Staff directory

BOURGNE Gauvain

Associate Professor [HDR], Sorbonne Université
Team : SMA

Sorbonne Université - LIP6

+33 1 44 27 70 94
Gauvain.Bourgne (at) nulllip6.fr
https://lip6.fr/Gauvain.Bourgne

Three PhD Students (Supervision / Co-supervision)

BONNAVENTURE Jeanne : Formalisation du raisonnement explicatif contrastif dans un cadre éthique.
GERVOIS Guillaume : Qualification et quantification du Bien et du Mal dans un modèle de raisonnement éthique.
YEO Sinitandjon : Le Pilote Automatique de Processus Métier : Un Cadre pour des Flux de Travail Organisationnels Auto-Optimisants et Auto-Réparateurs.

Three past PhD Students (2018 - 2024) at Sorbonne University

2007-2026 Publications

2026
- B. Icard, G. Bourgne, J. Bonnaventure, J.‑G. Ganascia : “Formalizing the Moral Evaluation of Speech Acts: Truthfulness, Lies and Ethical Dilemmas”, Proceedings of the 27^th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2026), Kumamoto, Japan (2026)
- B. Icard, E. Vuichard, L. Lefebvre, L. Sainero, Th. Girault, A. Breton, T. Launay, G. Bourgne, M. Casanova, G. Gadek, V. Klötzer, M. Nouy, G. Gravier, J.‑G. Ganascia, P. Égré : “Propaganda Forensics: Recovering the Generation Pipeline of an AI-Driven Influence Campaign”, The 10^th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), EMNLP 2026, Budapest, Hungary (2026)
- E. Zve, G. Bourgne, B. Icard, J.‑G. Ganascia : “From Noise to Signal: When Outliers Seed New Topics”, LREC 2026 - The Fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Palma De Mallorca, Spain (2026)
- B. Icard, Th. Girault, G. Faye, L. Sainero, A. Breton, M. Casanova, V. Klötzer, G. Gadek, L. Lefebvre, G. Bourgne, L. Amsaleg, S. Gatepaille, G. Gravier, M. Le Nouy, J.‑G. Ganascia, P. Égré : “Measuring Vagueness-Based Persuasion Techniques in an AI-Generated Influence Campaign”, Journées Infox sur Seine 2026, Paris, France (2026)
- E. Zve, G. Bourgne, J.‑G. Ganascia : “Predicting Topic Emergence in Disinformation-Prone Domains Using Hybrid Feature Sets: Corpus Geometry, Textual Content, and Social Dynamics”, Infox Sur Seine 2026, Paris, France (2026)
2025
- E. Zve, B. Icard, A. Breton, L. Sainero, G. Bourgne, J.‑G. Ganascia : “From Outliers to Topics in Language Models: Anticipating Trends in News Corpora”, Proceedings of the 8^th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2025), Association for Computational Linguistics, Odense, Denmark (2025)
- Y. Munro, C. Sarmiento, I. Bloch, G. Bourgne, C. Pelachaud, M.‑J. Lesot : “Integrating Temporality and Causality into Acyclic Argumentation Frameworks Using a Transition System”, The European Journal on Artificial Intelligence, (Sage) (2025)
- E. Zve, B. Icard, A. Breton, L. Sainero, G. Bourgne, J.‑G. Ganascia : “Controversy and Consensus in News Hotspots: Using Outliers to Identify Emerging Trends in Press Corpora”, Infox sur Seine 2025, Paris, France (2025)
- Y. Munro, C. Sarmiento, I. Bloch, G. Bourgne, C. Pelachaud, M.‑J. Lesot : “An Action Language-Based Formalisation of an Abstract Argumentation Framework”, PRIMA 2024: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, vol. 15395, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 155-171, (Springer Nature Switzerland), (ISBN: 978-3-031-77367-9) (2025)
2024
- G. Gervois, G. Bourgne, M.‑J. Lesot : “Defining Compatibility for Moral Preferences: a Condition based on Suzumura Consistency”, MPREF 2024 - 15^th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2024)
- H. Hayashi, Y. Taheri, K. Tsushima, G. Bourgne, J.‑G. Ganascia, K. Satoh : “Toward smooth integration of an online HTN planning agent with legal and ethical checkers”, International Workshop on AI Value Engineering and AI Compliance Mechanisms (VECOMP 2024), A Coruña, Spain (2024)
2023
- Y. Munro, C. Sarmiento, I. Bloch, G. Bourgne, M.‑J. Lesot : “Dynamic Argumentation and Action Languages: Towards Explanations”, The Fourth Workshop on Explainable Logic-Based Knowledge Representation (XLoKR 2023), Rhodes, Greece (2023)
- Y. Taheri, G. Bourgne, J.‑G. Ganascia : “Modelling Integration of Responsible AI Values for Ethical Decision Making”, KR 2023 Workshop on Computational Machine Ethics, Rhodes, Greece (2023)
- G. Gervois, G. Bourgne, M.‑J. Lesot : “Différentiation des modalités du Bien : au-delà de l’optimalité de Pareto”, Actes JIAF-JFPDA 2023, Strasbourg, France (2023)
- Y. Munro, C. Sarmiento, I. Bloch, G. Bourgne, M.‑J. Lesot : “Temporalité et causalité en argumentation abstraite”, Actes JIAF-JFPDA 2023, Strasbourg, France (2023)
- H. Hayashi, Th. Mitsikas, Y. Taheri, K. Tsushima, R. Schäfermeier, G. Bourgne, J.‑G. Ganascia, A. Paschke, K. Satoh : “Multi-agent Online Planning Architecture for Real-time Compliance”, Proceedings of the 17^th International Rule Challenge and 7^th Doctoral Consortium @ RuleML+RR 2023 co-located with 19^th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2023) and 15^th DecisionCAMP 2023 as part of Declarative AI 2023, Oslo, Norway (2023)
2022
- C. Sarmiento, G. Bourgne, K. Inoue, J.‑G. Ganascia : “Action Languages Based Actual Causality in Decision Making Contexts”, International Workshop on AI compliance mechanism (WAICOM 2022) @ 35^th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2022), Saarbrucken, Germany (2022)
- G. Gervois, G. Bourgne, M.‑J. Lesot : “Dealing with differentiated modalities of the Good: beyond Pareto optimality”, International Workshop on AI compliance mechanism (WAICOM 2022), Saarbrücken, Germany (2022)
- C. Sarmiento, G. Bourgne, K. Inoue, J.‑G. Ganascia : “Action Languages Based Actual Causality in Decision Making Contexts”, The 24^th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, vol. 13753, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Valence, Spain, pp. 243-259, (Springer International Publishing), (ISBN: 978-3-031-21202-4) (2022)
- C. Sarmiento, G. Bourgne, D. Cavalli, K. Inoue, J.‑G. Ganascia : “ACTION LANGUAGES BASED ACTUAL CAUSALITY IN ETHICAL DECISION MAKING CONTEXTS”, (2022)
- Y. Taheri, G. Bourgne, J.‑G. Ganascia : “A Compliance Mechanism for Planning in Privacy Domain Using Policies”, Fifteenth International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2021), Kanagawa, Japan (2022)
2021
- G. Bourgne, C. Sarmiento, J.‑G. Ganascia : “ACE modular framework for computational ethics : dealing with multiple actions, concurrency and omission”, International Workshop on Computational Machine Ethics, Online event, France (2021)
- G. Lorthioir, K. Inoue, G. Bourgne : “Inferring Agents’ Goals from Observing Successful Traces”, Applied Sciences, vol. 11 (9), pp. 4116, (Multidisciplinary digital publishing institute (MDPI)) (2021)
2019
- G. Bourgne, Y. Totsuka, N. Schwind, K. Inoue : “Identifying Belief Sequences in a Network of Communicating Agents”, PRIMA 2019: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems - 22^nd International Conference, Turin, Italy, October 28-31, 2019, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11873, vol. 11873, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Turin, Italy, pp. 370-386, (Springer, Cham) (2019)
2018
- G. Lorthioir, G. Bourgne, K. Inoue : “Identifying Goals of Agents by Learning from Observations”, MIWAI 2018 - 12^th International Conference on Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 11248, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Hanoi, Viet Nam, pp. 125-138, (Springer) (2018)
- L.‑M. Veillon, G. Bourgne, H. Soldano : “Better Collective Learning with Consistency Guarantees”, PRIMA 2018 - 21^st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, vol. 11224, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 671-679, (Springer) (2018)
- F. Berreby, G. Bourgne, J.‑G. Ganascia : “Event-Based and Scenario-Based Causality for Computational Ethics”, Proc. of the 17^th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, July 10–15, 2018, IFAAMAS, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 147-155, (International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems) (2018)
- F. BALBO, F. Berreby, O. Boissier, V. Bonnemains, G. Bonnet, G. Bourgne, P.‑A. Chardel, J.‑G. Ganascia, B. Mermet, G. Simon, Th. De Swarte, C. Tessier, R. Voyer : “Éthique et agents autonomes”, 49 pages (2018)
- F. Berreby, G. Bourgne, J.‑G. Ganascia : “Cadre déclaratif modulaire d’évaluation d’actions selon différents principes éthiques”, Revue des Sciences et Technologies de l'Information - Série RIA : Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle, vol. 32 (4), pp. 479-518, (Lavoisier) (2018)
2017
- L.‑M. Veillon, G. Bourgne, H. Soldano : “Effect of Network Topology on Neighbourhood-Aided Collective Learning”, ICCCI 2017 - 9^th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, vol. 10448, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Nicosia, Cyprus, pp. 202-211 (2017)
- L.‑M. Veillon, G. Bourgne, H. Soldano : “Waves: a model of collective learning”, WI 2017 - International Conference on Web Intelligence, Leipzig, Germany, pp. 314-321, (ACM Press) (2017)
- F. Berreby, G. Bourgne, J.‑G. Ganascia : “A Declarative Modular Framework for Representing and Applying Ethical Principles”, Proceedings of the 16^th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2017)
- F. Berreby, G. Bourgne, J.‑G. Ganascia : “Cadre Déclaratif Modulaire pour Représenter et Appliquer des Principes Éthiques”, Journées d'Intelligence Artificielle Fondamentale, Caen, France (2017)
2016
- Ch. Rodrigues, H. Soldano, G. Bourgne, C. Rouveirol : “Collaborative Decision in Multi-Agent Learning of Action Models”, ICTAI 2016 - IEEE 28^th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, San Jose, United States, pp. 640-647, (IEEE) (2016)
- N. Schwind, K. Inoue, G. Bourgne, S. Konieczny, P. Marquis : “Is Promoting Beliefs Useful to Make Them Accepted in Networks of Agents?”, Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2016, New York, NY, United States, pp. 1237-1243 (2016)
- Ch. Rodrigues, H. Soldano, G. Bourgne, C. Rouveirol : “Collaborative Online Learning of an Action Model”, chapter in Solving Large Scale Learning Tasks. Challenges and Algorithms - Essays Dedicated to Katharina Morik on the Occasion of Her 60^th Birthday, vol. 9580, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 300-319, (Springer), (ISBN: 978-3-319-41705-9) (2016)
- N. Schwind, K. Inoue, G. Bourgne, S. Konieczny, P. Marquis : “On Opinion Control in Belief Revision Games”, 30^th Annual Conference of the Japan Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI'16), Yokohama, Japan (2016)
2015
- A. Rougny, Y. Yamamoto, H. Nabeshima, G. Bourgne, A. Poupon, K. Inoue, Ch. Froidevaux : “Completing signaling networks by abductive reasoning with perturbation experiments”, 25^th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, Kyoto, Japan (2015)
- M. Boukhaled, F. Frontini, G. Bourgne, J.‑G. Ganascia : “Computational Study of Stylistics: A Clustering-based Interestingness Measure for Extracting Relevant Syntactic Patterns”, International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Applications, vol. 6 (1), (Alexander Gelbukh) (2015)
- N. Schwind, K. Inoue, G. Bourgne, S. Konieczny, P. Marquis : “Belief Revision Games”, Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2015, Austin, Texas, United States, pp. 1590-1596 (2015)
- F. Berreby, G. Bourgne, J.‑G. Ganascia : “Modelling Moral Reasoning and Ethical Responsibility with Logic Programming”, Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning 20^th International Conference, LPAR-20 2015, Suva, Fiji, November 24-28, 2015, Proceedings, vol. 9450, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Suva, Fiji, pp. 532-548, (Springer) (2015)
- A. Belloni, A. Berger, O. Boissier, G. Bonnet, G. Bourgne, P.‑A. Chardel, J.‑P. Cotton, N. Evreux, J.‑G. Ganascia, Ph. Jaillon, B. Mermet, G. Picard, B. Rever, G. Simon, Th. De Swarte, C. Tessier, F. Vexler, R. Voyer, A. Zimmermann : “Dealing with ethical conflicts in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems”, 1^st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Ethics at the 29^th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Austin, United States (2015)
2014
- Ch. Rodrigues, H. Soldano, G. Bourgne, C. Rouveirol : “Multi Agent Learning of Relational Action Models”, ECAI 2014 - 21^st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 263, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Prague, Czechia, pp. 1087-1088, (IOS Press) (2014)
- Ch. Rodrigues, H. Soldano, G. Bourgne, C. Rouveirol : “Multi Agent Learning of Relational Action Models”, 16^e Conférence d'Apprentissage Automatique, CAp'2014, Saint-Étienne, France, pp. 58-68 (2014)
- L.‑M. Veillon, G. Bourgne : “Formation d’expériences dans un apprentissage à boucle fermée”, Actes des 12^e Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Intelligence Artificielle, RJCIA 2014, Rouen, France (2014)
- Ch. Rodrigues, H. Soldano, G. Bourgne, C. Rouveirol : “A consistency based approach of action model learning in a community of agents”, Proceedings of the 2014 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, AAMAS 2014, Paris, France, pp. 1557-1558 (2014)
- G. Bourgne, N. Maudet : “Designing Protocols for Abductive Hypothesis Refinement in Dynamic Multiagent Environments”, Computational Intelligence, vol. 30 (2), pp. 362-401, (Wiley) (2014)
- A. Belloni, A. Berger, V. Besson, O. Boissier, G. Bonnet, G. Bourgne, P.‑A. Chardel, J.‑P. Cotton, N. Evreux, J.‑G. Ganascia, Ph. Jaillon, B. Mermet, G. Picard, B. REBER, G. Simon, Th. De Swarte, C. Tessier, F. Vexler, R. Voyer, A. Zimmermann : “Towards a framework to deal with ethical conflicts in autonomous agents and multi - agent systems”, CEPE 2014 Well-Being, Flourishing, and ICTs, Paris, France, pp. paper 8 (2014)
2013
- T. Ribeiro, K. Inoue, G. Bourgne : “Combining Answer Set Programs for Adaptive and Reactive Reasoning”, Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, vol. 13 (4-5-Online-Supplement), (Cambridge University Press (CUP)) (2013)
2012
- G. Bourgne, K. Inoue, N. Maudet : “Finding new consequences of an observation in a system of agents”, Proceedings of the 11^th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012), Valencia, Spain, pp. 1223-1224 (2012)
- G. Bourgne, H. Soldano, A. El Fallah‑Seghrouchni : “Apprentissage Multi Agent à Mémoire Bornée”, Actes de la Conférence Francophone sur l'Apprentissage Automatique - CAp 2012, Nancy, France, pp. 16 p. (2012)
2010
- G. Bourgne, H. Soldano, A. El Fallah‑Seghrouchni : “Learning better together”, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI 2010, vol. 215, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 85-90, (IOS Press) (2010)
2009
- G. Bourgne, D. Bouthinon, A. El Fallah‑Seghrouchni, H. Soldano : “Collaborative Concept Learning: Non Individualistic vs Individualistic Agents”, International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Newark, NJ, United States, pp. 653-657, (IEEE) (2009)
- G. Bourgne, A. El Fallah‑Seghrouchni, N. Maudet : “Towards refinement of abductive or inductive hypotheses through propagation”, Journal of Applied Logic, vol. 7 (3), pp. 289-306, (Elsevier) (2009)
- G. Bourgne, A. El Fallah‑Seghrouchni, H. Soldano : “Learning in a fixed or evolving network of agents”, IEEE Conference on Intelligent Agent technology IAT'2009 n°2, Milan, Italy, pp. 549-556, (IEEE) (2009)
2008
- G. Bourgne, A. El Fallah‑Seghrouchni, N. Maudet, H. Soldano : “Multiagent Incremental Learning in Networks”, Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agent, vol. 5357, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Hanoi, Viet Nam, pp. 109-120, (Springer) (2008)
- G. Bourgne, V. Corruble : “A Framework for Knowledge Discovery in a Society of Agents”, International Conference on Discovery Science, vol. 5255, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 172-184, (Springer) (2008)
2007
- G. Bourgne, H. Soldano, A. El Fallah‑Seghrouchni : “SMILE : Sound Multi-agent Incremental LEarning ;-)”, AAMAS '07 - 6^th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Honolulu, United States, pp. 164-171, (ACM) (2007)