| 2026 | AAAI | Centralized Training with Hybrid Execution in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Predictive Observation Imputation (Abstract Reprint). | Pedro P. Santos, Diogo S. Carvalho, Miguel Vasco, Alberto Sardinha, Pedro A. Santos, Ana Paiva, Francisco S. Melo |
| 2025 | EPIA | Optimizing 2D Packing Strategies for Autoclave Loading Using Deep Reinforcement Learning. | Victor Ulisses Pugliese, Diogo S. Carvalho, Osias Faria de Arruda Ferreira, Fbio Augusto Faria, Francisco S. Melo |
| 2025 | ICML | The Number of Trials Matters in Infinite-Horizon General-Utility Markov Decision Processes. | Pedro P. Santos, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo |
| 2025 | ICRA | Optimize and Coordinate Multiple DMPs Under Constraints to Achieve a Collaborative Manipulation Task. | Ali H. Kordia, Francisco S. Melo |
| 2024 | AAAI | TEAMSTER: Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Ad Hoc Teamwork (Abstract Reprint). | Joo G. Ribeiro, Gonalo Rodrigues, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo |
| 2024 | EPIA | A Comparative Study of Continual Backpropagation. | Jacopo Silvestrin, Francisco S. Melo, Manuel Lopes |
| 2024 | ICAART | Interactively Teaching an Inverse Reinforcement Learner with Limited Feedback. | Rustam Zayanov, Francisco S. Melo, Manuel Lopes |
| 2023 | ECAI | Theoretical Remarks on Feudal Hierarchies and Reinforcement Learning. | Diogo S. Carvalho, Francisco S. Melo, Pedro A. Santos |
| 2023 | ECAI | Making Friends in the Dark: Ad Hoc Teamwork Under Partial Observability. | Joo G. Ribeiro, Cassandro Martinho, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo |
| 2023 | EPIA | Pre-training with Augmentations for Efficient Transfer in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning. | Bernardo Esteves, Miguel Vasco, Francisco S. Melo |
| 2022 | EPIA | FIT: Using Feature Importance to Teach Classification Tasks to Unknown Learners. | Carla Guerra, Francisco S. Melo, Manuel Lopes |
| 2022 | ICML | Geometric Multimodal Contrastive Representation Learning. | Petra Poklukar, Miguel Vasco, Hang Yin, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva, Danica Kragic |
| 2022 | IROS | Perceive, Represent, Generate: Translating Multimodal Information to Robotic Motion Trajectories. | Fbio Vital, Miguel Vasco, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo |
| 2021 | AIED | Interactive Teaching with Groups of Unknown Bayesian Learners. | Carla Guerra, Francisco S. Melo, Manuel Lopes |
| 2021 | EPIA | Revisiting "Recurrent World Models Facilitate Policy Evolution". | Bernardo Esteves, Francisco S. Melo |
| 2021 | EPIA | Exploiting Symmetry in Human Robot-Assisted Dressing Using Reinforcement Learning. | Pedro Ildefonso, Pedro Remdios, Rui Silva, Miguel Vasco, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva, Manuela Veloso |
| 2021 | EPIA | Compound Movement Recognition Using Dynamic Movement Primitives. | Ali H. Kordia, Francisco S. Melo |
| 2021 | EPIA | Helping People on the Fly: Ad Hoc Teamwork for Human-Robot Teams. | Joo G. Ribeiro, Miguel Faria, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo |
| 2021 | EPIA | Ad Hoc Teamwork in the Presence of Non-stationary Teammates. | Pedro M. Santos, Joo G. Ribeiro, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo |
| 2021 | ICRA | Movement recognition and prediction using DMPs. | Ali H. Kordia, Francisco S. Melo |
| 2021 | RO-MAN | Understanding Robots: Making Robots More Legible in Multi-Party Interactions. | Miguel Faria, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva |
| 2020 | ICARCV | An End-to-end Approach for Learning and Generating Complex Robot Motions from Demonstration. | Ali H. Kordia, Francisco S. Melo |
| 2019 | EPIA | Solving Motion and Action Planning for a Cooperative Agent Problem Using Geometry Friends. | Ana Salta, Rui Prada, Francisco S. Melo |
| 2019 | HRI | Exploring Prosociality in Human-Robot Teams. | Filipa Correia, Samuel Francisco Mascarenhas, Samuel Gomes, Patrcia Arriaga, Iolanda Leite, Rui Prada, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva |
| 2019 | HRI | Group Intelligence on Social Robots. | Filipa Correia, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva |
| 2019 | IROS | Learning Multimodal Representations for Sample-efficient Recognition of Human Actions. | Miguel Vasco, Francisco S. Melo, David Martins de Matos, Ana Paiva, Tetsunari Inamura |
| 2019 | RO-MAN | Walk the Talk! Exploring (Mis)Alignment of Words and Deeds by Robotic Teammates in a Public Goods Game. | Filipa Correia, Ana Paiva, Shruti Chandra, Samuel Mascarenhas, Julien Charles-Nicolas, Justin Gally, Diana Lopes, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Francisco S. Melo |
| 2018 | HRI | Group-based Emotions in Teams of Humans and Robots. | Filipa Correia, Samuel Mascarenhas, Rui Prada, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva |
| 2018 | IJCAI | Interactive Optimal Teaching with Unknown Learners. | Francisco S. Melo, Carla Guerra, Manuel Lopes |
| 2017 | AAAI | Associate Latent Encodings in Learning from Demonstrations. | Hang Yin, Francisco S. Melo, Aude Billard, Ana Paiva |
| 2017 | EPIA | Simulating Behaviors of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Through Reversal of the Autism Diagnosis Process. | Kim Baraka, Francisco S. Melo, Manuela M. Veloso |
| 2017 | EPIA | Online Learning for Conversational Agents. | Vnia Mendona, Francisco S. Melo, Lusa Coheur, Alberto Sardinha |
| 2017 | ICIDS | Learning and Teaching Biodiversity Through a Storyteller Robot. | Maria Jos Ferreira, Valentina Nisi, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva |
| 2017 | IROS | "Me and you together" movement impact in multi-user collaboration tasks. | Miguel Faria, Rui Silva, Patrcia Alves-Oliveira, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva |
| 2017 | IROS | Adaptive indirect control through communication in collaborative human-robot interaction. | Rui Silva, Miguel Faria, Francisco S. Melo, Manuela M. Veloso |
| 2016 | DIGRA | Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree approach for Geometry Friends. | Rui Soares, Francisco Leal, Rui Prada, Francisco S. Melo |
| 2016 | ECAI | Adaptive Symbiotic Collaboration for Targeted Complex Manipulation Tasks. | Rui Silva, Francisco S. Melo, Manuela M. Veloso |
| 2016 | HRI | Building a Social Robot as a Game Companion in a Card Game. | Filipa Correia, Tiago Ribeiro, Patrcia Alves-Oliveira, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva |
| 2016 | HRI | Discovering Social Interaction Strategies for Robots from Restricted-Perception Wizard-of-Oz Studies. | Pedro Sequeira, Patrcia Alves-Oliveira, Tiago Ribeiro, Eugenio Di Tullio, Sofia Petisca, Francisco S. Melo, Ginevra Castellano, Ana Paiva |
| 2016 | IJCAI | Synthesizing Robotic Handwriting Motion by Learning from Human Demonstrations. | Hang Yin, Patrcia Alves-Oliveira, Francisco S. Melo, Aude Billard, Ana Paiva |
| 2016 | IVA | An Interactive Tangram Game for Children with Autism. | Beatriz Bernardo, Patrcia Alves-Oliveira, Maria Graa Santos, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva |
| 2016 | RO-MAN | Just follow the suit! Trust in human-robot interactions during card game playing. | Filipa Correia, Patrcia Alves-Oliveira, Nuno Maia, Tiago Ribeiro, Sofia Petisca, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva |
| 2015 | IROS | Towards table tennis with a quadrotor autonomous learning robot and onboard vision. | Rui Silva, Francisco S. Melo, Manuela M. Veloso |
| 2013 | CogSci | Towards agents with human-like decisions under uncertainty. | Nuno Marques, Francisco S. Melo, Samuel Mascarenhas, Joo Dias, Rui Prada, Ana Paiva |
| 2013 | EPIA | An Associative State-Space Metric for Learning in Factored MDPs. | Pedro Sequeira, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva |
| 2011 | AAAI | Differential Eligibility Vectors for Advantage Updating and Gradient Methods. | Francisco S. Melo |
| 2011 | ACII | Emotion-Based Intrinsic Motivation for Reinforcement Learning Agents. | Pedro Sequeira, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva |
| 2011 | EUMAS | QueryPOMDP: POMDP-Based Communication in Multiagent Systems. | Francisco S. Melo, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Stefan J. Witwicki |
| 2010 | ECAI | Analysis of Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Perturbed Demonstrations. | Francisco S. Melo, Manuel Lopes, Ricardo Ferreira |
| 2008 | ECAI | Exploiting locality of interactions using a policy-gradient approach in multiagent learning. | Francisco S. Melo |
| 2008 | ICML | An analysis of reinforcement learning with function approximation. | Francisco S. Melo, Sean P. Meyn, M. Isabel Ribeiro |
| 2008 | ICRA | Reinforcement learning with function approximation for cooperative navigation tasks. | Francisco S. Melo, M. Isabel Ribeiro |
| 2007 | COLT | Untitled record | Francisco S. Melo, M. Isabel Ribeiro |
| 2007 | EPIA | Convergence of Independent Adaptive Learners. | Francisco S. Melo, Manuel C. Lopes |
| 2007 | IROS | Affordance-based imitation learning in robots. | Manuel Lopes, Francisco S. Melo, Luis Montesano |
| 2006 | IAS | Transition Entropy in Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes. | Francisco S. Melo, M. Isabel Ribeiro |