Publications

2012

• D. Lillis, H. R. Jordan, and R. W. Collier. Evaluation of a Conversation Management Toolkit for Multi Agent Programming. In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS 2012), Valencia, Spain, 2012.
  [ PDF (306k) ] [ BibTeX ]

2011

• D. Leonard, D. Lillis, F. Toolan, L. Zhang, R. W. Collier, and J. Dunnion. Applying Machine Learning Diversity Metrics to Data Fusion in Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011), Dublin, Ireland, 2011.
  [ PDF (803k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• D. Leonard, L. Zhang, D. Lillis, F. Toolan, R. W. Collier, and J. Dunnion. UCD SIFT in the TREC 2010 Web Track. In E. Voorhees and L. Buckland, editors, Proceedings of the Nineteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2010), Gaithersburg, MD, 2011.
  [ PDF (334k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• D. Lillis and R. W. Collier. Augmenting Agent Platforms to Facilitate Conversation Reasoning. In M. Dastani, A. E. F. Seghrouchni, J. F. Hubner, and J. Leite, editors, Post-proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on LAnguages, methodologies and Development tools for multi-agent systemS, Lyon, France, 2011. Springer.
  [ PDF (632k) ] [ BibTeX ]

2010

• D. Doan Van Bien, D. Lillis, and R. W. Collier. Call Graph Profiling for Multi Agent Systems. In M. Dastani, A. El Fallah Segrouchni, J. a. Leite, and P. Torroni, editors, Languages, Methodologies, and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems, LADS '009 Post-Proceedings, pages 153--167. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Sept. 2010.
  [ PDF (461k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• M. Dragone, H. Jordan, D. Lillis, and R. W. Collier. Separation of Concerns in Hybrid Component and Agent Systems. International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 6(2):176--201, 2010.
  [ PDF (626k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• H. Jordan, J. Treanor, D. Lillis, M. Dragone, R. W. Collier, and G. M. P. O'Hare. AF-ABLE in the Multi Agent Contest 2009. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 59(3):389--409, 2010.
  [ PDF (430k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• D. Lillis and R. W. Collier. ACRE: Agent Communication Reasoning Engine. In 3rd International Workshop on LAnguages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi Agent SystemS (LADS'010), Lyon, 2010.
  [ PDF (144k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• D. Lillis, F. Toolan, L. Lin, R. W. Collier, and J. Dunnion. UCD SIFT in the TREC 2009 Web Track. In E. M. Voorhees and L. P. Buckland, editors, Proceedings of the Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2009), Gaithersburg, MD, 2010. NIST.
  [ PDF (231k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• D. Lillis, L. Zhang, F. Toolan, R. W. Collier, D. Leonard, and J. Dunnion. Estimating Probabilities for Effective Data Fusion. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010.
  [ PDF (255k) ] [ BibTeX ]

2009

• D. Doan Van Bien, D. Lillis, and R. W. Collier. Call Graph Profiling for Multi Agent Systems. In Proceedings of the Second Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops (MALLOW 2009), Turin, 2009.
  [ PDF (423k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• D. Doan Van Bien, D. Lillis, and R. W. Collier. Space-Time Diagram Generation for Profiling Multi Agent Systems. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on PROgramming Multi-Agent Systems (PROMAS 2009), held at the 8th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2009), Budapest, Hungary, May 2009.
  [ PDF (520k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• M. Dragone, D. Lillis, R. W. Collier, and G. M. P. O'Hare. Practical Development of Hybrid Intelligent Agent Systems with SoSAA. In Proceedings of the 20th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Dublin, Ireland, Aug. 2009.
  [ PDF (276k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• M. Dragone, D. Lillis, R. W. Collier, and G. M. P. O'Hare. SoSAA: A Framework for Integrating Components and Agents. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2009), Special Track on Agent-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Mar. 2009.
  [ PDF (121k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• M. Dragone, G. M. P. O'Hare, D. Lillis, and R. W. Collier. Hybrid Agent \& Component-Based Management of Backchannels. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2009), Sofia, Bulgaria, July 2009.
  [ PDF (219k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• H. R. Jordan, J. Treanor, D. Lillis, M. Dragone, R. W. Collier, and G. M. P. O'Hare. AF-ABLE: System Description. In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA-X). Clausthal University of Technology, 2009.
  [ PDF (137k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• D. Lillis, R. W. Collier, M. Dragone, and G. M. P. O'Hare. An Agent-Based Approach to Component Management. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-09), Budapest, Hungary, May 2009.
  [ PDF (844k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• D. Lillis, M. Naughton, A. Cronin, M.-T. Kechadi, R. W. Collier, and J. Carthy. Challenging the Norm in the Teaching of Practical Computer Science. In Proceedings of the Second Irish Conference on Engaging Pedagogy (ICEP 2009), Dublin, Ireland, Aug. 2009.
  [ PDF (1096k) ] [ BibTeX ]

2008

• M. Dragone, D. Lillis, C. Muldoon, R. Tynan, R. Collier, and G. M. P. O'Hare. Dublin Bogtrotters: Agent Herders. In Postproceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (PROMAS 2008), 2008.
  [ PDF (216k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• D. Lillis, F. Toolan, R. Collier, and J. Dunnion. Extending Probabilistic Data Fusion Using Sliding Windows. In Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR '08), volume 4956 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 358--369, Berlin, 2008. Springer.
  [ PDF (250k) ] [ BibTeX ]

2007

• D. Lillis, R. Collier, F. Toolan, and J. Dunnion. Evaluating Communication Strategies in a Multi Agent Information Retrieval System. In Proceedings of the 18th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2007), pages 81--90, Dublin, Ireland, 2007.
  [ PDF (190k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• D. Lillis, R. Collier, F. Toolan, and J. Dunnion. Evaluating Communication Strategies in a Multi Agent Information Retrieval System. In Proceedings of the 5th European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS\'\07), Hammamet, Tunisia, Dec. 2007.
  [ PDF (190k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• D. Lillis, F. Toolan, R. Collier, and J. Dunnion. Probabilistic Data Fusion on a Large Document Collection. Artificial Intelligence Review, 26(1-2):23--34, 2007.
  [ PDF (211k) ] [ BibTeX ]

2006

• D. Lillis. ProbFuse: Probabilistic Data Fusion. Msc, University College Dublin, UCD, Feb. 2006.
  [ PDF (913k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• D. Lillis, F. Toolan, R. Collier, and J. Dunnion. Probabilistic Data Fusion on a Large Document Collection. In Proceedings of the 17th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2006), Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2006.
  [ PDF (139k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• D. Lillis, F. Toolan, R. Collier, and J. Dunnion. ProbFuse: A Probabilistic Approach to Data Fusion. In Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in information retrieval, pages 139--146, New York, USA, 2006.
  [ PDF (185k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• D. Lillis, F. Toolan, A. Mur, L. Peng, R. Collier, and J. Dunnion. Probability-Based Fusion of Information Retrieval Result Sets. Artificial Intelligence Review, 25(1-2):179--191, Nov. 2006.
  [ PDF (270k) ] [ BibTeX ]

2005

• D. Lillis, F. Toolan, A. Mur, L. Peng, R. Collier, and J. Dunnion. Probability-Based Fusion of Information Retrieval Result Sets. In Proceedings of the 16th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2005), pages 147--156, Portstewart, Northern Ireland, 2005.
  [ PDF (142k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• A. Mur, L. Peng, R. Collier, D. Lillis, F. Toolan, and J. Dunnion. A HOTAIR Scalability Model. In Proceedings of the 16th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2005), pages 359--368, Portstewart, Northern Ireland, 2005.
  [ PDF (108k) ] [ BibTeX ]
• L. Peng, R. Collier, A. Mur, D. Lillis, F. Toolan, and J. Dunnion. A Self-Configuring Agent-Based Document Indexing System. In Proceedings of the 4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS 2005), Budapest, Hungary, 2005.
  [ PDF (150k) ] [ BibTeX ]