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Stephen Cranfield imageBSc(Hons)(Otago), PhD(Edin)
Professor

Room 4.27, Otago Business School
Tel +64 3 479 8083
Email stephen.cranefield@otago.ac.nz

Background and interests

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.

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

Papers

Supervision

In 2012 I was one of 14 finalists from across the University of Otago for the Supervisor of the Year Awards that are judged by a panel of postgraduate students. I won the award for “Research Supervisor of the Year: Commerce”. I was also shortlisted for 2021.

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.

Currently supervising

  • Abira Sengupta
  • Amritha Anavankot
  • Siow Lim Chow

Currently co-supervising

I am not currently co-supervising any students.

Activities

I am a member of Mathematical and Information Sciences panel for the Marsden Fund, Royal Society Te Apārangi from 2022-24 and am the University of Otago representative on the Board of the NZ Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association (AIRA) since 2021. I am a Board member for the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS) and have served on the programme and/or organising committees for many international conferences and workshops. My journal, conference and workshop involvement includes the following:

Editorial boards

  • Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
  • IEEE Technology and Society Magazine

Journal reviewing in the last five years

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems

Senior conference and workshop roles

  • Finance Chair, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2020, 2022 and 2024
  • Co-Chair, International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE) at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2022 and 2024
  • Area Co-Chair, Coordination, Organisations, Institutions and Norms track, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2021
  • Programme Co-Chair Australasian Web Conference, 2014
  • Programme Co-Chair, Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2013
  • Publicity Chair, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (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 and 2016

Senior programme  committees

  • European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2024
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2017, 2019-2021 (Best Senior Programme Committee Member award, 2020)
  • International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2008 (short-listed for Best SPC Member award), 2009, 2012-2013, 2016-2017 and 2019-2020 and 2023
  • Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007-2010 and 2015-18
  • International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, 2011-2012 and 2016

Programme committees

  • European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2020
  • I was named as one of six Outstanding Program Committee Members for the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2016, 2022 and 2024; Demo Track PC 2017-2019, 2021 and 2024; Doctoral Consortium PC 2023
  • International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2002, 2004-2007, 2010 and 2022; Demo Track PC 2013-2014; Blue Sky track 2015, 2020-2022
  • International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, 2016
  • IFIP International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, 2016
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Student poster and abstract track, 2015–2017
  • 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, 2014-15 and 2017, the MALLOW'07 and '09 federated workshop events, at WI-IAT 2011, PRIMA 2013 and at IJCAI 2015

Publications

Amaral, C. J., Hübner, J. F., & Cranefield, S. (2024). Generating and choosing organizations for multi-agent systems [Extended abstract]. In N. Alechina, V. Dignum, M. Dastani & J. S. Sichman (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). (pp. 2824-2826). Richland, SC: International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS). [Abstract] Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Anavankot, A. M., Cranefield, S., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2024). NEMAS: Norm entrepreneurship in multi-agent systems. Systems, 12, 187. doi: 10.3390/systems12060187 Journal - Research Article

Cranefield, S., Srivathsan, S., & Pitt, J. (2024). Inferring Lewisian common knowledge using theory of mind reasoning in a forward-chaining rule engine [Extended abstract]. In N. Alechina, V. Dignum, M. Dastani & J. S. Sichman (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). (pp. 2222-2224). Richland, SC: International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS). doi: 10.5555/3635637.3663114 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Charpenay, V., Baldoni, M., Ciortea, A., Cranefield, S., Padget, J., & Singh, M. P. (2023). Governing agents on the web (Blue sky ideas). In N. Fornara, J. Cheriyan & A. Mertzani (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XVI: 27th International Workshop, COINE 2023, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 14002). (pp. 55-73). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-49133-7_4 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Sengupta, A., Cranefield, S., & Pitt, J. (2023). Generalising Axelrod's metanorms game through the use of explicit domain-specific norms. In N. Fornara, J. Cheriyan & A. Mertzani (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics for governance of multi-agent systems XVI: 27th International Workshop, COINE 2023, revised selected papers: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 14002). (pp. 21-36). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-49133-7_2 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

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