Peer-Reviewed Conference/Workshop Papers

  1. Sz-Ting Tzeng and Frank Dignum. Rethinking How AI Embeds and Adapts to Human Values: Challenges and Opportunities. Pre-Proceedings of the International Workshop on Value Engineering in AI (VALE), Bologna, Oct 2025, pages 1--7.
  2. Sz-Ting Tzeng, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh. Value-Based Rationale Improve Social Experience: A Multiagent Simulation Study. Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Santiago De Compostela, Oct 2024, pages 1--8. (Top 10% highest ranked paper)
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  3. Esteban Guerrero, Sz-Ting Tzeng, Cezara Pastrav and Frank Dignum. Value-Based Decision-Making in Software Agents: A Systematic Literature Review. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Value Engineering in Artificial Intelligence (VALE), Santiago De Compostela, Oct 2024, pages 137--154.
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  4. Sz-Ting Tzeng, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh. Norm Enforcement with a Soft Touch: Faster Emergence, Happier Agents. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Auckland, May 2024, pages 1837--1846.
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  5. Sz-Ting Tzeng, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh. Fleur: Social Values Orientation for Robust Norm Emergence. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE), Auckland, May 2022, pages 185--200.
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  6. Sz-Ting Tzeng. Engineering Normative and Cognitive Agents with Emotions and Values. Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Doctoral Consortium, Auckland, May 2022, pages 1878--1880.
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  7. Sz-Ting Tzeng, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh. Noe: Norm Emergence and Robustness Based on Emotions in Multiagent Systems. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE), London, May 2021, pages 62--77.
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Dissertation

Sz-Ting Tzeng. Understanding the Interplay of Social Signals and Values in Norm Emergence. Ph.D. Dissertation in Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, December 2023
Committee: Professor Munindar P. Singh (chair), Professor Min Chi, Professor Willian Rand, Professor Arnav Jhala, and Professor Nirav Ajmeri
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