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Membership Details (University/College)

Contact: Stephen Cranefield
Member node: AM018
University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin New Zealand
New Zealand

Description

The departments of Information Science and Computer Science at the University of Otago are highly active in agent-related research and organisation and programme committee membership of conferences and workshops related to the field. Key researchers are Martin Purvis, Stephen Cranefield, Maryam Purvis, Noria Foukia (joining us in late June 2005) and Mariusz Nowostowski in the Information Science department, and Hans van Ditmarsch and Willem Labuschagne in the Computer Science department.

The university is a member of FIPA, and Purvis and Cranefield have (between them) participated in seven FIPA meetings. We were also active participants in the Agentcities project, and were named in that project's entry for the 2003 Descartes Prize for Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievements Resulting from European Collaborative Research, which was one of the eight finalists for that award. We have developed a FIPA agent platform named Opal that ran our node in the Agentcities network.

Journal editorships include Multiagent and Grid Systems (Cranefield).

Conference and workshop organisation activities include:

Local organising committee for Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA), Auckland, 2004; Local organiser for Australasian Association of Logic Annual Meeting (AAL), 2004; Co-organiser of Eighth Workshop on Games in Logic, Languages & Computation (GLLC 8) 2003 and Fourth Workshop on Games in Logic, Languages & Computation (GLLC 4) 2000; Co-chair for Workshop on Logic and Multi-Agent Systems, Dunedin, 2002; Co-chair for Ontologies in Agents Systems at Agents 2001, AAMAS 2002 and AAMAS 2003;

Conference PC membership includes:

AAMAS 2002-2005; IEEE/WIC/ACM Int. Conf. on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) 2003 and 2005; Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA) 2005; German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies (MATES), 2004-2005

Workshop PC membership includes:

Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management at AAMAS 2005; Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing at AAMAS 2003-2005; Engineering Self-Organising Applications at AAMAS 2003-2005; Multi-Agents for Modeling Complex Systems at the European Conference on Complex Systems, 2005; Challenges in Open Agent Systems at AAMAS 2003; Resources, Role and Task Allocation in Multi-Agent Systems at AAMAS 2003; Ontologies for Distributed Systems at IJCAI 2003; Toward an Application Science: MAS Problem Spaces and Their Implications to Achieving Globally Coherent Behavior at AAMAS 2002; Agent-based Cluster and Grid Computing at CCGrid 2002; Issues of Scalability and Infrastructure in Multi-Agent Systems at Autonomous Agents 2001.

Conference tutorial and summer school activities include:

Advanced course on Dynamic Epistemic Logic at ESSLLI 2005; PRICAI 2004 tutorial on Specifying Knowledge in Multi-Agent Systems; Course on knowledge representation at the (NICTA / ANU) Logic and Automated Reasoning Summer School, 2003; Introductory Course on Epistemic Logic and Multiagent Systems, and Advanced Course on Dynamic Epistemic Logic at ESSLLI 2003; (All presented/co-presented by van Ditmarsch)

Publications include the following journal and full AAMAS and IAT conference papers:

van Ditmarsch, H. Prolegomena to Dynamic Logic for Belief Revision, Knowledge, Rationality, Action (Synthese). To appear.

Labuschagne, W. A. and Heidema, J. Natural and artificial cognition: On the proper place of reason. South African Journal of Philosophy 24(2):137-151, 2005

van Ditmarsch, H. P., van der Hoek, W. and Kooi, B.P. Dynamic Epistemic Logic with Assignment. Accepted for publication in the proceedings of AAMAS 2005

Foukia, N. IDReAM: Intrusion Detection and Response executed with Agent Mobility. Accepted for publication in the proceedings of AAMAS 2005.

Ehrler, L. and Cranefield, S. Executing Agent UML diagrams. Proceedings of AAMAS 2004, pp. 906-913

Purvis, M. Narrative structures for multi-agent interaction. Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 2004, pp. 232-238

Pan, J., Cranefield, S. and Carter, D. A lightweight ontology repository. Proceedings of AAMAS 2003, pp. 632-638

Purvis, M., Cranefield, S., Ward R., Nowostawski, M., Carter, D. and Bush, G. A multi-agent system for the integration of distributed environmental information. Environmental Modelling and Software, 18(6), pp. 565-572, 2003

Cranefield, S. and Purvis, M. A UML profile and mapping for the generation of ontology-specific content languages. Knowledge Engineering Review, 17(1), pp. 21-39, 2002

Other publications are listed in the following Web pages:

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/p/Purvis:Martin_K=.html
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/c/Cranefield:Stephen.html
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/p/Purvis:Maryam.html
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/f/Foukia:Noria.html
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/n/Nowostawski:Mariusz.html
http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/hans/publications.html
http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/homepages/willem/publications.html

New Zealand's scientific relationship with the EU:

Please note that New Zealand has a Science and Technology Agreement with the EU (http://www.morst.govt.nz/?CHANNEL=EUROPEAN+UNION&PAGE=European+Union). Although this is a lower-level agreement than the "S&T cooperation agreements" listed at http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/iscp/index_en.cfm?page=Countries, I have been informed by NZ Ministry of Research, Science and Technology's European desk officer (rick.petersen@morst.govt.nz) that the ministry has been "assured by various EU officials that the arrangement has no less status when it comes to access to FP6 programmes".

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