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I graduated in pure mathematics from the University
of Warwick in 1987, and joined HP Labs soon afterwards.
My main focus for the first few years was on the application
of AI techniques to diagnosis of electronic circuits. I worked
on AGATHA,
an expert system to diagnose PA-RISC circuit boards using
structural principles, which was used to diagnose HP's RISC
architecture machines during manufacturing. I then explored
model-based diagnosis. In addition to publishing theoretical
results, I developed a way of combining simple structural
models with probabilistic estimates. This approach led to
a system which was initially deployed internally to HP, and
later further developed into the HP (Now Agilent) Fault
Detective product. This is used extensively by CISCO,
among others, and was the winner of the EDN Magazine Software
Innovation of the Year in 2002.
While working at HP from 1994-1998, I also completed a part-time
PhD on the relationship between Abductive and Disjunctive
Logic Programming, supervised by Fariba Sadri and Bob Kowalski
in the Computational
Logic section of the Department of Computing at Imperial
College, London.
From 1997, I focussed on agent technology, with a particular
interest in applications in B2B e-commerce. I worked on negotiation
algorithms and protocols, including collaborations with Nick
Jennings of University of Southampton and the economist
Nir
Vulkan of the Said Business School, Oxford.
During this period, I became Department Scientist of the
eService Markets department, and was responsible for providing
technical leadership and co-ordination of a team of 9 research
scientists. The research included work in the areas of representation
of eServices and eService contracts, and reasoning for discovery,
negotiation, orchestration and contract fulfillment of eServices.
I was also involved in Agentlink 2, and am one of the authors
of the EU Agentlink
roadmap for Agent Technology.
I am now focussed on Semantic Web Services, with a particular
interest in their application in B2B domains. I am the Chief
Technical Architect of the European Union Semantic
Web-enabled Web Services IST project. This role involves
providing consensus-building, technical leadership and coordination
of a team of around 20 research scientists working at 8 different
locations across Europe. The research program aims to provide
appropriate semantic enhancements to Web Service technology
to enable both B2B and B2C eCommerce.
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