Publications
In this section, theoretical and practical works as well as the associated publications are classified by topic. Some of these works are more relevant to cognitive sciences, some to economics and some to interactive arts but all can be read as contributions to modern artificial intelligence.
Further sections describe various software and applications developed, invited talks. Items written or documented in French are marked with a (French) flag. Feel free to send me an e-mail (mylastname*sfu.ca) if you would like more information on any of the following entries.
Automated Video Game Level Creation
- BIB(1) The 2010 Mario AI Championship: Level Generation Track
IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games - IEEE, pg 332-347, 2011 - PDFBIB(2) A Generic Approach to Challenge Modeling for the Procedural Creation of Video Game Levels
IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games - IEEE, pg 229-244, 2011 - PDFBIB(3) The evolution of fun: Automatic level design through challenge modeling
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCCX)., pg 258-267, 2010 - PDFBIB
Best Paper Award
(4) Towards a generic framework for automated video game level creation
International Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Games, EvoGame - Springer, pg 131-140, 2010
Visualisation, Dance, Motion, Movement
- BIB(5) Context Machines: A Series of Situated and Self-Organising Artworks
Leonardo - MIT Press, pg 131-140, 2012
to appear in 2012. - PDFBIB
Best Paper Award
(6) Scuddle: Generating Movement Catalysts for Computer-Aided Choreography
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Creativity, pg 123-128, 2011 - BIB(7) LocoMotoArt: Interacting With Natural Setting Through Performance Using Pico Projection
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA), pg 123-128, 2011 - PDFBIB(8) Elements of consumption: an abstract visualization of household consumption
The 11th International Symposium on Smart Graphics (SG' 11) - Springer, pg 194-198, 2011 - PDFBIB(9) EMVIZ: the poetics of movement quality visualization
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging (CAe'11), pg 121-128, 2011 - BIB(10) The Poetics of Movement Quality Visualization
6th Annual IRMACS Day, pg 121-128, 2011 - BIB(11) Mapping, Meaning and Motion: Designing Abstract Visualization of Movement Qualities
Presented at the Digital Resources for the Humanities & Arts 2010: Sensual Technologies - Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity, pg 121-128, 2010 - PDFBIB(12) Boidz: An ALife Augmented Reality Ambient Visualization
Proceedings of the Young Investigator's Forum on Culture Technology (YCT), pg 60-65, 2008
Musical Metacreation and Interactive Arts
- BIB(13) Validation of Harmonic Progression Generator Using Classical Music
Third International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2012), pg 126-133, 2012 - PDFBIB(14) Evaluating Musical Metacreation in a Live Performance Context
Third International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2012), pg 140-144, 2012 - PDFBIB(15) Creative Agents, Curatorial Agents, and Human-Agent Interaction in Coming Together
Proceedings of the 9th Sound and Music Computing conference (SMC 2012), pg 181-186, 2012 - PDFBIB(16) Populations of populations: composing with multiple evolutionary algorithms
1st International Conference and 10th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMusart 2012) - Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, pg 72-83, 2012
(acceptance rate: 34%) - PDFBIB(17) Automatic Calibration of Modified FM Synthesis to Harmonic Sounds using Genetic Algorithms
Proceedings of the 9th Sound and Music Computing conference (SMC 2012), pg 387-394, 2012
Nominated for Best Paper Award. - PDFBIB(18) MusiCOG: A cognitive architecture for music learning and generation
Proceedings of the 9th Sound and Music Computing conference (SMC 2012), pg 521-528, 2012 - PDFBIB(19) ManuScore: Music Notation-Based Computer Assisted Composition
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC-2012), pg 357-364, 2012 - PDFBIB(20) Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (MUME 2012)
in conjunction with the The Eighth Annual AAAI Conference on Artifcial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, AAAI Technical Report WS-12-16, pg 88, 2012 - PDFBIB(21) Audio Metaphor: Audio Information Retrieval for Soundscape Composition
Proceedings of the 9th Sound and Music Computing conference (SMC 2012), pg 372-378, 2012 - BIB(22) Self-Organised Memories: a Series of Autonomous Contextual Visual Machines
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA), pg 372-378, 2011 - PDFBIB(23) A sonic eco-system of self-organising musical agents
9th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMusArt 2011) - Springer Verlag, pg 283-292, 2011 - PDFBIB(24) Generative Soundscape Composition by Autonomous Musical Agents in Coming Together: Freesound
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Creativity, pg 27-32, 2011 - PDFBIB(25) Towards a Generative Electronica: Human-Informed Machine Transcription and Analysis in MAXMSP
Proceedings of the 8th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC2011) - SMC Network, pg 27-32, 2011 - BIB(26) Aesthetic Agents: a Multiagent System for Non-photorealistic Rendering with Multiple Images
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA), pg 27-32, 2011 - PDFBIB(27) Aesthetics Agents: Swarm-based Non-photorealistic Rendering using Multiple Images
Proceedings of The seventh annual symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging (CAe'11), pg 47-54, 2011 - PDFBIB(28) The Closure-based Cueing Model: Cognitively-Inspired Learning and Generation of Musical Sequences
Proceedings of the 8th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC2011) - SMC Network, pg 47-54, 2011 - PDFBIB(29) Heterogenesis: Collectively emergent autonomy
Presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Exhibition, Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Installations and Digital Art (ICME 2010), pg 1606-1611, 2010 - PDFBIB(30) Freepad: A Custom Paper-based MIDI Interface
Proceedings of the tenth International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2010), pg 31-36, 2010 - PDFBIB(31) Realtime Generation of Harmonic Progressions Using Controlled Markov Selection
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCCX), pg 16-25, 2010 - PDFBIB(32) Real-Time Timbral Organisation: Selecting samples based upon similarity
Organised Sound - Cambridge Univ Press, pg 159-166, 2010 - PDFBIB(33) Auditory Tactics: A Sound Installation in Public Space Using Beamforming Technology
Leonardo - The MIT Press, pg 426-433, 2010 - PDFBIB(34) Beatback: A Real-time Interactive Percussion System for Rhythmic Practise and Exploration
Proceedings of the tenth International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2010), pg 100-105, 2010 - PDFBIB(35) The Hierarchical Sequential Memory For Music: A Cognitively-Inspired Model for Music Learning and Composition
Proceedings of the eleventh International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), pg 429-434, 2010 - PDFBIB(36) Realtime Selection of Percussion Samples Through Timbral Similarity in MaxMSP
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2009), pg 77-80, 2009
Short paper - PDFBIB(37) Hierarchical sequential memory for music: A cognitive model
Proceedings of the tenth International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2009), pg 429-434, 2009 - PDFBIB(38) Reinforcement learning of listener response for mood classification of audio
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Social Behavior in Music (in conjunction with the first IEEE conference on Social Computing), pg 849-853, 2009 - BIB(39) Biometric tendency recognition and classification system: an artistic approach
3rd ACM International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (DIMEA 2008), pg 166-173, 2008 - PDFBIB(40) BeatBender: subsumption architecture for autonomous rhythm generation
ACM International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technologies (ACE 2008), pg 51-58, 2008
(acceptance rate 14%) - PDFBIB(41) Eavesdropping: Audience interaction in networked audio performance
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), pg 559-568, 2008
(acceptance rate 17%) - BIB(42) A reflection on artificial intelligence and contemporary creation: the question of technique
Parachute, contemporary art, number 119, artificial intelligence, pg 152-167, 2005
Multi-Robots Area Coverage
- PDFBIB(43) Fault-tolerant multi-robot area coverage with limited visibility
The Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi- Agent systems (AAMAS'10) - ACM Press, pg 1501-1502, 2010
Short paper - PDFBIB(44) Complete and robust cooperative robot area coverage with limited range
In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010), pg 5577-5582, 2010 - PDFBIB(45) On multi-robot area coverage
In Proceedings of The 7th Japan Conference on Computational Geometry and Graphs, JCCGG09, pg 75-76, 2009 - PDFBIB
Best Paper Award
(46) BDI Agents in Environment Coverage Using a Single Query Roadmap: A Swarm Intelligence Approach
International Workshop on Agent-based Collaboration, Coordination, and Decision Support (ACCDS 2009) in conjunction with 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2009), pg 16 pages, 2009
Automated and Computer Mediated Negotiation
- PDFBIB(47) Reasoning about Goal Revelation in Human Negotiation
IEEE Intelligent Systems - IEEE, pg 16 pages, 2012
accepted, to appear in 2012. - PDFBIB(48) An empirical study of interest-based negotiation
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - ACM Press, pg 249-288, 2011 - PDFBIB(49) The effects of goal revelation on computer-mediated negotiation
Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), pg 2614-2619, 2009 - PDFBIB(50) A formal analysis of interest-based negotiation
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence - Springer, pg 253-276, 2009 - PDFBIB(51) Exploiting Hierarchical Goals in Bilateral Automated Negotiation: Empirical Study
Proceedings of the AAMAS International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC) - Springer, pg 46-62, 2008
Published amongst the selected and revised papers (along with the AAAI TADA 2007 workshop) as Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce and Trading Agent Design and Analysis, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing - PDFBIB(52) On the Benefits of Exploiting Hierarchical Goals in Bilateral Automated Negotiation
Proceedings of the AAMAS International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS) - Springer, pg 18-30, 2008
in Argumentation in Multi-agent Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences - PDFBIB
Best Paper Award
(53) An empirical study of interest-based negotiation
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), pg 339-348, 2007 - PDFBIB(54) On the Benefits of Exploiting Underlying Goals in Argument-based Negotiation
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) - Menlo Park, CA; Cambridge, MA; London; AAAI Press; MIT Press; 1999, pg 116-121, 2007 - PDFBIB(55) Interest-based negotiation as an extension of monotonic bargaining in 3APL
Ninth Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA 2006) - Springer, pg 569-580, 2006
(Acceptance rate: 19.7%)
Argumentation and Persuasion
- PDFBIB(56) Argumentation and persuasion in the cognitive coherence theory: preliminary report
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Argumentation in MultiAgent systems (ArgMas'06) - Springer, pg 193-210, 2007
in Argumentation in Multi-agent Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science - PDFBIB(57) Argumentation and persuasion in the cognitive coherence theory
First International Conference on Computational Models of Argumentation (COMMA), pg 223-234, 2006
Agent Communication
- PDFBIB(58) Conversational semantics sustained by commitments
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - Springer, pg 165-186, 2007 - PDFBIB(59) DIAGAL: An Agent Communication Language Based on Dialogue Games and Sustained by Social Commitments
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - Springer, pg 61-93, 2006 - PDFBIB(60) Layered message semantics using social commitments
The Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS'05), pg 1323-1324, 2005 - PDFBIB(61) Conversational semantics with social commitments
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Agent Communication, Autonomous Agent and Multi-agents Systems (AAMAS'04) - Springer, pg 19-33, 2005 - PDFBIB(62) Modèles des dialogues entre agents cognitifs : un ètat de l'art
In Cognito - Cahiers Romans de Sciences Cognitives - International Journal in Roman Languages, pg 77-135, 2004 - PDFBIB(63) DIAGAL: an ACL Ready for Open System
Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop - Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW) - Springer, pg 139-152, 2004 - PDFBIB(64) The enforcement of flexible social commitments
Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop - Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW), pg 153-165, 2004 - PDFBIB(65) Engagements, intentions et jeux de dialogue
Proceedings of the Second Days of the Formal Interaction Methods (MFI'03), pg 289-294, 2002
Short paper - PDFBIB(66) Communication entre agents
pre-doctoral report, pg 30 pages, 2001 - PDFBIB(67) Application de théories du langage naturel aux systèmes artifciels
Doctoral Synthesis, pg 45 pages, 2001
Pragmatics of Agent Communication
- PDFBIB(68) Integrating Social Commitment-Based Communication in Cognitive Agent Modeling
International Workshop on Agent Communication (ACL'06) - Springer, pg 76-92, 2006 - PDFBIB(69) Modélisation des aspects cognitifs des dialogues entre agents : l'approche par la cohérence cognitive
Laval University, pg 302 pages, 2005 - PDFBIB(70) Agent communication pragmatics: the cognitive coherence approach
Cognitive Systems Research - Elsevier, pg 364-395, 2005 - PDFBIB(71) An exploration in using cognitive coherence theory to automate BDI agents' communicational behavior
International Workshop on Agent Communication Language and Dialogue (AAMAS'03), pg 44-54, 2003 - PDFBIB(72) The Cognitive Approach for Agent Communication Pragmatics
International Conference on Autonomous Agent and Multi-Agents Systems (AAMAS'03), pg 544-551, 2003 - PDFBIB
Best Paper Award
(73) Cohérence et conversation entre agents: vers un modèle basé sur la consonance cognitive
And, Proceedings of the Tenth Francophone Days of Artificial Distributed Intelligence (JFIADSMA'02), Multi-agent Systems, pg 188-203, 2003 - PDFBIB(74) La cohérence cognitive comme fondement de la pragmatique des communications agents
Laval University, pg 103 pages, 2002
Social Control, Social Organisation and Attitude change
- PDFBIB(75) Towards a model of social coherence in multi-agent organizations
In proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Multi-Agent systems (COIN-10), in conjunction with AAMAS 2010 - Springer, pg 114-131, 2011 - PDFBIB(76) Modelling the links between social commitments and individual intentions
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS'06), pg 1372-1375, 2006 - PDFBIB(77) An ontology of social control tools
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS'06), pg 1369-1371, 2006 - BIB(78) Le changement d'attitude en psychologie sociale et dans les systèmes multi-agents
guided reading report, pg 46 pages, 2003
Virtual Agents
- PDFBIB(79) DelsArtMap: Applying Delsarte's Aesthetic System to Virtual Agents
In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents - Springer, pg 139-145, 2010
Short paper - PDFBIB(80) The Video Shadow: an Embodied Agent
ACM International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technologies (ACE 2008), pg 71-75, 2008
(acceptance rate 24%) - BIB(81) Defining the Scope of an Introductory MAS Course: A balancing act
Proceedings of the Workshop on Teaching Multi-Agent Systems, Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'04), pg 4, 2004
Interagent conflicts
- PDFBIB(82) Approche générique du conflit
Proceedings of the Conference on Ergonomics and Advanced Computer Science for the Man & Machine Interface (ERGO-IHM'00), pg 56-63, 2000 - PDFBIB(83) Vers une formalisation générique du conflit
States-General of PRESCOT [Toulouse Research Center in Cognitive Sciences],, pg 56-63, 2000
Poster - BIB(84) Conflits et incertitude en intelligence artifcielle
IRIT [Toulouse Institute of Research in Computer Science], pg 56-63, 2000
Agent-environment interactions
- PDFBIB(85) How situated is your agent? A cognitive perspective
Proceedings of the AAMAS International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS) - Springer, pg 136-151, 2009 - PDFBIB(86) Extrospection: agents reasoning about the environment
3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 07), pg 220-227, 2007
Other refereed publications
- PDFBIB(87) User As Explorer: Interaction With the Natural Environment Using Mobile Projection Technology
"User In Flux" workshop, in conjunction with the international conference on Computer Human Interaction (CHI), pg 2 pages, 2011 - BIB(88) Utilizing the Natural Environment for the Exhibition of New Media: Widening the Perception of Technology and Human Computer Interaction in Nature Through Art-Based Research
Staging Sustainability: Arts Community Culture and Environment, pg 2 pages, 2011 - BIB(89) The CD-Audio-MP3 format should be revolutionizing music distribution. Why isn't it?
Musicworks, pg 7-9, 2005
