2025
Towards AI-Assisted Generation of Military Training Scenarios
Soham Hans, Volkan Ustun, Mark Core, Benjamin Nye, James Sterrett, Matthew Green
Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) • 2025
Implicit Behavioral Alignment of Language Agents in High-Stakes Crowd Simulations
Yunzhe Wang, Gale Lucas, Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Volkan Ustun
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) • 2025
X-Ego: Acquiring Team-Level Tactical Situational Awareness via Cross-Egocentric Contrastive Video Representation Learning
Yunzhe Wang, Soham Hans, Volkan Ustun
arXiv preprint (arXiv) • 2025
A Data-Driven Discretized CS:GO Simulation Environment to Facilitate Strategic Multi-Agent Planning Research
Yunzhe Wang, Volkan Ustun, Chris McGroarty
Proceedings of the 2025 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) • 2025
Detecting AI Assistance in Abstract Complex Tasks
Tyler King, Nikolos Gurney, John H. Miller, Volkan Ustun
arXiv preprint (arXiv) • 2025
A Multi-Agent Collaborative Reasoning Framework for Generating Physics Puzzles
Binze Li, Soham Hans, Volkan Ustun
Engineering Multi Agent Systems Workshop (EMAS) • 2025
2024
Abstracting Geo-specific Terrains to Scale Up Reinforcement Learning
Volkan Ustun, Soham Hans, Rajay Kumar, Yunzhe Wang
Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) • 2024
Spontaneous Theory of Mind for Artificial Intelligence
Nikolos Gurney, David V Pynadath, Volkan Ustun
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII) • 2024
Improving Reinforcement Learning Experiments in Unity through Waypoint Utilization
Caleb Koresh, Volkan Ustun, Rajay Kumar, Tim Aris
The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings (FLAIRS) • 2024
Training Reinforcement Learning Agents to React to an Ambush for Military Simulations
Timothy Aris, Volkan Ustun, Rajay Kumar
The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings (FLAIRS) • 2024
Leveraging Organizational Hierarchy to Simplify Reward Design in Cooperative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
Lixing Liu, Volkan Ustun, Rajay Kumar
The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings (FLAIRS) • 2024
Assessing Routing Decisions of Search and Rescue Teams in Service of an Artificial Social Intelligence Agent
Volkan Ustun, Ronit Jorvekar, Nikolos Gurney, David Pynadath, Yunzhe Wang
International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) • 2024
2023
Effectiveness of Teamwork-Level Interventions through Decision-Theoretic Reasoning in a Minecraft Search-and-Rescue Task
David V Pynadath, Nikolos Gurney, Sarah Kenny, Rajay Kumar, Stacy C Marsella, Haley Matuszak, Hala Mostafa, Pedro Sequeira, Volkan Ustun, Peggy Wu
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) • 2023
Leveraging Graph Networks to Model Environments in Reinforcement Learning
Viswanath Chadalapaka, Volkan Ustun, Lixing Liu
The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings (FLAIRS) • 2023
Learning to Take Cover with Navigation-Based Waypoints via Reinforcement Learning
Timothy Aris, Volkan Ustun, Rajay Kumar
The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings (FLAIRS) • 2023
Augmenting Cognitive Architectures with Large Language Models
Himanshu Joshi, Volkan Ustun
Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series (AAAI-SS) • 2023
2022
Demonstrating the Rapid Integration & Development Environment (RIDE) Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) and Multiagent Capabilities
Arno Hartholt, Ed Fast, Andrew Leeds, Kevin Kim, Andrew Gordon, Kyle McCullough, Volkan Ustun, Sharon Mozgai
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) • 2022
Learning to Take Cover on Geo-Specific Terrains via Reinforcement Learning
Timothy Aris, Volkan Ustun, Rajay Kumar
The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings (FLAIRS) • 2022
2021
Graph Neural Network Based Behavior Prediction to Support Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Military Training Simulations
Lixing Liu, Nikolos Gurney, Kyle McCullough, Volkan Ustun
Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) • 2021
Operationalizing Theories of Theory of Mind: A Survey
Nikolos Gurney, Stacy Marsella, Volkan Ustun, David V Pynadath
AAAI Fall Symposium (AAAI-FS) • 2021
Route Optimization in Service of a Search and Rescue Artificial Social Intelligence Agent
Yunzhe Wang, Nikolos Gurney, Jincheng Zhou, David V Pynadath, Volkan Ustun
AAAI Fall Symposium (AAAI-FS) • 2021
PySigma: Towards Enhanced Grand Unification for the Sigma Cognitive Architecture
Jincheng Zhou, Volkan Ustun
International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) • 2021
Introducing RIDE: Lowering the Barrier of Entry to Simulation and Training through the Rapid Integration & Development Environment
Arno Hartholt, Kyle McCullough, Ed Fast, Adam Reilly, Andrew Leeds, Sharon Mozgai, Volkan Ustun, Andrew Gordon
Virtual Simulation Innovation Workshop (SIW) • 2021
Adaptive Synthetic Characters for Military Training
Volkan Ustun, Rajay Kumar, Adam Reilly, Seyed Sajjadi, Andrew Miller
arXiv preprint (arXiv) • 2021