John, Nathan, Parisa, and Stavros present research at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS)

A productive start to 2025 culminated in multiple accepted works at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS).

Kicking off the week at the 12th International Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration (SISSY'25):

• Parisa presented Self-evaluation can help agents meet social expectations, research that demonstrates how socially reflective Large Language Models (LLMs), as compared to “vanilla” LLMs, lead to more desirable responses, those which align with prevailing norms.
• Nathan presented Multi-Perspective Explanations for Multi-Agent Systems, research that extends the logical formalisms, the Event Calculus and the Abductive Event Calculus, to fill in narrative gaps given incomplete information about events.
• John presented Think Before You Act: Popperian Expectations for Adaptive Agents, a research proposal for extending Winfield’s consequence engine to explicitly record and store components of simulated events; Popperian Expectations.

Moving into the main track of the conference:

• John presented his research agenda in the Doctoral Symposium track: Improving Adaptability in Agents Through Popperian Expectations.
• Parisa presented A Reflective Architecture for LLM-based Systems, exploring the architectural underpinnings in realizing reflective Large Language Models.
• Nathan presented Empirical Expectations and Coordination Games, demonstrating how self-interest and unilateral empirical expectations lead to behavioral convergence within groups across four coordination games.
• Throughout the week both John and Nathan presented in poster sessions. John introducing a Unified Architecture for Expectations in Adaptive agents, and Nathan introducing a method for interfacing Modern Agent Toolkits with Logical Agents.

To round out the week, Stavros, at the third International Workshop on Sustainability and Scalability of Self-Organisation (SaSSO), organized by Faculty Affiliates Ştefan Sarkadi and Aishwaryaprajna. Stavros presented research on the Institution bootstrapping problem and some counter-intuitive solutions, describing how noisey perceptions can lead to the maintenance of an institution.