The Distributed Artificial Intelligence group explores social and technological contexts of interacting intelligent entities, including multi-agent systems, agent-based simulation, crowd computing, semantic web, provenance, norms, incentives, knowledge graphs, trust and reputation.
The group marries artificial intelligence expertise with social, political and economic theories and data to pursue research that has strong technological and societal relevance and benefit. We take inspiration from tools and techniques in human societies for the engineering of effective decentralised technology and responsible AI, and develop computational models for analysing social, political and economic phenomena to improve the effectiveness and fairness of policy and practice and to build socio-technical systems that combine machine algorithms with human and social capabilities.
PhD opportunities
We offer an exciting research environment where PhD students can pursue their own projects in a variety of fields including cyber security. The Department of Informatics invites applications for postgraduate research students for funded and self-funded projects starting in October each year.
Projects

Wikidata Quality Toolkit
Dr Albert Meroño Peñuela is part of an EPSRC IAA project with Wikidata, one of the world’s most precious data assets. Launched in 2012 by the Wikimedia Foundation (the NGO that runs Wikipedia), it is a database containing machine-readable factual information about 100+ million topics. The team will build a Wikidata Quality Toolkit, which will support a diverse set of editors in curating and validating Wikidata records at scale. This will leverage research findings and conceptual prototypes drawing from AI, data management, and social computing, which have been designed and evaluated by the Wikidata community, responding to their data assurance needs.

EPSRC New Investigator Award - Dr Bart De Keijzer
Dr Bart De Keijzer's project aims to investigate the notion of simplicity in the design of market mechanisms. The proposal is on market mechanism design and their effective and practical implementation. The project will study how these platforms should operate to align with the incentives of the agents and maximise efficiency. The potential applications of this work include in online advertising auctions, online marketplaces, and platforms such as Uber and AirBnb

MuseIT
Dr Albert Meroño Peñuela is part of MuseIT, an EU co-funded project which aims to co-design, develop, and co-evaluate a multisensory, user-centred platform for enriched engagement with cultural assets, with inclusion and equal opportunity for all as core principles. Participatory co-design activities are integral to the project, enabling users with disabilities to be involved in decisions and designs. The MuseIT consortium comprises nine partners from European Union member countries and 2 associated partners, from the USA and the United Kingdom. This multidisciplinary consortium brings together organisations from cultural, technological, research and user communities.

Polifonia Horizon 2020 project
Dr Albert Meroño Peñuela was part of a €3 million project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Programme, that ran from January 2021 until April 2024 to recreate the connections between music, people, places and events from the sixteenth century to the modern day. The findings include a knowledge graph that helps enhance our understanding of European musical heritage. The Polifonia consortium is an interdisciplinary team of passionate researchers and music lovers: computer scientists, anthropologists and ethnomusicologists, historians of music, linguists, musical heritage archivists, cataloguers and administrators, and creative professionals.
Additional Projects
Publications
Towards Interpretable Embeddings: Aligning Representations with Semantic Aspects
Jain, N., Domingues, A., Baokar, A., Merono Penuela, A. & Simperl, E., 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference types › Paper › peer-review
To Each Their Own: Exploring Highly Personalised Audiovisual Media Accessibility Interventions with People with Aphasia
Nevsky, A., Neate, T., Bircanin, F., Simperl, E. & Cruice, M., 22 Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press) ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. p. 1-18 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Agreeing and Disagreeing in Collaborative Knowledge Graph Construction: An Analysis of Wikidata
Koutsiana, E., Yadav, T., Jain, N., Merono Penuela, A. & Simperl, E., 2025, In: Journal of Web Semantics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Strategic Candidacy Equilibria for Common Voting Rules
Lang, J., Maudet, N., Polukarov, M. & Cohen-Hadria, A., 8 May 2025, In: THEORY OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS. 69, 2, 37 p., 23.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Non-Obvious Manipulability for Single-Parameter Agents and Bilateral Trade
Archbold, T., De Keijzer, B. & Ventre, C., 5 May 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Talking Wikidata: Communication Patterns and Their Impact on Community Engagement in Collaborative Knowledge Graphs
Koutsiana, E., Reklos, Y., Alghamdi, K., Jain, N., Merono Penuela, A. & Simperl, E., 11 Apr 2025, In: Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge. 3, 1, p. 2:1-2:27 27 p., https://doi.org/10.4230/TGDK.3.1.2.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Bitcoin's Edge: Embedded Sentiment in Blockchain Transactional Data
Kleitsikas, C., Korfiatis, N., Leonardos, S. & Ventre, C., Mar 2025, (Accepted/In press) IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency 2025.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
A measure of climate change in financial news and its impact on the stock market
Xiao, Y., Liu, B., Ventre, C. & Li, H., 22 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Digital Economy. 3, p. 146-157 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
How an AI-ready National Data Library would help UK science
Merono Penuela, A., Massey, J., Newman, A. & Simperl, E., 27 Jan 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference types › Paper › peer-review
Obviously Strategyproof Mechanisms without Money for Scheduling
Kyropoulou, M. & Ventre, C., 9 May 2025, In: SIAM JOURNAL ON DISCRETE MATHEMATICS. 39, 2, p. 1102-1122 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Impact of Pinging in Financial Markets - An Agent Based Study
Rangarajan, S. B. & Ventre, C., 20 Dec 2024, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2025).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
From Competition to Centralization: The Oligopoly in Ethereum Block Building Auctions
Wu, F., Thiery, T., Leonardos, S. & Ventre, C., 24 Dec 2024.Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Preprint
Agent-based Modeling and Simulation of Ambiguity in Catastrophe Insurance Markets
Bi, T., Zhao, L., Tong, J., Feng, Z. & Ventre, C., 19 Dec 2024, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2025).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Agent-Based Analysis of Green Disclosure Policies and Their Market-Wide Impact on Firm Behavior
Zhao, L., Polukarov, M. & Ventre, C., 23 May 2025, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2025). p. 2355-2363 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
KG.gov: Knowledge Graphs as the Backbone of Data Governance in AI
Merono Penuela, A., Simperl, E., Kurteva, A. & Reklos, I., May 2025, In: Journal of Web Semantics. 85, 100847.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Asymptotic Extinction in Large Coordination Games
Chan, D., De Keijzer, B., Galla, T., Leonardos, S. & Ventre, C., 10 Dec 2024, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Deep Generative Calibration on Stochastic Volatility Models with Applications in FX Barrier Options
Ma, M., Ventre, C., Tiranti, R. & Chen, A., 26 Nov 2024, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 40th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2025).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Bmp9 regulates Notch signaling and the temporal dynamics of angiogenesis via Lunatic Fringe
Ristori, T., Thuret, R., Hooker, E., Quicke, P., Lanthier, K., Ntumba, K., Aspalter, I. M., Uroz, M., Herbert, S. P., Chen, C. S., Larrivée, B. & Bentley, K., 25 Sept 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Croissant: A Metadata Format for ML-Ready Datasets
Akhtar, M., Jain, N. & Simperl, E., 2024, (Accepted/In press) vances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024). Neural information processing systems foundationResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
YAP/TAZ drives Notch and angiogenesis mechanoregulation in silico
Passier, M., Bentley, K., Loerakker, S. & Ristori, T., Dec 2024, In: npj Systems Biology and Applications. 10, 1, 116.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
GPR126 is a specifier of blood-brain barrier formation in the mouse central nervous system
Kakogiannos, N., Scalise, A. A., Martini, E., Maderna, C., Benvenuto, A. F., D'Antonio, M., Carmignani, L., Magni, S., Gullotta, G. S., Lampugnani, M. G., Iannelli, F., Beznoussenko, G. V., Mironov, A. A., Cerutti, C., Bentley, K., Philippides, A., Zanardi, F., Bacigaluppi, M., Sigismund, S. & Bassani, C. & 7 others, Farina, C., Martino, G., De Giovanni, M., Dejana, E., Iannacone, M., Inverso, D. & Giannotta, M., 2024, In: Journal of Clinical Investigation. 134, 15, e165368.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Mouse retinal cell behaviour in space and time using light sheet fluorescence microscopy
Prahst, C., Ashrafzadeh, P., Mead, T., Figueiredo, A., Chang, K., Richardson, D., Venkatraman, L., Richards, M., Russo, A. M., Harrington, K., Ouarne, M., Pena, A., Chen, D. F., Claesson-Welsh, L., Cho, K. S., Franco, C. & Bentley, K., Feb 2020, In: eLife. 9, e49779.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Propensity for Density in Feed-forward Models
Schoots, N., Jackson, A., Kholmovaia, A., McBurney, P. & Shanahan, M., 18 Oct 2024, 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. IOS Press, Vol. 392. p. 2830-2837 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Detecting Collective Liquidity Taking Distributions
Balcau, A., Sanchez-Betancourt, L., Sarkadi, S. & Ventre, C., 14 Nov 2024, Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2024). p. 504 - 512 9 p. (ICAIF 2024 - 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
To Compete or Collude: Bidding Incentives in Ethereum Block Building Auctions
Wu, F., Thiery, T., Leonardos, S. & Ventre, C., 2024, Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2024). p. 813 - 821Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
A Financial Time Series Denoiser Based on Diffusion Models
Wang, Z. & Ventre, C., 14 Nov 2024, Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2024). p. 72 - 80 9 p. (ICAIF 2024 - 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
ARL-Based Multi-Action Market Making with Hawkes Processes and Variable Volatility
Wang, Z., Ventre, C. & Polukarov, M., 14 Nov 2024, Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2024). p. 437 - 444 8 p. (ICAIF 2024 - 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
MEV Sharing with Dynamic Extraction Rates
Braga, P., Chionas, G., Krysta, P., Leonardos, S., Piliouras, G. & Ventre, C., 19 Nov 2024, Proceedings of the ACM CCS Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security (DeFi'24): CCS 2024. p. 1 - 10 10 p. (DeFi 2024 - Proceedings of the Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security, Co-Located with: CCS 2024).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
An Algorithmic Theory of Simplicity in Mechanism Design
Ferraioli, D. & Ventre, C., 16 Sept 2024, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE 2024).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Equilibria of Carbon Allowance Auctions: Emissions and Productivity
Zhao, L., Polukarov, M. & Ventre, C., 2025, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference. on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2024): Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems - 25th International Conference, Proceedings. Arisaka, R., Ito, T., Sanchez-Anguix, V., Stein, S., Aydoğan, R. & van der Torre, L. (eds.). p. 136–152 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 15395 LNAI).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Croissant: A Metadata Format for ML-Ready Datasets
Akhtar, M., Benjelloun, O., Conforti, C., Gijsbers, P., Giner-Miguelez, J., Jain, N., Kuchnik, M., Lhoest, Q., Marcenac, P., Maskey, M., Mattson, P., Oala, L., Ruyssen, P., Shinde, R., Simperl, E., Thomas, G., Tykhonov, S., Vanschoren, J., Van Der Velde, J. & Vogler, S. & 1 others, Wu, C. J., 9 Jun 2024, p. 1-6. 6 p.Research output: Contribution to conference types › Paper › peer-review
"I Wish You Could Make the Camera Stand Still": Envisioning Media Accessibility Interventions with People with Aphasia
Nevsky, A., Bircanin, F., Cruice, M., Wilson, S., Simperl, E. & Neate, T., 27 Oct 2024, Conference on Computers and Accessibility: ASSETS. 17 p. 46. (ASSETS 2024 - Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Experience Report of the AWS+KCL Impact Accelerator for Public Sector Engagement
Bentley, C., Simperl, E., Bainbridge, M., Ogden, D., Leonardos, S., Jahangirova, G., Walker, J., Yin, W. & Hampson, C., 7 Jun 2024, (Accepted/In press) Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
ChartCheck: Explainable Fact-Checking over Real-World Chart Images
Akhtar, M., Subedi, N., Gupta, V., Tahmasebi, S., Cocarascu, O. & Simperl, E., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 - Findings. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Multimodal Automated Fact-Checking: A Survey
Akhtar, M., Schlichtkrull, M., Guo, Z., Cocarascu, O., Simperl, E. & Vlachos, A., 2023, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 5430-5448 19 p. (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Exploring the Numerical Reasoning Capabilities of Language Models: A Comprehensive Analysis on Tabular Data
Akhtar, M., Shankarampeta, A., Gupta, V., Patil, A., Cocarascu, O. & Simperl, E., 2023, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 15391-15405 15 p. (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Societal Sorting as a Systemic Risk of Recommenders
Thorburn, L., Polukarov, M. & Ventre, C., 8 Oct 2024, RecSys 2024 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. p. 951 - 956 6 p. (RecSys 2024 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Explorative Imitation Learning: A Path Signature Approach for Continuous Environments
Schneider Gavenski, G., Monteiro, J., Meneguzzi, F., Luck, M. & Rodrigues, O., 5 Jul 2024, 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. IOS Press, 7 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Selfishly Cancelling Debts Can Reduce Systemic Risk
Tong, J., De Keijzer, B. & Ventre, C., 17 Oct 2024, Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024). p. 3397-3404Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Reducing Systemic Risk in Financial Networks through Donations
Tong, J., De Keijzer, B. & Ventre, C., 17 Oct 2024, Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024). p. 3405-3412Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Bringing Back Semantics to Knowledge Graph Embeddings: An Interpretability Approach
Domingues, A., Jain, N., Merono Penuela, A. & Simperl, E., 10 Sept 2024, Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning - 18th International Conference, NeSy 2024, Proceedings. Besold, T. R., d’Avila Garcez, A., Jimenez-Ruiz, E., Madhyastha, P., Wagner, B. & Confalonieri, R. (eds.). Springer, Cham, Vol. 14979. p. 192-203 12 p. Chapter 17. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 14980 LNAI).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
A new encoding of implied volatility surfaces for their synthetic generation
Gong, Z., Frys, W., Tiranti, R., Ventre, C., O'Hara, J. & Bai, Y., 2024, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy (CADE). p. 55-63Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Learning Translations: Emergent Communication Pretraining for Cooperative Language Acquisition
Cope, D. & McBurney, P., 26 Feb 2024, Ad Hoc Teamwork Workshop at AAAI-24.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Learning Translations: Emergent Communication Pretraining for Cooperative Language Acquisition
Cope, D. & McBurney, P., 2 Aug 2024, Proceedings of the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-24).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
RevOnt: Reverse Engineering of Competency Questions from Knowledge Graphs via Language Models
Ciroku, F., de Berardinis, J., Kim, J., Merono Penuela, A., Presutti, V. & Simperl, E., 6 May 2024, In: Journal of Web Semantics. 82, 100822.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Using Large Language Models for Knowledge Engineering (LLMKE): A Case Study on Wikidata
Zhang, B., Reklos, I., Jain, N., Peñuela, A. M. & Simperl, E., 1 Jan 2023, In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 3577Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Preferences for AI Explanations Based on Cognitive Style and Socio-Cultural Factors
Kopecka, H., Such, J. & Luck, M., Nov 2023, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - CSCW. Vol. 8. 32 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Mechanisms for Integrating Real Data into Search Game Simulations: An Application to Winter Health Service Pressures and Preventative Policies
Chapman, M., G-Medhin, A., Daneshi, K., Bramwell, T., Durbaba, S., Curcin, V., Parmar, D., Boulding, H., Becares, L., Morgan, C., Molokhia, M., McBurney, P., Harding, S., Wolfe, I., Ashworth, M. & Poston, L., 2024, AMIA Summits on Translational Science Proceedings 2024.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
The Promise and Challenge of Large Language Models for Knowledge Engineering: Insights from a Hackathon
Walker, J., Koutsiana, E., Nwachukwu, M., Merono Penuela, A. & Simperl, E., 21 Mar 2024, (Accepted/In press) CHIEA'24 Conference on Computer Human Interaction Extended Abstracts Proceedings. ACMResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Strategic Bidding Wars in On-chain Auctions
Wu, W., Thiery, T., Leonardos, S. & Ventre, C., 2024, Proceedings of the 6th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2024). p. 503–511Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
News
King's to build AI tool for teachers as part of government's AI drive
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King's researcher partners with AI start-up to build natural language generation models
The models aim to remove 'hallucinations' from AI-generated language.

King's creates world's first podcast musical about AI
The production takes aim at ChatGPT to teach the principles of data education through song.

Specialised badges help people with invisible disabilities speak up
New customisable digital badges will help people with invisible disabilities sidestep social stigma in public.

Three King's scientists win prestigious New Investigator Awards
Three King’s academics have been awarded funding from EPSRC to establish research groups.

Seminar series
We hold weekly seminars in term time, with speakers internal and external to King's discussing diverse research topics on distributed artificial intelligence.
Please explore the seminar web page for upcoming and previous events.
Projects

Wikidata Quality Toolkit
Dr Albert Meroño Peñuela is part of an EPSRC IAA project with Wikidata, one of the world’s most precious data assets. Launched in 2012 by the Wikimedia Foundation (the NGO that runs Wikipedia), it is a database containing machine-readable factual information about 100+ million topics. The team will build a Wikidata Quality Toolkit, which will support a diverse set of editors in curating and validating Wikidata records at scale. This will leverage research findings and conceptual prototypes drawing from AI, data management, and social computing, which have been designed and evaluated by the Wikidata community, responding to their data assurance needs.

EPSRC New Investigator Award - Dr Bart De Keijzer
Dr Bart De Keijzer's project aims to investigate the notion of simplicity in the design of market mechanisms. The proposal is on market mechanism design and their effective and practical implementation. The project will study how these platforms should operate to align with the incentives of the agents and maximise efficiency. The potential applications of this work include in online advertising auctions, online marketplaces, and platforms such as Uber and AirBnb

MuseIT
Dr Albert Meroño Peñuela is part of MuseIT, an EU co-funded project which aims to co-design, develop, and co-evaluate a multisensory, user-centred platform for enriched engagement with cultural assets, with inclusion and equal opportunity for all as core principles. Participatory co-design activities are integral to the project, enabling users with disabilities to be involved in decisions and designs. The MuseIT consortium comprises nine partners from European Union member countries and 2 associated partners, from the USA and the United Kingdom. This multidisciplinary consortium brings together organisations from cultural, technological, research and user communities.

Polifonia Horizon 2020 project
Dr Albert Meroño Peñuela was part of a €3 million project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Programme, that ran from January 2021 until April 2024 to recreate the connections between music, people, places and events from the sixteenth century to the modern day. The findings include a knowledge graph that helps enhance our understanding of European musical heritage. The Polifonia consortium is an interdisciplinary team of passionate researchers and music lovers: computer scientists, anthropologists and ethnomusicologists, historians of music, linguists, musical heritage archivists, cataloguers and administrators, and creative professionals.
Additional Projects
Publications
Towards Interpretable Embeddings: Aligning Representations with Semantic Aspects
Jain, N., Domingues, A., Baokar, A., Merono Penuela, A. & Simperl, E., 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference types › Paper › peer-review
To Each Their Own: Exploring Highly Personalised Audiovisual Media Accessibility Interventions with People with Aphasia
Nevsky, A., Neate, T., Bircanin, F., Simperl, E. & Cruice, M., 22 Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press) ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. p. 1-18 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Agreeing and Disagreeing in Collaborative Knowledge Graph Construction: An Analysis of Wikidata
Koutsiana, E., Yadav, T., Jain, N., Merono Penuela, A. & Simperl, E., 2025, In: Journal of Web Semantics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Strategic Candidacy Equilibria for Common Voting Rules
Lang, J., Maudet, N., Polukarov, M. & Cohen-Hadria, A., 8 May 2025, In: THEORY OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS. 69, 2, 37 p., 23.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Non-Obvious Manipulability for Single-Parameter Agents and Bilateral Trade
Archbold, T., De Keijzer, B. & Ventre, C., 5 May 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Talking Wikidata: Communication Patterns and Their Impact on Community Engagement in Collaborative Knowledge Graphs
Koutsiana, E., Reklos, Y., Alghamdi, K., Jain, N., Merono Penuela, A. & Simperl, E., 11 Apr 2025, In: Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge. 3, 1, p. 2:1-2:27 27 p., https://doi.org/10.4230/TGDK.3.1.2.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Bitcoin's Edge: Embedded Sentiment in Blockchain Transactional Data
Kleitsikas, C., Korfiatis, N., Leonardos, S. & Ventre, C., Mar 2025, (Accepted/In press) IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency 2025.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
A measure of climate change in financial news and its impact on the stock market
Xiao, Y., Liu, B., Ventre, C. & Li, H., 22 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Digital Economy. 3, p. 146-157 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
How an AI-ready National Data Library would help UK science
Merono Penuela, A., Massey, J., Newman, A. & Simperl, E., 27 Jan 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference types › Paper › peer-review
Obviously Strategyproof Mechanisms without Money for Scheduling
Kyropoulou, M. & Ventre, C., 9 May 2025, In: SIAM JOURNAL ON DISCRETE MATHEMATICS. 39, 2, p. 1102-1122 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Impact of Pinging in Financial Markets - An Agent Based Study
Rangarajan, S. B. & Ventre, C., 20 Dec 2024, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2025).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
From Competition to Centralization: The Oligopoly in Ethereum Block Building Auctions
Wu, F., Thiery, T., Leonardos, S. & Ventre, C., 24 Dec 2024.Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Preprint
Agent-based Modeling and Simulation of Ambiguity in Catastrophe Insurance Markets
Bi, T., Zhao, L., Tong, J., Feng, Z. & Ventre, C., 19 Dec 2024, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2025).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Agent-Based Analysis of Green Disclosure Policies and Their Market-Wide Impact on Firm Behavior
Zhao, L., Polukarov, M. & Ventre, C., 23 May 2025, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2025). p. 2355-2363 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
KG.gov: Knowledge Graphs as the Backbone of Data Governance in AI
Merono Penuela, A., Simperl, E., Kurteva, A. & Reklos, I., May 2025, In: Journal of Web Semantics. 85, 100847.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Asymptotic Extinction in Large Coordination Games
Chan, D., De Keijzer, B., Galla, T., Leonardos, S. & Ventre, C., 10 Dec 2024, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Deep Generative Calibration on Stochastic Volatility Models with Applications in FX Barrier Options
Ma, M., Ventre, C., Tiranti, R. & Chen, A., 26 Nov 2024, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 40th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2025).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Bmp9 regulates Notch signaling and the temporal dynamics of angiogenesis via Lunatic Fringe
Ristori, T., Thuret, R., Hooker, E., Quicke, P., Lanthier, K., Ntumba, K., Aspalter, I. M., Uroz, M., Herbert, S. P., Chen, C. S., Larrivée, B. & Bentley, K., 25 Sept 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Croissant: A Metadata Format for ML-Ready Datasets
Akhtar, M., Jain, N. & Simperl, E., 2024, (Accepted/In press) vances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024). Neural information processing systems foundationResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
YAP/TAZ drives Notch and angiogenesis mechanoregulation in silico
Passier, M., Bentley, K., Loerakker, S. & Ristori, T., Dec 2024, In: npj Systems Biology and Applications. 10, 1, 116.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
GPR126 is a specifier of blood-brain barrier formation in the mouse central nervous system
Kakogiannos, N., Scalise, A. A., Martini, E., Maderna, C., Benvenuto, A. F., D'Antonio, M., Carmignani, L., Magni, S., Gullotta, G. S., Lampugnani, M. G., Iannelli, F., Beznoussenko, G. V., Mironov, A. A., Cerutti, C., Bentley, K., Philippides, A., Zanardi, F., Bacigaluppi, M., Sigismund, S. & Bassani, C. & 7 others, Farina, C., Martino, G., De Giovanni, M., Dejana, E., Iannacone, M., Inverso, D. & Giannotta, M., 2024, In: Journal of Clinical Investigation. 134, 15, e165368.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Mouse retinal cell behaviour in space and time using light sheet fluorescence microscopy
Prahst, C., Ashrafzadeh, P., Mead, T., Figueiredo, A., Chang, K., Richardson, D., Venkatraman, L., Richards, M., Russo, A. M., Harrington, K., Ouarne, M., Pena, A., Chen, D. F., Claesson-Welsh, L., Cho, K. S., Franco, C. & Bentley, K., Feb 2020, In: eLife. 9, e49779.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Propensity for Density in Feed-forward Models
Schoots, N., Jackson, A., Kholmovaia, A., McBurney, P. & Shanahan, M., 18 Oct 2024, 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. IOS Press, Vol. 392. p. 2830-2837 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Detecting Collective Liquidity Taking Distributions
Balcau, A., Sanchez-Betancourt, L., Sarkadi, S. & Ventre, C., 14 Nov 2024, Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2024). p. 504 - 512 9 p. (ICAIF 2024 - 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
To Compete or Collude: Bidding Incentives in Ethereum Block Building Auctions
Wu, F., Thiery, T., Leonardos, S. & Ventre, C., 2024, Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2024). p. 813 - 821Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
A Financial Time Series Denoiser Based on Diffusion Models
Wang, Z. & Ventre, C., 14 Nov 2024, Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2024). p. 72 - 80 9 p. (ICAIF 2024 - 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
ARL-Based Multi-Action Market Making with Hawkes Processes and Variable Volatility
Wang, Z., Ventre, C. & Polukarov, M., 14 Nov 2024, Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2024). p. 437 - 444 8 p. (ICAIF 2024 - 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
MEV Sharing with Dynamic Extraction Rates
Braga, P., Chionas, G., Krysta, P., Leonardos, S., Piliouras, G. & Ventre, C., 19 Nov 2024, Proceedings of the ACM CCS Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security (DeFi'24): CCS 2024. p. 1 - 10 10 p. (DeFi 2024 - Proceedings of the Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security, Co-Located with: CCS 2024).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
An Algorithmic Theory of Simplicity in Mechanism Design
Ferraioli, D. & Ventre, C., 16 Sept 2024, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE 2024).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Equilibria of Carbon Allowance Auctions: Emissions and Productivity
Zhao, L., Polukarov, M. & Ventre, C., 2025, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference. on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2024): Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems - 25th International Conference, Proceedings. Arisaka, R., Ito, T., Sanchez-Anguix, V., Stein, S., Aydoğan, R. & van der Torre, L. (eds.). p. 136–152 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 15395 LNAI).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Croissant: A Metadata Format for ML-Ready Datasets
Akhtar, M., Benjelloun, O., Conforti, C., Gijsbers, P., Giner-Miguelez, J., Jain, N., Kuchnik, M., Lhoest, Q., Marcenac, P., Maskey, M., Mattson, P., Oala, L., Ruyssen, P., Shinde, R., Simperl, E., Thomas, G., Tykhonov, S., Vanschoren, J., Van Der Velde, J. & Vogler, S. & 1 others, Wu, C. J., 9 Jun 2024, p. 1-6. 6 p.Research output: Contribution to conference types › Paper › peer-review
"I Wish You Could Make the Camera Stand Still": Envisioning Media Accessibility Interventions with People with Aphasia
Nevsky, A., Bircanin, F., Cruice, M., Wilson, S., Simperl, E. & Neate, T., 27 Oct 2024, Conference on Computers and Accessibility: ASSETS. 17 p. 46. (ASSETS 2024 - Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Experience Report of the AWS+KCL Impact Accelerator for Public Sector Engagement
Bentley, C., Simperl, E., Bainbridge, M., Ogden, D., Leonardos, S., Jahangirova, G., Walker, J., Yin, W. & Hampson, C., 7 Jun 2024, (Accepted/In press) Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
ChartCheck: Explainable Fact-Checking over Real-World Chart Images
Akhtar, M., Subedi, N., Gupta, V., Tahmasebi, S., Cocarascu, O. & Simperl, E., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 - Findings. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Multimodal Automated Fact-Checking: A Survey
Akhtar, M., Schlichtkrull, M., Guo, Z., Cocarascu, O., Simperl, E. & Vlachos, A., 2023, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 5430-5448 19 p. (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Exploring the Numerical Reasoning Capabilities of Language Models: A Comprehensive Analysis on Tabular Data
Akhtar, M., Shankarampeta, A., Gupta, V., Patil, A., Cocarascu, O. & Simperl, E., 2023, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 15391-15405 15 p. (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Societal Sorting as a Systemic Risk of Recommenders
Thorburn, L., Polukarov, M. & Ventre, C., 8 Oct 2024, RecSys 2024 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. p. 951 - 956 6 p. (RecSys 2024 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Explorative Imitation Learning: A Path Signature Approach for Continuous Environments
Schneider Gavenski, G., Monteiro, J., Meneguzzi, F., Luck, M. & Rodrigues, O., 5 Jul 2024, 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. IOS Press, 7 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Selfishly Cancelling Debts Can Reduce Systemic Risk
Tong, J., De Keijzer, B. & Ventre, C., 17 Oct 2024, Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024). p. 3397-3404Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Reducing Systemic Risk in Financial Networks through Donations
Tong, J., De Keijzer, B. & Ventre, C., 17 Oct 2024, Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024). p. 3405-3412Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Bringing Back Semantics to Knowledge Graph Embeddings: An Interpretability Approach
Domingues, A., Jain, N., Merono Penuela, A. & Simperl, E., 10 Sept 2024, Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning - 18th International Conference, NeSy 2024, Proceedings. Besold, T. R., d’Avila Garcez, A., Jimenez-Ruiz, E., Madhyastha, P., Wagner, B. & Confalonieri, R. (eds.). Springer, Cham, Vol. 14979. p. 192-203 12 p. Chapter 17. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 14980 LNAI).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
A new encoding of implied volatility surfaces for their synthetic generation
Gong, Z., Frys, W., Tiranti, R., Ventre, C., O'Hara, J. & Bai, Y., 2024, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy (CADE). p. 55-63Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Learning Translations: Emergent Communication Pretraining for Cooperative Language Acquisition
Cope, D. & McBurney, P., 26 Feb 2024, Ad Hoc Teamwork Workshop at AAAI-24.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Learning Translations: Emergent Communication Pretraining for Cooperative Language Acquisition
Cope, D. & McBurney, P., 2 Aug 2024, Proceedings of the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-24).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
RevOnt: Reverse Engineering of Competency Questions from Knowledge Graphs via Language Models
Ciroku, F., de Berardinis, J., Kim, J., Merono Penuela, A., Presutti, V. & Simperl, E., 6 May 2024, In: Journal of Web Semantics. 82, 100822.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Using Large Language Models for Knowledge Engineering (LLMKE): A Case Study on Wikidata
Zhang, B., Reklos, I., Jain, N., Peñuela, A. M. & Simperl, E., 1 Jan 2023, In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 3577Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Preferences for AI Explanations Based on Cognitive Style and Socio-Cultural Factors
Kopecka, H., Such, J. & Luck, M., Nov 2023, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - CSCW. Vol. 8. 32 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Mechanisms for Integrating Real Data into Search Game Simulations: An Application to Winter Health Service Pressures and Preventative Policies
Chapman, M., G-Medhin, A., Daneshi, K., Bramwell, T., Durbaba, S., Curcin, V., Parmar, D., Boulding, H., Becares, L., Morgan, C., Molokhia, M., McBurney, P., Harding, S., Wolfe, I., Ashworth, M. & Poston, L., 2024, AMIA Summits on Translational Science Proceedings 2024.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
The Promise and Challenge of Large Language Models for Knowledge Engineering: Insights from a Hackathon
Walker, J., Koutsiana, E., Nwachukwu, M., Merono Penuela, A. & Simperl, E., 21 Mar 2024, (Accepted/In press) CHIEA'24 Conference on Computer Human Interaction Extended Abstracts Proceedings. ACMResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Strategic Bidding Wars in On-chain Auctions
Wu, W., Thiery, T., Leonardos, S. & Ventre, C., 2024, Proceedings of the 6th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2024). p. 503–511Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
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