This page lists my publications, at least those in the public domain. Many of these can be downloaded from the links given here. Note that the documents downloadable from this page are pre-print versions and will usually differ from the final versions published. Papers submitted to a conference or a journal are often also listed as a working paper at the time of submission.
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Federico Castagna, Peter McBurney and Simon Parsons [2024]: Explanation-Question-Response Dialogue: An Argumentative Tool for Explainable AI. Journal of Argument and Computation (to appear).
Federico Castagna, Alexandra Garton, Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons, Isabel Sassoon and Elizabeth I. Sklar [2023]: EQRbot: A chatbot delivering EQR argument-based explanations. Frontiers of Artificial
Intelligence (to appear). Moritz Platt and Peter McBurney [2023]: Sybil in the haystack: A comprehensive review of blockchain consensus mechanisms in search of strong Sybil Attack resistance. Algorithms, 16(1): 34.
Dylan Cope and Peter McBurney [2022]: Joining the conversation: Towards language acquisition for ad hoc team play. In: Workshop on Emergent Communication, ICLR 2022.
Black, E., Brandão, M., Cocarascu, O., De Keijzer, B., Du, Y., Long, D., Luck, M., McBurney, P., Meroño-Peñuela, A., Miles, S., Modgil, S., Moreau, L., Polukarov, M., Rodrigues, O. & Ventre, C. [2022]: Reasoning and interaction for social artificial intelligence. AI Communications, 35 (4): 309-325.
Alison R Panisson, Peter McBurney and Rafael H Bordini [2022]: Towards an enthymeme-based communication framework. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2022),
pp. 1708-1710.
Amrita Dhillon, Grammateia Kotsialou, Peter McBurney and Luke Riley [2021]: Voting over a distributed ledger: An interdisciplinary perspective. Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics,
12 (3): 200-268.
David Kohan Marzagão, Luciana Basualdo Bonatto, Tiago Madeira, Marcelo Matheus Gauy and Peter McBurney [2021]: The influence of memory in multi-agent consensus. Proceedings of the AAAI
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 35 (13): 11254-11262.
Stefan Sarkadi, Benjamin Wright, Peta Masters and Peter McBurney [2021] (Editors): Deceptive AI. Proceedings of the First International Workshop, DeceptECAI 2020, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 30, 2020 and the Second International Workshop, DeceptAI 2021, Montreal, Canada, August 19, 2021.
Communications in Computer and Information Sciencebook series (CCIS), volume 1296. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. Alison R. Panisson, Rafael Bordini and Peter McBurney [2021]: A computational model of argument schemes for multi-agent systems. Argument and Computation, 12 (3): 357-395. Mortiz Platt and Peter McBurney [2021]: Sybil attacks on identity-augmented Proof-of-Stake. Computer Networks, 199: 108424.
Stefan Sarkadi, Alex Rutherford, Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons and Iyad Rahwan [2021]: The evolution of deception. Royal Society Open Science, 8(9), 201032. Moritz Platt and Peter McBurney [2021]: Self-governing public decentralised systems. Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security, T.Gross and L. Vigano (Editors), LNCS 12812, pp. 154-167. Springer. Peter McBurney and Simon Parsons [2021]: Argument schemes and dialog protocols: Doug Walton's legacy in Artificial Intelligence. IfCoLoG Journal of Logics and their Applications, 8(1): 263-290.
Christopher Hobbs, Peter McBurney and Dominic Oliver [2020]: Data science in support of radiation detection for border monitoring: An exploratory study. Science and Global Security. 28(1): 28-47.
Stefan Sarkadi, Alison Panisson, Rafael H Bordini, Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons and Martin Chapman [2019]: Modelling deception using Theory of Mind in multi-agent systems. AI Communications,
32 (4): 287-302.
Luke Riley, Grammateia Kotsialou, Amrita Dhillon, Toktam Mahmoodi, Peter McBurney and Richard Pearce [2019]: Deploying a shareholder rights management system onto a distributed ledger: Demonstration.
In: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2019), 4: 2381-2383.
Stefan Sarkadi, Peter McBurney and Simon Parsons [2019]: Deceptive storytelling in artificial dialogue games. In: Proceedings of the AAAI 2019 Spring Symposium on Story-Enabled Intelligence.
Francesca Mosca, Jose Such and Peter McBurney [2019]: Value-driven collaborative privacy decision making. In: Proceedings of 2019 AAAI Spring Symposium on
Privacy-Enhancing Artificial Intelligence and Language Technologies (PAL).
Isabel Sassoon, Sebastian Zillessen, Jeroen Keppens and Peter McBurney [2018]: A formalisation and prototype implementation of argumentation for statistical model selection.
Argument and Computation, 10 (1): 83-103.
Alison Panisson, Stefan Sarkadi, Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons and Rafael H Bordini [2018]: On the formal semantics of Theory of Mind in agent communication. In:
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agreement Technologies (AT 2018).
Stefan Sarkadi, Alison Panisson, Rafael H Bordini, Peter McBurney and Simon Parsons [2018]: Towards an approach for modelling uncertain Theory of Mind in multi-agent systems
In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agreement Technologies (AT 2018).
Luke Riley, Grammateia Kotsialou, Amrita Dhillon, Toktam Mahmoodi and Peter McBurney [2018]: Using distributed ledger
technology for shareholder rights management. In: Industrial Track of 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2018),
Stockholm, Sweden, July 2018.
Andrea Cohen, Simon Parsons, Elizabeth Sklar and Peter McBurney [2018]: A characterization of types of support between structured
arguments and their relationship with support in abstract argumentation. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 94: 76-104.
Benjamin Herd, Simon Miles, Peter McBurney and Michael Luck [2018]: Quantitative analysis of multi-agent systems through statistical verification of
simulation traces. International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, 6(2): 156-186.
Chris Haynes, Michael Luck, Peter McBurney, Samhar Mahmood, Tomas Vitek and Simon Miles [2018]: Engineering the emergence of norms: a review.
The Knowledge Engineering Review, 32: e18.
Timothy Miller, Jinzhong Niu, Martin Chapman and Peter McBurney [2018]: An overview and evaluation of the CAT Market Design Competition.
Chapter 16, pages 468-489, in: Shu-Heng Chen, Mak Kaboudan and Ye-Rong Du (Editors): The Oxford Handbook of Computational Economics and Finance.
Oxford University Press.
Alison Panisson, Simon Parsons, Peter McBurney and Rafael H Bordini [2018]: Choosing appropriate arguments from trustworthy sources. In: Proceedings of the conference on Computational Models of
Argument (COMMA 2018). IOS Press, p. 345-352. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Series, vol. 305.
Alison Panisson, Stefan Sarkadi, Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons and Rafael H Bordini [2018]: Lies, bullshit, and deception in agent-oriented programming languages. In: Proceedings of the
20th International Trust Workshop. Stockholm, Sweden, July 14, 2018. Vol. 2154: 50-61.
Daniele Magazzeni, Peter McBurney and William Nash [2017]: Validation and verification of smart contracts: a research agenda.
IEEE Computer Journal, Special Issue on Blockchain Technology for Finance, September 2017, 50(9): 50-57.
David Kohan Marzagao, Josh Murphy, Anthony Young, Marcelo Gauy, Elizabeth Black, Michael Luck and Peter McBurney [2017]: Team
Persuasion. In: E. Black, S. Modgil and N. Oren (Editors): Proceedings of the 2017 International Workshop on Theory and Applications
of Formal Argument (TAFA 2017), IJCAI 2017, Melbourne, Australia, August 2017.
Sylvie Doutre, Faustine Maffre and Peter McBurney [2017]: A Dynamic Logic framework for argumentation: adding and removing arguments.
In: F. Cerutti and R. Booth (Editors): Applications of Argumentation Track, Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial, Engineering, Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems
(IEA/AIE), Arras, France. 27-30 June 2017. Springer-Verlag.
David Kohan Marzagao, Nicolas Rivera, Colin Cooper, Kathleen Steinhofel and Peter McBurney [2017]: Multi-agent flag co-ordination
games. In: S. Das, E. Durfee, K. Larson and M. Winikoff (Editors): Proceedings of the Sixteenth International
Conference on Antonomous Agents and Multiagent Sytems (AAMAS 2017). Sao Paulo, Brazil. 8-12 May 2017.
Junhuan Zhang, Peter McBurney and Katarzyna Musial-Gabrys [2017]: Convergence of trading strategies in continuous double
auction markets with boundedly-rational networked traders. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2017, pp. 1-52. doi: 10.1007/s11156-017-0631-3. Available
here.
Aleksandra Aloric, Peter Sollich, Peter McBurney and Tobias Galla [2016]:
Emergence of cooperative long-term market loyalty in
double auction markets. PLoS ONE, 11 (4): e0154606. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154606. Benjamin Herd, Simon Miles, Peter McBurney and Michael Luck [2016]: MC2MABS: A Monte Carlo model checker for
multiagent-based simulations. In: B. Gaudou and J.S. Sichman (Editors): Multi-Agent Based Simulation XVI (MABS 2015). Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence 9568, pp. 37-54. Berlin: Springer. William Nash, Peter McBurney, James Bateson, Sean Murphy and Imogen Garner [2016]: Blockchains and Distributed
Ledgers in 2016. Monograph. 50 pp. London, UK: Norton Rose Fulbright and Kwori. Benjamin Herd, Simon Miles, Peter McBurney, Michael Luck [2016]: Quantitative analysis of multiagent systems through
statistical model checking. In: M. Baldoni, L. Baresi and M. Dastani (Editors): Engineering Multiagent Systems III (EMAS 2015).
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 9318, pp. 109-130, ISBN: 978-3-319-26183-6. Berlin: Springer.
Benjamin Herd, Simon Miles, Peter McBurney and Michael Luck [2015]: Monitoring hierarchical agent-based simulation traces. In: G. Weiss, P. Yolum, R.
Bordini and E. Elkind (Editors): International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2015). Istanbul, Turkey, May 2015. Daan Bloembergen, Daniel Hennes, Karl Tuyls and Peter McBurney [2015]: Trading in markets with noisy information: an evolutionary analysis.
Connection Science, 27 (3): 253-268. doi: 10.1080/09540091.2015.1039492.
Isabel Sassoon, Jeroen Keppens and Peter McBurney [2014]: Towards argumentation for statistical model selection. Fifth International Conference on Computational
Models of Argument (COMMA 2014): 67-74.
Dionysios Efstathiou, Peter McBurney, Steffen Zschaler and Johann Bourcier [2014]: Efficient multi-objective optimisation of service compositions in
mobile ad hoc networks using lightweight surrogate models. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 20(8): 1089-1108.
Martin Chapman, Gareth Tyson, Peter McBurney, Michael Luck and Simon Parsons [2014]: Playing Hide-And-Seek: An abstract game for cyber
security. In: N. Criado, M. Rehak, J. M. Such, and L. Vercouter (Editors): Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Agents and CyberSecurity (ACySE 2014), AAMAS 2014, Paris, France.
Dionysios Efstathiou, Peter McBurney, Steffen Zschaler and Johann Bourcier [2014]: Surrogate-assisted optimisation of composite applications in mobile ad-hoc networks. In:
C. Igel (Editor): Proceedings of the 2014 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2014), 1239-1246. Vancouver, Canada.
Junhuan Zhang, Peter McBurney and Katarzyna Musial-Gabrys [2014]: Modeling the influence of social networks in an artifical stock market. In:
O. Shehory, E. David, V. Robu, S. Ceppi and I. A. Vetsikas (Editors): Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and
Trading Agent Design and Analysis (AMEC/TADA 2014), AAMAS 2014, Paris, France.
Sarvar Abdullaev, Peter McBurney and Katarzyna Musial-Gabrys [2014]: Market-based mechanism for option pricing. In:
O. Shehory, E. David, V. Robu, S. Ceppi and I. A. Vetsikas (Editors): Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and
Trading Agent Design and Analysis (AMEC/TADA 2014), AAMAS 2014, Paris, France.
Daan Bloembergen, Daniel Hennes, Peter McBurney and Karl Tuyls [2014]: Trading in markets with noisy information: an evolutionary analysis.
In: S. Barrett, S. Devlin and D. Hennes (Editors): Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on
Adaptive Learning Agents (ALA 2014). AAMAS 2014. Paris, France.
Cristiano Castefranchi, Robert Craven, Mark d'Inverno, Andrew Jones, Peter McBurney, William Nash, Pablo Noriega, Julian Padget, David Pearce, Marek Sergot, Luca
Tummolini and Harko Verhagen [2014]: Issues in Social Intelligence: Problems and Challenges. Sintelnet: European Network for Social
Intelligence, Policy Deliverable 3.3.2.
Aleksandra Aloric, Peter Sollich and Peter McBurney [2014]: Spontaneous segregation of agents across double auction markets. In: F. Amblard,
A. Blanchet, B. Gaudou and F. J. M. Quesada (Editors): Proceedings of the Tenth Artificial Economics Conference
(AE 2014). September 2014. Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Simon Parsons, Katie Atkinson, Karen Haigh, Zimi Li, Karl Levitt, Peter McBurney, Jeff Rowe, Munindar Singh and Elizabeth Sklar [2014]: Argument
schemes for reasoning about trust. Argument and Computation, 5 (2-3): 160-190.
Enrico Oliva, Peter McBurney, Andrea Omicini and Mirko Viroli [2014]: Argumentation and artifacts for negotiation
support. Chapter 8 in: F. Lopes and H. Coelho (Editors): Negotiation and Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. Bentham Science.
D. Efstathiou, P. McBurney, S. Zschaler and J. Bourcier [2013]: Flexible QoS-aware service composition in highly
heterogeneous and dynamic service-based systems. In: S. Basagni, N. Mitton and M. Tao (Editors): Proceedings of the Ninth
IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2013). Lyon, France. October 2013.
P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2013]: Talking about doing. In: K. Atkinson, H. Prakken and A. Wyner (Editors): From Knowledge Representation to
Argumentation in AI, Law and Policy Making: A Festschrift in Honour of Trevor Bench-Capon on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. London, UK: College
Publications, pp. 151-166.
E. Black, P. McBurney and S. Zschaler [2013]: Towards agent dialogue as a tool for capturing software design discussions. In: E. Black,
S. Modgil and N. Oren (Editors): Second International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA 2013).
IJCAI 2013, Beijing, PRC, August 2013.
D. Efstathiou, P. McBurney, S. Zschaler and J. Bourcier [2013]: Exploring optimal service compositions in highly heterogeneous and
dynamic service-based systems. In: G. Ruhe and Y. Zhang (Editors): Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Search-Based
Software Engineering (SSBSE 2013), St. Petersburg, Russia, 24-26 August 2013.
T. Miller and P. McBurney [2013]: Efficient storage and retrieval in agent protocol libraries using subsumption hierarchies. Multiagent and Grid
Systems, 9 (2): 101-134.
R. Medellin-Gasque, K. Atkinson, T. Bench-Capon and P. McBurney [2013]: Strategies for question selection in argumentative dialogues about
plans. Argument and Computation, 4 (2): 151-179.
C. Hadjinikolis, S. Modgil, E. Black, P. McBurney and Y. Siantos [2013]: Opponent modelling in persuasion dialogues. In: F. Rossi (Editor): Proceeedings of the 23rd
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013), August 2013, Beijing, China.
F. Derakhshan, T. Bench-Capon and P. McBurney [2013]: Dynamic assignment of roles, rights and responsibilities in
normative multi-agent systems. Journal of Logic and Computation, 23 (2): 355-372.
E. Argente, O. Boissier, C. Carrascosa, N. Fornara, P. McBurney, P. Noriega, A. Ricci, J. Sabater-Mir, M. I. Schumacher, C. Tampitsikas, K. Taveter, G. Vizzari and G. Vouros [2013]:
The role of the environment in Agreement Technologies. Artificial Intelligence Review, 39 (1): 21-38.
S. Heras, K. Atkinson, V. Botti, F. Grasso, V. Julian and P. McBurney [2013]: Research opportunities for argumentation in
social networks. Artificial Intelligence Review, 39 (1): 39-62.
Abdulrahman Alreshidi, Steffen Zschaler and Peter McBurney [2013]: Towards a quality modelling language for component-based systems.
(QML/CS). QASBA@ISSTA: 1-4.
Y. Tang, K. Cai, P. McBurney, E. Sklar and S. Parsons [2012]: Using argumentation to reason about trust and belief. Journal
of Logic and Computation, 22 (5): 979-1018.
S. Heras, K. Atkinson, F. Grasso, P. McBurney, V. Botti and V. Julian [2012]: Research opportunities for argumentation in social networks. Position
paper in: F. Toni and G. Vouros (Editors): Proceedings of the First International Conference on Agreement Technologies (AT 2012),
Dubrovnik, Croatia. October 2012.
E. Argente, O. Boissier, C. Carrascosa, N. Fornara, P. McBurney, P. Noriega, A. Ricci, J. Sabater, M. I. Schumacher, C. Tampitsikas,
K. Taveter, G. Vizzari and G. Vouros [2012]: Environment and agreeement technologies. Position
paper in: F. Toni and G. Vouros (Editors): Proceedings of the First International Conference on Agreement Technologies (AT 2012),
Dubrovnik, Croatia. October 2012.
C. Hadjinikolis, S. Modgil, E. Black and P. McBurney [2012]: Mechanisms for opponent-modelling. In: A. V. Jones (Editor): Proceedings of the Imperial College
Computing Student Workshop (ICCSW 2012), London, UK. September 2012.
D. Efstathiou, P. McBurney, N. Plouzeau and S. Zschaler [2012]: Improving the quality of distributed composite service applications.
In: A. V. Jones (Editor): Proceedings of the Imperial College
Computing Student Workshop (ICCSW 2012), London, UK. September 2012.
C. Hadjinikolis, S. Modgil, E. Black, P. McBurney and M. Luck [2012]: Investigating strategic considerations in persuasion dialogue games.
In: K. Kersting and M. Toussaint (Editors): Proceedings of the Sixth Starting Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (STAIRS 2012), Montpellier,
France. August 2012. IOS Press.
P. McBurney, S. Parsons and I. Rahwan (Editors) [2012]:
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. Eighth International Workshop, ArgMAS 2011,
Taipei, Taiwan, May 2011. Revised, Selected and Invited Papers.
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, volume 7543. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
B. Herd, S. Miles, P. McBurney and M Luck [2012]: Compositional transient reachability analysis for agent-based simulations. Studia Informatica
Universalis, 10 (3): 87-118.
P. McBurney [2012]: What are models for? Pages 175-188, in: M. Cossentino, K. Tuyls and G. Weiss (Editors):
Post-Proceedings of the Ninth European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2011). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 7541.
Berlin, Germany: Springer.
T. Moyaux and P. McBurney [2012]: Centralised vs. market-based and decentralised
decision-making: a review. Cybernetics & Systems, 43 (7): 567-622.
S. Parsons, K. Atkinson, K. Haigh, K. Levitt, P. McBurney, J. Rowe, M. P. Singh and E. Sklar [2012]: Argument
schemes for reasoning about trust. In B. Verheij (Editor): Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2012), Vienna, Austria,
September 2012.
P. Tolchinsky, S. Modgil, K. Atkinson, P. McBurney and U. Cortes [2012]: Deliberation dialogues for reasoning about
safety critical actions. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 25 (2): 209-259.
M. Chapman, G. Tyson, K. Atkinson, M. Luck and P. McBurney [2012]: Social networking and information diffusion in
automated markets. In: C. Kiekintveld, O. Shehory, E. David, S. Stein and V. Robu (Editors): Joint International Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA) and
Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC), AAMAS 2012, Valencia, Spain.
T. Bench-Capon, K. Atkinson and P. McBurney [2012]: Using argumentation to
model agent decision making in economic experiments. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 25 (1): 183-208.
T. Rid and P. McBurney [2012]: Cyber weapons. Journal of the
Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), 157 (1): 6-13, February 2012. RUSI Presentation Event here.
E. Gerding, P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2012]: Competition between Markets and the CAT Tournament:
Introduction to the Special Issue. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 11 (1): 1-3. (January-February 2012).
E. Robinson, P. McBurney and X. Yao [2011]: Co-learning Segmentation in Marketplaces. Invited paper in: P. Vrancx, M. Knudson and M. Grzes
(Editors): Adaptive Learning Agents: Post-Proceedings of the ALA 2011 Workshop, AAMAS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Berlin, Germany: Springer. This paper has the same technical content, but with a different introduction and motivation, as the paper at
ICEC 2011 (below) by the same authors.
E. Robinson, P. McBurney and X. Yao [2011]: Market niching in multi-attribute computational
resource allocation systems. In: W. Ketter, K. R. Lang and K. J. Lee (Editors): Proceedings of the 13th International
Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2011), Session on Robustness and Reliability of Electronic Marketplaces (RREM 2011), Liverpool, UK, August 2011.
R. Medellin Gasque, K. Atkinson, P. McBurney and T. Bench-Capon [2011]: Arguments over co-operative
plans. In: S. Modgil, N. Oren and F. Toni (Editors): Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Theory and
Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA 2011), Barcelona, Spain, July 2011. Revised version published in: S. Modgil, N. Oren and F. Toni (Editors):
Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence volume 7131, pp. 50-66. Berlin, Springer: 2012.
S. Parsons, E. Sklar and P. McBurney [2011]: Using argumentation to reason with and about trust. In: P. McBurney, S. Parsons and I. Rahwan
(Editors): Eighth International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2011), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2011.
P. McBurney, S. Parsons and I. Rahwan (Editors) [2011]: Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Argumentation in
Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2011), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2011.
P. McBurney, I. Rahwan and S. Parsons (Editors) [2011]:
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. Seventh International Workshop, ArgMAS 2010,
Toronto, Canada, May 2010. Revised, Selected and Invited Papers. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, volume 6614. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
T. Miller and P. McBurney [2011]: Propositional Dynamic Logic for reasoning about first-class agent interaction protocols. Computational
Intelligence, 27 (3): 422-457 (August 2011).
S. Parsons, P. McBurney, E. Sklar, Y. Tang, and K. Cai [2011]: Argumentation-based reasoning in agents with varying
degrees of trust. In: K. Tumer, P. Yolum, E. Sonenberg and P. Stone (Editors): Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Autonomous
Agents and
Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011), Taipei, Taiwan ROC, May 2011.
R. Medellin Gasque, K. Atkinson, P. McBurney, and T. Bench-Capon [2011]: Critical questions for
plan proposals. Technical Report ULCS-11-003, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK, March 2011.
P. E. Dunne, A. Hunter, P. McBurney, S. Parsons and M. Wooldridge [2011]:
Weighted argument systems: Basic definitions, algorithms, and
complexity results, Artificial
Intelligence, 175 (2): 457-486.
P. McBurney, S. Parsons and M. Viroli [2011]: A quarter-century of The Knowledge Engineering Review:
Introduction to the Special Issue. The Knowledge Engineering Review, 26 (1): 1-3.
T. Moyaux, P. McBurney and M. Wooldridge [2010]: A supply chain as a network of auctions. Decision
Support Systems and Electronic Commerce, 50: 176-190.
S. Heras, K. Atkinson, V. Botti, F. Grasso, V. Julian and P. McBurney [2010]: How argumentation can
enhance dialogues in social networks. Short paper in:
G. Simari (Editor): Third International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2010), Desenzano del Garda, Italy, September 2010.
The same work was presented as: S. Heras, K. Atkinson, V. Botti, F. Grasso, V. Julian and P. McBurney [2010]: Applying argumentation
to enhance dialogues in social networks. In: N. Green, F. Grasso and C. Reed (Editors): Tenth International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA 2010),
Lisbon, Portugal, August 2010.
P. McBurney, I. Rahwan, S. Parsons and N. Maudet (Editors) [2010]:
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. Sixth International Workshop, ArgMAS 2009,
Budapest, Hungary, May 2009. Revised, Selected and Invited Papers.
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, volume 6057. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
E. Oliva, P. McBurney, A. Omicini and M. Viroli [2010]: Argumentation and
artifacts for negotiation support.
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, 4 (S10): 90-117.
T. Miller and P. McBurney [2010]: Characterising and matching iterative and
recursive agent interaction protocols. Full paper in: W.
van der Hoek, G. Kaminka, M. Luck and S. Sen (Editors): Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents
and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2010). Toronto, Canada, May 2010, pp. 1207-1214.
T. Michalak, D. Marciniak, M. Szamotulski, T. Rahwan, P. McBurney, M. Wooldridge and N. Jennings [2010]: A logic-based
representation for coalitional games with externalities. Full paper in: W. van der Hoek, G. Kaminka, M. Luck and S. Sen (Editors): Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents
and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2010). Toronto, Canada, May 2010, pp. 125-132.
T. Michalak, J. Sroka, T. Rahwan, P. McBurney, M. Wooldridge and N. Jennings [2010]: A distributed algorithm for anytime coalition structure
generation. Full paper in: W. van der Hoek, G. Kaminka, M. Luck and S. Sen (Editors): Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents
and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2010). Toronto, Canada, May 2010, pp. 1007-1014.
E. Robinson, P. McBurney and X. Yao [2010]: How specialised are specialists? Generalisation properties of entries from the 2008 and 2009 TAC
Market Design Competitions. In: E. Gerding et al. (Editors): Proceedings of AMEC and TADA 2009. Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence. Berlin, Germany: Springer. (To Appear)
S. Phelps, P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2010]: A novel method for strategy acquisition and its
application to a double-auction market game.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part B, 40 (3): 668-674. Extended version
E. Gerding, P. McBurney and X. Yao [2010]: Market-based control of computational systems:
introduction to the special issue. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Special Issue on Market-Based Control of Complex Computational Systems. 21 (2):
109-114.
J. Niu, K. Cai, S. Parsons, P. McBurney and E. Gerding [2010]: What the 2007 TAC Market Design Game
tells us about effective auction mechanisms. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Special Issue on Market-Based Control of Complex Computational Systems.
21 (2): 172-203.
S. Phelps, P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2010]: Evolutionary mechanism design: a review. Autonomous
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Special Issue on Market-Based Control of Complex Computational Systems. 21 (2): 237-264.
R. Medellin, K. Atkinson and P. McBurney [2009]: Model checking command dialogues. T. Bench-Capon, S. Parsons
and H. Prakken (Editors): Proceedings of 2009 AAAI Fall Symposium on The Uses of Computational Argumentation. AAAI Technical Report Series, Arlington, VA, USA, November 2009.
J. Niu, A. Mmoloke, P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2009]: CATP: A Communication Protocol for CAT Games (Version 2.0). Technical Report ULCS-09-012. Department
of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK.
K. Cai, E. Gerding, P. McBurney, J. Niu, S. Parsons and S. Phelps [2009]: Overview of CAT: A Market Design Competition (Version 2.0). Technical Report ULCS-09-005. Department
of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK.
E. Robinson, P. McBurney and X. Yao [2009]: How specialised are specialists? Generalisation properties of entries from the 2008
TAC Market Design Competition. In: E. Gerding (Editor): Proceedings of the 2009 Trading Agent Design and Analysis Workshop (TADA 2009),
IJCAI 2009, Pasadena, CA, USA, July 2009.
J. Wang, O. Baqueiro Espinosa, P. McBurney and F. Coenen [2009]: Integrating data
mining and agent-based modeling and simulation. In: Petra Perner (Editor): Proceedings of the 9th Industrial Conference on
Data Mining (ICDM 2009), Leipzig, Germany, July 2009.
T. Michalak, T. Rahwan, J. Sroka, A. Dowell, M. Wooldridge, P. McBurney and N. R. Jennings [2009]: On
representing coalitional games with externalities. In: (Editor): Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC 2009).
Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, USA, July 2009, pp. 11-20.
T. Rahwan, T. Michalak, N. R. Jennings, M. Wooldridge, and P. McBurney [2009]: Coalition structure
generation in multi-agent systems with positive and negative externalities. In: C. Boutillier (Editor): Proceedings of the 21st International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2009). Pasadena, CA, USA, July 2009, pp. 257-263.
S. Moschoyiannis, D. Bryant, P. Krause and P. McBurney [2009]: Verifiable protocol design for agent argumentation dialogues. In:
O. Kaynak and E. Damiani (Editors): Proceeedings of the Third International IEEE Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE DEST 2009),
Istanbul, Turkey, June 2009.
T. Michalak, P. McBurney, M. Wooldridge and J. Tyrowicz [2009]: Exogenous coalition formation in the e-marketplace based on geographical
proximity. Journal of Electronic Commerce
Research and Applications, 8 (4): 203-223.
N. C. Karunatillake, N. R. Jennings, I. Rahwan and P. McBurney [2009]: Dialogue games that agents play within a society.
Artificial Intelligence, 173 (9-10): 935-981 (June 2009).
P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2009]: Dialogue games for agent argumentation. Chapter 13 in:
I. Rahwan and G. Simari (Editors): Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence. Berlin, Germany: Springer, pp. 261-280.
T. Bench-Capon, K. Atkinson and P. McBurney [2009]: Altruism and agents: an argumentation-based approach to designing agent decision mechanisms.
Full paper in: K. S. Decker, J. S. Sichman, C. Sierra and C. Castelfranchi (Editors): Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents
and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2009). Budapest, Hungary, May 2009.
P. E. Dunne, A. Hunter, P. McBurney, S. Parsons and M. Wooldridge [2009]: Inconsistency tolerance in weighted argument systems.
Full paper in: K. S. Decker, J. S. Sichman, C. Sierra and C. Castelfranchi (Editors): Proceedings of the
Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents
and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2009). Budapest, Hungary, May 2009.
J. Niu, K. Cai, P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2008]: An analysis of entries in the first TAC Market Design
Competition. L. Jain, B. Faltings, M. Gini and
T. Terano (Editors): IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2008), Sydney, Australia, 2008.
P. McBurney and A. Omicini [2008]: Editorial: Special issue on foundations, advanced topics and industrial perspectives of multi-agent systems.
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 17 (3): 367-371.
J. McKean, H. Shorter, M. Luck, P. McBurney and S. Willmott [2008]: Technology diffusion: analysing the
diffusion of agent technologies. Journal of Autonomous Agents
and Multi-Agent Systems, 17 (3): 372-396.
A. Dowell, T. Michalak, M. Wooldridge and P. McBurney [2008]: Pre-processing techniques for anytime
coalition structure. J-J Meyer (Editor):
Proceecdings of the Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (KRAMAS 2008), 11th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning (KR 2008), Sydney, Australia, September 2008.
T. Michalak, A. Dowell, P. McBurney and M. Wooldridge [2008]: Optimal coalition structure generation in
partition function games. In: M. Ghallab and C. D. Spyropoulos (Editors): Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2008). Patras, Greece:
July 2008.
T. Antao, P. McBurney and I. Hastings: RONALD: A domain-specific language to study the interactions
between malaria infections and drug treatments. In; H. R. Arabnia (Editor): Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP 2008). Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 2008.
M. Luck and P. McBurney [2008]: Computing as interaction: agent and agreement technologies. In: V. Marik (Editor):
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Distributed
Human-Machine Systems. Athens, Greece, March 2008.
E. Oliva, M. Viroli, A. Omicini and P. McBurney [2008]: Argumentation and artifact for dialog support. In: I. Rahwan and P. Moraitis (Editors):
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Z. Guessoum and D. Kudenko (Editors): Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems III (Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2007). Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence 4865. Berlin, Springer.
J. Niu, K. Cai, S. Parsons, E. Gerding, P. McBurney, T. Moyaux, S. Phelps and D. Shield: JCAT: A platform for the TAC
Market Design Competition. In: L. Padgham, D. Parkes, J. P. Mueller and S. Parsons (Editors): Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2008). Estoril, Portugal, May 2008.
J. Niu, K. Cai, E. Gerding, P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2008]: Characterizing effective auction mechanisms: Insights from the 2007 TAC
Market Design Competition. Full paper in: L. Padgham, D. Parkes, J. P. Mueller and S. Parsons (Editors): Proceedings of the Seventh
International Conference on Autonomous Agents
and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2008). Estoril, Portugal, May 2008.
T. Miller and P. McBurney [2008]: Annotation and matching of first-class agent interaction protocols. Full paper in: L. Padgham,
D. Parkes, J. P. Mueller and S. Parsons (Editors): Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2008). Estoril, Portugal, May 2008.
F. Derakhshan, P. McBurney and T. Bench-Capon [2008]: Towards dynamic assignment of rights and
responsibilities to agents. (Extended version) Proceedings of the 13th
Joint International and National Conference of the Computer Society of Iran (CSICC 2008), Kish Island, Iran, March 2008. Short version published as
pp. 1004-1008, in: H. Sarbazi-Azad, B. Parhami, S-G. Miremadi and S. Hessabi (Editors) [2009]: Advances in Computer Science and Engineering.
Communications in Computer and Information Science Series, Volume 6. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
T. Miller and P. McBurney [2008]: On illegal composition of first-class agent interaction protocols. In: G. Dobbie and B. Mans (Editors):
Proceedings of the Thirty-First Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2008), Wollongong, Australia, January 2008.
M. W. Johnson, T. Miller and P. McBurney [2007]: Modelling multi-agent interaction protocols using categories enriched over
pointed sets. Working Paper.
I. Rahwan and P. McBurney [2007]: Argumentation Technology: Introduction to the Special Issue.
IEEE Intelligent Systems, 22 (6): 21-23.
P. Petta, A. Omicini, T. Payne and P. McBurney [2007]: Introduction to the
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P. McBurney [2007]: Introduction to Chapter 7, Multi-Agent Systems and Complexity. pp. 93-115 in: J. Bogg and R. Geyer (Editors):
Complexity, Science and Society. Oxford, UK: Radcliffe Publishing.
P. McBurney and M. Luck [2007]: The agents are all busy doing stuff! IEEE Intelligent
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P. Tolchinsky, K. Atkinson, P. McBurney, S. Modgil and U. Cortes [2007]: Agents deliberating over
action proposals using the ProCLAIM model. In:
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J. McKean, S. Rahlf, H. Shorter, G. Barnish, R. Paton, P. McBurney, D. Hughes and I. Hastings [2007]: A prototype agent-based model of antimalarial
drug compliance. Second International Workshop on Agent-based Models of Market Dynamics and Consumer Behaviour. INFORMS Marketing Dynamics Conference 2007.
Groningen, The Netherlands, August 2007.
E. Gerding, P. McBurney, J. Niu, S. Parsons and S. Phelps [2007]: Overview of CAT: A Market Design Competition.
Technical Report ULCS-07-006, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
L. Perrussel, S. Doutre, J.-M. Thevenin and P. J. McBurney [2007]: Un dialogue de persuasion pour l'acces et l'obtention d'informations.
Models Formels de l'Interaction, Quatriemes Journees Francophones (MFI 2007). Paris, France, May-June 2007.
P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2007]: Retraction and revocation in agent deliberation dialogs.
Argumentation, 21 (3): 269-289.
O. Baqueiro Espinosa, W. van der Hoek and P. McBurney [2007]: The performance of option-trading software agents: initial results.
Pages 113-125, in: A. Consiglio (Editor): Artificial Markets Modeling: Methods and Applications.
Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 599. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
T. Miller, P. McBurney, J. McGinnis and K. Stathis [2007]: First-class protocols for agent-based co-ordination of scientific instruments.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Agent-based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration (ACEC),
16th International IEEE Workshops on Enabling Technologies and Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2007), Paris, France.
T. Miller and P. McBurney [2007]: A formal semantics for GAIA liveness rules and expressions. International Journal of Agent-Oriented
Software Engineering, 1 (3/4): 435-476.
I. Rahwan, L. Sonenberg, N. R. Jennings and P. McBurney [2007]: STRATUM: A methodology for designing heuristic agent negotiation strategies. Applied Artificial
Intelligence, 21 (6): 489-527.
T. Miller and P. McBurney [2007]: Using constraints and process algebra for specification of first-class agent interaction protocols. pp. 245--264, in:
G. O'Hare, M. O'Grady, O. Dikenelli and A. Ricci (Editors): Engineering Societies for the Agents World: Post-Proceedings of the Seventh International
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E. Oliva, P. McBurney and A. Omicini [2007]: Co-argumentation artifact for agent societies. In: I. Rahwan, C. Reed and S. Parsons
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S. Parsons, P. McBurney, E. Sklar and M. Wooldridge [2007]: On the relevance of utterances in formal inter-agent dialogues.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2007), Hawaii, USA, May 2007.
S. Doutre, P. McBurney, L. Perrussel and J-M. Thevenin [2007]: Arguing for gaining access to information. Proceedings of the Sixth International
Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2007), Hawaii, USA, May 2007.
P. McBurney, D. Hitchcock and S. Parsons [2007]: The eightfold way of
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M. Wooldridge, P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2006]: On the meta-logic of arguments, pp. 42-56, in:
S. Parsons, N. Maudet, P. Moraitis and I. Rahwan (Editors): Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4049. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
E. Cogan, S. Parsons and P. McBurney [2006]: New Types of Inter-agent Dialogues, pp. 154-168, in:
S. Parsons, N. Maudet, P. Moraitis and I. Rahwan (Editors): Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4049. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
L. Amgoud, L. Bodenstaff, M. Caminada, P. McBurney, S. Parsons, H. Prakken, J. van Veenen and G. Vreeswijk [2006]:
Report on Formal Argumentation
System for ASPIC Project. Deliverable D2.6, Argumentation Service Platform with Integrated Components Project (IST-FP6-002307).
Technical Report ULCS-07-005, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
S. Munroe, T. Miller, R. Belecheanu, M. Pechoucek, P. McBurney and M. Luck [2006]:
Crossing the agent technology chasm: Lessons, experiences and challenges in commercial applications of
agents. Knowledge Engineering Review, 21 (4): 345-392.
T. Miller and P. McBurney [2006]:
Towards a formal algebraic language for first-class agent interaction protocols. In: G. O'Hare, M. O'Grady, O. Dikenelli and A. Ricci (Editors):
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A. Chorley, T. Bench-Capon and P. McBurney [2006]: Automating argumentation for deliberation
in cases of conflict of interest. In: P. E. Dunne and T. Bench-Capon (Editors): Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2006). Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Series. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press. pp. 279-290.
P. Dahlstedt and P. McBurney [2006]: Musical agents.
Leonardo, 39 (5): 469-470.
T. Moyaux and P. McBurney [2006]: Modeling a supply chain as a network of markets. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Service Systems and Service Managament (IC SSSM 2006), Troyes, France, October 2006.
T. Moyaux and P. McBurney [2006]: Reduction of the bullwhip effect in supply chains through speculation. In: Charlotte Bruun (Editor): Advances in Artificial Economics: The Economy as a Complex Dynamic System. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems Series, Volume 584. Berlin, Germany: Springer. pp. 77-89. Proceedings of the Conference on Artificial Economics 2006, Aalborg, Denmark, September 2006
S. Phelps, M. Marcinkiewicz, S. Parsons and P. McBurney [2006]: A novel method for
automated strategy acquisition in n-player non-zero-sum games. Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2006), Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.
R. Belecheanu, S. Munroe, M. Luck, T. Payne, T. Miller, M. Pechoucek and P. McBurney [2006]: Commercial
applications of agents: Lessons, experiences and challenges. Proceedings of Industrial Track, Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2006), Hakodate, Japan. Awarded the DARPA Prize for Best Applied and Industrial Paper at AAMAS 2006.
S. van Otterloo, M. J. Wooldridge and P. McBurney [2006]: Foreword to Special Issue on
Knowledge and Games. Synthese/Knowledge, Rationality and Action, 149 (2): 255-256
K. Atkinson, T. Bench-Capon and P. McBurney [2006]: PARMENIDES: Facilitating deliberation in
democracies. International Journal of Artificial
Intelligence and Law, 14 (4): 261-275. Special Issue on E-Government.
K. Atkinson, T. Bench-Capon and P. McBurney [2006]: Computational representation of
practical argument. Synthese, 152 (2): 157-206. Knowledge, Rationality and Action, 191-240.
S. Doutre, P. McBurney, M. Wooldridge and W. Barden [2005]: Information-seeking agent dialogs with permissions and arguments. Technical Report ULCS-05-010, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool.
J. McKean, H. Shorter, P. McBurney and M. Luck [2005]: The AgentLink III Technology Diffusion Model. Technical Report ULCS-05-008, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool.
K. Atkinson, T. Bench-Capon and P. McBurney [2005]: Multi-agent argumentation for
e-Democracy. pp. 35-46, in: M. P. Gleizes, G. Kaminka, A. Nowe, S. Ossowski, K. Tuyls and K. Verbeeck (Editors): Proceedings of the
Third European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2005), Brussels, Belgium, December 2005.
A. Omicini and P. McBurney [2005]: The AgentLink III
Technical Forums: Introduction to the Special Issue. Knowledge Engineering Review, 20 (2): 95-97.
P. Wegner, F. Arbab, D. Goldin, P. McBurney, M. Luck and D. Robertson [2005]: The role of agent interaction in models of computing:
panelist reviews. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 141 (5): 181-198.
M. Luck, P. McBurney and J. L. Gonzales-Palacios [2005]: Agent-based computing and programming of agent systems.
pp. 23-37, in: R. H. Bordini, M. Dastani, J. Dix and A. El Fallah Seghrouchni (Editors): Programming Multi-Agent Systems. Third International Workshop, ProMAS 2005. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3862. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
M. Luck, P. McBurney, S. Willmott and O. Shehory [2005]: The AgentLink III Agent Technology Roadmap.
AgentLink III, the European Co-ordination Action for Agent-Based Computing, Southampton, UK.
T. Miller and P. McBurney [2005]: Multi-Agent system specification using TCOZ. pp. 216-221, in: W. Lamersdorf,
F. Kluegl and T. Eymann (Editors): Proceedings of the Third German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2005). Koblenz, Germany.
S. Phelps, M. Marcinkiewicz, S. Parsons and P. McBurney [2005]: Using population-based search and
evolutionary game theory to acquire better-response strategies for the double-auction market. pp. 21-27 in: S. Janson (Editor): Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2005). Proceedings of an IJCAI-2005 Workshop. Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2005.
O. Baqueiro Espinosa, W. van der Hoek and P. McBurney [2005]: Designing agents for derivatives
markets: a preliminary framework. pp. 1-14, in: P. Gmytrasiewicz and S. Parsons (Editors): Game-Theoretic and Decision-Theoretic Agents (GTDT 2005). Proceedings of an IJCAI-2005 Workshop. Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005.
K. Atkinson, T. Bench-Capon and P. McBurney [2005]: Persuasive political argument. pp. 44-51, in:
F. Grasso, C. Reed and G. Carenini (Editors): Computational Models of Natural Argument, Proceedings of an IJCAI-2005 Workshop. Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005.
K. Atkinson, T. Bench-Capon and P. McBurney [2005]: Generating intentions through argumentation.
In: F. Dignum, V. Dignum, S. Koenig, S. Kraus, M. Singh and M. Wooldridge (Editors): Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2005), Utrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 1261-1262. New York, NY, USA: ACM Press.
S. Doutre, P. McBurney and M. Wooldridge: Law-Governed Linda as a semantics for agent interaction protocols.
In: F. Dignum, V. Dignum, S. Koenig, S. Kraus, M. Singh and M. Wooldridge (Editors): Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2005), Utrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 1257-1258. New York, NY, USA: ACM Press.
M. J. Wooldridge, P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2005]: The meta-logic of arguments. In: F. Dignum, V. Dignum, S. Koenig, S. Kraus, M. P. Singh, and M. Wooldridge (Editors): Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2005), Utrecht, The Netherlands. July 2005, pp. 560-567. New York, NY, USA: ACM Press.
E. Cogan, S. Parsons and P. McBurney [2005]: What kind of argument are we going to have today?
In: F. Dignum, V. Dignum, S. Koenig, S. Kraus, M. P. Singh, and M. Wooldridge (Editors): Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2005), Utrecht, The Netherlands. July 2005, pp. 544-551. New York, NY, USA: ACM Press.
P. McBurney [2005]: Values and argumentation in environmental risk regulation. In: P. E. Dunne and T. Bench-Capon (Editors): Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence and Law. Proceedings of an ICAIL Workshop, Bologna, Italy, June 2005, pp. 75-80. IAAL Workshop Series. Nijmegen, The Netherlands: Wolf Legal Publishers.
M. W. Johnson, P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2005]: A mathematical
model of dialog. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 141 (5): 33-48.
K. Atkinson, T. Bench-Capon and P. McBurney [2005]: A dialogue-game protocol for multi-agent
argument over proposals for action. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 11 (2): 153-171.
K. Atkinson, T. Bench-Capon and P. McBurney [2005]: Arguing about cases as practical reasoning. Proceedings
of the Tenth International Conference on AI and Law (ICAIL 2005), Bologna, Italy. June 2005, pp. 35-44. New York, NY, USA: ACM Press.
W. Rehg, P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2005]: Computer decision-support
systems for public argumentation: assessing deliberative legitimacy. AI and Society, 19 (3): 203-228.
K. Atkinson, T. Bench-Capon and P. McBurney [2004]: Justifying practical reasoning. In: F. Grasso, C. Reed and G. Carenini
(Editors): Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA 2004), pp. 87-90. ECAI 2004, Valencia, Spain.
P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2004]: A hundred schools of thought automatically contending.
Controversia: An International Journal of Debate and Democratic Renewal 3 (1): 66-72 (Spring/Summer 2004).
P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2004]: Engineering democracy in open agent
systems. In: A. Omicini, P. Petta and J. Pitt (Editors):
Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV. pp. 66-80. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3071. Berlin, Germany: Springer. An earlier
version appeared in 2003 in the Proceedings of the Fourth International ESAW Workshop,
(ESAW-2003), held in London, UK.
M. Luck, P. McBurney and S. Preist [2004]: A manifesto for agent technology: towards next generation
computing. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 9 (3): 203-252.
P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2004]: Locutions for argumentation in agent interaction
protocols. pp. 209-225 in: R. M. van Eijk, M-P. Huget and F. Dignum (Editors): Agent Communication. Revised Proceedings of the International Workshop on Agent Communication (AC2004), New York, NY, USA, July 2004. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3396. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
S. Phelps, S. Parsons and P. McBurney [2004]: Automated trading agents versus virtual humans: an
evolutionary game-theoretic comparison of two double-auction market designs. In: P. Faratin and
J. A. Rodriguez-Aguilar (Editors): Proceedings of Agent-Mediated E-Commerce
VI: Theories for and Engineering of Distributed Mechanisms and Systems (AMEC 2004), AAMAS 2004,
New York, NY, USA.
K. Atkinson, T. Bench-Capon and P. McBurney [2004]: PARMENIDES:
Facilitating democratic debate. In: Third e-Government Conference (EGOV04), DEXA 2004, Zaragoza, Spain,
September 2004. Published in: R. Traunmuller (Editor): Electronic
Government. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
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International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2004), AAMAS 2004, New York, NY,
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First
International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2004), AAMAS 2004, New York, NY,
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I. Rahwan, L. Sonenberg and P. McBurney [2004]: Bargaining and argument-based negotiation: some
preliminary considerations. In: I. Rahwan, P. Moraitis and C. Reed (Editors):
First
International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2004), AAMAS 2004, New York, NY,
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W. Costello, A. Bleloch, P. Goodhew, P. McBurney and R. Paton [2004]: A new inclusive
approach to remote microscopy (Extended abstract). The Thirteenth
European Microscopy Congress (EMC 2004). Antwerp, Belgium.
P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2004]: A denotational semantics for deliberation dialogues.
In: N. R. Jennings, C. Sierra, E. Sonenberg and M. Tambe (Editors): Proceedings of the
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(AAMAS-2004). New York City, NY, USA.
S. Parsons and P. McBurney [2004]: The use of expert systems for toxicology risk prediction. pp. 135-176,
in C. Helma (Editor): Predictive Toxicology. New York, NY, USA: Marcel Dekker.
P. E. Dunne and P. McBurney [2004]: Concepts of
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Chance
Discovery.
Advanced Information Processing Series. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
R. Girle, D. Hitchcock, P. McBurney and B. Verheij [2003]:
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P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2003]: Agent-Communications for Chance Discovery.
In: Y. Ohsawa and P. McBurney (Editors): Chance Discovery: Foundations and Applications.
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series. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
K. Greenwood, T. Bench-Capon and P. McBurney [2003]: Structuring dialogue between the People and their
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Prague, Czech Republic, September 2003. Published in: R. Traunmuller (Editor): Electronic
Government, pp. 55-62. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2739. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
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M. Luck, P. McBurney and C. Preist [2003]:
Agent Technology: Enabling
Next Generation Computing. A Roadmap for Agent Based Computing.
AgentLinkII,
the European Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing, Southampton, UK. 94 pp.
P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2003]: Chance discovery and scenario analysis.
New Generation Computing, Special Issue on Chance Discovery. 21: 13-22. [Postscript File] P. McBurney, R. M. van Eijk, S. Parsons and L. Amgoud [2003]: A dialogue-game
protocol for agent purchase negotiations. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems, 7 (3): 235-273. [Postscript File] P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2003]: Democracy in open agent systems. In:
J. S. Rosenschein, T. Sandholm, M. Wooldridge and M. Yokoo (Editors): Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference
on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS-2003), pp. 1066-1067.
Melbourne, Australia.
[Postscript File]
S. Phelps, S. Parsons, E. Sklar and P. McBurney [2003]: Applying
Genetic Programming to Economic Mechanism Design: Evolving a pricing rule for a
continuous double auction. In: J. S. Rosenschein, T. Sandholm, M. Wooldridge and M. Yokoo (Editors): Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference
on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS-2003), pp. 1096-1097.
Melbourne, Australia. [Postscript File]
I. Rahwan, P. McBurney and E. Sonenberg [2003]: Towards a theory of negotiation
strategy (a preliminary report). In: S. Parsons and P. Gmytrasiewicz (Editors):
Game-Theoretic
and Decision-Theoretic Agents (GTDT 2003), Proceedings of an AAMAS-2003 Workshop, pp. 73-80. Melbourne, Australia.
[Postscript File] K. Greenwood, T. Bench-Capon and P. McBurney [2003]:
Towards a computational account of persuasion in law. In: G. Sartor (Editor): Proceedings of the
Ninth International Conference on AI and Law (ICAIL-2003), pp. 22-31. New York, NY, USA: ACM Press.
[Postscript File]
P. E. Dunne and P. McBurney [2003]: Optimal utterances in dialogue protocols. In:
J. S. Rosenschein, T. Sandholm, M. Wooldridge and M. Yokoo (Editors): Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference
on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS-2003), pp. 608-615.
New York, NY, USA: ACM Press. [Postscript File] P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2003]: Posit Spaces: a performative theory of e-commerce. In:
J. S. Rosenschein, T. Sandholm, M. Wooldridge and M. Yokoo (Editors): Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference
on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS-2003), pp.
624-631. New York, NY, USA: ACM Press.
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M. Johnson, P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2003]: When are two protocols the same?
In: M-P. Huget (Editor): Communication in Multiagent Systems: Agent Communication Languages and
Conversation Policies, pp. 253-268. Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2650. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag.
[Postscript File]
S. Parsons and P. McBurney [2003]: Argumentation-based communication between agents. In: M-P. Huget (Editor):
Communication in Multiagent Systems: Agent Communication Languages and Conversation
Policies, pp. 164-178. Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2650. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2003]: Dialogue game protocols. In: M-P. Huget (Editor):
Communication in Multiagent Systems: Agent Communication Languages and Conversation
Policies, pp. 269-283. Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2650. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2002]: Dialogue Games in Multi-Agent Systems. Informal
Logic. Special Issue on Applications of Argumentation in Computer Science. 22 (3): 257-274.
[Postscript File]
Y. Ohsawa, P. McBurney and S. Parsons (Editors) [2002]:
Chance Discovery: The Discovery
and Management of Chance Events. AAAI Fall Symposium. Technical Report FS-02-01.
American Association for Artificial Intelligence Press, Menlo Park, CA, USA. 114 pp.
P. McBurney [2002]: Review of: Robert P. Abelson (1995): "Statistics as Principled Argument."
Informal Logic, 21 (3) (Fall 2001). P. McBurney [2002]: Rational Interaction. PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science,
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. Abstract.
P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2002]: A geometric semantics for dialogue game
protocols for autonomous agent interactions.
Electronic Notes in
Theoretical Computer Science, 52 (2). P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2002]: Determining error bounds for
hypothesis tests in risk assessment: a research agenda. Law, Probability
and Risk, 1 (1) 17-36. [Postscript File] P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2002]: Using Belief
Functions to forecast demand for Mobile Satellite Services, pp. 281-315 of:
R. P. Srivastava and T. J. Mock (Editors): Belief
Functions in Business
Decisions. Volume 88 in Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. New York, NY, USA: Physica Verlag. [Postscript File] P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2002]: Games that agents play: A formal
framework for dialogues between autonomous agents. Journal of Logic,
Language and Information, 11 (3): 315-334. Special Issue on Logic and Games. [Postscript File] P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2002]: Formalizing scenario analysis. In:
A. Darwiche and N. Friedman
(Editors): Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial
Intelligence (UAI-2002), pp. 327-334.
San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
[Postscript File] P. McBurney, S. Parsons and M. Wooldridge [2002]: Desiderata for agent argumentation protocols. In:
C. Castelfranchi and W. L. Johnson (Editors): Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002), pp. 402-409, Bologna, Italy. July 2002.
New York, USA: ACM Press. [Postscript File] P. McBurney, S. Parsons and J. Green [2002]: Forecasting market
demand for new telecommunications services: an introduction. Telematics
and Informatics, 19 (3): 225-249. [Postscript File] S. Phelps, P. McBurney, S. Parsons and E. Sklar [2002]: Co-evolutionary auction mechanism
design: a preliminary report. Pages 123-142 in: J. Padget, O. Shehory, D. C. Parkes,
N. M. Sadeh and W. E. Walsh (Editors):
Agent-Mediated Electronic-Commerce IV: Designing Mechanisms and Systems, Proceedings
of an AAMAS-02
Workshop, Bologna, Italy. Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence 2531. Berlin, Germany: Springer. P. McBurney, S. Parsons and M. W. Johnson [2002]: When are two protocols the same? In: M-Ph. Huget,
F. Dignum and J-L. Koning (Editors): Agent Communication Languages and Conversation Policies, Proceedings
of an AAMAS-02 Workshop, Bologna, Italy.
S. Phelps, S. Parsons, P. McBurney and E. Sklar [2002]: Co-evolution of auction mechanisms and strategies: Towards a
novel approach to microeconomic design. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Multi-Agent
Systems (ECoMAS 2002), New York City,
NY, USA. July 2002. J. Fox and P. McBurney [2002]: Decision making by intelligent agents: logical argument, probabilistic inference
and the maintenance of beliefs and acts. In: L. Godo and T. Lukasiewicz (Editors): Uncertainty Frameworks
in Non-monotonic Reasoning, Special
Session at the Ninth International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NMR-02),
Toulouse, France. April 2002. P. McBurney [2002]: Music and mathematics: a common frontier. The Intellectual Frontiers of Music.
Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Aberdeen. June 2002. P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2002]: Ensemble Theory: arguing across and within
scenarios. In: J. Shepherd and H. Tsoukas (Editors): Probing the Future: Developing Organizational
Foresight in the Knowledge Economy. Proceedings
of a Conference held at the University of Strathclyde Graduate School of Business, Glasgow.
July 2002.
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P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2001]: Chance discovery using dialectical
argumentation. In: T. Terano, T. Nishida, A. Namatame, S. Tsumoto, Y. Ohsawa and T. Washio
(Editors): New
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Joint JSAI 2001 Workshop Post Proceedings, pp. 414--424.
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 2253. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag. [Postscript File] P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2001]: Dialectical argumentation for
reasoning about chemical carcinogenicity. Logic Journal of the IGPL,
9 (2): 191-203. [Postscript
File]. P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2001]: Representing epistemic
uncertainty by means of dialectical argumentation. Annals of Mathematics
and Artificial Intelligence, Special
Issue on Representations of Uncertainty, 32 (1-4): 125-169. [Postscript File] P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2001]: Intelligent systems to support
deliberative democracy in environmental regulation. Information and
Communications Technology Law, 10 (1): 33-43. [Postscript File] P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2001]: A formal framework for
inter-agent dialogues. In: J. P. Muller, E. Andre, S. Sen and C.
Frasson (Editors): Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on
Autonomous Agents, pp. 178-179. New York, NY, USA: ACM Press. [Postscript File] P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2001]: Reasoning across scenarios in
planning under uncertainty. In: C. Gomes and T. Walsh (Editors): Using
Uncertainty within Computation: Proceedings of the 2001 AAAI Fall
Symposium, pp. 85--92. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA. Technical
Report FS-01-04.
[Postscript File] P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2001]: A geometric semantics for dialogue game
protocols for autonomous agent interactions. in: P. Cousot, L. Fajstrup, E.
Goubault, J. Gunawardena, M. Herlihy, M. Raussen and V. Sassone (Editors):
Preliminary Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Geometry and Topology in
Concurrency Theory (GETCO-2001), pp. 63-75. Aalborg, Denmark: BRICS
Notes, No. NS-01-7. Also reprinted in: M. d'Inverno & M. Luck (Editors): Proceedings of the UK Multi-Agent
Systems (UKMAS) Annual Conference, Oxford, UK, December 2001. P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2001]: Chance discovery using dialectical
argumentation. In: Y. Ohsawa (Editor): Proceedings of the Workshop on
Chance Discovery, Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Japanese Society
for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI-2001), pp. 37-45. (Invited Paper) [Postscript File] P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2001]: Agent ludens: Games for agent
dialogues. In: S. Parsons and P. Gmytrasiewicz (Editors): Game-Theoretic
and Decision-Theoretic Agents (GTDT 2001): Proceedings of the 2001 AAAI
Spring Symposium, pp. 70-77. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA. Technical
Report SS-01-03. [Postscript File] D. Hitchcock, P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2001]: A framework for
deliberation dialogues. In: H. V. Hansen, C. W. Tindale, J. A. Blair
and R. H. Johnson (Editors): Argumentation and its Applications.
Proceedings of the Fourth Biennial Conference of the Ontario Society for the
Study of Argumentation (OSSA 2001). [Word File]. W. Rehg, P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2001]: Computer decision
support systems for public argumentation: criteria for assessment. In: H. V.
Hansen, C. W. Tindale, J. A. Blair and R. H. Johnson (Editors):
Argumentation and its Applications. Proceedings of the Fourth Biennial
Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA 2001).
[Word File]. P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2001]: The Possibility of Arguability: Combining Multiple Arguments on the
same Topic. Technical Report No. ULCS-01-009. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool.
[Abstract]. P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2001]: Strawmen and Eidolons: Using Argumentation to Reason
across Scenarios. Technical Report No. ULCS-01-008. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool.
[Abstract]. P. McBurney, S. Parsons and M. Wooldridge [2001]: Desiderata for Agent Argumentation Protocols.
Technical Report No. ULCS-01-004. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool.
[Abstract]. P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2001]: A Hundred Schools of Thought Automatically Contending.
Technical Report No. ULCS-01-002. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool.
[Postscript File]. P. McBurney, R. van Eijk, S. Parsons and L. Amgoud [2001]: A Dialogue-Game Protocol for Agent Purchase Negotiations.
Technical Report No. ULCS-01-001. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool.
[Abstract]. P. McBurney [2001]: First international workshop on
chance discovery. Knowledge Engineering Review, 16
(2): 201-204. Also published in: Expert Update. Magazine of the
British Computer Society Special Interest Group on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence,
4 (2): 52-55. [Postscript File]
P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2001]: Desiderata for dialogue-game protocols
for agent interactions. In: A. Hunter and S. Parsons (Editors):
Adventures in Argumentation: Proceedings of a Workshop held with the Sixth
European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with
Uncertainty (ECSQARU-2001), pp. 44-47. (Extended Abstract). Toulouse,
France. P. McBurney [2001]: Comments on B. Verheij: "Evaluating arguments based
on Toulmin's scheme." In: H. V. Hansen, C. W. Tindale, J. A. Blair
and R. H. Johnson (Editors): Argumentation and its Applications.
Proceedings of the Fourth Biennial Conference of the Ontario Society for the
Study of Argumentation (OSSA 2001). [Word File].
P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2000]: Risk Agoras: Using dialectical
argumentation to debate risk. Risk
Management, 2 (2): 17-27. [Postscript File]. P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2000]: Risk Agoras: Dialectical
argumentation for scientific reasoning. In: C. Boutilier and M. Goldszmidt
(Editors): Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial
Intelligence, pages 371-379. Stanford, CA, USA. [Postscript File]. P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2000]: Dialectical argumentation for
reasoning about chemical carcinogenicity. In: J. Cunningham and D. Gabbay
(Editors): Proceedings of the International Conference on Pure and Applied
Practical Reasoning (FAPR-2000). Technical Report, Department of
Computing, Imperial College, University of London, London, UK. [Postscript File]. P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2000]: Tenacious Tortoises: A formalism
for argument over rules of inference. pp. 77-84 in: G. Vreeswijk (Editor):
Proceeedings of the Workshop on Computational Dialectics, Fourteenth European Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2000). Berlin, Germany. P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2000]: Modeling scientific discourse.
In: D. Pearce (Editor): Workshop on Scientific Reasoning in AI and
Philosophy of Science, Fourteenth European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (ECAI-2000). Berlin, Germany. [Postscript File]. P. McBurney and S. Parsons [2000]: Intelligent systems to support
deliberative democracy in environmental regulation. In: D. Peterson
(Editor): Symposium
on Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning, Conference on
Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB2000).
Birmingham, UK, April 2000. [Postscript
File]
P. McBurney and S. Parsons [1999]: Truth or Consequences: Using
argumentation to reason about risk. British Pyschological Society
Symposium on Practical Reasoning, London, UK, 21 December 1999. [Postscript File]. P. McBurney, S. Parsons, J. Fox and D. Glasspool [1999]: Consequence
logics for cancer risk counselling systems: a specification framework.
Technical Report, Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary & Westfield
College, University of London, London, UK. [Postscript File]. P. McBurney and S. Parsons [1999]: Intelligent systems
which reason about risk. Technical Report, Department of Electronic
Engineering, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London,
London, UK. S. Parsons and P. McBurney [1999]: Risky Business. Scenario and
Strategy Planning, 1 (3): 15-17. P. J. McBurney [1996]: Exploiting the Potential of Marketing Decision
Support Systems in Telecommunications. Dallas, TX, USA: Redwing Consulting Ltd. 50 pp. P. Hemming, D. P. Shuker and P. J. McBurney [1996]: Innovative PCS
Marketing: How to Build and Execute a Winning Marketing Plan. Dallas, TX, USA:
Redwing Consulting Ltd. 290 pp. P. McBurney, D. P. Shuker and S. Eilfeld [1993]: The Impact of
Airtime Resale on Cellular Markets. London, UK: Redwing Consulting Ltd,
90 pp. J. Green and P. McBurney [1991]: Telecommunications and the World
Economy. In: The Interdata Telecommunications Handbook, pp. 19-26. Sydney,
Australia: Interdata Pty Ltd. P. McBurney and D. P. Shuker [1990]: The World Avionics Market: A Report
for the Australian Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce
(DITAC), BIS Shrapnel Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia, 70 pp. P. McBurney [1989]: Mobile Communications in Australia. BIS Shrapnel Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia. (Four volumes, c. 500 pp.)
P. McBurney and M. Dobbin [1989]: The Prospects for Australian
Participation in L-Band Mobile Satellite Communications: A Report for the
Australian Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce (DITAC), BIS
Shrapnel Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia. (Two volumes, c. 100 pp.) P. J. Gifford and P. J. McBurney [1988]: The ethical concerns of
contemporary Zimbabwean managers: a preliminary sounding. Journal of
Business Ethics, 7: 363-372. P. J. McBurney [1988]: On transferring statistical techniques across
cultures: the Kish Grid. Current Anthropology, 29 (2): 323-5. A. M. Hawkins, M. A. Shadur, P. J. McBurney and W. Clatanoff [1988]: Formal
Sector Employment Demand Conditions in Zimbabwe. University of Zimbabwe
Press, Harare, Zimbabwe. 52 pp. P. McBurney [1987]: Review of "Full Metal Jacket" (Director: Stanley Kubrick).
The AGSM
Newsletter, 84: 3-4 (28 October - 11 November 1987). Sydney, Australia:
Australian Graduate
School of Management, University of New South Wales.
D. Midgley and P. McBurney [1987]: The Role of Expert Systems in Marketing: The CEM Export Marketing Strategy Project. Working Paper 87-036.
AGSM Working Paper Series. Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
P. McBurney [1981]: Robustness properties of Johns' estimators. Inaugral Symposium
of the Southern African Mathematical Sciences Association (SAMSA). Gaberone, Botswana, December 1981.
M. McEwin, S. Linacre, R. A. Karmel and P. J. McBurney [1980]: The
Construction of an Index of Socio-Economic Status from the 1976 Population
Census and the Use of this Index as a Measure of Disadvantage. Belconnen, ACT, Australia:
Australian Bureau of Statistics. 73 pp. P. McBurney [1980]: How to pass Economics 1 (in six easy lessons). ANU Orientation
Handbook, March 1980, pp. 44-46. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU Students' Association.
P. J. McBurney [1979]: Adaptive Estimators of Location. Honours year
dissertation, Department of Statistics & Econometrics, Australian National
University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. 126 pp.
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