realistic settings with hundreds of providers. We show experimentally that our mechanisms extract a high surplus and that even our suboptimal variants typically achieve a high efficiency (95% or more in a wide range of settings).} }

@inproceedings{
  orchid10,
  booktitle = {The 3rd Human Computation Workshop},
  month = {August},
  title = {CollabMap: Augmenting Maps using the Wisdom of Crowds },
  author = {Ruben Stranders and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and Bing Shi and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2011},
  keywords = {Crowd-sourcing, Accountable Information Infrastructure, Applications, Flexible Autonomy},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/10/1/collabmap.pdf} }

@techreport{
  orchid126,
  month = {February},
  author = {Nicholas R Jennings and Stephen J Roberts and T Rodden and Luc Moreau and Alex Rogers and Sarvapali D Ramchurn and David Nicholson},
  address = {Southampton},
  title = {ORCHID End of Year Report 2011},
  type = {Project Report},
  publisher = {University of Southampton},
  institution = {University of Southampton},
  year = {2011},
  keywords = {Accountable Information Infrastructure, Applications, Agile Teaming, Flexible Autonomy, Incentive Engineering},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/126/1/End%20of%20Year%20Report%202011.pdf} }

@article{
  orchid31,
  title = {Cooperatives of Distributed Energy Resources for Efficient Virtual Power Plants},
  author = {G Chalkiadakis and Valentin Robu and R Kota and Alex Rogers and Nicholas R Jennings},
  publisher = {AAMAS},
  year = {2011},
  pages = {787--794},
  journal = {Proc. Tenth Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems},
  keywords = {Decentralised Control, Applications, Agile Teaming, Incentive Engineering},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/31/1/ccrjVPPcoop.pdf} }

@article{
  orchid14,
  title = {Online Mechanism Design for Electric Vehicle Charging},
  author = {Enrico H Gerding and Valentin Robu and Sebastian Stein and David Parkes and Alex Rogers and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2011},
  journal = {Proc. of The Tenth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2011)},
  keywords = {Mechanism Design, Applications, Incentive Engineering},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/14/1/AAMAS440%5fcameraready.pdf} }

@article{
  orchid43,
  title = {Using hidden Markov models for iterative non-intrusive appliance monitoring.},
  author = {Oliver Parson and Siddhartha Ghosh and M Weal and Alex Rogers},
  publisher = {NIPS},
  year = {2011},
  journal = {Neural Information Processing Systems workshop on Machine Learning for Sustainability},
  keywords = {Energy Management, Machine Learning, Applications, Flexible Autonomy},
howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/43/1/MLSUST2011.pdf} }

@article{
  orchid19,
  volume = {4},
  number = {2},
  title = {Robust Execution of Service Workflows using Redundancy and Advance Reservations },
  author = {Sebastian Stein and Terry Payne and Nicholas R Jennings},
  year = {2011},
  pages = {125--139},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Services Computing,},
  keywords = {Mechanism Design, Applications},
  howpublished = {http://www.orchid.ac.uk/eprints/19/1/tsc2011020125.pdf},
abstract = {In this paper, we develop a novel algorithm that allows service consumers to execute business processes (or workflows) of interdependent services in a dependable manner within tight time-constraints. In particular, we consider large inter-organisational service-oriented systems, where services are offered by external organisations that demand financial remuneration and where their use has to be negotiated in advance using explicit service-level agreements (as is common in Grids and cloud computing). Here, different providers often offer the same type of service at varying levels of quality and price. Furthermore, some providers may be less trustworthy than others, possibly failing to meet their agreements. To control this unreliability and ensure end-to-end dependability while maximising the profit obtained from completing a business process, our algorithm automatically selects the most suitable providers. Moreover, unlike existing work, it reasons about the dependability properties of a workflow, and it controls these by using service redundancy for critical tasks and by planning for contingencies. Finally, our algorithm reserves services for only parts of its workflow at any time, in order to retain flexibility when failures occur. We show empirically that our algorithm consistently outperforms existing approaches, achieving up to a 35-fold increase in profit and successfully completing most workflows, even when the majority of providers fail.} }