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Associate Professor Maurice Pagnucco

Research Expertise

Maurice Pagnucco is an Associate Professor and Head of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
His research is in artificial intelligence on the areas of knowledge representation and reasoning, belief change, cognitive robotics and reasoning about action and change.
Maurice is programme director of the Decision Making theme in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems and a co-director of the UNSW iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research.
His collaboration with iCinema researchers and other researchers in the School of Computer Science and Engineering will premiere at the Sydney Film Festival in 2011.
This work represents a world-first interactive cinema piece which includes an artificial intelligence planning system to control virtual characters as they interact with audience members.
Maurice gained his bachelors degree and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sydney.

Qualifications

  • Ph.D, University of Sydney, 1996
  • Bachelor of Science (Hons I) University of Sydney, 1991

Current Appointment

  • Head of School, Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales.

Career-best Publications

  • Shapiro, S. and Pagnucco, M. “Iterated Belief Change and Exogenous Actions in the Situation Calculus.” Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-04). Eds. R. López de Mántaras and L. Saitta. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004. 878-882.
  • Nayak, A.C., Delgrande, J.P., and Pagnucco, M. “Conservative Belief Change.” Proceedings of the 19th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04), 2004. 251-256.
  • Nayak, A.C., Pagnucco, M., and Peppas, P. “Dynamic Belief Revision Operators.” Artificial Intelligence. 146.2 (2003): 193-228.
  • Pagnucco, M. and Peppas, P. “Causality and Minimal Change Demystified.” Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’01). Seattle, USA, August 2001. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 2001. 125-130.
  • Jauregui, V., Pagnucco, M. and Foo, N.Y. “A Trajectory Approach to Causality.” Studia Logica 67 (2001): 385-401.
  • Shapiro, S., Pagnucco, M., Lesperance, Y., and Levesque, H. J. “Iterated Belief Change in the Situation Calculus.” Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR’2000). Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. April 2000. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 2000. 527-538.
  • Rott, H. and Pagnucco. M. “Severe Withdrawal (and Recovery).” Journal of Philosophical Logic 28.5 (1999): 501-547.
  • Wobcke, W., Pagnucco, M. and Zhang, C. Eds. “Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Formalism, Methodologies, and Applications, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.” Volume 1441. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1998.
  • Foo, N. Y., Nayak, A.C., and Pagnucco, M. “Definitional Constraints.” Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on Artificia Intelligence (ECAI96). Budapest, Hungry, August 1996. Ed. W. Wahlster. 1996. 65 – 69.
  • Nayak, A.C., Foo, N.Y., Pagnucco, M., and Sattar, A. “Changing Conditional Beliefs Unconditionally.” Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Theoretical Aspects Of Rationality And Knowledge (TARK VI), De Zeeuwse Stromen, The Netherlands, March 1996. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 1996. 119 – 135.