Nirav Ajmeri
Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence
School of Computer Science
University of Bristol
Merchant Venturers Building, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UB
nirav.ajmeri@bristol.ac.uk

2026

• [C27] Yining Yuan, Weiru Liu, and Nirav Ajmeri. Hybrid Sanctioning for Improved Social Norms Compliance. Proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS), Malmö, May, 2026. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-39395-1_18.
• [W22] Jessica Woodgate, Daniel E. Collins, Yining Yuan, and Nirav Ajmeri. Reframing Transparency, Interpretability, and Explainability for Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE), Paphos, May, 2026.
• [C26] Nirav Ajmeri, Marina De Vos, Davide Dell'Anna, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Vivek Nallur, Luis G. Nardin, and Munindar P. Singh. Guiding Sociotechnical Systems toward Value-Norm Equilibrium. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Blue Sky Idea Track, Paphos, May, 2026. doi: 10.65109/NSZQ3158.
• [O] Alex O. Davies, Roussel N. Ngueguin, Nirav Ajmeri, and Telmo M. Silva Filho. Language Models Do Not Embed Numbers Continuously (Student Abstract). Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Singapore, Jan, 2026. doi: 10.1609/aaai.v40i48.42206.
• [J19] Alex O Davies, Riku Green, Telmo M Silva Filho, and Nirav Ajmeri. Topology Only Pre-Training: Towards Generalised Multi-Domain Graph Models. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2026. doi: 10.1007/s10618-026-01210-1.

2025

• [W21] Joseph Trevorrow and Nirav Ajmeri. Hierarchical Consensus Value Aggregation for Value-Aligned Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Value Engineering in AI (VALE@ECAI), Bologna, Oct, 2025.
• [W20] Vishal Joshi, Kenton O'Hara, and Nirav Ajmeri. Towards LLM-Agents That Play Dungeons & Dragons Using Iterative Prompting. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Game Interaction (AI4HGI@ECAI), Bologna, Oct, 2025.
• [J18] Vaibhav Garg, Hui Guo, Nirav Ajmeri, Saikath Bhattacharya, and Munindar P. Singh. Understanding Mobile App Reviews to Guide Misuse Audits. Communications of the ACM (CACM), Jul, 2025. doi: 10.1145/3685528.
• [W19] Daniel E. Collins, Conor J. Houghton, and Nirav Ajmeri. EnvCraft: A Modular Environment Design Framework for Investigating Prosocial Incentives. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Citizen-Centric Multiagent Systems (CMAS), Detroit, May, 2025.
• [C24] Jessica Woodgate and Nirav Ajmeri. Combining Normative Ethics Principles to Learn Prosocial Behaviour. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Detroit, May, 2025. doi: 10.5555/3709347.3744013.
• [J17] Alex O. Davies, Nirav Ajmeri, and Telmo M. Silva Filho. A Comparative Study of GNNs and Rule-Based Methods for Synthetic Social Network Generation. IEEE Access, 2025. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3541091.
• [W18] Alex O. Davies, Nirav Ajmeri, and Telmo M. Silva Filho. A Metric for the Balance of Information in Graph Learning. Proceedings of the 4th Annual AAAI Workshop on AI to Accelerate Science and Engineering (AI2ASE), Philadelphia, Feb, 2025.
• [C23] Jessica Woodgate, Paul Marshall, and Nirav Ajmeri. Operationalising Rawlsian Ethics for Fairness in Norm-Learning Agents. Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Philadelphia, Feb, 2025. doi: 10.1609/aaai.v39i25.34837.

2024

• [J16] Seth Bullock, Nirav Ajmeri, Mike Batty, Michaela Black, John Cartlidge, Robert Challen, Cangxiong Chen, Jing Chen, Joan Condell, Leon Danon, Adam Dennett, Alison Heppenstall, Paul Marshall, Phil Morgan, Aisling O'Kane, Laura G. E. Smith, Theresa Smith, and Hywel T. P. Williams. Artificial intelligence for collective intelligence: A national-scale research strategy. Knowledge Engineering Review (KER), Dec, 2024. doi: 10.1017/S0269888924000110.
• [C22] 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. doi: 10.3233/FAIA240917.
• [J15] Jessica Woodgate and Nirav Ajmeri. Macro Ethics Principles for Responsible AI Systems. ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR), 2024. doi: 10.1145/3672394.
• [W17] Daniel E. Collins, Conor J. Houghton, and Nirav Ajmeri. Fostering Multi-Agent Cooperation through Implicit Responsibility. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Citizen-Centric Multiagent Systems (CMAS), Auckland, May, 2024.
• [C21] Sz-Ting Tzeng, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh. Norm Enforcement with a Soft Touch: Faster Emergence, Happier Agents. Proceedings of the 23th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Auckland, May, 2024. doi: 10.5555/3635637.3663046.

2023

• [W16] Alex O. Davies, Riku Green, Nirav Ajmeri, and Telmo M. Silva Filho. Its All Graph To Me: Single-Model Graph Representation Learning on Multiple Domains. Proceedings of the NeurIPS Workshop on New Frontiers in Graph Learning, 2023.
• [W15] Alex O. Davies, Nirav Ajmeri, and Telmo M. Silva Filho. Size Matters: Large Graph Generation with HIGGS. Proceedings of the NeurIPS Workshop on Synthetic Data Generation with Generative AI, 2023.
• [W14] Kopo M Ramokapane, Lizzie Coles-Kemp, Nikhil Patnaik, Rui Huan, Nirav Ajmeri, Genevieve Liveley, and Awais Rashid. Towards Equitable Privacy. Proceedings of the Workshop on Inclusive Privacy and Security (WIPS) @ SOUPS, Aug, 2023.
• [W13] Daniel E. Collins, Conor J. Houghton, and Nirav Ajmeri. Social Value Orientation and Integral Emotions in Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE), London, May, 2023. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-49133-7_7.
• [J14] Amanul Haque, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh. Understanding Dynamics of Polarization via Multiagent Social Simulation. AI & Society: Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication, 2023. doi: 10.1007/s00146-022-01626-5.

2022

• [J13] Mehdi Mashayekhi, Nirav Ajmeri, George F. List, and Munindar P. Singh. Prosocial Norm Emergence in Multiagent Systems. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), 2022. doi: 10.1145/3540202.
• [J12] Veljko Dubljević, Sean Douglas, Jovan Milojevich, Nirav Ajmeri, William A. Bauer, George F. List, and Munindar P. Singh. Moral and Social Ramifications of Autonomous Vehicles: A Qualitative Study of the Perceptions of Professional Drivers. Behaviour & Information Technology, May, 2022. doi: 10.1080/0144929X.2022.2070078.
• [J11] Rezvan Mahdavi-Hezaveh, Nirav Ajmeri, and Laurie Williams. Feature toggles as code: Heuristics and metrics for structuring feature toggles. Information and Software Technology (IST), January, 2022. doi: 10.1016/j.infsof.2021.106813.
• [C20] Rishabh Agrawal, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh. Socially Intelligent Genetic Agents for the Emergence of Explicit Norms. Proceedings of the 31th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Vienna, July, 2022. doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2022/2.
• [C19] Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Nirav Ajmeri and Munindar P. Singh. Enhancing Creativity as Innovation via Asynchronous Crowdwork. Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci), Barcelona, June, 2022. doi: 10.1145/3501247.3531555.
• [C18] Jessica Woodgate and Nirav Ajmeri. Macro Ethics for Governing Equitable Sociotechnical Systems. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Blue Sky Idea Track, Auckland, May, 2022. doi: 10.5555/3535850.3536118.
• [W12] 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. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-20845-4_12.
• [W11] Phillip Sloan and Nirav Ajmeri. Commitment-Based Negotiation Semantics for Accountability in Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS), Auckland, May, 2022. doi: 10.1007/s10472-023-09875-w.
• [W10] Amanul Haque, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh. Understanding Dynamics of Polarization via Multiagent Social Simulation. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Autonomous Agents for Social Good (AASG), Auckland, May, 2022.

2021

• [J10] Veljko Dubljević, George F. List, Jovan Milojevich, Nirav Ajmeri, William A. Bauer, Munindar P. Singh, Eleni Bardaka, Thomas A. Birkland, Charles H. W. Edwards, Roger C. Mayer, Ioan Muntean, Thomas M. Powers, Hesham A. Rakha, Vance A. Ricks, and M. Shoaib Samandar. Toward a Rational and Ethical Sociotechnical System of Autonomous Vehicles: A Novel Application of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. PLOS One, August, 2021. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256224.
• [W9] 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. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-16617-4_5.

2020

• [C17] Nirav Ajmeri, Hui Guo, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, and Munindar P. Singh. Elessar: Ethics in Norm-Aware Agents. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Auckland, May, 2020. doi: 10.5555/3398761.3398769.
• [C16] Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Nirav Ajmeri, Catholijn Jonker, and Munindar P. Singh. New Foundations of Ethical Multiagent Systems. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Blue Sky Idea Track, Auckland, May, 2020. doi: 10.5555/3398761.3398958.
• [J9] Özgur Kafalı, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh. Desen: Specification of Sociotechnical Systems via Patterns of Regulation and Control. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), January, 2020. doi: 10.1145/3365664.

2019

• [C15] Anup K. Kalia, Nirav Ajmeri, Kevin S. Chan, Jin-Hee Cho, Sibel Adalı, and Munindar P. Singh. The Interplay of Emotions and Norms in Multiagent Systems. Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Macao, August, 2019. doi: 10.5555/3367032.3367086.
• [C14] Shubham Goyal, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh. Applying Norms and Sanctions to Promote Cybersecurity Hygiene. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Montreal, May, 2019. doi: 10.5555/3306127.3331987.

2018

• [C13] Venkatesh T. Dhinakaran, Raseshwari Pulle, Nirav Ajmeri, and Pradeep K. Murukannaiah. App review analysis via active learning: Reducing supervision effort without compromising classification accuracy. Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), Banff, August, 2018. doi: 10.1109/RE.2018.00026.
• [C12] Nirav Ajmeri, Hui Guo, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, and Munindar P. Singh. Robust Norm Emergence by Revealing and Reasoning about Context: Socially Intelligent Agents for Enhancing Privacy. Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Stockholm, July, 2018. doi: 10.5555/3304415.3304421.
• [Poster] Nirav Ajmeri, Hui Guo, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, and Munindar P. Singh. Ethics, Values, and Personal Agents: Poster. Proceedings of the 5th Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSoS), Raleigh, April, 2018.
• [J8] Nirav Ajmeri, Hui Guo, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, and Munindar P. Singh. Designing Ethical Personal Agents. IEEE Internet Computing, March-April, 2018. doi: 10.1109/MIC.2018.022021658. Selected for inclusion in IEEE Computer Society's ComputingEdge, July 2018
• [J7] Shams Al-Amin, Nirav Ajmeri, Hongying Du, Emily Z. Berglund, and Munindar P. Singh. Toward Effective Adoption of Secure Software Development Practices. Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory (SIMPAT), June, 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.simpat.2018.03.006.
• [J6] Hui Guo, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh. Teaching Crowdsourcing: An Experience Report. IEEE Internet Computing, December, 2018. doi: 10.1109/MIC.2018.2881515. Selected for inclusion in IEEE Computer Society's ComputingEdge, October 2020

2017

• [C11] Karthik Sheshadri, Nirav Ajmeri, and Jessica Staddon. No (Privacy) News is Good News: An Analysis of New York Times and Guardian Privacy News from 2010 to 2016. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), Calgary, August, 2017. doi: 10.1109/PST.2017.00027.
• [C10] Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh. Toward Automating Crowd RE. Proceedings of the IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), Data Track, Lisbon, September, 2017. doi: 10.1109/RE.2017.74. Smarthome crowd requirements dataset
• [C9] Nirav Ajmeri, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Hui Guo, and Munindar P. Singh. Arnor: Modeling Social Intelligence via Norms to Engineer Privacy-Aware Personal Agents. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), São Paulo, May, 2017. doi: 10.5555/3091125.3091163.
• [C8] Nirav Ajmeri.. Engineering Socially Intelligent Personal Agents via Norms. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Doctoral Consortium, São Paulo, May, 2017. doi: 10.5555/3091125.3091453.
• [J5] Nirav Ajmeri, Chung-Wei Hang, Simon Parsons, and Munindar P. Singh. Aragorn: Eliciting and Maintaining Secure Service Policies. IEEE Computer, December, 2017. doi: 10.1109/MC.2017.4451210.
• [C7] Özgür Kafalı, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh. Kont: Computing Tradeoffs in Normative Multiagent Systems. Proceedings of the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), San Francisco, February, 2017. doi: 10.5555/3298483.3298671.

2016

• [C6] Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh. Acquiring Creative Requirements from the Crowd: Understanding the Influences of Personality and Creative Potential in Crowd RE. Proceedings of the IEEE 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), Beijing, September, 2016. doi: 10.1109/RE.2016.68.
• [W8] Özgür Kafalı, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh. Formal Understanding of Tradeoffs among Liveness and Safety Requirements. Proceedings of the IEEE 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW), Beijing, September, 2016.
• [W7] Özgür Kafalı, Nirav Ajmeri, Munindar P. Singh. Normative Requirements in Sociotechnical Systems. Proceedings of the IEEE 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW), Beijing, September, 2016.
• [J4] Özgür Kafalı, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh. Revani: Revising and Verifying Normative Specifications for Privacy. IEEE Intelligent Systems, September, 2016. doi: 10.1109/MIS.2016.89.
• [C5] Nirav Ajmeri, Jiaming Jiang, Rada Chirkova, Jon Doyle, and Munindar P. Singh. Coco: Runtime Reasoning About Conflicting Commitments. Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), New York, July, 2016. doi: 10.5555/3060621.3060624.
• [Poster] Jiaming Jiang, Nirav Ajmeri, Rada Chirkova, Jon Doyle, and Munindar P. Singh. Expressing and Reasoning about Conflicting Norms in Cybersecurity: Poster. Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSoS), Pittsburgh, April, 2016.
• [J3] Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Nirav Ajmeri, Munindar P. Singh. Engineering Privacy in Social Applications.. IEEE Internet Computing, March, 2016. doi: 10.1109/MIC.2016.30. Selected for inclusion in IEEE Computer Society's ComputingEdge, August 2016
• [J2] Luis G. Nardin, Tina Balke, Nirav Ajmeri, Anup K. Kalia, Jaime S. Sichman and Munindar P. Singh. Classifying Sanctions and Designing a Conceptual Sanctioning Process Model for Socio-Technical Systems. The Knowledge Engineering Review (KER), March, 2016. doi: 10.1017/S0269888916000023.

2015

• [C4] Guangchao Yuan, Nirav Ajmeri, Chris Allred, Pankaj Telang, Mark Wilson and Munindar P. Singh. Modeling Analytics as Knowledge Work: Computing Meets Organizational Psychology (Work-in-progress paper). Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), Athens, May, 2015. doi: 10.1109/RCIS.2015.7128899.
• [W6] Hongying Du, Bennett Y. Narron, Nirav Ajmeri, Emily Berglund, Jon Doyle and Munindar P. Singh. ENGMAS– Understanding Sanction under Variable Observability in a Secure Environment. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Agents and CyberSecurity (ACySE), Istanbul, May, 2015.
• [C3] Hongying Du, Bennett Y. Narron, Nirav Ajmeri, Emily Berglund, Jon Doyle and Munindar P. Singh. Understanding Sanction under Variable Observability in a Secure, Collaborative Environment. Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSoS), Urbana, April, 2015.

2014

• [W5] Anup Kalia, Nirav Ajmeri, Kevin Chan, Jin-Hee Cho, Sibel Adali and Munindar P. Singh. A Model of Trust, Moods, and Emotions in Multiagent Systems and its Empirical Evaluation. Proceedings of the 17th AAMAS Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies (Trust), Paris, May, 2014.

2013

• [W4] Chung-Wei Hang, Nirav Ajmeri, Munindar P. Singh, and Simon Parsons. Argumentation, Evidence, and Schemes: Abstract. Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS), Saint-Paul, May, 2013.
• [J1] Maya Daneva, Egbert van der Veen, Chintan Amrit, Smita Ghaisas, Klaas Sikkel, Ramesh Kumar, Nirav Ajmeri, Uday Ramteerthkar and Roel Wieringa. Agile Requirements Prioritization in Large-scale Outsourced System Projects: An Empirical Study. Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), May, 2013. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2012.12.046. Awarded the Most Influential Paper Award in 2024.
• [Book Chapter] Smita Ghaisas and Nirav Ajmeri. Knowledge-assisted Ontology-based Requirements Evolution. Managing Requirements Knowledge, 2013. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-34419-0_7.

2012

• [Other] Nirav Ajmeri, Mini. Jain, Preethu Rose, V. S. Sivakumar and Smita Ghaisas. Knowledge-assisted Requirements Reuse in Large Insurance Projects. TACTICS 2012, 2012.

2011

• [W3] Nirav Ajmeri, Kumar Vidhani, Manoj Bhat and Smita Ghaisas. An Ontology-based Method and Tool for cross-Domain Requirements Visualization. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK), Trento, Sep, 2011. doi: 10.1109/MARK.2011.6046558.
• [C2] Preethu Rose, Manoj Bhat, Kumar Vidhani, Nirav Ajmeri, Anand Gole and Smita Ghaisas. Intelligent Informatics Platform for Nano-Agriculture. Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International conference on Nanotechnology (Nano), Portland, August, 2011.

2010

• [W2] Nirav Ajmeri, Riddhima Sejpal and Smita Ghaisas. A Semantic and Collaborative platform for Agile Requirements Evolution. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK), Sydney, September, 2010.
• [W1] Manish Kumar, Nirav Ajmeri and Smita Ghaisas. Towards Knowledge assisted Agile Requirements Evolution. Proceedings of the 2nd International workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering (RSSE), Cape Town, May, 2010. doi: 10.1145/1808920.1808924.
• [Poster] Nirav Ajmeri, Manish Kumar, Preethu Rose and Smita Ghaisas. Domain Knowledge Assisted Agile Requirements Evolution (K-gileRE). Proceedings of the 3rd India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC), Mysore, February, 2010.

2009

• [C1] Preethu Rose, Manish Kumar, Nirav Ajmeri, Manas Agrawal, V. Sivakumar and Smita Ghaisas. A method and framework for domain knowledge assisted requirements evolution. Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (CONSEG), Chennai, December, 2009.