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Peter McBurney

Professor Peter McBurney

Professor of Computer Science

  • Former Head of the Department of Informatics
  • Joint editor in chief of the Knowledge Engineering Review
  • Founder and GameMaster (2007-2009), TAC Market Design Tournament

Research interests

  • Computer science

Biography

Research Interests

  • Argumentation
  • Autonomous agents
  • Agent communications
  • Cyber-security
  • Decision theory

Public engagement

Research

AI network
Distributed Artificial Intelligence

The group explores the use of AI in social and economic contexts where an intelligent entity may be interacting with other entities.

cyberculture
King's Cybersecurity Centre

King's Cybersecurity Centre is an EPSRC-NCSC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR). It provides expertise on most areas of cyber security, it has a critical mass of researchers working on three main research themes and their interrelationship.

FEATURE Finance
Finance (Informatics)

The Finance Hub conducts fundamental and applied research at the intersection of finance and computation, a sector which is colloquially known as FinTech.

THUMB PAGE Security Cameras
Security (Informatics)

The Security Hub consolidates the research related to security

Robots in the Department of Informatics
Trusted Autonomous Systems (Informatics)

The Trusted Autonomous Systems Hub develops the trustable autonomous systems of tomorrow.

it-security-cyber
Cyber Security Research Group

CSRG promotes research into cyber security bringing together experts from diverse disciplines.

cnes herox
Centre for Non-Equilibrium Science (CNES)

CNES acts as an international hub for cross-disciplinary research in non-equilibrium science.

Research

AI network
Distributed Artificial Intelligence

The group explores the use of AI in social and economic contexts where an intelligent entity may be interacting with other entities.

cyberculture
King's Cybersecurity Centre

King's Cybersecurity Centre is an EPSRC-NCSC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR). It provides expertise on most areas of cyber security, it has a critical mass of researchers working on three main research themes and their interrelationship.

FEATURE Finance
Finance (Informatics)

The Finance Hub conducts fundamental and applied research at the intersection of finance and computation, a sector which is colloquially known as FinTech.

THUMB PAGE Security Cameras
Security (Informatics)

The Security Hub consolidates the research related to security

Robots in the Department of Informatics
Trusted Autonomous Systems (Informatics)

The Trusted Autonomous Systems Hub develops the trustable autonomous systems of tomorrow.

it-security-cyber
Cyber Security Research Group

CSRG promotes research into cyber security bringing together experts from diverse disciplines.

cnes herox
Centre for Non-Equilibrium Science (CNES)

CNES acts as an international hub for cross-disciplinary research in non-equilibrium science.