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vicibus gratis formare loquentes suetus et alterno verum contexere nodo. Claudius Claudianus, 399 AD.
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Peter McBurney is Reader in Computer Science and Head of the Agent Applications, Research and Technology (Agent ART) Group of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool, home of 8 Nobel Laureates, in Liverpool, UK. In the latest UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008), the Department of Computer Science at Liverpool was rated the 10th-best for research of the 81 academic departments in Computer Science and Informatics in Britain. Between January 2004 and March 2006, McBurney was the Administrative Co-ordinator of the AgentLink III network, an EC-funded Co-ordination Action supporting European research and development in agent-based computing. The network comprised over 200 academic, research and industrial organizations from across Europe. In 2007, 2008 and 2009, he is GameMaster of the Market Design or CAT Tournament, sponsored by the Trading Agent Competition and the MBC Project. The finals of the 2009 CAT Tournament will be held in Pasadena, CA, USA, as part of IJCAI 2009. Since January 2007, McBurney has been joint Editor-in-Chief of the refereed journal, The Knowledge Engineering Review, published by Cambridge University Press. During 2008-2011, he is an invited Board Member of the Association for Trading Agent Research, organizers of the annual Trading Agent Competitions (TAC). As measured by research citations in August 2006, he is among the Top 1.2% of all computer scientists in the world. According to Google Scholar, McBurney has an h-index score of 19, and his most-cited publication has 253 citations. He has undertaken inter-disciplinary research projects with economists, philosophers, pure mathematicians, epidemiologists and a composer. McBurney's research focuses on two areas in multi-agent software systems: the semantics and pragmatics of agent communications languages and protocols, particularly for rational interaction and dialog over action; and the design, engineering and control of multi-agent models of economic markets and marketing. He has published over 120 papers (94 refereed), 5 books and 12 monographs. He has applied successfully for research grants from the Arts Council of England (ACE), the UK Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the European Commission Sixth Framework programme on Information Society Technologies (FP6-IST), the Ford Foundation, the US Department of Labor, the Canadian Agency for International Development, and the International Labor Organization (ILO). In total, these grants have amounted to some GBP 11 million. McBurney has a University Medal in Mathematical Statistics from the Australian National University, Canberra, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Liverpool. In 1985-1986, as Chairman of the Department of Business Studies at the University of Zimbabwe, he led the creation of majority-ruled Southern Africa's first MBA programme. In 1991, he was appointed Chairman of an ad-hoc European Commission Working Party exploring future technology needs of the Publishing and Media industries (Eurinfo); among its achievements was the first detailed specification for an e-book. In both 2002 and 2005 he was co-author of an EC-sponsored report on the future of agent-based computer technologies, the AgentLink Agent Technologies Roadmap. He has undertaken proposal or project reviews for the research funding agencies of Belgium, Canada, the EC, Finland, Flanders, the Netherlands, and the UK (EPSRC and ESRC). He has been an official examiner for 15 PhD candidates in Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK, and he has successfully supervised 5 PhD candidates and 1 MPhil candidate. As a management consultant, McBurney has advised the world's leading IT and Telecommunications companies on marketing strategy, implementation planning and strategic programming, and his clients have included: AT&T;, British Telecom, Charoen Pokphand, Dallah Albaraka, Ericsson, GTE, ICO Global, Inmarsat, Kolon, NYNEX, O2, Omnipoint, Pegaso Telecomunicaciones, Qualcomm, Reliance Telecom, Sampoerna Telekomunikasi, Singapore Telecom, Teledesic, US WEST, and the World Insurance Network. McBurney has been an invited co-editor of special issues of the refereed journals, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, IEEE Intelligent Systems, The Knowledge Engineering Review, and Synthese/Knowledge, Rationality and Action. He has helped organize a AAAI Symposium on Chance Discovery, a UK Multi-Agent Systems (UKMAS) Meeting, three AgentLink Technical Forums, two AgentLink Agent Technology Conferences, a Workshop on Technical Standards in Agent Systems, a Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Complexity, two workshops on Market-Based Control of Complex Computational Systems, the Second International Workshop on Computational Social Choice, and three editions of the TAC Market Design (CAT) Tournament; he is also a founding member of the Steering Committee of the International Workshop series on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, held annually since 2004, and Co-ordinating Co-Chair of the 2009 ArgMAS Workshop.
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Among Charles' children were Esther, harpsichordist, who married her cousin Charles Rousseau Burney, musician; Fanny, novelist; Rear Admiral James Burney, FRS, naval historian and sailor (he twice sailed around the world with Captain James Cook RN); Rev. Charles Burney FRS, classical scholar; Charlotte Ann (Mrs Broome), novelist; and Sarah Harriet, novelist. Charles' nephew, Edward Francis (Francesco) Burney, artist, was a brother to Charles Rousseau Burney, both sons of Richard Burney, brother to Charles. (Source: K. S. Grant: "Charles Burney", Grove Music Online, Accessed 2006-12-10.)
