Stephen Cranefield

2026

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Debnath, A., Cranefield, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Lorini, E. (2026). Evaluating LLM alignment with human trust models. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART). 1, (pp. 575-583). SCITEPRESS. doi: 10.5220/0014448300004052

2025

Chapter in Book - Research

Warnakulasuriya, K., Dissanayake, P., De Silva, N., Cranefield, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Ranathunga, S., & De Silva, N. (2025). Evolution of cooperation in LLM-agent societies: A preliminary study using different punishment strategies. In R. Goebel, W. Wahlster & Z.-H. Zhou (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XVIII: International workshop, COINE 2025, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 16253). (pp. 115-133). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-17542-7_7

Debnath, A., Cranefield, S., Lorini, E., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2025). Can LLMs reason about trust? A pilot study. In R. Goebel, W. Wahlster & Z.-H. Zhou (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XVIII: International workshop, COINE 2025, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 16253). (pp. 97-114). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-17542-7_6

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Cranefield, S. (2025). Are LLMs and the model context protocol sufficient for automating web-based information processing? [Short paper]. In A. Ciortea, R. Collier, F. Gandon, A. Harth & A. Zimmermann (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Hypermedia Multi-Agent Systems (HyperAgents) and the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) [CEUR Workshop Proceedings: Vol. 4084]. (pp. 66-72). CEUR-WS. Retrieved from https://ceur-ws.org

2024

Edited Book - Research

Cranefield, S., Nardin, L. G., & Lloyd, N. (Eds.). (2024). Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XVII: International Workshop, COINE 2024, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 15398). Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 160p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-82039-7_9

Chapter in Book - Research

He, S., Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2024). Norm violation detection in Multi-Agent Systems using Large Language Models: A pilot study. In S. Cranefield, L. G. Nardin & N. Lloyd (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XVII: International Workshop, COINE 2024, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 15398). (pp. 146-159). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-82039-7_10

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Ranathunga, S., & Cranefield, S. (2024). Harnessing the power of LLMs for normative reasoning in MASs. In S. Cranefield, L. G. Nardin & N. Lloyd (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XVII: International Workshop, COINE 2024, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 15398). (pp. 132-145). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-82039-7_9

Journal - Research Article

Anavankot, A. M., Cranefield, S., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2024). NEMAS: Norm entrepreneurship in multi-agent systems. Systems, 12, 187. doi: 10.3390/systems12060187

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Amaral, C. J., Hübner, J. F., & Cranefield, S. (2024). Generating and choosing organizations for multi-agent systems [Extended abstract]. In N. Alechina, V. Dignum, M. Dastani & J. S. Sichman (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). (pp. 2824-2826). Richland, SC: International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS). [Abstract]

Cranefield, S., Srivathsan, S., & Pitt, J. (2024). Inferring Lewisian common knowledge using theory of mind reasoning in a forward-chaining rule engine [Extended abstract]. In N. Alechina, V. Dignum, M. Dastani & J. S. Sichman (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). (pp. 2222-2224). Richland, SC: International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS). doi: 10.5555/3635637.3663114

2023

Journal - Research Article

Amaral, C. J., Hübner, J. F., & Cranefield, S. (2023). Generating and choosing organisations for multi-agent systems. Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems, 37, 41. doi: 10.1007/s10458-023-09623-8

Shamoug, A., Cranefield, S., & Dick, G. (2023). SEmHuS: A semantically embedded humanitarian space. Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 8(3). doi: 10.1186/s41018-023-00135-4

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Charpenay, V., Baldoni, M., Ciortea, A., Cranefield, S., Padget, J., & Singh, M. P. (2023). Governing agents on the web (Blue sky ideas). In N. Fornara, J. Cheriyan & A. Mertzani (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XVI: 27th International Workshop, COINE 2023, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 14002). (pp. 55-73). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-49133-7_4

Sengupta, A., Cranefield, S., & Pitt, J. (2023). Generalising Axelrod's metanorms game through the use of explicit domain-specific norms. In N. Fornara, J. Cheriyan & A. Mertzani (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XVI: 27th International Workshop, COINE 2023, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 14002). (pp. 21-36). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-49133-7_2

Freitas dos Santos, T., Cranefield, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Osman, N., & Schorlemmer, M. (2023). Cross-community Adapter Learning (CAL) to understand the evolving meanings of norm violation. In E. Elkind (Ed.), Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI ). (pp. 109-117). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2023/13

Anavankot, A., Cranefield, S., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2023). Towards norm entrepreneurship in agent societies. In P. Mathieu, F. Dignum, P. Novais & F. De la Prieta (Eds.), Advances in practical applications of agents, multi-agent systems, and cognitive mimetics, 21st International Conference, PAAMS 2023: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 13955). (pp. 188-199). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-37616-0_16

2022

Chapter in Book - Research

Srivathsan, S., Cranefield, S., & Pitt, J. (2022). Reasoning about collective action in Markov logic: A case study from classical Athens. In N. Ajmeri, A. M. Martin & B. T. R. Savarimuthu (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics (COINE) for governance of multi-agent systems XV: Revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 13549). (pp. 201-212). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-20845-4_13

Sengupta, A., Cranefield, S., & Pitt, J. (2022). Solving social dilemmas by reasoning about expectations. In A. Theodorou, J. C. Nieves & M. De Vos (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XIV: International workshop COINE 2021, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 13239). (pp. 143-159). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-16617-4_10

Srivathsan, S., Cranefield, S., & Pitt, J. (2022). A Bayesian model of information cascades. In A. Theodorou, J. C. Nieves & M. De Vos (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XIV: International workshop COINE 2021, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 13239). (pp. 97-110). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-16617-4_7

Journal - Research Article

Hou, J., Ding, X., Deng, J. D., & Cranefield, S. (2022). Deep adversarial transition learning using cross-grafted generative stacks. Neural Networks, 149, 172-183. doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2022.02.011

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Cranefield, S. (2022). Enabling BDI group plans with coordination middleware: Semantics and implementation [Extended abstract]. In P. Faliszewski, V. Mascardi, C. Pelachaud & M. E. Taylor (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). (pp. 1932-1934). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS). Retrieved from https://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2022/

2021

Edited Book - Research

Aler Tubella, A., Cranefield, S., Frantz, C., Meneguzzi, F., & Vasconcelos, W. (Eds.). (2021). Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XIII: COIN 2017 & COINE 2020 International Workshops: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 12298). Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 181p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-72376-7

Chapter in Book - Research

Murali, R., Patnaik, S., & Cranefield, S. (2021). Mining international political norms from the GDELT database. In A. Aler Tubella, S. Cranefield, C. Frantz, F. Meneguzzi & W. Vasconcelos (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XIII: COIN 2017 & COINE 2020 International Workshops, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 12298). (pp. 35-56). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-72376-7_3

Cheriyan, J., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Cranefield, S. (2021). Norm violation in online communities: A study of Stack Overflow comments. In A. Aler Tubella, S. Cranefield, C. Frantz, F. Meneguzzi & W. Vasconcelos (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XIII: COIN 2017 & COINE 2020 International Workshops, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 12298). (pp. 20-34). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-72376-7_2

Journal - Research Article

Cranefield, S. (2021). Enabling BDI group plans with coordination middleware: Semantics and implementation. Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems, 35, 45. doi: 10.1007/s10458-021-09525-7

Pitt, J., & Cranefield, S. (2021). A conceptual model and metaplatform for public interest technology design. IEEE Transactions on Technology & Society, 2(2), 71-82. doi: 10.1109/TTS.2021.3075189

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Cranefield, S., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2021). Normative multi-agent systems and human-robot interaction. Proceedings of the Ro-Man Workshop on Robot Behavior Adaptation to Human Social Norms (TSAR). Retrieved from https://tsar2021.ai.vub.ac.be

Cranefield, S., & Dhiman, A. (2021). Identifying norms from observation using MCMC sampling. In Z.-H. Zhou (Ed.), Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). (pp. 118-124). IJCAI. doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2021/17

Hou, J., Deng, J. D., Cranefield, S., & Ding, X. (2021). Cross-domain latent modulation for variational transfer learning. Proceedings of the IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). (pp. 3148-3157). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/WACV48630.2021.00319

Cheriyan, J., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Cranefield, S. (2021). Towards offensive language detection and reduction in four Software Engineering communities. In R. Chitchyan, J. Li, B. Weber & T. Yue (Eds.), Proceedings of the Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) Conference. (pp. 254-259). New York, NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3463274.3463805

2020

Chapter in Book - Research

Cranefield, S., & Dignum, F. (2020). Incorporating social practices in BDI agent systems. In L. A. Dennis, R. H. Bordini & Y. Lespérance (Eds.), Engineering multi-agent systems: 7th International Workshop EMAS 2019, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 12058). (pp. 109-126). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-51417-4_6

Ferrando, A., Winikoff, M., Cranefield, S., Dignum, F., & Mascardi, V. (2020). On enactability of agent interaction protocols: Towards a unified approach. In L. A. Dennis, R. H. Bordini & Y. Lespérance (Eds.), Engineering multi-agent systems: 7th International Workshop EMAS 2019, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 12058). (pp. 43-64). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-51417-4_3

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Cranefield, S., Clark-Younger, H., & Hay, G. (2020). A collective action simulation platform. In M. Paolucci, J. S. Sichman & H. Verhagen (Eds.), Multi-agent-based simulation XX (20th International Workshop, MABS 2019): Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 12025). (pp. 69-80). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-60843-9_6

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Murali, R., Patnaik, S., & Cranefield, S. (2020). Mining international political norms from the GDELT database [Extended abstract]. Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS). (pp. 1943-1945). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS). Retrieved from http://www.ifaamas.org

Amaral, C. J., Kampik, T., & Cranefield, S. (2020). A framework for collaborative and interactive agent-oriented developer operations [Extended abstract]. Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS). (pp. 2092-2094). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS). Retrieved from http://www.ifaamas.org

Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Amaral, C. J., Cranefield, S., Hübner, J. F., & Roloff, M. L. (2020). Integrating industrial artifacts and agents through Apache Camel. arXiv. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11694

Cheriyan, J., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Cranefield, S. (2020). Norm violation in online communities: A study of Stack Overflow comments. arXiv. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05589

Murali, R., Patnaik, S., & Cranefield, S. (2020). Mining international political norms from the GDELT database. arXiv. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14027

2019

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Hou, J., Ding, X., Deng, J. D., & Cranefield, S. (2019). Unsupervised domain adaptation using deep networks with cross-grafted stacks. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVW). (pp. 3257-3264). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICCVW.2019.00407

Amaral, C. J., Cranefield, S., Hübner, J. F., & Roloff, M. L. (2019). Giving Camel to artifacts for Industry 4.0 integration challenges. In Y. Demazeau, E. Matson, J. M. Corchado & F. De la Prieta (Eds.), Advances in practical applications of survivable agents and multi-agent systems: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 11523). (pp. 232-236). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-24209-1_20

Cranefield, S., Oren, N., & Vasconcelos, W. (2019). Accountability for practical reasoning agents. In M. Lujak (Ed.), Agreement technologies: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 11327). (pp. 33-48). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-17294-7_3

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Cranefield, S., & Dignum, F. (2019). Incorporating social practices in BDI agent systems [Extended abstract]. In N. Agmon, M. E. Taylor, E. Elkind & M. Veloso (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS). (pp. 1901-1903). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS). Retrieved from http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2019

Ferrando, A., Winikoff, M., Cranefield, S., Dignum, F., & Mascardi, V. (2019). On enactability of agent interaction protocols: Towards a unified approach [Extended abstract]. In N. Agmon, M. E. Taylor, E. Elkind & M. Veloso (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS). (pp. 1955-1957). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS). Retrieved from http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2019

Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Cranefield, S., & Dignum, F. (2019). Incorporating social practices in BDI agent systems. arXiv. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03189

2018

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Shamoug, A., Cranefield, S., & Dick, G. (2018). Information retrieval for humanitarian crises via a semantically classified word embedding. In K. Stock & D. Bunker (Eds.), Proceedings of the Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Asia Pacific 2018 Conference: Innovating for Resilience. (pp. 132-144). Wellington, New Zealand: Massey University. [Full Paper]

Other Research Output

Dignum, F., O'Kane, P., Wooliscroft, B., & Cranefield, S. (2018, October). When will AI take your job? Otago Business School, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Public Discussion].

2017

Edited Book - Research

Cranefield, S., Mahmoud, S., Padget, J., & Rocha, A. P. (Eds.). (2017). Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems XII: COIN 2016 International Workshops: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 10315). Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 171p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-66595-5

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Devananda, M., Cranefield, S., Lloyd, H., & Winikoff, M. (2017). Patient information model to support population-level workload analysis. Proceedings of the 28th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS). 48. Retrieved from https://www.acis2017.org

Cranefield, S., Winikoff, M., Dignum, V., & Dignum, F. (2017). No pizza for you: Value-based plan selection in BDI agents. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). (pp. 178-184). doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2017/26

Devananda, M., Cranefield, S., Winikoff, M., & Lloyd, H. (2017). Workload prediction model of a primary health centre. Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). (pp. 1192-1204). Retrieved from http://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis/

2016

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Cranefield, S., Meneguzzi, F., Oren, N., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2016). A Bayesian approach to norm identification. In G. A. Kaminka, M. Fox, P. Bouquet, E. Hüllermeier, F. Dignum & F. van Harmelen (Eds.), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (Vol. 285): 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI). (pp. 622-629). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-672-9-622

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Cranefield, S. (2016). Supporting group plans in the BDI architecture using coordination middleware [Extended abstract]. In J. Thangarajah, K. Tuyls, C. Jonker & S. Marsella (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). (pp. 1427-1428). New York: ACM. [Abstract]

Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Cranefield, S. (2016). Supporting group plans in the BDI architecture using coordination middleware. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6232

2015

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Bakr, S., & Cranefield, S. (2015). Using the shapley value for fair consumer compensation in energy demand response programs: Comparing algorithms. Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Science and Data Intensive Systems (DSDIS). (pp. 440-447). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/DSDIS.2015.83

Cranefield, S., & Ranathunga, S. (2015). Handling agent perception in heterogeneous distributed systems: A policy-based approach. In T. Holvoet & M. Viroli (Eds.), Coordination models and languages: Lecture notes in computer science (Vol. 9037). (pp. 169-185). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-19282-6_11

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Winikoff, M., & Cranefield, S. (2015). On the testability of BDI agent systems [Extended abstract]. Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). (pp. 4217-4221). Retrieved from http://ijcai.org/papers15/Abstracts/IJCAI15-599.html

Cranefield, S., Savarimuthu, T., Meneguzzi, F., & Oren, N. (2015). A Bayesian approach to norm identification [Extended abstract]. In R. H. Bordini, E. Elkind, G. Weiss & P. Yolum (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). (pp. 1743-1744). Richland, SC: International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. [Abstract]

Film/Video/CD Rom

Petersen, T. (violin), Van Buskirk, J. (piano), McGrath, T. (piano), Cranefield, S. (clarinet), & Egenes, J. (producer) (2015). Father & Son: Music by John and Anthony Ritchie. Auckland, New Zealand: Ode Records. [Film/Digital Recording/CD-Rom].

Other Research Output

Cranefield, S. (2015, December). Building socially intelligent software. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Inaugural Professorial Lecture].

2014

Chapter in Book - Research

Cranefield, S. (2014). Agents and expectations. In T. Balke, F. Dignum, M. Birna van Riemsdijk & A. K. Chopra (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems IX: COIN 2013 International Workshops, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 8386). (pp. 234-255). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-07314-9_13

Journal - Research Article

Winikoff, M., & Cranefield, S. (2014). On the testability of BDI agent systems. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 51, 71-131. doi: 10.1613/jair.4458

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2014). Contextual information retrieval in research articles: Semantic publishing tools for the research community. Semantic Web, 5(4), 261-293. doi: 10.3233/SW-130097

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

López, B., Ghose, A., Savarimuthu, T., Nowostawski, M., Winikoff, M., & Cranefield, S. (2014). Towards energy-aware optimisation of business processes. In M. Helfert, K.-H. Krempels & B. Donnellan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems (Smartgreens). (pp. 68-75). SciTePress. [Full Paper]

Bakr, S., Cranefield, S., & Ford, R. (2014). A fair and profit-optimal consumer compensation structure for load curtailment programmes in smart grids. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Demand Response. Retrieved from http://www.wattalyst.org/WattalystWebsite/index.html/#

Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings

Cranefield, S., Trotman, A., & Yang, J. (Eds.). (2014). Proceedings of the Second Australasian Web (AWC) Conference, 155. Auckland, New Zealand: ACS. 70p.

2013

Chapter in Book - Research

Balke, T., Cranefield, S., Di Tosto, G., Mahmoud, S., Paolucci, M., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Verhagen, H. (2013). Simulation and NorMAS. In G. Andrighetto, G. Governatori, P. Noriega & L. W. N. van der Torre (Eds.), Normative multi-agent systems. (pp. 171-189). Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl. doi: 10.4230/DFU.Vol4.12111.171

Singh, M. P., Arrott, M., Balke, T., Chopra, A., Christiaanse, R., Cranefield, S., … Savarimuthu, B. T. R., … Villata, S. (2013). The uses of norm. In G. Andrighetto, G. Governatori, P. Noriega & L. W. N. van der Torre (Eds.), Normative multi-agent systems. (pp. 191-229). Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl. doi: 10.4230/DFU.Vol4.12111.191

Cranefield, S., & Ranathunga, S. (2013). Embedding agents in business processes using enterprise integration patterns. In M. Cossentino, A. El Fallah Seghrouchni & M. Winikoff (Eds.), Engineering multi-agent systems: First International Workshop EMAS, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in computer science (Vol. 8245). (pp. 97-116). Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-45343-4_6

Ranathunga, S., & Cranefield, S. (2013). Improving situation awareness in intelligent virtual agents. In F. Dignum, C. Brom, K. Hindriks, M. Beer & D. Richards (Eds.), Cognitive agents for virtual environments: First International Workshop CAVE 2012, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 7764). (pp. 134-148). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-36444-0_9

Andrighetto, G., Cranefield, S., Conte, R., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Villatoro, D. (2013). (Social) norms and agent-based simulation. In S. Ossowski (Ed.), Agreement technologies: Law, governance and technology series (Vol. 8). (pp. 181-189). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-5583-3_11

Journal - Research Article

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2013). Context identification of sentences in research articles: Towards developing intelligent tools for the research community. Natural Language Engineering, 19(4), 481-515. doi: 10.1017/S1351324912000277

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. A., & Purvis, M. K. (2013). Identifying prohibition norms in agent societies. Artificial Intelligence & Law, 21(1), 1-46. doi: 10.1007/s10506-012-9126-7

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2013). Conditional random field based sentence context identification: Enhancing citation services for the research community. In H. Ashman, Q. Z. Sheng & A. Trotman (Eds.), Proceedings of the First Australasian Web Conference (AWC). (pp. 59-68). Sydney, Australia: Australian Computer Society. [Full Paper]

Bakr, S., & Cranefield, S. (2013). Optimizing shiftable appliance schedule across residential neighbours for lower energy costs and fair billing. In S. Khanna, C. Guttmann, A. Sattar, D. Hansen & F. Koch (Eds.), Proceedings of the Australasian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Health (AIH) and International Workshop on Collaborative Agents Research and Development (CARE). (pp. 42-52). Retrieved from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1098/

Hu, M., Winikoff, M., & Cranefield, S. (2013). A process for novice programming using goals and plans. In A. Carbone & J. Whalley (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifteenth Australasian Computing Education (ACE) Conference. (pp. 3-12). Adelaide, Australia: ACS. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Bakr, S., & Cranefield, S. (2013). Optimizing wet appliance schedules across residential neighbourhoods for lower energy costs and fair billing. Proceedings of the Otago Energy Research Centre (OERC) Symposium. (pp. 6). Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/oerc/

Cranefield, S., & Ranathunga, S. (2013). Embedding agents in business applications using enterprise integration patterns [Extended abstract]. In T. Ito, C. Jonker, M. Gini & O. Shehory (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). (pp. 1223-1224). Richland, SC: International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. [Abstract]

Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings

Cranefield, S., & Nayak, A. (Eds.). (2013). Advances in artificial intelligence: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 8272). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. 516p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-03680-9

Performance

Cranefield, S. (clarinet), Idrus, F. (flute), Donnelly, J. (bassoon), Petersen, T. (violin), Filmer, A. (viola), McGrath, T. (piano), Moore, E. (euphonium), & Van Buskirk, J. (2013, 1 May). Department of Music Showcase Series: New Zealand Music Month Concert I, works by Dobson, Ritchie and Ritchie, Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].

2012

Edited Book - Research

Cranefield, S., van Riemsdijk, M. B., Vázquez-Salceda, J., & Noriega, P. (Eds.). (2012). Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent system VII: COIN 2011 International Workshops, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 7254). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, 221p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-35545-5

Cranefield, S., & Song, I. (Eds.). (2012). Agent based simulation for a sustainable society and multi-agent smart computing: PRIMA 2011 International Workshop: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 7580). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, 125p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-35612-4

Chapter in Book - Research

Cranefield, S., Winikoff, M., & Vasconcelos, W. (2012). Modelling and monitoring interdependent expectations. In S. Cranefield, M. B. van Riemsdijk, J. Vázquez-Salceda & P. Noriega (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent system VII: COIN 2011 International Workshops, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 7254). (pp. 149-166). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-35545-5_9

Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2012). Interfacing a cognitive agent platform with Second Life. In M. Beer, Brom, F. Dignum & V.-W. Soo (Eds.), Agents for educational games and simulations: International Workshop AEGS 2011, revised papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 7471). (pp. 1-21). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-32326-3_1

Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2012). Integrating expectation monitoring into BDI agents. In L. Dennis, O. Boissier & R. H. Bordini (Eds.), Programming multi-agent systems: 9th International Workshop ProMAS 2011, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 7217). (pp. 74-91). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-31915-0_5

Journal - Research Article

Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2012). Identifying events taking place in Second Life virtual environments. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 26(1-2), 137-181. doi: 10.1080/08839514.2012.629559

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Ranathunga, S., & Cranefield, S. (2012). Expectation and complex event handling in BDI-based intelligent virtual agents (Demonstration). In V. Conitzer, M. Winikoff, W. van der Hoek & L. Padgham (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). (pp. 1491-1492). Richland, SC: International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. [Full Paper]

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2012). A citation centric annotation scheme for scientific articles. In P. Cook & S. Nowson (Eds.), Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) Workshop. 10, (pp. 5-14). [Full Paper]

Hu, M., Winikoff, M., & Cranefield, S. (2012). Teaching novice programming using goals and plans in a visual notation. In M. de Raadt & A. Carbone (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth Australasian Computing Education (ACE) Conference. (pp. 43-52). Melbourne, Australia: ACS. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)

López, B., Ghose, A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Nowostawski, M., Winikoff, M., & Cranefield, S. (2012, June). Energy-aware optimisation of business processes. Poster session presented at the Third International Workshop on Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES), Valencia, Spain.

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Cranefield, S. (2012, June). The role of trust in virtual worlds [Workshop]. Verbal presentation at the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Valencia, Spain.

2011

Chapter in Book - Research

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. A., & Purvis, M. K. (2011). Identifying conditional norms in multi-agent societies. In M. de Vos, N. Fornara, J. V. Pitt & G. Vouros (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems VI: COIN 2010 International Workshops, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 6541). (pp. 285-302). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-21268-0

Journal - Research Article

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Cranefield, S. (2011). Norm creation, spreading and emergence: A survey of simulation models of norms in multi-agent systems. Multiagent & Grid Systems, 7(1), 21-54. doi: 10.3233/MGS-2011-0167

Cranefield, S., & Winikoff, M. (2011). Verifying social expectations by model checking truncated paths. Journal of Logic & Computation, 21(6), 1217-1256. doi: 10.1093/logcom/exq055

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2011). Contextual information extraction in research articles: A case of developing contextual RDF data for ESWC papers. In C. Ghidini, A.-C. Ngonga Ngomo, S. Lindstaedt & T. Pellegrini (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS). (pp. 234-236). doi: 10.1145/2063518.2063557

Winikoff, M., Wagner, H.-F., Young, T., Cranefield, S., Jarquin, R., Li, G., … Unland, R. (2011). Agent-based container terminal optimisation. In F. Klügl & S. Ossowski (Eds.), Multiagent system technologies: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 6973). (pp. 137-148). Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-24603-6_14

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2011). Interfacing a cognitive agent platform with a virtual world: A case study using Second Life [Extended abstract]. In K. Tumer, P. Yolum, L. Sonenberg & P. Stone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) (Vol. III). (pp. 1181-1182). Retrieved from http://www.aamas2011.tw/Download.html

Cranefield, S., Jarquin, R., Li, G., Martin, B., Unland, R., Wagner, H.-F., Winikoff, M., & Young, T. (2011). Agent-based container terminal optimisation [Extended abstract]. In K. Tumer, P. Yolum, L. Sonenberg & P. Stone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) (Vol. III). (pp. 1113-1114). Retrieved from http://www.aamas2011.tw/Download.html

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Cranefield, S., Winikoff, M., & Vasconcelos, W. (2011, May). Modelling and monitoring interdependent expectations [Workshop]. Verbal presentation at the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Taipei, Taiwan.

Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2011, May). Integrating expectation handling into Jason. Verbal presentation at the 9th International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS), Taipei, Taiwan.

Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2011). Contextual information retrieval in research articles: Semantic publishing tools for the research community [Information Science Discussion Paper Series No. 2011/06]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 39p.

Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2011). Interfacing a cognitive agent platform with Second Life [Discussion Paper Series: No. 2011/03]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 16p.

Winikoff, M., Wagner, H.-F., Young, T., Cranefield, S., Jarquin, R., Li, G., … Unland, R. (2011). Agent-based container terminal optimisation [Discussion Paper Series: No. 2011/01]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 9p.

Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2011). Integrating expectation handling into Jason [Discussion Paper Series: No. 2011/02]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 16p.

Cranefield, S., Winikoff, M., & Vasconcelos, W. (2011). Modelling and monitoring interdependent expectations [Discussion Paper Series: No. 2011/04]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 15p.

2010

Chapter in Book - Research

Cranefield, S., & Li, G. (2010). Monitoring social expectations in Second Life. In J. Padget, A. Artikis, W. Vasconcelos, K. Stathis, V. Torres da Silva, E. Matson & A. Polleres (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems V: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 6069). (pp. 133-146). Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14962-7_9

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M., & Purvis, M. (2010). A data mining approach to identify obligation norms in agent societies. In L. Cao, A. L. C. Bazzan, V. Gorodetsky, P. A. Mitkas, G. Weiss & P. S. Yu (Eds.), Agents and data mining interaction: 6th International Worksho ADMI, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in computer science (Vol. 5980). (pp. 43-58). Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-15420-1_5

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. A., & Purvis, M. K. (2010). Internal agent architecture for norm identification. In J. Padget, A. Artikis, W. Vasconcelos, K. Stathis, V. Torres da Silva, E. Matson & A. Polleres (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions and norms in agent systems V: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 6069). (pp. 241-256). Berlin, Germany: Springer.

Journal - Research Article

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. A., & Purvis, M. K. (2010). Obligation norm identification in agent societies. Journal of Artificial Societies & Social Simulation, 13(4). Retrieved from http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/13/4/3.html

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Miles, S., Winikoff, M., Cranefield, S., Nguyen, C. D., Perini, A., Tonella, P., … Luck, M. (2010). Why testing autonomous agents is hard and what can be done about it. Proceedings of the VII Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Technical Forum (AOSE). Retrieved from http://www.pa.icar.cnr.it/cossentino/AOSETF10/docs/miles.pdf

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2010). Context identification of sentences in related work sections using a conditional random field: Towards intelligent digital libraries. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). (pp. 293-302). New York: ACM. [Full Paper]

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2010). Ontology-based modelling of related work sections in research articles: Using CRFs for developing semantic data based information retrieval systems. In A. Paschke, N. Henze & T. Pellegrini (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS). New York: ACM. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Li, C., Winikoff, M., & Cranefield, S. (2010). Agent-based container unloading optimization. Proceedings of the Information Science Postgraduate Day. (pp. 19-20). Retrieved from http://infosci.otago.ac.nz/information-science-postgrad-day-2010/

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2010). Mechanisms for norm emergence and identification in agent societies. Proceedings of the Information Science Postgraduate Day. (pp. 39-40). Retrieved from http://infosci.otago.ac.nz/information-science-postgrad-day-2010/

Li, P., Winikoff, M., & Cranefield, S. (2010). Agent-based container terminal optimisation. Proceedings of the Information Science Postgraduate Day. (pp. 1-2). Retrieved from http://infosci.otago.ac.nz/information-science-postgrad-day-2010/

Hu, M., Winikoff, M., & Cranefield, S. (2010). Using visual notation of goals and plans. Proceedings of the Information Science Postgraduate Day. (pp. 25-26). Retrieved from http://infosci.otago.ac.nz/information-science-postgrad-day-2010/

Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2010). Semantic web application for querying inter-article relationships. Proceedings of the Information Science Postgraduate Day. (pp. 21-22). Retrieved from http://infosci.otago.ac.nz/information-science-postgrad-day-2010/

Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2010). Managing agent expectations in complex environments. Proceedings of the Information Science Postgraduate Day. (pp. 35-36). Retrieved from http://infosci.otago.ac.nz/information-science-postgrad-day-2010/

Perreau de Pinninck, A., Schorlemmer, M., Sierra, C., & Cranefield, S. (2010). A social-network defence against whitewashing [Extended abstract]. In W. van der Hoek & et al (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) [Vol.1]. (pp. 1563-1564). IFAAMAS. Retrieved from http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2010/pdf/02%20Extended%20Abstracts/Blue/B-36.pdf

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Winikoff, M., & Cranefield, S. (2010, December). On testability of BDI agents. Verbal presentation at the 8th European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS), Paris, France.

Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. A., & Purvis, M. K. (2010). Norm identification in multi-agent societies [Information Science Discussion Paper: No. 2010/03]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 36p.

2009

Chapter in Book - Research

Winikoff, M., & Cranefield, S. (2009). Eliciting expectations for monitoring social interactions. In M. Purvis & B. T. R. Savarimuthu (Eds.), Computer-mediated social networking: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 5322). (pp. 171-185). Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02276-0

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., & Cranefield, S. (2009). Norm emergence in multi-agent societies. In D. Król & N. Thanh Nguyen (Eds.), Intelligence integration in distributed knowledge management. (pp. 195-206). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Cranefield, S. (2009). Social norm emergence in virtual agent societies. In M. Baldoni, T. C. Son, M. B. van Riemsdijk & M. Winikoff (Eds.), Declarative agent languages and technologies VI: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 5397). (pp. 18-28). Berlin, Germany: Springer.

Cranefield, S., & Winikoff, M. (2009). Verifying social expectations by model checking truncated paths. In J. F. Hübner, E. Matson, O. Boissier & V. Dignum (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions and norms in agent systems IV: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 5428). (pp. 204-219). Berlin, Germany: Springer.

Journal - Research Article

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. K., & Purvis, M. A. (2009). Norm emergence in agent societies formed by dynamically changing networks. Web Intelligence & Agent Systems, 7(3), 223-232. doi: 10.3233/wia-2009-0164

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Cranefield, S. (2009). A categorization of simulation works on norms. Proceedings of the 4th Normative Multi-Agent Systems (NorMAS) Seminar. Retrieved from http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2009/1905/

De Oliveira, M., Furtado, V., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2009). Institutional environments and open collaborative systems. Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Software Engineering for Agent-Oriented Systems. Retrieved from www.lbd.dcc.ufmg.br:8080/colecoes/seas/2009/002.pdf

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Cranefield, S., & Li, G. (2009). Monitoring social expectations in second life [Extended abstract]. In K. S. Decker, J. S. Sichman, C. Sierra & C. Castelfranchi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) [Vol II]. (pp. 1303-1304). IFAAMAS. Retrieved from http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas09/pdf/02_Extended_Abstract/D_SP_0460.pdf

Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Cranefield, S., & Li, G. (2009). Monitoring social expectations in second life [Discussion Paper Series No. 2009/02]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 12p.

2008

Chapter in Book - Research

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M., & Purvis, M. (2008). Role model based mechanism for norm emergence in artificial agent societies. In J. S. Sichman, J. Padget, S. Ossowski & P. Noriega (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems III: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 4870). (pp. 203-217). Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-79003-7_15

Journal - Research Article

Deng, J. D., Simmermacher, C., & Cranefield, S. (2008). A study on feature analysis for musical instrument classification. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics: Part B, 38(2), 429-438. doi: 10.1109/TSMCB.2007.913394

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Winikoff, M., & Cranefield, S. (2008). Eliciting expectations for monitoring social interactions. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Mediated Social Networking. [CD-ROM] Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago. [Full Paper]

de Oliveira, M., Furtado, V., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2008). Open collaborative systems as institutions of agents. In L. Jain, M. Gini, B. B. Faltings, T. Terano, C. Zhang, N. Cercone & L. Cao (Eds.), IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology. (pp. 100-103). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/WIIAT.2008.51

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Cranefield, S., & Winikoff, M. (2008, May). Verifying social expectations by model checking truncated paths. Verbal presentation at the Fifth Workshop on Coordination, Organisation, Institutions and Norms (COIN) at the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Estoril, Portugal.

Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Winikoff, M., & Cranefield, S. (2008). On the testability of BDI agent systems [Discussion Paper Series No. 2008/03]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 34p.

2007

Chapter in Book - Research

Cranefield, S. (2007). Modelling and monitoring social expectations in multi-agent systems. In Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems II: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 4386). (pp. 308-321). Berlin, Germany: Springer.

Journal - Research Article

Cranefield, S., & Pan, J. (2007). Bridging the gap between the model-driven architecture and ontology engineering. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 65, 595-609.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M., & Purvis, M. (2007). Norm emergence in agent societies formed by dynamically changing networks. In T. Y. Lin, J. M. Bradshaw, M. Klusch, C. Zhang, A. Broder & H. Ho (Eds.), Proceedings of the IEEE, Web Intelligence Consortium and the Association for Computing Machinery International Conference. (pp. 464-470). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. [Full Paper]

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M., & Purvis, M. (2007). Role model based mechanism for norm emergence in artificial agent societies. Proceedings of the Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN). Retrieved from http://www.ia.urjc.es/COIN2007/#proceedings

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2007). Mechanisms for norm emergence in multi-agent societies. Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. (pp. 1104-1106). IFAAMAS. Retrieved from http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas07/html/AAMAS07_0259_1ab0460b9b552686d037ab382e04d10c.xml

Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M., & Purvis, M. (2007). Role model based mechanism for norm emergence in artificial agent societies [Discussion Paper Series No. 2007/02]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 15p.

Cranefield, S., & Winikoff, M. (2007). Verifying social expectations by model checking truncated paths [Discussion Paper Series No. 2007/08]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 8p.

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2007). How do norms emerge in multi-agent societies? Mechanisms design [Discussion Paper Series No. 2007/01]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 8p.

Deng, D., Simmermacher, C., & Cranefield, S. (2007). A study on feature analysis for musical instrument classification [Discussion Paper Series No. 2007/04]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 18p.

2006

Chapter in Book - Research

Cranefield, S. (2006). Reliable group communication and institutional action in a multi-agent trading scenario. In F. Dignum, R. M. van Eijk & R. Flores (Eds.), Agent communication II: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 3859). (pp. 258-272). Berlin, Germany: Springer.

Cranefield, S. (2006). A rule language for modelling and monitoring social expectations in multi-agent systems. In O. Boissier, J. Padget, V. Dignum, G. Lindemann, E. Matson, S. Ossowski, … J. Vázquez-Salceda (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in multi-agent systems: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 3913). (pp. 246-258). Berlin, Germany: Springer.

Journal - Research Article

Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M., De Oliveira, M., & Cranefield, S. (2006). Institutions in the OPAL multi-agent system. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 17(3), 191-207.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Simmermacher, C., Deng, D., & Cranefield, S. (2006). Feature analysis and classification of classical musical instruments: An empirical study. In P. Perner (Ed.), Proceedings of the 6th Industrial Conference on Data Mining (LNAI 4065). (pp. 444-458). Berlin, Germany: Springer. [Full Paper]

Deng, D., Simmermacher, C., & Cranefield, S. (2006). Finding the right features for instrument classification of classical music. In K.-L. Ong, K. Smith-Miles, V. Lee & W.-K. Ng (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop on Integrating AI and Data Mining. (pp. 34-41). Los Alamitos, California: IEEE. [Full Paper]

Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Simmermacher, C., Deng, D., & Cranefield, S. (2006). Feature analysis and classification of classical musical instruments: An empirical study [Discussion Paper Series No. 2006/10]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Information Science, University of Otago. 15p.

2005

Edited Book - Research

Tamma, V., Cranefield, S., Finin, T. W., & Willmott, S. (Eds.). (2005). Ontologies for agents: Theory and experiences. Basel, Switzerland: Birkhäuser, 345p.

Chapter in Book - Research

De Oliveira, M., Nowostawski, M., Cranefield, S. J., & Purvis, M. K. (2005). The role of ontologies when modelling open multi-agent systems as institutions. In R. P. Katarzyniak (Ed.), Ontologies and soft methods in knowledge management. (pp. 181-199). Adelaide: Advanced Knowledge International.

Purvis, M. K., Garside, N., Cranefield, S., Nowostawski, M., & De Oliveira, M. (2005). Multi-agent system technology for P2P applications on small portable devices. In G. Moro, S. Bergamaschi & K. Aberer (Eds.), Lecture notes in computer science (vol. 3601): Agents and peer-to-peer computing. (pp. 153-160). Berlin, Germany: Springer.

Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. (2005). An architecture for self-organising evolvable virtual machines. In S. A. Brueckner, G. Di Marzo Serugendo, A. Karageorgos & R. Nagpal (Eds.), Engineering self-organising systems: Methodologies and applications: Lecture notes in Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 3464). (10.1007/b136984 ed.) (pp. 100-122). Berlin, Germany: Springer.

Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. K., Nowostawski, M., & Hwang, P. (2005). Ontologies for interaction protocols. In V. Tamma, S. Cranefield, T. W. Finin & S. Willmott (Eds.), Ontologies for agents: Theory and experiences. (pp. 1-17). Basel, Switzerland: Birkhäuser.

Cranefield, S., Pan, J., & Purvis, M. (2005). A UML ontology and derived content language for a travel booking scenario. In V. Tamma, S. Cranefield, T. W. Finin & S. Willmott (Eds.), Ontologies for agents: Theory and experiences. (pp. 259-276). Basel, Switzerland: Birkhäuser.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Yu, B.-H., Werstein, P., Purvis, M., & Cranefield, S. (2005). Performance improvement techniques for software distributed shared memory. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 1, (pp. 119-125). Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press. [Full Paper]

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. (2005). Integrating web services with agent based Workflow Management System (WfMS). Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence. (pp. 471-474). Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press. [Full Paper]

Yu, B.-H., Werstein, P., Purvis, M., & Cranefield, S. (2005). Lazy home-based protocol: Combining homeless and home-based distributed shared memory protocols. In L. T. Yang, O. F. Rana, B. Di Martino & J. Dongarra (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (vol. 3726): High Performance Computing and Communications. (pp. 733-744). Berlin, Germany: Springer GmbH. [Full Paper]

Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., George, M., & Cranefield, S. (2005). Experiences with pair and tri programming in a second level course. In R. Khosla, R. J. Howlett & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (vol. 3682): Knowledge-based Intelligent Information and engineering systems, part II. (pp. 701-707). [Full Paper]

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. J. (2005). An agent-enhanced workflow management system. In R. Khosla, R. J. Howlett & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (vol. 3684): Knowledge-based intelligent information and engineering systems, part IV. (pp. 215-220). Berlin, Germany: Springer GmbH. [Full Paper]

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. (2005). Agent-based integration of web services with workflow management systems. In F. Dignum, V. Dignum, S. Koenig, S. Kraus, M. P. Singh & M. Wooldridge (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems. 3, (pp. 1345-1346). New York, NY, USA: ACM Press. [Full Paper]

Cranefield, S. (2005). Reliable group communication and institutional action in a multi-agent trading scenario. In F. Dignum, V. Dignum, S. Koenig, S. Kraus, M. P. Singh & M. Wooldridge (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems. 3, (pp. 1119-1120). New York, NY, USA: ACM Press. [Full Paper]

Cranefield, S. (2005). A rule language for modelling and monitoring social expectations in multi-agent systems. In L. P. Kaelbling & A. Saffiotti (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (pp. 1659-1660). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. [Full Paper]

Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Cranefield, S., & Pan, J. (2005). Bridging the gap between the model-driven architecture and ontology engineering. Department of Information Science. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago. 17p. Retrieved from http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/infosci/pubs/papers/papers/dp2005-12.pdf

Cranefield, S. (2005). A rule language for modelling and monitoring social expectations in multi-agent systems. Department of Information Science. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago. 7p. Retrieved from http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/infosci/pubs/papers/papers/dp2005-01.pdf

2004

Chapter in Book - Research

Purvis, M. K., Nowostawski, M., Cranefield, S., & De Oliveira, M. (2004). Multi-agent interaction technology for peer-to-peer computing in electronic trading environments. In G. Moro, C. Sartori & M. P. Singh (Eds.), Lecture notes in computer science, Volume 2872: Agents and peer-to-peer computing. (pp. 150-161). Berlin: Springer.

Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S., Nowostawski, M., & Purvis, M. A. (2004). Multi-agent system interaction protocols in a dynamically changing environment. In T. A. Wagner (Ed.), An application science for multi-agent systems. (pp. 95-112). Boston: Kluwer Academic.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Purvis, M. K., Nowostawski, M., Cranefield, S., & De Oliveira, M. (2004). Multi-agent interaction technology for peer-to-peer computing in electronic trading environments. In C. Zhang, H. W. Guesgen & W. K. Yeap (Eds.), Lecture notes in computer science, Volume 3157: PRICAI 2004: Trends in artificial intelligence. (pp. 625-634). Berlin: Springer. [Full Paper]

De Oliveira, M., Purvis, M., Cranefield, S., & Nowostawski, M. (2004). A distributed model for institutions in open multi-agent systems. In M. G. Negoita, R. J. Howlett & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Lecture notes in computer science, Volume 3214: Knowledge-based intelligent information and engineering systems. (pp. 1172-1178). Berlin: Springer. [Full Paper]

Yu, B.-H., Huang, Z., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. K. (2004). Homeless and home-based Lazy Release Consistency protocols on Distributed Shared Memory. In V. Estivill-Castro (Ed.), Proceedings of the 27th Australasian Computer Science Conference (Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 26.). (pp. 117-123). Sydney, Australia: Australian Computer Society. [Full Paper]

Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. (2004). Educational experiences from a global software engineering (GSE) project. In R. Lister & A. Young (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Australasian Computing Education Conference (Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 30). (pp. 269-275). Sydney: Australian Computer Society. [Full Paper]

Ehrler, L., & Cranefield, S. (2004). Executing Agent UML diagrams. In N. R. Jennings, C. Sierra, L. Sonenberg & M. Tambe (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. 2, (pp. 906-913). New York: ACM Press. [Full Paper]

De Oliveira, M., Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S., & Nowostawski, M. (2004). Institutions and commitments in open multi-agent systems. In N. Zhong, J. Bradshaw, S. K. Pal, D. Talia, D. J. Liu & N. Cercone (Eds.), Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology. (pp. 500-503). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press. [Full Paper]

Purvis, M. K., Garside, N., Cranefield, S., Nowostawski, M., & De Oliveira, M. (2004). Multi-agent system technology for P2P applications on small portable devices. In G. Moro, S. Bergamaschi & K. Aberer (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing and the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems. (pp. 212-223). New York. Retrieved from http://p2p.ingce.unibo.it/2004/cfp.html#PROGRAM

2003

Journal - Research Article

Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S. J., Ward, R., Nowostawski, M., Carter, D., & Bush, G. (2003). A multi-agent system for the integration of distributed environmental information. Environmental Modelling & Software, 18(6), 565-572. doi: 10.1016/S1364-8152(03)00031-8

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Pan, J., Cranefield, S. J., & Carter, D. (2003). A lightweight ontology repository. In J. S. Rosenschein, T. Sandholm, M. Wooldridge & M. Yokoo (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. (pp. 632-638). New York: ACM Press. [Full Paper]

Purvis, M. K., Nowostawski, M., Cranefield, S. J., & de Oliveira, M. (2003). Multi-agent interaction technology for peer-to-peer computing in electronic trading environments. In G. Moro, C. Sartori & M. Singh (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing and Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Workshop on agents and peer-to-peer computing. (pp. 103-114). Melbourne, Australia. Retrieved from http://p2p.ingce.unibo.it/2003/

Nowostawski, M., Carter, D., Cranefield, S. J., & Purvis, M. K. (2003). Communicative acts and interaction protocols in a distributed information system. In J. S. Rosenschein, T. Sandholm, M. Wooldridge & M. Yokoo (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. (pp. 1082-1083). New York: ACM Press. [Full Paper]

Cranefield, S. J., Pan, J., & Purvis, M. K. (2003). A UML ontology and derived content language for a travel booking scenario. In S. Cranefield, T. Finin, V. Tamma & S. Willmott (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems Second Joint International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems [CEUR Workshop Proceedings: Vol. 73]. CEUR-WS. Retrieved from https://ceur-ws.org

Purvis, M. K., Nowostawski, M., de Oliveira, M., & Cranefield, S. J. (2003). Multi-agent interaction protocols for e-business. In J. Liu, B. Faltings, N. Zhong, R. Lu & T. Nishida (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology. (pp. 318-324). California: IEEE Press. [Full Paper]

Cranefield, S. J., & Purvis, M. K. (2003). Referencing objects in FIPA SL: An analysis and proposal. In B. Burg, J. Dale, T. Finin, H. Nakashima, L. Padgham, C. Sierra & S. Willmott (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Challenges in Open Agent Environments. Retrieved from http://www.agentcities.org/Challenge03/Proc/Papers/ch03_cranefield.pdf

Yu, B.-H., Huang, Z., Cranefield, S. J., & Purvis, M. K. (2003). Supporting Java multimedia applications over ATM networks. In P. Fan & H. Shen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT'03). (pp. 122-126). California: IEEE Press. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings

Cranefield, S. J., Finin, T., Tamma, V., & Willmott, S. (Eds.). (2003). Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Workshop on ontologies in agent systems. Aachen, Germany: CEUR-WS.org. 78p. Retrieved from http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-73/

2002

Chapter in Book - Research

Cranefield, S. J. (2002). UML and the semantic web. In I. F. Cruz, S. Decker, J. Euzenat & D. L. McGuinness (Eds.), The emerging semantic web. (75 ed.) (pp. 3-20). Amsterdam: IOS Press.

Journal - Research Article

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

Cranefield, S. J., Willmott, S., & Finin, T. (2002). Introduction to the special issue on ontologies in agent systems. Knowledge Engineering Review, 17(1), 1-5.

Kogut, P., Cranefield, S. J., Hart, L., Dutra, M., Baclawski, K., Kokar, M., & Smith, J. (2002). UML for ontology development. Knowledge Engineering Review, 17(1), 61-64.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S. J. S., Nowostawski, M., & Purvis, M. A. (2002). Multi-agent system interaction protocols in a dynamically changing environment. In T. A. Wagner (Ed.), 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems. (pp. 65-72). [Full Paper]

Cranefield, S. J., Purvis, M., Nowostawski, M., & Huang, P. (2002). Ontologies for interaction protocols. In S. Cranefield, T. Finin & S. Willmott (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems: 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous and Multi-Agent Systems [CEUR Workshop Proceedings: Vol. 66]. CEUR-WS. Retrieved from https://ceur-ws.org

Purvis, M. K., Huang, P., Purvis, M. A., Cranefield, S. J., & Schievink, M. (2002). Interaction protocols for a network of environmental problem solvers. In A. E. Rizzoli & A. J. Jakeman (Eds.), Proceedings of the iEMSs International Meeting: Integrated Assessment and Decision Support. 3, (pp. 318-323). Italy: International Environmental Modelling and Software Society. [Full Paper]

Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S. J., & Nowostawski, M. (2002). A multi-level infrastructure for agent-oriented development. In C. Castlefranchi & W. L. Johnson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. 1, (pp. 88-89). New York, NY: ACM Press. [Full Paper]

Cranefield, S. J., Nowostawski, M., & Purvis, M. A. (2002). Implementing agent communication languages directly from UML specifications. In C. Castelfranchi & W. L. Johnson (Eds.), Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002). 2, (pp. 553-554). New York: ACM Press. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S. J., Nowostawski, M., Ward, R. W., Carter, D., & de Oliveira, M. (2002). Agentcities interaction using the Opal platform. Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi- Agents Systems. Bologna, Italy: Agentcities Task Force. Retrieved from http://www.agentcities.org/Challenge02/Proc/Papers/ch02_56_purvis.pdf

Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings

Cranefield, S. J., Finin, T., & Willmott, S. (Eds.). (2002). Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent systems: Workshop on ontologies in agent systems. Aachen, Germany: CEUR-WS.org. 103p. Retrieved from http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-66/

2001

Chapter in Book - Research

Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. J. (2001). An architectural approach to messaging in multi-agent systems. In T. Wagner & O. F. Rana (Eds.), Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-agent Systems and Scalable Multi-agent Systems. (pp. 105-110). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag.

Journal - Research Article

Purvis, M. K., Zhou, Q., Cranefield, S. J., Ward, R. W., Raykov, R., & Jessberger, D. (2001). Spatial information modelling and analysis in a distributed environment. Environmental Modelling & Software, 16(5), 439-445.

Cranefield, S. J., & Purvis, M. K. (2001). Integrating environmental information: Incorporating metadata in a distributed information systems architecture. Advances in Environmental Research, 5(4), 319-325.

Cranefield, S. J. (2001). Networked knowledge representation and exchange using UML and RDF. Journal of Digital Information, 1(8). Retrieved from https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/index.php/jodi/article/view/jodi-34

Purvis, M. K., Hwang, P., Purvis, M. A., Madhavji, N., & Cranefield, S. J. (2001). A practical look at software internationalisation. Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science, 5(3), 79-90.

Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles

Huang, Z., Sun, C., Purvis, M., & Cranefield, S. (2001). View-based consistency and false sharing effect in distributed shared memory. Operating Systems Review, 35(2), 51-60.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Yu, B.-H., Huang, Z., Cranefield, S. J., & Purvis, M. K. (2001). Design and implementation of a Java ATM API. In M. Xu, Y. Wang & W. Zhao (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Asia Pacific International Web Conference (APWeb 2001). (pp. 1-6). China: Publishing House of Electronics Industry. [Full Paper]

Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. J. (2001). KEA: Multi-level agent infrastructure. In B. Dunin-Keplicz & E. Nawarecki (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop of Central and Eastern Europe on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS 2001). (pp. 355-362). Kraków, Poland: University of Mining and Metallurgy. [Full Paper]

Nowostawski, M., Bush, G., Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. J. (2001). A multi-level approach and infrastructure for agent-oriented software development. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Infrastructure for Agents, MAS and Scalable MAS, 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents. 2001. (pp. 1-8). Montreal. Retrieved from http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~wagner/workshop/01_nowostawski_bush_purvis_et_al.pdf

Huang, Z., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M., & Sun, C. (2001). View-based consistency and its implementation. Proceedings of the First IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2001). (pp. 74-81). Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society. [Full Paper]

Nowostawski, M., Cranefield, S. J. S., & Purvis, M. K. (2001). Simple semantic language - The abstract content language. In B. Dunin-Keplicz & E. Nawarecki (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop of Central and Eastern Europe on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS 2001). (pp. 347-354). Kraków, Poland: Department of Computer Science, University of Mining and Metallurgy. [Full Paper]

Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. J. (2001). A layered approach for modelling agent conversations. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Infrastructure for Agents, MAS, and Scalable MAS, 5th International Conference of Autonomous Agents. 2001. (pp. 163-170). Montreal. Retrieved from http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/User/O.F.Rana/agents2001/papers/06_nowostawski_et_al.pdf

Cranefield, S. J., & Purvis, M. K. (2001). Generating ontology-specific content languages. In S. Cranefield, T. Finn & S. Willmott (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents 2001. (pp. 29-35). Aachen, Germany: CEUR-WS.org. Retrieved from http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-52/oas01-cranefield-2.pdf

Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S. J., Ward, R. W., Nowostawski, M., Carter, D., & Bush, G. (2001). A multi-agent system for the integration of distributed environmental information. In D. A. Swayne, R. Denzer & G. Schimak (Eds.), Environmental Software Systems - Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems (ISESS'01). (pp. 111-124). Laxeburg, Austria: International Federation for Information Processing. [Full Paper]

Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. J. (2001). Modelling and visualizing agent conversations. In J. P. Müller, E. Andre, S. Sen & C. Frasson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents. (pp. 234-235). New York: ACM Press. [Full Paper]

Cranefield, S. J., Haustein, S., & Purvis, M. K. (2001). UML-based ontology modelling for software agents. In S. Cranefield, T. Finin & S. Willmott (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents. 2001. (pp. 21-28). Aachen, Germany: CEUR-WS.org. Retrieved from http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-52/oas01-cranefield-1.pdf

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Cranefield, S. J. (2001). UML and the Semantic Web. Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Working Symposium. USA: Palo Alto. Retrieved from http://www.semanticweb.org/SWWS/program/full/paper1.pdf

Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings

Cranefield, S. J., Finin, T., & Willmott, S. (Eds.). (2001). Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents. Aachen, Germany: CEUR-WS.org. 117p. Retrieved from http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-52

Software

Cranefield, S. J. (2001). UML data binding for Java (Version http://nzdis.otago.ac.nz/resources/allprojects.xm1#um1-data-binding) [Computer Software]. http://nzdis.otago.ac.nz/resources/allprojects.xm1#um1-data-binding. Retrieved from http://nzdis.otago.ac.nz/resources/allprojects.xm1#um1-data-binding

2000

Chapter in Book - Research

Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S. J., & Nowostawski, M. (2000). A distributed architecture for environmental information systems. In R. Denzer, D. Swayne, M. K. Purvis & G. Schimak (Eds.), Environmental Software Systems - Environmental Information and Decision Support. (pp. 49-56). Boston, USA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Bush, G., Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. J. (2000). Experiences in the development of an agent architecture. In C. Zhang & V. W. Soo (Eds.), Design and Applications of Intelligent Agents. (pp. 76-87). Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M., & Cranefield, S. (2000). An architectural approach to messaging in multi-agent systems. Autonomous Agents 2000 Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems (W13). (pp. 105-110). [Full Paper]

Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. J. (2000). Agent-oriented modelling for complex systems. In S. Halloy & T. Williams (Eds.), Applied Complexity - from Neural Nets to Managed Landscapes. (pp. 205-220). Christchurch, New Zealand: New Zealand Institute for Crop and Food Research. [Full Paper]

Huang, Z., Cranefield, S. J., Purvis, M. K., & McDonald, J. R. (2000). A proposal for a new generation hypertext transfer protocol on ATM networks. In G. H. Young (Ed.), World Wide Web: Technologies and Applications for the New Millenium. Proceedings of the 2nd Asia Pacific Web Conference 1999. (pp. 255-259). Athens, Georgia, USA: CSREA Press. [Full Paper]

Nowostawski, M., Bush, G., Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. J. (2000). Platforms for agent-oriented software engineering. In J. S. Dong, J. He & M. Purvis (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2000). (pp. 480-488). Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press. [Full Paper]

Huang, Z., Sun, C., Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. J. (2000). View-based consistency for distributed shared memory. In J. K. Lee, M. Juric, A. Bruzzone, D. Klovshy & M. Fujita (Eds.), Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI '2000) and the 6th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS '2000). VIII, (pp. 1-6). Stokie, Illinois, USA: International Institute of Informatics and Systemics. [Full Paper]

Cranefield, S. J., & Purvis, M. K. (2000). Extending agent messaging to enable OO information exchange. In R. Trappl (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium 'From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation' at the 15th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research. (pp. 573-578). Vienna, Austria: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies. [Full Paper]

Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S. J., Bush, G., Carter, D., McKinlay, B., Nowostawski, M., & Ward, R. W. (2000). The NZDIS project: An agent-based distributed information systems architecture. In R. H. Sprague, Jr (Ed.), Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-33). CD ROM. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Cranefield, S. J., Purvis, M. K., & Nowostawski, M. (2000). Is it an ontology or an abstract syntax? - Modelling objects, knowledge and agent messages. Proceedings of the Workshop on Applications of Ontologies and Problem-Solving Methods, 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI '00). 2000. Berlin, Germany. Retrieved from http://delicias.dia.fi.upm.es/WORKSHOP/ECAI00/16.pdf

1999

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Cranefield, S. J., Moreale, E., McKinlay, B., & Purvis, M. K. (1999). Automating the interoperation of information processing tools. In R. H. Sprague, Jr (Ed.), Proceedings of the 32nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-32). CD-ROM. Los Alamitos, California, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press. [Full Paper]

Cranefield, S. J. S., & Purvis, M. K. (1999). UML as an ontology modelling language. In D. Fensel (Ed.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Information Integration, 16th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-99). 23, (pp. 46-53). CEUR-WS.org. Retrieved from http://CEUR-WS.org?Vol-23/cranefiled-ijcai99-iii.pdf

Huang, Z., Cranefield, S. J. S., Chee, V. K. M., & Purvis, M. K. (1999). A Java networking API for ATM networks. In J. Chen, J. Lu & B. Meyer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st International Conference and Exhibition on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS Asia 99). (pp. 306-315). Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press. [Full Paper]

1998

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S. J. S., & Ward, R. W. (1998). Distributed software systems: from objects to agents. In M. K. Purvis, S. J. S. Cranefield & S. G. MacDonell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference of Software Engineering: Education & Practice (SE:E&P'98). (pp. 158-165). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. [Full Paper]

Cranefield, S. J. S., McKinlay, B., Moreale, E., & Purvis, M. K. (1998). Automating information processing tasks: an agent-based architecture. In A. Holsten, G. Joeris, C. Klauck, M. Klusch, H. J. Müeller & J. P. Müeller (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Agents in Information and Process Management, 22nd German Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (9/98), TZI Report, (pp. 59-70). University of Bremen: Technologie-Zentrum Informatik. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings

Purvis, M., Cranefield, S., & MacDonell, S. (Eds.). (1998). Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering: Education & Practice. IEEE. 419p.

1997

Chapter in Book - Research

Cranefield, S. J., & Purvis, M. K. (1997). An agent-based architecture for software tool coordination. In L. Cavedon, A. S. Rao & W. Wobcke (Eds.), Intelligent Agent Systems: Theoretical and Practical Issues. (pp. 44-58). Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag.

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Diaz, A. C., Cranefield, S. J., & Purvis, M. K. (1997). Planning and matchmaking in a multi-agent system for software integration. Verbal presentation at the 11th International Conference on Mathematical and Computer Modelling and Scientific Computing

1996

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. J. (1996). Agent modelling with Petri nets. Proceedings of the Computational Engineering in Systems Applications Conference (CESA '96), Incorporating the Symposium on Discrete Events and Manufacturing Systems. (pp. 602-607). Lille, France: IMACS Multiconference. [Full Paper]

Purvis, M. K., & Cranefield, S. J. (1996). Agent-based software engineering. Asia Pacific Workshop of Software Engineering Research. (pp. 4.4/1-4.4/5). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong. [Full Paper]

Cranefield, S. J. S., & Purvis, M. K. (1996). An architecture for agent-integrated desktop tools. Proceedings of the Poster Session, 4th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRKAI '96'). (pp. 69-76). Cairns: Griffith University. [Full Paper]

Cranefield, S. J. S., & Purvis, M. K. (1996). An agent-based approach for desktop tool integration. Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference: Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems and Neural Networks. (pp. 127-130). Honolulu, Anahein, CA: IASTED/ Acta. [Full Paper]

Cranefield, S. J. S., & Gorman, P. L. (1996). Agents in software engineering. Proceedings of Software Engineering: Education and Practice (SE:E&P '96), Dunedin. (pp. 511-513). Los Alamitos, CA,: IEEE Computer Society Press. [Full Paper]

1995

Journal - Research Article

Cranefield, S. J., Gorman, P. L., & Purvis, M. K. (1995). Communicating agents: an emerging approach for distributed heterogeneous systems. New Zealand Journal of Computing, 6(1B), 337-343.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Cranefield, S. J. S., & Purvis, M. K. (1995). Agent-based intergration of general-purpose tools. Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, Fourth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Retrieved from http://www.cs.umbc.edu./~cikm/ii/proc.html