2024
Will Connors, Ellen Rushe and Anthony Ventresque. “Frisbees and Dogs: Domain Adaptation For Object Detection with Limited Labels in Rugby Data”. 13th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS-2024) co-located with the 27th European Conference of Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2024)
Jordan Doyle, Thomas Laurent, and Anthony Ventresque. “PADRAIG: Precise Android Automated Input Generation”. IEEE International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (QRS2024)
Ruth M. Holmes, Ellen Rushe, Anthony Ventresque. “The Key Points: Using Feature Importance to Identify Shortcomings in Sign Language Recognition Models”. LREC/COLING
Kathryn Dane, Stephen W West, Sharief Hendricks, Ciaran Simms, Nicol van Dyk, Will Connors, Fiona Wilson. “Are we tackle ready? Cross‐sectional video analysis of match tackle characteristics in elite women’s Rugby Union”. European Journal of Sport Science [DOI] [PDF]
2023
Jordan Doyle, Thomas Laurent, and Anthony Ventresque. “Modelling Android applications through static analysis and systematic exploratory testing”. IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Their Applications (DSA)
Aidan Murphy, Anthony Ventresque, Conor Ryan. “Fuzzy Pattern Trees with Pre-classification”. Complex Computational Ecosystems (CCE)
Ruth Holmes, Ellen Rushe, Mathieu De Coster, Maxim Bonnaerens, Shinichi Satoh, Akihiro Sugimoto, Anthony Ventresque. “From Scarcity to Understanding: Transfer Learning for the Extremely Low Resource Irish Sign Language”. Workshop at IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision
Nils Höhing, Ellen Rushe, Anthony Ventresque. “What’s left can’t be right – The remaining positional incompetence of contrastive vision-language models”. Workshop on Knowledge and Logical Reasoning in the Era of Data-driven Learning co-located with International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Aidan Murphy, Nuno Lourenço, Anthony Ventresque. “Initialisation in Structured Grammatical Evolution. Workshop at ACM GECCO
2022
Miloš Ojdanić, Wei Ma, Thomas Laurent, Thierry Titcheu Chekam, Anthony Ventresque, and Mike Papadakis. “On the Use of Commit-Relevant Mutants”. Empirical Software Engineering [DOI]
Thomas Laurent, Paolo Arcaini, Catia Trubiani, Anthony Ventresque. “Mutation-based analysis of Queueing Network performance models”. Journal of Systems and Software [DOI]
Thomas Laurent, Paolo Arcaini, Fuyuki Ishikawa, Anthony Ventresque. “Parameter Coverage for Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems Under Uncertainty”. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology [DOI]
Abeba Birhane, Elayne Ruane, Thomas Laurent, Matthew S. Brown, Johnathan Flowers, Anthony Ventresque and Christopher L. Dancy. “The Forgotten Margins of AI Ethics”. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’22) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Ning Tao, Anthony Ventresque and Takfarinas Saber. “Multi-objective Grammar-guided Genetic Programming with Code Similarity Measurement for Program Synthesis”. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) [DOI]
Ning Tao, Anthony Ventresque and Takfarinas Saber. “Assessing Similarity-Based Grammar-Guided Genetic Programming Approaches for Program Synthesis”. International Conference in Optimization and Learning (OLA)
Frank Fowley, Ellen Rushe and Anthony Ventresque. “A Data Augmentation and Pre-processing Technique for Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition”. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP)
Thomas Laurent, Stephen Gaffney, and Anthony Ventresque. “Re-visiting the coupling between mutants and real faults with Defects4J 2.0”. The 17th International Workshop on Mutation Analysis, Co-located with ICST (International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation) [DOI] [PDF preprint] [best paper award] 
Ruth Holmes, Ellen Rushe, Frank Fowley and Anthony Ventresque. “Improving Signer Independent Sign Language Recognition for Low Resource Languages”. Seventh International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology:The Junction of the Visual and the Textual (co-located with LREC) [PDF]
Aidan Murphy, Thomas Laurent and Anthony Ventresque. “The case for grammatical evolution in test generation”. 11th International Workshop on Genetic Improvement (co-located with GECCO) [DOI]
Ellen Rushe and Brian Mac Namee. “Deep Contextual Novelty Detection with Context Prediction”. 4th International Workshop on Learning with Imbalanced Domains: Theory and Applications (Co-located with ECML/PKDD)
Margot Masson, Anthony Ventresque and Julie Carson-Berndsen. “Automatic generation of accented speech using phonetic features”. UK Speech Conference 2022
Patrick Cormac English, Julie Carson-Berndsen and John Kelleher . “Domain-Informed Probing of wav2vec 2.0 Embeddings for Phonetic Features “. UK Speech Conference 2022
Emma O’Neill and Julie Berndsen. “Modelling Pronunciation Variation in Different Spoken Englishes”. UK Speech Conference 2022
2021
Juliana Alves Pereira, Mathieu Acher, Hugo Martin, Jean-Marc Jézéquel, Goetz Botterweck, Anthony Ventresque. “Learning software configuration spaces: A systematic literature review”. Journal of Systems and Software [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Takfarinas Saber, David Brevet, Goetz Botterweck, Anthony Ventresque. “Reparation in Evolutionary Algorithms for Multi-objective Feature Selection in Large Software Product Lines”. SN Computer Science [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Abdul Razzaq, Anthony Ventresque, Rainer Koschke, Andrea De Lucia, Jim Buckley. “The Effect of Feature Characteristics on the Performance of Feature Location Techniques”. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering [DOI]
Abeba Birhane and Olivia Guest. “Towards decolonising computational sciences”. Women, Gender & Research [PDF preprint]
Abeba Birhane. “Algorithmic injustice: a relational ethics approach”. Patterns [DOI]
Abeba Birhane. “The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity”. Artificial Life [DOI]
Frank Fowley and Anthony Ventresque. “Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition using Synthetic Data”. 29th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS) [PDF]
Abeba Birhane and Vinay Uday Prabhu. “Large Image Datasets: A Pyrrhic Win for Computer Vision? “. EEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) [DOI][PDF]
Rediet Abebe, Kehinde Aruleba, Abeba Birhane, Sara Kingsley, George Obaido, Sekou L. Remy,and Swathi Sadagopan. “Narratives and Counternarratives on Data Sharing in Africa”. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Thomas Laurent, Paolo Arcaini, Fuyuki Ishikawa, Anthony Ventresque. “Shake Those System Parameters! On the Need for Parameter Coverage for Decision Systems”. 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Thomas Laurent, Paolo Arcaini, Fuyuki Ishikawa and Anthony Ventresque. “Achieving Weight Coverage for an Autonomous Driving System with Search-based Test Generation (HOP track at GECCO 2021)”. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) [DOI][PDF preprint]
Emma O’Neill, Joe Kenny, Anthony Ventresque and Julie Carson-Berndsen. “The Influence of Regional Pronunciation Variation on Children’s Spelling and the Potential Benefits of Accent Adapted Spellcheckers”. CoNLL The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Takfarinas Saber, Malika Bendechache, and Anthony Ventresque. “Incorporating User Preferences in Multi-objective Feature Selection in Software Product Lines Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis”. 4th International Conference on Optimization and Learning, [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Jordan Doyle, Takfarinas Saber, Paolo Arcaini, and Anthony Ventresque. “Improving Mobile User Interface Testing with Model Driven Monkey Search”. INTUITESTBEDS workshop, Co-located with ICST (International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Paolo Arcaini, Alessandro Calò, Fuyuki Ishikawa, Thomas Laurent, Xiao-Yi Zhang, Shaukat Ali, Florian Hauer, Anthony Ventresque “Parameter-Based Testing and Debugging of Autonomous Driving Systems”. 2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Workshops (IV Workshops) [DOI]
2020
Abeba Birhane. “Algorithmic Colonization of Africa”. SCRIPTed [DOI]
Wei Ma, Thomas Laurent, Milos Ojdanic, Thierry Titcheu Chekam, Anthony Ventresque, and Mike Papadakis. “Commit-Aware Mutation Testing”. IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) [DOI] [PDF preprint] [IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award]
Elayne Ruane, Sinead Farrell and Anthony Ventresque. “User Perception of Text-Based Chatbot Personality”. 4th International Workshop on Chatbot Research, CONVERSATIONS 2020 [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Elsa Thiaville, Jean-Marie Normand, Joe Kenny and Anthony Ventresque. “Virtual Avatars as Children Companions For a VR-based Educational Platform: How Should They Look Like?”. International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence & Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Takfarinas Saber, Côme Cachard and Anthony Ventresque. “RONIN: a SUMO Interoperable Mesoscopic Urban Traffic Simulator”. IEEE SmartCity [DOI] [PDF preprint] [Github]
Takfarinas Saber, Laurentiu Capatina and Anthony Ventresque. “Analysis of Urban Traffic Incidents Through Road Network Features”. IEEE SmartCity [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Elayne Ruane, Ross Smith, Dan Bean, Michael Tjalve and Anthony Ventresque. “Developing a Multi-Cultural Conversational Agent With a Globally Distributed Team”. 15th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Thomas Laurent, Paolo Arcaini, Fuyuki Ishikawa and Anthony Ventresque (2020). Achieving Weight Coverage for an Autonomous Driving System with Search-based Test Generation. International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS) [DOI][PDF preprint]
Emma O’Neill, Robert Young, Elsa Thiaville, Muireann MacCarthy, Julie Carson-Berndsen and Anthony Ventresque. “S-capade: Spelling Correction Aimed at Particularly Deviant Errors”. 8th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Takfarinas Saber, David Brevet, Goetz Botterweck and Anthony Ventresque. “MILPIBEA: Algorithm for Multi-objective Features Selection in (Evolving) Software Product Lines”. 20th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Thomas Laurent, Fionnuala Wall and Anthony Ventresque. “On the impact of timeouts and JVM crashes in Pitest”. The 15th International Workshop on Mutation Analysis, Co-located with ICST (International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation) [DOI][PDF preprint] [best paper award]
Elayne Ruane, Robert Young and Anthony Ventresque. “Training a Chatbot with Microsoft LUIS: Effect of Intent Imbalance on Prediction Accuracy.” Intelligent User Interfaces [DOI][PDF preprint]
Abeba Birhane and Jelle van Dijk. “Robot Rights? Let’s Talk about Human Welfare Instead”. AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society [DOI] [PDF preprint]
2019
Elayne Ruane, Abeba Birhane and Anthony Ventresque. “Conversational AI: Social and Ethical Considerations”. 27th AIAI Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Takfarinas Saber, Xavier Gandibleux, Mike O’Neill, Liam Murphy and Anthony Ventresque. “A comparative study of multi-objective machine reassignment algorithms for data centres”. Journal of Heuristics [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Thomas Laurent, Paolo Arcaini, Fuyuki Ishikawa, Anthony Ventresque. “A Mutation-based Approach for Assessing Weight Coverage of a Path Planner”. Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Jonathan Guichard, Elayne Ruane, Ross Smith, Dan Bean and Anthony Ventresque. “Assessing the Robustness of Conversational Agents using Paraphrases”. The First IEEE International Conference On Artificial Intelligence Testing [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Leandro Batista de Almeida, Damien Magoni, Philip Perry, Eduardo Cunha de Almeida, John Murphy, Anthony Ventresque. “Multi-Layer-Mesh: A Novel Topology and SDN-Based Path Switching for Big Data Cluster Networks”. IEEE International Conference on Communications [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Abeba Birhane, Fred Cummins. “Algorithmic Injustice: towards a relational ethics”. Black in AI Workshop at NeurIPS 2019 [DOI] [PDF preprint] [interview/podcast] [best paper award]
Thomas Laurent and Anthony Ventresque. “PIT-HOM: an Extension of Pitest for Higher Order Mutation Analysis”. The 14th International Workshop on Mutation Analysis- Co-located with ICST (International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation) [DOI][PDF preprint]
2018
Takfarinas Saber, James Thorburn, Liam Murphy and Anthony Ventresque. “VM Reassignment in Hybrid Clouds for Large Decentralised Companies: a Multi-objective Challenge”. Future Generation Computer Systems [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Takfarinas Saber, David Brevet, Goetz Botterweck and Anthony Ventresque. “Is Seeding a Good Strategy in Multi-objective Features Selection When Feature Models Evolve?” Information and Software Technology [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Takfarinas Saber, Florian Delavernhe, Mike Papadakis, Michael O’Neill and Anthony Ventresque. “A Hybrid Algorithm for Multi-objective Test Case Selection”. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Leandro Batista de Almeida, Eduardo Cunha de Almeida, John Murphy, Robson E. De Grande and Anthony Ventresque. “BigDataNetSim: A Simulator for Data and Process Placement in Large Big Data Platforms”. International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Elayne Ruane, Théo Faure, Ross Smith, Dan Bean, Julie Carson-Berndsen, Anthony Ventresque. “BoTest: a Framework to Test the Quality of Conversational Agents Using Divergent Input Examples.” Intelligent User Interfaces [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Patricia Kenny, Mark T. Keane, Muiris O’Sullivan, Anthony Ventresque. “The Megalithic Art Analysis Project: Adapting the Xbox Kinect for Archaeological Fieldwork.” VHN Ireland.
Elayne Ruane, Damaris Gatzche, Thomas Laurent, Ross Smith, Dan Bean & Anthony Ventresque (2018). “Towards a Machine Translation System for Irish Sign Language”. Irish Deaf Research Network Conference [abstract]
2017
Johanna Barbier, Patricia Kenny, Jordan Young, Jean-Marie Normand, Mark T. Keane, Muiris O’Sullivan, Anthony Ventresque. “MAAP Annotate: When archaeology meets augmented reality for annotation of megalithic art”. Virtual System & Multimedia [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Jordan Young, Patricia Kenny, Jean-Marie Normand, Mark T. Keane, Muiris O’Sullivan, Anthony Ventresque. “A 3D view of Irish heritage: the Megalithic Art Analysis Project”. Past: The Newsletter of the Prehistoric Society, 87 [PDF]
Quentin Bragard, Anthony Ventresque and Liam Murphy. “Self-Balancing Decentralized Distributed Platform for Urban Traffic Simulation”. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Simon Bouget, Yérom-David Bromberg, François Taïani, Anthony Ventresque. “Scalable Anti-KNN: Decentralized Computation of k-Furthest-Neighbor Graphs with HyFN”. Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Thomas Laurent, Mike Papadakis, Marinos Kintis, Christopher Henard, Yves Le Traon and Anthony Ventresque. “Assessing and Improving the Mutation Testing Practice of PIT”. International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Thomas Laurent, Laura Guillot, Motomichi Toyama, Ross Smith, Dan Bean, Anthony Ventresque. “Towards a Gamified Equivalent Mutants Detection Platform”. International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Alexandre Langeois, Eduardo Cunha de Almeida, Anthony Ventresque. “BDTest, a System to Test Big Data Frameworks”. International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Takfarinas Saber, Joao Marques-Silva, James Thorburn and Anthony Ventresque. “Exact and Hybrid Solutions for the Multi-objective VM Reassignment Problem”. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools 26(1) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
2016
Xi Li, Anthony Ventresque, John Murphy and James Thorburn. “SOC: Satisfaction Oriented Virtual Machine Consolidation in Enterprise Data Centers”. International Journal of Parallel Programming [DOI] [PDF preprint]
David Brevet, Takfarinas Saber, Goetz Botterweck and Anthony Ventresque. “Preliminary Study of Multi-objective Features Selection for Evolving Software Product Lines”. International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE) [DOI] [PDF preprint][shortlisted for the best short paper award]
Laura Guillot, Quentin Bragard, Ross Smith, Dan Bean and Anthony Ventresque. “Towards a gamified system to improve translation for online meetings”. International Workshop on Gamification for Information Retrieval (GamifIR) co-located with SIGIR [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Henry Coles, Thomas Laurent, Christopher Hénard, Mike Papadakis and Anthony Ventresque. “PIT: a practical mutation testing tool for Java”. International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
2015
Takfarinas Saber, Anthony Ventresque, Joao Marques-Silva, James Thorburn and Liam Murphy. “MILP for the Multi-objective VM Reassignment Problem”. International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) [DOI] [PDF preprint] [shortlisted for the best paper award]
Takfarinas Saber, Anthony Ventresque, Ivona Brandic, Jame Thorburn and Liam Murphy. “Towards a Multi-objective VM Reassignment for Large Decentralised Data Centres”. International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Xi Li, Anthony Ventresque, Jesus Omana Iglesias and John Murphy. “Scalable Correlation aware Virtual Machine Consolidation Using Two-phase Clustering”. International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation. [DOI] [PDF preprint] [shortlisted for the best paper award]
Ulrich Dangel, Quentin Bragard, Patrick McDonagh, Anthony Ventresque and Liam Murphy. “Can Road Traffic Volume Information Improve Partitioning in Distributed SUMO?” Modeling Mobility with Open Data. [PDF preprint]
2014
Masatoshi Hanai, Toyotaro Suzumura, Anthony Ventresque and Kazuyuki Shudo. “An Adaptive VM Provisioning Method for Large-Scale Agent-Based Traffic Simulations on the Cloud”. International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom). [DOI][PDF preprint]
Quentin Bragard, Anthony Ventresque and Liam Murphy. “Global Dynamic LoadBalancing for Decentralised Distributed Simulation”. Winter Simulation Conference [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Xi Li, Anthony Ventresque, John Murphy and James Thorburn. “A Fair Comparison of VM Placement Heuristics and a More Effective Solution”. International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC) [DOI] [PDF preprint] [best paper award]
Quentin Bragard, Anthony Ventresque and Liam Murphy. “Synchronisation for Dynamic Load Balancing of Decentralised Conservative Distributed Simulation”. Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation or Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Takfarinas Saber, Anthony Ventresque, Xavier Gandibleux and Liam Murphy. “GeNePi: A Multi-Objective Machine Reassignment Algorithm for Data Centres”. Hybrid Meta-heuristics (HM) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Masatoshi Hanai, Toyotaro Suzumura, Anthony Ventresque and Kazuyuki Shudo. “Towards a Framework for Adaptive Resource Provisioning in Large-Scale Distributed Agent-based Simulation”. Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations (PADABS) colocated with Euro-Par [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Aravind Vasudevan, Quentin Bragard, Anthony Ventresque, Liam Murphy and David Gregg. “An Evaluation of Space and Graph Partitioning Methods for Distributed Road Network Simulation”. Winter Simulation Conference [DOI] [PDF preprint]
Arnaud Cordier, Remi Domingues, Anthony Labaere, Nicolas Noel, Adrien Thiery, Thomas Cerqueus, Siobhan Clarke, Pawel Idziak, Hui Song, Philip Perry, Anthony Ventresque. “Dynamic Adaptation of the Traffic Management System CarDemo”. Self-Adaptive and Self Organizing Systems (SASO) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
2013
Takfarinas Saber, Anthony Ventresque and John Murphy. “ROThAr: Real-time On-line Traffic Assignment with Load
Estimation”. Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT) [DOI] [PDF preprint]
2012
Anthony Ventresque, Quentin Bragard, Elvis S. Liu, Dawid Nowak, Liam Murphy, Georgios Theodoropoulos and Qi Liu. “SParTSim: A Space Partitioning Guided by Road Network for Distributed Traffic Simulations”. Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT) [DOI][PDF preprint]