Interests

• Representation change:
  • interactions between agents or services with mismatched representations
  • ontology evolution
  • dynamic interpretation of large data
• Emergency and crisis response, particularly problems associated with communication during these periods
• open data
• learning through interaction
• trust and reputation in multiagent systems
• reasoning under uncertainty
• the Semantic Web
• Planning and simulation, particularly in an emergency response scenario
• the philosophical and psychological foundations of AI
• lots of other things ...
• My PhD was on Dynamic Ontology Repair. I am continuing this work, developing my Ontology Repair System (ORS) and supervising students to explore this further.

People

• I am currently working on two related projects, one funded by and Dstl (PI: Alan Bundy ) and one funded by ONR Global (on which I am the PI). Andriana Gkaniatsou is working on as an RA on these projects.
• I was previously working on an ONR funded project with Alan Bundy and Liwei Deng, and the OpenKnowledge Project , focussing on semantic and structural matching and also dabbling a bit with trust issues and emergency response.
• I am a member of the DReaM group.

Teaching

• I am the course lecturer for UG4/MSc course on Mutli-agent and Semantic Web Systems (MASWS).

Activities

• I have recently joined the Young Academy of Scotland at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
• Chair/co-chair:
  • The 2nd UK Ontology Network Meeting, held in Edinburgh in April 2013.
  • The Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large Heterogeneous Data 2012 (LHD-12) at ISWC'12 , November 2012.
  • The Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large Heterogeneous Data 2011 (LHD-11) at IJCAI'11 , August 2011.
  • The 2nd Workshop on Matching and Meaning at AISB'10 , March 2010.
  • The 1st Workshop on Matching and Meaning at AISB 2009 , April 2009.
• Co-organiser:
  • The Bundy Symposium , July 2008.
  • CIAO, April 2007
  • The DReaM reunion at IJCAI 2005.
  • The Scottish Theorem Provers meeting, October 2004.

Research Supervision

• RA
  Andriana Gkaniatsou, working on project Machine Assisted Inter-Agency Communication During Emergency Response. Main supervisor.
• PhD
  Liwei Deng, A Category-theoretic Framework for Ontology Management (3rd year): 2nd supervisor.
• MPhil
  • Andrew Priddle-Higson, Ontology Evolution in Legal Reasoning (2009): 2nd supervisor.
• MSc by research
  Roko Mijic, Representing knowledge about the real world: probabilistic, logical and categorical techniques (2009): 2nd supervisor.
• MSc
  • Ruixiao Yu, Automated Ontology Evolution, summer 2012: second supervisor.
  • Andriana Gkaniatsou, Developing a Negotiation Protocol for ORS, summer 2011: main supervisor.
  • Punyanuch Borwarnginn, Ontology Versioning , summer 2012: main supervisor.
  • Theodosia Togia, Automated Ontology Evolution: Semantic Matching, summer 2010: main supervisor.
  • Ken Hu, Experience Sharing with the Ontology Repair System, summer 2010: main supervisor.
  • Morike Akinsola, Automated Ontology Evolution, summer 2008: main supervisor.
  • Thomas Herchenroeder, Lightweight Semantic Web Oriented Reasoning in Prolog ,summer 2006: second supervisor.
  • Remous-Aris Koutsiamanis, Adaptive agents for the ART testbed , summer 2006: second supervisor.
• UG
  • Agnieszka Bomersbach, Negotiating Mismatches, 2010/2011: 2nd supervisor.
  • Jonathan Abourbih, Guesstimation , 2008/2009: second supervisor.
  • Paul Flemming, 2006/2007: second supervisor.

Here is my full CV.