Publications

Journal Articles (J)

J1. Kim Baraka, Ifrah Idrees, Taylor Kessler Faulkner, Erdem Biyik, Scott Booth, Mohamed Chetouani, Daniel H. Grollman, Akanksha Saran, Emmanuel Senft, Silvia Tulli, Anna-Lisa Vollmer, Antonio Andriella, Hannah Beierling, Thomas Horter, Jens Kober, Isobel Sheidlower, Matthew E. Taylor, Stephanie van Waveren, Xuesu Xiao (2025). Human-Interactive Robot Learning: Definition, Challenges and Recommendations. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction.

J2. Sebastian Wallkötter*, Silvia Tulli* Ginevra Castellano, Ana Paiva, Mohamed Chetouani (2021). Explainable Embodied Agents Through Social Cues: A Review. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, THRI Special issue on Explainable Robotic Systems – *equal contribution. pdf (Highly recommended international peer-reviewed journal – Social and interactive robotics)

J3. Adrien Bennetot, Ivan Donadello, Ayoub El Qadi, Mauro Dragoni, Thomas Frossard, Benedikt Wagner, Anna Saranti, Silvia Tulli, Maria Trocan, Raja Chatila, Andreas Holzinger, Artur D’Avila Garcez & Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez (2021). A Practical Tutorial on Explainable AI Techniques. ACM Computing Surveys. pdf (Recommended international peer-reviewed journal – Related disciplines: Artificial Intelligence)

Conference Papers with Selection Committee (C)

C1. Silvia Tulli, Stylianos Loukas Vasileiou, Mohamed Chetouani, Sarath Sreedharan (2026). Inferring implicit goals across differing task models. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual AAAI Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026 openreview

C2. Hendrik Baier, Mark T. Keane, Sarath Sreedharan, Silvia Tulli, & Abhinav Verma, (Accepted/In press). Explanations for Sequential Decision-Making – An Overview. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026)

C3. Silvia Tulli, Marta Couto, Miguel Vasco, Elmira Yadollahi, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva (2020). Explainable Agency by Revealing Suboptimality in Child-Robot Learning Scenarios. 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR). Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. pdf (Special list – ISCSR – Social Robotics)

C4. Silvia Tulli, Diego Agustin Ambrossio, Amro Najjar, and Francisco Javier Rodrguez Lera (2019). Great Expectations & Aborted Business Initiatives: The Paradox of Social Robot Between Research and Industry. 31th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence. pdf

Workshop Papers with Selection Committee (A)

A1. Silvia Tulli, Sarath Sreedharan, Stylianos Loukas Vasileiou (2024). Human-Modeling in Sequential Decision-Making: An Analysis through the Lens of Human-Aware AI. Presented at the HAXP workshop: Human-Aware and Explainable Planning, ICAPS’24. pdf

A2. Silvia Tulli (2022). Explanation-Guided Learning for Human-AI collaboration. 17th Women in Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2022. (Related to a highly recommended international conference – NeurIPS – Artificial Intelligence)

A3. Silvia Tulli, Sebastian Wallkötter, Ana Paiva, Francisco S. Melo, Mohamed Chetouani (2020). Learning from Explanations and Demonstrations: A Pilot Study. 2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence at ACL Conference 2020. pdf

A4. Silvia Tulli, Filipa Correia, Samuel Mascarenhas, Samuel Gomes, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva (2019). Effect of Agents’ Transparency on Teamwork. 1st International Workshop on EXplainable TRansparent Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems at International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. pdf (Related to Special List – AAMAS – Artificial Intelligence)

A5. Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Silvia Tulli, Philipp Wilken, Ramona Merhej, João Gandum, and Ana Paiva (2019). Sparking Creativity with Robots: A Design Perspective. Robots for Social Good: Exploring Critical Design for HRI Workshop at 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). pdf (Related to a highly recommended international conference – HRI – Social and interactive robotics)

A6. Filipa Correia, Samuel Mascarenhas, Samuel Gomes, Silvia Tulli, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Rui Prada, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva (2019). For The Record-A Public Goods Game For Exploring Human-Robot Collaboration. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS). pdf (Special List – AAMAS – Artificial Intelligence)

Doctoral Consortium (D)

D1. Silvia Tulli (2020). Explainability in Autonomous Pedagogical Agents. Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium. pdf (Highly recommended international conference – AAAI – Artificial Intelligence)

Book (B)

B1. Silvia Tulli & David W. Aha (2024). Explainable Agency in Artificial Intelligence Research and Practice. ISBN 9781032392585, 192 Pages, 5 Color & 31 B/W Illustrations, CRC Press, Chapman & Hall/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Series. url

Scientific Reports (R)

R1. Hendrik Baier, Mark T. Keane, Sarath Sreedharan, Silvia Tulli, & Abhinav Verma. (Eds.). (2024). Report from Dagstuhl Seminar 24372: Explainable AI for Sequential Decision Making. Dagstuhl Reports, pdf

Pre-prints (P)

P1. Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert, Nisma Amjad, Pierre Fumeron, Silvia Tulli, Joshua J Waterfall (2025) Yomix: An Interactive Tool for the Exploration of Low-Dimensional Embeddings in Omics Data doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.05.692343

P2. Kim Baraka, Ifrah Idrees, Taylor Kessler Faulkner, Erdem Biyik, Scott Booth, Mohamed Chetouani, Daniel H. Grollman, Akanksha Saran, Emmanuel Senft, Silvia Tulli, Anna-Lisa Vollmer, Antonio Andriella, Hannah Beierling, Thomas Horter, Jens Kober, Isobel Sheidlower, Matthew E. Taylor, Stephanie van Waveren, Xuesu Xiao (2025). Human-Interactive Robot Learning: Definition, Challenges and Recommendations. pre-print (under submission).

P3. Silvia Tulli, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva, Mohamed Chetouani (2022). Learning from Explanations with Maximum Likelihood Inverse Reinforcement Learning. pdf

These annotations refer to the recommendations of the Robotics Research Group (GDR Robotique), which publishes a guide of publication venues recognized as significant by the French robotics community. RICL: International Journal with Reading Committee; CICL: International Conference with Reading Committee.