Publications

Journals

Conferences

[C30][.pdf] Yara Khaluf, Andreagiovanni Reina Opinions spread faster when social networks change slower The International Conference on Network Science, Vienna, Austria, 2023

[C29][.pdf] Stef Van Havermaet, Pieter Simoens, Yara Khaluf An Adaptive Metric Model for Collective Motion Structures in Dynamic Environments 13th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Malaga, Spain, 2022

[C28][.pdf] Ningyuan Sun, Jean Botev, Yara Khaluf, Pieter Simoens Theory of Mind and Delegation to Robotic Virtual Agents 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, Naples, Italy, 2022

[C27][.pdf] Botev, Jean, Knut Drewing, Heiko Hamann, Yara Khaluf, Pieter Simoens, and Argiro Vatakis ChronoPilot—Modulating Time Perception The 2021 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR), Taichung, Taiwan, 2021

[C26][.pdf] Matthias Cami, Ines Terrucha, Yara Khaluf, and Pieter Simoens Bayesian inverse reinforcement learning for strategy extraction in the iterated prisoner’s dilemma game

[C25][.pdf] Yara Khaluf The emergence of collective response to decisions in a group of physical agents The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life (Alife), Prague, Czechia, 2021 (Virtual)

[C24][.pdf] Stef van Havermaet, Yara Khaluf and Pieter Simoens No More Hand-Tuning Rewards: Masked Constrained Policy Optimization for Safe Reinforcement Learning 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), London-UK (Virtual) 2021

[C23][.pdf] Johannes Nauta, Pieter Simoens and Yara Khaluf No Memory induced aggregation in collective foraging 12th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain (Virtual) 2020

[C22][.pdf] Yara Khaluf, Michael Allwright, Ilja Rausch, Pieter Simoens and Marco Dorigo Construction Task Allocation Through the Collective Perception of a Dynamic Environment 12th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain (Virtual) 2020

[C21][.pdf] Johannes Nauta, Stef van Havermaet, Pieter Simoens and Yara Khaluf Enhanced foraging in robot swarms using collective Lévy walks The 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2020

[C20][.pdf] Ilja Rausch, Yara Khaluf and Pieter Simoens Collective Decision-Making on Triadic Graphs The International Conference on Complex Networks (CompleNet), Exeter,UK, 2020

[C19][.pdf] Ilja Rausch, Yara Khaluf and Pieter Simoens Network motifs and collective decision-making The Network Science Society‘s signature winter conference (NetSci-X), Tokyo, Japan, 2020

[C18][.pdf] Yara Khaluf, Heiko Hamann Modulating Interaction Times in an Artificial Society of Robots The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life (Alife), Newcastle, UK, 2019

[C17][.pdf] Johannes Nauta, Yara Khaluf , Pieter Simoens Using the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process for Random Exploration The 4th International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk (COMPLEXIS 2019), Crete, Greece, 2019

[C16][.pdf] Ilja Rausch, Yara Khaluf and Pieter Simoens Applying scale-invariant dynamics to improve consensus achievement of agents in motion The 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence (DCAI 2018), Toledo, Spain, 2018

[C15][.pdf][.bibtex] Yara Khaluf, Ilja Rausch, Pieter Simoens The Impact of Interaction Models on the Coherence of Collective Decision-making: a Case Study with Simulated Locusts The 11th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2018), The Italian National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy, 2018

[C14][.pdf][.bibtex] Yara Khaluf, Stef Van Havermaet, Pieter Simoens Collective Lévy walk for Efficient Exploration in Unknown Environments The 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications(AIMSA 2018), Varna, Bulgaria, 2018

[C13][.pdf][.bibtex] Yara Khaluf Edge Detection in Static and Dynamic Environments using Robot Swarms 11th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2017), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, 2017

[C12][.pdf][.bibtex] Yara Khaluf Can the Mechanisms of Self-organization Help our Cities in Following the Scaling Laws of Biology? Position Paper The 19th Int’l Conf on Artificial Intelligence 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2017

[C11][.pdf][.bibtex] Yara Khaluf, Christine Markarian, Pieter Simoens, and Andreagiovanni Reina Scheduling Access to Shared Space in Multi-Robot Systems PAAMS 2017, Porto, Portugal, 2017

[C10] Yara Khaluf, Heiko Hamann On the Definition of Self-organizing Systems: Relevance of Positive/Negative Feedback and Fluctuations ANTS 2016, Brussels, Belgium, 2016

[C9][.pdf][.bibtex] Yara Khaluf Adaptive Construction Behavior in Robot Swarms +++ Best Paper Award +++ ADAPTIVE 2016, Rome, Italy, 2016

[C8][.pdf] [.bibtex] Yara Khaluf, Syam Gullipalli An Efficient Ant Colony System for Edge Detection in Image Processing European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2015), York, UK, 2015

[C7][.pdf] [.bibtex] Heiko Hamann, Gabriele Valentini, Yara Khaluf, Marco Dorigo Derivation of a Micro-Macro Link for Collective Decision-Making Systems: Uncover Network Features Based on Drift Measurements 13th Intern. Conf. on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2014), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2014

[C6][.pdf] [.bibtex] Yara Khaluf, Mauro Birattari, Heiko Hamann A swarm robotics approach to task allocation under soft deadlines and negligible switching costs Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2014), Castellon, Spain, 2014

[C5][.pdf] [.bibtex] Yara Khaluf, Franz-Josef Rammig Task Allocation Strategy for Time-Constrained Tasks in Robots Swarms European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2013), Taormina, Italy, 2013

[C4][.pdf] [.bibtex] Yara Khaluf, Mauro Birattari, Franz-Josef Rammig Probabilistic Analysis of Long-term Swarm Performance under Spatial Interferences 2nd International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing (TPNC 2013), Cáceres, Spain, 2013

[C3] Yara Khaluf, Fabian Weiss, Sebastian Micus Master Election for Time Synchronization in Swarm Robotic Systems The 10th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2012), Madrid, Spain, 2012

[C2] Yara Khaluf, Emi Mathews, Franz-Josef Rammig Self-Organized Cooperation in Swarm Robotics 14th IEEE International Symposium on Object/Component/Service-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing Workshops (ISORCW 2011), California, USA, 2011

[C1] Yara Khaluf, Achim Rettberg Towards a Load Balancing Middleware for Automotive Infotainment Systems Analysis, Architectures and Modelling of Embedded Systems IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IESS 2009), Langenargen, Germany, Volume 310, pp. 238-249, Springer-Verlag, 2009

Book Chapters

[BC1] Yara Khaluf, Emi Mathews, Franz-Josef Rammig Swarm Robotic Time Synchronization for Object Tracking Self-Organization in Embedded Real-Time Systems, M. Theresa Higuera-Toledano; Uwe Brinkschulte, Achim Rettberg (editor), pp. 75-92, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-1-4614-1969-3, 2012

PhD Thesis

Yara Khaluf Task Allocation in Robot Swarms for Time-Constrained Tasks University of Paderborn, Department of Computer Science, Germany, 2014