By Professor Kathryn Elizabeth Kasmarik

Books

Merrick K, 2016, Computational Models of Motivation for Game-Playing Agents, Springer International Publishing, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33459-2

Merrick K; Maher ML, 2009, Motivated Reinforcement Learning: Curious Characters for Multiuser Games, Springer Verlag, Berlin, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89187-1

Book Chapters

Kasmarik K; Liu X; Abbass H, 2022, 'Design and Validation of a Mini-Game for Player Motive Profiling', in Women in Computational Intelligence: Key Advances and Perspectives on Emerging Topics, Springer, pp. 103 - 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79092-9_5

Abpeikar S; Kasmarik K; Tran PV; Garratt M; Anavatti S; Khan M, 2022, 'Chapter 8 Tuning swarm behavior for environmental sensing tasks represented as coverage problems', in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Environmental Sensing, Elsevier, pp. 155 - 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-90508-4.00001-0

Fernandez Rojas R; Debie E; fidock J; Barlow M; Kasmarik K; Anavatti S; Garratt M; Abbass H, 2021, 'Human Performance Operating Picture for Shepherding a Swarm of Autonomous Vehicles', in Shepherding UxVs for Human-Swarm Teaming An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Unmanned X Vehicles, Springer Nature, pp. 293 - 323, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60898-9_13

Debie E; Fernandez Rojas R; fidock J; Barlow M; Kasmarik K; Anavatti S; Garratt M; Abbass H, 2021, 'Transparent Shepherding: A Rule-Based Learning Shepherd for Human Swarm Teaming', in Shepherding UxVs for Human-Swarm Teaming An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Unmanned X Vehicles, Springer Nature, pp. 267 - 292, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60898-9_12

El-Fiqi H; Kasmarik K; Abbass H, 2021, 'Logical Shepherd Assisting Air Traffic Controllers for Swarm UAV Traffic Control Systems', in Abbass H; Robert H (ed.), Shepherding UxVs for Human-Swarm Teaming: An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Unmanned X Vehicles, Springer International Publishing, pp. 245 - 263, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60898-9_11

Abpeikar S; Kasmarik K; Tran P; Garratt M; Anavatti S; Khan M, 2021, 'Tuning Swarm Behaviour for Environmental Sensing Tasks Represented as Coverage Problems', in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Environmental Sensing, Elsevier, pp. 155 - 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90508-4.00001-0

Merrick K; Klyne A; Hardhienata M, 2017, 'Computational Motivation, Autonomy and Trustworthiness: Can We Have It All?', in Foundations of Trusted Autonomy, Springer, pp. 293 - 316, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64816-3_16

Merrick KE, 2013, 'Novelty and beyond: Towards combined motivation models and integrated learning architectures', in Baldassarre G; Mirolli M (ed.), Intrinsically Motivated Learning in Natural and Artificial Systems, Springer Verlag, pp. 209 - 233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32375-1_9

Macindoe O; Maher ML; Merrick K, 2012, 'Agent Based Intrinsically Motivated Intelligent Environments', in Yang L; Syukur E; Loke S (ed.), Handbook on Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Status and Perspective, CRC Press, https://www.crcpress.com/Handbook-on-Mobile-and-Ubiquitous-Computing-Status-and-Perspective/Yang-Syukur-W-Loke/9781439848111

Gu N; Merrick K, 2011, 'A Pedagogical Approach to Exploring Place and Interaction Design in Collaborative Virtual Environments', in Wang X; Tsai JJH (ed.), Collaborative Design in Virtual Environments, Springer Verlag, pp. 111 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0605-7_10

Journal articles

Kasmarik K; Khani M; Abpeikar S; Barlow M; Carter O; Irish M, 2025, 'Competence Awareness for Humans and Machines: A Survey and Future Research Directions from Psychology', ACM Computing Surveys, 57, pp. 1 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3689626

Ghanem R; Ali IM; Abpeikar S; Kasmarik K; Garratt M, 2025, 'Optimizing and predicting swarming collective motion performance for coverage problems solving: A simulation-optimization approach', Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2024.109522

Debie E; Kasmarik K; Garratt M, 2024, 'Swarm Robotics: A Survey from a Multi-Tasking Perspective', ACM Computing Surveys, 56, pp. 1 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3611652

Ibrahim YM; Kermanshahi SK; Kasmarik K; Hu J, 2024, 'A Taxonomy-Based Survey of EM-SCA and Implications for Multi-Robot Systems', IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, 5, pp. 511 - 529, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/OJCS.2024.3461808

Tran VP; Perera AG; Garratt MA; Kasmarik K; Anavatti SG, 2024, 'Active Sensing Strategy: Multi-Modal, Multi-Robot Source Localization and Mapping in Real-World Settings With Fixed One-Way Switching', Journal of Field Robotics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rob.22441

Tran VP; Perera A; Garratt MA; Kasmarik K; Anavatti SG, 2023, 'Coverage Path Planning With Budget Constraints for Multiple Unmanned Ground Vehicles', IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24, pp. 12506 - 12522, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2023.3285624

Kasmarik K; Baldassarre G; Santucci VG; Triesch J, 2023, 'Guest Editorial Special Issue on Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Learning (IMOL)', IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 15, pp. 321 - 324, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCDS.2023.3276597

Tran VP; Garratt MA; Kasmarik K; Anavatti SG, 2023, 'Dynamic Frontier-Led Swarming: Multi-Robot Repeated Coverage in Dynamic Environments', IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 10, pp. 646 - 661, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2023.123087

Tran VP; Garratt MA; Kasmarik K; Anavatti SG; Leong AS; Zamani M, 2023, 'Multi-gas source localization and mapping by flocking robots', Information Fusion, 91, pp. 665 - 680, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.11.001

Abpeikar S; Kasmarik K; Garratt M, 2023, 'Iterative transfer learning for automatic collective motion tuning on multiple robot platforms', Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 17, pp. 1113991, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2023.1113991

Abpeikar S; Kasmarik K, 2023, 'Motion Behaviour Recognition Dataset Collected from Human Perception of Collective Motion', Data in Brief, 47, pp. 108976, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.108976

Samarasinghe D; Barlow M; Lakshika E; Kasmarik K, 2022, 'Grammar-based autonomous discovery of abstractions for evolution of complex multi-agent behaviours', Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2022.101106

Abpeikar S; Kasmarik K; Garratt M; Hunjet R; Khan M; Qiu H, 2022, 'Automatic Collective Motion Tuning using Actor-Critic Deep Reinforcement Learning', Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 72, pp. 101085, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2022.101085

Dhakan P; Kasmarik K; Vance P; Rano I; Siddique N, 2022, 'Concurrent Skill Composition using Ensemble of Primitive Skills', IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems

Tran P; Abpeikar S; Kasmarik K; Garratt M; Anavatti S, 2022, 'Frontier Led Swarming: Robust Multi-robot coverage of Unknown Environments', Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 75, pp. 101171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2022.101171

Ali IM; Essam D; Kasmarik K, 2021, 'Novel binary differential evolution algorithm for knapsack problems', Information Sciences, 542, pp. 177 - 194, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2020.07.013

Yang S; Barlow M; Hene Kankanamge E; Kasmarik K, 2021, 'A Novel Trust Architecture Integrating Differentiated Trust and Response Strategies for a Team of Agents', International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 36, pp. 7017 - 7052, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/int.22578

Liu X; Kasmarik K; Abbass H, 2021, 'Assessing Player Profiles of Achievement, Affiliation and Power Motivation using Electroencephalography', IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, 52, pp. 3648 - 3658, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.2021.3073216

Debie E; El-Fiqi H; Fidock J; Barlow M; Kasmarik K; Anavatti S; Garratt M; Abbass H, 2021, 'Autonomous recommender system for reconnaissance tasks using a swarm of UAVs and asynchronous shepherding', Human-Intelligent Systems Integration, 3, pp. 175 - 186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42454-020-00024-w

Samarasinghe Widana Arachchige D; Barlow M; Hene Kankanamge E; Kasmarik K, 2021, 'Exploiting Abstractions for Grammar-Based Learning of Complex Multi-Agent Behaviours', International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 36, pp. 6273 - 6311, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/int.22550

Samarasinghe Widana Arachchige D; Barlow M; Lakshika E; Kasmarik K, 2021, 'Grammar-Based Cooperative Learning for Evolving Collective Behaviours in Multi-Agent Systems', Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 69, pp. 101017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2021.101017

Wang M; Kasmarik K; Bezerianos A; Tan KC; Abbass H, 2021, 'On the channel density of EEG signals for reliable biometric recognition', Pattern Recognition Letters, 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2021.04.003

El-Fiqi H; Wang M; Kasmarik K; Bezerianos A; TAN KC; Abbass H, 2021, 'Weighted Gate Layer Autoencoders', IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 52, pp. 7242 - 7253, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2021.3049583

Nguyen TD; Kasmarik KE; Abbass HA, 2020, 'Q-Learning with Differential Entropy of Q-Tables', , http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14795v1

Nguyen HT; Nguyen TD; Tran VP; Garratt M; Kasmarik K; Anavatti S; Barlow M; Abbass HA, 2020, 'Continuous Deep Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Ground-Air Swarm Shepherding', , http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11543v4

Nguyen DT; Kasmarik KE; Abbass HA, 2020, 'Towards Interpretable ANNs: An Exact Transformation to Multi-Class Multivariate Decision Trees', , http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04675v4

Fernandez Rojas R; Debie E; Fidock J; Barlow M; Kasmarik K; Anavatti S; Garratt M; Abbass H, 2020, 'Electroencephalographic Workload Indicators During Teleoperation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Shepherding a Swarm of Unmanned Ground Vehicles in Contested Environments', Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.00040

Ali I; Essam D; Kasmarik K, 2020, 'A Novel Design of Differential Evolution for Solving Discrete Traveling Salesman Problems', Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 52

Khan M; Kasmarik K; Barlow M, 2020, 'Autonomous Detection of Collective Behaviours in Swarms', Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 57, pp. 100715, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2020.100715

Ali IM; Essam D; Kasmarik K, 2019, 'A novel differential evolution mapping technique for generic combinatorial optimization problems', Applied Soft Computing Journal, 80, pp. 297 - 309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2019.04.017

Abdelfattah S; Kasmarik K; Hu J, 2019, 'A Robust Policy Bootstrapping Algorithm for Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning in Non-stationary Environments', Adaptive Behavior, 28, pp. 273 - 292, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1059712319869313

Dennis Z; Wilson K; Boyson T; Kasmarik K, 2019, 'Building girls' confidence in themselves as future engineers', Teaching Science, 65, pp. 10 - 18

Abdelfattah S; Kasmarik K; Hu J, 2019, 'Intrinsically Motivated Hierarchical Policy Learning in Multi-objective Markov Decision Processes', IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Special Issue on Continual Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning, 13, pp. 262 - 273, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCDS.2019.2948025

Debie E; Fernandez Rojas R; Fidock J; Barlow M; Kasmarik K; Anavatti S; Garratt M; Abbass H, 2019, 'Multi-Modal Fusion for Objective Assessment of Cognitive Workload: A Review', IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 51, pp. 1542 - 1555, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2019.2939399

Dhakan P; Merrick K; Siddique N; Rano I, 2019, 'Open-Ended Continuous Learning of Compound Goals', IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Special Issue on Continual Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCDS.2019.2947896

Harvey J; Merrick K; Abbass H, 2018, 'Assessing Human Judgement of Computationally Generated Swarming', Frontiers Robotics and AI

Abdelfattah S; Kasmarik K; Hu J, 2018, 'Evolving Robust Policy Coverage Sets in Multi-objective Markov Decision Processes Through Intrinsically Motivated Self-play', Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Yang Z; Merrick K; Abbass H, 2018, 'Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Action Control', IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 29, pp. 5174 - 5184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNNLS.2018.2805379

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