publications, conferences, workshops
2024
Dankloff, M., Skoric, V., Sileno, G., Ghebreab, S., van Ossenbruggen, J., Beauxis‑Aussalet E.,
Analysing and Organising Human Communications for AI Fairness Assessment,
AI & Society (2024).
Dessalles, J.-L., Sileno, G.,
Simplicity Bias in Human-generated Data,
Cognitive Science Society conference (COGSCI2024).
Skorič, V., Ghebreab, S., Sileno, G.,
Roles of Standardised Criteria in Assessing Societal Impact of AI,
Proceedings of the IEEE CAI 2024 - IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI2024).
2023
Sileno, G., Zurek, T.,
Between Hammer and Terminator,
Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Law, and Philosophy, joint to JURIX 2023 (ALP2023).
Kersten, M., Sileno, G.,
Enhancing Fake News Classification Through an Argumentation-Based Pipeline,
Proceedings of the BNAIC/BeNeLearn Joint International BeNeLux Conferences on AI and Machine Learning (BNAIC2023).
Sileno, G., Dessalles, J.-L.,
From probabilistic programming to complexity-based programming,
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on HYbrid Models for Coupling Deductive and Inductive ReAsoning at ECAI 2023 (HYDRA2023).
Sileno, G., Pascucci, M., Markovich, R.,
Allowed, or enabled, that is the question,
Proceedings of the International Conference on Deontic Logic and Normative Systems (DEON2023).
Fratrič, P., Mohajeri Parizi, M., Sileno, G., van Engers, T., and Klous, S.
Do agents dream of abiding by the rules? Learning norms via behavioral exploration and sparse human supervision
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2023).
Steegh, E., Sileno, G.,
No Labels? No Problem! Experiments with active learning strategies for multi-class classification in imbalanced low-resource settings,
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2023).
Pascucci, M., Sileno, G.,
A formal, diagrammatic, and operational study of normative relations, Journal of Logic and Computation (exad011).
Rieder, B., Gordon, G., Sileno, G.,
Mapping Value(s) in AI: Methodological Directions for Examining Normativity in Complex Technical Systems.,
Sociologica, 16(3), 51–83.
2022
Skorič, V., Sileno, G., Ghebreab, S.,
Legality, Legitimacy, and Instrumental Possibility in Human and Computational Governance for the Public Sector,
International Forum on Digital and Democracy, 2nd edition (IFDaD 2022).
Fratrič, P., Sileno, G., Klous, S., van Engers, T.,
A compression and simulation-based approach to fraud discovery,
Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2022).
Wilms, M., Sileno, G., and Hinda Haned
PEBAM: A Profile-based Evaluation Method for Bias Assessment on Mixed Datasets
Proceedings of KI 2022, 45th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Gordon, G., Rieder, B., and Sileno, G.
On mapping values in AI Governance,
Computer Law & Security Review (46).
Fratrič, P., Sileno, G., Klous, S., van Engers, T.,
Computational Discovery of Transaction-Based Financial Crime via Grammatical Evolution: the Case of Ponzi Schemes,
Proceedings of COINE 2022, International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems, co-located with AAMAS 2022.
Fratrič, P., Sileno, G., Klous, S., van Engers, T.,
Manipulation of the Bitcoin market: an agent-based study,
Financial Innovation 8 (60).
Sartor, G., Araszkiewicz, M., Atkinson, K., Bex, F., van Engers, T., Francesconi, E., Prakken, H., Sileno, G., Schilder, F., Wyner, A., and Bench-Capon, T.
Thirty years of Artificial Intelligence and Law: the second decade
Artificial Intelligence and Law.
Mohajeri Parizi, M., Van Binsbergen, T., Sileno, G., and van Engers, T.
A Modular Architecture for Integrating Normative Advisors in MAS
Proceeding of the 19th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2022).
Mohajeri Parizi M., Sileno, G., and van Engers, T.,
Preference-Based Goal Refinement in BDI Agents
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2022).
Sileno, G., Van Binsbergen, T., Pascucci, M., van Engers, T.,
DPCL: a language template for normative specifications,
Workshop on Programming Languages and the Law (ProLaLa 2022), co-located with POPL 2022.
2021
Rieder, B., Sileno, G., Gordon, G.,
Monopolization
A New AI Lexicon, AI Now Institute.
Sileno, G., Dessalles, J.-L.,
Unexpectedness and Bayes’ Rule
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Cognition: Interdisciplinary Foundations, Models and Applications (CIFMA 2021), co-located with SEFM 2021.
Pascucci, M., Sileno, G.,
Computability of diagrammatic theories for normative positions
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2021).
Sileno, G., Grosso, P.,
Accounting Value Effects for Responsible Networking
Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Technologies, Applications, and Uses of a Responsible Internet (TAURIN2021).
Pascucci, M., Sileno, G.,
The Search for Symmetry in Hohfeldian Modalities
Proceedings of 12th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams (DIAGRAMS2021).
Mohajeri Parizi M., Sileno, G., and van Engers, T.,
Seamless Integration and Testing for MAS Engineering
Proceedings of EMAS: 9th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS2021), in conjunction with AAMAS 2021.
Boer A., Sileno, G.,
Institutional Metaphors for Designing Large-Scale Distributed AI versus AI Techniques for Running Institutions
in "Anchoring Institutions", 2021, Springer (forthcoming, draft version).
2020
Sileno, G., Boer, A., Gordon, G., Rieder, B.,
Like Circles in the Water: Responsibility as a System-Level Function.,
Proceedings of 3rd XAILA workshop: Explainable and Responsible AI and Law, in conjunction with JURIX 2020.
Sileno, G., Boer, A., van Engers, T.,
Monitoring and enforcement as a second-order guidance problem,
Proceedings of the 33th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2020).
Liu, L., Sileno, G., van Engers, T.,
Digital Enforceable Contracts (DEC): Making Smart Contracts Smarter,
Proceedings of the 33th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2020).
Kebede Girma, M., Sileno, G., van Engers, T.,
A critical reflection on ODRL,
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and the Complexity of Legal Systems AICOL2020, in conjunction with JURIX 2020.
Mohajeri Parizi M., Sileno, G., and van Engers, T.
Declarative Preferences in Reactive BDI Agents,
Proceedings of PRIMA 2020: 23nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems.
Rijsdijk G. and Sileno, G.
Solving Hofstadter’s Analogies using Structural Information Theory,
Proceedings of the 32th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2020).
Mohajeri Parizi M., Sileno, G., van Engers, T. and Klous, S.,
Run, Agent, Run! Architecture and Benchmarking of Actor-based Agents,
AGERE! @ SPLASH 2020: ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity.
Sileno, G. and Pascucci, M.,
Disentangling Deontic Positions and Abilities: a Modal Analysis,
35th Edition of the Italian Conference on Computational Logic (CILC).
Sileno, G.
Operationalizing Declarative and Procedural Knowledge: a Benchmark on Logic Programming Petri Nets (LPPNs),
International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP2020) Workshop on Causal Reasoning and Explanation in Logic Programming (CAUSAL2020).
Fratrič, P., Sileno, G., van Engers, T. and Klous, S.,
Integrating agent-based modelling with copula theory: preliminary insights and open problems,
20th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2020).
Sileno, G.,
Of duels, trials, and simplifying systems,
invited opinion paper on the "Policy and investment recommendations" by the AI HLEG appointed by the European Commission,
European Journal of Risk Regulation (2020).
2019
Sileno, G., van Binsbergen. T., Liu, L., Kebede, M. G. and van Engers, T.,
The pseudo-GDPR on Digital Market Places challenge,
short paper presented at the GDPR @ Jurix workshop.
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.,
Towards a Computational Theory of Action, Causation and Power for Normative Reasoning,
Proceedings of the 32th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2019).
Mohajeri Parizi M., Sileno, G. and van Engers, T.,
Integrating CP-nets in Reactive BDI Agents,
Proceedings of PRIMA 2019: 22nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems.
Sileno, G.,
Logic Conditionals, Supervenience, and Selection tasks,
Proceedings of DKB/KIK2019 Formal and Cognitive Reasoning workshop, in conjunction with KI 2019.
2018
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.,
The Role of Normware in Trustworthy and Explainable AI,
Proceedings of XAILA workshop: Explainable AI and Law, in conjunction with JURIX 2018.
Sileno, G., Bloch, I., Atif, J. and Dessalles, J.-L.,
Computing Contrast on Conceptual Spaces,
Proceedings of AIC 2018, 6th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition.
Sileno G., Dessalles, J.-L.,
Qualifying Causes as Pertinent,
Proceedings of the 40th conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2018).
2017
Sileno, G., Saillenfest, A. and Dessalles, J.-L.,
A Computational Model of Moral and Legal Responsibility via Simplicity Theory,
Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2017).
Sileno, G., Bloch, I., Atif, J. and Dessalles, J.-L.,
Similarity and Contrast on Conceptual Spaces for Pertinent Description Generation,
Proceedings of KI 2017, 40th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.,
A Petri net-based notation for normative modeling: evaluation on deontic paradoxes (draft version),
Proceedings of MIREL workshop: MIning and REasoning with Legal texts, in conjunction with ICAIL 2017.
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.,
Reading Agendas Between the Lines, an Exercise,
Artificial Intelligence and Law, 25(1), 89–106.
2016
Sileno, G.,
Aligning Law and Action: a Conceptual and Computational Inquiry,
PhD Thesis, University of Amsterdam.
2015
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.,
Revisiting Constitutive Rules (draft version),
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and the Complexity of Legal Systems (AICOL 2015), in conjunction with JURIX 2015.
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.,
Bridging Representations of Laws, of Implementations and of Behaviours,
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2015).
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.,
Commitments, Expectations, Affordances and Susceptibilities: Towards Positional Agent Programming,
Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2015).
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.,
A Constructivist Approach to Rule Bases,
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2015).
2014
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.,
On the Interactional Meaning of Fundamental Legal Concepts,
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2014).
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.,
Approaching Factors and Dimensions with Explanation-Based Argumentation,
Proceedings of the 14th workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA 2014).
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.,
Legal Knowledge Conveyed by Narratives: Towards a Representational Model,
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2014).
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.
Towards a Representational Model of Social Affordances from an Institutional Perspective,
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Social Science and Social Computer Science: Two Sides of the Same Coin (SOCIAL.PATH 2014).
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.
Implementing Explanation-Based Argumentation using Answer Set Programming,
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ARGMAS 2014) in conjunction with AAMAS 2014.
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.
From Inter-Agent to Intra-Agent Representations: Mapping Social Scenarios to Agent-Role Descriptions,
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2014).
2013
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers T.
Addressing Argumentation Puzzles with Model-Based Diagnosis,
Proceedings of the 1st JURIX Doctoral Consortium and Poster Sessions in conjunction with the 26th Int. Conf. on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2013), p. 78-80, CEUR Workshop proceedings. -- Best Poster Award
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.
Towards a Computational Model for Institutional Scenarios,
Proceedings of the 25th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2013).
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.
The Institutional Stance in Agent-Based Simulations,
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2013).
2012
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.
Intentions and Motives in Legal Reasoning and Legal Narratives,
Proceedings of the Workshop on Fundamental Concepts and the Systematization of Law (FCASL 2012) in conjunction with The 25th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems.
Sileno, G., Boer, A. and van Engers, T.
Analysis of Legal Narratives: a Conceptual Framework,
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2012).
2011
Boer, A., van Engers, T. and Sileno, G.
A Problem Solving Model for Regulatory Policy Making
Proceedings of the Workshop on Modelling Policy-making (MPM 2011) in conjunction with The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2011).