Publications

A list of recent publications by type and area. See also IATPP and Google scholar.
1 Mary Ogbuka Kenneth, Foaad Khosmood, Abbas Edalat, Systematic Literature Review: Computational Approaches for Humour Style Classification, arXiv, January 2024, arXiv.org
2 Emily Gavrilenko, Foaad Khosmood, Mahdi Rastad and Sadra Amiri Moghaddam, Improving Startup Success with Text Analysis, ICAIF 2023: ACM International Conference on AI in Finance, Workshop on NLP and Network Analysis, November 2023, New York, NY, arXiv
3 April Grow and Foaad Khosmood, ChatGPT Game Jam: Unleashing the power of Large Language Models for Game Jams, International Conference on Game Jams, August 2023, Online, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3610602.3610605
4 Michelle Perkonigg and Foaad Khosmood, Automatic Bill Recommendation for Statehouse Journalists, Electronic Government, August 2023, Perkonigg_Electronic_Government_2023.pdf , EGOV 2023 Proceedings
5 Cameron Jones, Evan Witulski and Foaad Khosmood, African Californios: Uncovering the African past of Spanish and Mexican California using Data Science Methods, Digital Humanities 2023, July 2023, Graz, Austria, DH 2023-Graphic Poster (1).pdf , DH 2023 Papers on Zenodo
6 Joshua Grace and Foaad Khosmood, Feature Engineering for US State Legislative Hearings: Stance, Affiliation, Engagement and Absentees, Digital Humanities 2023, July 2023, Graz, Austria, DH 2023 Paper, arXiv preprint version (2021), DH 2023 Proceedings
7 Foaad Khosmood, Government Transparency at The State Level and the Challenge for Democracy, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies Conference, March 2023, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Conference Agenda, RMCLAS website
8 Paul Anderson, Kelly Bodwin, Alex Dekhtyar, Hunter Glanz, Foaad Khosmood, Lubomir Stanchev, Dennis L. Sun and Jonathan Ventura, Discussing the History of Ideas in a Data Science Seminar, SIGCSE 2023, March 2023, Toronto, Canada
9 Allan Fowler and Foaad Khosmood, Game Jams–History, Technology, and Organisation, Springer Nature, January 2023, Amazon.com, Springer
10 Jay Ahn and Foaad Khosmood, Evaluation of Automatic Text Summarization using Synthetic Facts, arXiv, April 2022, arXiv.org
11 Patrick Howe, Christine Robertson, Lindsay Grace and Foaad Khosmood, Exploring Reporter-Desired Features for an AI-Generated Legislative News Tip Sheet, International Society of Online Journalists Journal Special Issue Theme: AI and the News, April 2022, ISOJ
12 Lisa Alazraki, Ali Ghachem, Neophytos Polydorou, Foaad Khosmood, An Empathetic AI Coach for Self-Attachment Therapy, IEEE Third International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI), December 2021, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Imperial College
13 Anastasia Klimashevskaia, Richa Gadgil, Thomas Gerrity, Foaad Khosmood and Christian Gütl, Automatic News Article Generation from Legislative Proceedings: A Phenom-based Approach, 9th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP-21), November 2021, Cardiff, UK, Automatic News Article Generation from Legislative.pdf , Springer Link
14 Samay Nathani, Ryan Jenkins and Foaad Khosmood, Exploring Gaps in California Proposition 54 (2016), IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (IEEE ISTAS), October 2021, Waterloo, Canada, IEEE Explore
15 Gorm Lai, Annakaisa Kultima, Foaad Khosmood, Johanna Pirker, Allan Fowler, Ilaria Vecchi, William Latham, and Frederic Fol Leymarie, Two Decades of Game Jams, International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons, and Game Creation Events, August 2021, two_decades_icgj21.pdf , ACM DL
16 Thorsten Ruprechter, Foaad Khosmood and Christian Gütl, Deconstructing Human Assisted Video Transcription and Annotation for Legislative Proceedings, Journal of Digital Government: Research and Practice, November 2020, ACM DL
17 Megan Washburn and Foaad Khosmood, Dynamic Procedural Music Generation from NPC Attributes, Foundations of Digital Games, September 2020, Malta, Washburn_FDG20.pdf , ACM DL
18 Amy Ru and Foaad Khosmood, Hackathons for Workforce Development: A Case Study, International Conference on Game Jams, August 2020, Osaka, Japan, Hackathons_for_Worforce_icgj20.pdf , ACM DL
19 Foaad Khosmood, Ethan Kusters, Luca Soares, Samuel Verkruyse, Zach Vowell, Joey Wilson, Morgan Papers: Exploring the Correspondence of California’s First Female Architect, Digital Humanities, July 2020, Ottawa, Canada, hcommons.org
20 Max Zinkus, Bruce DeBruhl and Foaad Khosmood, PIDIoT: Probabilistic Intrusion Detection for the Internet-Of-Things, IEEE Globecom, December 2019, Waikoloa, Hawaii, Github
21 Mitchell Miller, Megan Washburn and Foaad Khosmood, Evolving unsupervised neural networks for Slither.io, FDG 2019, August 2019, San Luis Obispo, California, Slither.io FDG 2019 Poster.pdf , ACM DL
22 Erik LaBouve, Eric Miller, Foaad Khosmood, Enhancing story generation with the semantic web, FDG 2019, August 2019, San Luis Obispo, California, enhancing_story_fdg19.pdf , ACM DL
23 Iris Kohler, Theresa Migler and Foaad Khosmood, Composition of basic heuristics for the game 2048, FDG 2019, August 2019, San Luis Obispo, California, 2048 FDG 2019 Poster.pdf , ACM DL
24 Gorm Lai, Kail Erenli, Foaad Khosmood and William Latham, Introducing: the game jam license, FDG 2019, August 2019, San Luis Obispo, California, arXiv
25 Mitchell Miller, Sean Mendonca, Nathan Philliber and Foaad Khosmood, Panoptyk: information driven MMO engine, Foundations of Digital Games, August 2019, San Luis Obispo, California, FDG_2019 Panoptyk Poster.pdf , ACM DL
26 Mitchell Miller, Jon De Luca and Foaad Khosmood, Can Game Jams Boost Confidence and Sense of Preparedness?, International Conference on Game Jams, March 2019, San Francisco, California, gamejams_preparedness.pdf , ACM DL
27 Allan Fowler and Foaad Khosmood, The potential of young learners making games: An exploratory study, IEEE Games, Entertainment and Media conference (GEM), August 2018, Galway, Ireland, IEEE Explore
28 Gavin Scott and Foaad Khosmood, A Framework for Complementary Companion Character Behavior in Video Games, AAAI Spring Symposium Series, August 2018, Stanford, California, arXiv.org
29 Davide Falessi, Freddy Hernandez, and Foaad Khosmood, Issue Tracking Systems: What Developers Want and Use, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT, July 2018, Porto, Portugal, Semantic Scholar
30 Daniel Kauffman, Foaad Khosmood, Toshihiro Kuboi and Alex Dekhtyar, Learning alignments from legislative discourse, Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age, May 2018, Delft, Netherlands, Kauffman_Alignments_DGO2018.pdf , kauffman-dgo-poster.pdf , ACM DL
31 Daniel Kauffman, Michael Williams, Calin Washington, Gudrun Socher, and Foaad Khosmood, Multimodal speaker identification in legislative discourse, Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age, May 2018, Delft, Netherlands, ACM DL
32 Thorsten Ruprechter, Foaad Khosmood, Toshihiro Kuboi, Alex Dekhtyar and Christian Gütl, Gaining efficiency in human assisted transcription and speech annotation in legislative proceedings, Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age, May 2018, Delft, Netherlands, Gaining efficiency Poster-DGO 2018.pdf , ACM DL
33 Aditya Budhwar, Alex Dekhtyar and Foaad Khosmood, Predicting the Vote Using Legislative Speech, Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age, May 2018, Delft, Netherlands, ACM DL
34 Alexander Ehm, Gudrun Socher and Foaad Khosmood, 3D visualization of legislative relationships, Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age, May 2018, Delft, Netherlands, Visualization Poster DGO 2018.pdf , ACM DL
35 Evan Shui, Selynna Sun and Foaad Khosmood, SLO Hacks: Embracing the Passionate Novice, International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons, and Game Creation Events, March 2018, San Francisco, California
36 Latner, Michael; Dekhtyar, Alexander M.; Khosmood, Foaad; Angelini, Nicole; Voorhees, Andrew, Measuring Legislative Behavior: An Exploration of Digitaldemocracy.org, California Journal of Politics and Policy, Volume 9, Issue 3 (2017), November 2017, Article on CJPP
37 Brandon Bevans, Bruce DeBruhl, Foaad Khosmood, Understanding Botnet-driven Blog Spam: Motivations and Methods, Digital Humanities 2017, August 2017, Montreal, Canada, DH2017 Proceedings
38 Johanna Pirker, Foaad Khosmood, Christian Gutl, Social network analysis of the global game jam network, ICGJ 2017, February 2017, San Francisco, California, Proceedings on ACM DL
39 Travis Angevine and Foaad Khosmood, MimicA: A Framework for Self-Learning Companion AI Behavior, AIIDE 2016, Player Modeling Workshop, October 2016, San Francisco, California, download from AAAI
40 Keenan Reimer and Foaad Khosmood, Inducing Emotional Response in Interactive Media, Immersive Learning Research Network, June 2016, Santa Barbara, California, iLRN_2016_paper_36.pdf , Springer Link
41 Thomas Steinke, Max Linsenbard, Elliot Fiske, Foaad Khosmood, Understanding a Community: Observations from the Global Game Jam Survey Data, International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons, and Game Creation Events, March 2016, Berkeley, California, acm.org
42 Foaad Khosmood, Grant Pickett and Allan Fowler, Automated Generation of Conversational Non Player Characters, Intelligent Narrative Technologies 8 / Social Believability in Games Workshop, November 2015, Santa Cruz, California, AAAI.org link
43 Eric White, Sandrine Fischer, Foaad Khosmood, Generation of Infotips from Interface Labels, HCI International , August 2015, Los Angeles, California
44 Sam Blakeslee, Alex Dekhtyar, Foaad Khosmood, Franz Kurfess, Toshihiro Kuboi, Hans Poschman, Giovanni Prinzivalli, Christine Robertson, Skylar Durst, Digital Democracy Project: Making Government More Transparent one Video at a Time, Digital Humanities 2015, July 2015, Sydney, Australia, The Digital Democracy Project- poster - DH2015.pdf , Digital Democracy Poster (DH 2015).pdf , Archived Abstract
45 Matthew Parker, Foaad Khosmood and Grant Pickett, Game of Thrones for All: Model-based Generation of Universe-appropriate Fictional Characters, Digital Humanities 2015, July 2015, Sydney, Australia, DH 2015 Program
46 Allan Fowler, Gorm Lai, Foaad Khosmood and Richard "Brad" Hill, Trends in Organizing Philosophies of Game Jams and Game Hackathons, Workshop on Game Jams, Hackathons and Game Creation Events (GJ2015), June 2015, Pacific Grove, California, GJ2015_submission_13.pdf
47 Toshihiro Kuboi and Foaad Khosmood, Element Detection in Japanese Comic Book Panels, Digital Humanities 2015, June 2015, Sydney, Australia, DH 2015 Program
48 David Gillette, Allan Fowler, Michael Haungs and Foaad Khosmood, Escaping the room: Creating interactive puzzles from narrative space, DiGRAA, June 2015, Sydney, Australia, DiGRA Australia 2015 conference
49 Cameron Olsen, Daniel Kauffman, Allan Fowler and Foaad Khosmood, Teaching Japanese through Game Mechanics: An exploratory study, 6th Workshop on Procedural Content Generation (PCG2015), June 2015, Pacific Grove, California, PDF
50 Foaad Khosmood, Phillip L. Nico, Jon Woolery, User identification through command history analysis, IEEE Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security, December 2014, Orlando, Florida, userID.pdf , IEEE Xplore Digital Library
51 Eric Buckthal and Foaad Khosmood, (Re)telling chess stories as game content, FDG 2014, April 2014, http://www.fdg2014.org/papers/fdg2014_wip_03.pdf
52 Timothy Adam, Michael Haungs, Foaad Khosmood, Procedurally Generated, Adaptive Music for Rapid Game Development, GGJ Workshop at FDG 2014, April 2014, http://fdg2014.org/workshops/ggj2014_paper_02.pdf
53 Allan Fowler, Foaad Khosmood, Ali Arya, Gorm Lai, The Global Game Jam for Teaching and Learning, CITRENZ, October 2013, Hamilton, New Zealand, Download
54 Foaad Khosmood, Hisham Assal, Johanna Snyder, Franz Kurfess, Making California Legislative Process Transparent, Cal Poly Position Paper, July 2013, San Luis Obispo, California, DigitalDemocracyWhitePaper.pdf
55 Allan Fowler, Foaad Khosmood, Ali Arya, The Evolution and Significance of the Global Game Jam, GGJ Workshop at FDG 2013, May 2013, Chania, Crete, Greece, Download
56 Foaad Khosmood and Phillip L. Nico, PolyFS: An Extensible, Underspecified, Pedagogical File System and Disk Emulator, American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference, April 2013, Riverside, California, ASEE-PSW-2013 Proceedings
57 Foaad Khosmood, Comparison of Sentence-level Paraphrasing Approaches for Statistical Style Transformation, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), July 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada, ICA3949.pdf
58 Foaad Khosmood, Computational Style Processing (Ph.D. Dissertation), UC Santa Cruz Division of Graduate Studies, December 2011, Santa Cruz, California, Diss9.pdf , ACM DL
59 Foaad Khosmood and Robert Levinson, Combining Corpus-Based Features for Selecting Best Natural Language Sentences, International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, December 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, 4607b362.pdf
60 Foaad Khosmood and Robert Levinson, Taxonomy and Evaluation of Markers for Computational Stylistics, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), July 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada, icai-11-kl-final.pdf
61 Foaad Khosmood and Robert Levinson, Automatic Synonym and Phrase Replacement Shows Promise for Style Transformation, IEEE International Conference of Machine Learning and Applications, December 2010, Washington, DC, icmla10-camera.pdf
62 Foaad Khosmood, Representing the Global Game Jam, IGDA Perspectives, August 2010, IGDA_Perspectives_Aug2010.pdf , IGDA
63 Foaad Khosmood and Marilyn Walker, Grapevine: A Gossip Generation System, Foundations of Digital Games, June 2010, Monterey, California, p92-khosmood.pdf
64 Foaad Khosmood and Robert Levinson, Toward Automated Stylistic Transformation of Natural Language Text, Digital Humanities, June 2009, University of Maryland College Park
65 Foaad Khosmood and Robert Levinson, Automatic Natural Language Style Classification and Transformation, BCS Corpus Profiling Workshop, October 2008, London, UK, Khosmood_BCS_2008.pdf , researchgate archive
66 Foaad Khosmood and Robert Levinson, Toward Unification of Source Attribution Processes and Techniques, IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), August 2006, Dalian, China
67 Foaad Khosmood and Franz Kurfess, Automatic Source Attribution of Text: A Neural Networks Approach, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN-05, August 2005, Montreal, Canada
68 Foaad Khosmood and Clark Turner, Discovery in Negligence Analysis: Evolution of a Sufficiently Safe Spec, Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA), November 2003, Marina del Rey, CA
69 Clark Turner and Foaad Khosmood, Rethinking Software Process: The Key to Negligence Liability, International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, August 2001, Anaheim, California