(If not expressed otherwise, authors presented in alphabetical order imply equal contribution.)
Books:
Maria M. Hedblom (2020). Image Schemas and Concept Invention: Cognitive, Linguistic and Logical Investigations. Cognitive Technologies Series, Springer International Publishing, April 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-47329-7 / Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47328-0. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-47329-7
Maria M. Hedblom (2019). Image Schemas and Concept Invention: Cognitive, Linguistic and Logical Investigations, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, PhD thesis, January 2019
Book chapters/chapters in collections:
Maria M. Hedblom (2022). Methodological reflection of the documentalysis of .co.kr from the %WRONG Browser series. In Hinterwaldner et al (eds): Navigation, SPP Heft, Universitätsverlag LMU, München 2022. ISBN: 978-3-487-16315-4. doi: 10.5282/ubm/epub.93518
Maria M. Hedblom, Oliver Kutz and Fabian Neuhaus (2018). Image schemas in Concept Invention. In (eds.) Confalonieri et al., Concept Invention: Foundations, Implementation, Social Aspects and Applications, Series: Computational Synthesis and Creative Systems (2018). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-65602-1_4
Journal papers:
Hettiarachchi, H., Dridi, A., Gaber, M. M., Parsafard, P., Bocaneala, N., Breitenfelder, K., … & Vakaj, E. (2025). CODE-ACCORD: A Corpus of building regulatory data for rule generation towards automatic compliance checking. Scientific Data, 12(1), 170. (NOTE: minor contribution) doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-04320-x
Maria M. Hedblom, Fabian Neuhaus and Till Mossakowski (2025). The Diagrammatic Image Schema Language (DISL). Spatial Cognition & Computation 25(2): 138-175. doi: 10.1080/13875868.2024.2377284
Maria M. Hedblom (2024). Every dog has its day: An in-depth analysis of the creative ability of visual generative AI. In Hastings, J (editor). Symposium on Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith’s Why Machines Will Never Rule the World: Artificial Intelligence without Fear, Cosmos + Taxis 12(5 + 6):88-103 (May 2024), ISSN 2291-5079
Mihai Pomarlan, Maria M. Hedblom and Robert Porzel (2023). Curiously exploring affordance spaces of a pouring task. Expert system 40(6):1-11 (July 2023) doi: 10.1111/exsy.13213
Sebastian Höffner, Robert Porzel, Maria M. Hedblom, Mihai Pomarlan, Vanja Sophie Cangalovic, Johannes Pfau, John Bateman and Rainer Malaka (2022). Deep Understanding of Everyday Activity Commands for Household Robots. Semantic Web 13(5): 895-909 (2022). doi: 10.3233/SW-222973
Maria M. Hedblom, Oliver Kutz, Rafael Peñaloza and Giancarlo Guizzardi (2019). Image schema combinations and complex events. KI – Künstliche Intelligenz 33:279–291, (July 2019). doi 10.1007/s13218-019-00605-1
Tarek R. Besold, Maria M. Hedblom and Oliver Kutz (2017). A narrative in three acts: Using combinations of image schemas to model events Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 19:10-20, (January 2017).
doi: 10.1016/j.bica.2016.11.001
Maria M. Hedblom, Oliver Kutz, and Fabian Neuhaus (2016). Image schemas in computational conceptual blending. Cognitive Systems Research, 39: 42–57, (2016). doi: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2015.12.010
Maria M. Hedblom, Oliver Kutz, and Fabian Neuhaus (2015). Choosing the Right Path: Image Schema Theory as a Foundation for Concept Invention. Journal of Artificial General Intelligence 6(1):21-54, (December 2015). doi: 10.1515/jagi-2015-0003
Peer-reviewed Conference articles:
Miranda R. Martínez Rodriguez. Ali Nouri, Zhennan Fei and Maria M. Hedblom (2026). An LLM and Embeddings-based Multi-Agentic System for Knowledge Graph Construction and Verification, In: Dima, C., Ferrando, A., Malvone, V. (eds) PRIMA 2025: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16366. p. 400-417. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-13562-9_31
Shuai Wu, Milad Ashour Pour, Maria M. Hedblom and Maria Riveiro (2025). A Real-Time Pipeline for Unsupervised Defect Detection in Industrial Manufacturing. In proc. of the 52nd International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering (CIE52), Lyon, France, (October, 2025) (to appear)
Rachel Ringe, Mihai Pomarlan, Nikolaos Tsiogkas, Stefano De Giorgis, Maria Hedblom, Rainer Malaka (2025). The Wilhelm Tell Dataset of Affordance Demonstrations. In Proc. of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’25), Melbourne, Australia (March, 2025) Pages 1078–1082. DOI: 10.5555/3721488.3721625
Jorge Aguirregomezcorta Aina, Maria M. Hedblom (2024). Twist and Snap: A Neuro-symbolic System for Affordance Learning of Opening Jars and Bottles. In Proc. of The Seventh Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT 2024) Madrid, Spain, (November 2024). DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT61475.2024.10797390
Mihai Pomarlan, Maria M. Hedblom, Laura Spillner and Robert Porzel (2024). Revising Defeasible Theories via Instructions. In: Kirrane, S., Šimkus, M., Soylu, A., Roman, D. (eds) Rules and Reasoning. RuleML+RR 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15183. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-72407-7_13
Mihai Pomarlan, Stefano De Giorgis, Rachel Ringe, Nikolaos Tsiogkas and Maria M. Hedblom (2024). Hanging Around: Cognitive Inspired Reasoning for Reactive Robotics. In Proc. of the 14th International Conference (FOIS 2024), 2024, Twente, The Netherlands, (July, 2024) Pages 2-15. doi: 10.3233/FAIA241288 (acceptance rate: 34%)
Garrit Schaap and Maria M. Hedblom (2024). Discussing the Creativity of AutomaTone: an Interactive Music Generator based on Conway’s Game of Life. The 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity, Pages 456-460. Jönköping, Sweden (June 2024) (acceptance rate: 33%)
Mossakowski, T, Hedblom, M., Neuhaus, F., Arevalo Arboleda, S., and Raake, A.. (2023). Using the Diagrammatic Image Schema Language for Joint Human-Machine Cognition, In K.-U. Sattler (Ed.), Engineering for a Changing World: Proceedings; 60th ISC, Ilmenau Scientific Colloquium, Technische Universität Ilmenau, September 04-08, 2023 (5.1.133). doi: 10.22032/dbt.58917
Righetti, G., Porello, D., Troquard, N., Kutz, O., Hedblom M. M. and Galliani, P., (2022). Asymmetric Hybrids: Dialogues for Computational Concept Combination. In Proceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Sister Conferences Best Papers. Pages 5329-5333, Vienna Austria (July 2022). doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2022/745
Mihai Pomarlan, Maria M. Hedblom and Robert Porzel (2021). Panta Rhei: Curiosity-Driven Exploration to Learn the Image-Schematic Affordances of Pouring Liquids. In Proc. of the 29th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, 2021, Virtual (Dublin, Ireland) CEUR-WS Vol 3105 (December 2021)
Kaviya Dhanabalachandran, Vanessa Hassouna, Maria M. Hedblom, Michaela Kuempel, Nils Leusmann and Michael Beetz (2021). Cutting Events: Towards Autonomous Plan Adaption by Robotic Agents through Image-Schematic Event Segmentation. In Proceedings of The Eleventh International Conference on Knowledge Capture, Virtual, (December, 2021). doi:10.1145/3460210.3493585
Maria M. Hedblom, Guendalina Righetti and Oliver Kutz (2021). Deciphering The Cookie Monster: A case study in impossible combinations. In Proc. of ICCC, 2021, Mexico City, Mexico (Virtual) p.222-225 (September 2021).
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Asymmetric Hybrids: Dialogues for Computational Concept Combination, Guendalina Righetti, Daniele Porello, Nicolas Troquard, Oliver Kutz, Maria M. Hedblom and Pietro Galliani, In Proc. of FOIS, 2021, Bolzano, Italy, p. 81-96 (September 2021) (Winner of the Best Paper Award). doi: 10.3233/FAIA210373
Maria M. Hedblom and Oliver Kutz (2019). Conceptual Puzzle Pieces. In: Bella G., Bouquet P. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11939. Springer, Cham p. 98-111 (2019). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-34974-5_9
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Guylerme Figueiredo, Maria M. Hedblom and Geert Poels (2019). Ontology-Based Model Abstraction. In Proc. IEEE Thirteen International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (April 2019). doi: 10.1109/RCIS.2019.8876971
Oliver Kutz, Nicolas Troquard, Maria Hedblom and Daniele Porello (2018). The Mouse and the Ball: Towards a cognitively-based and ontologically-grounded logic of agency. In Proc. of FOIS p.141-148 (2018). doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-910-2-141
Maria M. Hedblom, Rafael Peñaloza, Oliver Kutz and Giancarlo Guizzardi (2018). Under the Super-Suit: What Superheroes Can Reveal About Inherited properties in Conceptual Blending. In Proc. of ICCC (2018), p. 216-223
Guylerme Figueiredo, Amelie Duchardt, Maria M. Hedblom and Giancarlo Guizzardi (2018). Breaking into Pieces: An Ontological Approach to Conceptual Model Complexity Management. In Proc. of RCIS (2018)
doi: 10.1109/RCIS.2018.8406642
Maria M. Hedblom, Dagmar Gromann and Oliver Kutz (2018). In, Out and Through: Formalising some dynamic aspects of the image schema Containment. SAC ’18: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Pau, France (April, 2018), p. 918-925. doi: 10.1145/3167132.3167233
Maria M. Hedblom, Oliver Kutz, Till Mossakowski, Fabian Neuhaus (2017). Between Contact and Support: Introducing a logic for image schemas and directed movement. AI*IA 2017: AI*IA 2017 Advances in Artificial Intelligence, p 256-268, Bari, Italy, (November, 2017). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-70169-1_19
AIXIA_2017_poster
Dagmar Gromann and Maria M. Hedblom (2017). Kinesthetic Mind Reader: A Method to Identify Image Schemas in Natural Language. Proc. of Advancements in Cognitive Systems (ACS), Troy, New York, US (2017)
Edited proceedings and book collections:
Maria M. Hedblom and Oliver Kutz (Editors) (2024). Proceedings of the Eighth Image Schema Day (ISD8).
Co-located with The 23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2024). Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (November 2024)
Kazjon Grace, Maria Teresa Llano, Pedro Martins, Maria Hedblom (Editors) (2024). Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity. Jönköping, Sweden (July 2024). Published by the Association for Computational Creativity (ACC). ISBN: 978-989-54160-6-6
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Torsten Hahmann, Anthony Galton, Maria M. Hedblom (Editors) (2023). Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference (FOIS 2023). In Ebook series: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press. ISBN: 978-1-64368-469-7
Maria M. Hedblom and Oliver Kutz (Editors) (2023). Proceedings of the Seventh Image Schema Day (ISD7).
Co-located with The 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2023). Rhodes, Greece (September 2023)
Tiago Price Sales, Maria M. Hedblom and He Tan (Editors) (2022). Proceedings of the 8th Joint Ontology Workshops. Jönköping, Sweden (August 2022)
Maria M. Hedblom, Anna Aurora Kantosalo, Roberto Confalonieri, Oliver Kutz and Tony Veale (Editors) (2022). Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity. Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (June-July 2022). Published by the Association for Computational Creativity (ACC). ISBN: 978-989-54160-4-2
Maria M. Hedblom and Oliver Kutz (Editors) (2022). Proceedings of the Sixth Image Schema Day (ISD6). Jönköping, Sweden (April 2022)
Oliver Kutz and Maria M. Hedblom (Editors) (2018). Proceedings of TriCoLore 2018: Creativity – Cognition – Computation. Bozen-Bolzano Italy. (December 2018)
Peer-reviewed workshop articles:
Maria M. Hedblom (2025). An Argumentation for Embodied Plant Cognition Inspired by Animal Cognition. In Proc. of the Cognition and Ontologies (CAOS9)@JOWO25, Catania, Italy (September 2025) (to appear)
Maria M. Hedblom (2024). Beyond Space and Time: An Initial Sketch of Formal Accounts to Non-Spatiotemporal Conceptual Sensory Primitives. In Proc. of the Eighth Image Schema Day (ISD8)@AI*IA24, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (November 2024)
Maria M. Hedblom (2023). When Push Comes to Shove: A formal analysis on the decomposed conceptual primitives in pushing scenarios, The Seventh Image Schema Day, ISD7@KR, (September 2-4, 2023),
Pomarlan, M., De Giorgis, S., Hedblom, M.M., Diab, M. and Tsiogkas, N. (2022). Thinking in front of the box: Towards intelligent robotic action selection for navigation in complex environments using image-schematic reasoning. In Proc. of 8th JOWO, 2022, Jönköping, Sweden (August 2022)
Dhanabalachandran, K., Hedblom, M. M., and Beetz, M., (2022). A Balancing Act: Ordering Algorithm and Image-Schematic Action Descriptors for Stacking Object for Household Robots. In Proc. of 8th JOWO, 2022, Jönköping, Sweden (August 2022)
Hedblom, M. M., and Neuhaus, F., (2022). Visualising Image Schemas: A Preliminary Look on the Diagrammatic Image Schema Language (DISL). In Proc. of ISD6, Jönköping, Sweden, (April 2022)
Dhanabalachandran, K., Hedblom, M. M., and Beetz, M., (2022). Getting On Top of Things: An Extended Abstract on Robotic Object Stacking using Image-Schematic Reasoning, In Proc. of ISD6, Jönköping, Sweden, (April 2022)
Maria M. Hedblom, Mihai Pomarlan, Robert Porzel, Rainer Malaka and Michael Beetz (2021). Dynamic Action Selection Using Image Schema-based Reasoning for Robots. In Proc. of JOWO, 2021, Bolzano, Italy (September 2021)
Maria M. Hedblom and Oliver Kutz (2019). gninaem neddiH: Using image schema violations to expose hidden semantical structures in metaphors. In Proc. of JOWO, Graz, Austria (September 2019)
Michaël Verdonck, Maria M. Hedblom, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Guylerme Figueiredo, Frederik Gailly and Geert Poels (2019). An Empirical Study Concerning Ontology-Driven Modularization and Ontology-Neutral Modularization Techniques. In Proc. of VMBO (2019)
Maria M. Hedblom, Oliver Kutz, Rafael Peñaloza and Giancarlo Guizzardi (2018). What’s Cracking? How image schema combinations can model conceptualisations of events. In Proc. of TriCoLore, Bolzano, Italy, (December 2018)
Dagmar Gromann and Maria M. Hedblom (2017). Body-Mind-Language: Multilingual Knowledge Extraction Based on Embodied Cognition. In Proc. of AIC, CEUR-WS: Vol-2090, Lanarca, Cyrpus (November, 2017)
Jamie Macbeth, Dagmar Gromann, and Maria M. Hedblom (2017). Image Schemas and Conceptual Dependency Primitives: A Comparison. In Proc. of JOWO, CEUR-WS, Bolzano, Italy (September, 2017)
Maria M. Hedblom (2017). Beneath the Paint: A Visual Journey through Conceptual Metaphor Violation, In Proceedings of JOWO, CEUR-WS, Bolzano, Italy, (September, 2017)
Dagmar Gromann and Maria M. Hedblom (2016). Breaking Down Finance: A method for concept simplification by identifying movement structures from the image schema PATH-following. Proc. of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO), Annecy, France (2016)
Oliver Kutz, Fabian Neuhaus, Maria M. Hedblom, Till Mossakowski and Mihai Codescu (2016). Ontology Patterns with DOWL: The Case of Blending. Proc. of DL Workshop, Cape Town (2016)
Maria M. Hedblom and Oliver Kutz (2015). Shape up, baby! Perception, image schemas and shapes in concept formation. Proc. of the Shapes 3.0 Workshop, Lanarca (2015)
Maria M. Hedblom, Oliver Kutz, and Fabian Neuhaus (2015). Image schemas as families of theories. Proc. of the 4th International Workshop C3GI, Istanbul, p. 19-33 (2015)
Maria M. Hedblom, Oliver Kutz, and Fabian Neuhaus (2014). On the cognitive and logical role of image schemas in computational conceptual blending Proc. of the 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Torino, p. 110-121 (2014)
Accepted abstracts for conferences without proceedings
Maria M. Hedblom (2023). The Silent Expression: The ethical issues with meaningless AI-generated images entering the art scene. 2nd International Conference on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2ICEAI) Porto, Portugal (November 28-30, 2023)
Maria M. Hedblom and Oliver Kutz (2022). The ontology of image schemas and the artificial mind. IACS-4, Aachen, Germany (July, 2020, postponed until June 2022)
Maria M. Hedblom, Oliver Kutz, Rafael Peñaloza and Giancarlo Guizzardi (2019). Hold—Drop—Smash: Image Schema Combinations and Complex Events. AIC 2019, Manchester, UK (September, 2019)
(Abstract of the journal paper “Image Schema Combinations and Complex Events”)
Maria M. Hedblom and Oliver Kutz (2017). Image schemas as conceptual building blocks for everyday objects: an empirical study. AISC, Bologna, Italy (December, 2017)
Maria M. Hedblom and Oliver Kutz (2017). Multi-modal Image Schemas. ICMC Conference, Osnabrueck, Germany (June, 2017)
Maria. M. Hedblom (2016). Image schemas as a skeleton of concept invention and metaphor. RaAM 11 Conference, Berlin, Germany (2016)
Misc
Hettiarachchia H., et al., CODE-ACCORD: A Corpus of Building Regulatory Data for Rule Generation towards Automatic Compliance Checking. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.02231
My MSc. and BSc. thesis
A Cognition-Based Definition of Creativity and A Proposition for Approaching Creativity Artificially(2013)