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Dr Frank Dignum
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Utrecht University, Netherlands
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| Dr. Frank Dignum: received a PhD. in 1989 in Amsterdam. Subsequently he set up the computing science department of the University of Swaziland. From 1993 he started working on agents and electronic commerce. From 2000 he is associate professor at the UU in the area of agent technology. His main research interests have been the formal description of social relations, norms and regulations and their influences on the actions of actors in the area of electronic commerce and multi-agent systems. Related to this research he also looks at agent communication. He has published numerous papers and books and organized several workshops and was the local chair of AAMAS 2005. |
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Dr Michael Rovatsos
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University of Edinburgh, UK
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| Michael Rovatsos is a Lecturer with the School of Informatics and leads the Agents Group within the Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a first-class Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Saarbruecken (Germany) and a PhD in Informatics (summa cum
laude) from the Technical University of Munich. His primary research interests are in distributed Artificial Intelligence and multiagent systems, and he has (co-)authored over 40 papers in these areas, primarily on topics related to agent communication, multiagent learning, and agent-oriented software engineering. He has served on the programme committees of over twenty international events (e.g. IJCAI, AAMAS) and has (co-)organised several international workshops. He regularly reviews for several international journals (JAAMAS, IEEE Int Systems, etc), publishers (e.g. Springer, Wiley) and grant funding agencies (e.g. EPSRC, NSERC, NWO).
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Dr Alex Rogers
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University of Southampton, UK
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| Alex Rogers originally studied Physics at Durham University before joining Schlumberger as a field engineer. After five years working in various oil fields around the world, he took suspended employment to study for a PhD and then went on to work for EuroBios - a Santa Fe Institute spin-off company applying complexity science to business problem. Having developed an interest in agent technologies, he returned to academia; initially as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Exeter, and more recently within the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. |
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Prof Michael Wellman
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University of Michigan, USA
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| Michael P. Wellman is Professor and Associate Chair of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 for work in qualitative probabilistic reasoning and decision-theoretic planning. From 1988 to 1992, Wellman conducted research in these areas at the USAF's Wright Laboratory. For the past 15+ years, his research has focused on computational market mechanisms for distributed decision making and electronic commerce. As Chief Market Technologist for TradingDynamics, Inc. (now part of Ariba), he designed configurable auction technology for dynamic business-to-business commerce. Wellman previously served as Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (SIGecom), and as Executive Editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery. |
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Dr Vincent Conitzer
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Duke University, USA
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| Vincent Conitzer is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Economics at Duke University. He received Ph.D. (2006) and M.S. (2003) degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and an A.B. (2001) degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. He also received the IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award (2007), the AAMAS Best Program Committee Member Award (2006), and an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship (2005). He has published over 40 technical papers on computational issues in game theory, mechanism design, auctions, elections, and other negotiation settings. He grew up in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. |
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Dr M. Bernardine Dias
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Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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| M. Bernardine Dias is a research scientist at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Her primary affiliations are with the Field Robotics Center at the Pittsburgh campus and the Computer Science department in the Doha campus where she leads several research projects and teaches at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Dias earned her B.A. from Hamilton College, Clinton NY, with a dual concentration in Physics and Computer Science and a minor in Women’s Studies in 1998, followed by a M.S. (2000) and Ph.D. (2004) in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Dias is a leading researcher in autonomous team coordination. Her doctoral dissertation developed the “TraderBots” market-based framework for market-based multirobot coordination in dynamic environments. Together with Professor Anthony Stentz, she co-created and co-directs the rCommerce group whose goal is to advance the state-of-the-art in market-based team coordination. Her research objectives also include creating culturally appropriate computing technology accessible to developing communities. To this end she founded and directs the TechBridgeWorld group that enables technology research relevant to, and in partnership with, underserved communities throughout the globe. Dr. Dias also works on motion planning and navigation with constraints. The primary application of this work is in space Robotics, and has specific relevance to Mars rovers. Dr. Dias also has a strong interest in encouraging women in computing and in science, and is a founding member of, and faculty advisor to graduate women@SCS.
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Dr Iyad Rahwan
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The British University in Dubai, UAE
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| Dr. Iyad Rahwan is a Lecturer at the Informatics Institute at the British University in Dubai, UAE, and an Honorary Fellow at the 5*-rated School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne. Iyad co-leads the Dubai Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (DAMAS) research group together with Sherief Abdallah. Iyad worked on research projects supported by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the Australian Research Council (ARC), Hewlett Packard and Tejari. His research focuses on supporting and automating complex multi-party decision-making using techniques from Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). |
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Dr Sherief Abdallah
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The British University in Dubai, UAE
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| Dr. Sherief Abdallah (PhD, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, United States)
Dr. Sherief Abdallah is Lecturer at the Institute of Informatics at the British University in Dubai (BUiD), and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is currently co-leading the Dubai Agents and Multi Agent Systems research group in BUiD. His PhD degree is from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the United States.
Dr. Abdallah's research focuses on developing reinforcement learning algorithms that are scalable and have some guarantee of convergence in a multi-agent context. He is also interested in applying machine learning to real and novel problems, including mobile devices, network management, and information retrieval. He collaborated with world-class researchers in the United States, South America, and Europe.
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Dr Chris Reed
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University of Dundee, UK
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| Reed has been working at the overlap between argumentation theory and artificial intelligence for over a decade. He was one of the first to demonstrate how philosophical theories of dialogue structure can be used to construct multi-agent communication protocols, and has also worked at applying techniques of argumentation and rhetoric in a number of different computational areas including AI & Law, natural language generation, pedagogy, and knowledge representation. In 2000 he co-organised the Symposium on Argument and Computation which kick-started fruitful new collaborations in these areas and led to a book, Argumentation Machines. Annually since 2001 he has co-organised the International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument to nurture the emerging new community. He heads the Argumentation
Research Group at Dundee which has been instrumental in the development of the Argument Interchange Format, an international standard for computational work in the area. He is currently Reader in Computational
Systems and Head of Research in the School of Computing at the University of Dundee, Scotland.
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