Professional Activities of Peter McBurney

Journal Editorships

• The Knowledge Engineering Review
  2007-present: Co-Editor-in-Chief.

• Argument and Computation
  2006: Co-founder
  2009-present: Member, Editorial Board.

Editorship of Journal Special Issues

• 2012: Journal of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (with E. Gerding and S. Parsons)
  Special Issue on Competition Between Markets and the CAT Tournament, 11 (1), January-February 2012.

• 2011: The Knowledge Engineering Review (with M. Viroli and S. Parsons)
  Special Issue on 25+25: the Past and Future of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering, 26 (1), March 2011.
  

• 2010: Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (with E. Gerding and X. Yao):
  Special Issue on Market-Based Control of Computational Systems, 21 (2), September 2010.
  

• 2008: Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (with A. Omicini):
  Special Issue on Emerging Topics in Agent Systems, 17 (3), December 2008.
  

• 2007: IEEE Intelligent Systems (with I. Rahwan):
  Special Issue on Argumentation Technologies, 22 (6), November/December 2007.
  

• 2007: ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (with A. Omicini, P. Petta and T. Payne):
  Special Issue on Research in Multi-Agent Systems, 2 (4), November 2007.
  

• 2006: Knowledge, Rationality and Action/Synthese (with S. van Otterloo and M. Wooldridge):
  Special Issue on Knowledge and Games, 149 (2), March 2006.
  

• 2005: The Knowledge Engineering Review (with A. Omicini):
  Special Issue on the AgentLink Technical Forums, 20(2), June 2005.
  

Edited Book Collections and Proceedings

• 2012: P. McBurney, S. Parsons and I. Rahwan (Editors): Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Revised, selected and invited papers from ArgMAS 2011 (Taipei, Taiwan). Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag AG. In Preparation

• 2011: P. McBurney, I. Rahwan and S. Parsons (Editors): Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. Volume 6614 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Revised, selected and invited papers from ArgMAS 2010 (Toronto, Canada). Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag AG.

• 2010: P. McBurney, I. Rahwan, S. Parsons and N. Maudet (Editors) [2010]: Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. Volume 6057 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Revised, selected and invited papers from ArgMAS 2009 (Budapest, Hungary). Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag AG.

• 2003: Y. Ohsawa and P. McBurney (Editors) [2003]: Chance Discovery. Advanced Information Processing Series. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag AG.

• 2003: P. McBurney, Y. Ohsawa and S. Parsons (Editors) [2003]: Chance Discovery: The Discovery and Management of Chance Events. AAAI Fall Symposium. Technical Report FS-02-01. Menlo Park, CA, USA: American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

• 2002: P. McBurney and M. J. Wooldridge (Editors) [2002]: Proceedings of the Fifth Meeting of the UK Special Interest Group on Multi-Agent Systems (UKMAS-2002). Liverpool, UK.

Conference and Workshop Organisation

• International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS)
  2011: Chair, Innovative Applications Track
  2012: Senior Program Committee member, Innovative Applications Track
  2005, 2006, 2007, 2008: Program Committee member, Industry and Applications Track
  2005: Co-sponsor and co-initiator, Industry and Applications Track
  2003: Publicity Chair
  2007, 2012: Senior Program Committee member
  2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010: Program Committee member
  2011: PC Member, Demo Track

• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
  2003, 2011: Program Committee member

• USA National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  2012, 2013: Co-Chair, Doctoral Mentoring Program
  2011: PC Member, Doctoral Mentoring Program
  2007, 2008, 2010, 2011: Program Committee member

• European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
  2010: Program Committee member
  2002, 2004: Reviewer
  

• International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA)
  2006, 2008, 2010: Program Committee member
  2006: Co-sponsor and co-founder
  

• German National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI)
  2009: Program Committee member

• Italian National Congress on Artificial Intelligence (AIIA)
  2005, 2006: Program Committee member

• International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (Tridentcom)
  2005: Program Committee member
  

• International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS)
  2004-present: Co-Founder and Steering Committee Member
  2009, 2010, 2011: Chair
  2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008: Program Committee member
  

• International Workshop on Agent Communications and Languages (AC)
  2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010: Program Committee member

• International Workshops on Game-Theoretic and Decision-Theoretic Agents (GTDT) and Interactive Decision Theory and Game Theory (IDTGT)
  2003, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2011: Program Committee member
  

• International Workshop on Agent-Mediated E-Commerce (AMEC)
  2011: Program Committee member
  

• International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA)
  2011: Program Committee member
  

• International Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA)
  2008, 2009, 2010, 2011: Program Committee member
  

• International Workshop on Engineering Societies for the Agents World (ESAW)
  2004, 2005, 2006: Program Committee member
  

• International Workshop on the Foundations of Interactive Computation (FINCO)
  2005, 2007: Program Committee member
  

• International Workshop on Chance Discovery (CD)
  2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2011: Program Committee member
  

• International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Language (CMNA)
  2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006: Program Committee member
  

• International Workshop on Argumentation, Dialogue and Decision-Making (ADDM-NMR)
  2006: Program Committee member
  

• International Workshop on Learning and Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems (LAMAS)
  2005, 2007: Program Committee member
  

• International Workshop on Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems (DAMAS)
  2005: Program Committee member
  

• International Workshop on AI for Simulation and Simulation for AI (AISSAI)
  2010: Program Committee member
  

• International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC)
  2008: Co-sponsor
  2008: Local Organizing Committee member
  

• European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS)
  2011: Invited Speaker
  2003, 2004, 2005: Program Committee member
  

• UK Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (UKMAS)
  2002: Program Co-Chair
  

• First International Workshop on Market-Based Control in Computational Systems (MBC)
  2008: Co-chair
  

• First International Workshop on Robustness and Reliability of Electronic Marketplaces (RREM)
  2011: Co-chair
  

• AgentLink III Agent Technical Forums (AL3-TF)
  2004-5: Co-founder and co-sponsor
  2004 (TF1): Co-Chair
  2005 (TF2), 2005 (TF3): Program Committee member
  

• European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS)
  2010: Program Committee member
  

• European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS)
  2004, 2005: Co-sponsor
  2004: Plenary Lecturer
  

Service to the Academic Community

• Overall Co-ordinator, AgentLink III: European Co-ordination Action for Agent-Based Computing, 2004-2006.

• Initiator and Project Leader, TAC Market Design (or CAT) Tournament, 2006-2009.

• Tournament Director (Gamemaster), TAC Market Design (or CAT) Tournament, 2007, 2008, 2009.

• Board Member, Association for Trading Agent Research (TAC) , 2008-2011.

• Co-initiator (with John Fox and Steven Willmott), the Argument Interchange Format (AIF) (a standard for machine exchange of arguments), 2005.

• External Examiner, various PhD candidates (listed here).

• Peer-reviewer of research grant proposals for: Science Research Foundation of Flanders (Belgium), Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (Belgium), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), European Research Council, National Academy of Finland, FNR (Luxembourg), NWO Council of the Sciences (the Netherlands), NWO Council of the Humanities (the Netherlands), EPSRC (UK), ESRC (UK), United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (USA-Israel).

• External Reviewer, MSc in High Frequency Finance and Trading, University of Essex, UK, 2010.

• External Examiner, Doctoral Programme in Complex Systems Simulation, University of Southampton, UK, 2010-present.

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