This page lists the bulk of my publications, many of which can be downloaded in the form of PDF or compressed Postscript files

If you have trouble downloading them, cannot uncompress them, or find a paper you are interested in that cannot be downloaded, please let me know; I am always happy to mail papers.

A more thematic list of papers can be found on the page describing my current research projects, and papers that don't really count as publications may be found on the miscellaneous page.

J. Collins, E. Sklar, O. Shehory, P. Faratin, N. Sadeh, S. Parsons and J. A. Rodriguez-Aguilar (Editors) Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IX/Trading Agent Analysis and Design, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, 2008.

Rahwan, I., Parsons, S., and Reed, C. (Editors) Argumentation in Multi-agent Systems: Fourth International Workshop, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, 2008.

Zhou, L., Parsons, S., and Hripcsak, G. The evaluation of a temporal reasoning system in processing clinical discharge summaries, Journal of the Medical Informatics Association, 15(1):99-106, 2008.

Niu, J., Cai, K., Gerding, E., McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. Characterizing effective auction mechanisms: Insights from the 2007 TAC market design competition, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Estoril, Portugal, 2008.

Tang, Y. and Parsons, S. A dialogue mechanism for public argumentation using conversation policies, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Estoril, Portugal, 2008.

Niu, J., Cai, K., McBurney, P., and Parsons, S. An analysis of entries in the first TAC market design competition, Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2008.

Kaisers, M., Tuyls, K., Thuijsman, F., and Parsons, S. Auction analysis by normal form game approximation, Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2008.

Tang, Y., Norman, T., and Parsons, S. Agent-based dialogues to support plan execution by human teams, Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance, London, 2008.

Parsons, S., Poltrock, S., Bowyer, H. and Tang, Y. Analysis of a recorded team coordination dialogue, Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance, London, 2008.

Niu, J., Cai, K., Parsons, S. and Sklar, E. On the behavior of competing markets populated by automated traders in Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IX/Trading Agent Analysis and Design (J. Collins, E. Sklar, O. Shehory, P. Faratin, N. Sadeh, S. Parsons and J. A. Rodriguez-Aguilar eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, 2008.

Kaisers, M., Tuyls, K., Thuijsman, F., and Parsons, S. Discovering the game in auctions, Proceedings of the 20th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Boekelo, The Netherlands, 2008.

Cai, K., Niu, J. and Parsons, S. On the economic effects of competition between double auction markets, Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, Estoril, Portugal, 2008.

Atkinson, K., McBurney, P., Girle, R. A. and Parsons, S. Command Dialogues, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Argumentation in Multiagent Systems, Estoril, Portugal, 2008.

Sklar, E., Parsons, S., Tejada, S., Lowes, S., Azhar, M. Q., Chopra, S., Jansen, C., and Rudowsky, I., Using artificial intelligence to help bridge students from high school to college, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science, Stanford, 2008.

Maudet, N., Parsons, S., and Rahwan, I. (Editors) Argumentation in Multiagent Systems: Third International Workshop, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, 2007.

Nielsen, S. and Parsons, S. An application of formal argumentation: Fusing Bayesian networks in multi-agent systems, Artificial Intelligence, 171(10-15), 754-775, 2007.

Tuyls, K. and Parsons, S. What evolutionary game theory tells us about multiagent learning, Artificial Intelligence, 171(7), 406--416, 2007.

McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. Retraction and revocation in agent deliberation dialogues, Argumentation, 21(3), 269-289, 2007.

McBurney, P., Hitchcock, D., and Parsons, S. The eightfold way of deliberation dialogue, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 22(1), 95-132, 2007.

Parsons, S., McBurney, P., Sklar, E. and Wooldridge, M. On the relevance of utterances in formal inter-agent dialogues Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Honolulu, 2007.

Tang, Y., Parsons, S. and Sklar, E. An agent-based model that relates investment in education to economic prosperity, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Honolulu, 2007.

Kaushik, R., Marcinkiewicz, M., Xiao, J., Parsons, S., and Raphan, T. Implementation of bio-inspired vestibular-ocular reflex in a quadrupedal robot, Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Rome, 2007.

Niu, J., Cai, K. Parsons, S., and Sklar, E. Some preliminary results on competition between markets for automated traders, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, Vancouver, 2007.

Phelps, S., Cai, K., McBurney, P., Niu, J., Parsons, S., and Sklar, E. Auctions, evolution, and multi-agent learning, Proceedings of the Symposium on Adaptive Learning Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Maastricht, 2007.

Cai, K., Niu, J., and Parsons, S. Using evolutionary game-theory to analyse the performance of trading strategies in a continuous double auction market, Proceedings of the Symposium on Adaptive Learning Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Maastricht, 2007.

Tang, Y., Parsons, S., and Sklar, E. An agent-based model that relates investment in education to economic prosperity Proceedings of the Workshop on Multiagent-based Simulation, Honolulu, 2007.

Sklar, E., Parsons, S. and Azhar, M. Q. Robotics across the curriculum, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Robots and Robot Venues: Resources for AI Education, Stanford, 2007.

Parsons, S., Maudet, N., Moraitis, P., and Rahwan, I. (Editors) Argumentation in Multiagent Systems: Second International Workshop, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, 2006.

Melton, G. B., Parsons, S., Morrison, F. P., Rothschild, A. S., Markatou, M. and Hripcsak, G. Inter-patient distance metrics using SNOMED CT defining relationships, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 39(6), 697-705, 2006.

Hripcsak, G., Zhou, L., Melton, G., and Parsons, S., A temporal constraint structure for extracting temporal information from clinical narrative, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 39(4), 424-439, 2006.

Wooldridge, M. J., Fisher, M., Huget M. P. and Parsons, S. Model Checking for Multiagent Systems: The MABLE language and its application, International Journal of AI Tools, 15(2), 195-225, 2006.

Wooldridge, M., Dunne, P. E. and Parsons, S. On the complexity of linking deductive and abstract argumentation systems, Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '06), Boston, MA, 2006.

Phelps, S., Marcinkiewicz, M., Parsons, S. and McBurney, P. A novel method for automated strategy acquisition in n-player non-zero-sum games, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Hakodate, Japan, 2006.

Niu, J., Cai, K., Parsons, S. and Sklar, E. Reducing price fluctuation in continuous double auctions through pricing policy and shout improvement, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Hakodate, Japan, 2006.

Simari, G. and Parsons, S. On the relationship between MDPs and the BDI architecture, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Hakodate, Japan, 2006.

Tang, Y., Parsons, S. and Sklar, E. Agent-based modeling of human education data, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Hakodate, Japan, 2006.

Ozgelen, A. T., Sklar, E. and Parsons, S. Automatic acquisition of robot motion and sensor models, Proceedings of the International RoboCup Symposium, Bremen Germany, 2006.

Marcinkiewicz, M., Kunin, M., Parsons, S., Sklar, E., and Raphan, T. Towards a methodology for stabilizing the gaze of a quadrupedal robot, Proceedings of the International RoboCup Symposium, Bremen Germany, 2006.

Nielsen, S. and Parsons, S. Computing preferred extensions for argumentation systems with sets of attacking arguments, in Proceedings of the First Conference on Computatonal Models of Argument, Liverpool, UK, 2006.

Nielsen, S. and Parsons, S. An application of formal argumentation: Fusing Bayes nets in multiagent systems, in Proceedings of the First Conference on Computatonal Models of Argument, Liverpool, UK, 2006.

Nielsen, S. and Parsons, S. A generalization of Dung's abstract framework for argumentation: Arguing with sets of attacking arguments, in Third International Workshop on Argumentation in Multiagent Systems, Hakodate, Japan, 2006.

Tang, Y., Parsons, S., and Sklar, E. Modeling human education data: From equation-based modeling to agent-based modeling Proceedings of the Workshop on Multiagent-based Simulation, Hakodate, Japan, 2006.

Tang, Y. and Parsons, S. Using argumentation-based dialogues for distributed plan management Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Distributed Plan and Schedule Management, Stanford, 2006.

Sklar, E., Parsons, S., Azhar, M. Q. and Andrewlevich, V. Educational Robotics in Brooklyn (short version), in Proceedings of the AAAI Mobile Robot Workshop, 2006.

Hripcsak, G., Zhou, L., Parsons, S., Das, A. K. and Johnson, S. B. Modeling electronic discharge summaries as a simple temporal constraint satisfaction problem, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 16(4), 55-63, 2005.

Rehg, W., McBurney, P., and Parsons, S. Computer decision-support systems for public argumentation: assessing deliberative democracy, AI and Society, 19(4), 2005.

Johnson, M. W., McBurney, P. J. and Parsons, S. A mathematical model of dialog, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 141(5), 33-48, 2005.

Tang, Y, and Parsons, S. Argumentation-based dialogues for deliberation, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2005.

M. J. Wooldridge, S. Parsons and P. McBurney, The meta-logic of arguments, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2005.

E. Cogan, S. Parsons and P. McBurney, What kind of argument are we going to have today? Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2005.

Phelps, S., Marcinkiewicz, M., Parsons, S., and McBurney, P. Using population-based search and evolutionary game theory to acquire better-response strategies for the double auction market, Proceedings of the Workshop on Trading Agent Analysis and Design, 2005.

Parsons, S., and Sklar, E. How agents revise their beliefs after an argumentation-based dialogue, in Second International Workshop on Argumentation in Multiagent Systems, (S. Parsons, I. Rahwan, and N. Maudet eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2005.

Parsons, S. Qualitative approaches to modelling environmental problems, in Environmental Modelling IV (P. Zanetti, ed.), 2005.

Schut, M., Wooldridge, M., and Parsons, S. The theory and practice of intention reconsideration, Journal of Theoretical and Experimental AI, 16(4), 261-293, 2004.

Sklar, E., Parsons, S. and Stone, P. Using RoboCup in university-level computer science education, Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, 4(2), 2004.

McBurney, P., and Parsons, S. A hundred schools of thought automatically contending, Controversia, 3(1): 66-72, 2004.

Parsons, S. On precise and correct qualitative probabilistic reasoning, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 35, 111-135, 2004.

McBurney, P., and Parsons, S. A denotational semantics for deliberation dialogues, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, New York, 2004.

Sklar, E. and Parsons, S. Towards the application of argumentation-based dialogues for education, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, New York, 2004.

Parsons, S. and Klein, M. Towards robust multi-agent systems: Handling communication exceptions in double auctions, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, New York, 2004.

Parsons, S., McBurney, P., and Wooldridge, M. Some preliminary steps towards a meta-theory for formal inter-agent dialogues, Proceedings of the Workshop on Argumentation in Multiagent Systems, New York, 2004.

Sklar, E., Parsons, S., and Davies, M. When is it okay to lie? A simple model of contradiction in agent-based dialogues, Proceedings of the Workshop on Argumentation in Multiagent Systems, New York, 2004.

Phelps, S., Parsons, S. and McBurney, P. Automated trading agents versus virtual humans: an evolutionary game-theoretic comparison of two double-auction market designs, in Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, New York, 2004.

Simari, G. and Parsons, S. On approximating the best decision for an autonomous agent, Proceedings of the Workshop on Game Theoretic and Decision Theoretic Agents, New York, 2004.

P. McBurney and Parsons, S. Locutions for argumentation in agent interaction protocols, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent Communication, New York, 2004.

Frias-Martinez, V., Sklar, E., and Parsons, S. Exploring auction mechanisms for role assignment in teams of autonomous robots, Proceedings of the RoboCup Symposium, 2004.

Frias-Martinez, V., Marcinkiewicz, M., Parsons, S. and Sklar, E. Using multiagent coordination techniques in the RoboCup four-legged league, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Bridging the Multiagent and Multirobot Research Gap, Stanford, 2004.

Parsons, S. and Sklar, E. Teaching AI using LEGO mindstorms, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Accessible Hands-on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Education, Stanford, 2004.

Parsons, S. and McBurney, P. The use of expert systems for toxicology risk assessment, in Predictive Toxicology (C. Helma, ed.), Marcel Dekker, 2004.

Parsons, S., McBurney, P, and Wooldridge, M. The mechanics of some formal inter-agent dialogues, in Advances in Agent Communication (F. Dignum, ed.), pp. 329-348, Springer Verlag, 2004.

McBurney, P, and Parsons, S. The posit spaces protocol for multi-agent negotiation, in Advances in Agent Communication (F. Dignum, ed.), pp. 364-382, Springer Verlag, 2004.

Rahwan, I., Ramchurn, S. D., Jennings, N. R., McBurney, P., Parsons, S. and Sonenberg, E. Argumentation-based negotiation, Knowledge Engineering Review, 18(4); 343-375, 2003.

Parsons, S. and McBurney, P. Argumentation-based dialogues for agent coordination, Group Decision and Negotiation, 12(5): 415--439, 2003.

Parsons, S., Wooldridge, M., and Amgoud, L. Properties and complexity of formal inter-agent dialogues. Journal of Logic and Computation, 13(3), 347-376, 2003.

Parsons, S. Order of magnitude reasoning and qualitative probability. International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, 11(3), 373-390, 2003.

Bourne, R. A. and Parsons, S. Extending the maximum entropy approach to variable strength defaults, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 39(1-2), 123-146, 2003.

McBurney, P., van Eijk, R., Parsons, S., and Amgoud, L. A dialogue-game protocol for agent purchase negotiations. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 7(3), 235-273, 2003.

McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. Chance discovery and scenario analysis. New Generation Computing, 2113--22, 2003.

Parsons, S., Wooldridge, M., and Amgoud, A. On the outcomes of formal inter-agent dialogues, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Melbourne, 2003.

McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. Posit space: A performative theory of e-commerce, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Melbourne, 2003.

McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. Democracy in open agent systems, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Melbourne, 2003.

Phelps, S., McBurney, P., Parsons, S. and Sklar, E. Applying genetic programming to economic mechanism design: Evolving a pricing rule for a continuous double auction, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Melbourne, 2003.

Sklar, E., Parsons, S., and Stone, P. RoboCup in higher education: A preliminary report, Proceedings of the RoboCup Symposium, Padua, 2003.

McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. Engineering democracy in open agent systems, in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, London, 2003.

Renooij, S., Parsons, S. and Pardeick, P. Using kappas as indicators of strength in QPNs, Proceedings of the European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty, Aalborg, 2003.

Faratin, P., Wroclawski, J., Lee, G. and Parsons, S., Social user agents for dynamic access to wireless networks, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Human Interaction with Autonomous Systems in Complex Environments, Stanford, 2003.

Parsons, S. and McBurney, P. J. Logics of Argumentation for Chance Discovery, in Chance Discovery: Foundations and applications (Y. Ohsawa and P. McBurney, eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2003.

McBurney, P. J. and Parsons, S. Agent-Communications for Chance Discovery in Chance Discovery: Foundations and applications (Y. Ohsawa and P. McBurney, eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2003.

Parsons, S. and McBurney, P. Argumentation-based communication between agents, in Agent Communication Languages, (M.-P. Huget, ed.), pp. 164-178, Springer Verlag, 2003.

McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. Dialogue game protocols, in Agent Communication Languages, (M.-P. Huget, ed.), pp. 269-283, Springer Verlag, 2003.

Parsons.S., Gmytrasiewicz, P. and Wooldridge, M. J. (Editors) Game theory and decision theory in agent-based systems, Kluwer, 2002.

Rennoij, S., van der Gaag, L., and Parsons, S. Context-specific sign propagation in qualitative probabilistic networks. Artificial Intelligence, 140, 207-230, 2002.

McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. Games that agents play: A formal framework for dialogues between autonomous agents. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 11(3), 315-334, 2002.

Sabater, J., Sierra, C., Parsons, S. and Jennings, N. R. Engineering executable agents using multi-context systems, Journal of Logic and Computation 12(3), 413-442, 2002.

McBurney, P, Parsons, S. and Green, J. Forecasting market demand for new telecommunications services: an introduction, Telematics and Informatics, 19(3), 225-249, 2002.

McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. Determining error bounds for hypothesis tests in risk assessment: a research agenda. Law, Probability and Risk, 1(1), 17-36, 2002.

McBurney, P. J. and Parsons, S. A geometric semantics for dialogue game protocols for autonomous agent interactions, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 52(2), 2002.

McBurney, P. J. and Parsons, S. Using belief functions to forecast demand for mobile satellite services, in Belief Functions in Business Decisions, (R. P. Srivastava and T. J. Mock eds.), Physica Verlag, 2002.

McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. Formalizing scenario analysis. Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Edmonton, Canada, 2002.

Renooij, S., van der Gaag, L., and Parsons, S. Propagation of multiple observations in QPNs revisited, Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lyon, 2002.

Amgoud, L., Maudet, N., and Parsons, S. An argumentation-based semantics for agent communication languages, Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lyon, 2002.

Parsons, S., Wooldridge, M., and Amgoud, L. An analysis of formal inter-agent dialogues, Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Bologna, 2002.

McBurney, P., Parsons, S., and Wooldridge, M. Desiderata for agent argumentation protocols, Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Bologna, 2002.

Wooldridge, M., Fisher, M., Huget, M-P. and Parsons, S. Model checking multi-agent systems with MABLE, Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Bologna, 2002.

Faratin, P., Wroclawski, J., Lee, G. and Parsons, S., The personal router: An agent for wireless access, Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Personal Agents, Falmouth, 2002.

Phelps, S., McBurney, P., Parsons, S., and Sklar, E., Co-evolutionary auction mechanism design: a preliminary report, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce, Bologna, 2002.

McBurney, P., Parsons, S., and Johnson, M. W. When are two protocols the same?, Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent Communication Languages and Conversation Policies, Bologna, 2002.

Phelps, S., Parsons, S., McBurney, P., and Sklar, E. Co-evolution of auction mechanisms and strategies: Towards a novel approach to microeconomic design, Proceedings of the Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Multi-Agent Systems, New York City, 2002.

Parsons, S. and Wooldridge, M. J. Special issue: Game theory and decision theory in multi-agent systems, International Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 5(3), 243-254, 2002.

Sklar, E. and Parsons, S. RoboCupJunior: a vehicle for enhancing technical literacy, Proceedings of the AAAI Robotics Workshop, Edmonton, 2002.

McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. Ensemble Theory: arguing across and within scenarios, Proceedings of the Conference "Probing the Future: Developing Organizational Foresight in the Knowledge Economy", Glasgow. July 2002.

Parsons, S. and Wooldridge, M. J. An introduction to game theory and decision theory, in Game theory and decision theory in agent-based systems, (S. Parsons, P. Gmytrasiewicz, and M. J. Wooldridge, eds.), Kluwer, 2002.

Parsons, S. Qualitative methods for reasoning under uncertainty, MIT Press, 2001.

McBurney, P. J. and Parsons, S. Representing epistemic uncertainty by means of dialectical argumentation, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 32(1), 125-169, 2001.

McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. Dialectical argumentation for reasoning about chemical carcinogenicity. Logic Journal of the IGPL, 9(2), 191-203, 2001.

Jennings, N. R., Faratin, P., Lomuscio, A. R., Parsons, S., Sierra, C., and Wooldridge M. J. Automated negotiation: Prospects, methods and challenges, Group Decision and Negotiation, 10, 199-215, 2001.

McBurney, P. J. and Parsons, S. Intelligent systems to support deliberative democracy in environmental regulation, Journal of Information and Communications Technology Law, 10(1), 33-43, 2001.

Parsons, S. and Bourne, R. A. On proofs in System P, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, 8(2), 203-233, 2001.

Renooij, S., Parsons, S. and van der Gaag, L. Context-specific sign-propagation in qualitative probabilistic networks, Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, 2001.

McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. A formal framework for inter-agent dialogues, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents. Montreal, 2001.

McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. Reasoning across scenarios in planning under uncertainty, Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Using Uncertainty within Computation, Falmouth, 2001.

Tamma, V. and Parsons, S. Argumentation and qualitative reasoning with kappa calculus, Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, Toulouse, 2001.

Schut, M., Wooldridge, M. and Parsons, S. Reasoning about intentions in uncertain domains, Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, Toulouse, 2001.

Amgoud, L. and Parsons, S. Agent dialogues with conflicting preferences, Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, Seattle, 2001.

McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. Agent ludens: Games for agent dialogues, Proceedings of the 2001 AAAI Spring Symposium on Game Theoretic and Decision Theoretic Agents, Stanford, 2001.

Hitchcock, D., McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. A framework for deliberation dialogues, Argumentation and its Applications. Proceedings of the Fourth Biennial Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2001.

Rehg, W., McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. Computer decision support systems for public argumentation: criteria for assessment Argumentation and its Applications. Proceedings of the Fourth Biennial Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2001.

McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. Chance discovery using dialectical argumentation. Proceedings of the Workshop on Chance Discovery, Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Matsue, 2001.

McBurney, P. J. and Parsons, S. Desiderata for dialogue-game protocols for agent interactions, in Proceedings of the Workshop Adventures in Argumentation (S. Parsons and A. Hunter, eds.), Toulouse 2001.

McBurney, P. J. and Parsons, S. Risk agoras: Using dialectical argumentation to debate risk, Risk Management, 2(2), 17-27, 2000.

Parsons, S., Pettersson, O., Saffiotti, A. and Wooldridge, M. Intention reconsideration in theory and practice., Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, 2000.

Wooldridge, M. J. and Parsons, S. Languages for negotiation, Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, 2000.

Amgoud, L., Parsons, S., and Maudet, N. Arguments, dialogue and negotiation, Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, 2000.

Renooij, S., van der Gaag, L., Parsons, S. and Green, S. Pivotal pruning of trade-offs in QPNs, Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Stanford, 2000.

McBurney, P. J. and Parsons, S. Risk agoras: Dialectical argumentation for scientific reasoning, Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Stanford, 2000.

Amgoud, L., Maudet, N. and Parsons, S. Modelling dialogues using argumentation, Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, Boston, 2000.

McBurney, P. J. and Parsons, S. Dialectical argumentation for reasoning about chemical carcinogenicity, Proceedings of the International Conference on Pure and Applied Practical Reasoning, London 2000.

Amgoud, L., Parsons, S., and Perrussel, L. An argumentation framework based on contextual preferences, Proceedings of the International Conference on Pure and Applied Practical Reasoning, London 2000.

Amgoud, L. and Parsons, S. An argumentation framework for merging conflicting knowledge bases, Proceedings of the ECAI Workshop on Computational Dialectics, Berlin, 2000.

McBurney, P. J. and Parsons, S. Tenacious tortoises: A formalism for argument over rules of inference, Proceedings of the ECAI Workshop on Computational Dialectics, Berlin, 2000.

McBurney, P. J. and Parsons, S. Modeling scientific debate, Proceedings of the ECAI Workshop on Scientific Reasoning in AI and Philosophy of Science, Berlin, 2000.

Wooldridge, M. J. and Parsons, S. On the use of logic in negotiation, Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent Communication Languages, Barcelona, 2000.

Renooij, S., van der Gaag, L., Green, S. and Parsons, S. Zooming in on trade-offs in qualitative probabilistic networks, Proceedings of the 13th International FLAIRS Conference, Orlando, 2000.

McBurney, P. J. and Parsons, S. Intelligent systems to support deliberative democracy in environmental regulation, Proceedings of the AISB Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Law, Birmingham, 2000.

Sabater, J., Sierra, C., Parsons, S. and Jennings, N. R. Using multi-context system to engineer executable agents, in Intelligent Agents VI, (N. R. Jennings and L. Lesperance, eds.), 277-294, Springer Verlag, 2000.

Jennings, N. R., Parsons, S., Sierra, C. and Faratin, P. Automated negotiation, Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Practical Applications of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agents, Manchester, 2000.

Parsons, S. and Neufeld, E. Special issue: Hybrid probabilistic systems, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, 8(2), 121-125, 2000.

Parsons, S. and Wooldridge, M. J. Game theoretic and decision theoretic agents, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 15(2), 181-185, 2000.

Hunter, A. and Parsons, S. (Editors) Symbolic and quantitative approaches to reasoning with uncertainty, Springer Verlag, LNAI 1638, 1999.

Bourne, R. A. and Parsons, S. Maximum entropy and variable strength defaults, Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, 1999.

McBurney, P. J. and Parsons, S. Risky business, Scenarios and Strategy Planning, 1(2), 15-17, 1999.

McBurney, P. J. and Parsons, S. Truth or consequences: using argumentation to reason about risk, Proceedings of the BPS Workshop on Practical Reasoning, London, 1999.

Bourne, R. A. and Parsons, S. An algorithm for computing the maximum entropy ranking for variable strength defaults, Proceedings of the Bar Ilan Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Tel Aviv, 1999.

Bourne, R. A. and Parsons, S. Connecting lexicographic with maximum entropy entailment, Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, London, 1999.

Parsons, S. and Green S. Argumentation and qualitative decision making, Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, London, 1999.

Parsons, S. and Bourne, R. A. Proof theoretic reasoning in System P, Proceedings of the 12th International FLAIRS Conference, Orlando, 1999.

Parsons, S., Pettersson, O., Saffiotti, A. and Wooldridge, M. Robots with the best of intentions, Proceedings of the Workshop "Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots 99", Bristol, 1999.

Parsons, S., Fox, J. and Coulson, A. Argumentation and risk assessment, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Predictive Toxicology, Stanford, 1999.

Wooldridge, M. J. and Parsons, S. Intention reconsideration reconsidered, in Intelligent Agents V, (J. P. Müller, M. P. Singh, and A. S. Rao, eds.), 63-79, Springer Verlag, 1999.

Parsons, S and Howe, A. Special issue: perspectives on recent intelligent agents research... one year later, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 14(2), 105-108, 1999.

Hunter, A. and Parsons, S. (Editors) Applications of uncertainty formalisms, Springer Verlag, LNAI 1455, 1998.

Parsons, S. A proof theoretic approach to qualitative probabilistic reasoning, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 19(3-4), 265-297, 1998.

Parsons, S., Sierra, C. and Jennings, N. R. Agents that reason and negotiate by arguing, Journal of Logic and Computation, 8(3), 261-292, 1998.

Sierra, C., Jennings, N. R., Noriega, P. and Parsons, S. A framework for argumentation-based negotiation, in Intelligent Agents IV, (M. P. Singh, A. Rao, and M. J. Wooldridge eds.), Springer Verlag, 1998.

Parsons, S. and Giorgini, P. On using degrees of belief in BDI agents, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, Paris, 1998.

Bourne, R. A. and Parsons, S. Propagating probabilities in System P, Proceedings of the 11th International FLAIRS Conference, Sanibel Island, 1998.

Parsons, S. and Jennings, N. R. Argumentation and multi-agent decision making, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Mixed-Initiative Decision Theoretic Systems, Stanford, 1998.

Parsons, S., Sierra, C. and Jennings, N. R. Multi-context argumentative agents, Proceedings of Common Sense 98, London, 1998.

Parsons, S. and Hunter, A. A review of uncertainty handling formalisms, in Applications of uncertainty formalisms (A. Hunter and S. Parsons, eds.) Springer Verlag, 1998.

Fox, J. and Parsons, S. Arguing about beliefs and actions, in Applications of uncertainty formalisms (A. Hunter and S. Parsons, eds.) Springer Verlag, 1998.

Howe, H. and Parsons, S. Special issue: perspectives on recent intelligent agents research as viewed through two conferences, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 13(2), 129-130, 1998.

Parsons, S. and Fox, J. Argumentation and decision making, IEE Colliquium on Decision Making and Problem Solving, London, 1997.

Parsons, S. On order of magnitude reasoning and qualitative probability, Proceedings of the Florida AI Research Symposium, Daytona Beach, FL, 1997.

Parsons, S. Normative argumentation and qualitative probability, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning, Bonn, 1997.

Fox, J. and Parsons, S. On using arguments for reasoning about actions and values, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Qualitative Preferences in Deliberation and Practical Reasoning, Stanford, 1997.

Parsons, S. Imperfect information in knowledge and databases: a survey of current approaches, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 8 (3), 353-372, 1996.

Parsons, S. and Saffiotti, A. A case study in the qualitative verification and debugging of numerical uncertainty, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 14 (2/3), 187-216, 1996.

Parsons, S. and Jennings, N. R. Negotiation through argumentation---a preliminary report, Proceedings of the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, Kyoto, 1996.

Parsons, S. Comparing normative argumentation to other probabilistic systems, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, Granada, 1996.

Parsons, S. and Bigham, J. Possibility theory and the generalised Noisy OR model, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, Granada, 1996.

Parsons, S. Representational issues in modelling genetic map data, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, Granada, 1996.

Parsons, S. Defining normative systems for qualitative argumentation, Proceedings of the International Conference on Formal and Applied Practical Reasoning, Bonn, 1996.

Parsons, S. and Fox, J. Argumentation and decision making: a position paper, Proceedings of the International Conference on Formal and Applied Practical Reasoning, Bonn, 1996.

Parsons, S. and Dohnal, M. The qualitative and semiqualitative analysis of environmental problems, Environmental Software, 10(2), 75-85, 1995.

Parsons, S., Kubat, M. and Dohnal, M. A rough set approach to reasoning under uncertainty, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical AI, 7, 175-193, 1995.

Parsons, S. Hybrid models of uncertainty in protein topology prediction Applied Artificial Intelligence, 9(3), 335-351, 1995.

Parsons, S. Further results in qualitative uncertainty, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, 3, 187-210, 1995.

Parsons, S. and Saffiotti, A. Information processing and the management of uncertainty, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 10(1), 83-88, 1995.

Parsons, S. Refining reasoning in qualitative probabilistic networks, Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, 1995.

Parsons, S. Softening constraints in constraint based protein topology prediction, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Cambridge, 1995.

Parsons, S. Using qualitative uncertainty in protein topology prediction, Proceedings of the European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty, Friborg, 336-343, 1995.

Parsons, S. and Kubat, M. A first order logic for reasoning under uncertainty using rough sets, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 5, 211-223, 1994.

Kubat, M. and Parsons, S. Approximating knowledge in a multi-agent system, Informatica, 18, 115-129, 1994.

Saffiotti, A., Parsons, S. and Umkehrer, E. A case study in comparing uncertainty management techniques, Microcomputers in Civil Engineering---Special Issue on Uncertainty in Expert Systems, 9, 367-380, 1994.

O'Sullivan, D., O'Brien, P., Davison, R., Parsons, S., and Mamdani, E. H. DESSERT: A decision support system for provisioning telecoms services over multiple networks, Communicate, 1, 42-51, 1994.

Parsons, S. Some elements of the theory of qualitative possibilistic networks, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, 2, 67-90, 1994.

Parsons, S. Qualitative approaches to applying the Dempster-Shafer theory, Information and Decision Technologies, 19, 321-337, 1994.

Parsons, S. Uncertainty in artificial intelligence, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 9(1), 65-66, 1994.

Hearne, C., Cui, Z., Parsons, S. and Hajnal, S. Prototyping a genetics deductive database, Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Stanford, 1994.

Parsons, S. and Fox, J. A general approach to managing imperfect information in deductive databases, Proceedings of the Workshop on Uncertainty in Databases and Deductive Systems, Ithaca, NY, 1994.

Parsons, S. and Saffiotti, A. The qualitative verification of quantitative uncertainty, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, Paris, 1994.

Parsons, S. Using interval algebras to model order of magnitude reasoning, Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, 8(2), 87-98, 1993.

Hurme, M., Parsons, S., Dohnal, M., and Jarvelainen, A. A qualitative commonsense method for optimisation of complex engineering systems, Engineering Optimisation, 20, 323-339, 1993.

Parsons, S. and Dohnal, M. A semiqualitative approach to reasoning in probabilistic networks, Applied Artificial Intelligence, 7(3), 223-235, 1993.

Dohnal, M., Starzak, M., Kerlowsky, M., Dohnalova, J., Vystrcil, J., Koivisto, R., Porkorny, M., Vainz, M. and Parsons, S. A fuzzy upgrading of integrated vague managerial and engineering knowledge, International Journal of Production Economics, 32, 209-228, 1993.

Clark, D. A, Rawlings, C. J. and Parsons, S. Current research in artificial intelligence and molecular biology, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 8(4), 349-357, 1993.

Parsons, S. and Mamdani, E. H. On reasoning in networks with qualitative uncertainty, Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Uncertainty in Artifical Intelligence, Washington, 1993.

The DRUMS Consortium, DRUMS: defeasible reasoning and uncertainty management systems, AICOM, 6(1), 349-357, 1993.

Parsons, S. and Saffiotti, A. Integrating uncertainty handling techniques in distributed artificial intelligence, in: Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty, (M. Clarke, R, Kruse and S. Moral, eds.), Springer Verlag, 304-309, 1993.

Parsons, S. and Mamdani, E. H. Qualitative Dempster-Shafer Theory, Proceedings of the IMACS III International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning and Decision Technologies, CIMNE Press, Barcelona, 471-480, 1993.

Fox, J., Parsons, S., Krause, P., and Elvang-Goransson, M., A generic framework for uncertain reasoning, Proceedings of the IMACS III International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning and Decision Technologies, CIMNE Press, Barcelona, 461-470, 1993.

Davison, R., O'Brien, P., Parsons, S., and Mamdani, E. H. A decision support system for the configuration of telecommunication systems, Proceedings of the IMACS III International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning and Decision Technologies, CIMNE Press, Barcelona, 773, 782, 1993.

Parsons, S., Brown, T., Chau, T. and Mamdani, E. H. A blackboard-based decision support system for the configuration of telecommunication services, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on AI in Engineering, Toulouse, 1993.

Parsons, S., Brown, T., King, S. and Mamdani, E. H. A blackboard system for active decision support in configuring telecommunication services, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems and Natural Language, Avignon, 1993.

O'Brien, P., Davison, R. O'Sullivan, D., Parsons, S., and Mamdani, E. H. DESSERT: A decision support system for provisioning telecoms services over multiple networks, Proceedings of The Vienna IT Conference, 1993.

Parsons, S. and Dohnal, M. Qualitative, semiqualitative and interval algebras, and their application to engineering problems, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 5(6), 553-560, 1992.

Parsons S. Qualitative belief networks, Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, August 1992.

Parsons, S., Kubat, M. and Dohnal, M. A robust logic for rule-based reasoning under uncertainty, in: Robotics and Manufacturing, recent trends in research, education and applications, Volume 4 (M. Jamshidi, R. Lumia, J. Mullins and M. Shahinpoor eds.) ASME Press, 717-722, 1992.

Parsons, S and Dohnal, M. The semiqualitative analysis of waste water treatment, in: Computer Techniques in Environmental Studies, (P. Zanetti ed.) Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, 1992.

Parsons, S. Qualitative possibilistic networks, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, Mallorca, July 1992.

Parsons, S. Kubat, M., and Dohnal, M. A rough logic for rule-based-reasoning under uncertainty, Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Software Engineering, The Hague, May 1992.

Parsons, S. Advance prototyping, in: Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Uncertainty (R. Kruse and P. Seigel eds.), Springer Verlag, 86-90, 1991.

Parsons, S. Interval algebras and order of magnitude reasoning, in: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering VI (G. Rzevski and R. A. Adey, eds.) Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, 945-961, 1991.

Parsons, S. and Fox, J. Qualitative and interval algebras for robust decision making under uncertainty, in: Decision Support Systems and Qualitative Reasoning (M. G. Singh and L. Travé-Massuyès, eds.) Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. North-Holland, 163-168, 1991.

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