I am a senior research fellow in the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) group at the School of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton University. I am currently involved on the ALADDIN project, a multi-million pound research initiative funded by EPSRC and BAE Systems. I have also been recently joined the Intelligent Decentralised Energy Project funded by a Hampshire based Company.

My research interests lie in Software Agents and particularly in:

1. Coalition Formation - The problem of finding the best groups of agents to perform a certain task is computationally complex and requires high-performance combinatorial algorithms and models of coalition values.
   
   
2. Applications of multi-agent coordination - using the Robocup Rescue simulation platform it is possible to simulate very realistic environments where the robustness of agent-based coordination techniques can be properly tested and benchmarked against each other, eventually leading to applications in real-life scenarios.
3. Agent-based Control for Decentralised Energy Systems - I am currently involved on the IDEAS project where we are studying the application of agent-based control techniques to manage demand and supply of electricity and optimising the use of energy in homes.
   

I have organised the following workshops:

• Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems 2008, 2009
• Agent Technology for Disaster Management
• AgentCities UK Challenge Day on Crisis Response

Memberships:

• RobocupRescue Technical Committee
• Programme Commitee of:
  • Trust Workshop AAMAS 2006,2007
  • AMEC 2007
  • ArgMAS 2006,2007
  • Indian International Conference on AI
  • ISCRAM 2007

Reviewer for:

• Informatica
• Artificial Ingelligence Journal
• Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
• IEEE Communications Letters
• IEEE Intelligent Systems
• JAIR

 

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