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Title: A Computational Framework for Norm-Aware Reasoning in Autonomous Systems   Abstract: Autonomous agents are increasingly deployed in complex social environments where they not only have to reason about their domain goals but also about norms that can impose constraints on task performance. Integrating task planning with norm aware reasoning is a challenging problem due to [...]

Title: Learning Transferable Cooperative Behavior in Multi-Agent Teams   Abstract: We study the emergence of cooperative behavior and communication protocols in multi-agent teams, for collaboratively accomplishing tasks like coverage control and formation control for swarms. Using graph neural networks to model inter-agent communications, we present state-of-the-art results in a fully decentralized execution framework which assumes [...]

Title: Decentralized Multiple Mobile Depots Route Planning for Replenishing Persistent Surveillance Robots   Abstract: Persistent surveillance of a target space using multiple robots has numerous applications. The continuous operation in these applications is challenged by the limited onboard battery capacity of the persistent robots. We consider the problem for replenishing persistent robots using mobile depots, [...]

Title: Generating 3D Human Animations from Single Monocular Images   Abstract: Endowing AI systems with the ability to formulate a three-dimensional understanding of human appearance from a single RGB image is an important component technology for applications such as person re-identification, biometrics, virtual reality and augmented reality. However, jointly inferring the texture map and 3D [...]