Previous Work/Research History

Here you can find a brief summary of my research to date and the main themes.

• Mar 2009/Nov 2009 Employed on the Explicator project, an EPSRC funded project developing techniques to provide intelligent access to foreign data models. The aim of the project is to develop a framework for giving data-reduction applications semantically integrated access to multiple data sources. Often, the data sources will use their own data models which are incompatible with those of other data sources and the data-reducing applications. Use cases from the areas of astronomy and high energy physics will be used to motivate the work. A more detailed description of the project can be found on the Explicator research page.
• Apr 2008/Oct 2008 Researcher, SP Technical Research Institute/Chalmers University, Goteborg Sweden. Involved in design of a large-scale communication architecture for Volvo/SAAB/Scania driving simulators using Ontologies and Semantic Web technology (RDF/SPARQL).
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  2006-2008: ITA Research Fellow ITA is conducting basic research in technologies for knowledge management, communication and coordination among members of coalitions engaged in joint operations. Aberdeen is part of a consortium of 24 UK and US universities and companies, led by IBM. Aberdeen's work focusses on two areas: enabling better communication and coordination between coalition members, and intelligent management of sensor networks in highly unstable environments.
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  2005-2006: AKT Research Fellow This project aims to assist users in the modelling and creation of constraint based problems, using semantic web based techniques to model these problems and provide a generalised back-end constraint solver that can be deployed as a web-service that can be accessed by such interfaces. A project overview poster is available here: AKT CSP Overview Poster
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  2002-2005: Conoise-G Research Fellow Conoise-G seeks to support robust and resilient virtual organisation formation and operation. It aims to provide mechanisms to assure effective operation of VOs in the face of disruptive and potentially malicious entities in dynamic, open and competitive environments. A project overview poster is available here: Conoise-G Overview Poster
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  2003: Granite Nights Granite Nights is a multi-agent application which allows a user to schedule an evening out in Aberdeen (aka the Granite City). Agents within the application infrastructure are organised according to a series of pre-defined roles (information agents, profile agent, constraint-solver agent, evening-agent, user-interface agent). The application delivers an evening planning service for the city of Aberdeen through the integration of these agent-enabled services. For more information see the Granite Nights homepage
• 1998-2002: Phd Research - Agents & Constraints Logic, Supervisor : Prof P.M.D.Gray. An exploration of how software Agents can cooperate together to solve a problem by exchanging information in the form of complex quantified Constraints. Download thesis: ChalmersThesis.pdf.

Other

• Program committee member: IADIS 2009 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Agents (to be held: 17-23 June 2009, Algarve, Portugal)
• Program committee member: IADIS 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Agents (22-24 July 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Organising committee: Workshop on Knowledge Capture and Constraint Programming (held in conjunction with The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, (KCAP 2007), Whistler, BC
• Program committee: IEEE Systems journal-Special Issue on Grid Resource Management