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Overview

Peter McBurney is a researcher affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom, specializing in the field of computer science. Their work primarily focuses on artificial intelligence, information systems, and computer networks and communications, alongside contributions to statistical and nonlinear physics as well as management science and operations research.

The scientist has published extensively within the subfields of artificial intelligence, with 23 publications, and information systems, accounting for eight publications. Their research also spans computer networks and communications with six papers, and they have contributed four works each in statistical and nonlinear physics and management science.

Central research topics that McBurney investigates include multi-agent systems and negotiation, blockchain technology applications and security, and span spam and phishing detection, caching and content delivery, opinion dynamics and social influence, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), as well as distributed systems and fault tolerance. These topics reflect a focus on complex systems and their security and communication protocols.

McBurney has a presence in several publication venues. Frequent venues include arXiv (Cornell University) with seven publications, Argument & Computation with two papers, and single publications in Algorithms, Computer Networks, and Royal Society Open Science.

Selected recent papers authored by or involving McBurney cover a range of topics:

  • Sybil in the Haystack: A Comprehensive Review of Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms in Search of Strong Sybil Attack Resistance, 2023, Algorithms
  • Sybil attacks on identity-augmented Proof-of-Stake, 2021, Computer Networks
  • The evolution of deception, 2021, Royal Society Open Science
  • A computational model of argumentation schemes for multi-agent systems, 2021, Argument & Computation
  • Voting Over a Distributed Ledger: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, 2021, Foundations and Trends® in Microeconomics

Collaboration is a consistent aspect of McBurney's research, working frequently with Moritz Platt, Ştefan Sarkadi, Simon Parsons, Dylan Cope, and Alex Rutherford. The number of coauthored works ranges from two to four with these colleagues.

In addition to journal publications, McBurney has contributed to book literature, including a publication titled Deceptive AI released by Springer Science+Business Media in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Argumentation-based negotiation

    Iyad Rahwan;Sarvapali D. Ramchurn;Nicholas R. Jennings;Peter Mcburney

  • Agent Technology: Enabling Next Generation Computing (A Roadmap for Agent Based Computing)

    Michael Luck;Peter McBurney;Chris Preist

  • Agent technology, Computing as Interaction: A Roadmap for Agent Based Computing

    M Luck;P McBurney;O Shehory;S Willmott

  • Weighted argument systems: Basic definitions, algorithms, and complexity results

    Paul E. Dunne;Anthony Hunter;Peter McBurney;Simon Parsons

  • Games That Agents Play: A Formal Framework for Dialogues between Autonomous Agents

    Peter McBurney;Simon Parsons

  • Agent technology: Enabling next generation computing

    Michael Luck;Peter Mcburney;Chris Preist

  • Chance Discovery

    Peter McBurney;Yukio Ohsawa

  • A Manifesto for Agent Technology: Towards Next Generation Computing

    Michael Luck;Peter McBurney;Chris Preist

  • Proceedings of the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

    T Rahwan;T Michalak;N.R. Jennings;M Wooldridge

  • Computational Representation of Practical Argument

    Katie Atkinson;Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon;Peter McBurney

  • A Dialogue Game Protocol for Agent Purchase Negotiations

    Peter Mcburney;Rogier M. Van Eijk;Simon Parsons;Leila Amgoud

  • Validation and Verification of Smart Contracts: A Research Agenda

    Daniele Magazzeni;Peter McBurney;William Nash

  • AAAI-2002 fall symposium series

    Yukio Ohsawa;Peter McBurney;Simon Parsons;Christopher A. Miller

  • A Dialogue Game Protocol for Multi-Agent Argument over Proposals for Action

    Katie Atkinson;Trevor Bench-Capon;Peter Mcburney

  • The eightfold way of deliberation dialogue

    Peter McBurney;David Hitchcock;Simon Parsons

  • Desiderata for agent argumentation protocols

    Peter McBurney;Simon Parsons;Michael Wooldridge

  • Dialogue games for agent argumentation

    Peter McBurney;Simon Parsons

  • An Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Comparison of Two Double-Auction Market Designs

    Steve Phelps;Simon Parsons;Peter Mcburney

  • Agent technology, Computing as Interaction

    Michael Luck;Peter McBurney;O. Shehory;S. Willmott

  • On the meta-logic of arguments

    Michael Wooldridge;Peter Mcburney;Simon Parsons

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Parsons
Simon Parsons University of Lincoln
Michael Luck
Michael Luck University of Sussex
Michael Wooldridge
Michael Wooldridge University of Oxford
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon University of Liverpool
Iyad Rahwan
Iyad Rahwan Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Tim Miller
Tim Miller University of Queensland
Simon Miles
Simon Miles King's College London
Nicholas R. Jennings
Nicholas R. Jennings Loughborough University
Andrea Omicini
Andrea Omicini University of Bologna
Enrico H. Gerding
Enrico H. Gerding University of Southampton

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