Publications

Journal Articles

Bringsjord, S., Govindarajulu, N.S., Giancola, M., “Automated Argument Adjudication to Solve Ethical Problems in Multi-Agent Environments”. In: Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics. Vol. 12, No. 1, 2021, pp. 310-335.
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Book Chapters

Bringsjord, S., Giancola, M., Govindarajulu, N.S. “Logic-Based Modeling of Cognition”. In: The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Sciences. Ron Sun ed. Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming.
Book Webpage

Giancola, M., Bringsjord, S., Govindarajulu, N.S., Varela, C. “Making Maximally Ethical Decisions via Cognitive Likelihood & Formal Planning”. In: Towards Trustworthy Artificial Intelligent Systems. Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira, Mohammad Osman Tokhi eds. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering. Springer, 2022, pp. 127-142. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-09823-9_10.
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Bringsjord, S., Hendler, J., Govindarajulu, N.S., Ghosh, R., Giancola, M. “The (Uncomputable!) Meaning of Ethically Charged Natural Language, for Robots, and Us, From Hypergraphical Inferential Semantics”. In: Towards Trustworthy Artificial Intelligent Systems. Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira, Mohammad Osman Tokhi eds. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering. Springer, 2022, pp. 143-167. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-09823-9_11.
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Conference Papers

Giancola, M., Bringsjord, S., Govindarajulu, N. S. “Toward Generating Natural-Language Explanations of Modal Logic Proofs”. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-22). Ed. by B. Goertzel, M. Iklé, A. Potapov, D. Ponomaryov. Springer Cham, 2022.
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Bringsjord, S., Govindarajulu, N. S., Slowik, J., Oswald, J., Giancola, M., Angel, J., Banerjee, S., Flaherty, A. “PERI.2 Goes to PreSchool and Beyond, in Search of AGI”. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-22). Ed. by B. Goertzel, M. Iklé, A. Potapov, D. Ponomaryov. Springer Cham, 2022.

Bringsjord, S., Rozek, B., Giancola, M., Govindarajulu, N. S. “A Framework for Testimony-Infused Automated Adjudicative Dynamic Multi-Agent Reasoning in Ethically Charged Scenarios”. In: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2022). 2022.

Banerjee, S., Bringsjord, S., Giancola, M., Govindarajulu, N. S. “Qualitative Mechanical Problem-Solving by Artificial Agents: Further Progress, Under Psychometric AI”. In: Proceedings of the 35th International FLAIRS Conference. 2022.
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Giancola, M., Bringsjord, S., Govindarajulu, N. S. “A Solution to an Ethical Super Dilemma via a Relaxation of the Doctrine of Triple Effect”. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2021). Ed. by S. Bringsjord, M.O. Tokhi, M.I.A. Ferreira, N.S. Govindarajulu, M.F. Silva. London, UK: CLAWAR, July. 2021, pp. 23–32.
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Giancola, M., Bringsjord, S., Govindarajulu, N. S., Varela, C. “Ethical Reasoning for Autonomous Agents Under Uncertainty”. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2020). Ed. by M.O. Tokhi, M.I.A. Ferreira, N.S. Govindarajulu, M.F. Silva, E.E. Kadar, J. Wang, and A.P. Kaur. London, UK: CLAWAR, Sept. 2020, pp. 26–41.
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Bringsjord, S., Giancola, M., Govindarajulu, N. S., “Culturally Aware Social Robots That Carry Humans Inside Them, Protected by Defeasible Argumentation Systems”. In: Culturally Sustainable Social Robotics (Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2020). Ed. by M. Nørskov, J. Seibt, and O. S. Quick. Volume 335 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. IOS Press, 2020, pp. 440–456. doi: 10.3233/FAIA200941.
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Bringsjord, S., Govindarajulu, N. S., Licato, J., and Giancola, M.. “Learning Ex Nihilo”. In: Proceedings of the Sixth Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI 2020). Ed. by G. Danoy, J. Pang, and G. Sutcliffe. Volume 72 of EPiC Series in Computing. EasyChair, 2020, pp. 1-27. doi: 10.29007/ggcf.
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Mitrano, P., Burklund, J., Giancola, M., and Pinciroli, C. “A Minimalistic Approach to Segregation in Robot Swarms”. In: Second International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS 2019). IEEE, 2019, pp. 105-111. doi: 10.1109/MRS.2019.8901068
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Giancola, M., Paffenroth, R., and Whitehill, J. “Permutation-Invariant Consensus Over Crowdsourced Labels”. In: Proceedings of the Sixth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2018). AAAI Press, 2018, pp. 21-30.
      Winner of the Provost’s MQP Award in Mathematical Sciences at WPI
      Extended version published in WPI’s Electronic Projects Collection
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      presentation | poster

Extended Abstracts

Giancola, M., Bringsjord, S., Govindarajulu, N. S. “Novel Intensional Defeasible Reasoning for AI: Is it Cognitively Adequate?” In: Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on “Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation” (CAKR 2022) CEUR-WS, 2022.
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Bringsjord, S., Angel, J., Govindarajulu, N. S., Giancola, M., Bringsjord, E. “Artificial Agents to Help Address the U.S. K–12 Math Gap Between Economically Disadvantaged vs. Advantaged Youth”. In: Artificial Intelligence for K–12 Education, Part of the AAAI Spring Symposium Series. CEUR-WS, 2021.
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Giancola, M., Bringsjord, S., Govindarajulu, N. S., and Licato, J. “Adjudication of Symbolic & Connectionist Arguments in Autonomous Driving AI”. In: Proceedings of the Sixth Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI 2020). Ed. by G. Danoy, J. Pang, and G. Sutcliffe. Volume 72 of EPiC Series in Computing. EasyChair, 2020, pp. 28–33. doi: 10.29007/k647.
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Guest Lectures

Intermediate Formal Logic & AI – Professor Selmer Bringsjord

Fall 2020
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

September 24 - “Reasoning with Inconsistency”
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Are Humans Rational? – Professor Selmer Bringsjord

Fall 2019
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

September 16 - “‘Artilects’ and the Mechanisms of Cognition”
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September 30 - “Rationality & The Meaning of Life”
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October 3 - “The Singularity, Rationally Considered”
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October 17 - “Logicist Machine Ethics Can Save Us”
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October 21 - “The Dangers of Inconsistency”
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Presentations

AAAI2021 Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for K-12 Education

March 22nd & 23rd, 2021
Virtual

      Talk on “Artificial Agents to Help Address the U.S. K–12 Math Gap”
      Talk given jointly with John Angel
      presentation (my section) | presentation (full)

Sixth Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI)

October 30th, 2020
Virtual (Hosted at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China)

Talk on “Adjudication of Symbolic & Connectionist Arguments in Autonomous Driving AI”
slides | presentation (to come)

Talk on “Learning Ex Nihilo”
slides | presentation (to come)

Fifth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES)

September 28th & 29th, 2020
Virtual (Hosted at the Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan)

Talk on “Ethical Reasoning For Autonomous Agents Under Uncertainty”
slides | presentation (to come)

International Research Conference on Robophilosophy 2020

August 18th – 21st, 2020
Virtual (Hosted at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark)

Talk on “Toward Defeasible Multi-Operator Argumentation Systems for Culturally Aware Social Robots that Carry Humans Inside Them”
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Fourth International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES)

July 29th & 30th, 2019
London South Bank University, London, UK

Talk on “Argument Adjudication in a Deontic Logic”
slides (Keynote) | slides (PDF)

Talk on “Toward Smart Cities at the Mental Level via TAI Agents”
slides (Keynote) | slides (PDF)

Symposium on AI & Consistency

July 8th, 2019
RAIR Lab, RPI, Troy, NY, USA

Talk on “Inconsistency in Aviation Safety Systems: A Case Study”
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SIAM Annual Meeting

July 10th, 2018
Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, USA

Poster on “Permutation-Invariant Consensus over Crowdsourced Labels”
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Sixth AAAI Conference on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing (HCOMP)

July 7th, 2018
University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Talk on “Permutation-Invariant Consensus over Crowdsourced Labels”
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Other Work

Spring 2019

Investigations of Inferential Inconsistency

      An informal survey paper of the history of inferential inconsistency.
      Written for MA 4030: Computability & Logic at RPI
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Fall 2017

Forecasting the Impacts of Autonomous Vehicles

Written for HU 3900: Philosophy and the City: Urban Humanities at WPI
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Spring 2017

Investigating “Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent”

Written for CS 525: Deep Neural Networks at WPI
pdf | code

Analysis of Breast Cancer Dataset

Written for MA 463X: Data Analytics & Statistical Learning at WPI
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Fall 2016

Predicting Bank License Revocation

      Written for my Interactive Qualifying Project at WPI
      Published in WPI’s Electronic Projects Collection
      pdf | code

archive

Links to my publications, presentations, and other various work.