By Professor Mary-Anne Williams

Journal articles

Goebel R; Williams MA, 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

Goebel R; Williams MA, 2010, 'The expanding breadth of artificial intelligence research', Artificial Intelligence, 174, pp. 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2009.12.001

Benferhat S; Dubois D; Prade H; Williams MA, 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

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

Chen X; Liu W; Williams MA, 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

Perlis D; Williams MA, 2008, 'Editorial', Artificial Intelligence, 172, pp. 1943, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2008.10.004

Stanton C; Williams M-A, 2008, 'Book review', Artificial Intelligence, 172, pp. 1967 - 1972, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2008.10.003

Perlis D; Williams MA, 2007, 'Editorial Note', Artificial Intelligence, 171, pp. 1093, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2007.11.001

Anshar M; Williams MA, 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

Benferhat S; Kaci S; Le Berre D; Williams MA, 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

Tselekidis G; Peppas P; Williams MA, 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

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

Liu W; Williams MA, 2001, 'A framework for multi-agent belief revision', Studia Logica, 67, pp. 291 - 312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1010555305483

Peppas P; Koutras CD; Williams MA, 2001, 'Prolegomena to concise theories of action', Studia Logica, 67, pp. 403 - 418, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1010516501232

Benferhat S; Dubois D; Prade H; Williams MA, 1999, 'Practical approach to revising prioritized knowledge bases', International Conference on Knowledge Based Intelligent Electronic Systems Proceedings KES, pp. 170 - 173

Antoniou G; Williams MA, 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

Peppas P; Williams MA, 1995, 'Constructive modelings for theory change', Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 36, pp. 120 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1305/ndjfl/1040308831

Surden H; Williams M-A, 'How Self-Driving Cars Work', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2784465

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

Laub P; Park C; Williams M-A; Zhan S, 2025, 'ClassChat: A Shared Generative AI Agent for Enhancing Student Dialogue, Curiosity, Critical Thinking and Peer-Led Learning', Los Angeles, USA, presented at 5th Annual AI in Management (AIM) Conference, Los Angeles, USA, 21 March 2025 - 24 March 2025

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

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

Dawson N; Rizoiu MA; Johnston B; Williams MA, 2020, 'Predicting Skill Shortages in Labor Markets: A Machine Learning Approach', in Wu XT; Jermaine C; Xiong L; Hu XH; Kotevska O; Lu SY; Xu WJ; Aluru S; Zhai CX; Al-Masri E; Chen ZY; Saltz J (eds.), Proceedings - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2020, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), ELECTR NETWORK, pp. 3052 - 3061, presented at 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), ELECTR NETWORK, 10 December 2020 - 13 December 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BigData50022.2020.9377773

Aravanis T; Peppas P; Williams MA, 2020, 'Modelling belief-revision functions at extended languages', in DeGiacomo G; Catala A; Dilkina B; Milano M; Barro S; Bugarin A; Lang J (eds.), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, ELECTR NETWORK, European Assoc Artificial Intelligence, pp. 601 - 607, presented at 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), ELECTR NETWORK, European Assoc Artificial Intelligence, 29 August 2020 - 08 September 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/FAIA200144

Skillicorn DB; Billingsley R; Peppas P; Gärdenfors P; Prade H; Williams MA, 2020, 'Case-Based Similarity for Social Robots', in Uk Workshop on Case Based Reasoning Ukcbr 2020, pp. 21 - 29

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

Tonkin M; Vitale J; Herse S; Raza SA; Madhisetty S; Kang L; Vu TD; Johnston B; Williams MA, 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

Gudi SLKC; Ojha S; Sidra ; Johnston B; Williams MA, 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

Gärdenfors P; Williams MA; Johnston B; Billingsley R; Vitale J; Peppas P; Clark J, 2019, 'Event boards as tools for holistic AI', in CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp. 1 - 10

Madhisetty S; Williams MA; Massy-Greene J; Franco L; El Khoury M, 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

Ojha S; Gudi SLKC; Vitale J; Williams MA; Johnston B, 2019, 'I remember what you did: A behavioural guide-robot', pp. 273 - 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78452-6_23

Ojha S; Vitale J; Raza SA; Billingsley R; Williams MA, 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

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

Skillicorn D; Alsadhan N; Billingsley R; Williams MA, 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

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

Madhisetty S; Williams MA, 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

Pfeiffer S; Ebrahimian D; Herse S; Le TN; Leong S; Lu B; Powell K; Raza SA; Sang T; Sawant I; Tonkin M; Vinaviles C; Vu TD; Yang Q; Billingsley R; Clark J; Johnston B; Madhisetty S; McLaren N; Peppas P; Vitale J; Williams MA, 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

Krishna Chand Gudi SL; Ojha S; Johnston B; Clark J; Williams MA, 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

Herse S; Vitale J; Tonkin M; Ebrahimian D; Ojha S; Johnston B; Judge W; Williams MA, 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

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

Schweitzer J; Mark VR; Williams M-A, 2018, 'A Distributed Future: Where Blockchain Technology Meets Organisational Design and Decision-making', in Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management, Chicago USA, presented at Academy of Management, Chicago USA, 10 August 2018 - 14 August 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2017.14807abstract

Aravanis TI; Peppas P; Williams MA, 2018, 'Iterated belief revision and dalal⇔s operator', in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3200947.3201038

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

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

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

Peppas P; Williams MA, 2018, 'Parametrised difference revision', in Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference, KR 2018, pp. 277 - 286

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

Anshar M; Williams MA, 2017, '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

Raza SA; Williams MA, 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

Agrawal S; Williams MA, 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

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