Darsana Josyula - Publications

"Co-authors marked with an * are advisees who directly worked under Dr. Josyula's supervision on the work published"

• Matthew Akinmolayan*, Darsana Josyula and David Casbeer, Adaptive Interception in Dynamic Domains: Exploration of Hybrid Reinforcement Learning in Pursuit-Evasion Tasks, AAAI Spring Symposium, April 2026 [Accepted]
• Hubert Kyeremateng-Boateng*, Darsana Josyula and David Casbeer, DeepEdge+Location: A Location-Based Task Orchestrator for Edge Computing, 2nd IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy CyberInfrastructure for IoT and Microelectronics, Mar. 2026
• Wasiu Sanyaolu* and Darsana Josyula, LLM-Augmented Semantic Integration: Scalable Knowledge Graph Construction from Unstructured Safety-Critical Narratives, Semantic Data Integration Workshop (SDI '26) @ IEEE ICSC 20th International Conference on Semantic Computing, Feb. 2026.
• Yao Houkpati and Darsana Josyula, "Online Class Incremental Learning of Acoustic Events Using Acoustic Pre-trained Models," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Future Machine Learning and Data Science (FMLDS), Los Angeles, CA, USA, Nov. 2025, pp. 18-23, doi: 10.1109/FMLDS67896.2025.00013."
• Anthony Herron*, Kenneth M’Bale*, Andre Herron II*, Oluwabukunmi Jaiyeola*, Matthew Akinmolayan*, and Darsana Josyula, Active Logic-Based Behavior Modification in Physical Robots, AICCONF2025 - 3rd Cognitive Models and Artificial Intelligence Conference, Jun. 2025.
• Hubert Kyeremateng-Boateng*, Darsana Josyula and Marvin Conn*, Trusting Predictions of Acoustic Classification, International Conference on IT Innovations and Knowledge Discovery (ITIKD 2025)
• Michael Abobor* and Darsana Josyula, Improving SOCIALDISTILBERT with Augmented Embeddings. In: Arabnia, H.R., Deligiannidis, L., Ghareh Mohammadi, F., Amirian, S., Shenavarmasouleh, F. (eds) Computational Science and Computational Intelligence. CSCI 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2501. Springer, Cham. (mdpi.com)
• Michael Abobor* and Darsana Josyula, Multi-View Approach with Transformer Models and Augmented Embeddings for Tackling Imbalanced Multi-Label Datasets, CSITAI 2024 
• Tariq Alluhaidan* and Darsana Josyula, Weight aggregation methods for federated learning in healthcare - A comparative empirical analysis, 24th Annual IEEE International Conference On Electro Information Technology (EIT2024)  (sciencedirect.com)
• Hubert Kyeremateng-Boateng* and Darsana Josyula, Choosing LS-Stat Confidence Scores for Neural Networks’ Predictions, International Conference on E-Mobility, Power Control and Smart Systems ICEMPS, 2024 
• Yao Houkpati*, Kenneth M’Bale*, Marvin Conn, Geoffrey Goldman, Tung-Duong Tran-Luu, Sreenivasan Ramamurthy and Darsana Josyula, Siamese Networks for Autonomous Classification of Battlefield Ground Vehicles Using Acoustic Data, 10th Annual Conf. on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2023 
• Michael Abobor* and Darsana Josyula, SOCIALBERT - A Transformer Based Model used for Detection of social Engineering Characteristics, 10th Annual Conf. on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2023. 
• Anthony Herron* and Darsana P. Josyula, An Active-Logic Based Agent’s Reasoning for Avoiding Futile Action Repetition. The Twelfth International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Applications, INTELLI 2023, 27-33. 
• Hubert Kyeremateng-Boateng*, Darsana Josyula, and Marvin Conn*, Computing Confidence Score for Neural Network Predictions from Latent Features, 5^th International Conference on Control, Communication and Computing, May 2023 
• Anthony Herron* and Darsana P. Josyula, An Analysis of the Deliberation and Task Performance of an Active Logic Based Agent (Student Abstract) . Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 37(13), 16228-16229, 2023.  
• Houkpati*, Kenneth M’Bale*, Marvin Conn, Geoffrey Goldman, Tung-Duong Tran-Luu, Sreenivasan Ramamurthy and Darsana Josyula, Siamese Networks for Autonomous Classification of Battlefield Ground Vehicles Using Acoustic Data, CSCI 2023
• Michael Abobor* and Darsana Josyula, SOCIALBERT - A Transformer Based Model used for Detection of social Engineering Characteristics, CSCI 2023. 
• Anthony Herron* and Darsana P. Josyula, An Analysis of the Deliberation and Task Performance of an Active Logic Based Agent, Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023 
• Hubert Kyeremateng-Boateng*, Darsana Josyula, and Marvin Conn*, Algorithm to Compute Trustworthiness of Neural Network Predictions, International Workshop on Social Impact of AI for Africa, Thirty-Seventh AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023 
• Bander Allogmany* and Darsana P. Josyula, An approach to dealing with concept drift in personalized learning systems, The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence-CogMI, 2022 
• Eman Allogmani* and Darsana Josyula, Mitigating the Effects of Class Noise Using Two-Level Filtering Learner Algorithm, The 29th International IEEE Conference on Systems, Signals, and Image Processing (IWSSIP), 2022.
• Eman Allogmani* and Darsana Josyula, Mitigating the Effects of Attribute Noise Using Two-Level Filtering Learner Algorithm, in the 2022 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (CSCE), 2022.
• Eman Allogmani* and Darsana Josyula, Two-Level Filtering Learner Applied to a Noisy Malware Dataset, submitted to the International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Computing and Control Systems (ICICCS), 2022.
• Darsana P. Josyula, Matthew D. Goldberg, Anthony Herron, Christopher Maxey, Paul Zaidins, Timothy Clausner, Justin Brody and Don Perlis, Knowledge of Self and Other Within a Broader Commonsense Setting. In: Gurney, N., Sukthankar, G. (eds) Computational Theory of Mind for Human-Machine Teams. AAAI-FSS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13775. Springer, Cham., pp. 21–29, 2022
• Timothy Clausner, Christopher Maxey, Matthew Goldberg, Paul Zaidins, Darsana Josyula, Justin Brody and Don Perlis, Overgenerality from Inference in Perspective-Taking. In: Gurney, N., Sukthankar, G. (eds) Computational Theory of Mind for Human-Machine Teams. AAAI-FSS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13775. Springer, Cham., pp. 194-201, 2022
• Don Perlis, Clifford Bakalian, Justin Brody, Timothy Clausner, Matthew Goldberg, Adam Hamlin, Vincent Hsiao, Darsana Josyula, Chris Maxey, Seth Rabin, David Sekora, Jared Shamwell and Jesse Silverberg, Live and Learn, Ask and Tell: Agents over Tasks. In: Marchi E., Siniscalchi S.M., Cumani S., Salerno V.M., Li H. (eds) Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 714. Springer, Singapore, 2021 Live and Learn, Ask and Tell: Agents Over Tasks
• Justin Brody, Bobby Austin, Omar Khater, Christopher J. Maxey, Matthew D Goldberg, Timothy Clausner, Darsana Josyula and Don Perlis. Using Neural Networks to Control Glut in the Active Logic Machine, 15th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning, NeSy'20/21 @ IJCLR, 2021
• Francis Onodueze*, Darsana Josyula and Josef Schaff, Data Implantation - Creating Minority Samples for Extremely Imbalanced Datasets, American Council on Science & Education – CSCE 2021
• Bander Allogmany*, Darsana Josyula and Tagrid Alshalali*, Handling Concept Drift using LSTM based Autoencoders, The 17th International Conference on Data Science, (ICDATA’21), 2021
• Eman Allogmani* and Darsana Josyula, Learning with Noisy Inconsistent Data, The 17th International Conference on Data Science,(ICDATA’21), 2021
• Francis Onodueze* and Darsana Josyula, Anomaly Detection on MIL-STD-1553 Dataset using Machine Learning Algorithms, The 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2020) 
• Hubert Kyeremateng-Boateng*, Marvin Conn*, Darsana Josyula and Manohar Mareboyana, Prediction of Radio Frequency Spectrum Occupancy, The 2020 International Workshop on Smart Technologies for Intelligent Transportation and Communications (SmartITC 2020) 
• Matthew D. Goldberg, Darsana Josyula, and Don Perlis, Quotation for Real-Time Metacognition. ACS - 2020
• Darsana Josyula, Anthony Herron* and Kenneth M’Bale* Implementing a Task-Oriented Time-Situated Agent, ACS 2020
• Tagrid Alshalali* and Darsana Josyula, Evaluating Extreme Learning Machine Models in The Presence of Concept Drift in Streaming Data, ICISDM - 4th International Conference on Information System and Data Mining (ICISDM), 2020  
• Marvin Conn* and Darsana Josyula, Adaptive Classifiers: Applied to Radio Waveforms, Twelfth International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), 2020 
• Marvin Conn* and Darsana Josyula, Radio Frequency Classification and Anomaly Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Proceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference, 2019 
• Manuel Caro, Darsana Josyula, Adán A. Gómez, Dalia P. Madera and Catriona Kennedy, The CARINA metacognitive architecture, International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, 2019
• Manuel F. Caro, Dalia P. Madera-Doval, Michael T. Cox, Ron Sun, Darsana P. Josyula, Catriona M. Kennedy and Rakefet Ackerman The Double Metareasoning Cycle in the CARINA Metacognitive Architecture, Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems - ACS (2019) 518–536 
• Don Perlis, Clifford Bakalian, Justin Brody, Timothy Clausner, Matthew Goldberg, Adam Hamlin, Vincent Hsiao, Darsana Josyula, Chris Maxey, Seth Rabin, David Sekora, Jared Shamwell and Jesse Silverberg, Live and Learn, Ask and Tell: Agents Over Tasks, 10^th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology, 2019
• Tagrid Alshalali*, Kenneth M’Bale* and Darsana Josyula, Security and Privacy of Electronic Health Records Sharing Using Hyperledger Fabric, International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, 2018
• Tagrid Alshalali* and Darsana Josyula, Fine-Tuning of Pre-Trained Deep Learning Models with Extreme Learning Machine, International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, 2018
• Marvin Conn*, Kenneth M’Bale* and Darsana Josyula, Multi-level metacognition for adaptive behavior, Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Vol 26, Pages 174-183, 2018
• Jesuye David*, Christion Banks*, and Darsana Josyula, Levels of Metacognition and Their Applicability to Reinforcement Learning,  In: Samsonovich A. (eds) Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2018. BICA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 848. Springer, Cham, 2018
• Jesuye David, Kenneth M’Bale, and Darsana Josyula Applying the Kasai to Weather Prediction In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conf. on Computational Science Computational Intelligence (CSCI'17), 2017
• Kenneth M’Bale, Behavior Oriented Intelligence ,DSc. Dissertation, Bowie State University, 2017.
• Kenneth M’Bale and Darsana Josyula, The Kasai Algorithm , ICAI 17, pp. 259-265, 2017.
• Kenneth M’Bale and Darsana Josyula, Encoding Seasonal Patterns Using the Kasai Algorithm , Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol 6, No 2, pp. 80-92, 2017.
• Kenneth M’Balé and Darsana Josyula, Automatic Case Generation to Enable Advanced Behaviors in Agents , In Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the BICA Society, pp. 444-449, BICA 2016.
• Manuel Caro, Darsana Josyula, Dair Diaz and Jovani Alberto Jiménez Builes, METATHINK: A MOF-based Metacognitive Modeling Tool , In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing IEEE ICCI*CC16, pp. 351-356, 2016.
• Darsana Josyula, Kenneth M’Bale, Archanaben Patel, Paul Sabbagh, Revanth Baskar, Anthony Herron, Christopher Stone, Daryl Freeman, Derrick Addo, Joseph Emelike, Surveillance using autonomous vehicles by implementing a Robotic Interface Module , Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA) Annual Report, pp. 241-248, 2016.
• Manuel Caro, Darsana Josyula, Jovani Jimenez, Catriona Kennedy and Michael T Cox, A Domain-Specific Visual Language For Modeling Metacognition In Intelligent Systems , Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Volume 13, pp. 75-90, July 2015.
• Kenneth M’Balé and Darsana Josyula, Emulating a Brain System , In Proceedings of the 2014 AAAI Fall Symposium on The Nature of Humans and Machines: A Multidisciplinary Discourse, pp. 22-27, 2014.
• Emily Hand, Darsana Josyula, Matthew Paisner, Elizabeth McNany, Donald Perlis, and Michael Cox, Two Approaches to Implementing Metacognition , Sixth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications, ThinkMind, pp. 45-50, 2014.
• Kenneth M’Balé and Darsana Josyula, Handling Seasonality using Metacognition , Sixth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications, ThinkMind, pp. 205-210, 2014.
• Manuel Caro, Darsana Josyula, Jovani Jiménez, A Formal Model for Metacognitive Reasoning in Intelligent Systems, International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence (IJCINI) Volume 8, Issue 3 , pp. 70-86, 2014.
• Manuel Caro, Darsana Josyula, Jovani Jiménez, Design and validation of a metamodel for metacognition support in artificial intelligent systems, Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Volume 9, pp. 82-104, July 2014
• Manuel Caro, Darsana Josyula, A metamemory model for an Intelligent Tutoring System, VI International Conference of Adaptive and Accessible Virtual Learning Environment (CAVA -2014), Monteria, Colombia, 2014
• Manuel Caro, Darsana Josyula, Michael Cox, Jovani Jiménez, MISM: A metamodel of computational metacognition, BICA 2014 - Symposium on Neural-Symbolic Networks for Cognitive Capacities, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2014
• Kato Mivule, Darsana Josyula, Claude Turner. An Overview of Data Privacy in Multi-Agent Learning Systems , Fifth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications, pp. 14 - 20, 2013.
• Manuel Caro, Darsana Josyula, Jovani Jiménez, Metamemory for Information Retrieval from Long-term Memory in Artificial Cognitive Systems, In Proceedings of 2013 Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems: Workshop on Metacognition in Situated Agents, At University of Maryland, Volume 80, pp. 50-59, 2013
• Don Perlis, Michael Cox, Tim Oates, Darsana Josyula, Michael Maynord, Elizabeth McNany, Matthew Paisner, Vikas Shivashankar, Jared Shamwell, Tongchun Du, Manuel Caro, A Broad Vision for Intelligent Behavior: Perpetual Real-World Cognitive Agents, Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems: Workshop on Metacognition in Situated Agents, At University of Maryland, 2013
• Kenneth M’Balé and Darsana Josyula, Integrating Metacognition into Artificial Agents, In Proceedings of the 2013 AAAI Fall Symposium on Integrated Cognition, pp. 55-62, 2013.
• Darsana Josyula and Kenneth M’Bale, Bounded Metacognition , Fifth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications, pp. 147-152, 2013.
• Elizabeth McNany , Darsana Josyula, Michael Cox , Matthew Paisner and Don Perlis, Metacognitive Guidance in a Dialog Agent , Fifth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications, pp. 137-140, 2013.
• Kenneth M’Bale, Darsana Josyula and Sharad Sharma, Topic-Based Service Integration in Software Systems ,In Proceedings of the ISCA 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE-2013), Los Angeles, California, USA, pp. 3-8, 2013.
• Matthew Schmill, Michael Anderson, Scott Fults, Darsana Josyula, Tim Oates, Donald Perlis, Hamid Haidarian Shahri, Shomir Wilson, and Dean Wright. The Metacognitive Loop and Reasoning About Anomalies. In Anita Raja, editor, Metareasoning: Thinking about Thinking. MIT Press, 2011.
• Darsana P. Josyula, Bette J. Donahue, Matt McCaslin, Michelle Snowden, Michael Anderson, TimOates, Matthew D. Schmill, and Donald R. Perlis. Metacognition for Detecting and Resolving Conflicts in Operational Policies , In Papers from the Workshop on Metacognition for Robust Social Systems at the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI-10), pp. 26-33, 2010.
• H. Haidarian, W. Dinalankara, S. Fults, S. Wilson, D. Perlis, M. Schmill, T. Oates, D. P. Josyula, and M. L. Anderson. The Metacognitive Loop: An Architecture for building Robust Intelligent Systems ., In Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Commonsense Knowledge, 2010.
• Darsana P. Josyula, Harish Vadali, Bette J. Donahue, and Franklin C. Hughes. Modeling Metacognition for Learning in Artificial Systems , In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Innovations in Computing – INC ’09, 2009.
• Darsana P. Josyula, Harish Vadali, Bette J. Donahue, and Franklin C. Hughes. Modeling Emotions for Choosing Between Deliberation and Action , In Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing – NABIC ’09,pp. 1419-1424, 2009.
• Darsana P. Josyula, Franklin C. Hughes, Harish Vadali, Bette J. Donahue, Fassil Molla, Michelle Snowden, Jalissa Miles, Ahmed Kamara, and Chinomnso Maduka, Metacognition for Self-regulated Learning in a Dynamic Environment , In Papers from the Workshop on Metareasoning in Self-Adaptive Systems at the Third IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, pp. 261-268, (SASO 2009).
• Matthew D. Schmill, Tim Oates, Michael L. Anderson, Darsana P. Josyula, Don Perlis, Shomir Wilson, and Scott Fults. The Role of Metacognition in Robust AI Systems . In Proceedings from the Workshop on Metareasoning at the Twenty Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 163-170, 2008.
• Michael L. Anderson, Matt Schmill, Tim Oates, Don Perlis, Darsana Josyula, Dean Wright, and Shomir Wilson. Toward Domain-neutral Human-level Metacognition . In Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, 2007.
• M. Schmill, D. Josyula, M. Anderson, S. Wilson, T. Oates, D. Perlis and S. Fults, A Self-Help Guide for Autonomous Systems, pp. 67-76, 2007.
• Michael L. Anderson, Matt Schmill, Tim Oates, Don Perlis, Darsana Josyula, Dean Wright and Shomir Wilson, Ontologies for Reasoning about Failures in AI Systems In Proceedings from the Workshop on Metareasoning in Agent Based Systems at the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Sytems, (AAMAS-2007).
• Darsana P. Josyula, A Unified Theory of Acting and Agency for a Universal Interfacing Agent PhD Thesis, University of Maryland, 2005.
• Darsana P. Josyula, Michael L. Anderson, and Don Perlis, Designing a Universal Interfacing Agent, In Proceedings of the Second Language and Technology Conference (L&T’05) on Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics., pp. 377-381, 2005.
• Darsana P. Josyula, Michael L. Anderson, and Don Perlis, Metacognition for Dropping and Reconsidering Intentions. In Papers from the 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on Metacognition in Computation, pp. 62-67, 2005.
• Michael L. Anderson, Darsana P. Josyula, Don Perlis and Khemdut Purang, Domain-Independent Reason-Enhanced Controller for Task-ORiented systems – DIRECTOR. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04), pp. 1014-1015, 2004.
• Darsana P. Josyula, Michael L. Anderson, and Don Perlis, Active Logic for More Effective Common Sense Reasoning. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Empirically Successful First Order Reasoning at the Second International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2004), pp. 1-20 , 2004
• Michael L. Anderson, Darsana Josyula, and Don Perlis, Towards Domain-independent, Task-oriented, Conversational Adequacy. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth international Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), pp.1637-1638, 2003.
• Michael L. Anderson, Darsana Josyula, Yoshi Okamoto, and Don Perlis, Talking to Computers In Proceedings of the Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligent Systems at the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), 2003.
• Michael L. Anderson, Yoshi Okamoto, Darsana Josyula, and Don Perlis, Time-situated Agency: Active Logic and Intention Formation . In Proceedings of the Cognitive Agents Workshop at the 25th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI2002), 2002.
• Manjit Bhatia, Paul Chi, Waiyian Chong, Darsana P. Josyula, Yoshi Okamoto, Don Perlis, and K. Purang, The Use-Mention Distinction and its Importance to HCI. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (EDILOG2002), 2002.
• David R. Traum, Carl F. Andersen, Waiyian Chong, Darsana Josyula, Yoshi Okamoto, Khemdut Purang, Michael O’Donovan-Anderson, and Don Perlis, Handling Uncertainty with Active Logic. In Proceedings of the AAAI 2001 Fall Symposium on Using Uncertainty within Computation, 2001.
• Carl Andersen, David Traum, Khemdut Purang, Darsana Purushothaman [Josyula], and Don Perlis, Representations of Dialogue State for Domain and Task Independent Meta-dialogue. Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 3:pp.125-152, 1999.
• Khemdut Purang, Darsana Purushothaman [Josyula], David Traum, Carl Andersen, and Don Perlis, Mixed Initiative Dialogue and Intelligence via Active Logic. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligence at the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), pp. 1-10, 1999.
• Khemdut Purang, Darsana Purushothaman [Josyula], David Traum, Carl Andersen and Donald Perlis, Practical Reasoning and Plan Execution with Active Logic. In Proceedings of the IJCAI-99 Workshop on Practical Reasoning and Rationality, pp. 30-38, 1999.
• Donald Perlis, Khemdut Purang, Darsana Purushothaman [Josyula], Carl Andersen and David Traum, Modeling Time and Meta-reasoning in Dialogue via Active Logic. In Working notes of AAAI Fall Symposium on Psychological Models of Communication, pp. 93-99, 1999.