Miscellaneous Publications

This is a collection of odds and ends which are either slight variations on other papers (in which case they may be of interest without really constituting separate publications), or are reprinted versions of other papers which are here for completists only.

Johnson, M., McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. When are two protocols the same?, in Communication in Multi-Agents Systems: Background, curent trends and future (M.-P. Huget, ed.), pp. 253--268, Springer-Verlag, 2003.

Wooldridge, M. and Parsons, S. Issues in the design of negotiation protocols for logic-based agent communication languages, in Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce III (F. Dignum and U. Cortes, eds.) Springer Verlag, 2001.

Parsons, S. and Giorgini, P. An approach to using degrees of belief in BDI agents, in Information, Uncertainty, Fusion (B. Bouchon-Meunier and R. R. Yager, eds.) Kluwer, 2000.

Sabater, J., Sierra, C., Parsons, S. and Jennings, N. R. Agents argumentatius, Proceedings of the 1st Catalan Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Tarragona, 1999.

Sabater, J., Sierra, C., Parsons, S. and Jennings, N. R. Using multi-context systems to engineer executable agents, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, Orlando, 1999.

Parsons, S., Pettersson, O., Saffiotti, A. and Wooldridge, M. Robots with the best of intentions, in Artificial Intelligence Today (M. Wooldridge and M. Veloso, eds.) Springer Verlag, 1999.

Parsons, S. and Saffiotti, A. The qualitative verification of quantitative uncertainty, in Advances in Intelligent Computing, (B. Bouchon-Meunier, R. R. Yager and L. A. Zadeh eds.), Springer-Verlag, 180-189, 1995.


Book Reviews

I kind of enjoy doing book reviews, as you can see... most of them are for The Knowledge Engineering Review, a habit I got into before taking over as editor. Haven't had so much time to keep these up to date recently.

Parsons, S. Review of Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI by Rodney Brooks, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 15(4), 411-412, 2000.

Parsons, S. Review of Expert Systems and Probabilistic Network Models by Enrique Castillo, José Manuel Gutié rrez and Ali Hadi, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 15(3), 303-304, 2000.

Parsons, S. Review of Nonmonotonic Reasoning by Grigoris Antoniou, AI Magazine, 20(3), 90-91, 1999.

Parsons, S. Review of Cognitive Carpentry by John Pollock, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 14(1), 92-94, 1999.

Parsons, S. Review of Empirical Techniques for Artificial Intelligence by Paul Cohen, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 13(3), 317-318, 1998.

Parsons, S. Review of Bayesian Networks by Finn V. Jensen, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 13(2), 204-206, 1998.

Parsons, S. Review of Mathematical Writing by Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larabee, and Paul M. Roberts, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 12(3), 333-334, 1997.

Parsons, S. Review of Qualitative reasoning: modelling and simulation with incomplete information by Benjamin Kuipers, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 12(1), 101-102, 1997.

Parsons, S. Review of Subjective Probability edited by George Wright and Peter Ayton, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 11(3), 295-296, 1996.

Parsons, S. Review of Soft Computing: Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Distributed Artificial Intelligence edited by Mohammed Jamshidi and Fred Aminzadeh, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 11(2), 197, 1996.

Parsons, S. Review of Probabilistic Reasoning in Expert Systems by Richard Neapolitan, Journal of Logic and Computation, 5(4), 547-549, 1995.

Parsons, S. Review of Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Prolog by Yoav Shoham, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 10(4), 412-413, 1995.

Parsons, S. Review of Recent Advances in Qualitative Physics by Boi Faltings and Peter Struss, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 10(1), 108-109, 1995.

Parsons, S. Review of Artificial Intelligence through Search by Chris Thornton and Benedict du Boulay and The Engineering of Knowledge-Based Systems--Theory and Practice by Avelino J. Gonzalez and Douglas D. Dankel, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 10(1), 106-108, 1995.

Parsons, S. Review of Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists by Benjamin C. Pierce, Journal of Logic and Computation, 5(1), 126-127, 1995.

Parsons, S. Review of Probability and the Art of Judgement by Richard Jeffrey, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 9(3), 310-311, 1994.

Parsons, S. Review of Do the right thing--studies in limited rationality by Stuart Russell and Eric Welfald, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 9(3), 315-316, 1994.

Parsons, S. Review of Rough sets--theoretical aspects of reasoning about data by Zdzislaw Pawlak, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 9(2), 214-215, 1994.

Parsons, S. Review of Essentials of Artificial Intelligence by Matt Ginsberg, Formal Concepts in Artificial Intelligence by Rajjan Shinghal, Artificial Intelligence--structures and strategies for complex problem solving by George F. Luger and William A. Stubblefield, Knowledge Engineering, Volume 1, Fundamentals edited by Hojjat Adeli, Knowledge Engineering, Volume 2, Applications edited by Hojjat Adeli, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 9(2), 208-211, 1994.

Parsons, S. Review of Bayes or Bust? A Critical Examination of Bayesian Confirmation Theory by John Earman, Journal of Automated Reasoning, 12, 1994.

Parsons, S. Review of Intelligent Help: Communicating with Knowledge Based Systems by Rachel M. Pilkington, Journal of Automated Reasoning, 11, 429-431, 1994.

Parsons, S. Review of Intelligent decision support--handbook of applications and advances of the rough sets theory edited by Roman Slowinski, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 9(1), 88-89, 1994.

Parsons, S. Review of Artficial intelligence from A to Z by Jenny Raggett and William Bains, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 9(1), 87-88, 1994.

Parsons, S. Review of Reasoning under Incomplete Information in Artificial Intelligence by Lea Sombe, Journal of Automated Reasoning, 9, 409-411, 1993.

Parsons, S. Review of Knowledge representation: An AI perspective by Han Reichgelt, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 7(2), 174-175, 1992.

Parsons, S. Review of Computational Logic edited by J. W. Lloyd, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 6(4), 361-363, 1991.

Parsons, S. Review of Catalogue of Artificial Intelligence Techniques edited by Alan Bundy, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 6(4), 360-361, 1991.


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