Alun D. Preece

Orcid: 0000-0003-0349-9057

Affiliations:
  • Cardiff University, Crime and Security Research Institute, UK
  • University of Aberdeen, UK


According to our database1, Alun D. Preece authored at least 187 papers between 1989 and 2024.

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2024
Can we Constrain Concept Bottleneck Models to Learn Semantically Meaningful Input Features?
CoRR, 2024

2023
DeepProbCEP: A neuro-symbolic approach for complex event processing in adversarial settings.
Expert Syst. Appl., April, 2023

Negativity spreads faster: A large-scale multilingual twitter analysis on the role of sentiment in political communication.
Online Soc. Networks Media, 2023

Knowledge from Uncertainty in Evidential Deep Learning.
CoRR, 2023

Towards a Deeper Understanding of Concept Bottleneck Models Through End-to-End Explanation.
CoRR, 2023

Providing assurance and scrutability on shared data and machine learning models with verifiable credentials.
Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp., 2023

Visualizing Logic Explanations for Social Media Moderation.
Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2023

2022
Real-Time Text Classification of User-Generated Content on Social Media: Systematic Review.
IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst., 2022

Understanding the characteristics of COVID-19 misinformation communities through graphlet analysis.
Online Soc. Networks Media, 2022

Trustable service discovery for highly dynamic decentralized workflows.
Future Gener. Comput. Syst., 2022

Politics and Virality in the Time of Twitter: A Large-Scale Cross-Party Sentiment Analysis in Greece, Spain and United Kingdom.
CoRR, 2022

Hyperdimensional Computing Using Time-To-Spike Neuromorphic Circuits.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2022

2021
AAAI FSS-21: Artificial Intelligence in Government and Public Sector Proceedings.
CoRR, 2021

Guiding Generative Language Models for Data Augmentation in Few-Shot Text Classification.
CoRR, 2021

Using DeepProbLog to perform Complex Event Processing on an Audio Stream.
CoRR, 2021

Deriving Disinformation Insights from Geolocalized Twitter Callouts.
CoRR, 2021

Tokenising behaviour change: optimising blockchain technology for sustainable transport interventions.
CoRR, 2021

A framework for fostering transparency in shared artificial intelligence models by increasing visibility of contributions.
Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp., 2021

DeepSQA: Understanding Sensor Data via Question Answering.
Proceedings of the IoTDI '21: International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation, 2021

Multi-Scale User Migration on Reddit.
Proceedings of the Workshop Proceedings of the 15th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2021

Supporting Agile User Fusion Analytics through Human-Agent Knowledge Fusion.
Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Information Fusion, 2021

Predicting Themes within Complex Unstructured Texts: A Case Study on Safeguarding Reports.
Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Deep Learning meets Ontologies and Natural Language Processing (DeepOntoNLP 2021) & 6th International Workshop on Explainable Sentiment Mining and Emotion Detection (X-SENTIMENT 2021) co-located with co-located with 18th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2021, Hersonissos, Greece, June 6th, 2021

COVID-19 and Misinformation: A Large-Scale Lexical Analysis on Twitter.
Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2021 Student Research Workshop, 2021

2020
Rapid Trust Calibration through Interpretable and Uncertainty-Aware AI.
Patterns, 2020

Efficient orchestration of Node-RED IoT workflows using a Vector Symbolic Architecture.
Future Gener. Comput. Syst., 2020

AAAI FSS-20: Artificial Intelligence in Government and Public Sector Proceedings.
CoRR, 2020

An Experimentation Platform for Explainable Coalition Situational Understanding.
CoRR, 2020

Towards human-agent knowledge fusion (HAKF) in support of distributed coalition teams.
CoRR, 2020

Towards a Modelling Framework for Self-Sovereign Identity Systems.
CoRR, 2020

A Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Complex Event Processing.
CoRR, 2020

Certifying Provenance of Scientific Datasets with Self-sovereign Identity and Verifiable Credentials.
CoRR, 2020

The current state of automated negotiation theory: a literature review.
CoRR, 2020

Explaining Motion Relevance for Activity Recognition in Video Deep Learning Models.
CoRR, 2020

Enabling Discoverable Trusted Services for Highly Dynamic Decentralized Workflows.
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science, 2020

Neuroplex: learning to detect complex events in sensor networks through knowledge injection.
Proceedings of the SenSys '20: The 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2020

VADR: Discriminative Multimodal Explanations for Situational Understanding.
Proceedings of the IEEE 23rd International Conference on Information Fusion, 2020

Increasing Negotiation Performance at the Edge of the Network.
Proceedings of the Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies, 2020

Go Simple and Pre-Train on Domain-Specific Corpora: On the Role of Training Data for Text Classification.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020

Assessing temporal and spatial features in detecting disruptive users on Reddit.
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2020

Sanity Checks for Saliency Metrics.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020

2019
AAAI FSS-19: Artificial Intelligence in Government and Public Sector Proceedings.
CoRR, 2019

Explainable AI for Intelligence Augmentation in Multi-Domain Operations.
CoRR, 2019

BMVC 2019: Workshop on Interpretable and Explainable Machine Vision.
CoRR, 2019

Explainable Deep Learning for Video Recognition Tasks: A Framework & Recommendations.
CoRR, 2019

Discriminating Spatial and Temporal Relevance in Deep Taylor Decompositions for Explainable Activity Recognition.
CoRR, 2019

Quantifying Transparency of Machine Learning Systems through Analysis of Contributions.
CoRR, 2019

Deep Q-Learning for Directed Acyclic Graph Generation.
CoRR, 2019

Towards Traceability in Data Ecosystems using a Bill of Materials Model.
CoRR, 2019

A Conceptual Architecture for Contractual Data Sharing in a Decentralised Environment.
CoRR, 2019

Understanding the Signature of Controversial Wikipedia Articles through Motifs in Editor Revision Networks.
Proceedings of the Companion of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference, 2019

DeepCEP: Deep Complex Event Processing Using Distributed Multimodal Information.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, 2019

Demonstration of Dynamic Distributed Orchestration of Node-RED IoT Workflows Using a Vector Symbolic Architecture.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, 2019

Coalition C3 Information Exchange Using Binary Symbolic Vectors.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2019

Feature Importance Identification through Bottleneck Reconstruction.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing, 2019

A Pilot Study on Detecting Violence in Videos Fusing Proxy Models.
Proceedings of the 22th International Conference on Information Fusion, 2019

Supporting User Fusion of AI Services through Conversational Explanations.
Proceedings of the 22th International Conference on Information Fusion, 2019

Knowledge Extraction from a Small Corpus of Unstructured Safeguarding Reports.
Proceedings of the Semantic Web: ESWC 2019 Satellite Events, 2019

Sensor Assignment to Missions: A Natural Language Knowledge-Based Approach.
Proceedings of the Mission-Oriented Sensor Networks and Systems: Art and Science, 2019

2018
Sentinel: A Codesigned Platform for Semantic Enrichment of Social Media Streams.
IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst., 2018

Asking 'Why' in AI: Explainability of intelligent systems - perspectives and challenges.
Intell. Syst. Account. Finance Manag., 2018

AAAI FSS-18: Artificial Intelligence in Government and Public Sector Proceedings.
CoRR, 2018

Hows and Whys of Artificial Intelligence for Public Sector Decisions: Explanation and Evaluation.
CoRR, 2018

Stakeholders in Explainable AI.
CoRR, 2018

Defining the Collective Intelligence Supply Chain.
CoRR, 2018

Uncertainty Aware AI ML: Why and How.
CoRR, 2018

Interpretable to Whom? A Role-based Model for Analyzing Interpretable Machine Learning Systems.
CoRR, 2018

Provisioning Robust and Interpretable AI/ML-Based Service Bundles.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2018

Conversational Control Interface to Facilitate Situational Understanding in a City Surveillance Setting.
Proceedings of the Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents Workshop co-located with the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2018), 2018

Learning and Reasoning in Complex Coalition Information Environments: A Critical Analysis.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information Fusion, 2018

2017
Sherlock: Experimental Evaluation of a Conversational Agent for Mobile Information Tasks.
IEEE Trans. Hum. Mach. Syst., 2017

Cognitive computing for coalition situational understanding.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE SmartWorld, 2017

Distributed opportunistic sensing and fusion for traffic congestion detection.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE SmartWorld, 2017


Subjective Bayesian Networks and Human-in-the-Loop Situational Understanding.
Proceedings of the Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, 2017

Deep learning for situational understanding.
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Fusion, 2017

Automation bias with a conversational interface: User confirmation of misparsed information.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management, 2017

Conversational Services for Multi-Agency Situational Understanding.
Proceedings of the 2017 AAAI Fall Symposia, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 9-11, 2017, 2017

2016
Conversational intelligence analysis.
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, 2016

2015
The role of idioms in sentiment analysis.
Expert Syst. Appl., 2015

Dynamically reconfigurable workflows for time-critical applications.
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science, 2015

Building a "living database" for human-machine intelligence analysis.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Information Fusion, 2015

Interest-Based Negotiation for Policy-Regulated Asset Sharing.
Proceedings of the Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Normes in Agent Systems XI, 2015

2014
Human-machine conversations to support multi-agency missions.
ACM SIGMOBILE Mob. Comput. Commun. Rev., 2014

Conversational Sensing.
CoRR, 2014

Sharing policies for multi-partner asset management in smart environments.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2014

Sharing smart environment assets in dynamic multi-partner scenarios.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2014

Enabling CoIST users: D2D at the network edge.
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Fusion, 2014

2013
Agilely Assigning Sensing Assets to Mission Tasks in a Coalition Context.
IEEE Intell. Syst., 2013

FlexiTerm: a flexible term recognition method.
J. Biomed. Semant., 2013

Human-machine conversations to support mission-oriented information provision.
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM annual international workshop on Mission-oriented wireless sensor networking, 2013

Human Factors in Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance: Gaps for Soldiers and Technology Recommendations.
Proceedings of the 32th IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2013

Resource Allocation with Non-deterministic Demands and Profits.
Proceedings of the IEEE 10th International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems, 2013

A Common Reference Model for Environmental Science Research Infrastructures.
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Environmental Informatics for Environmental Protection, 2013

Automatic Extraction of Personal Experiences from Patients' Blogs: A Case Study in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 30, 2013

2012
Improving QoS assessment over multiple attributes with asynchonous data.
Comput. Syst. Sci. Eng., 2012

Poster: using local and global knowledge in wireless sensor networks.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile Systems, 2012

Integrating hard and soft information sources for D2D using controlled natural language.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Fusion, 2012

2011
Bridging two translation gaps: A new informatics research agenda for telemonitoring of chronic disease.
Int. J. Medical Informatics, 2011

Designing and implementing telemonitoring for early detection of deterioration in chronic disease: Defining the requirements.
Health Informatics J., 2011

Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium and Poster Session of the 5th International Symposium on Rules (RuleML 2011@IJCAI)
CoRR, 2011

Resource Determination and Allocation in Sensor Networks: A Hybrid Approach.
Comput. J., 2011

Rule-Based Semantic Sensing.
Proceedings of the 5th International RuleML2011@BRF Challenge, 2011

Demo: A distributed architecture for heterogeneous multi sensor-task allocation.
Proceedings of the Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, 2011

A distributed architecture for heterogeneous multi sensor-task allocation.
Proceedings of the Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, 2011

2010
Sensor-Mission Assignment in Constrained Environments.
IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst., 2010

Handling asynchronous data in assessing QoS over multiple attributes.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications, 2010

An Ontological Approach to Integrating Task Representations in Sensor Networks.
Proceedings of the EKAW2010 Poster and Demo Track, Lisbon, Portugal, October 11 - 15, 2010, 2010

QoS Assessment over Multiple Attributes.
Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 2010

2009
Incorporating Domain-Specific Information Quality Constraints into Database Queries.
ACM J. Data Inf. Qual., 2009

Detection and Localization Sensor Assignment with Exact and Fuzzy Locations.
Proceedings of the Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, 2009

2008
A Semantic web approach to handling soft constraints in virtual organisations.
Electron. Commer. Res. Appl., 2008

An ontology-based approach to handling information quality in e-Science.
Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp., 2008

Information quality in proteomics.
Briefings Bioinform., 2008

Enhancing Workflow with a Semantic Description of Scientific Intent.
Proceedings of the Semantic Web: Research and Applications, 2008

Instance Based Clustering of Semantic Web Resources.
Proceedings of the Semantic Web: Research and Applications, 2008

An Ontology-Centric Approach to Sensor-Mission Assignment.
Proceedings of the Knowledge Engineering: Practice and Patterns, 2008

Frugal Sensor Assignment.
Proceedings of the Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, 2008

Utility-based joint sensor selection and congestion control for task-oriented WSNs.
Proceedings of the 42nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2008

2007
A reusable commitment management service using Semantic Web technology.
Knowl. Based Syst., 2007

A Semantic Grid Service for Experimentation with an Agent-Based Model of Land-Use Change.
J. Artif. Soc. Soc. Simul., 2007

The International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Sciences.
IEEE Intell. Syst., 2007

Subjective logic and arguing with evidence.
Artif. Intell., 2007

Managing information quality in e-science: the qurator workbench.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2007

Sensor Assignment In Virtual Environments Using Constraint Programming.
Proceedings of the Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XV, 2007

Player Collaboration in Virtual Environments using Hierarchical Task Network Planning.
Proceedings of the Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XV, 2007

Argumentation Based Contract Monitoring in Uncertain Domains.
Proceedings of the IJCAI 2007, 2007

Managing Sensors and Information Sources Using Semantic Matchmaking and Argumentation.
Proceedings of the Cooperative Information Agents XI, 11th International Workshop, 2007

2006
Quality Views: Capturing and Exploiting the User Perspective on Data Quality.
Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2006

Argument Based Contract Enforcement.
Proceedings of the Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXIII, 2006

A Semantic Web Blackboard System.
Proceedings of the Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXIII, 2006

Semantic Web Reasoning Using a Blackboard System.
Proceedings of the Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning, 2006

Managing Information Quality in e-Science Using Semantic Web Technology.
Proceedings of the Semantic Web: Research and Applications, 2006

Arguing with Confidential Information.
Proceedings of the ECAI 2006, 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 29, 2006

A Simple Argumentation Based Contract Enforcement Mechanism.
Proceedings of the Cooperative Information Agents X, 10th International Workshop, 2006

Towards the Management of Information Quality in Proteomics.
Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2006), 2006

CONOISE-G: agent-based virtual organisations.
Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006), 2006

Norm Conflicts and Inconsistencies in Virtual Organisations.
Proceedings of the Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II, 2006

Information Based Argumentation Heuristics.
Proceedings of the Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, Third International Workshop, 2006

2005
Agent-based virtual organisations for the Grid.
Multiagent Grid Syst., 2005

WINES: Wired and Wireless Intelligent Networked Systems.
IEEE Intell. Syst., 2005

Managing Information Quality in e-Science: A Case Study in Proteomics.
Proceedings of the Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling, 2005

Semantic support for computational land-use modelling.
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2005), 2005

Service Level Agreements for Semantic Web Agents.
Proceedings of the Agents and the Semantic Web, 2005

2004
Agent-based formation of virtual organisations.
Knowl. Based Syst., 2004

Learning Meta-descriptions of the FOAF Network.
Proceedings of the Semantic Web, 2004

Extending SWRL to Express Fully-Quantified Constraints.
Proceedings of the Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web: Third International Workshop, 2004

Supporting Collaboration Through Semantic-Based Workflow and Constraint Solving.
Proceedings of the Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web, 2004

Commitment Management through Constraint Reification.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2004), 2004

Ontology Reconciliation.
Proceedings of the Handbook on Ontologies, 2004

2003
CONOISE: Agent-Based Formation of Virtual Organisations.
Proceedings of the Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XX, 2003

GraniteNights - A Multi-agent Visit Scheduler Utilising Semantic Web Technology.
Proceedings of the Cooperative Information Agents VII, 7th International Workshop, 2003

Experience in Using RDF in Agent-Mediated Knowledge Architectures.
Proceedings of the Agent Mediated Knowledge Management, 2003

2002
Detecting mismatches among experts' ontologies acquired through knowledge elicitation.
Knowl. Based Syst., 2002

Guest Editors' Introduction: Intelligent Web Services.
IEEE Intell. Syst., 2002

Mobile Constraints for Semantic Web Applications.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Information Processing, 2002

OntoManager: A Workbench Environment to facilitate Ontology Management and Interoperability.
Proceedings of the EON2002, 2002

Supporting Virtual Organisations Using BDI Agents and Constraints.
Proceedings of the Cooperative Information Agents VI, 6th International Workshop, 2002

2001
Designing for scalability in a knowledge fusion system.
Knowl. Based Syst., 2001

Supporting virtual organizations through constraint fusion.
Intell. Syst. Account. Finance Manag., 2001

Kraft: An Agent Architecture for Knowledge Fusion.
Int. J. Cooperative Inf. Syst., 2001

Better Knowledge Management through Knowledge Engineering.
IEEE Intell. Syst., 2001

Constraints as Mobile Specifications in E-Commerce Applications.
Proceedings of the Semantic Issues in E-Commerce Systems, 2001

2000
The KRAFT architecture for knowledge fusion and transformation.
Knowl. Based Syst., 2000

Towards a Scalable Architecture for Knowledge Fusion.
Proceedings of the Infrastructure for Agents, 2000

1999
Verifying ontological commitment in knowledge-based systems.
Knowl. Based Syst., 1999

C<sub>OVERAGE</sub>: verifying multiple-agent knowledge-based systems.
Knowl. Based Syst., 1999

1998
Structure-Based Validation of Rule-Based Systems.
Data Knowl. Eng., 1998

1997
Evaluation of verification tools for knowledge-based systems.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 1997

KRAFT: Knowledge Fusion from Distributed Databases and Knowledge Bases.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, 1997

1996
Validating dynamic properties of rule-based systems.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 1996

Editorial: special issue on verification and validation.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 1996

1995
Validation of knowledge-based systems: Current trends and issues.
Knowl. Eng. Rev., 1995

Verification and validation of knowledge-based systems with formal specifications.
Knowl. Eng. Rev., 1995

Toward a quality assessment framework for knowledge-based systems.
J. Syst. Softw., 1995

Validating Rule-Based Systems that Operate with Incomplete Data.
Proceedings of the European Symposium on the Validation and Verification of Knowledge-Based Systems, 1995

1994
Foundation and application of knowledge base verification.
Int. J. Intell. Syst., 1994

1993
Specifications and Tools for Building Reliable Expert Systems.
Int. J. Softw. Eng. Knowl. Eng., 1993

A New Approach to Detecting Missing Knowledge in Expert System Rule Bases.
Int. J. Man Mach. Stud., 1993

Exploring the Structure of Rule Based Systems.
Proceedings of the 11th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Washington, 1993

1992
Principles and practice in verifying rule-based systems.
Knowl. Eng. Rev., 1992

Empirical study of expert system development.
Knowl. Based Syst., 1992

Verification, Validation, and Test of Knowledge-Based Systems.
AI Mag., 1992

Verifying Knowledge-Based Systems Using the COVER Tool.
Proceedings of the Personal Computers and Intelligent Systems, 1992

Verifying Knowledge Bases by Anomaly Detection: An Experience Report.
Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1992

1991

1990
Specification of expert systems.
Proceedings of the 2nd International IEEE Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence, 1990

1989
Comparative approaches to building expert systems for health care.
PhD thesis, 1989


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