Conference Workshop Papers

1. Haris Aziz, Sujit Gujar, Manisha Padala, Mashbat Suzuki, and Jeremy Vollen, "Coordinating Monetary Contributions in Participatory Budgeting." In the Proceedings of 16th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, 2023. (SAGT'23).

2. Sanjay Chandlekar, Shweta Jain and Sujit Gujar,  "A Novel Demand Response Model and Method for Peak Reduction in Smart Grids -- PowerTAC."  In the Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2023. (IJCAI'23). (Extended Version of AAMAS'23)

3. Samhita Kanaparthy, Manisha Padala, Sankarshan Damle, and Sujit Gujar, "F3: Fair and Federated Face Attribute Classification with Heterogeneous Data", In the proceedings of Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD'23.

4. Shoeb Siddiqui, Varul Srivastava, Raj Maheshwari, and Sujit Gujar, "QuickSync: A Quickly Synchronizing PoS-Based Blockchain Protocol." IEEE ICBC'23.

5.  Sanjay Chandlekar,  Arthik Boroju, Shweta Jain and Sujit Gujar, "A Novel Demand Response Model and Method for Peak Reduction in Smart Grids -- PowerTAC." In the Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2023. (AAMAS'23).

6. Sankarshan Damle, Manisha Padala, and Sujit Gujar, "Combinatorial Civic Crowdfunding with Budgeted Agents: Welfare Optimality at Equilibrium and Optimal Deviation." In the proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.  (AAAI'23). 

7. Shaily Mishra, Manisha Padala, and Sujit Gujar, "Fair Allocation with Special Externalities." In the proceedings of the 19th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (PRICAI'22).

8. Shaily Mishra, Manisha Padala, and Sujit Gujar, "EEF1-NN: Efficient and EF1 allocations through Neural Networks". In the proceedings of the 19th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (PRICAI'22).

9. Sambhav Solanki, Samhita Kanaparthy, Sankarshan Damle, and Sujit Gujar, "Differentially Private Federated Combinatorial Bandits with Constraints". In the proceedings of  European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases 2022 (ECML-PKDD'22). 

10. Manika Sharma, Kishore Kothapalli and Sujit Gujar, "BLOCKVAC: A Universally Acceptable and Ideal Vaccination System on Blockchain". In the proceedings of 5th IEEE international conference on Blockchain, 2022. (Blockahin'22). 

11. Reza Hadi Mogavi, Ehsan-Ul Haq, Sujit Gujar, Pan Hui, and Xiaojuan Ma, "More Gamification Is Not Always Better: A Case Study of Promotional Gamification in a Question Answering Website", In the proceedings of 25th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2022, (CSCW’22).

12. Shantanu Das, Swapnil Dhamal, Ganesh Ghalme, Shweta Jain, and Sujit Gujar, "Individual Fairness in Feature-Based Pricing for Monopoly Markets", In the proceedings of 38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 2002, (UAI’22).  

13. Sanjay Chandlekar, Bal Suraja Pedasingu, Easwara Subramanian, Sanjay Bhat, Praveen Paruchuri, and Sujit Gujar, "An Autonomus Intelligent Broker for Smart Grids", In the Proceedings of 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (IJCAI'22).

14. Sankarshan Damle, Manisha Padala, and Sujit Gujar, "Welfare Optimal Combinatorial Civic Crowdfunding with Budgeted Agents." GAIW'22.

15. Anurag Jain, Sanidhay Arora, Sankarshan Damle, and Sujit Gujar, "Tiramisu: Layering Consensus Protocols for Scalable and Secure Blockchains."  IEEE ICBC'22. 

16. Debojit Das, Shweta Jain, and Sujit Gujar, "Budgeted Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandits." In the Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2022. (AAMAS'22).

17.  S V Kanaparthy, Sankarshan Damle, and Sujit Gujar, "REFORM: Reputation Based Fair and Temporal Reward Framework for Crowdsourcing." In the Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2022. (AAMAS'22).

18. Sanjay Chandlekar, Easwara Subramanian, Sanjay Bhat, Praveen Paruchuri, and Sujit Gujar, "Multi-unit Double Auctions: Equilibrium Analysis and Bidding Strategy using DDPG in Smart-grids." In the Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2022. (AAMAS'22).

19.  Kritika Prakash, Fiza Hussain, Praveen Paruchuri, and Sujit Gujar, "How Private Is Your RL Policy? An Inverse RL Based Analysis Framework", In the proceedings of 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.  (AAAI'22). 

20. Samhita Kanaparthy, Manisha Padala, Sankarshan Damle, and Sujit Gujar, "Fair Federated Learning for Heterogeneous Data." Young Researchers Symposium, CODS-COMAD'22.

21. Manisha Padala and Sujit Gujar, "Mechanism Design without Money for Fair Allocations." In the Proceedings of 20th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. Wi-IAT'21. 

22. Manisha Padala, Sankarshan Damle, and Sujit Gujar, "Learning Equilibrium Contributions in Multi-project Civic Crowdfunding." In the Proceedings of 20th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. Wi-IAT'21. 

23. Sankarshan Damle, Boi Faltings, and Sujit Gujar, "Blockchain-based Practical Multi-agent Secure Comparison and its Application in Auctions." In the Proceedings of 20th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. Wi-IAT'21. 

24. Sankarshan Damle, Aleksei Triastcyn, Boi Faltings, and Sujit Gujar, "Differentially Private Multi-Agent Constraint Optimization." In the Proceedings of 20th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. Wi-IAT'21. 

25.  Yash Chaurasia, Visvesh Subramanian, and Sujit Gujar, "PUPoW: A Framework for Designing Blockchains With Practically-Useful-Proof-Of-Work & VanityCoin." In the Proceedings of IEEE Blockchain'21.

26. Manisha Padala, Sankarshan Damle, and Sujit Gujar, "Federated Learning Meets Fairness and Differential Privacy." In the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Neural Information Processing,  December 2021. (ICONIP'21).

27. Manisha Padala,  Debojit Das, and Sujit Gujar, "Effect of Input Noise Dimension in GANs." In the Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Neural Information Processing,  December 2021.  (ICONIP'21).

28. Manisha Padala, Sankarshan Damle, and Sujit Gujar, "Building Ethical AI: Federated Learning Meets Fairness and Differential Privacy." First Indian Conference on Deployable AI (DAI'21), June 2021. Received Best Paper Award.

29. Sankarshan Damle, Moin Hussian Moti, Praphul Chandra, and Sujit Gujar, "Designing Refund Bonus Schemes for Provision Point Mechanism in Civic Crowdfunding." In the proceedings of the 18th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (PRICAI'21).

30. Akansha Singh, P Meghana Reddy, Sujit Gujar, Shweta Jain, "Designing Bounded Min-knapsack Bandits Algorithm for Sustainable Demand Response." In the proceedings of the 18th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (PRICAI'21).

31. Sankarshan Damle, Sujit Gujar, and Moin Hussain Moti, "FASTEN: Fair and Secure Distributed Voting Using Smart Contracts." IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. (ICBC'21).

32. Ayush Deva, Kumar Abhishek, and Sujit Gujar, "A Multi-Arm Bandit Approach To Subset Selection Under Constraints." In the Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2021. (AAMAS'21).(Also presented at) Adaptive and Learning Agents. (ALA@AAMAS'21).

33. Anurag Jain and Sujit Gujar, "We might walk together, but I run faster: Network Fairness and Scalability in Blockchains." In the Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2021. (AAMAS'21). Best Poster Design Award.

34. Sankarshan Damle, Aleksei Triastcyn, Boi Faltings, and Sujit Gujar, "Differentially Private Multi-Agent Constraint Optimization." The Second AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence. (PPAI'21). 

35. Meghana Reddy; Akansha Singh; Zoltan Nagy; Sujit Gujar; Shweta Jain: "Designing Bounded min-Knapsack Bandits Algorithm for Sustainable Demand Response." Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, ICML'21,

36. Sanidhay Arora, Anurag Jain, Sankarshan Damle, and Sujit Gujar, "ASHWAChain: A Fast, Scalable and Strategy-proof Committee-based Blockchain Protocol." Workshop on Game Theory in Blockchain at WINE, 2020. (GTiB@WINE'20).

37. Anurag Jain and Sujit Gujar, "Block Rewards, Not Transaction Fees Keep Miners Faithful In Blockchain Protocols." Workshop on Game Theory in Blockchain at WINE, 2020. (GTiB@WINE'20).

38. Manisha Padala and Sujit Gujar, "FNNC: Achieving Fairness through Neural Networks." In the Proceedings of 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (IJCAI'20)

39.  Ganesh Ghalme, Swapnil Dhamal, Shweta Jain, Sujit Gujar, and Y Narahari, "Ballooning Multi-Armed Bandits". Adaptive and Learning Agents. (ALA@AAMAS'20)

40. Moin Hussain Moti, Dimitris Chatzolpoulos, Pan Hui, Boi Faltings and Sujit Gujar., "Orthos: A Trustworthy AI Framework For Data Acquisition". 8th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems.  (EMAS@AAMAS'20)

41. Sankarshan Damle, Moin Hussain Moti, Praphul Chandra, and Sujit Gujar,  "Designing Refund Bonus Schemes for Provision Point Mechanism in Civic Crowdfunding", 2nd Games, Agents, Incentives Workshop. (GAIW@AAMAS'20)

42. Shoeb Siddiqui, Sujit Gujar, Ganesh Vanahalli, "BitcoinF: Achieving Fairness For Bitcoin In Transaction Fee Only Model". In the  Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2020. (AAMAS'20).

43. Kumar Abhishek, Shweta Jain, Sujit Gujar, "Designing Truthful Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits based Sponsored Search Auctions".  In the Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2020. (AAMAS'20).

44. Ganesh Ghalme, Swapnil Dhamal, Shweta Jain, Sujit Gujar, Yadati Narahari, "Ballooning Multi-Armed Bandits".  In the Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2020. (AAMAS'20).

45.  Dimitrios Chatzopoulos, Sujit Gujar, Boi Faltings and Pan Hui, "Mneme: A Mobile Distributed Ledger". In the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, (INFOCOM'20). 

46. Anindya Pradhan; Easwar Subramanian; Sanjay Bhat P; Praveen Paruchuri; Sujit Gujar: Rise of Algorithmic Trading in Today's Changing Electricity Market. In: India Smart Utility Week, 2020.

47. Shweta Jain and Sujit Gujar, "A Multiarmed Bandit Based Incentive Mechanism for a Subset Selection of Customers for Demand Response in Smart Grids". In the Proceedings of the thirty-forth AAAI conference on AI, 2020, pp. 1974-1981. (AAAI'20).

48. Susobhan Ghosh, Easwar Subramanian, Sanjay P. Bhat, Sujit Gujar and Praveen Paruchuri, "Bidding in Smart Grid PDAs: Theory, Analysis and Strategy". In the Proceedings of the thirty-forth AAAI conference on AI, 2020, (AAAI'20).

49.  Saurabh Ravindranath, Rahul Baburaj, Vineeth N. Balasubramanian, NageswaraRao Numburu, Sujit Gujar, C. V. Jawahar, "Human Machine Collaboration for Face Recognition". In the proceedings of 7th ACM IKDD CoDS and 25th COMAD, 2020, pp 10-18, (CoDS-COMAD'20). (Best Paper Runner-up)

50. Moin Hussain Moti, Dimitris Chatzopoulos, Pan Hui, Sujit Gujar,  "FaRM: Fair Reward Mechanism for Information Aggregation in Spontaneous Localized Settings". In the Proceedings of 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,  pp 506-512, (IJCAI'19).

51.  Sankarshan Damle, Moin Hussain Moti , Praphul Chandra and Sujit Gujar,  Civic Crowdfunding for Agents with Negative and Agents with Asymmetric Beliefs".  In the Proceedings of 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp 208-214, (IJCAI'19).

52. Reza Hadi Mogavi, Sujit Gujar, Xiaojuan Ma and Pan Hui, "HRCR: Hidden Markov-based Reinforcement to Reduce Churn in Question Answering Forums". To appear in the Proceedings of 16th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI'19). 

53. Susobhan Ghosh; Kritika Prakash; Sanjay Chandlekar, Easwar Subramanian; Sanjay Bhat P; Sujit Gujar; Praveen Paruchuri: Vidyutvanika: An autonomous broker agent for smart grid environment. In: PASS, Policy, Awareness, Sustainability and Systems (PASS) Workshop. PASS'19.

54. Sankarshan Damle, Boi Falting and Sujit Gujar, "A Truthful, Privacy-Preserving, Approximately Efficient Combinatorial Auction For Single-minded Bidders".  In the Proceedings of  in International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2019, pp 1916-1918, (AAMAS'19).

55. Sankarshan Damle, Moin Hussain Moti , Praphul Chandra and Sujit Gujar, " Aggregating Citizen Preferences for Public Projects Through Civic Crowdfunding". In the Proceedings of  in International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2019, pp 1919-1921, (AAMAS'19).

56. Manisha Padala and Sujit Gujar, "Thompson Sampling Based Multi-Armed-Bandit Mechanism Using Neural Networks". In the Proceedings of  in International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2019, pp 2111-2113, (AAMAS'19).

57. Susobhan Ghosh, Easwar Subramanian, Sanjay P. Bhat, Sujit Gujar and Praveen Paruchuri, "A Reinforcement Learning Based Broker Agent for a Power Trading Competition: Design and Performance". To appear in the Proceedings of the thirty-third AAAI conference on AI, 2019, (AAAI'19).

58. Praveen Paruchuri and Sujit Gujar, "Fusion of Game Theory and Big Data for AI Applications". In the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Big Data Analytics, 2018, pp 55-69, (BDA'18), (Invited Paper).

59. Dimitrios Chatzopoulos, Sujit Gujar, Boi Faltings and Pan Hui, "Privacy Preserving and Cost Optimal Mobile Crowdsensing using Smart Contracts on Blockchain". In the Proceedings of 15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, pp 442-450, (IEEE MASS'18). 

60. Manisha Padala, C. V. Jawahar, Sujit Gujar, "Learning Optimal Redistribution Mechanisms Through Neural Networks". To appear in the Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'18).

61. Ganesh Ghalme, Sujit Gujar, Amleshwar Kumar, Shweta Jain and Y Narahari, "Design of Coalition Resistant Credit Score Functions for Online Discussion Forums". To appear in the Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'18).

62. Praphul Chandra, Sujit Gujar and Y. Narahari, "Referral-Embedded Provision Point Mechanisms for Crowdfunding of Public Projects". In the Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'17).

63. Ganesh Ghalme, Shweta Jain, Sujit Gujar, Y Narahari, "Thompson Sampling Based Mechanisms for Stochastic Multi-Armed Bandit Problems". In the Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'17).

64. Sujit Gujar and Boi Faltings, "Dynamic Task Assignments for Expert Crowdsourcing: Theory and Empirical Evaluation". In the Proceedings of 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence'16 (ECAI'16).

65. Praphul Chandra, Sujit Gujar and Y. Narahari, "Crowdfunding Public Projects with Provision Point: A Prediction Market Approach". In the Proceedings of 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence'16 (ECAI'16).

66. Praphul Chandra, Sujit Gujar and Y. Narahari, "Crowdsourced Referral Auctions". In the Proceedings of 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence'16 (ECAI'16).

67. Dimitrios Chatzopoulos, Sujit Gujar, Boi Faltings and Pen Hui, "LocalCoin: An Ad-hoc payment scheme for areas with high connectivity". MobiHoc 2016.

68. Shweta Jain, Ganesh Ghalme, Sujit Gujar, Satyanath Bhat, and Y. Narahari, "A Deterministic MAB Mechanism for Crowdsourcing with Logarithmic Regret and Immediate Payments".  In Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'16).

69. Satyanath Bhat, Shweta Jain, Sujit Gujar and Y Narahari, "An Optimal Bidimensional Multi- Armed Bandit Auction". In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 1789-1790, 2015 (AAMAS'15).

70. Sujit Gujar and Boi Faltings, "Auction Based Mechanisms for Dynamic Task Assignments in Expert Crowdsourcing''. International Workshop on Agent Mediated E-Commerce and Trading Agent Design and Analysis (AMEC/TADA) 2015, co-located with AAMAS'15.

71. Sujit Gujar and Boi Faltings, "Dynamic Task Assignments: An Online Two Sided Matching Approach". In proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Matching Under Preferences (MATCHUP 2015). 

72. Tridib Mukherjee, Partha Dutta, Vinay Hegde and Sujit Gujar "RISC: Robust Infrastructure over Shared Computing Resources Through Dynamic Pricing and Incentivization". In Proceedings of 29th  IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium 2015 (IPDPS'15).   

73. Bhat Satyanath, Swaprava Nath, Sujit Gujar, Onno Zoeter, Y. Narahari and Chris Dance, "A mechanism to optimally balance cost and quality of labeling tasks outsourced to strategic agents".  In Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on  Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems pp. 917-924,  (AAMAS'14).

74. Shweta Jain, Sujit Gujar, Onno Zoeter, and Y. Narahari, "A quality assuring multi-armed bandit crowdsourcing mechanism with incentive compatible learning." In Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (pp. 1609-1610) (AAMAS'14). 

75. Dutta, Partha, Tridib Mukherjee, Vinay Hegde, and Sujit Gujar, "C-Cloud: A Cost-Efficient Reliable Cloud of Surplus Computing Resources". In Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2014 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing, pp. 986-987. IEEE, 2014.

76. Shourya Roy, Chithralekha B and Sujit Gujar, "Sustainable Employment in India by Crowdsourcing Enterprise Tasks". In Proceedings of the third annual Symposium on Computing for Development, ACM DEV 2013. 

77. Mukherjee, Koustuv Dasgupta, Sujit Gujar, Gueyoung Jung and Haengju Lee,  "An Economic Model for Green Cloud''. In the proceedings of 10th International Workshop on Middleware for Grids, Clouds and e-Science - MGC 2012.    

78. Sujit Gujar and David Parkes, "Dynamic Matching with a Fall-back Option''. In the Proceedings 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI '10), pp 263-268, 2010.

79. James Zou, Sujit Gujar and David Parkes, "Tolerable Manipulability in Dynamic Assignment without Money ". In the Proceedings 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '10), 2010.

80. Sjit Gujar, James Zou, and David Parkes, "Dynamic House Allocation''. In the Proceedings of 5th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (M-PREF '10), pp 43-48, 2010.

81. Sujit Gujar and Y. Narahari, "Redistribution Mechanisms for Assignment of Heterogeneous Objects". Formal Approaches to Multi-Agent Systems, (FAMAS'09). Torino, Italy.

82. Sujit Gujar and Y. Narahari, "Optimal Multi-Unit Combinatorial Auctions with Single Minded Bidders". The 11th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC'09), pp 74-81, 2009. 

83. Sujit Gujar and Y Narahari, "An Optimal Multi-Unit Combinatorial Procurement Auction with Single Minded Bidders". Managing Complexity in a Distributed World, a Centenary Conference of Division of Electrical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, (MCDES) 2008.

84. Sujit Gujar and Y Narahari,"Redistribution of VCG Payments in Assignment of Heterogeneous Objects". In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, pp 438-445, 2008, (WINE'08). 

85. Sujit Gujar and C E Veni Madhavan,  "Measures for Classification and Detection in Steganalysis". In Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing- WCVGIP, pp. 210-214, January 2006. 

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