Books • Book-Chapters • Journal-Articles • Conference-Publications • Technical-Reports
Books:
  • Hogan, J., Montague, P., Purvis, M. K., and Steketee, C., (eds.), ACSW Frontiers 2004, Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 32, Australian Computer Society, Bedford Park, Australia (2004) 212p.
  • Denzer, R., Swayne, D. A., Purvis, M. K., and Schimak, G. (eds.), Environmental Software Systems – Environmental Information and Decision Support, ISBN 0-7923-7832-6, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (2000) 268p.
  • Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S, and MacDonell, S., (eds.), Software Engineering: Education & Practice, (Proceedings of the1998 International Conference) IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA (1998).
  • Purvis, M. K., (ed.), Software Engineering: Education & Practice, (Proceedings of the1996 International Conference) IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA (1996).
  • Purvis, M. K., (ed.), Software Education Conference, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA (1995).
Book Chapters:
  • De Oliveira, M., and Purvis, M. K., “Aspects of Openness in Multi-Agent Systems: Coordinating the Autonomy in Agent Societies”, Intelligence Integration in Distributed Knowledge Management, Król, D. And Nguyen, N. T. (eds.), ISBN 978-1-59904-576-4, IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA (2009) 119-131.
  • Savarimuthu, S., Purvis, M. K., Purvis, M. A., & Nowostawski, M.,”Mechanisms to Restrict Exploitation and Improve Societal Performance in Multi-Agent Systems”, Intelligence Integration in Distributed Knowledge Management, Król, D. And Nguyen, N. T. (eds.), ISBN 978-1-59904-576-4, IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA (2009) 182-194.
  • Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., “Role Model Based Mechanism For Norm Emergence In Artificial Agent Societies”,Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems III (COIN@AAMAS 2007), Revised Selected Papers), J. S. Sichman, J. Padget, S. Ossowski, and P. Noriega (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4870, ISSN 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online), ISBN 978-3-540-79002-0, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany (2008) 203-217.
  • Nowostawski, M. and Purvis, M. K., “Evolution and Hypercomputing in Global Distributed Evolvable Virtual Machines Environment”, Engineering Self-Organising Systems: 4th International Workshop, ESOA 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers, S. Brueckner, S. Hassas, M. Jelasity, and D. Yamins (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4335/2007, ISSN: 0302-9743, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (2007) 176-191.
  • Wang, M., Nowostawski, M., and Purvis, M. K., “Declarative Agent Programming Support for a FIPA-Compliant Agent Platform”, Programming Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, ProMAS 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 26, 2005, Revised and Invited Papers, R. H. Bordini, M. Dastani, J. Dix, A. ElFallah Seghrouchni (eds.) ISBN: 3-540-32616-2, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3862, ISSN: 0302-9743, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (2006) 252-266.
  • Nowostawski, M., Epiney, L., and Purvis, M. K., “Self-Adaptation and Dynamic Environment Experiments with Evolvable Virtual Machines”, Engineering Self-Organising Systems: Third International Workshop, ESOA 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Brueckner, S., Serugendo, G. M., Hales, D., and Zambonelli, F. (eds.), ISBN: 3-540-33342-8, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3910, ISSN: 0302-9743, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (2006) 46-60.
  • Savarimuthu B. T. R., Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., "Creating Ontologies for a Collaborative, Multi-agent-based Workflow System", Ontologies and Soft Methods in Knowledge Management, Katarzyniak R. (ed.), Advanced Knowledge International, Adelaide, Australia, Volume 4, ISBN 0-9752150-2-7 (2006) 201-218.
  • Purvis, M., K., Garside, N., Cranefield, S., Nowostawski, M., and De Oliveira, M., “Multi-agent System Technology for P2P Applications on Small Portable Devices”, Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing: Third International Workshop, AP2PC 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004, Revised and Invited Papers, G. Moro, S. Bergamaschi, K. Aberer (eds.) ISBN: 3-540-29755-3, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3601, ISSN: 0302-9743, Springer-Verlag, Heidelber (2005) 153-160.
  • Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. K., Nowostawski, M., and Hwang, P., "Ontologies for Interaction Protocols", Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences, V. Tamma, S. Cranefield, T. Finin, and S. Willmott (eds.). Basel, Birkhäuser (Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies) ISBN 3764372370, (2005) 1-17.
  • Cranefield, S., Pan, J. and Purvis, M. K., "A UML ontology and derived content language for a travel booking scenario", Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences, V. Tamma, S. Cranefield, T. Finin, and S. Willmott (eds.). Basel, Birkhäuser (Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies), ISBN 3764372370 (2005) 259-276.
  • Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S., "An Architecture for Self-organising Evolvable Virtual Machines", Engineering Self-Organising Systems: Methodologies and Applications, Brueckner, S. A., Di Marzo Serugendo, G. Karageorgos, A. ,et al. (eds.) ISSN: 0302-9743, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3464, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3-540-26180-X, Berlin (2005) 100-122.
  • Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., Haidar, A., and Savarimuthu, B. T. R., “A Distributed Workflow System with Autonomous Components”, Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: 7th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, Barley, M. W. and Kasabov, N. (eds.) ISSN: 0302-9743, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3371, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3-540-25340-8 Berlin (2005) 193-205.
  • Purvis, M. A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., and Purvis, M. K., “Evaluation of a Multi-agent Based Workflow Management System Modeled Using Coloured Petri Nets”, Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: 7th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, Barley, M. W. and Kasabov, N. (eds.) ISSN: 0302-9743, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3371, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3-540-25340-8 Berlin (2005) 206-216.
  • Huang, Z. Y., Purvis, M. K., Werstein, P., “View-Oriented Parallel Programming and View-based Consistency”, Parallel and Distributed Computing: Applications and Technologies: 5th International Conference, PDCAT 2004, K-M Liew, H. Shen, and S. See (eds.) ISSN: 0302-9743, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3320, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3-540-24013-6 Heidelberg (2004) 505-518.
  • Purvis, M. K., Nowostawski, M., Cranefield, S, and Oliveira, M., “Multi-agent Interaction Technology for Peer-to-Peer Computing in Electronic Trading Environments”, Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing, G. Moro, C. Sartori, and M. P. Singh, (eds.), ISSN: 0302-9743, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2872, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3-540-24053-5, Heidelberg (2004) 150-161.
  • Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S., Nowostawski, M. and Purvis, M. A., “Multi-Agent System Interaction Protocols in a Dynamically Changing Environment”, An Application Science for Multi-Agent Systems, T. Wagner (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1402078676, Boston (2004) 95-112.
  • Oliveira, M. D., Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S., and Nowostawski, M., “A Distributed Model for Institutions in Open Multi-agent Systems”, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, M. Negoita, R. J. Howlett, and L. C. Jain, (eds.) ISSN: 0302-9743, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), vol. 3214, Sprinver-Verlag, ISBN: 3-540-23206-0, Heidelberg (2004) 1172-1178.
  • Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M. K., and Cranefield, S., "An Architectural Approach to Messaging in Multi-agent Systems", Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, T. Wagner and O. F. Rana (eds.), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 1881, ISBN: 3-540-42315-X, Berlin, Germany (2001) 105-110.
  • Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S., and Nowostawski, M., "A Distributed Architecture for Environmental Information Systems" in Environmental Software Systems – Environmental Information and Decision Support, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (2000) 49-56.
  • Bush, G., Purvis, M. K., and Cranefield, S., "Experiences in the Development of an Agent Architecture", Design and Applications of Intelligent Agents, C. Zhang & V-W Soo (eds.), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 1881, ISBN: 3540679111, Berlin, Germany (2000) 76-87.
  • Bradshaw, C. J. A., Purvis, M. K., Raykov, R., Zhou, Q., and Davis, L. S., "Predicting Patterns in Spatial Ecology Using Neural Networks: Modelling Colonisation by New Zealand Fur Seals" in Environmental Software Systems – Environmental Information and Decision Support, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (2000) 57-65.
  • Swayne, D., Denzer, R., Lilburne, L., Purvis, M. K., Quinn, N. W. T., and Storey, A., "Environmental Decision Support Systems: Exactly What Are They", in Environmental Software Systems – Environmental Information and Decision Support, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (2000) 259-268.
  • Huang, Z., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. K.,. and McDonald, J. R, "A Proposal for a New Generation Hypertext Transfer Protocol on ATM Networks", Chapter 34, World Wide Web: Technologies and Applications for the New Millennium, Computer Science Research, Education, and Applications Press, Athens, GA, U.S.A. (2000) 255-259.
  • Cranefield, S. and Purvis, M. K., "An agent-based architecture for software tool coordination", Intelligent Agent Systems: Theoretical and Practical Issues, L. Cavedon, A. Rao, W. Wobcke (eds.), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 1209,Berlin, Germany (1997) 44-58.
  • Purvis, M. K., "Wave Motion", chapter 8 in Physical Science, R. S. Cohen, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1976) 167-185.

Journal Articles:
  • Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. and Purvis. M. “Norm emergence in agent societies formed by dynamically changing networks”, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, ISSN: 1570-1263, Volume 7, Number 3, pp. 223–232, 2009.
  • Huang, Z., Chen, W., Purvis, M., Zheng, W., and Werstein, P., “VODCA: View-Oriented, Distributed, Cluster-Based Approach to Parallel Computing”, International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications, Vol. 2, No 4, Feb 2007, ISSN 1751-1461 (2007) pp. 333-345.
  • Purvis, M.A., Savarimuthu, B.T.R., and Purvis, M.K., “Architecture for Active and Collaborative Learning in A Distributed Classroom Environment”, Advanced Technology for Learning, 3:4, 208-0893, ISSN: 1710-2251 (2006) 225-232.
  • Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M. K., De Oliveira, M., & Cranefield, S., “Institutions in the Opal Multi-agent System”, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, 17:3, ISSN: 1064-1246 (2006) 191-207.
  • Gecow, A., Nowostawski, M., and Purvis, M. K., “Structural Tendencies in Complex Systems Development and their Implication for Software Systems” Journal of Universal Computer Science, vol. 11, no. 2 (2005) 327-356.
  • Wang, X., Whigham, P., Deng, D., Purvis, M. K., “‘Time-Line’ Hidden Markov Experts for Time Series Prediction”, Neural Information Processing Letters and Reviews, 3:2 (2004) 39-47.
  • Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S., Ward, R., Nowostawski, M., Carter D., and Bush, G., "A multi-agent system for the integration of distributed environmental information", Environmental Modelling and Software, 18:6 (2003) 565-572.
  • Cranefield, S. and Purvis, M. K., "A UML Profile and Mapping for the Generation of Ontology-specific Content Languages", Knowledge Engineering Review, Special Issue on Ontologies in Agent Systems (2002) 17:21-39.
  • Bradshaw, C. J. A., Davis, L. S., Purvis, M. K., Zhou, Q., and Benwell, G. L, "Using Artificial Neural Networks to Model the Suitability of Coastline for Breeding by New Zealand Fur Seals (Arctocephalus Forsteri)", Ecological Modelling (2002) 148(2): 111-131.
  • Purvis, M. K., Hwang, P., Purvis, M. A., Madhavji, N., and Cranefield, S. J., "A Practical Look at Software Internationalisation", Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science, 5:3 (2001) 95-106.
  • Cranefield, S. and Purvis, M. K., "Integrating Environmental Information: Incorporating Metadata in a Distributed Information Systems Architecture", Advances in Environmental Research 5 (2001) 319-325.
  • Huang, Z, Sun, C., Purvis, M. K., and Cranefield, S., "View-Based Consistency and False Sharing Effect in Distributed Shared Memory", Operating Systems Review, 35(2), 51-60 (2001).
  • Purvis, M. K., Zhou, Q., Cranefield, S., Ward, R., Raykov, R., and Jessberger, D., "Spatial Information Modelling and Analysis in a Distributed Environment", Environmental Modelling and Software, 16:5 (2001) 439-445.
  • Li, X. and Purvis, M.K., "Pattern Recognition by an Optical Thin-Film Multilayer Learning Model", Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 26-1,4, 193-213 (1999).
  • Purvis, M. K., Kasabov, N., Benwell, G., Zhou, Q., and Zhang, F. "Neuro-fuzzy Methods for Environmental Modelling", Systems Research and Information Systems, vol. 8 (1999) 221-239.
  • Kasabov, N., Purvis, M. K., Zhang, F., and Benwell, G., "Neuro-Fuzzy Engineering for Spatial Information Processing", Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems, 3:2 (1996) 34-43.
  • Cranefield, S. J. S., Gorman, P., and Purvis, M. K., "Communicating Agents: An Emerging Approach for Distributed Heterogeneous Systems", New Zealand Journal of Computing, 6:1B (1995) 337-343.
  • Purvis, M. K., Purvis, M. A., and Benwell, G. L., "Modelling and Simulation of the New Zealand Resource Management Act", Journal of Law and Information Science, 6:2 (1995) 181-192.
  • Purvis, M. K., Benwell, G. L., and Purvis, M. A., "Dynamic Modelling of the Resource Consent Process in the Resource Management Act", New Zealand Surveyor (Journal of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors), No. 285, (1995) 13-20.
  • Purvis, M. K., MacDonell, S. G., and Westland, J. "Software Metrics in New Zealand: Recent Trends", New Zealand Journal of Computing, 5:2 (1994) 13-21.
  • Purvis, M. K., Benwell, G. L. and Purvis, M. A., "Dynamic Modelling of the Resource Management Act", New Zealand Journal of Computing, 5:1 (1994) 45-56.
  • Purvis, M. K. and Case, W. E., "Examination of Multiple Optical Index Solutions", Journal of the Optical Society of America A. (1984) 1:1279.
  • Arndt, D. P., Azzam, R. M. A., Bennett, J. M., Borgogno, J. P., Carniglia, C. K., Case, W. E., Dobrowolski, J. A., Gibson, U. J., Tuttle Hart, T., Ho, F. C., Hodgkin, V. A., Klapp, W. P., MacLeod, H. A., Pelletier, E., Purvis, M. K., Quinn,D. M., Strome, D. H., Swenson, R., Temple, P. A., and Thonn, T. F. "Multiple Determination of the Optical; Constants of Thin-Film Coating Materials", Applied Optics (1984) 23:3571.
  • Case, W. E. and Purvis, M. K., "Analytical Determination of Thin Film Optical Parameters", Journal of the Optical Society of America, (1983) 73:1879.
  • Purvis, M. K., Johnson, R. A., and Hoffman, A. R., "Mixed State Ultrasonic Attenuation in Clean Niobium near Hc2", The Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (1974) 35:989.
  • Purvis, M. K., Johnson, R. A., and Hoffman, A. R., "Mixed State Ultrasonic Attenuation in Clean Niobium", Low Temperature Physics -- LT 13, New York: Plenum, vol. III. (1974) 120-124.
  • Hoffman, A. R., and Purvis, M. K., "Simultaneous Measurement of Attenuation and Velocity Change with an Ultrasonic Continuous Wave Spectrometer", The Review of Scientific Instruments (1972) 43:87.
Conference Publications:
  • Savarimuthu, S., Purvis, M.A., and Purvis, M.K., "Tag-based Model for Knowledge Sharing in Agent Society, Proceedings of the 8th international Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2, ISBN 978-0-9817381-7-8, Budapest, Hungary, International Conference on Autonomous Agents. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC (2009) 1299-1300.
  • Savarimuthu, S., Purvis, M.A., and Purvis, M.K., "Self-Organization of Peers in Agent Societies", Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, vol. 2, ISBN 978-0-7695-3801-3, (2009) 74-77.
  • Ebadi, T., Purvis, M.A. and Purvis M.K., “Finding interaction partners using attitude-based decision strategies”, Proceeding of the Ninth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, ISBN 978-0-7695-3443-5, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2008, pp. 297-304.
  • Ebadi, T., Purvis, M.A. and Purvis M.K., “ A Colored Petri Net Model to Represent the Interactions Between a Set of Cooperative Agents”, Workshop on Agents and Peer to Peer Computing (AP2PC), to be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
  • Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. and Purvis, M., “Internal agent architecture for norm identification”, Proc. of the international workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in agent systems (COIN@AAMAS 2009), pp. 156–172, 2009.
  • Deng, J. D. and Purvis, M. K., “Queueing Analysis for Multi-Core Performance Improvement: Two Case Studies”, Australasian Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference 2007 (ATNAC 2007), IEEE Catalog Number: 07EX2003 ISBN: 1-4244-1557-8, Library of Congress: 2007905114, Christchurch, New Zealand (2007) 390-395.
  • Savarimuthu, B. T. R, Cranefield, S, Purvis, M. K, and Purvis M. A, "Norm Emergence in Agent Societies Formed by Dynamically Changing Networks," Proc. of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07), Silicon Valley, USA, ISBN:0-7695-3027-3, pp. 464-470, 2007.
  • Savarimuthu, B. T. R, Purvis M. A, Cranefield, S, and Purvis, M. K, “Mechanisms for Norm Emergence in Multi-Agent Societies, Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007), ISBN 978-81-904262-7-5, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (2007) 1097-1099.
  • Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S, Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., “Role Model Based Mechanism For Norm Emergence in Artificial Agent Societies”, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms (COIN 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (2007) 1-12.
  • De Oliveira, M., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. K., “Normative Spaces in Institutional Environments by the Means of Commitments, Reputation and Colored Petri Nets”, Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE 2007), 2007 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007), Honolulu, Hawai'i, http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mml/aose2007/accepted/assets/10-deoliveira.pdf
  • Deng, D., Purvis, M. K., and Purvis, M. A., “Software Metric Estimation: An Empirical Study Using An Integrated Data Analysis Approach”, Proc. IEEE Inter. Conf. Service Systems and Service Management, ISBN: 1-4244-0885-7, Chengdu, PR China (2007) 692-697.
  • Savarimuthu, B. T. R, Cranefield, S, Purvis, M. K, and Purvis M. A, "Norm Emergence in Agent Societies Formed by Dynamically Changing Networks," Proc. of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07), Silicon Valley, USA, ISBN:0-7695-3027-3, pp. 464-470, 2007.
  • Purvis, M. K., Savarimuthu, S. De Oliveira, M., and Purvis, “Mechanisms for Cooperative Behaviour in Agent Institutions”, Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2006), T. Nishida, M. Klusch, K. Sycara, M. Yokoo, J. Liu, B. Wah, W. Cheung, and Y-M Cheung (eds.), ISBN 0-7695-2748-5, IEEE Press, Los Alamitos, CA (2006) 121-124.
  • Nowostawski, M. and Purvis, M. K., “Tagging and Referrals in the EVM Architecture”, Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2006), T. Nishida, M. Klusch, K. Sycara, M. Yokoo, J. Liu, B. Wah, W. Cheung, and Y-M Cheung (eds.), ISBN 0-7695-2748-5, IEEE Press, Los Alamitos, CA (2006) 551-554.
  • Huang, Z., Chen, W., Purvis, M. K., and Zheng, W., “VODCA: View-oriented, Distributed, Cluster-based Approach to Parallel Computing”, The 2006 International Workshop on Distributed Shared Memory, Proceeding of the IEEE/ACM Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid 2006 (CCGrid06), (CD-ROM) IEEE Computer Society (2006) Singapore.
  • Wang, M., Purvis, M. K. and Nowostawski, M., "An Internal Agent Architecture Incorporating Standard Reasoning Components and Standards-Based Agent Communication", Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (IAT 2005), A. Skowron, J. Barthes, L. Jain, P. Morizet-Mahoudeaux, J. Liu, and N. Zhong, (eds.), ISBN 0-7695-2416-8, IEEE Press, Los Alamitos, CA (2005), 58-64.
  • Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K. and Cranefield, S., “Integrating Web Services with Agent Based Workflow Management System (WfMS)”, Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2005), A. Skowron, J. Barthes, L. Jain, P. Morizet-Mahoudeaux, J. Liu, and N. Zhong, (eds.), ISBN 0-7695-2415-X, IEEE Press, Los Alamitos, CA (2005) 471-474.
  • Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., George, M. and Cranefield, S., “Experiences with Pair and Tri Programming in a Second Level Course”, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 9th International Conference, KES 2005 Melbourne, Australia, September 14-16, 2005, Proceedings, Part II, Khosla, R., Howlett, R., and Jain, L. C., (eds.) ISSN: 0302-9743, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3682, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3-540-28895-3, Berlin (2005) 701-707.
  • Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. A., and Purvis, M. K. and Cranefield, S., “An Agent Enhanced Workflow Management System”, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 9th International Conference, KES 2005 Melbourne, Australia, September 14-16, 2005, Proceedings, Part IV, Khosla, R., Howlett, R., and Jain, L. C., (eds.) ISSN: 0302-9743, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3684, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3-540-28897-X, Berlin (2005) 215-220.
  • Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. A., and Purvis, M. K., “Different Perspectives on Modeling Workflows in an Agent Based Workflow Management System”, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 9th International Conference, KES 2005 Melbourne, Australia, September 14-16, 2005, Proceedings, Part IV, Khosla, R., Howlett, R., and Jain, L. C., (eds.) ISSN: 0302-9743, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3684, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3-540-28897-X, Berlin (2005) 208-214.
  • Nowostawski, M., Epiney, L., and Purvis, M. K., “Self-Adaptation and Dynamic Environment Experiments with Evolvable Virtual Machines”, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Engineering Self-Organizing Applications (ESOA 2005), Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems, Brueckner, S., Serugendo, G., Hales, D., and Zambonelli, F. (eds.), Utrecht, The Netherlands (2005) 46-60.
  • Wang, M., Wolf, H., Purvis, M. K., and Purvis, M., “An Agent-based Collaborative Framework for Mobile P2P Applications”, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC’05), Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems, Despotovic, Z., Joseph, S., and Sartori, C. (eds.), Utrecht, The Netherlands (2005) 140-151.
  • Wang, M., Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M. K., “Declarative Agent Programming Support for a FIPA-Compliant Agent Platform”, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS 2005), Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems, Despotovic, Z., Joseph, S., and Sartori, C. (eds.), Utrecht, The Netherlands (2005) 209-223.
  • Huang, Z., Purvis, M. K., and Werstein, P., “View-Oriented Update Protocol with Integrated Diff for View-based Consistency”, Proceedings of DSM 2005: Fifth International Workshop on Distributed Shared Memory, the 5th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, IEEE Catalogue 05EX1055C, ISBN 0-7803-9075-X, Cardiff University, UK (2005) [CD-ROM].
  • Huang, Z., Purvis, M. K., and Werstein, P. F., “Performance Evaluation of View-oriented Parallel Programming”, Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2005), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, USA (2005) 251-258.
  • Kerse, D., Regenbrecht , H., and Purvis,M. K., “Telepresence and User-initiated Control”, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2005), Christchurch, NZ (2005) 239-240.
  • Huang, Z., Purvis, M. K., Werstein, P., “Performance Comparison between VOPP and MPI”, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications, and Technologies, H. Shen & K. Nakano (eds.) IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA USA (2005) 343-347.
  • Yu, B-H, Werstein, P.,Purvis, M. K., and Cranefiel, S., “Lazy Home-Based Protocol: Combining Homeless and Home-Based Distributed Shared Memory Protocols”, High Performance Computing and Communcations: First International Conference, HPCC 2005, Sorrento, Italy, September 21-23, 2005. Proceedings, Yang, L. T., Rana, O. F., Di Martino, B., and Dongarra, J. (eds.) ISBN: 3-540-29031-1, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3726, Springer-Verlag, ISSN: 0302-9743, Berlin (2005) 733-744.
  • Yu, B-H., Werstein, P., Purvis, M. K., and Cranefield, S. “Performance Improvement Techniques for Software Distributed Shared Memory”, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1 (2005) 119-125.
  • Purvis, M. K., “Narrative Structure for Multi-Agent Interaction”, Proceedings IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004), N. Zhong, J. Bradshaw, S. K. Pal, D. Talia, D., J. Liu, and N. Cercone, (eds.), ISBN 0-7695-2101-0, IEEE Press, Los Alamitos, CA (2004) 223-238.
  • Purvis, M. A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R, and Purvis, M. K, “A Multi-agent Based Workflow System Embedded with Web Services”, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Collaboration Agents: Autonomous Agents for Collaborative Environments (Cola 2004), Ghorbani, A. and Marsh, S. (eds.), ISBN 0-9734039-4-2, IEEE/WIC Press, Beijing, China, (2004) 55-62.
  • Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. K, Oliveira, M and Purvis M. A, "Towards Secure Interactions in Agent Societies", In proceedings of Second annual conference on privacy,security and trust (PST 2004), Fredrericton, New Brunswick, Canada, October (2004). Marsh, S., Ed, ISSN 1712-364X, pp 143 - 148.
  • Oliveira, M. D., Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S., Nowostawski, M., “Institutions and Commitements in Open Multi-Agent Systems”, Proceedings IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004), N. Zhong, J. Bradshaw, S. K. Pal, D. Talia, D., J. Liu, and N. Cercone, (eds.), ISBN 0-7695-2101-0, IEEE Press, Los Alamitos, CA (2004) 500-503.
  • Purvis, M. K., Nowostawski, N., Cranefield, S., and Oliveira, M., “Multi-agent Interaction Technology for Peer-to-Peer Computing in Electronic Trading Environments”, PRICAI 2004: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, C. Zhang, H. W. Guesgen, and W. K. Yeap, (eds.), ISBN 3-540-22817-9, Springer-Verlag LNAI 3157, Heidelberg Germany (2004) 625-634.
  • Purvis, M. K., Garside, N., Cranefiled, S., Nowostawski, M, and De Oliveira, M., “Multi-Agent System Technology for P2P Applications on Small Portable Devices”, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Compuing (AP2PC’2004), Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems, G. Moro, S. Bergamaschi, and K. Aberer, (eds.), New York, NY (2004) 212-223.
  • Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., and Cranefield, S.J., "Educational Experiences from a Global Software Engineering (GSE) Project", Proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2004), Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 30, Australian Computer Society, Bedford Park, Australia (2004) 269-276.
  • Zhou, Q. and Purvis, M. K., "A Market-based Rule Learning System", ACSW Frontiers 2004, Proceedings of the Australasian Workshop on Data Mining and Web Intelligence (DMSW 2004), Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 32, Australian Computer Society, Bedford Park, Australia (2004) 175-180.
  • Yu, B-H., Huang, Z., Cranefield, S., and Purvis, M. K., "Homeless and Home-based Lazy Release Consistency Protocols on Distributed Shared Memory", Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2004), Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 26, Australian Computer Society, Bedford Park, Australia (2004) 117-123.
  • Deng, D., Zhang, J., and Purvis, M. K., "Visualisation and Comparision of Image Collections based on Self-organised Maps", ACSW Frontiers 2004, Proceedings of the Australasian Workshop on Data Mining and Web Intelligence (DMSW 2004), Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 32, Australian Computer Society, Bedford Park, Australia (2004) 97-102.
  • Purvis, M. K., Nowostawski, M., Oliveira, M., and Cranefield, S., "Multi-agent Interaction Protocols for E-Business", Proceeding of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, J. Liu, B. Faltings, N. Zhong, R. Lu, and T. Nishida (eds.), IEEE Press, Los Alamitos, CA (2003) 318-324.
  • Yu B-H, Huang Z., Cranefield S., and Purvis M. K., "Supporting Java Multimedia Applications over ATM Networks", Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, P. Fan and H. Shen (eds.), IEEE Press, Chengdu, (2003) 122-126.
  • Wang, X., Whigham, P., Deng, D., and Purvis, M. K., "Time-line Hidden Markov Experts for Time Series Prediction", Proceeding of International Conference on Neural Networks & Signal Processing (ICNNSP03), Volume I, IEEE Catalog Number: 03EX641C, ISBN: 0-7803-7703-6, Southeast University, Nanjing, China (2003) 786-789. [received ‘best paper' award]
  • Nowostawski, M., Carter, D., Cranefield, S., and Purvis, M. K., "Communicative Acts and Interaction Protocols in a Distributed Information System", Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2003), ACM Press, ISBN: 1-58113-683-8, New York (2003) 1082-1083.
  • Purvis, M. K., Nowostawski, M., Cranefield, S., and Oliveira, M., "Multi-Agent Interaction Technology for Peer-to-Peer Computing in Electronic Trading Environments", Second International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing, Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2003), Moro, G., Sartori, C., and Singh, M. (eds.), Melbourne Australia (2003) 103-114.
  • Cranefield, S., and Purvis, M. K., "Referencing Objects in FIPA SL: An Analysis and Proposal", Proceedings of the Challenges in Open Agent Systems '03 Workshop", Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2003), Melbourne Australia (2003) (http://www.agentcities.org/Challenge03/Proc/Papers/ch03_cranefield.pdf).
  • Cranefield, S., Pan, J., and Purvis, M. K., "A UML ontology and derived content language for a travel booking scenario", Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAAS 2003), Melbourne Australia (2003) (http://oas.otago.ac.nz/OAS2003/papers/oas03-cranefield.pdf).
  • Purvis, M. K., Huang, P., Purvis, M. A., Cranefield, S. J., and Schievink, M., "Interaction Protocols for a Network of Environmental Problem Solvers", Proceedings of the 2002 iEMSs International Meeting: Integrated Assessment and Decision Support (iEMSs 2002), Volume 3, Andrea E. Rizzoli and Anthony J. Jakeman (eds.), The International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Lugano, Switzerland (2002) 318-323.
  • Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. K., Nowostawski, M., and Huang, P., "Ontologies for Interaction Protocols", Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, S. Cranefield, T. Finin and S. Willmott (eds.), CEUR Publications, KUB Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands (2003).
  • Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S., Nowostawski, M., Ward, R., Carter, D., and Oliveira, M. A., "Agentcities Interaction Using the Opal Platform", Proceedings of the Workshop – Agentcities: Research in Large-Scale Open Agents Environments, 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Bologna, Italy (2002).
  • Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S., and Nowostawski, M., "A Multi-level Infrastructure for Agent-Oriented Development", Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002), Part 1, ACM Press (2002) 88-89.
  • Cranefield, S., Nowostawski, M., and Purvis, M. K., "Implementing Agent Communication Languages Directly from UML Specifications", Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002), Part 2, ACM Press (2002) 553-554.
  • Huang, Z., Sun, C., and Purvis, M. K., "Weak Sequential Consistency Models for Distributed Shared Memory", Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'02), H. R. Arabnia (ed.), CSREA Press, Las Vegas, U.S.A. (2002) 56-62.
  • Yu, B., Huang, Z., Purvis, M. K., and Cranefield, S., "Design and Implementation of a Java ATM API", Proceedings of the 4th Asia Pacific International Web Conference (APWeb 2001), Xu Ming, Wang Yijie and Zhao WenTao (eds.), Changsha, China, Publishing House of Electronics Industry (2001) 1-6.
  • Nowostawski, M., Cranefield, S. and Purvis, M. K., "Simple Semantic Language - The Abstract Content Language", Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop of Central and Eastern Europe on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS 2001), Krakow, Poland (2001) 347-354.
  • Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M. K., and Cranefield, S, "KEA - Multi-Level Agent Infrastructure", Proceedings 2nd International Workshop of Central and Eastern Europe on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS 2001), Krakow, Poland (2001) 355-362.
  • Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S, Ward, R., Nowostawski, M., Carter, D., and Bush, G., "A Multi-Agent System for the Integration of Distributed Environmental Information", Environmental Software Systems – Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems (ISESS'01), Banff, Canada (2001) 111-124.
  • Cranefield, S., Haustein, S., and Purvis, M. K., "UML-Based Ontology Modelling for Software Agents", Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Montreal (2001) 21-28.
  • Cranefield, S. and Purvis, M. K., "Generating ontology-specific content languages", Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Montreal (2001) 29-35.
  • Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S. "A Layered Approach for Modelling Agent Conversations", Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Infrastructure for Agents, MAS, and Scalable MAS, 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Montreal (2001) 163-170.
  • Nowostawski, M., Bush, G., Purvis, M. K., and Cranefield, S., "A Multi-Level Approach and Infrastructure for Agent-Oriented Software Development", Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Infrastructure for Agents, MAS, and Scalable MAS, 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Montreal (2001) 1-8.
  • Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S. "Modelling and Visualizing Agent Conversations", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Montreal (2001) 234-235.
  • Purvis, M. K. and Purvis, M. A. and Lemalu, S., "A Framework for Distributed Workflow Systems", Proceedings of the Hawai`i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-34), (CD-ROM) IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA (2001).
  • Huang, Z., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. K., and Sun, C., "View-based Consistency and its Implementation", Proceedings of the First IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid – CCGrid2001, Brisbane, Australia (2001) 74-81.
  • Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M. K., and Cranefield, S., "Agent-Oriented Modelling for Complex Systems", Applied Complexity – From Neural Nets to Managed Landscapes, S. Halloy and T. Williams (eds.), Christchurch, New Zealand Institute for Crop and Food Research (2000) 205-220.
  • Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. K., and Nowostawski, M., "Is it an Ontology or an Abstract Syntax? Modelling Objects, Knowledge and Agent Messages", Proceedings of the Workshop on Applications of Ontologies and Problem-Solving Methods at the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'00), Berlin, Germany (2000) 16.1–16.4.
  • Huang, Z., Sun, C., Purvis, M. K., and Cranefield, S. View-based Consistency for Distributed Shared Memory, in Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI'2000) and the 6th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS'2000), Volume VIII, Lee, J. K., Juric, M., Bruzzone, A., Klovshy, D. and Fujita, M. (eds.) International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics (2000) 1-6.
  • Purvis, M. K. and Purvis, M. A. and Lemalu, S., "An Adaptive Distributed Workflow System Framework", Proceedings of the Seventh Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'2000), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA (2000) 311-318.
  • Nowostawski, M., Bush, G., Purvis, M. K., and Cranefield, S., "Platforms for Agent-Oriented Software Engineering", Proceedings of the Seventh Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'2000), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA (2000) 480-488.
  • Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M. K., and Cranefield, S., "An architectural approach to messaging in multi-agent systems", Proceedings of the Autonomous Agents 2000 Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-agent Systems (W13), Barcelona, Spain (2000) 105-110.
  • Cranefield, S. and Purvis, M. K., "Extending Agent Messaging to Enable OO Information Exchange", Cybernetics and Systems 2000, (Proceedings of the 15th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research), R.Trappl (ed.), Vienna, Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, Vienna, Austria (2000) 573-578.
  • Purvis, M. K., Cranefield. S., Bush, G., Carter, D., McKinlay, B., Nowostawski, M., and Ward, R., "The NZDIS Project: an Agent-based Distributed Information Systems Architecture", Proceedings of the Hawai`i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-33), R. H. Sprague, Jr. (ed.), (CD ROM) IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA (2000).
  • Purvis, M. A. and Purvis M.K., "Simulation and Analysis of Legal Processes", Proceedings of the 10th Conference on AI, Simulation and Planning (AIS’2000), Sarjoughian H. S., Cellier F.E., Marefat, M. M, and Rozenblit J. W, (eds.), Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A: (2000) 229-234.
  • Hales, S. E., Salmond, C. E., Exeter, D., Purvis, M. K., Woodward, A., & Kjellstrom, T., “Spatial Patterns of Mortality in Relation to Particulate Air Pollution in Christchurch, 1988-1997", Proceedings of the 12th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre, P. A. Whigham (ed.) University of Otago Press, Dunedin, New Zealand (2000) 37-43.
  • Drumm, D., Purvis, M. K., and Qingqing Zhou, Q., "Spatial ecology and artificial neural networks: modeling the habitat preference of the sea cucumber (Holothuria leucospilota) on Rarotonga, Cook Islands", SIRC 99 – Proceedings of the 11th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (1999) 141-149.
  • Purvis, M. A. and Purvis M. K., "Analysis of a Dynamic Model of Legal Process Behaviour", Proceedings of the MODSIM'99 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Oxley, L., Scrimgeour, F., and Jakeman, A. (eds.), Hamilton, New Zealand (1999) 729-734.
  • Purvis, M. A. and Purvis M. K., "A Dynamic Model of Legal Process Behaviour". Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference- Applied Modelling and Simulation (AMS'99), Hamza, M. H., (ed.), Cairns, Australia, IASTED/Acta Press(1999) 124-129.
  • Zhou, Q. and Purvis, M. K., "Knowledge Extraction Using Market-based Rule Evolution", Emergent Knowledge Engineering and Connectionist-Based Information Systems, Proceedings of the ICONIP/ANZIIS/ANNES'99 International Workshop, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (1999) 203-207.
  • Huang, Z., Cranefield, S., Chee, V. K. M., Purvis, M. K., "A Java Networking API for ATM Networks", in Proceedings of the 31th International Conference and Exhibition on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS Asia'99), Nanjing, China, (1999) 306-315.
  • Cranefield, S. and Purvis, M. K., "UML as an ontology modelling language" Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Information Integration, 16th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-99), Germany, University of Karlsruhe (1999) 46-53. (http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de\
    /Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-23/cranefield-ijcai99-iii.pdf)
  • Cranefield, S.J.S., Moreale, E., McKinlay, B. and Purvis, M. K., "Automating the Interoperation of Information Processing Tools", Proceedings of the 32nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-32). Maui, Hawaii, IEEE (CD-ROM) (1999) 10 pages.
  • Hales, S., Zhou, Q., Lewis, S., and Purvis, M. K., "Connectionist Modelling of Asthma Incidence in New Zealand", SIRC'98 Towards the Next Decade of Spatial Information Research, Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre, Dunedin (1998) 111-117.
  • Cranefield, S. J. S., McKinlay, B., Moreale, E. and Purvis, M. K. "Automating Information Processing Tasks: An Agent-based Architecture", TZI Report 9/98: Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Agents in Information and Process Management, 22. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Künstliche Intelligenz (22nd German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI-98). Bremen, Center for Computing Technologies (TZI), University of Bremen (1998).
  • Purvis, M. K., Cranefield, S., and Ward, R., "Distributed Software Systems: From Objects to Agents", Software Engineering: Education & Practice, Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA (1998) 158-165.
  • Zhou, Q., Purvis, M. K., and Kasabov, N., "A Membership Function Selection Method for Fuzzy Neural Networks", Progress in Connectionist-Based Information Systems (Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Neural Information Processing and Intelligent Systems -- ICONIP/ANZIIS/ANNES'97), Springer, Singapore (1998), II:785-788.
  • Ward, R., Purvis, M. K., Raykov, R., Zhang, F., and Watts, M., "An Architecture for Distributed Connectionist Computation", Progress in Connectionist-Based Information Systems (Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Neural Information Processing and Intelligent Systems), Springer, Singapore (1998), II:721-724.
  • Li, X. and Purvis, M. K., "An Optical Thin-Film Multilayer Model For Connectionist Learning", Proceedings of ICCIMA'98, the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications 1998, Selvaraj, H. and Verma, B. (eds.),World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, (1998) 258-263.
  • Askar-Tehrany, M. and Purvis, M. K., "Modelling and Simulation of Legal Processes", Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the Computer Society of Iran (CSICC 97), Tehran, Iran (1997) 7-12.
  • Purvis, M. K., and Li, X., "Connectionist Learning Using an Optical Thin-Film Model", Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Scientific Computation, Modelling and Applied Mathematics - Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, vol. 4, Achim Sydow (ed.), Wissenschaft & Technik Verlag, Berlin, (1997) 239-244.
  • Purvis, M. K., Kasabov, N., Benwell, G., Zhou, Q., and Zhang, F., "Neuro-fuzzy Methods for Environmental Modelling" (keynote address), in Environmental Software Systems 2, Denzer, R., Swayne, D. A., and Schimak, G., (eds.), Chapman and Hall, London (1997) 30-37.
  • Diaz, A., Cranefield, S., and Purvis, M. K., "Planning and Matchmaking in a Multi-Agent System for Software Integration", Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mathematical and Computer Modelling, International Association for Mathematical and Computer Modelling (1997).
  • Cranefield, S. J. S. and Purvis, M. K., "An Agent-based Approach for Desktop Tool Integration", Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems and Neural Networks, Honolulu, IASTED/Acta Press (1996) 127-130.
  • Cranefield, S. J. S. and Purvis, M. K., "An Architecture for Agent-integrated Desktop Tools", Proceedings of Poster Session, Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Armidale, Griffith University (1996) 69-76.
  • Purvis, M., K., and Cranefield, S. J. S., "Agent Modelling with Petri Nets", Symposium on Discrete Events and Manufacturing Systems, Proceedings of the Computational Engineering in Systems Applications (CESA'96) IMACS Multiconference, Ecole Centrale de Lille, Lille, France (1996) 602-607.
  • McLennan, B. R., Purvis, M. K., and Robertson, C. J. R., "Wildlife Population Analysis with GIS: Conservation Management of Albatrosses", Proceedings of GeoComputation'96, the First International Conference on GeoComputation, University of Leeds, Leeds, U. K. (1996) II:591-600.
  • McLennan, B. R., Purvis, M. K., Benwell, G. L., and Robertson, C. J. R., "Ecological Information Systems: Spatial Data for Conservation", Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre, Dunedin (1996) 144-148.
  • Purvis, M. K. and Cranefield, S. J. S., "Agent-based Software Engineering", Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Workshop on Software Engineering Research, Information Systems Department, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (1996) 4.4.1-4.4.6.
  • Purvis, M. K., Purvis, M. A.,and Jones, P., "A Group Collaboration Tool for Software Engineering Projects", Software Engineering: Education & Practice, Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA (1996) 362-369.
  • McLennan, B. R., Purvis, M. K., and Benwell, G. L., "Spatial Information System Techniques for the Management of Wildlife Colonies", Advanced Technology in the Environmental Field (Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference), IASTED-ACTA Press, Anaheim, CA (1996) 155-158.
  • Purvis, M. K., Kasabov, N. K., Zhang, F., and Benwell, G. L., "Connectionist-Based Methods for Knowledge Acquisition from Spatial Data", Advanced Technology in the Environmental Field (Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference), IASTED-ACTA Press, Anaheim, CA (1996) 151-154.
  • Cranefield, S. J. S. and Purvis, M. K., "Agent-Based Integration of General-Purpose Tools", Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, Fourth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, http://www.cs.umbc.edu/cikm/iia/proc.html (1995).
  • Benwell, G. L., Kasabov, N., Purvis, M. K., Zhang, F., McLennan, B. R., and Mann S., "Spatial Analysis with Artificial Neural Networks", Conference Proc., Eighth Australian Joint Artificial Intelligence Conference, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and the Environment, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia (1995) 43-52.
  • Purvis, M. K., Purvis, M. A., Benwell, G. L., and Mann, S., "Modelling and Simulation of a New Zealand Legislative Act", Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Einning, P., Bridgman, H., and Williams, B. (eds.), Modelling and Simulation Society, Australia, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia (1995) 313-318.
  • Purvis, M. K., and Li, X., "Connectionist Learning Using an Optical Thin-Film Model", Proceedings of the Second New Zealand International Two-Stream Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California (1995) 63-66.
  • Purvis, M. K., and Cranefield, S. J. S., "Causal Agent Modelling: a Unifying Paradigm for Systems and Organisations", Proceedings of Pan-Pacific Conference XII, Dunedin and Queenstown, New Zealand (1995) 394-396.
  • Purvis, M. K., and Purvis, M. A., "Modelling Environmental Legislative Processes with Petri Nets", Modelling and Simulation (Proceedings of the International Association of Science and Technology for Development International Conference), IASTED-ACTA Press, Anaheim, CA (1995) 238-246.
  • Purvis, M. K., "An Approach for the Capture of Requirements and Design Rational for Software Engineering Education Projects", Software Education Conference, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California (1995) 261-266.
  • Benwell, G. L., Kasabov, N., and Purvis, M. K., "Using Artificial Neural Networks for Spatial Analysis", Proceedings of the 1995 New Zealand Conference on Geographical Information Systems and Spatial Information Research, Incorporating, the Sixth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre, Palmerston North (1995).
  • Purvis, M. A., and Purvis, M. K., "Modelling the Development of District Plans under the New Zealand Resource Management Act", Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre, Dunedin (1994) 161-188.
  • McLennan, B. R., Chong, A. K., and Purvis, M. K., "Data Acquisition by GPS for a Wildlife Management Decision Support System" Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre, Dunedin (1994) 17-30.
  • Purvis, M. K., Benwell, G. L., and Purvis, M. A., "Dynamic Modelling of the Resource Consent Process in the Resource Management Act", Environmental and Resource Management in New Zealand, Selsky, J. W., Morgan, R. K., and Memon, A.,. (eds.), Environmental Policy and Resource management Centre, Dunedin (1994) 381-394.
  • Purvis, M. K., "Causal Modelling in Software Engineering Design" (invited paper), Software Engineering Education, Proceedings of the IFIP, W.G. 3.4/SEARCC (SRIG-ET) North Holland, Amsterdam (1993) 175-188.
  • Purvis, M. K., and Yau, C., "Project Work in Software Engineering", Software Engineering Education, Proceedings of the IFIP, W.G. 3.4/SEARCC (SRIG-ET) North Holland, Amsterdam (1993) 323-328.
  • Purvis, M. K., and Xiaodong, L., "Connectionist Computations Based on an Optical Thin-Film Model", Proceedings of the First New Zealand International Two-Stream Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California (1993) 130-133.
  • Purvis, M. K., and Benwell, G. L., "A Causal Agent Approach for Modelling Dynamic Systems" Proceedings of the 13th New Zealand Computer Society Conference, New Zealand Computer Society, Auckland (1993) 598-604.
  • Purvis, M. K., and Benwell, G. L., "A Computer Model of the Resource Management Act of New Zealand", Proceedings of the XIIth Conference of the South East Regional Computer Confederation, Hong Kong (1993) 51-60.
  • Purvis, M. A., and Purvis, M. K., "Dynamic Modelling of the Resource Management Act", Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre, Dunedin (1993) 225-240.
  • Purvis, M. K., Gaskin, C., Smith, I., and McLennan, B., "Life at Taiaroa Head", Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre, Dunedin (1993) 265-278.
  • Franke, D. W., and Purvis, M. K., "Design Automation Technology for CoDesign: Status and Directions", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, San Diego, CA, USA (1992).
  • Purvis, M. K., and Franke, D. W., "An Overview of Hardware/Software CoDesign", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, San Diego, CA, USA (1992).
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