Professor Nir Oren | The University of Aberdeen

Professor Nir Oren

Personal Chair, Dean for Research Performance

Accepting PhDs

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Email Address: n.oren@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number: +44 (0)1224 274162
Office Address: Meston 222
School/Department: School of Natural and Computing Sciences
School/Department: Senior Vice Principals

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Research Overview

I work in multi-agent systems, specialising in formal argumentation, computational trust theory, and norm-based reasoning.

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I am currently accepting PhDs in Computing Science.

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Artificial Intelligence
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The Inverse Problem for Argumentation Gradual Semantics
2022 - Published
Oren, N., Yun, B., Vesic, S., Baptista, M. S.
Working Papers: Preprint Papers
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2202.00294
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/2c918476-ee50-45a6-8caf-50c364ea0f46/download
- [ONLINE] http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00294v1
On probabilistic argumentation and subargument-completeness
2022 - Published
Riveret, R., Oren, N.
Journal of Logic and Computation, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 115-128
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exab053
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Commentary to the Commission’s proposal for the “AI Act” – Response to selected issues
2021 - Published
Cserne, P., Ducato, R., Zivkovic, P., Brown, A., Couzigou, I., Leontidis, G., Oren, N., Sutherland, C., Sweeney, P., Yuksel Ripley, B.
Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and Websites
- [ONLINE] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12527-Artificial-intelligence-ethical-and-legal-requirements/F2665397_en
- [ONLINE] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12527-Artificial-intelligence-ethical-and-legal-requirements_en
In Search of a Goldilocks Zone for Credible AI
2021 - Published
Allan, K., Oren, N., Hutchison, J., Martin, D.
Scientific Reports, vol. 11, 13687
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93109-8
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/7bbc1f4c-76e7-4996-8720-946a18cee74b/download
Modelling Security Risk Scenarios Using Subjective Attack Trees
2021 - Published
Al-Hadhrami, N., Collinson, M., Oren, N.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68887-5_12
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/1aa2f78f-1da8-497c-866b-8b8b9ea4e66e/download
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Security Analysis Using Subjective Attack Trees
2021 - Published
Al-Hadhrami, N., Collinson, M., Oren, N.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69255-1_19
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/672a77fa-2e4b-425c-9385-6db58deb6c96/download
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Explaining BDI agent behaviour through dialogue
2021 - Published
Dennis, L. A., Oren, N.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/3438c736-6218-41ad-bde5-eecbb255a4de/download
- [ONLINE] https://aamas2021.soton.ac.uk/
- [ONLINE] http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2021/forms/contents.htm
- [ONLINE] http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2021/forms/index.htm
Preference Elicitation in Assumption-Based Argumentation
2021 - Published
Mahesar, Q. a., Oren, N., Vasconcelos, W. W.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69322-0_13
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
A Subjective Network Approach for Cybersecurity Risk Assessment
2020 - Published
Al-Hadhrami, N., Collinson, M., Oren, N.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3433174.3433175
A probabilistic deontic argumentation framework
2020 - Published
Riveret, R., Oren, N., Sartor, G.
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, vol. 126, pp. 249-271
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2020.08.012
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/e517e426-18ae-4996-9265-0a8616e6a62a/download
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Efficient Construction of Structured Argumentation Systems
2020 - Accepted/In press
Yun, B., Oren, N., Croitoru, M.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA200525
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/4bd10bc4-622a-4f91-be85-ec22445d6c9a/download
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Argument-based plan explanation
2020 - Published
Oren, N., van Deemter, K., Vasconcelos, W. W.
Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques for AI Planning. SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG, pp. 173-188, 16 pages
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38561-3_9
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Argumentation-based Reasoning about Plans, Maintenance Goals and Norms
2020 - Published
Shams, Z., Vos, M. D., Oren, N., Padget, J.
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, vol. 14, no. 3, 9
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3364220
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/26c9e152-7834-4a01-91e0-8c7933059cd2/download
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Landmark-based approaches for goal recognition as planning
2020 - Published
Pereira, R. F., Oren, N., Meneguzzi, F.
Artificial Intelligence, vol. 279, 103217
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11739v2
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2019.103217
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/15575ad4-42c2-479f-8bab-ee14dc8c81ff/download
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Using Sub-Optimal Plan Detection to Identify Commitment Abandonment in Discrete Environments
2020 - Published
Pereira, R. F., Oren, N., Meneguzzi, F.
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, vol. 11, no. 2, 23
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3372119
- [ONLINE] Cornell University repository
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
From Eigentrust to a Trust-measuring Algorithm in the Max-Plus Algebra
2020 - Published
Afanador, J., Oren, N., Baptista, M. S., Araujo, M.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA200069
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/52c5d614-4614-4829-bd86-14fc99397ba1/download
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
If you think the millennium bug was a hoax, here comes a history lesson
2019 - Published
Oren, N.
The Conversation
Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
- [ONLINE] https://theconversation.com/if-you-think-the-millennium-bug-was-a-hoax-here-comes-a-history-lesson-129042
Hybrid Mechanisms for On-Demand Transport
2019 - Published
Egan, M., Oren, N., Jakob, M.
Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 4500 - 4512
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2018.2886579
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/097c80cf-bd6d-4f78-a02f-9551135ca2d0/download
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
- [ONLINE] https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/en/researchoutput/hybrid-mechanisms-for-ondemand-transport(5b092108-4cd0-436a-8220-5984b467c7a6).html
Can I Influence You? Development of a Scale to Measure Perceived Persuasiveness and Two Studies Showing the Use of the Scale
2019 - Published
Thomas, R. J., Masthoff, J., Oren, N.
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2, 24
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2019.00024
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/b519e9a0-30eb-4681-b6b7-9a0f79e45fb0/download
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
A Coalitional Algorithm for Recursive Delegation
2019 - E-pub ahead of print
Afanador Leon, J., Oren, N.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33792-6_25
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/b4cbec9f-636b-4ba6-8ee4-0a5301156406/download
Algorithms for recursive delegation
2019 - Published
Afanador, J., Baptista, M. S., Oren, N.
AI Communications, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 303-317
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/AIC-190616
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/a48daf8f-7d2e-4c1b-81fd-0721a43c1134/download
- [ONLINE] http://pure-ots.abdn.ac.uk:8080/portal/en/researchoutput/algorithms-for-recursive-delegation(d372b924-4277-4d92-9b61-65c877259c41).html
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
Prioritized norms in formal argumentation
2019 - Published
Liao, B., Oren, N., Torre, L. v. d., Villata, S.
Journal of Logic and Computation, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 215-240
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08034
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exy009
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/ef9edbe4-b53c-4739-bbde-5967bc174a33/download
- [ONLINE] http://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08034 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exy009
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
- [ONLINE] http://pure.abdn.ac.uk:8080/portal/en/researchoutput/prioritized-norms-in-formal-argumentation(9e134f8b-a5a6-41cb-b718-155fb8c6bc02).html
Accountability for Practical Reasoning Agents
2019 - Published
Cranefield, S., Oren, N., Vasconcelos, W. W.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17294-7_3
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/a06e46fe-5b8c-43f7-8444-489ad0361014/download
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
- [ONLINE] http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-17294-7_3
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
- [ONLINE] https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/en/researchoutput/accountability-for-practical-reasoning-agents(17ca2c48-3285-4c9e-a5d6-9ef5990a7028).html
Actual persuasiveness: Impact of personality, age, and gender on message type susceptibility
2019 - Published
Ciocarlan, A., Masthoff, J., Oren, N.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17287-9_23
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/7399c7dc-1b53-49ab-8ad5-b41e15e1f5d8/download
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
- [ONLINE] https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/en/researchoutput/actual-persuasiveness(171d1667-a165-4d63-aaa4-e9db60795509).html
An Adversarial Algorithm for Delegation
2019 - Published
Afanador, J., Baptista, M. S., Oren, N.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17294-7_10
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/955ad0b1-97d5-4786-8260-7c533ad8c0a4/download
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
- [ONLINE] https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/en/researchoutput/an-adversarial-algorithm-for-delegation(ab7a03cb-d212-4179-84a1-757a71db11de).html
- [ONLINE] http://pure-ots.abdn.ac.uk:8080/portal/en/researchoutput/an-adversarial-algorithm-for-delegation(ab7a03cb-d212-4179-84a1-757a71db11de).html

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The Inverse Problem for Argumentation Gradual Semantics

On probabilistic argumentation and subargument-completeness

Commentary to the Commission’s proposal for the “AI Act” – Response to selected issues

In Search of a Goldilocks Zone for Credible AI

Modelling Security Risk Scenarios Using Subjective Attack Trees

Security Analysis Using Subjective Attack Trees

Explaining BDI agent behaviour through dialogue

Preference Elicitation in Assumption-Based Argumentation

A Subjective Network Approach for Cybersecurity Risk Assessment

A probabilistic deontic argumentation framework

Efficient Construction of Structured Argumentation Systems

Argument-based plan explanation

Argumentation-based Reasoning about Plans, Maintenance Goals and Norms

Landmark-based approaches for goal recognition as planning

Using Sub-Optimal Plan Detection to Identify Commitment Abandonment in Discrete Environments

From Eigentrust to a Trust-measuring Algorithm in the Max-Plus Algebra

If you think the millennium bug was a hoax, here comes a history lesson

Hybrid Mechanisms for On-Demand Transport

Can I Influence You? Development of a Scale to Measure Perceived Persuasiveness and Two Studies Showing the Use of the Scale

A Coalitional Algorithm for Recursive Delegation

Algorithms for recursive delegation

Prioritized norms in formal argumentation

Accountability for Practical Reasoning Agents

Actual persuasiveness: Impact of personality, age, and gender on message type susceptibility

An Adversarial Algorithm for Delegation

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