Dr Sebastian Stein

https://ccais.soton.ac.uk/

Sebastian is an associate professor within the Agents, Interaction and Complexity research group, which is part of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. He completed his PhD in Multi-Agent Systems at Southampton in 2008 and holds an MEng in Computer Science from the University of Warwick.

Current Roles:

Turing AI Acceleration Fellow
Management Board Member of Centre for IoT and Pervasive Systems
FEPS Peer Review College Champion (Computer Science)
EPSRC Peer Review College Associate Member
Associate Editor of Royal Society Open Science Journal

Past Roles:

Director of Programmes for Undegraduate Computing
Deputy Director of Faculty Grad School (Computer Science)
Member of Faculty Ethics Committee

Research

Research interests

Sebastian works in the area of artificial intelligence and in particular multi-agent systems. He is interested in highly dynamic, heterogeneous systems where multiple self-interested actors (including human users and intelligent software agents) come together, interact and possibly pursue conflicting objectives. To deal with these challenging settings, Sebastian's research focuses on a range of techniques:

Mechanism Design and Incentive Engineering: This looks allocation and payment mechanisms that incentivise desirable behaviours despite the presence of self-interested agents.
Sequential Decision Making with Uncertainty: This considers dynamic settings with potentially incomplete information and high uncertainty, where an autonomous agent needs to choose actions sequentially to maximise some objective.

Sebastian is passionate about applying these techniques to a range of important application areas and key societal challenges, including:

Smart Mobility: Artificial intelligence holds promise to revolutionise the way we travel. Sebastian is interested in applying incentive engineering to design efficient smart mobility systems that allow citizens to complete journeys seamlessly and on-demand, using more sustainable forms of transport rather than the currently prevalent model of widespread vehicle ownership.
Electric Vehicle Charging: Electric vehicles, when coupled with renewable electricity generation, are key to reducing carbon emissions from transportation. However, widespread use will likely cause considerable strains on the electricity distribution networks. Sebastian has applied mechanism design to this setting to enable smart charging schemes that allocate electricity efficiently within constrained settings.
Crowdsourcing: Increasingly, people and intelligent algorithms work together to solve complex problems, ranging from coordinated crowdsensing activities during disasters to large citizen science efforts. Sebastian is using machine learning and sequential decision-making approaches to deal with the uncertain and noisy data provided by human contributors.
Cloud Computing: Running computationally intensive analytics tasks is challenging in settings where resources are constrained and uncertain, e.g., during disaster response operations, in IoT networks or in edge clouds. Sebastian is interested in applying techniques from game theory to model how multiple self-interested actors can share these resources and how AI techniques can be used to deal proactively with uncertainty.

Publications

2022

Iwase, Tatsuya, Stein, Sebastian, Gerding, Enrico and Chapman, Archie (2022) A Polynomial-time decentralised algorithm for coordinated management of multiple intersections. The 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Messe Wien Exhibition and Congress Center, Vienna, Austria. 23 - 29 Jul 2022. 13 pp . (In Press)
Cipolina-Kun, Lucia, Yazdanpanah, Vahid, Gerding, Enrico and Stein, Sebastian (2022) Coalition formation in ridesharing with walking options. ICLR 2022 Workshop on Gamification and Multiagent Solutions, Co-located with ICLR (virtually). 29 Apr 2022.
Rigas, Emmanouil S., Gerding, Enrico H., Stein, Sebastian, Ramchurn, Sarvapali D. and Bassiliades, Nick (2022) Mechanism design for efficient offline and online allocation of electric vehicles to charging stations. Energies, 15 (5), [1660]. (doi:10.3390/en15051660).
Ong, Yi Cheng, Protopapas, Nicos, Yazdanpanah, Vahid, Gerding, Enrico and Stein, Sebastian (2022) Preference-aware dynamic ridesharing. The 6th International Workshop on Agent-Based Modelling of Urban Systems, Auckland, New Zealand (Virtual), Auckland, New Zealand. 10 May 2022. 5 pp .

2021

Iwase, Tatsuya, Stein, Sebastian and Gerding, Enrico (2021) A Polynomial-time, truthful, individually rational and budget balanced ridesharing mechanism. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Virtual, Montreal, Canada. 21 - 26 Aug 2021. pp. 268-275 . (doi:10.24963/ijcai.2021/38).
Yazdanpanah, Vahid, Stein, Sebastian, Gerding, Enrico and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2021) Applying strategic reasoning for accountability ascription in multiagent teams. The IJCAI-21 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety (AISafety 2021), Virtual. 21 - 22 Aug 2021. 9 pp .
Yazdanpanah, Vahid, Gerding, Enrico H., Stein, Sebastian, Cirstea, Corina, schraefel, m.c., Norman, Timothy J. and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2021) Collective responsibility in multiagent settings. ACM Collective Intelligence Conference 2021 (CI-2021), Virtual, Copenhagen, Denmark. 29 - 30 Jun 2021. 4 pp . (In Press)
Yazdanpanah, Vahid, Gerding, Enrico, Stein, Sebastian, Cirstea, Corina, schraefel, m.c., Norman, Timothy and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2021) Different Forms of Responsibility in Multiagent Systems: Sociotechnical Characteristics and Requirements. IEEE Internet Computing, 25 (6), 15-22. (doi:10.1109/MIC.2021.3107334).
Yazdanpanah, Vahid, Gerding, Enrico and Stein, Sebastian (2021) Formal Methods to Verify and Ensure Self-Coordination Abilities in the Internet of Vehicles. In Computational Logistics: 12th International Conference, ICCL 2021, Enschede, The Netherlands, September 27–29, 2021, Proceedings. Springer.. (In Press)
Yazdanpanah, Vahid, Stein, Sebastian, Gerding, Enrico H. and schraefel, m.c. (2021) Multiagent strategic reasoning in the IoV: A logic-based approach. ACM Collective Intelligence Conference 2021 (CI-2021), Virtual, Copenhagen, Denmark. 29 - 30 Jun 2021. 4 pp . (In Press)
Rublein, Caroline, Mehmeti, Fidan, Towers, Mark, Stein, Sebastian and La Porta, Thomas (2021) Online resource allocation in edge computing using distributed bidding approaches. In 2021 IEEE 18th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS). 9 pp . (In Press)
Zavvos, Efstathios, Gerding, Enrico, Yazdanpanah, Vahid, Maple, Carsten, Stein, Sebastian and schraefel, m.c. (2021) Privacy and Trust in the Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. (doi:10.1109/TITS.2021.3121125). (In Press)
Yazdanpanah, Vahid, Gerding, Enrico, Stein, Sebastian, Dastani, Mehdi, Jonker, Catholijn M. and Norman, Timothy (2021) Responsibility Research for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, London (Virtual), Virtual, United Kingdom. 03 - 07 May 2021. pp. 57-62 . (doi:10.48448/w5y9-qk13).
Yazdanpanah, Vahid, Gerding, Enrico H., Stein, Sebastian, Dastani, Mehdi, Jonker, Catholijn M., Norman, Timothy J. and Ramchurn, Sarvapali D. (2021) Responsibility ascription in trustworthy autonomous systems. Embedding AI in Society, North Carolina State University, Raleigh (online), United States. 18 - 19 Feb 2021. 5 pp . (In Press)
Yazdanpanah, Vahid, Stein, Sebastian, Gerding, Enrico and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2021) Task-oriented accountability in autonomous systems. The UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme: All Hands Meeting, Virtual, Southampton, United Kingdom. 14 - 16 Sep 2021.
Dbouk, Wassim (ed.) , Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub (2021) The future of connected and automated mobility in the UK: call for evidence University of Southampton 15pp. (doi:10.5258/SOTON/P0097).
Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Stein, Sebastian and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2021) Trustworthy human-AI partnerships. iScience, 24 (8), [102891]. (doi:10.1016/j.isci.2021.102891).

2020

Gomer, Richard, Stein, Sebastian, Gerding, Enrico, schraefel, m.c., Maple, Carsten and Yazdanpanah, Vahid (2020) AutoTrust in 2020 and beyond: The landscape, stakeholders and possible futures of the Internet of Vehicles The Autotrust Platform
Rigas, Emmanouil S., Gerding, Enrico, Stein, Sebastian, Ramchurn, Sarvapali D. and Bassiliades, Nick (2020) Mechanism design for efficient allocation of electric vehicles to charging stations. In SETN 2020: 11th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence. pp. 10-15 . (doi:10.1145/3411408.3411434).
Stein, Sebastian, Ochal, Mateusz, Moisoiu, Ioana-Adriana, Gerding, Enrico, Ganti, Raghu, He, Ting and La Porta, Tom (2020) Strategyproof reinforcement learning for online resource allocation. In AAMAS '20: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems. University of Auckland. 1296–1304 . (doi:10.5555/3398761.3398911).

2019

Bi, Fan, Stein, Sebastian, Gerding, Enrico, Jennings, Nick and La Porta, Tom (2019) A truthful online mechanism for allocating fog computing resources. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2019), , Montreal, Canada. 13 - 17 May 2019. pp. 1829-1831 .
Bi, Fan, Stein, Sebastian, Gerding, Enrico, Jennings, Nick and La Porta, Thomas (2019) A truthful online mechanism for resource allocation in fog computing. Nayak, A. and Sharma, A. (eds.) In PRICAI 2019: Trends in Artificial Intelligence. PRICAI 2019. vol. 11672, Springer, Cham. pp. 363-376 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-29894-4_30).
Chakraborty, Sukankana, Stein, Sebastian, Brede, Markus, Restocchi, Valerio, Swami, Ananthram and de Mel, Geeth (2019) Competitive influence maximisation using voting dynamics. Workshop on Social Influence held in conjunction with the 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, , Vancouver, Canada. 27 - 30 Aug 2019. pp. 978-985 . (doi:10.1145/3341161.3345025).
Brede, Markus, Restocchi, Valerio and Stein, Sebastian (2019) Effects of time horizons on Influence maximization in the voter dynamics. Journal of Complex Networks, 7 (3), 445–468. (doi:10.1093/comnet/cny027).
Eshghi, Soheil, Maghsudi, Setareh, Restocchi, Valerio, Stein, Sebastian and Tassiulas, Leandros (2019) Efficient influence maximization under network uncertainty. In First International INFOCOM Workshop on Communications and Networking Aspects of Online Social Networks (IEEE CAOS 2019). IEEE. pp. 365-371 . (doi:10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845088).
Kittley-Davies, Jacob, Alqaraawi, Ahmed, Yang, Rayoung, Costanza, Enrico, Rogers, Alex and Stein, Sebastian (2019) Evaluating the effect of feedback from different computer vision processing stages: a comparative lab study. 12 pp . (doi:10.1145/3290605.3300273).
Bent, Graham, De Mel, Geeth, Ganti, Raghu, La Porta, Tom, Pearson, Gavin, Pham, Tien, Stein, Sebastian, Tassiulas, Leandros and Taylor, Ian (2019) Learning service semantics for self-organization in distributed environments: concepts and research directions. In 2018 IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2018. vol. 2019-October, IEEE. pp. 1080-1085 . (doi:10.1109/MILCOM.2018.8599809).
Dewan, Pranita, Ganti, Raghu, Srivatsa, Mudhakar and Stein, Sebastian (2019) NN-SAR: A Neural Network Approach for Spatial AutoRegression. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops). IEEE. pp. 783-789 . (doi:10.1109/PERCOMW.2019.8730574).
Valls, Victor, Kwon, Heesung, Laporta, Tom, Stein, Sebastian and Tassiulas, Leandros (2019) On the design of resource allocation algorithms for low-latency video analytics. In 2018 IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2018. vol. 2019-October, IEEE. pp. 468-473 . (doi:10.1109/MILCOM.2018.8599750).
Leelavimolsilp, Tin, Nguyen, Viet, Stein, Sebastian and Tran-Thanh, Long (2019) Selfish mining in Proof-of-Work blockchain with multiple miners: An empirical evaluation. Baldoni, Matteo, Dastani, Mehdi, Liao, Beishui, Sakurai, Yuko and Zalila-Wenkstern, Rym (eds.) In PRIMA 2019: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. vol. 11873, Springer. pp. 219-234 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-33792-6_14).
Brede, Markus, Restocchi, Valerio and Stein, Sebastian (2019) Transmission errors and influence maximization in the voter model. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 1-15. (doi:10.1088/1742-5468/ab054b).
Truong, Nhat, Van Quoc, Stein, Sebastian, Tran-Thanh, Long and Jennings, Nick (2019) What prize is right? How to learn the optimal structure for crowdsourcing contests. Nayak, Abhaya and Sharma, Alok (eds.) In PRICAI 2019: Trends in Artificial Intelligence. vol. 1160, Springer. pp. 85-97 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-29908-8_7).

2018

Auffenberg, Frederik, Snow, Stephen, Stein, Sebastian and Rogers, Alex (2018) A comfort-based approach to smart heating and air conditioning. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 9 (3), [28]. (doi:10.1145/3057730).
Truong, Nhat, Van Quoc, Stein, Sebastian, Tran-Thanh, Long and Jennings, Nick (2018) Adaptive incentive selection for crowdsourcing contests. 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, , Stockholm, Sweden. 11 - 12 Jul 2018. pp. 2100-2102 .
Zenonos, Alexandros, Stein, Sebastian and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2018) Coordinating measurements for environmental monitoring in uncertain participatory sensing settings. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 61, 433-474. (doi:10.1613/jair.5484).
He, Ting, Khamfroush, Hana, Wang, Shiqiang, La Porta, Tom and Stein, Sebastian (2018) It's hard to share: joint service placement and request scheduling in edge clouds with sharable and non-sharable resources. In 2018 IEEE 38th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). vol. 2018-July, IEEE. pp. 365-375 . (doi:10.1109/ICDCS.2018.00044).
Hayakawa, Keiichiro, Gerding, Enrico, Stein, Sebastian and Shiga, Takahiro (2018) Price-based online mechanisms for settings with uncertain future procurement costs and multi-unit demand. In 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018). ACM. pp. 309-317 .
Brede, Markus, Restocchi, Valerio and Stein, Sebastian (2018) Resisting influence: How the strength of predispositions to resist control can change strategies for optimal opinion control in the voter model. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 5 (34). (doi:10.3389/frobt.2018.00034).

2017

Zenonos, Alexandros, Stein, Sebastian and Jennings, Nicholas (2017) A trust-based coordination system for participatory sensing applications. In Fifth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing. AAAI. pp. 226-234 .
Drwal, Maciej, Gerding, Enrico, Stein, Sebastian, Hayakawa, Keiichiro and Kitaoka, Hironobu (2017) Adaptive pricing mechanisms for on-demand mobility. In AAMAS '17 Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems. ACM. pp. 1017-1025 .
Zenonos, Alexandros, Stein, Sebastian and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2017) Coordinating measurements for environmental monitoring in uncertain participatory sensing settings (Technical Report, 2016) Southampton, UK. University of Southampton 40pp.
Stein, Sebastian, Gerding, Enrico, Nedea, A, Rosenfeld, Avi and Jennings, Nicholas (2017) Evaluating market user interfaces for electric vehicle charging using Bid2Charge. Sierra, Carles (ed.) In Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-17): Best Sister Conferences. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. pp. 4939-4943 . (doi:10.24963/ijcai.2017/698).
Stein, Sebastian, Eshghi, Soheil, Maghsudi, Setareh, Tassiulas, Leandros, Bellamy, Rachel K. E. and Jennings, Nicholas (2017) Heuristic algorithms for influence maximization in partially observable social networks. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Social Influence Analysis (SocInf 2017): in conjunction with the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Melbourne, Australia, August 19, 2017. vol. 1893, pp. 20-32 .
Stein, Sebastian, Eshghi, Soheil, Maghsudi, Setareh, Tassiulas, Leandros, Bellamy, Rachel K.E. and Jennings, Nicholas (2017) Influence maximisation beyond organisational boundaries. In 3rd IEEE Smart World Congress (SmartWorld 2017). IEEE. 6 pp .
Stein, Sebastian, Gerding, Enrico, Nedea, Adrian, Rosenfeld, Avi and Jennings, Nicholas (2017) Market interfaces for electric vehicle charging. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 59, 175-227. (doi:10.1613/jair.5387).
Balsamo, Domenico, Merrett, Geoff V., Zaghari, Bahareh, Wei, Yang, Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Stein, Sebastian, Weddell, Alexander and Beeby, Stephen (2017) Wearable and autonomous computing for future smart cities: open challenges. In 25th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM). IEEE. 5 pp . (doi:10.23919/SOFTCOM.2017.8115596).

2016

Zenonos, Alexandros, Stein, Sebastian and Jennings, Nicholas R (2016) An algorithm to coordinate measurements using stochastic human mobility patterns in large-scale participatory sensing settings. Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16). pp. 3936-3942 .
Stein, S., Gerding, E., Nedea, A., Rosenfeld, A. and Jennings, N.R. (2016) Bid2Charge: Market user interface design for electric vehicle charging. Thangarajah, J., Tuyls, K., Jonker, C. and Marsella, S. (eds.) In AAMAS '16 Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems. ACM. pp. 882-890 .
de Weerdt, M., Stein, S., Gerding, E., Robu, V. and Jennings, N.R. (2016) Intention-aware routing of electric vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 17 (5), 1472-1482, [7365482]. (doi:10.1109/TITS.2015.2506900).
Wiyono, Didiek, Sri, Stein, Sebastian and Gerding, Enrico H. (2016) Novel energy exchange models and a trading agent for community energy market. International Conference on the European Energy Market, , Porto, Portugal. 06 - 09 Jun 2016. pp. 1-5 . (doi:10.1109/EEM.2016.7521196).
Gerding, Enrico, Stein, Sebastian, Ceppi, Sofia and Robu, Valentin (2016) Online mechanism design for vehicle-to-grid car parks. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'16). ACM. pp. 286-293 .

2015

Auffenberg, Frederik, Stein, Sebastian and Rogers, Alex (2015) A heating agent using a personalised thermal comfort model to save energy. International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, , Istanbul, Turkey. pp. 1799-1800 .
Auffenberg, Frederik, Stein, Sebastian and Rogers, Alex (2015) A personalised thermal comfort model using a Bayesian network. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 24 - 30 Jul 2015. pp. 2547-2553 .
Zenonos, Alexandros, Stein, Sebastian and Jennings, N. R. (2015) Coordinating measurements for air pollution monitoring in participatory sensing settings. 14th Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Istanbul, Turkey. 03 - 07 May 2015. pp. 493-501 .
Salisbury, Elliot, Stein, Sebastian and Ramchurn, Sarvapali (2015) CrowdAR: augmenting live video with a real-time crowd. HCOMP 2015: Third AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, San Diego, United States. 08 - 11 Nov 2015. pp. 169-177 .
Hayakawa, Keiichiro, Gerding, Enrico, Stein, Sebastian and Shiga, Takahiro (2015) Online mechanisms for charging electric vehicles in settings with varying marginal electricity costs. In IJCAI'15 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. ACM. pp. 2610-2616 .
Salisbury, Elliot, Stein, Sebastian and Ramchurn, Sarvapali (2015) Real-time opinion aggregation methods for crowd robotics. 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Istanbul, Turkey, Turkey. 03 - 07 May 2015. pp. 841-849 .

2014

Tran-Thanh, Long, Stein, Sebastian and Rogers, Alex et al. (2014) Efficient crowdsourcing of unknown experts using bounded multi-armed bandits. Artificial Intelligence, 214, 89-111. (doi:10.1016/j.artint.2014.04.005).
Ströhle, Philipp, Gerding, Enrico, de Weerdt, Mathijs, Stein, Sebastian and Robu, Valentin (2014) Online mechanism design for scheduling non-preemptive jobs under uncertain supply and demand. Lomuscio, Alessio, Scerri, Paul, Bazzan, Ana and Huhns, Michael (eds.) In AAMAS '14 Proceedings of the 2014 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. ACM. pp. 437-444 .
Naroditskiy, Victor, Stein, Sebastian, Tonin, Mirco, Tran-Thanh, Long, Vlassopoulos, Michael and Jennings, N.R. (2014) Referral incentives in crowdfunding. HCOMP2014: Conference on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing, Pittsburgh, United States. 02 - 04 Nov 2014. pp. 171-183 .

2013

Robu, Valentin, Gerding, Enrico H., Stein, Sebastian, Parkes, David C., Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2013) An Online Mechanism for Multi-Unit Demand and its Application to Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Charging. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 48, 175-230.
McInerney, J., Stein, S., Rogers, A and Jennings, N. R. (2013) Breaking the habit: measuring and predicting departures from routine in individual human mobility. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 9 (6), 808-822. (doi:10.1016/j.pmcj.2013.07.016).
de Weerdt, Mathijs M., Gerding, Enrico, Stein, Sebastian, Robu, Valentin and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2013) Intention-aware routing to minimise delays at electric vehicle charging stations. Proc. 23rd Int. Joint Conf. on AI (IJCAI). pp. 83-89 .
Gerding, Enrico, Stein, Sebastian, Robu, Valentin, Zhao, Dengji and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2013) Two-sided online markets for electric vehicle charging. Proc. 12th Int. Conf on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. pp. 989-996 .

2012

Stein, Sebastian, Gerding, Enrico, Robu, Valentin and Jennings, Nick (2012) A model-based online mechanism with pre-commitment and its application to electric vehicle charging. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2012)), Valencina, Spain. 03 - 07 Jun 2012. pp. 669-676 .
Robu, Valentin, Stein, Sebastian, Gerding, Enrico, Parkes, David, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nick (2012) An Online Mechanism for Multi-Speed Electric Vehicle Charging. Second International Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications (AMMA'11), New York, United States. 21 - 22 Aug 2011. pp. 100-112 .
Stein, Sebastian, Williamson, Simon and Jennings, Nick (2012) Decentralised channel allocation and information sharing for teams of cooperative agents. Proc. 11th Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Valencia, Spain. pp. 231-238 .
Tran-Thanh, Long, Stein, Sebastian, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2012) Efficient crowdsourcing of unknown experts using multi-armed bandits. 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2012), Montpellier, France. 26 - 30 Aug 2012. pp. 768-773 . (doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-098-7-768).
McInerney, J., Stein, S., Rogers, A. and Jennings, N R (2012) Exploring periods of low predictability in daily life mobility. Mobile Data Challenge by Nokia, Newcastle, United Kingdom. 17 Jun 2012. 6 pp .
Vetsikas, Ioannis A., Stein, Sebastian and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2012) Multi-unit auctions with a stochastic number of asymmetric bidders. 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2012), Montpellier, France. 26 - 30 Aug 2012. pp. 816-821 . (doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-098-7-816).

2011

Stein, Sebastian, Gerding, Enrico, Rogers, Alex, Larson, Kate and Jennings, Nick (2011) Algorithms and mechanisms for procuring services with uncertain durations using redundancy. Artificial Intelligence, 175 (14-15), 2021-2060. (doi:10.1016/j.artint.2011.07.002).
Gerding, Enrico H., Robu, Valentin, Stein, Sebastian, Parkes, David C., Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2011) Online mechanism design for electric vehicle charging. Tenth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2011), , Taipei. 01 - 05 May 2011. pp. 811-818 .
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry and Jennings, Nick (2011) Robust execution of service workflows using redundancy and advance reservations. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 4 (2), 125-139. (doi:10.1109/TSC.2010.47).

2010

Stein, Sebastian, Gerding, Enrico and Jennings, Nick (2010) Optimal Task Migration in Service-Oriented Systems: Algorithms and Mechanisms. 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Lisbon, Portugal. pp. 73-78 .
Gerding, Enrico, Stein, Sebastian, Larson, Kate, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2010) Scalable Mechanism Design for the Procurement of Services with Uncertain Durations. The Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), Toronto, Canada. 09 - 13 May 2010. pp. 649-656 .

2009

Stein, Sebastian, Gerding, Enrico, Rogers, Alex C., Larson, Kate and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2009) Flexible Procurement of Services with Uncertain Durations. Second International Workshop on Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems (OptMas), Budapest, Hungary.
Stein, Sebastian, Gerding, Enrico, Rogers, Alex, Larson, Kate and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2009) Flexible Procurement of Services with Uncertain Durations using Redundancy. Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), Pasadena, California, United States. 10 - 16 Jul 2009. pp. 292-298 .
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R. and Jennings, N.R. (2009) Flexible provisioning of Web service workflows. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 9 (1), 2:1-2:45. (doi:10.1145/1462159.1462161).
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R. and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2009) Flexible selection of heterogeneous and unreliable services in large-scale grids. [in special issue: ‘Crossing boundaries: computational science, e-Science and global e-Infrastructure I. Selected papers from the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2008’ compiled by P. V. Coveney and M. P. Atkinson] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 367 (1897), 2483-2494. (doi:10.1098/rsta.2009.0045).

2008

Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R. and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2008) Flexible QoS-Based Service Selection and Provisioning in Large-Scale Grids. UK e-Science 2008 All Hands Meeting (AHM), HPC Grids of Continental Scope, Edinburgh. 07 - 10 Sep 2008.
Stein, Sebastian (2008) Flexible Service Provisioning in Multi-Agent Systems. University of Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Science, Doctoral Thesis.
Stein, Sebastian, Jennings, N. R. and Payne, Terry (2008) Flexible Service Provisioning with Advance Agreements. Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-08), Estoril, Portugal. 11 - 15 May 2008. pp. 249-256 .

2007

Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R. and Jennings, N. R. (2007) An Effective Strategy for the Flexible Provisioning of Service Workflows. Huang, Jingshan, Kowalczyk, Ryszard, Maamar, Zakaria, Martin, David, Mueller, Ingo, Stoutenburg, Suzette and Sycara, Katia (eds.) The Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering (SOCASE 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. pp. 16-30 .
Stein, Sebastian, Jennings, N. R. and Payne, Terry R. (2007) Provisioning Heterogeneous and Unreliable Providers for Service Workflows. 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS-07), Hawaii, United States. 13 - 17 May 2007. pp. 523-525 .
Stein, Sebastian, Jennings, N. R. and Payne, Terry R. (2007) Provisioning Heterogeneous and Unreliable Providers for Service Workflows. Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), Vancouver, BC, Canada. 21 - 25 Jul 2007. pp. 1452-1458 .
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R. and Jennings, N. R. (2007) Sensitivity Analysis of Flexible Provisioning s.n.

2006

Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R. and Jennings, N. R. (2006) Flexible Provisioning of Semantic Web Service Workflows using a QoS Ontology. International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Athens, GA. 05 - 09 Nov 2006.
Stein, Sebastian, Jennings, N. R. and Payne, Terry R. (2006) Flexible Provisioning of Service Workflows. 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-06), Riva del Garda, Italy. 27 - 31 Aug 2006. pp. 295-299 .
Stein, Sebastian, Jennings, N. R. and Payne, Terry R. (2006) Flexible Provisioning of Service Workflows (Extended Abstract). Dunin-Kęplicz, Barbara, Omicini, Andrea and Padget, Julian (eds.) Fourth European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems, , Lisbon, Portugal. 14 - 15 Dec 2006.

Dataset

de Weerdt, Mathijs M., Stein, Sebastian, Gerding, Enrico, ROBU, VALENTIN and Jennings, Nicholas (2015) Data for "Intention-Aware Routing of Electric Vehicles" in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/383415 [Dataset]
Gerding, Enrico, Stein, Sebastian, Ceppi, Sofia and ROBU, VALENTIN (2016) Data for "Online Mechanism Design for Vehicle-to-Grid Car Parks" in Proc. IJCAI-16. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/391163 [Dataset]

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