Publications & Doctoral Theses (Bio-Inspired, Networked & Emotional Robotics)

The links to Ph.D. theses of students together with some of the major publications  are available below in chronological order are listed below. For an area-wise list of the same click HERE – this may however not be up-to-date.

Theses/Papers tagged [Typhon] indicate that the reported work used Typhon – A Mobile Agent Emulation Platform, developed at this lab., for realization while those tagged [Tartarus] indicate that the same used the new SWI-Prolog based multi-threaded version of Typhon viz. Tartarus. Theses/Papers tagged [AgPi] indicate that the Raspberry Pi version of Tartarus was used while those tagged [TarPy] used the Python version of Tartarus. Those interested in using Tartarus may visit the link: https://github.com/roboticslab-cseiitg/ProjectTartarus

Ph.D. Thesis/Student Links:

2024: Suraj Kumar Pandey: Bio-inspired Learning Strategies for Resource-Constrained Cyber-Physical Systems (Thesis will be submitted in July 2024)

2023: Divya Kulkarni:  Immuno-inspired Lifelong Learning in Robots [Tartarus/TarPy] {Divya Kulkarni is currently a Research Fellow at the Harvard Medical School and MGH, Boston, USA. She worked as Machine Learning Scientist at Eli Lilly, Bengaluru, earlier.}

2019: Sonia: Non-intrusive human sensing-techniques and applications {Sonia is currently a Machine Learning Scientist at Eli Lilly, Bengaluru}

2019: Tushar Semwal: On Decentralizing Intelligence in Cyber-Physical Systems [Tartarus] [AgPi] {Tushar Semwal is currently an Applied Scientist-II at Microsoft, Hyderabad}

2016: Shashi S. Jha: On Mobile Agents for Learning & Coordination in a Networked Robotics Milieu [Typhon] {Shashi S. Jha is an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Computer Science & Engg., Indian Institute of Technology Ropar}

2016: Samir Kumar Borgohain: An Immuno-inspired Technique for Language Generation & a Pictorially Grounded Language for Machine Aided Translation {Samir Borgohain is an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Computer Science & Engg., National Institute of Technology Silchar}

2011: Wilfred W. Godfrey: Mobile Agent Based bio-Inspired Mechanisms for Servicing Networked Robots {Wilfred W. Godfrey is an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Computer Science & Engg., ABV Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management Gwalior}

Publications

2024

• Suraj Pandey and Shivashankar B. Nair, RoboDA: A Dataset for Domain Adaptation in Robot Vision, IETE Technical Review, Taylor & Francis, (Accepted) (Best quartile Q2)
• Menakshi Bagchi, Shivashankar B. Nair, Pradip K. Das, On a Dynamic and Decentralized Energy-Aware Technique for Multi-Robot Task Allocation, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 180, October 2024, Elsevier (Available online, In Press)  (Quartile Ranking: Q1) [Tartarus]
• Gayathri Rangu and Shivashankar B. Nair, Immuno-inspired Selective Aggregation for Decentralized Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning,  Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO  2024 14-18th July 2024, Melbourne, Australia [CORE Ranking A] 
• Suraj Pandey and Shivashankar B. Nair, Onboard Class Incremental Learning for Resource-Constrained Scenarios using Genetic Algorithm and TinyML, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO  2024, 14-18th July 2024, Melbourne, Australia [CORE Ranking A] 

2023

• Gayathri Rangu and Shivashankar B. Nair. 2023. On Mobile-Agent-based Swarm Reinforcement Learning in a Heterogeneous Robotic Network. In Proceedings of the 2023 6th International Conference on Advances in Robotics (AIR ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 80, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610419.3610499 [TarPy]
• Divya D. K., Nair, S.B., Transfer Learning for Embodied Neuroevolution, Workshop on Neuroevolution at work, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2023, GECCO ’23 Companion: Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, pp. 2128 – 2135, 15-19th July 2023, Lisbon, Portugal [CORE Ranking A]
• Pandey, S.K., Nair, S.B., Enhancing Siamese Neural Networks for Multi-class Classification: An Immuno-inspired Approach, Hot Off  the Press Track, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2023,
  GECCO ’23 Companion: Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
  pp. 39 – 40, 15-19th July 2023, Lisbon, Portugal [CORE Ranking A]
• Rangu, G., Kulkarni, D.D., Nair, J.S., Nair, S.B. (2024). A Hybrid Federated Reinforcement Learning Approach for Networked Robots. In: Swain, B.P., Dixit, U.S. (eds) Recent Advances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. ICSTE 2023. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1071. Springer, Singapore, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4713-3_47 [TarPy]

2022

• J. S. Nair, D. D. Kulkarni, A. Joshi and S. Suresh, On Decentralizing Federated Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Robot Scenarios, 2022 7th South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media Conference (SEEDA-CECNSM), Ioannina, Greece, 2022, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/SEEDA-CECNSM57760.2022.9932985. [Tartarus]
• M. J. Bagchi, D. D. Kulkarni, S. B. Nair and P. K. Das,  On Embedding a Dataflow Architecture in a Multi-Robot System, 2022 Sixth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), Italy, 2022, pp. 271-276, doi: 10.1109/IRC55401.2022.00052. [Tartarus]
• Pandey, S.K., Nair, S.B. (2023), Immuno-Inspired Augmentation of Siamese Neural Network for Multi-class Classification, In: Yan, W.Q., Nguyen, M., Stommel, M. (eds) Image and Vision Computing. IVCNZ 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13836. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25825-1_35
• Jayprakash S. Nair, Divya D. Kulkarni, Ajitem Joshi, Sruthy Suresh, On Decentralizing Federated Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Robot Scenarios,  7th South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media Conference (SEEDA-CECNSM), 2022, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/SEEDA-CECNSM57760.2022.9932985. [Tartarus]
• Divya D. Kulkarni, Tushar Semwal and Shivashankar B. Nair, Immuno-Inspired Management of Halls of Fame for Embodied Evolution, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Elsevier, Volume 70, 2022,101054 (Quartile Ranking: Q1)

2021

• Best Student Paper: Divya Kulkarni and Shivashankar B. Nair, An Immuno-Inspired Transfer Learning Paradigm, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 28.06-1.07.2021, Kraków, Poland [CORE Ranking B]
• Suraj Kr. Pandey, Sonia, Tushar Semwal, Shivashankar B. Nair, Smart Patch: An IoT Based anti Child Trafficking Solution, IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things & Intelligence System, (IoTIS), 27-28th January 2021, Bali, Indonesia

2020

• Akul Agrawal, Divya Kulkarni and Shivashankar B. Nair, On Decentralizing Federated Learning, IEEE SMC International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC-2020, Oct. 11-14th, Toronto, Canada  (Accepted) [CORE Ranking B] [Tartarus]
• Divya Kulkarni and Shivashankar B. Nair, Mutational Puissance Assisted Neuroevolution, GECCO ’20: Proceedings of the ACM-SIGEVO 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion,  July 8th-12th 2020, Cancun, Mexico, pp. 1841-1848 {8 Pages} [CORE Ranking A] https://doi.org/10.1145/3377929.3398149 [Tartarus]
• Tushar Semwal and Shivashankar B. Nair, A Decentralized Artificial Immune System for Solution Selection in Cyber-Physical Systems, Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier Publ., Volume 86, January 2020, 105920, pp. 1-18, 2020. {18 pages} (Quartile Ranking: Q1) [Tartarus]

2019

• Divya Kulkarni and Shivashankar B. Nair, Agrilogistics – A Genetic Programming Based Approach , EAI endorsed International Conference on Smart City for Life, (SCI4Life), Dec. 4th-6th 2019, Braga, Portugal,  In: Pereira P., Ribeiro R., Oliveira I., Novais P. (eds) Society with Future: Smart and Liveable Cities. SC4Life 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 318, pp.83-96, {14 Pages} Springer, Cham. [Tartarus]
• Tushar Semwal and Shivashankar B. Nair, An Immuno-inspired Distributed Artificial Classification System, 9th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving – SocProS 2019, (Unlocking the Power and Impact of Artificial Intelligence), Sept. 02nd-04th, 2019, Liverpool, UK, Nagar A., Deep K., Bansal J., Das K. (eds) Soft Computing for Problem Solving 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1138, pp. 31-49 {19 Pages}. Springer, Singapore. [Tartarus]
• Ishita, Divya Kulkarni, Tushar Semwal and Shivashankar B. Nair, On Securing Mobile Agents using Blockchain Technology, Second International Conference on Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms (ICACCP), Gangtok, India, 25-28th Feb. 2019, 2019 Second International Conference on Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms (ICACCP), pp. 1-5. {5 Pages} doi: 10.1109/ICACCP.2019.8882907 [Tartarus]

2018

• Rahul Mishra, Tushar Semwal and Shivashankar B. Nair, A Distributed Epigenetic Shape Formation and Regeneration Algorithm for a Swarm of Robots, GECCO ’18: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, July 2018, pp. 1505–1512, {8 Pages} https://doi.org/10.1145/3205651.3208300 [CORE Ranking A]
• Tushar Semwal, Divya Kulkarni and Shivashankar B. Nair, On an Immuno-inspired Distributed, Embodied Action-Evolution cum Selection Algorithm, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO ’18, sponsored by ACM SIG on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, SIGEVO), Kyoto, Japan, July 15-19th, 2018, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference July 2018 Pages 141–148 {8 Pages} https://doi.org/10.1145/3205455.3205584  [CORE Ranking A] [Tartarus]Video Link
• Tushar Semwal, Gaurav Mathur, Promod Yenigalla and Shivashankar B. Nair, A Practitioners’ Guide to Transfer Learning for Text Classi fication using Convolutional Neural Networks,  SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2018), San Diego, California, USA, Proceedings of the 2018 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, pp. 513-521 {9 Pages}  [CORE Ranking A]
• Tushar Semwal and Shivashankar B. Nair, MAVNet: A Mobile Agent based framework for Vehicular Networks,  Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference On Internet of Things: Smart Innovation and Usages (IoT-SIU-2018), Bhimtal, 2018, pp. 1-6, {8 Pages} doi: 10.1109/IoT-SIU.2018.8519932. [Tartarus]

2017

• Shashi S. Jha, Shivashankar B. Nair, TANSA: Task Allocation using Nomadic Soft-Agents for Multi-Robot Systems,  IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Vol. PP, Issue: 99, pp. 1-11, 2017. {11 Pages} (Quartile Ranking: Q1) [Video] [Typhon]
• Tushar Semwal, Shashi S. Jha, Shivashankar B. Nair, On Ordering Multi-Robot Task Executions within a Cyber Physical System,  ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), Volume 12 Issue 4, Article No. 20, November 2017. {27 Pages}  [Video] [Tartarus]
• Sonia, Shivashankar B. Nair and Rashmi Dutta Baruah, An Immuno-inspired Online Feature Selection Mechanism, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC-2017, Banff, Canada (5-8th Oct. 2017), pp. 2123-2128, {6 Pages} doi:10.1109/SMC.2017.8122933.  [CORE Ranking B]
• Sonia, Rashmi Dutta Baruah and Shivashankar B Nair, A reward and penalty based approach for Online Feature Selection, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics (CYBCON), 2017, Exeter, U.K. (21 – 23 June 2017) {6 Pages}
• Nitu Gangwar, Tushar Semwal, Shivashankar B. Nair, CARE: An IoT based System for Passenger Service and Comfort in Railways, COMSNETS 2017, 9th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS, January 4-8th, 2017, Bengaluru, India, pp. 55-62 {8 Pages}. [AgPi]
  

2016

• Sonia, Manish Singh, Rashmi Dutta Baruah and Shivashankar B Nair, A Voting-Based Sensor Fusion Approach for Human Presence Detection, In: Basu A., Das S., Horain P., Bhattacharya S. (eds) Intelligent Human Computer Interaction. IHCI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10127. Springer, Cham, pp. 195-206 { 12 Pages}
• Tushar Semwal, Shivashankar B. Nair, AgPi: Agents on Raspberry Pi, Special Issue of the Journal – Electronics: “Raspberry Pi Technology”, MDPI Open Access, (Click the paper title link to access the paper), {21 Pages}. [Tartarus] [AgPi]
• Nikhil S., Tushar Semwal and Shivashankar B. Nair, Immuno-Inspired Behaviour Adaptation in Multi-Robot Systems, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC-2016, Oct. 9-12th, Budapest, Hungary, pp.3199-3204  {Six Pages}. [Video][CORE Ranking B]
• Tushar Semwal, Nikhil S., Shashi Shekhar Jha, Shivashankar B. Nair, TARTARUS: A Multi­ Agent Platform for Bridging the gap between Cyber and Physical Systems, Proceedings of the 2016 Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems Conference, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 1493-1495, Singapore, (9-13th March 2016) {3 Pages}. [Video][CORE Ranking A*] [Tartarus]

2015

• Sonia, A. M. Tripathi,R. D. Baruah and Shivashankar B. Nair, Ultrasonic sensor-based human detector using one-class classifiers,IEEE International Conference on. Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (EAIS 2015), (pp. 1-6).
• Shashi Shekhar Jha, Shivashankar B. Nair, An Idiotypic Solution Sieve for Selecting the Best Performing Solutions in Real-World Distributed Intelligence, IEEE Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah (Malaysia) 2 – 4 December 2015. pp. 71-76, 2015, {6 Pages}. [Typhon]
• Shashi Shekhar Jha, Shivashankar B. Nair, On a Multi-Agent Distributed Asynchronous Intelligence-Sharing and Learning Framework, LNCS Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XVIII, Vol. 9240, Chapter 9, pp.  166-200, 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, DOI:10.1007/978-3-662-48145-5_9, URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48145-5_9 {35 Pages} [Typhon]
• Mayank Gupta, Pulkit Verma, Tuhin Bhattacharya, Pradip K. Das, A Mobile Agents based Distributed Speech Recognition Engine for Controlling Multiple Robots, ADVANCES IN ROBOTICS – 2nd International Conference of Robotics Society of India, (ACM – In co-operation & Korea Robotics Society) 2nd to 4th July, 2015, Goa, India {6 Pages} [Typhon]
• Tushar Semwal, Manoj Bode, Vivek Singh, Shashi Shekhar Jha, Shivashankar B. Nair, Tartarus: A Multi-Agent Platform for Integrating Cyber-Physical Systems and Robots, ADVANCES IN ROBOTICS – 2nd International Conference of Robotics Society of India, Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Advances In Robotics (AIR ’15), ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 20 , {6 Pages}. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2783449.2783469  [Video][Tartarus]
• Manoj Bode, Shashi S. Jha, Shivashankar B. Nair, On Movement of Emergency Services amidst Urban Traffic, Transactions on Ambient Systems , EAI Endorsed Transactions on Ambient Systems 11 – 12 2015 | Volume 2,  Issue 8, e4, Dec. 2015 {10 Pages} [Tartarus]
• Samir Borgohain, Shivashankar B. Nair, An Immuno-inspired approach towards Sentence Generation, Proceedings of the 2015 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO ’15, sponsored by ACM SIG on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, SIGEVO), Sara Silva (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 97-104, {8 Pages}. DOI=10.1145/2739480.2754805 (IEEE Conf. Listing Rank A)
• Book Chapter: Saurabh K. Singh, Shashi Shekhar Jha and Shivashankar B. Nair, On Realizing Emotional Memories, Handbook of Research on Synthesizing Human Emotion in Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Editors Jordi Vallverdú et al.,  Chapter 5, pages 116-151, IGI Publications, {36 Pages} DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7278-9 .

2014

• Pulkit Verma, Mayank Gupta, Tuhin Bhattacharya, Pradip K. Das, Improving Services using Mobile Agents-based IoT in a Smart City, 2014 International Conference on Contemporary Computing and Informatics (IC3I), November 27-29, 2014, Mysore, India. [Typhon]
• Manoj Bode, Shashi S. Jha, Shivashankar B. Nair, A Mobile Agent based Autonomous Partial Green Corridor Discovery and Maintenance for Emergency Services amidst Urban Traffic, In Proceedings of the First International Conference on IoT in Urban Space 2014 (URB-IOT ’14), Rome, Italy. ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering), ICST, Brussels, Belgium, Belgium, pp. 13-18, ACM Digital Library, {7 Pages} DOI=10.4108/icst.urb-iot.2014.257297 http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.urb-iot.2014.257297  [Tartarus]
• Tonmoy R. Saha, Shivashankar B. Nair, On Grounding Symbols for Robots, 2014 Fourth International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT 2014), Dec. 19-21, 2014, pp. 249-255, IEEE Xplore Digital Library {7 Pages}
• Shashi Shekhar Jha and Shivashankar Nair,  Orchestrating the Sequential Execution of Tasks by a Heterogeneous set of Asynchronous Mobile Agents, [12th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, Stuttgart, Germany, 23-25th September 2014], Multiagent System Technologies, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,  Volume 8732, 2014, pp 103-120, Springer, {18 Pages} [Typhon]
• Shashi Shekhar Jha, W. W. Godfrey and Shivashankar B. Nair, Stigmergy based Synchronization of a Sequence of Tasks in a Network of Asynchronous Nodes , Cybernetics & Systems: An International Journal, Vol. 45, Issue 5, pp. 373-406, 2014, Taylor & Francis Publn. {34 Pages} [Video][Typhon]
• W. W. Godfrey, Shashi Shekhar Jha and Shivashankar B. Nair, On Stigmergically Controlling a Population of Heterogeneous Mobile Agents Using Cloning Resource, Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XIV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2014, pp. 49-70,  Springer, {22 Pages} [Typhon]
• Girish G N, Shrinivasa Naika C.L., Pradip K. Das, Face Recognition using MB-LBP and PCA: A Comparative Study, International Conference on Computer Communication and Informatics (ICCCI -2014), Jan. 03 – 05, 2014, Coimbatore, India.

2013

• Shashi Shekhar Jha, Kunal Shrivastava and Shivashankar Nair, On Emulating Real-world Distributed Intelligence using Mobile Agent based Localized Idiotypic Networks, The First International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration (MIKE 2013), Virudhunagar, India, Springer International Publishing, LNAI, Vol. 8284, pp. 487-498, {11 Pages}. [Typhon]
• Shashi Shekhar Jha, Shrinivasa Naika C.L. and Shivashankar Nair, Driving Robots Using Emotions, Transactions on Computational Science XXI, Special Issue on Innovations in Nature-Inspired Computing and Applications, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 8160, 2013, pp 64-89, {26 Pages}.
• Kunal Shrivastava, Shashi Shekhar Jha and Shivashankar Nair, Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation using an Artificial Immune System, Proceedings of Conference on Advances In Robotics (AIR ’13), International Conference of the Robotics Society of India, Published byACM, Article 82, {7 Pages} DOI:10.1145/2506095.2506101. [Typhon]
• Saurabh Prajapati, Shrinivasa Naika C.L., Shashi Shekhar Jha and Shivashankar Nair, On Rendering Emotions on a Robotic Face, Proceedings of Conference on Advances In Robotics (AIR ’13) , International Conference of the Robotics Society of India, Published by ACM, Article 19, {7 Pages} DOI:10.1145/2506095.2506151.
• Kunal Shrivastava, Nishant Singhal, Pradip K. Das, Shivashankar B. Nair, “A Speech Recognition Client-Server Model for Control of Multiple Robots“, Proceedings of Conference on Advances In Robotics (AIR ’13) , International Conference of the Robotics Society of India, Published by ACM, Article 69, {6 Pages} DOI:10.1145/2506095.2506153.
• W.W. Godfrey, Shashi S. Jha, Shivashankar B. Nair, On A Mobile Agent Framework for an Internet of Things,  Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication System and Technologies, CSNT 2013, Gwalior, India, Published in IEEE Xplore, pp. 345-350, {5 Pages}. DOI: 10.1109/CSNT.2013.79. [Typhon]

2012

• Shashi Shekhar Jha, Shrinivasa Naika C. L., Vibhor Nikhra and Shivashankar B. Nair, “On Using Emotions in Decision-Making by Situated Robots“, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2012), 4 – 7 December, 2012, Pune, India, pp. 372-377,  IEEE Xplore. {6 Pages} DOI: 10.1109/HIS.2012.6421363
• (BEST PAPER AWARD): Shrinivasa Naika C.L,  Pradip K Das,  Shashi Shekhar Jha, Shivashankar B. Nair,  Automatic Facial Expression Recognition using Extended AR-LBP, Sixth International Conference on Information Processing (ICIP-2012), August 10th – 12th 2012, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Eds. Venugopal, K. R., Patnaik, L. M., Vol. 292, Part 3, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 244-252. {9 Pages} DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31686-9_29
• Shivashankar B. Nair, Bio-inspired Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the 3^rd National Conference on Emerging Trends and Applications in Computer Science, (NCETACS – 2012), 30-31st March, 2012, Shillong, India, IEEE Xplore, DOI: 10.1109/NCETACS.2012.6203282
• Shashi S. Jha, Shivashankar B. Nair, A Logic Programming Interface for Multiple Robots, 3^rd National Conference on Emerging Trends and Applications in Computer Science, (NCETACS – 2012), 30-31st March, 2012, Shillong, India, IEEE Xplore, pp.152-156. {5 Pages} DOI:10.1109/NCETACS.2012.6203316
• Shrinivasa Naika C.L,  Pradip K Das, Shivashankar B Nair, Asymmetric Region Local Binary Pattern  For Person-dependent Facial Expression  Recognition, International Conference on Computing, Communication and Applications, ICCCA-2012, 22 – 24th February, 2012, Dindigul, India pp. 1-5, {5 Pages}. (DOI:10.1109/ICCCA.2012.6179199)

2011

• Shivashankar B. Nair, Godfrey, W. Kim, D.H., On Realizing a Multi-Agent Emotion Engine, International Journal of Synthetic Emotions, (IJSE), IGI Global, Vol. No. 2(2), July-December 2011, pp.1-27, {27 Pages}.
• W. Godfrey, Shivashankar B. Nair, A Bio-inspired Technique for Servicing Networked Robots, International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., Vol. 2, No. 4, 2011, pp. 258-279, {22 Pages} .
• Shrinivasa Naika C.L, Vibhor Nikhra, Shashi Shekhar Jha, Pradip K Das, Shivashankar B Nair, An Intelligent Face Tracking System for Human-Robot Interaction using Camshift Tracking Algorithm, International Journal of Machine Intelligence, ISSN:0975-2927,E-ISSN:0975-9166, Vol.3, Issue 4, pp. 263-267,  Bioinfo Publishers, {5 Pages}.
• Jatin Matani, Shivashankar B. Nair, Typhon – A Mobile Agents Framework for Real world Emulation in Prolog, In C. Sombattheera et al. (Eds.): 5th Multi-disciplinary International Workshop in Artificial Intelligence (MIWAI-2011, Dec. 7-9th), LNAI 7080, pp 261-273, Springer, Heidelberg (ISSN: 1865-0929, ISBN: 978-3-642-22785-1) {13 Pages} DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25725-4_23 [Typhon]
• W. Wilfred Godfrey, Shivashankar B. Nair, A Mobile Agent Cloning Controller for Servicing Networked Robots, 2011 International Conference on Future Information Technology, September 16-19th, 2011, IPCSIT vol.13 (2011), pp.91-95, IACSIT Press, Singapore. {5 Pages}.

2010

• S. Borgohain,  Shivashankar B. Nair, Towards a Pictorially Grounded Language for Machine Translation, International Journal of Asian Language Processing, (IJALP), Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 87-109, {23 Pages}.
• W. Godfrey, Shivashankar B. Nair, A Pheromone based Mobile Agent Migration Strategy for Servicing Networked Robots, Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems, BIONETICS 2010, Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems, Published in the Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering Volume 87, 2012, pp 533-541, {8 Pages}. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32615-8_52
• W. Godfrey, Shivashankar B. Nair, D.H. Kim, Multi mobile agent multi robot network, Emerging Trends in Robotics and Communication Technologies, 3 to 5 December 2010, Chennai, India.
• Godfrey, W., Shivashankar B. Nair, Mobile Agent Cloning for Servicing Networked Robots, 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2010), November 12-15th, Kolkata, India, 2010, published in – Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI, Vol. 7057, Desai, Nirmit; Liu, Alan; Winikoff, Michael (Eds.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp.336-339, 2012, {4 Pages}.

2009

• Shivashankar B. Nair, Godfrey, W., Kim, Dong Hwa, Towards a Dynamic Emotional Model, Proceeding of the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, 5-8^th July 2009, pp.1932-1936, Seoul,S.Korea, {5 Pages}. (DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2009.5217935) (Citations: GoogleScholar 03)
• (Invited Paper) Nair, Shivashankar B., Emotional Robot Development: Emotion Agents, Proceedings of the International Conference on Innovation Clusters, 12-13^th May 2009, Daedeok, S. Korea,  pp.478-486, {9 Pages} .
• B. Sukumar, Nair, Shivashankar B., Wireless Sensor Node Localization and Terrain Mapping using Mobile Robots,  International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, ICICS-2009, Amman, Jordan. 20^thDec. 2009. (Accepted).

2008

• Shivashankar B. Nair, Towards a Mobile agent based Emotional Being, the 3^rdInternational Conference for Creation of New Interdisciplinary Paradigms on Human Centred Advanced Intelligent Research and Education, Hu-CARE-2008, Dec. 4-5^th, 2008, Daejeon, S. Korea.
• W. Godfrey, Shivashankar B. Nair, An Immune System based Multi-Robot Mobile Agent Network, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg ISSN 0302-9743,Volume 5132/2008, pp. 424-433 (The 7th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, 10-13th August 2008, Phuket, Thailand, ICARIS 2008), {10 Pages} (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85072-4_37) (SCI Conference) (Citations: Scopus 01, GoogleScholar 03) (Also cited in: Review Article: Recent Advances in Artificial Immune Systems: Models and Applications, Dipankar Dasgupta et al, Applied Soft Computing, Volume 11, Issue 2, March 2011, Pages 1574-1587)

2007 and older

• P. Soni, R.K. Rathore, Shivashankar B. Nair, A Framework for the Realization of Networked Robotics and Human Beings, International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, ISARC 2007, September 19^th-21^st, Kochi, India, pp. 331-338, {8 Pages}.
• Akshat Kumar, Shivashankar B. Nair, An Artificial Immune System based Approach for English Grammar Checking, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / HeidelbergISSN 0302-9743,Volume 4628/2007, pp. 348-357 (The 6th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, 26th-29th August, 2007 in Santos/SP, Brazil, Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS 2007), {10 Pages}. (DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-73922-7_30) (Citations: GoogleScholar 02)
• R.D. Baruah, Shivashankar B. Nair, EZeeCom: Enabling spontaneous social interactions over mobile ad hoc networks, Proceedings of the ACM sponsored International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference 2007, IWCMC 2007, August 12-16, 2007, Turtle Bay Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii, ACM Press, ISBN:978-1-59593-695-0,New York, USA, pp.559-564, {7 Pages}. (DOI:10.1145/1280940.1281059) (Citations: GoogleScholar 04)
• R.D. Baruah,  Shivashankar B. Nair, RoboSapienNet – Towards Building A Social Network of Human Beings and Robots, Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks Next Generation Networks July 2, 3 and 4, 2007, Grand Hyatt Singapore, ISBN: 1-4244-1005-3, pp.1-6, {6 Pages}. (DOI:10.1109/WOCN.2007.4284129)
• K V D Pradeep Kumar, M. Saravanan, Shivashankar B. Nair, A Communication Protocol for A mobile Adhoc Network of Robots, Proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Applications of IT (EAIT 2006), Science City, Kolkata, February 10-11, 2006, Elsevier Press, pp. 223-226, {4 Pages}.
• Chingtham Tejbanta Singh, Shivashankar B. Nair, Modelling a Multi-Agent Mobile Robotic test bed using a Biologically Inspired Artificial Immune System, The Eighth Pacific Rim Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2005, 26th-28th September 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg,ISSN 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online), Volume 4078/2009,Multi-Agent Systems for Society (Book), pp.270-283, {14 Pages}.  (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03339-1_22)
• Chingtham Tejbanta Singh, Shivashankar B. Nair An Artificial Immune System for a Multi Agent Robotic System, World Academy of Science, Engineering And Technology, WASET, Volume 6, June 2005, ISSN: 1307-6884, Vol. 6, June 2005, pp. 308-311, {4 Pages}. (Citations: Scopus 04, GoogleScholar-10) (Also Cited in: Artificial Immune Systems and Natural Computing – Applying Complex Adaptive Technologies edited by Hongwei Mo – Chapter V Applications of Artificial Immune Systems in Agents, Idea Group Inc, 2009.)
• N. Toppo  Shivashankar B. Nair, A Framework for Sharing Intelligence Among Mobile Robots on a Network, Session on Network based Intelligent Control, Proceedings of the 2^nd IASTED International Multi-Conference on Automation, Control and Information Technology (ACIT 2005) Novosibirsk, Russia, 20- 24^th June 2005, pp.93-98, {6 Pages}. (Citations: GoogleScholar 01)
• R. P. Badapanda,   Shivashankar B. Nair, Kim Dong Hwa, A Framework for Rapid Deployment of Devices and Robots on a Network, Proceedings of the 1st International Computer Engineering Conference New Technologies for the Information Society ICENCO-2004, (IEEE Egypt Section), Cairo University Cairo, EGYPT, December 27-30, 2004, pp. 625-629, {5 Pages}.(Citations:GoogleScholar 02)
• A. Sarje,  A. Chawre,  Shivashankar B. Nair, Reinforcement Learning of Player Agents in RoboCup Soccer Simulation, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS-2004, IEEE-CS Press, December 05-08th, 2004, Kitakyushu, Japan. (DOI:10.1109/ICHIS.2004.81) (Citations: GoogleScholar 08)

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