P U B L I C A T I O N S
by types

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:

• Nathan Sorenson, Philippe Pasquier, Steve Dipaola, A Generic Approach to Challenge Modeling for the Procedural Creation of Video Game Levels, IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, to appear in 2011. (17 pages, Preprint).
  
  
• Noor Shaker, Julian Togelius, Georgios Yannakakis, Ben Weber, Tomoyuki Shimizu, Tomonori Hashiyama, Nathan Sorenson, Philippe Pasquier, Peter Mawhorter, Glen Takahashi, Gillian Smith, Robin Baumgarten, The 2010 Mario AI Championship: Level Generation Track, IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, to appear in 2011.
  
  
• Nathan Sorenson, Philippe Pasquier, Towards a Generic Framework for Automated Video Game Level Creation, Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Games (EvoGame), Istanbul, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 6024, Springer, 131-140, 2010. (10 pages, PDF) Best Paper Award.
  
  
• Nathan Sorenson, Philippe Pasquier. The Evolution of Fun: Automatic Level Design through Challenge Modeling, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCCX), ACM Press, Lisbon, Portugal, 258–267, 2010. (10 pages, PDF)
  
  

Visualisation, Dance, Motion, Movement:

• Justin Love, Philippe Pasquier, Steve Gibson, Brian Wyvil, George Tzanetakis, Aesthetics Agents: Swarm-based Non-photorealistic Rendering using Multiple Images, Proceedings of The seventh annual symposium on Computational Aesthetics, Vancouver, Canada, 2011, to appear. (8 pages, PDF)
  
  
• Pattarawut Subyen, Diego Maranan, Thecla Schiphorst, Philippe Pasquier, Lyn Bartram, EMVIZ: The Poetics of Movement Quality Visualization, Proceedings of The seventh annual symposium on Computational Aesthetics, Vancouver, Canada, 2011, to appear. (8 pages, PDF)
  
  
• Kristin Carlson, Thecla Schiphorst, Philippe Pasquier, Scuddle: Generating Movement Catalysts for Computer-Aided Choreography, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Creativity, pages 123-128, Mexico City, 2011. (6 pages, PDF). Best Paper Award.
  
  
• Subyen, P., Maranan, D. S., Schiphorst, T., Pasquier, P. (2010). 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, Brunel University, London, UK, September 2010.
  
  
• Subyen, P., Maranan, D. S., Schiphorst, T., Pasquier, P. , Bartram, L. (2011). The Poetics of Movement Quality Visualization. 6th Annual IRMACS Day, Poster Presentation, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, April 2011.
  
  
• David Milam, Philippe Pasquier, Boidz: An ALife Augmented Reality Ambient Visualization, Proceedings of the Young Investigator's Forum on Culture Technology (YCT), pages 60-65, KAIST University, Daejeon, Korea, August 2008. (6 pages, PDF)
  
  

Musical Metacreation and Interactive Arts:

Multi-Robots Area Coverage:

• Pooyan Fazli, Alireza Davoodi, Philippe Pasquier, and Alan K. Mackworth. Fault-tolerant Multi-Robot Area Coverage with Limited Visibility. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010), 2010 (to appear)
  
  
• Pooyan Fazli, Alireza Davoodi, Philippe Pasquier, and Alan K. Mackworth. Fault-tolerant Multi-Robot Area Coverage with Limited Visibility. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Search and Pursuit/Evasion in the Physical World: Efficiency, Scalability, and Guarantees, Internationale Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), 2010 (6 pages, PDF)
  
  
• Alireza Davoodi, Pooyan Fazli, Philippe Pasquier, and Alan K. Mackworth. Multi-Robot Area Coverage with Limited Visibility, The Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent systems (AAMAS 2010), Toronto, Canada, Short paper, ACM Press, (2 pages, PDF).
  
  
• Alireza Davoodi, Nasri Nazif, Philippe Pasquier. 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), Nagoya, Japan, pages 85-101, Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI), Springer, 2009. (16 pages, PDF). Best Paper Award.
  
  
• Alireza Davoodi, Pooyan Fazli, Philippe Pasquier, and Alan K. Mackworth. On multi-robot area coverage. In Proceedings of The 7th Japan Conference on Computational Geometry and Graphs, JCCGG09, Short paper, November 2009. (2 pages, PDF)

Automated and Computer Mediated Negotiation:

• Philippe Pasquier, Ramon Hollands, Iyad Rahwan, Frank Dignum, Liz Sonenberg. An Empirical Study of Interest-Based Negotiation, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS), 22(2), pages 249-288, Springer, 2011 (40 pages, PDF).
  
  
• Iyad Rahwan, Philippe Pasquier, Liz Sonenberg, Frank Dignum, Formal Analysis of Interest-based Negotiation, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 55, Number 3-4, pages 253-276, Springer, 2009 (25 pages, PDF).
  
  
• Ya'akov Gal, Sohan D'souza, Phillippe Pasquier, Iyad Rahwan and Sherrief Abdallah. The Effects of Goal Revelation on Computer-Mediated Negotiation. In: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2009), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pages 2614-2619, 2009 (6 pages, PDF).
  
  
• Philippe Pasquier, Ramon Hollands, Frank Dignum, Iyad Rahwan, Liz Sonenberg. An Empirical Study of Interest-based Negotiation. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), Minneapolis, USA, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 258, pages 339-348, August 2007. (10 pages, PDF). Best Paper Award.
  
  
• Iyad Rahwan, Philippe Pasquier, Liz Sonenberg, Frank Dignum. On the Benefits of Exploiting Underlying Goals in Argument-based Negotiation. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Vancouver, Canada, pages 116-121, July 2007. (6 pages, PDF)
  
  
  
• Philippe Pasquier, Ramon Hollands, Iyad Rahwan, Frank Dignum, Liz Sonenberg. Exploiting Hierarchical Goals in Bilateral Automated Negotiation: Empirical Study. Proceedings of the AAMAS International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 2007. (14 pages, PDF)
  
  
• Iyad Rahwan, Philippe Pasquier, Liz Sonenberg, Frank Dignum. On The Benefits of Exploiting Hierarchical Goals in Bilateral Automated Negotiation. Proceedings of the AAMAS International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, Volume 4766, May 2007 (14 pages, PDF).
  
  
• Philippe Pasquier, Frank Dignum, Iyad Rahwan, Liz Sonenberg, Interest Based Negotiation as an Extension of Monotonic Bargaining in 3APL, In Z. Shi and R. Sanadanda (Eds.) Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems: 9th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA), Guilin, China, August 7-8, 2006. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4088, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pages 327-338, 2006. (Acceptance rate 19.7%, 12 pages, PDF).
  

  
  

Argumentation and Persuasion:

• Philippe Pasquier, Iyad Rahwan, Frank Dignum, Liz Sonenberg, Argumentation and Persuasion in the Cognitive Coherence Theory. In P. Dunne and T. Bench-Capon (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA), Liverpool, UK. IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pages 223-234, 2006 (12 pages, PDF).
  
  
• Philippe Pasquier, Iyad Rahwan, Frank Dignum, Liz Sonenberg, Argumentation and Persuasion in the Cognitive Coherence Theory: a Preliminary Report, International Workshop on Argumentation in MultiAgent systems (ArgMas), Hakodate, Japan, 2006, to appear (18 pages, PDF).
  

• Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib-draa, Integrating Social Commitment-Based Communication in Cognitive Agent Modeling, International Workshop on Agent Communication (ACL'06), Hakodate, Japan, 2006, to appear (15 pages, PDF).
  
  
• Philippe Pasquier, Aspects cognitifs des dialogues entre agents artificiels : l'approche par la cohérence cognitive, Ph.D. thesis, Faculté des sciences et de Génie, Département d'informatique et de génie logiciel, Laval University, Quebec, Canada, 302 pages, defended the 30th of june 2005.(PDF) (short abstract, 2p, PDF)
  
  
• Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib-draa, Agent Communication Pragmatics: The Cognitive Coherence Approach, Cognitive Systems Research, Eds. Ron Sun, Elsevier, Volume 6, Numero 4, pages 364-395, 2005 (46p, PDF).
  
  
• Philippe Pasquier, Nicolas Andrillon, Brahim Chaib-draa, An Exploration in Using The Cognitive Coherence Theory to Automate Agents's Communicational Behavior, AAMAS' Agent Communication Language and Dialogue workshop, 2003, Melbourne, Australie, pages 44-54 (10p, PDF).
  Re-published in:
  Advances in Agent Communication: International Workshop on Agent Communication Languages, ACL 2003, Frank Dignum (Ed.), Lecture Notes in artificial Intelligence (LNAI), volume 2922, pages 37-58, Springer : Berlin. 2004.
  
  
• Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib-draa, The cognitive coherence approach for agent communication pragmatics, Second International Conference on Autonomous Agent and Multi-Agents Sytems, AAMAS'03, pages 544-551, ACM Press, Melbourne, Australie, july 2003 (9p, Postscript, PDF)
  
  
• Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib-draa, Cohérence et conversation entre agents: vers un modèle basé sur la consonance cognitive, Actes des 10ème journées francophones d'intelligence artificielle distribuée et des systèmes multi-agents, publiés chez Hermès Science, pages 188-203, juin 2002, Best Paper Award (19p, Postscript, PDF)
  
  
• Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib-draa, Pragmatique des communications agent: approche par la cohérence cognitive, rapport technique, décembre 2002 (20p, Postscript, PDF).
  
  
• Philippe Pasquier, La cohérence cognitive comme fondement de la pragmatique des communications agents, proposition de thèse, Laboratoire DAMAS, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, décembre 2002, (103p, Postscript, PDF).
  

• The DGS [Dialogue game simulator]: The agent communication simulator of the DAMAS laboratory. Initiated by Nicolas Maudet, Philippe Pasquier and Brahim Chaib-draa, the first version was developed with David Bourget (Sherbrook University) while the current one is due to Marc-André Labrie and Mathieu Bergeron.

• DGS[Dialogue Game Simulator] JAVA with JACK agents
• Our FIPA-ACL JAVA Classes for Jack (HTML)
• Our FIPA-OS/FIPA-ACL(HTML) documentation

• Cognitive coherence framework for agent communication pragmatics:
  

  First, a proof of concept implementation was developed (in JAVA) with Benjamin Rivalland (Université de Luminy, Marseille, France).

  The second cognitive coherence oriented framework, developed with Nicolas Andrillon (ENSEIHT, Toulouse, France): integrated to the DGS, it allows to graphically design some Jack BDI agents and observe their communicative behavior (driven by our cognitive coherence approach for communication pragmatics). The resulting agents use DIAGAL as an agent communication language.
  
  

The Bonom Project :

The Bonom(HTML) project, an agent based internet search motor allowing persistent requests, was developed at the IRIN[Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes] with Benjamin Habegger under the direction of Philippe Lamarre and Sylvie Cazalens.



The interest-based negotiation project:

Implemented in 2006, using the 3APL agent programming language (developed at Utrecht University). Here is a simple example involving two agents (these are reifying the model presented in the paper: Interest Based Negotiation as an Extension of Monotonic Bargaining in 3APL, see above):

3APL buyer source code

3APL seller source code.

Prolog code (needed for the above agents to work properly)

A negotiation simulator has also been implemented in the context of Ramon Hollands's master thesis. Experiments were run at the High Performance Computing Center of the University of Melbourne on a 50 nodes clusters (named Alfred).

Although most of my talks were given in conferences or during teaching activities, here is a list of other talks and seminars I was invited to give in the last few years:

• Agent communication, Computer Science and Software Engineering Departement, Laval University, 2001.
• Communication entre agents artificiels et langage naturel, département d'informatique et de génie logicielle de l'université Laval, 2001.
• L'ironie comme viol d'une maxime de Grice, Festival de l'humour noire, Ilot Fleuri, Québec, Canada, 14.06.2002.
• Le modèle BOID [Belief, Obligation, Intention, Desir], séminaire DAMAS, 2002.
• Le modèle BDI [Belief, Desir, Intention] et les engagements sociaux, séminaire DAMAS, 2002.
• Pragmatique des communications agents, l'approche par la cohérence cognitive :
  • Groupe de travail Dialogue dirigé par Daniel Vandervecken, Université de Trois-Rivières, Canada, 2003.
  • Séminaire DAMAS, 2002.
  • Séminaire DAMAS, 2003.
• Le changement d'attitude dans les systèmes multi-agents, séminaire DAMAS, 2003.
• Attitude Change in MAS, DAMAS seminar, 2003.
• Survol de l'intelligence artificielle pour les pratiques en art électronique, Avatar, 2002.
• Pure Data : un environnement de traitement du signal en temps réel, Atelier donné à Avatar, 2003.
• Intelligence artificielle et art contemporain, Atelier sur 2 demi-journées donné au GMEA [Groupe de musique électroacoustique d'Albi], 2003, France.
• La place de l'implicite dans la théorie de la cohérence cognitive, colloque "Situation de la psychanalyse en 2004", organisé par l'école Lacanienne de Montréal, 22 mai 2004, Station Craig, Montréal.
• La question de la technique dans la création contemporaine, Symposium international danses et nouvelles technologie, Centre des arts d'Enghiens les Bains, Octobre 2005, Paris.
• Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Social Commitment Based Agent Communication:
  • Agentlab, University of Melbourne, 13th of December 2005, Melbourne.
  • Institut d'Investigació en Intelligència Artificial (IIIA), UAB - Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona , 23rd of June 2006.
• Interest Based Negotiation in Multiagent Systems, Argumentation and Negotiation Day, Universisty of Melbourne.
• New media panel, St Kilda's writter festival, Melbourne, February 2006
• Modern technoscience and contemporary creation:
  • Vooruit art center, Gand, Belgium, 20th of April 2006
  • IDEA lab, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2006
  • SIAT (School of Interactive Art and Technology), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, 15th of November 2006.
  • SIAL (Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 27th of November 2006.
• Panel on argumentation strategies, ArgMAS workshop, Hakodate, Japon, 9th of May 2006.
• Introduction to speech act theory and Gricean pragmatics, Invited lecture in the course Communication Theory at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, 24th od August 2006.
• Trends in New Media, Key Center for Design Computing, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 17th of January 2007.
• Création contemporaine et technoscience : le retour de l'artiste-ingénieur, Métamédia colloqium, MM8, Québec, Canada. 23rd of February 2007.
• Interest based negotiation, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 28th of March 2007.
• Trends in Digital Media: a Bidimentional Analysis:
• British University in Dubai, Dubai, UAE. 12th of June 2007.
• Key Center for Design Computing, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, the 17th of January 2007.
• SAE, Dubai, 25th of June 2007.
• Firsdraft Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 23rd of september 2007.
• CEMA, Monash University, Melbourne, 8th of October 2007.
• Dorkbot, Melbourne, 27th of July 2008.
• From Aristotle to Artificial Intelligence: A History of Meaning, British University in Dubai, Dubai, UAE, 20th of June 2007.
• Sound thinking Symposium, Invited panelist, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC 1st of March 2008.
• From Artificial Intelligence to Interactive Art (AI to IA):
  • Research Colloquium, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, 2nd of April 2008.
  • Research Seminar, Artificial Intelligence Group, Harvard University, Cambridge, Boston, USA. 13th of August 2008
  • Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea, 9th of December 2008
  • Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST, Korea, 11th of December 2008
  • Computer Science Departement, Dongseo University, Busan, Korea, 14th of December 2008
• Agents, Multiagents Systems and Metacreation
• Defining Cognitive Science colloquium, IRMACS Applied Science building, Simon Fraser University, 17th March 2010
  
  

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