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Associate Professor Stephen Cranefield BSc(Hons)(Otago), PhD(Edin)


Room: 9.17, Commerce
Phone: 479 8083
Email: scranefield@infoscience.otago.ac.nz
Supervising: Angrosh Mandya, Surangika Ranathunga
Co-supervising: Eric Li, Minjie Hu, Pierre-Emmanuel Perruchot De La Bussiere

I studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Otago, graduating with a BSc(Hons) in Mathematics, and then gained a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, studying in the Department of Artificial Intelligence (now merged into the School of Informatics). After a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Computer Science at Otago, I had a short-term position in the Computer Science department at Massey University, and then joined Otago's Information Science department in 1994. I am currently an associate professor.

Related papers: COMP113, INFO323, INFO401, SENG407, TELE411


Two of my PhD students have submitted their PhD theses in 2012 and I am looking to take on some more. Please contact me if you are interested in working on a PhD with me.

Note that International PhD students in New Zealand pay the same fees as local students, and the University of Otago offers scholarships to pay fees and living costs.

I am on the editorial boards of the journals Knowledge Engineering Review and Multiagent and Grid Systems, and have served on the programme and/or organising committees for many international conferences and workshops. Recent conference and workshop involvement includes the following:

Conference and workshop organisation
  • Programme Committee Co-Chair, Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2013
  • Publicity Chair, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systemsn (AAMAS), 2012
  • Workshops co-chair, 14th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, 2011
  • Co-Chair, Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms (COIN) at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2011
Senior Programme Committees
  • International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2008 (short-listed for Best SPC Member award), 2009, 2012 and 2013
  • Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007-2010
  • International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, 2011-2012
Programme Committees
  • International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2002, 2004-2007 and 2010
  • IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT), 2003 and 2005-2009
  • Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011-2012
  • European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems, 2012
  • Workshops on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in agent systems (COIN) at the AAMAS conferences 2006-2010, the MALLOW'07 federated workshops event, and at WI-IAT 2011.

My research interests include multi-agent systems (particularly institutions and norms for open societies of agents, and tool support for agent communication languages, interaction protocols and ontologies), the Semantic Web, and software technologies for next generation telecommunications network service provision.

My publications list is available via Bibsonomy.

When I am not spending time with my wife, Janine, and son, Nicholas, I can be found performing as Principal Clarinet in the Southern Sinfonia, Dunedin's part-time professional orchestra.



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