B.E (Hons)(BITS, Pilani, India), M.E (Software Systems)(BITS, Pilani, India), PhD (Otago, NZ)
Professor
Room 3.42, Otago Business School
Tel +64 3 479 5143
Email tony.savarimuthu@otago.ac.nz
Web https://bastintonyroy.github.io/
Background and interests
I studied Engineering at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India where I obtained B.E. (Hons) in Chemical Engineering and M.E in Software Systems. I worked as a Software Engineer and Lecturer in India before joining the former Information Science department at the University of Otago. I completed my PhD in the area of artificial intelligence and my thesis was placed in the Dean's exceptional thesis list.
My research interests are in the areas of Multi-Agent Systems (a branch of AI ), Software Engineering, Information Systems, and Computing Education. In many of my research work, I employ data science and analytics techniques. I am passionate about teaching and have taught in many of the areas of my research interests.
I am the current director of the Software Engineering programme at Otago. I am also the director of Business Analytics minor offered at the Otago Business School.
If you like to know more about my personal and academic journeys, watch my Inaugural Professorial lecture.
Professor Tony Savarimuthu's Inaugural Professorial lecture
More information about my research interests
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Information Science)
2003–2011, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand - Master of Engineering (Software Systems)
2000–2002, BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan, India - Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Chemical
1996–2000, BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan, India
Papers
Experience
- Professor (Feb 2023–present)
Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand - Associate Professor (Feb 2017–Feb 2023)
Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand - Senior Lecturer (Feb 2013–Feb 2017)
Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand - Lecturer (Mar 2006–Jan 2013)
Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand - Teaching Fellow (Feb 2004–Feb 2006)
Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand - Teaching Assistant (Dec 2003–Feb 2004)
Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand - Software Engineer (Jul 2002–Aug 2003)
Coralgrid Software Ltd (now a part of Triple Point Technology, Inc.), Chennai, India - Assistant Lecturer (part time, Jul 2002–Aug 2003)
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Off Campus centre at Chennai, India - Teaching Assistant (Jul 2000–Jun 2002)
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India
Research
- Multi-agent Systems (particularly normative multi-agent systems)
- Software engineering
- Information systems
- Computing Education
Supervision
Please contact me if you are interested in working on a PhD.
While amounts may differ, the fee payment mechanism is essentially the same for international students as for domestic students. The University's International Office maintains information on the payment of fees for international students.
The University of Otago offers a number of scholarships.
Currently supervising
- Marzieh Jahanbazi
- Yaseen Hezam (joint primary supervisor)
Currently co-supervising
- Amritha Menon Anavankot
Completed PhDs
- Jithin Cheriyan (primary supervisor)
- Saurabh Malgaonkar (co-supervisor)
- Amir Hossein Afshar Sedigh (joint primary supervisor)
- Pankajeshwara Sharma (primary supervisor)
- Mostafa Alwash (primary supervisor)
- Mohammad Mehdi Farhangian (co-supervisor)
- Muhammad Yasir (co-supervisor)
- Christopher Frantz (co-supervisor)
- Amala Arul Sharmila Savarimuthu (co-supervisor)
Completed Masters and Honours students
- Suravi Patnaik (co-supervisor)
- Tarik Al-ani (joint primary supervisor)
- Jack Kanimea (joint primary supervisor)
- Natalie Grattan (primary supervisor)
- Mihir Jha (primary supervisor)
- Georgia Greenheld (primary supervisor)
- Sarah Meldrum (co-supervisor)
- Swetha Keertipati (primary supervisor)
- Smitha Keertipati (primary supervisor)
- Chan Won Lee (co-supervisor)
- Tavita Sua (primary supervisor)
- Jinhong Xie (joint primary supervisor)
- Danica Milic (joint primary supervisor)
- Alya Alaali (joint primary supervisor)
- Anh Le Thu (joint primary supervisor)
Publications
Debnath, A., Cranefield, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Lorini, E. (2026). Evaluating LLM alignment with human trust models. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART). 1, (pp. 575-583). SCITEPRESS. doi: 10.5220/0014448300004052 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Warnakulasuriya, K., Dissanayake, P., De Silva, N., Cranefield, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Ranathunga, S., & De Silva, N. (2025). Evolution of cooperation in LLM-agent societies: A preliminary study using different punishment strategies. In R. Goebel, W. Wahlster & Z.-H. Zhou (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XVIII: International workshop, COINE 2025, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 16253). (pp. 115-133). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-17542-7_7 Chapter in Book - Research
Debnath, A., Cranefield, S., Lorini, E., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2025). Can LLMs reason about trust? A pilot study. In R. Goebel, W. Wahlster & Z.-H. Zhou (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XVIII: International workshop, COINE 2025, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 16253). (pp. 97-114). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-17542-7_6 Chapter in Book - Research
He, S., Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2024). Norm violation detection in Multi-Agent Systems using Large Language Models: A pilot study. In S. Cranefield, L. G. Nardin & N. Lloyd (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XVII: International Workshop, COINE 2024, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 15398). (pp. 146-159). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-82039-7_10 Chapter in Book - Research
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Ranathunga, S., & Cranefield, S. (2024). Harnessing the power of LLMs for normative reasoning in MASs. In S. Cranefield, L. G. Nardin & N. Lloyd (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XVII: International Workshop, COINE 2024, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 15398). (pp. 132-145). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-82039-7_9 Chapter in Book - Research
2026
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Debnath, A., Cranefield, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Lorini, E. (2026). Evaluating LLM alignment with human trust models. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART). 1, (pp. 575-583). SCITEPRESS. doi: 10.5220/0014448300004052
2025
Chapter in Book - Research
Warnakulasuriya, K., Dissanayake, P., De Silva, N., Cranefield, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Ranathunga, S., & De Silva, N. (2025). Evolution of cooperation in LLM-agent societies: A preliminary study using different punishment strategies. In R. Goebel, W. Wahlster & Z.-H. Zhou (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XVIII: International workshop, COINE 2025, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 16253). (pp. 115-133). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-17542-7_7
Debnath, A., Cranefield, S., Lorini, E., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2025). Can LLMs reason about trust? A pilot study. In R. Goebel, W. Wahlster & Z.-H. Zhou (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XVIII: International workshop, COINE 2025, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 16253). (pp. 97-114). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-17542-7_6
2024
Chapter in Book - Research
He, S., Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2024). Norm violation detection in Multi-Agent Systems using Large Language Models: A pilot study. In S. Cranefield, L. G. Nardin & N. Lloyd (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XVII: International Workshop, COINE 2024, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 15398). (pp. 146-159). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-82039-7_10
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Ranathunga, S., & Cranefield, S. (2024). Harnessing the power of LLMs for normative reasoning in MASs. In S. Cranefield, L. G. Nardin & N. Lloyd (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XVII: International Workshop, COINE 2024, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 15398). (pp. 132-145). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-82039-7_9
Journal - Research Article
Anavankot, A. M., Cranefield, S., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2024). NEMAS: Norm entrepreneurship in multi-agent systems. Systems, 12, 187. doi: 10.3390/systems12060187
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Corbett, J. (2024). Tackling energy poverty with artificial intelligence: Challenges and opportunities. Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS). 8, 1718. Retrieved from https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2024/sig_green/sig_green/8/
2023
Journal - Research Article
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
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, 36, e2526. doi: 10.1002/smr.2526
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
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
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
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
2022
Edited Book - Research
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
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
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
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
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
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
2021
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
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
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
Journal - Research Article
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
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
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
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
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
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
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
Sharma, P. N., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Stanger, N. (2021). Extracting rationale for Open Source Software development decisions: A study of Python email archives. arXiv. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05232
2020
Journal - Research Article
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 Other
Malgaonkar, S., Licorish, S. A., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2020). Understanding requirements prioritisation: Literature survey and critical evaluation. IET Software, 14(6), 607-622. doi: 10.1049/iet-sen.2019.0215
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
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]
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
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
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Corbett, J., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Lakshmi, V. (2020). Separating treasure from trash: Quantifying data waste in app reviews. Proceedings of the Americas' Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS). Retrieved from https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2020/sig_green/sig_green/4
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
Afshar Sedigh, A. H., Purvis, M. K., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Frantz, C. K., & Purvis, M. A. (2020). Impact of different belief facets on agents' decision: A refined cognitive architecture. arXiv. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11858
Cheriyan, J., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Cranefield, S. (2020). Norm violation in online communities: A study of Stack Overflow comments. arXiv. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05589
2019
Chapter in Book - Research
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
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
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
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
Malgaonkar, S., Lee, C. W., Licorish, S. A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Tahir, A. (2019). Appsent: A tool that analyzes app reviews. arXiv. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10191
2018
Journal - Research Article
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
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
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
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
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
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]
2017
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
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
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
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
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
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
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
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
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
2016
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
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
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
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
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
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
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]
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
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
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
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]
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
2015
Chapter in Book - Research
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
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
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
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
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
Journal - Research Article
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
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
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
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
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
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
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
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
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]
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Yasir, M., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2015). Multi-agent based simulation of energy micro-grids. Proceedings of the Otago Energy Research Centre (OERC) Symposium. (pp. 7). Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/oerc/
Su'a, T., Savarimuthu, T. B. R., Licorish, S., & Langlotz, T. (2015). A novel user interface for reviewing mobile apps. In C. Matthewson, M. Taumoepeau, I. Iati, M. Inder, C. Pau & R. Richards (Eds.), Proceedings of the Pacific Postgraduate Symposium: Pacific Voices XII. (pp. 45). Dunedin, New Zealand: Pacific Islands Centre, University of Otago. [Abstract]
Cranefield, S., Savarimuthu, T., Meneguzzi, F., & Oren, N. (2015). A Bayesian approach to norm identification [Extended abstract]. In R. H. Bordini, E. Elkind, G. Weiss & P. Yolum (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). (pp. 1743-1744). Richland, SC: International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. [Abstract]
2014
Chapter in Book - Research
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
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
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
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
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
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
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
Keertipati, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., & Purvis, M. (2014). Multi-level analysis of peace and conflict data in GDELT. In A. Rahman, J. Deng & J. Li (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Machine Learning for Sensory Data Analysis (MLSDA). (pp. 33-40). New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2689746.2689750
Frantz, C., Purvis, M. K., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Nowostawski, M. (2014). Modelling the impact of role specialisation on cooperative behaviour in historic trader scenarios. Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Coordination, Organisations, Institutions and Norms (COIN@AAMAS). Retrieved from http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/n.oren/pages/COIN14/program.html
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
Keertipati, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Purvis, M. A. (2014). Towards convention propagation in multi-layer social networks. 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). (pp. 57-64). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-13191-7
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
López, B., Ghose, A., Savarimuthu, T., Nowostawski, M., Winikoff, M., & Cranefield, S. (2014). Towards energy-aware optimisation of business processes. In M. Helfert, K.-H. Krempels & B. Donnellan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems (Smartgreens). (pp. 68-75). SciTePress. [Full Paper]
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]
2013
Chapter in Book - Research
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
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
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
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
Journal - Research Article
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
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
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Padget, J., & Purvis, M. A. (2013). Social norm recommendation for virtual agent societies. In G. Boella, E. Elkind, B. T. R. Savarimuthu, M. K. Purvis & F. Dignum (Eds.), Principles and practice of multi-agent systems: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 8291). (pp. 308-323). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-44927-7_21
Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings
Boella, G., Elkind, E., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. K., & Dignum, F. (Eds.). (2013). Principles and practice of multi-agent systems: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 8291). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. 536p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-44927-7
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Yasir, M., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, T. (2013, May). Agent-based coordination of local based energy distribution. Verbal presentation at the 1st International Workshop on Multiagent-based Societal Systems (MASS) in conjunction with the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Saint Paul, USA.
Farhangian, M., Purvis, M. K., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2013, December). Modelling the Effects of Personality and Temperament in Society-Enhancing Games. Verbal presentation at the 16th International Workshop on Coordination, Organisations, Institutions and Norms (COINS@PRIMA), Dunedin, New Zealand.
2012
Chapter in Book - Research
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
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
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Lê, L.-S., & Ghose, A. (2012). From green norms to policies: Combining bottom-up and top-down approaches. In I. Rahwan, W. Wobcke, S. Sen & T. Sugawara (Eds.), Principles and practice of multi-agent systems: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 7455). (pp. 168-183). Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-32729-2_12
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., & Verhagen, H. (2012). A simulation-based study of the role of social norms in energy conservation. Proceedings of the Otago Energy Research Centre (OERC) Symposium. (pp. 20). Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/oerc/
Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)
López, B., Ghose, A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Nowostawski, M., Winikoff, M., & Cranefield, S. (2012, June). Energy-aware optimisation of business processes. Poster session presented at the Third International Workshop on Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES), Valencia, Spain.
2011
Chapter in Book - Research
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
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
Journal - Research Article
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
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Arulanandam, R., & Savarimuthu, S. (2011). Emergence of a sharing norm in a simulated hunter-gatherer society. Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT). 2, (pp. 34-37). doi: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2011.141
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Arulanandam, R., Purvis, M., & . . . (2011). Aspects of active norm learning and the effect of lying on norm emergence in agent societies. In D. Kinny, Y.-J. Hsu, G. Governatori & A. Ghose (Eds.), Agents in principle, agents in practice: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 7047). (pp. 36-50). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-25044-6_6
Awarded Doctoral Degree
Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2011). Mechanisms for norm emergence and norm identification in multi-agent societies (PhD). University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. 240p.
2010
Chapter in Book - Research
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
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.
Journal - Research Article
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
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Savarimuthu, S., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, T. R. (2010). Improving societal performance and restricting exploitation in artificial agent societies. Proceedings of the Information Science Postgraduate Day. (pp. 37-38). Retrieved from http://infosci.otago.ac.nz/information-science-postgrad-day-2010/
Al-Ani, T., Savarimuthu, T., & Purvis, M. (2010). Android-based In-Vehicle Infotainment System (AIVI). Proceedings of the Information Science Postgraduate Day. (pp. 51-52). Retrieved from http://infosci.otago.ac.nz/information-science-postgrad-day-2010/
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2010). Mechanisms for norm emergence and identification in agent societies. Proceedings of the Information Science Postgraduate Day. (pp. 39-40). Retrieved from http://infosci.otago.ac.nz/information-science-postgrad-day-2010/
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. A., & Purvis, M. K. (2010). Norm identification in multi-agent societies [Information Science Discussion Paper: No. 2010/03]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 36p.
2009
Edited Book - Research
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
Chapter in Book - Research
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.
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.
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.
Journal - Research Article
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
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Cranefield, S. (2009). A categorization of simulation works on norms. Proceedings of the 4th Normative Multi-Agent Systems (NorMAS) Seminar. Retrieved from http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2009/1905/
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Bruce, M., & Purvis, M. (2009). A software framework for application development using ZigBee protocol [Discussion Paper Series No. 2009/03]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 7p.
2008
Chapter in Book - Research
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
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
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Alaali, A., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2008). Vector opinion dynamics: An extended model for consensus in social networks. Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT) International Conference. (pp. 394-397). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/WIIAT.2008.377
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., & Purvis, M. (2008). Social norm emergence in virtual agent societies. In L. Padgham, D. Parkes, J. Müller & S. Parsons (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Vol. 3). (pp. 1521-1524). IFAAMAS. [Full Paper]
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
Alaali, A., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2008). Vector opinion dynamics: An extended model for consensus in social networks [Discussion Paper Series No. 2008/05]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 8p.
2007
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2007). Mechanisms for norm emergence in multi-agent societies. Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. (pp. 1104-1106). IFAAMAS. Retrieved from http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas07/html/AAMAS07_0259_1ab0460b9b552686d037ab382e04d10c.xml
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M., & Purvis, M. (2007). Norm emergence in agent societies formed by dynamically changing networks. In T. Y. Lin, J. M. Bradshaw, M. Klusch, C. Zhang, A. Broder & H. Ho (Eds.), Proceedings of the IEEE, Web Intelligence Consortium and the Association for Computing Machinery International Conference. (pp. 464-470). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. [Full Paper]
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M., & Purvis, M. (2007). Role model based mechanism for norm emergence in artificial agent societies. Proceedings of the Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN). Retrieved from http://www.ia.urjc.es/COIN2007/#proceedings
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2007). How do norms emerge in multi-agent societies? Mechanisms design [Discussion Paper Series No. 2007/01]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 8p.
Deng, X., Foukia, N., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2007). Building privacy infrastructure for culturally sensitive information of New Zealand Maori [Discussion Paper Series No. 2007/03]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 6p.
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M., & Purvis, M. (2007). Role model based mechanism for norm emergence in artificial agent societies [Discussion Paper Series No. 2007/02]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 15p.
2006
Chapter in Book - Research
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.
Journal - Research Article
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.
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.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2006). Facilitating collaboration in a distributed software development environment using P2P architecture. In S. Bergamaschi, Z. Despotovic, S. Joseph & G. Moro (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC). (pp. 160-167). [Full Paper]
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., & Purvis, M. (2006). Agent based Web Service composition in the context of a supply-chain based workflow. In C. Hanachi (Ed.), Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Coordination of Inter-Organizational Workflows: Agent and Semantic Web Based Models (CIOW). (pp. 27-34). [Full Paper]
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, T. (2006). ″Suddenly they all clicked″: Towards interactive learning. In R. Spronken-Smith (Ed.), Proceedings of the Spotlight on Teaching at Otago Conference. (pp. 16). Dunedin, New Zealand: HEDC, University of Otago. [Abstract]
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Foukia, N., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., & Han, Y. (2006, May). Trust and security enhancements in an agent-based workflow management system. Verbal presentation at the First International Workshop on Privacy and Security in Agent-based Collaborative Environments, Hakodate, Japan.
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., & Purvis, M. (2006). Agent based web service composition in the context of a supply-chain based workflow [Discussion Paper Series No. 2006/04]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 7p.
Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2006). Facilitating collaboration in a distributed software development environment using P2P architecture [Discussion Paper Series N0. 2006/05]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 11p.
2005
Chapter in Book - Research
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.
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.
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Purvis, M., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Purvis, M. (2005). Making classroom teaching and learning an enjoyable experience! Association for Computing Machinery New Zealand Bulletin, 1(2).
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. (2005). Integrating web services with agent based Workflow Management System (WfMS). Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence. (pp. 471-474). Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press. [Full Paper]
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. A., & Purvis, M. K. (2005). Different perspectives on modeling workflows in an agent based workflow management system. In R. Kohsla, R. J. Howlett & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. 3684, (pp. 208-214). Berlin, Germany: Springer GmbH. [Full Paper]
Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., George, M., & Cranefield, S. (2005). Experiences with pair and tri programming in a second level course. In R. Khosla, R. J. Howlett & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (vol. 3682): Knowledge-based Intelligent Information and engineering systems, part II. (pp. 701-707). [Full Paper]
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. J. (2005). An agent-enhanced workflow management system. In R. Khosla, R. J. Howlett & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (vol. 3684): Knowledge-based intelligent information and engineering systems, part IV. (pp. 215-220). Berlin, Germany: Springer GmbH. [Full Paper]
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. (2005). Agent-based integration of web services with workflow management systems. In F. Dignum, V. Dignum, S. Koenig, S. Kraus, M. P. Singh & M. Wooldridge (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems. 3, (pp. 1345-1346). New York, NY, USA: ACM Press. [Full Paper]
2004
Chapter in Book - Research
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.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. A., & Fleurke, M. (2004). Monitoring and controlling of a multi-agent based workflow system. Proceedings of the Australasian Workshop on Data Mining and Web Intelligence. (pp. 127-132). [Full Paper]
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Purvis, M. A. (2004). Towards a multi-lingual workflow system - a practical outlook. Proceedings of the Australasian Workshop on Software Internationalisation. (pp. 205-210). [Full Paper]
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. K., De Oliveira, M., & Purvis, M. A. (2004). Towards secure interactions in agent societies. In S. Marsh (Ed.), Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust. (pp. 143-148). [Full Paper]
Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., Haidar, A., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2004). A distributed workflow system with autonomous components. In M. Barley, N. Kasabov & I. Watson (Eds.), Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Proceedings of the Seventh Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents. (pp. 278-290). [Full Paper]
Purvis, M. A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Purvis, M. K. (2004). Evaluation of a multi-agent based workflow management system modeled using coloured Petri nets. In M. Barley, N. Kasabov & I. Watson (Eds.), Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: 7th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents. (pp. 291-302). Berlin, Germany: Springer. [Full Paper]
Purvis, M. A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Purvis, M. K. (2004). A multi-agent based workflow system embedded with Web Services. In A. Ghorbani & S. Marsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Collaboration Agents: Autonomous Agents for Collaborative Environments. (pp. 55-62). IEEE/WIC Press. [Full Paper]