List of Publications – Long Tran-Thanh

 

In the publication list below, the lead author is listed first in all publications except [9,11,14,63], where the author list is in alphabetical order. The (*) sign is used to identify the publications in which I was one of the lead author(s), and the (^) sign denotes the publications where I was a PhD /postdoctoral supervisor of the lead author(s), or the lead author was hosted by me while working on the paper.

 

Refereed journal publications

 

  1. ^Manino, Edoardo, Tran-Thanh, Long and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2019) On the efficiency of data collection for multiple Naïve Bayes classifiers. Artificial Intelligence, 275, 356-378.

 

  1. *Han, The Anh and Tran-Thanh, Long (2018) Cost-effective external interference for promoting the evolution of cooperation. Scientific Reports, 8 (1), 9pp.

 

  1. ^Khan Md Mosaddek, Tran-Thanh, Long, Ramchurn, Sarvapali D. and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2018) Speeding Up GDL-Based Message Passing Algorithms for Large-Scale DCOPs. The Computer Journal, 61 (11), 1639–1666.

 

  1. *Tran-Thanh, Long, Stein, Sebastian, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nick (2014) Efficient Crowdsourcing of Unknown Experts using Bounded Multi–Armed Bandits. Artificial Intelligence, 214, 89-111.

 

  1. *Tran-Thanh, Long, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nick (2012) Long–Term Information Collection with Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensors: A Multi–Armed Bandit Based Approach. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 25 (2), 352-394.

 

  1. *Levendovszky, János, Tran-Thanh, Long, Treplán, Gergely and Kiss, Gábor (2010) Fading-aware reliable and energy efficient routing in wireless sensor networks. In, Computer Communications, 33, 102 - 109.

 

  1. Kho, Johnsen, Tran-Thanh, Long, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2009) An Agent-Based Distributed Coordination Mechanism for Wireless Visual Sensor Nodes Using Dynamic Programming. The Computer Journal, 53 (8), 1277-1290.

 

 

Refereed conference publications

 

8.    ^Bishop, Nicholas, Tran-Thanh, Long and Gerding, Enrico (2020) Optimal Learning from Verified Training Data. In, Proc. Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020).

 

9.    ^Bishop, Nicholas, Chan, Hau, Mandal, Debmalya and Tran-Thanh, Long  (2020) Adversarial Blocking Bandits. In, Proc. Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020).

 

10.  ^Gucsi, Balint, Tarapore, Danesh S., Yeoh, William, Amato, Christopher and Tran-Thanh, Long (2020) To ask or not to ask : a user annoyance aware preference elicitation framework for social robots. In, Proc. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020).

 

11.  *Hau Chan, Long Tran-Thanh and Vignesh Viswanathan (2020) Fighting Wildfires under Uncertainty - A Sequential Resource Allocation Approach. In, Proc. 29th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020), Yokohama, Japan, 7pp.

 

  1. Saaduddin Mahmud, Md. Mosaddek Khan, Moumita Choudhury, Long Tran-Thanh and Nicholas R. Jennings (2020) Learning Optimal Temperature Region for Solving Mixed Integer Functional DCOPs. In, Proc. 29th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020), Yokohama, Japan, 7pp.

 

13.  ^Vu, Dong Quan, Loiseau, Patrick; Silva, Alonso and Tran-Thanh, Long (2020) Path Planning Problems with Side Observations - When Colonels Play Hide-and-Seek. In, Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020). 

 

14.  Li, Minming, Tran-Thanh, Long and Wu, Xiaowei (2020) Defending with Shared Resources on a Network. In, Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020). 

 

15.  Jecmen, Steven, Sinha, Arunesh, Tran-Thanh, Long and Li, Zun (2020) Bounding Regret in Empirical Games. In, Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020). 

 

16.  Mahmud, Saaduddin, Choudhury, Moumita, Khan, Md. Mosaddek, Tran-Thanh, Long and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2020) AED: An Anytime Evolutionary DCOP Algorithm. In, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2020).

 

17.  ^Moreno, Guillermo Romero, Brede, Markus and Tran-Thanh, Long (2020) Continuous Influence Maximisation for the Voter Dynamics: Is Targeting High-Degree Nodes a Good Strategy? In, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2020).

 

  1. ^Manino, Edoardo, Tran-Thanh, Long  and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2019) Feedforward Bayesian Inference for Crowdsourced Classification. In, Proc. Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019), 9 pp.

 

  1. Gan, Jiarui, Guo, Qingyu, Tran-Thanh, Long, An, Bo and Wooldridge, Michael (2019). Manipulating a Learning Defender and Ways to Counteract. In, Proc. Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019), 9pp.

 

  1. ^Gunes, Taha Dogan, Tran-Thanh, Long and Norman, Timothy J. (2019) Identifying vulnerabilities in trust and reputation systems.  In, Proc. 28th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019), Macau, China, 9pp.

 

  1. ^Rangi, Anshuka, Franceschetti, Massimo and Tran-Thanh, Long (2019) Unifying the Stochastic and the Adversarial Bandits with Knapsack. In, Proc. 28th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019), Macau, China, 9pp.

 

22.  Gan, Jiarui, Xu, Haifeng, Guo, Qingyu, Tran-Thanh, Long, Rabinovich, Zinovi and Wooldridge, Michael (2019) Imitative Follower Deception in Stackelberg Games. In, Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (ACM EC 2019).

 

23.  Gholami, Shahrzad, Yadav, Amulya, Tran-Thanh, Long, Dilkina, Bistra and Tambe, Milind (2019) Don't Put All Your Strategies in One Basket: Playing Green Security Games with Imperfect Prior Knowledge. In, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2019), pp. 395-403.

 

24.  Zhang, Youzhi, Guo, Qingyu, An, Bo, Tran-Thanh, Long and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2019) Optimal Interdiction of Urban Criminals with the Aid of Real-Time Information. In, Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 9pp.

 

25.  ^Guo, Qingyu, Gan, Jirarui, Fang, Fei, Tran-Thanh, Long, Tambe, Milind, An, Bo (2019) On the Inducibility of Stackelberg Equilibrium in Security Games. In, Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 9pp.

 

26.  ^Truong, Nhat Van Quoc, Stein, Sebastian, Tran-Thanh, Long and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2019) What Prize is Right? How to Learn Optimal Structure for Crowdsourcing Contests. In, Proc. 16th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2019), Cuvu, Fiji.

 

27.  ^Serafino, Paolo, Ventre, Carmine, Tran-Thanh, Long, Zhang, Jie, Jennings, Nicholas R. and An, Bo (2019) Social Cost Guarantees in Smart Route Guidance. In, Proc. 16th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2019), Cuvu, Fiji.

 

28.  ^Leelavimolsilp, Tin, Nguyen, Viet, Stein, Sebastian and Tran-Thanh, Long (2019). Selfish Mining in Proof-of-Work Blockchain with Multiple Miners: An Empirical Evaluation. In, Proc. 22nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2019).

 

29.  Han, The Anh, Lynch, Simon, Tran-Thanh, Long and Santos, Francisco C. (2018) Fostering Cooperation in Structured Populations Through Local and Global Interference Strategies. In, Proc. 27th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, 9pp.

 

30.  ^Manino, Edoardo, Tran-Thanh, Long and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2018) On the efficiency of data collection for crowdsourced classification.  In, Proc. 27th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, 9pp. 4 citations.

 

31.  Shi, Zheyuan Ryan, Tang, Ziye, Tran-Thanh, Long, Singh, Rohit and Fang, Fei (2018) Designing the Game to Play: Optimizing Payoff Structure in Security Games. In, Proc. 27th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, 9pp.

 

32.  Schlenker, Aaron, Thakoor, Omkar, Xu, Haifeng, Fang, Fei, Tambe, Milind, Tran-Thanh, Long, Vayanos, Phebe and Vorobeychik, Yevgeny (2018). Deceiving cyber adversaries: A game theoretic approach. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, 892-900.

 

33.  Le, Tiep, Tabakhi, Atena M., Tran-Thanh, Long, Yeoh, William and Son, Tran C. (2018) Preference elicitation with interdependency and user bother cost. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, 1459-1467.

 

34.  ^Khan, Md Mosaddek, Tran-Thanh, Long and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2018) A generic domain pruning technique for GDL-based DCOP algorithms in cooperative multi-agent systems. In, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, 1595-1603.

 

35.  ^Khan, Md Mosaddek, Tran-Thanh, Long, Yeoh, William and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2018) A near-optimal node-to-agent mapping heuristic for GDL-based DCOP algorithms in multi-agent systems. In, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, 1613-1621.

 

36.  ^Guo, Qinqyu, Gan, Jiarui, Fang, Fei, Tran-Thanh, Long, Tambe, Milind and An, Bo (2018) Inducible Equilibrium for Security Games. In, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, 1947-1949.

 

37.  ^Truong, Nhat, Q.V., Stein, Sebastian, Tran-Thanh, Long and Jennings, Nicholas R (2018). Adaptive incentive selection for crowdsourcing contests. In, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, 2100-2102.

 

38.  *Chan, Hau, Tran-Thanh, Long, Wilder, Bryan, Rice, Eric, Vayanos, Phebe and Tambe, Milind (2018) Utilizing Housing Resources for Homeless Youth Through the Lens of Multiple Multi-Dimensional Knapsacks. In, Proceedings of the First AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2018), New Orleans, USA, 7pp.

 

  1. ^Guo, Qingyu, An, Bo and Tran-Thanh, Long (2017) Playing Repeated Network Interdiction Games with Semi-Bandit Feedback. In, Proc. 26th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017), Melbourne, Australia, 9pp.

 

  1. Zhang, Youzhi, An, Bo, Tran-Thanh, Long, Wang, Zhen, Gan, Jiarui, and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2017) Optimal escape interdiction on transportation networks. Proc. 26th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017), Melbourne, Australia, 9pp.

 

  1. *Waniek, Marcin, Tran-Thanh, Long, Michalak, Tomasz and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2017) The Dollar Auction with Spiteful Players. In, Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2017), San Francisco, CA, USA, AAAI Press 7pp.

 

  1. ^Truong, Ngoc Cuong, Baarslag, Tim, Ramchurn, Sarvapali D. and Tran-Thanh, Long (2016) Interactive scheduling of appliance usage in the home. In, Proc. 25th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2016), New York, USA, 7pp.

 

  1. *Waniek, Marcin, Tran-Thanh, Long and Michalak, Tomasz (2016) Repeated Dollar Auctions: A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach. In, Proc. of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016), Singapore, 579 - 587.

 

  1. Guo, Qingyu, An, Bo, Vorobeychik, Yevgeniy, Tran-Thanh, Long, Gan, Jiarui and Miao, Chunyan (2016) Coalitional Security Games. In, Proc. of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016), Singapore, 159 - 167.

 

  1. *Xu, Haifeng, Tran-Thanh, Long and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2016) Playing Repeated Security Games with No Prior Knowledge. In, Proc. of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016), Singapore, 104 - 112.

 

  1. Kawale, Jaya, Bui, Hung H., Kveton, Branislav, Tran-Thanh, Long and Chawla Sanjay (2015) Efficient Thompson Sampling for Online Matrix-Factorization Recommendation. In, Proc. 2016 Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2015), Montreal, Canada, 297 - 1305.

 

  1. *Tran-Thanh, Long, Xia, Yingce, Qin, Tao and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2015) Efficient Algorithms with Performance Guarantees for the Stochastic Multiple-Choice Knapsack Problem. In, Proc. 24th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 7pp.

 

  1. *Han, The Anh, Tran-Thanh, Long and Jennings, Nicholas R.  (2015) The Cost of Interference in Evolving Multiagent Systems. In, 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2015), Istanbul, Turkey.

 

  1. *Tran-Thanh, Long, Huynh, Trung Dong, Rosenfeld, Avi, Ramchurn, Sarvapali D. and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2015) Crowdsourcing Complex Workflows under Budget Constraints. In, Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2015), Austin, Texas, USA, AAAI Press 9pp.

 

  1. Naroditskiy, Victor, Stein, Sebastian, Tonin, Mirco, Tran-Thanh, Long, Vlassopoulos, Michael and Jennings, N.R. (2014) Referral incentives in crowdfunding. In, Conference on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2014), Pittsburgh, US, 171-183.

 

  1. *Tran-Thanh, Long, Stavrogiannis, Lampros C., Naroditskiy, Victor, Robu, Valentin, Jennings, Nicholas R. and Key, Peter (2014) Efficient regret bounds for online bid optimisation in budget-limited sponsored search auctions. In, 30th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2014), Quebec, CA, 10pp.

 

  1. *Tran-Thanh, Long, Huynh, Trung Dong, Rosenfeld, Avi, Ramchurn, Sarvapali and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2014) BudgetFix: budget limited crowdsourcing for interdependent task allocation with quality guarantees. In, 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2014), Paris, FR, 477-484.

 

  1. *Tran-Thanh, Long, Nguyen, Tri-Dung, Rahwan, Talal, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, N. R. (2013) An efficient vector-based representation for coalitional games. In, Proc. 23rd Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013), Beijing, China, 383-389.

 

  1. *Tran-Thanh, Long, Venanzi, Matteo, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2013) Efficient Budget Allocation with Accuracy Guarantees for Crowdsourcing Classification Tasks. In, Twelfth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2013), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, 901-908.

 

  1. ^Truong, Ngoc Cuong, McInerney, James, Tran-Thanh, Long, Costanza, Enrico and Ramchurn, Sarvapali D. (2013) Forecasting multi-appliance usage for smart home energy management. In, 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013), Beijing, CN, 7pp.

 

  1. ^Truong, Ngoc Cuong, Tran-Thanh, Long, Costanza, Enrico and Ramchurn, Sarvapali D. (2013) Towards appliance usage prediction for home energy management. At ACM E-Energy 2013, Berkeley, US, 2pp.

 

  1. *Stranders, Ruben, Tran-Thanh, Long, Delle Fave, Francesco Maria, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nick (2012) DCOPS and bandits: Exploration and exploitation in decentralised coordination. In, Proc. 11th Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2012), Valencia, Spain, 289-297.

 

  1. *Tran-Thanh, Long, Chapman, Archie, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2012) Knapsack based optimal policies for budget-limited multi-armed bandits. In, Twenty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2012), Toronto, CA, 1134-1140. AAAI Outstanding Paper Honourable Mention Award.

 

  1. *Tran-Thanh, Long, Stein, Sebastian, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2012) Efficient crowdsourcing of unknown experts using multi-armed bandits. In, 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2012), Montpellier, FR, 768-773. Runner-up for the ECAI Best Student Paper Award.

 

  1. *Tran-Thanh, Long, Polukarov, Maria, Chapman, Archie, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2011) On the Existence of Pure Strategy Nash Equilibria in Integer-Splittable Weighted Congestion Games. In, Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT 2011), Amalfi, Italy, 236-253.

 

  1. *Tran-Thanh, Long, Chapman, Archie, Munoz De Cote Flores Luna, Jose Enrique, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2010) Epsilon–First Policies for Budget–Limited Multi-Armed Bandits. In, Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2010), Atlanta, USA, Georgia, 1211-1216.

 

  1. *Tran-Thanh, Long, Levendovszky, János (2010) Optimal Time Dependent Data Collection Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks. In, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2010), Sydney, Australia, 1 - 6.

 

  1. *Kiss, Gábor, Levendovszky, János, Molnár, Sándor, Tran-Thanh, Long (2010) Delay Characteristics and Server Update Optimization of Multiplayer Gaming in Mobile Environment. In, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2010), Cape Town, South Africa, 1 - 6. Comment: The author list was in alphabetical order.

 

64.  Kho, Johnsen, Tran-Thanh, Long, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2009) Decentralised control of adaptive sampling and routing in wireless visual sensor networks. In, Proc. 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2009), Budapest, Hungary, 1237-1238.

 

  1. *Tran-Thanh, Long, Levendovszky, János (2009) A novel reliability based routing protocol for power aware communications in wireless sensor networks. In, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2009), Budapest, Hungary, 2308 - 2313.