Professor Tony Savarimuthu lectures and coordinates COMP 101, the introductory paper in Information Science. Tony has a background of working as a Software Engineer and a Lecturer in India.
His main research interests are in the areas of multi-agent systems (particularly normative multi-agent systems) and Software Engineering. Recently, he has also been active in the area of Information Systems.
His PhD thesis in the area of multi-agent systems investigated mechanisms for norm emergence and norm identification in artificial agent societies. His thesis was placed in the Dean's exceptional thesis list for Otago's School of Business in 2011.
Principal researcher in the ORG grant titled “An experimental framework to facilitate investigations into adaptive wireless networks”, 2007
A named researcher in the School of Business grant titled “Interactive and Collaborative Learning in a Distributed Environment”, 2007
A named researcher in the CALT grant on Innovation in Teaching, titled “Promoting active learning in lecture rooms in large courses”, 2005
Supervision
Currently supervising
Priyanka Patel
Mostafa Alwash
Pankaj Sharma
Amir Sedigh
Jithin Cheriyan
Currently co-supervising
Saurabh Malgaonkar
Amritha Anavankot
Completed PhDs
Amala Arul Sharmila Savarimuthu (2006 - 2011), Title: Mechanisms for self-organization of groups in agent societies, Supervisors: Dr. Maryam Purvis, Prof. Martin Purvis, Mr. Tony Savarimuthu
Completed Masters'
Jack Kanimea, (MCom, 2008-2009), Title: Integrating Single Sign On and enabling secure interactions in a composite Web Service, Supervisors: Mr. Tony Savarimuthu and Dr. Maryam Purvis, Status: Completed in 2009.
Tarik Al-ani (MAppSc, 2010-2011), Title: Android In-Vehicle Infotainment System (AIVI), Supervisors: Mr. Tony Savarimuthu and Dr. Maryam Purvis, Status: Completed in 2011.
Honours/Postgraduate diploma (Dissertations cosupervised with Dr. Maryam Purvis)
Jinhong Xie (Title: An RFID-based Location-aware Web Application to Enhance User Experience in an Aquarium, completed in 2010)
Danica Milic (Title: Dynamic ridesharing and social networking application development on Android mobile phone platform, completed in 2008)
Alya Alaali (Title: Mechanisms associated with spread of opinions in human population on a social network, completed in 2007)
Anh Le Thu (Title: Current Problems and Tools Support for Testing Distributed Systems, completed in 2006)
Publications
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Corbett, J., Yasir, M., & Lakshmi, V. (2023). Improving information systems sustainability by applying machine learning to detect and reduce data waste. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 53, 189-213. doi: 10.17705/1CAIS.05308
Journal - Research Article
Freitas dos Santos, T., Cranefield, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Osman, N., & Schorlemmer, M. (2023). Cross-community Adapter Learning (CAL) to understand the evolving meanings of norm violation. In E. Elkind (Ed.), Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI ). (pp. 109-117). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2023/13
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Anavankot, A., Cranefield, S., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2023). Towards norm entrepreneurship in agent societies. In P. Mathieu, F. Dignum, P. Novais & F. De la Prieta (Eds.), Advances in practical applications of agents, multi-agent systems, and cognitive mimetics, 21st International Conference, PAAMS 2023: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 13955). (pp. 188-199). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-37616-0_16
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Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Zareen, Z., Cheriyan, J., Yasir, M., & Galster, M. (2023). Barriers for social inclusion in online software engineering communities: A study of offensive language use in Gitter projects. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE). (pp. 217-222). New York, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3593434.3593463
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Sharma, P. N., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Stanger, N. (2023). How are decisions made in open source software communities? Uncovering rationale from python email repositories. Journal of Software: Evolution & Process. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/smr.2526
Journal - Research Article
Ajmeri, N., Martin, A. M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (Eds.). (2022). Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics (COINE) for governance of multi-agent systems XV: Revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 13549). Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 241p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-20845-4
Edited Book - Research
Afshar Sedigh, A. H., Purvis, M., Savarimuthu, T. B. R., Frantz, C. K., & Purvis, M. (2022). A comparative study on apprenticeship systems using agent-based simulation. Journal of Artificial Societies & Social Simulation, 25(1), 1. doi: 10.18564/jasss.4733
Journal - Research Article
Corbett, J., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2022). From tweets to insights: A social media analysis of the emotion discourse of sustainable energy in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science, 89, 102515. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2022.102515
Journal - Research Article
Malgaonkar, S., Licorish, S. A., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2022). Automatically generating taxonomy for grouping app reviews: A study of three apps. Software Quality Journal, 30, 483-512. doi: 10.1007/s11219-021-09570-1
Journal - Research Article
Malgaonkar, S., Licorish, S. A., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2022). Prioritizing user concerns in app reviews: A study of requests for new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Information & Software Technology, 144, 106798. doi: 10.1016/j.infsof.2021.106798
Journal - Research Article
Sharma, P. N., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Stanger, N. (2022). Unearthing open source decision-making processes: A case study of python enhancement proposals. Software: Practice & Experience, 52, 2312-2346. doi: 10.1002/spe.3128
Journal - Research Article
Afshar Sedigh, A. H., Purvis, M. K., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Frantz, C. K., & Purvis, M. A. (2021). Impact of different belief facets on agents' decision: A refined cognitive architecture to model the interaction between organisations' institutional characteristics and agents' behaviour. In A. Aler Tubella, S. Cranefield, C. Frantz, F. Meneguzzi & W. Vasconcelos (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XIII: COIN 2017 & COINE 2020 International Workshops, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 12298). (pp. 133-155). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-72376-7_8
Chapter in Book - Research
Cheriyan, J., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Cranefield, S. (2021). Norm violation in online communities: A study of Stack Overflow comments. In A. Aler Tubella, S. Cranefield, C. Frantz, F. Meneguzzi & W. Vasconcelos (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XIII: COIN 2017 & COINE 2020 International Workshops, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 12298). (pp. 20-34). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-72376-7_2
Chapter in Book - Research
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Licorish, S. A., Devananda, M., Greenheld, G., Dignum, V., & Dignum, F. (2021). Developers' responses to app review feedback: A study of communication norms in app development. In A. Aler Tubella, S. Cranefield, C. Frantz, F. Meneguzzi & W. Vasconcelos (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XIII: COIN 2017 & COINE 2020 International Workshops, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 12298). (pp. 57-75). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-72376-7_4
Chapter in Book - Research
Alwash, M., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Parackal, M. (2021). Mining brand value propositions on Twitter: Exploring the link between marketer-generated content and eWOM outcomes. Social Network Analysis & Mining, 11, 83. doi: 10.1007/s13278-021-00790-8
Journal - Research Article
Cheriyan, J., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Cranefield, S. (2021). Towards offensive language detection and reduction in four Software Engineering communities. In R. Chitchyan, J. Li, B. Weber & T. Yue (Eds.), Proceedings of the Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) Conference. (pp. 254-259). New York, NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3463274.3463805
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Cranefield, S., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2021). Normative multi-agent systems and human-robot interaction. Proceedings of the Ro-Man Workshop on Robot Behavior Adaptation to Human Social Norms (TSAR). Retrieved from https://tsar2021.ai.vub.ac.be
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Sharma, P. N., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Stanger, N. (2021). Extracting rationale for Open Source Software Development decisions: A study of Python email archives. Proceedings of the IEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). (pp. 1008-1019). doi: 10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00095
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Sharma, P. N., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Stanger, N. (2021). Influence of roles in decision-making during OSS development: A study of Python. In R. Chitchyan, J. Li, B. Weber & T. Yue (Eds.), Proceedings of the Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) Conference. (pp. 50-59). New York, NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3463274.3463326
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Meldrum, S., Licorish, S. A., Owen, C. A., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2020). Understanding stack overflow code quality: A recommendation of caution. Science of Computer Programming, 199, 102516. doi: 10.1016/j.scico.2020.102516
Journal - Research Article
Malgaonkar, S., Licorish, S. A., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2020). Towards automated taxonomy generation for grouping app reviews: A preliminary empirical study. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC). (pp. 120-134). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58793-2_10
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Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Corbett, J., Yasir, M., & Lakshmi, V. (2020). Using machine learning to improve the sustainability of the online review market. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS): Making Digital Inclusive: Blending the Local and the Global. 167844. [Full Paper]
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Sharma, P., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Stanger, N. (2020). Mining decision-making processes in open source software development: A study of Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) using email repositories. Proceedings of the Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE). (pp. 200-209). ACM. doi: 10.1145/3383219.3383240
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Afshar Sedigh, A. H., Frantz, C. K., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. K., & Purvis, M. A. (2019). A comparison of two historical trader societies: An agent-based simulation study of English East India Company and New-Julfa. In P. Davidsson & H. Verhagen (Eds.), Multi-agent-based simulation XIX: 19th International Workshop MABS 2018, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 11463). (pp. 17-31). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-22270-3_2
Chapter in Book - Research
Alwash, M., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Parackal, M. (2019). Shallow vs. deep customer engagement: A study of brand value propositions in Twitter. Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). (pp. 1-12). Retrieved from https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2019_rp/96
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Yasir, M., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, T. B. R. (2018). Complementary-based coalition formation for energy microgrids. Computational Intelligence. doi: 10.1111/coin.12171
Journal - Research Article
Corbett, J., Savarimuthu, T., & Mohanna, M. (2018). Are electricity prosumers more engaged? An analysis of brand-follower engagement on twitter. Proceedings of the 24th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Digital Disruption. 139332. AIS. [Full Paper]
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Greenheld, G., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Licorish, S. A. (2018). Automating developers' responses to app reviews. Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC). (pp. 66-70). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ASWEC.2018.00017
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Lotter, A., Licorish, S. A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Meldrum, S. (2018). Code reuse in stack overflow and popular open source Java projects. Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC). (pp. 141-150). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ASWEC.2018.00027
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Yasir, M., Michael, K., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Licorish, S. A. (2018). Formal in the informal: A multi-level analysis of core python developers' tweets. Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC). (pp. 151-160). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ASWEC.2018.00028
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Keller, T., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2017). Facilitating enhanced decision support using a social norms approach. Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organisations, 15(2), 1. doi: 10.4018/JECO.2017040101
Journal - Research Article
Meldrum, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Licorish, S., Tahir, A., Bosu, M., & Jayakaran, P. (2017). Is knee pain information on YouTube videos perceived to be helpful? An analysis of user comments and implications for dissemination on social media. Digital Health, 3. doi: 10.1177/2055207617698908
Journal - Research Article
Yasir, M., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2017). Agent-based modelling of coalition formation in energy micro-grids. International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, 5(4), 399-432. doi: 10.1504/IJAOSE.2017.087639
Journal - Research Article
Licorish, S. A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Keertipati, S. (2017). Attributes that predict which features to fix: Lessons for App Store mining. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE). (pp. 108-117). New York, NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3084226.3084246
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Meldrum, S., Licorish, S. A., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2017). Crowdsourced knowledge on stack overflow: A systematic mapping study. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE). (pp. 180-185). New York, NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3084226.3084267
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Sharma, P. N., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Stanger, N. (2017). Boundary spanners in open source software development: A study of Python email archives. Proceedings of the 24th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC). (pp. 308-317). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/APSEC.2017.37
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Sharma, P., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Stanger, N., Licorish, S. A., & Rainer, A. (2017). Investigating developers' email discussions during decision-making in Python language evolution. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE). (pp. 286-291). New York, NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3084226.3084271
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Su'a, T., Licorish, S. A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Langlotz, T. (2017). QuickReview: A novel data-driven mobile user interface for reporting problematic app features. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). (pp. 517-522). New York, NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3025171.3025178
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Alwash, M., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Parackal, M. (2016). Identifying and classifying value propositions in brand tweets: A study of top 10 coffee brands. Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS). 168. Retrieved from http://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2016/168
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Avery, D., Dam, H. K., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Ghose, A. (2016). Externalization of software behavior by the mining of norms. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR). (pp. 223-234). New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2901739.2901744
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Cranefield, S., Meneguzzi, F., Oren, N., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2016). A Bayesian approach to norm identification. In G. A. Kaminka, M. Fox, P. Bouquet, E. Hüllermeier, F. Dignum & F. van Harmelen (Eds.), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (Vol. 285): 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI). (pp. 622-629). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-672-9-622
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Frantz, C. K., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. K., & Nowostawski, M. (2016). Generalising social structure using interval type-2 fuzzy sets. In M. Baldoni, A. K. Chopra, T. C. Son, K. Hirayama & P. Torroni (Eds.), Principles and practice of multi-agent systems: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 9862). (pp. 344-354). Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-44832-9_22
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Keertipati, S., Licorish, S., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2016). Exploring decision-making processes in Python. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE). 43. New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2915970.2915993
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Keertipati, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Licorish, S. A. (2016). Approaches for prioritizing feature improvements extracted from app reviews. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE). 33. New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2915970.2916003
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Keller, T., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2016). A social norms based approach for enhancing decision support in business process execution. In A. Bossard (Ed.), Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA). (pp. 137-144). International Society for Computers and Their Applications. [Full Paper]
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Keller, T., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2016). Optimizing decision support in business process management using obligation and prohibition norms. In M. B. Nunes, P. Isaías & P. Powell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference Information Systems. (pp. 63-70). [Full Paper]
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Lee, C. W., Licorish, S. A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & MacDonell, S. G. (2016). Augmenting text mining approaches with social network analysis to understand the complex relationships among users’ requests: A case study of the android operating system. In T. X. Bui & R. H. Sprague (Eds.), Proceedings of the 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). (pp. 1144-1153). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2016.145
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Patel, P., Licorish, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & MacDonell, S. (2016). Studying expectation violations in socio-technical systems: A case study of the mobile app community. Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). 14. Retrieved from http://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2016_rp/14
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Savarimuthu, T., Dam, H. K., Licorish, S. A., Keertipati, S., Avery, D., & Ghose, A. K. (2016). Process compliance in open source software development: A study of Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPS). Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). 48. Retrieved from http://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2016_rp/48
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Farhangian, M., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2015). Agent-based modeling of resource allocation in software projects based on personality and skill. In F. Koch, C. Guttmann & D. Busquets (Eds.), Advances in social computing and multiagent systems: Communications in computer and information science (Vol. 541). (pp. 130-146). Cham, The Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24804-2_9
Chapter in Book - Research
Farhangian, M., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2015). The effects of temperament and team formation mechanism on collaborative learning of knowledge and skill in short-term projects. In F. Koch, C. Guttmann & D. Busquets (Eds.), Advances in social computing and multiagent systems: Communications in computer and information science (Vol. 541). (pp. 48-65). Cham, The Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24804-2_4
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Frantz, C., Purvis, M. K., Nowostawski, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2015). Analysing the apprenticeship system in the Maghribi Traders Coalition. In F. Grimaldo & E. Norling (Eds.), Multi-agent-based simulation XV: International Workshop MABS 2014, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 9002). (pp. 180-196). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-14627-0_13
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Frantz, C., Purvis, M., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Nowostawski, M. (2015). Modelling the impact of role specialisation on cooperative behaviour in historic trader scenarios. In A. Ghose, N. Oren, P. Telang & J. Thangarajah (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions and norms in agent systems X: COIN 2014 International Workshops, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 9372). (pp. 53-71). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-25420-3_16
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Yasir, M., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2015). Improving energy outcomes in dynamically formed micro-grid coalitions. In A. Ghose, N. Oren, P. Telang & J. Thangarajah (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions and norms in agent systems X: COIN 2014 International Workshops, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 9372). (pp. 251-267). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-25420-3_16
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Frantz, C. K., Purvis, M. K., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Nowostawski, M. (2015). Modelling dynamic normative understanding in agent societies. Scalable Computing, 16(4), 355-378. doi: 10.12694/scpe.v16i4.1128
Journal - Research Article
Savarimuthu, S., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2015). An agent-based simulation for restricting exploitation in electronic societies through social mechanisms. AI & Society, 30(3), 345-358. doi: 10.1007/s00146-013-0529-0
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Yasir, M., Purvis, M. K., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2015). Agent-based community coordination of local energy distribution. AI & Society, 30(3), 379-391. doi: 10.1007/s00146-013-0528-1
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Dam, H. K., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Avery, D., & Ghose, A. (2015). Mining software repositories for social norms. Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Vol. 2). (pp. 627-630). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICSE.2015.209
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Farhangian, M., Purvis, M. K., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2015). Modeling the effects of personality on team formation in self-assembly teams. In Q. Chen, P. Torroni, S. Villata, J. Hsu & A. Omicini (Eds.), PRIMA 2015: Principles and practice of multi-agent systems: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 9387). (pp. 538-546). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-25524-8_36
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Keller, T., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2015). The Folly Guard: A personal and social communication protection system. In P. Kommers & P. Isaias (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th e-Society International Conference. (pp. 233-238). IADIS Press. [Full Paper]
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Licorish, S. A., Lee, C. W., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Patel, P., & MacDonell, S. G. (2015). They’ll know it when they see it: Analyzing post-release feedback from the android community. Proceedings of the 21st Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS). Retrieved from http://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1407&context=amcis2015
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Yasir, M., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2015). Dynamic coalition formation in energy micro-grids. In Q. Chen, P. Torroni, S. Villata, J. Hsu & A. Omicini (Eds.), PRIMA 2015: Principles and practice of multi-agent systems: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 9387). (pp. 152-168). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-25524-8_10
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Farhangian, M., Purvis, M. K., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2014). Modelling the effects of personality and temperament in small teams. In T. Balke, F. Dignum, M. Birna van Riemsdijk & A. K. Chopra (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems IX: COIN 2013 International Workshops, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 8386). (pp. 25-41). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-07314-9_2
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Frantz, C., Purvis, M. K., Nowostawski, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2014). Modelling institutions using dynamic deontics. In T. Balke, F. Dignum, M. Birna van Riemsdijk & A. K. Chopra (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems IX: COIN 2013 International Workshops, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 8386). (pp. 211-233). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-07314-9_12
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Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Dam, H. K. (2014). Towards mining norms in open source software repositories. In L. Cao, Y. Zeng, A. L. Symeonidis, V. Gorodetsky, J. P. Müller & P. S. Yu (Eds.), Agents and data mining interaction: 9th International Workshop ADMI 2013, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 8316). (pp. 26-39). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-55192-5_3
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Yasir, M., Purvis, M. K., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2014). Intelligent battery strategies for local energy distribution. In T. Balke, F. Dignum, M. Birna van Riemsdijk & A. K. Chopra (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems IX: COIN 2013 International Workshops, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 8386). (pp. 63-80). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-07314-9_4
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Yasir, M., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2014). An intelligent learning mechanism for trading strategies for local energy distribution. In S. Ceppi, E. David, V. Podobnik, V. Robu, O. Shehory, S. Stein & I. A. Vetsikas (Eds.), Agent-mediated electronic commerce: Designing trading strategies and mechanisms for electronic markets (LNBIP 187). (pp. 159-170). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-13218-1_12
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Arulanandam, R., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Purvis, M. A. (2014). Extracting crime information from online newspaper articles. In S. Cranefield, A. Trotman & J. Yang (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second Australasian Web (AWC) Conference. (pp. 31-38). Auckland, New Zealand: ACS. [Full Paper]
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Farhangian, M., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2014). Modelling the effects of personality and temperament in the team formation process. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing at the 13th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Retrieved from http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/chopraak/sc-aamas-2014/program.html
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Frantz, C. K., Purvis, M. K., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Nowostawski, M. (2014). Modelling dynamic normative understanding in agent societies. In H. K. Dam, J. Pitt, Y. Xu, G. Governatori & T. Ito (Eds.), Principles and practice of multi-agent systems (PRIMA): Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 8861). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-13191-7_24
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Frantz, C., Purvis, M. K., Nowostawski, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2014). Analysing the dynamics of norm evolution using interval type-2 fuzzy sets. Proceedings of the International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technologies (IAT). (pp. 230-237). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2014.172
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Andrighetto, G., Cranefield, S., Conte, R., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Villatoro, D. (2013). (Social) norms and agent-based simulation. In S. Ossowski (Ed.), Agreement technologies: Law, governance and technology series (Vol. 8). (pp. 181-189). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-5583-3_11
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Balke, T., Cranefield, S., Di Tosto, G., Mahmoud, S., Paolucci, M., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Verhagen, H. (2013). Simulation and NorMAS. In G. Andrighetto, G. Governatori, P. Noriega & L. W. N. van der Torre (Eds.), Normative multi-agent systems. (pp. 171-189). Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl. doi: 10.4230/DFU.Vol4.12111.171
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Ghose, A., & Savarimuthu, T. B. R. (2013). Norms as objectives: Revisiting compliance management in multi-agent systems. In H. Aldewereld & J. S. Sichman (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems VIII: 14th International Workshop COIN 2012, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 7756). (pp. 105-122). Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-37756-3_7
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Singh, M. P., Arrott, M., Balke, T., Chopra, A., Christiaanse, R., Cranefield, S., … Savarimuthu, B. T. R., … Villata, S. (2013). The uses of norm. In G. Andrighetto, G. Governatori, P. Noriega & L. W. N. van der Torre (Eds.), Normative multi-agent systems. (pp. 191-229). Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl. doi: 10.4230/DFU.Vol4.12111.191
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Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. A., & Purvis, M. K. (2013). Identifying prohibition norms in agent societies. Artificial Intelligence & Law, 21(1), 1-46. doi: 10.1007/s10506-012-9126-7
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Savarimuthu, S., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2013). Gossip-based self-organising agent societies and the impact of false gossip. Minds & Machines, 23(4), 419-441. doi: 10.1007/s11023-013-9304-8
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Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., & Verhagen, H. (2012). An agent-based simulation of employing social norms in energy conservation in households. In S. Cranefield & I. Song (Eds.), Agent based simulation for a sustainable society and multi-agent smart computing: International Workshops PRIMA 2011, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 7580). (pp. 16-31). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-35612-4_2
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Savarimuthu, S., Purvis, M., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Purvis, M. (2012). Gossip-based self-organising open agent societies. In N. Desai, A. Liu & M. Winikoff (Eds.), Principles and practice of multi-agent systems: 13th International Conference PRIMA 2010, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 7057). (pp. 105-120). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-25920-3_8
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Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. A., & Purvis, M. K. (2011). Identifying conditional norms in multi-agent societies. In M. de Vos, N. Fornara, J. V. Pitt & G. Vouros (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems VI: COIN 2010 International Workshops, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 6541). (pp. 285-302). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-21268-0
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Savarimuthu, S., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2011). Mechanisms for the self-organization of peer groups in agent societies. In T. Bosse, A. Geller & C. M. Jonker (Eds.), Multi-agent-based simulation XI: International Workshop MABS 2010: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 6532). (pp. 93-107). Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-18345-4_7
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Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Cranefield, S. (2011). Norm creation, spreading and emergence: A survey of simulation models of norms in multi-agent systems. Multiagent & Grid Systems, 7(1), 21-54. doi: 10.3233/MGS-2011-0167
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Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. A., & Purvis, M. K. (2010). Internal agent architecture for norm identification. In J. Padget, A. Artikis, W. Vasconcelos, K. Stathis, V. Torres da Silva, E. Matson & A. Polleres (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions and norms in agent systems V: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 6069). (pp. 241-256). Berlin, Germany: Springer.
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Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M., & Purvis, M. (2010). A data mining approach to identify obligation norms in agent societies. In L. Cao, A. L. C. Bazzan, V. Gorodetsky, P. A. Mitkas, G. Weiss & P. S. Yu (Eds.), Agents and data mining interaction: 6th International Worksho ADMI, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in computer science (Vol. 5980). (pp. 43-58). Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-15420-1_5
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Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. A., & Purvis, M. K. (2010). Obligation norm identification in agent societies. Journal of Artificial Societies & Social Simulation, 13(4). Retrieved from http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/13/4/3.html
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Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (Eds.). (2009). Computer-mediated social networking: First International Conference ICCMSN 2008, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 5322). Berlin, Germany: Springer, 201p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02276-0
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Purvis, M., Ebadi, T., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2009). An agent-based library management system using RFID technology. In D. Król & N. Thanh Nguyen (Eds.), Intelligence integration in distributed knowledge management. (pp. 171-181). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.
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Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., & Cranefield, S. (2009). Norm emergence in multi-agent societies. In D. Król & N. Thanh Nguyen (Eds.), Intelligence integration in distributed knowledge management. (pp. 195-206). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.
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Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Cranefield, S. (2009). Social norm emergence in virtual agent societies. In M. Baldoni, T. C. Son, M. B. van Riemsdijk & M. Winikoff (Eds.), Declarative agent languages and technologies VI: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 5397). (pp. 18-28). Berlin, Germany: Springer.
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Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. K., & Purvis, M. A. (2009). Norm emergence in agent societies formed by dynamically changing networks. Web Intelligence & Agent Systems, 7(3), 223-232. doi: 10.3233/wia-2009-0164
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Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2008). Facilitating collaboration in a distributed software development environment using P2P architecture. In S. Joseph, Z. Despotovic, M. Gianluca & S. Begamaschi (Eds.), Agents and peer to peer computing: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 4461). (pp. 167-174). Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-79705-0_16
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Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M., & Purvis, M. (2008). Role model based mechanism for norm emergence in artificial agent societies. In J. S. Sichman, J. Padget, S. Ossowski & P. Noriega (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems III: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 4870). (pp. 203-217). Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-79003-7_15
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Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., & Purvis, M. (2006). Creating ontologies for a collaborative multi-agent based workflow system. In R. P. Katarzyniak (Ed.), Ontologies and soft methods in knowledge management. (pp. 201-216). Adelaide, Australia: Advanced Knowledge International.
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Ehrler, L., Fleurke, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2006). Agent-based workflow management systems (WfMSs) JBees: A distributed and adaptive WfMS with monitoring and controlling capabilities. Information Systems & E-Business Management, 4(1), 5-23.
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Purvis, M. A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Purvis, M. K. (2006). Architecture for active and collaborative learning in a distributed classroom environment. Advanced Technology for Learning, 3(4), 225-232.
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Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., Haidar, A., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2005). A distributed workflow system with autonomous components. In M. W. Barley & N. Kasabov (Eds.), Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems: 7th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3371. (pp. 193-205). Berlin, Germany: Springer.
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Purvis, M. A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Purvis, M. K. (2005). Evaluation of a multi-agent based workflow management system modeled using coloured Petri nets. In M. W. Barley & N. Kasabov (Eds.), Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: 7th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3371. (pp. 206-216). Berlin, Germany: Springer.
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Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Purvis, M. A. (2004). A collaborative multi-agent based workflow system. In M. G. Negoita, R. J. Howlett & L. C. Jain (Eds.), LNAI 3214: Knowledge-based intelligent information and engineering systems: 8th International Conference. (pp. 1187-1193). Berlin: Springer.
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B.E (Hons)(BITS, Pilani, India), M.E (Software Systems)(BITS, Pilani, India), PhD (Otago, NZ)