SEAMS 2024
Mon 15 - Tue 16 April 2024 Lisbon, Portugal
co-located with ICSE 2024

Increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to support automotive systems, including autonomous vehicles (AVs) with self-driving capabilities. The premise is that learning-enabled systems (LESs), those systems that have one or more AI components, use statistical models to make better informed adaptation decisions and mitigate potentially dangerous situations. These AI techniques largely focus on uncertainty factors that can be explicitly identified and defined (e.g., environmental conditions). However, the unexpected behavior of human actors is a source of uncertainty that is challenging to explicitly model and define. In order to train a learning-enabled AV, developers may use a combination of real-world monitored data and simulated external actor behaviors (e.g., human-driven vehicles, pedestrians, etc.), where participants follow defined sets of rules such as traffic laws. However, if uncertain human behaviors are not sufficiently captured during training, then the AV may not be able to safely handle unexpected behavior induced by human-operated vehicles (e.g., unexpected sudden lane changes). This work introduces a non-cooperative game theory and reinforcement learning-based (RL) framework to discover and assess an AV’s ability to handle high-level uncertain behavior(s) induced by human-based rewards. The discovered synthetic data can then be used to reconfigure the AV to robustify onboard behaviors.

Tue 16 Apr

Displayed time zone: Lisbon change

16:00 - 17:30
Session 8: Human Aspects + Closing + SEAMS 2025Research Track at Luis de Freitas Branco
Chair(s): Genaina Rodrigues University of Brasilia
16:00
25m
Talk
Explanation-driven Self-adaptation using Model-agnostic Interpretable Machine LearningFULL
Research Track
Francesco Renato Negri Politecnico di Milano, Niccolò Nicolosi Politecnico di Milano, Matteo Camilli Politecnico di Milano, Raffaela Mirandola Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
16:25
15m
Talk
Human empowerment in self-adaptive socio-technical systemsSHORT
Research Track
Nicolas Boltz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Sinem Getir Yaman University of York, UK, Paola Inverardi , Rogério de Lemos University of Kent, UK, Dimitri Van Landuyt KU Leuven, Belgium, Andrea Zisman The Open University
16:40
15m
Talk
Towards Understanding Trust in Self-adaptive SystemsSHORT
Research Track
Dimitri Van Landuyt KU Leuven, Belgium, David Halasz Masaryk University, Stef Verreydt DistriNet-KU Leuven, Danny Weyns KU Leuven
16:55
15m
Talk
SafeDriveRL: Combining Non-cooperative Game Theory with Reinforcement Learning to Explore and Mitigate Human-based Uncertainty for Autonomous VehiclesSHORT
Research Track
Kenneth Chan Michigan State University, Sol Zilberman Michigan State University, Nicholas Polanco Michigan State University, Betty H.C. Cheng Michigan State University, Josh Siegel Michigan State University
17:10
20m
Talk
Closing
Research Track