Civilised Agent Lab
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  1. Mechanism Design for a Sustainable Federated Session Recommender System ECML PKDD 2026 Runchen Xu, Mengxiao Zhang, Jiamou Liu.
  2. S2ED: From Story to Executable Descriptions for Consistency-Aware Story Illustration IEEE ICME 2026 Sijing Yin, Jiamou Liu, Xiao Tang, Yaser Shakib, Qian Liu.
  3. R-Debater: Retrieval-Augmented Debate Generation through Argumentative Memory Proc. of the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Maoyuan Li, Zhongsheng Wang, Haoyuan Li, Jiamou Liu.
  4. Situational-Constrained Multi-Agent Coordination through Correlated Equilibria Proc. of the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Libo Zhang, Zhirui Zeng, Yang Chen, Jiamou Liu.
  5. Equity by Design in Task Allocation: Reverse Auctions with Group and Individual Fairness Proc. of the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Yunxiao Zhao, Mengxiao Zhang, Jiamou Liu, Bakh Khoussainov.
  6. Enhancing Online RL Fine-Tuning Via Adaptive Q-Function Selection ICASSP 2026-2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Jiaqi Zhang, Yuheng Xu, Hongfei Li, Yan Gan, Ning Wang, Jiamou Liu.
  7. PrivCQ: Trading multi-dimensional conditional queries under personalised local differential privacy Neural Computing and Applications Mengxiao Zhang, Weidong Li, Yiping Liu, Bakh Khoussainov, Jiamou Liu.
  8. Combating Knowledge Corruption in Agent Systems: A Byzantine-Tolerant Secure Collaborative RAG Framework Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026 (WWW 2026) Zhaoqi Wang, Daqing He, Zijian Zhang, Ye Liu, Jiamou Liu, Zhirui Zeng, Zhan Qin, Zhen Li, Xin Li, Hongwei Yao, Jincheng An, Yong Liu, Yi Li, Qi Sun, Xiulei Liu, Liehuang Zhu.
  9. Multi-source Multi-level Multi-token Ethereum Dataset and Benchmark Platform Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026 (WWW 2026) Haoyuan Li, Mengxiao Zhang, Maoyuan Li, Jianzheng Li, Zijian Zhang, Junyi Yang, Shuangyan Deng, Jiamou Liu.
  10. Narratology meets text-to-image: a survey of consistency in AI generated storybook illustrations Artificial Intelligence Review Zhedong Lin, Zhongsheng Wang, Qian Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Jiamou Liu.
  11. CLER: Improving Multimodal Financial Reasoning by Cross-MLLM Error Reflection Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2026) Shuangyan Deng, Zhongsheng Wang, Rui Mao, Ciprian Doru Giurcăneanu, Jiamou Liu.
  12. CharCom: Composable Identity Control for Multi-Character Story Illustration. ACM MMAsia 2025 Zhongsheng Wang, Ming Lin, Zhedong Lin, Yaser Shakib, Qian Liu, Jiamou Liu.
  13. Automatic method for identification of cycles in Covid-19 time-series data Data Science and Management (2025) Miaotian Li, Ciprian Doru Giurcăneanu, Jiamou Liu
  14. Exploring iterative enhancement for improving learnersourced multiple-choice question explanations with large language models Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2025) Qiming Bao, Juho Leinonen, Alex Yuxuan Peng, Wanjun Zhong, Gaël Gendron, Timothy Pistotti, Alice Huang, Paul Denny, Michael Witbrock, Jiamou Liu
  15. Learning Verified Safe Neural Network Controllers for Multi-Agent Path Finding Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2025) Mingyue Zhang, Nianyu Li, Yi Chen, Jialong Li, Xiao-Yi Zhang, Hengjun Zhao, Jiamou Liu, Wu Chen
  16. Zero-Knowledge Proof-Based Verifiable Decentralized Machine Learning in Communication Network: A Comprehensive Survey IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (2025) Zhibo Xing, Zijian Zhang, Ziang Zhang, Zhen Li, Meng Li, Jiamou Liu, Zongyang Zhang, Yi Zhao, Qi Sun, Liehuang Zhu, Giovanni Russello
  17. Integrating zero-knowledge proofs into federated learning: a path to on-chain verifiable and privacy-preserving federated learning frameworks International Journal of Web Information Systems (2025) Chunlei Li, Zhibo Xing, Jiamou Liu, Giovanni Russello, Zhen Li, Yan Wu, Meng Li, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar
  18. Upper Limb Motor Sequence Analysis: From Isolated to Sequential IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 2025 Tian-Yu Xiang, Xiao-Hu Zhou, Mei-Jiang Gui, Xiao-Liang Xie, Shi-Qi Liu, Hao Li, De-Xing Huang, Jia-Xing Wang, Yong-Qiang Tang, Jia-Mou Liu, Zeng-Guang Hou
  19. Agent-based post-earthquake evacuation simulation to enhance early-stage architectural layout and non-structural design Automation in Construction (2024) Sajjad Hassanpour, Vicente A González, Yang Zou, Jiamou Liu, Guillermo Cabrera-Guerrero
  20. SKGSum: Structured Knowledge-Guided Document Summarization Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024 Qiqi Wang, Ruofan Wang, Kaiqi Zhao, Robert Amor, Benjamin Liu, Jiamou Liu, Xianda Zheng, Zijian Huang
  21. Lexicographic ranking supermartingales with lazy lower bounds International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (2024) Toru Takisaka, Libo Zhang, Changjiang Wang, Jiamou Liu
  22. Epic-level text generation with LLM through auto-prompted reinforcement learning 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) Qianqian Qi, Lin Ni, Zhongsheng Wang, Libo Zhang, Jiamou Liu, Michael Witbrock
  23. Enhancing Data Augmentation with Knowledge-enriched Data Generation via Dynamic Prompt-tuning Method 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) Qianqian Qi, Qiming Bao, Alex Yuxuan Peng, Jiamou Liu, Michael Witbrock
  24. ChatLogic: Integrating Logic Programming with Large Language Models for Multi-Step Reasoning 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) Zhongsheng Wang, Jiamou Liu, Qiming Bao, Hongfei Rong, Jingfeng Zhang
  25. Tp-gnn: Continuous dynamic graph neural network for graph classification IEEE 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2024 Jie Liu, Jiamou Liu, Kaiqi Zhao, Yanni Tang, Wu Chen
  26. Memory-Based Resilient Control Against Non-cooperation in Multi-agent Flocking Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2024 Mingyue Zhang, Nianyu Li, Jialong Li, Jiachun Liao, Jiamou Liu
  27. Enhancing student performance prediction on learnersourced questions with sgnn-llm synergy Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2024) Lin Ni, Sijie Wang, Zeyu Zhang, Xiaoxuan Li, Xianda Zheng, Paul Denny, Jiamou Liu
  28. A blockchain-based privacy-preserving scheme for sealed-bid auction IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2024) Zijian Zhang, Xin Lu, Meng Li, Jincheng An, Yang Yu, Hao Yin, Liehuang Zhu, Yong Liu, Jiamou Liu, Bakh Khoussainov
  29. Safe reinforcement learning task planning with uncertain duration and resource consumption in limited daytime for lunar rovers 2024 IAF Space Operations Symposium at the 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2024 Siyao Lu, Rui Xu, Ai Gao, Zhaoyu Li, Jiamou Liu, Libo Zhang, Zhijun Zhao, Shengying Zhu, Yuqiong Li
  30. Incentivising Diffusion while Preserving Differential Privacy Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2023 Mengxiao Zhang, Fengjuan Jia, Jiamou Liu, Bakhadyr Khoussainov
  31. Contrastive Learning for Signed Bipartite Graphs Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 2023 Zeyu Zhang, Jiamou Liu, Kaiqi Zhao, Song Yang, Xianda Zheng, Yifei Wang
  32. Dynamic Prompt-tuning Method for Data Augmentation with Associated Knowledge International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2023, tiny paper Qianqian Qi, Qiming Bao, Alex Peng, Jiamou Liu, Michael Witbrock
  33. RSGNN: A Model-agnostic Approach for Enhancing the Robustness of Signed Graph Neural Networks The Web Conference (WWW) 2023 Zeyu Zhang, Jiamou Liu, Xianda Zheng, Yifei Wang, Pengqian Han, Wang Yupan, Kaiqi Zhao, Zijian Zhang
  34. A Survey of Data Pricing for Data Marketplaces IEEE Transactions on Big Data Mengxiao Zhang, Jiamou Liu, Fernando Beltran
  35. Differentially Private Diffusion Auction: The Single-unit Case 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023) Fengjuan Jia, Mengxiao Zhang, Jiamou Liu and Bakh Khoussainov
  36. USER: unsupervised robust learning for GNN Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23) Yifei Wang, Yupan Wang, Yang Song, Zeyu Zhang
  37. Multi-Step Deductive Reasoning Over Natural Language: An Empirical Study on Out-of-Distribution Generalisation Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy2022) Qiming Bao, Alex Yuxuan Peng, Tim Hartill, Neset Tan, Zhenyun Deng, Michael Witbrock, Jiamou Liu
  38. Text-based Risky Decision-Making Guided by Fuzzy Trace Theory Findings of NAACL 2022 Jaron Mar, Jiamou Liu
  39. Trajectory Flow Map Enhanced Transformer for Next POI Recommendation SIGIR 2022 Song Yang, Jiamou Liu, Kaiqi Zhao
  40. Residual Entropy-based Graph Generative Algorithms 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2022) W. Liu, J. Liu, Y. Liu, Z. Zhang
  41. Neural-based Quality Ratings for Learnersourced Multiple-Choice Questions Twelfth AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI-22) Ni, Bao, Li, Qi, Denny, Warren, Witbrock, Liu
  42. Space Meets Time: Local Spacetime Neural Network For Traffic Flow Forecasting IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2021 Song Yang, Jiamou Liu, Kaiqi Zhao
  43. The Impact of Top Scientist on the Community Development of Basic Research Directed by Government Funding: Evidence from Program 973 in China Scientometrics (journal) Jinyang Dong, Jiamou Liu, Tiezhong Liu
  44. From Local to Global Norm Emergence: Dissolving Self-reinforcing Substructures with Incremental Social Instruments ICML 2021: International Conference on Machine Learning 2021. Yiwei Liu, Jiamou Liu, Bakhadyr Khoussainov, Zijian Zhang
  45. Generating Relevant and Coherent Dialogue Responses using Self-Separated Conditional Variational AutoEncoders ACL 2021: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021. B Sun, S Feng, Y Li, J Liu, K Li
  46. Exchange, adopt, evolve: Modeling the spreading of opinions through cognition and interaction in a social network Information Sciences 551, 1-22 (IF: 5.524), 2021. Y Tang, J Liu, W Chen
  47. On improving knowledge graph facilitated simple question answering system Neural Computing and Applications (IF: 5.858), 1-10, 2021. X Li, H Zang, X Yu, H Wu, Z Zhang, J Liu, M Wang
  48. GACAN Graph Attention-Convolution-Attention Networks for Traffic Forecasting Based on Multi-granularity Time Series IJCNN 2021: International Joint Conference on Neural Network, 2021. S Zhang, H Zheng, H Su, B Yan, J Liu, S Yang
  49. Social Capital Games as A Framework for Social Structural Pattern Emergence ASONAM 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2020. Y Chen, J Liu
  50. Who is Driving? Event-Driven Driver Identification and Impostor Detection Through Support Vector Machine IEEE Sensors Journal, Volume: 20, Issue: 12, June 15, 2020. (IF:3.076) M. Rahim, J. Liu, Z. Zhang, L. Zhu, X. Li, S. Khan
  51. Zero-to-Stable Driver Identification: A Non-Intrusive and Scalable Driver Identification Scheme IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (Volume: 69, Issue: 1, Jan. 2020) (IF: 5.339) M. Rahim, L. Zhu, X.Li, J. Liu, Z. Zhang, Z. Qin, S. Khan, K. Gai
  52. WiPOS: A POS Terminal Password Inference System Based on Wireless Signals IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020. Z. Zhang, N. Avazov, J. Liu, B. Khoussainov, X. Li, K. Gai, L. Zhu
  53. On the Use of Dictionary Learning in Time Series Imputation 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2020), 2020. X. Zheng, B. Dumitrescu, J. Liu, C. Giurcaneanu
  54. Selling Data at an Auction under Privacy Constraints UAI 2020: 36th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2020. M. Zhang, F. Beltran, J. Liu
  55. Social Structure Emergence: A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Framework for Relationship Building AAMAS 2020: 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2020. Y. Chen, J. Liu, H. Zhao, H. Su
  56. What's in a gist? Towards an unsupervised gist representation for few-shot large document classification PAKDD 2020: The 24th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Singapore, 2020. J. Mar, J. Liu
  57. HHH: An Online Medical Chatbot System based on Knowledge Graph and Hierarchical Bi-Directional Attention Australasian Computer Science Week, ACSW 2020, Melbourne, Australia. Q. Bao, L. Ni, J. Liu
  58. Becoming Gatekeepers Together with Allies: Collaborative Brokerage over Social Networks ASONAM 2019. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining, Vancouver, Canada, 2019. Y. Chen, J. Liu
  59. Can Reinforcement Learning Enhance Social Capital? International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering 2019, 157-171, Springer. Y. Chen, J. Liu
  60. REM: From Structural Entropy to Community Structure Deception NeurIPS 2019. Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Y. Liu, J. Liu, Z. Zhang, Z. Zhu, A. Li
  61. On the maximization of influence over an unknown social network (extended abstract) AAMAS 2019: 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Montreal, 2019. B. Yan, K. Song, J. Liu, Y. Liu
  62. To be Big Picture Thinker or Detail-Oriented? Utilizing Perceived Gist Information to Achieve Efficient Convention Emergence with Bilateralism and Multilateralism (extended abstract) AAMAS 2019: 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Montreal, 2019. S. Hu, C. Leong, H. Leong, J. Liu
  63. Periodic Neural Networks for Multivariate Time Series Analysis and Forecasting IJCNN 2019: International Joint Conference on Neural Network, Budapest, Hungary, 2019. N. Avazov, J. Liu, B. Khoussainov
  64. Distributed Community Detection over Blockchain Networks Based on Structural Entropy ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI 2019), held in conjunction with AsiaCCS 2019. **(Best paper award)** Y. Chen, J. Liu
  65. A Model of Minority Influence in Preferential Norm Formation International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences KSS 2019. 106-121. Springer. Q.Liu, H. Zheng, W. Li, J. Liu, B. Yan, H. Su,
  66. Time-Efficient Network Monitoring Through Confined Search and Adaptive Evaluation PRICAI 2019. Q. Hu, A. Li, J. Liu, J. Liu
  67. A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Gaining Social Capital with Partial Observation (extended abstract) PRICAI 2019. H. Zhao, H. Su, Y. Chen, J. Liu, H. Zheng, B. Yan,
  68. From the Periphery to the Core: Information Brokerage in an Evolving Network the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2018). B. Yan, Y. Liu, J. Liu
  69. Balancing the Pain and Gain of Hobnobbing: Utility-based Network Building over Attributed Social Networks AAMAS-18: 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. Y. Cai, H. Zheng, J. Liu, B. Yan, Y. Liu
  70. Finding Answers from the Word of God: Domain Adaptation for Neural Networks in Biblical Question Answering IJCNN 2018: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. H. Zhao, J. Liu
  71. Evaluating and Analyzing Reliability over Decentralized and Complex Networks 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2018), Melbourne, Australia. J. Mar, J. Liu, W. Chen, Y. Tang, T. Sun,
  72. An Agent-based Approach to Simulate Post-earthquake Indoor Crowd Evacuation The 21st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2018), Tokyo, Japan. L. Ni, V. Gonzalez, J. Liu, A. Rahouti, L. Zhang, B. P. Taing
  73. MSO Theory of Decidable Infinite and Bi-infinite Words Logical Methods in Computer Science. 14(3), 2018. D. Kuske, J. Liu, A. Moskvina,
  74. A Framework for Domain-Specific Natural Language Information Brokerage Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering. (2018). 559--585. Springer 2018. N. Lin, J. Liu
  75. Network, Popularity and Social Cohesion: A Game-Theoretic Approach Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17), San Francisco, USA, 2017 J. Liu, Z. Wei
  76. What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? -- An Agent-Based Approach to Self-Evaluation, Interpersonal Loss, and Suicide Ideation AAMAS-17: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2017 J. Liu, L. Li, K. Russell
  77. Dynamic Relationship Building: Exploitation Versus Exploration on a Social Network WISE-17: The 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, Russia. 2017. B. Yan, Y. Chen, J. Liu
  78. MANDY: Towards A Smart Primary Care Chatbot Application KSS-17: The 18th International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand. 2017. L. Ni, C. Lu, N. Liu, J. Liu
  79. How to Build Your Network: A Structural Analysis Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-16), pp: 2597-2603. New York. AAAI Press, 2016. A. Moskvina, J. Liu
  80. Togetherness: An Algorithmic Approach to Network Integration Proceedings of thee IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining. A. Moskvina, J. Liu
  81. Hierarchies, Ties and Power in Organizational Networks: Model and Analysis Social Network Analysis and Mining 6(1). 106:1-106:26. Springer 2016. J. Liu, A. Moskvina