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Adrian Pearce
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne,
Victoria, 3010, Australia
Office: 3.28, ICT Building, 111 Barry Street Carlton
Tel: +613 8344 1399
Fax: +613 9348 1184
Email: [my first name followed by "rp"] [at] unimelb [dot] edu [dot] au
Roles
Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
The Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne
Director, Intelligent Agent Laboratory at the University of Melbourne.
BCS(Honours) Postgrad Coordinator
Research interests
Multi-agent systems & collaborative problem solving, within the field of artificial intelligence.
Reasoning about action & change, based on asychronous variants of the situation calculus.
Epistemic reasoning and complex epistemic modalities, including common knowledge.
Hot research topics
Agent programming & planning language MIndiGolog (based on Indi/ConGolog family of languages)
Collaborative logic programming langauge CollabLP (based on inductive and abductive logic programming ILP/ALP)
Multiagent coordination & role allocation algorithm Role-graphs (based on graph matching algorithms)
Distributed constraint optimization and satisfaction algorithm DistDecomp (instances of DCOP & DCSP algorithms)
For more information, see the agentlab at http://www.agentlab.unimelb.edu.au.
Michelle Blom and Adrian R. Pearce Towards an Argumentative Interpreter for Golog Programs. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09) pp 690-695, Pasadena, USA, (2009)
Ryan F. Kelly and Adrian R. Pearce. Complex Epistemic Modalities in the Situation Calculus. In Gerhard Brewka and Jerome Lang, editors, Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2008), 16-19 September, Sydney, Australia, pages 611-620 (2008) Download paper
Ryan F. Kelly and Adrian R. Pearce. Property persistence in the situation calculus. In Manuela M. Veloso, editor, Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), vol. 2, Hyderabad, India, pages 1948-1953 (2007) Download paper
Jian Huang and Adrian R. Pearce. Collaborative inductive logic programming for path planning. In Manuela M. Veloso, editor, Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), vol. 1, Hyderabad, India, pages 1327-1332 (2007) Download paper
Jian Huang and Adrian R. Pearce. Distributed Interactive Learning in Multi-Agent Systems. In National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), Boston, pages 666-671 (2006) Download paper
Complete list of publications
Adrian Pearce's publications (Agentlab publications)
Adrian Pearce's publications (DBLP)
Adrian Pearce's Agent Bibliography
Adrian Pearce's Agent Bibliography
Michelle Blom: Argumentation in multi-agent systems (& the ARBOR system) - as part of her PhD, Michelle visited Peter McBurney and Dr. Katie Atkinson at the Agent ART Group, in the Computer Science Department of the University of Liverpool in 2008.
Yen-Ting Kuo: Capturing domain knowledge for knowledge discovery (jointly with Liz Sonenberg and Andrew Lonnie)
Completed postgraduates
Peter Hebden (PhD) : Distributed asynchronous clustering for small-world properties & Bloom gradient routing for wireless sensor networks (part of NOSA sensor-network infrastructure)
Jian (Alan) Huang (PhD): Collaborative logic programming via deductive inductive resolution (& the CollabLP language).
Alan is now with (startup) company www.iventra.comDr. Ryan Kelly (PhD) Thesis: Asynchronous multi-agent reasoning in the situation calculus & the MIndiGolog programming language.
Dr. Michael Papasimeon Thesis: Affordance-based reasoning in multi-agent simulation & the HAVE multi-agent simulation system.
Dr. Don Perugini (PhD): Agents for logistics: a provisional agreement approach (Co-supervised with Leon Sterling) - Don is now the Director of Intelligent Software Development
Dr. Susannah Soon (PhD): Multi-agent coordination: a graph-based approach to intention recognition - Susannah consults to Thales Group (ADI Limited).
Dr. Jian (Jenny) Ying Zhang (PhD): Causation and Fuzzy Causal Networks (Co-supervised with Zhi-Qing Liu) - Jenny is now a Postdoctoral Fellow.
Terence Law (MSc): Focused Decomposition: multi-agent distributed constraint optimisation with linear communication.
IJCAI-09 (Pasadena)
AAMAS 2010 (Toronto) - Previous - AAMAS 2009 (Budapest) AAMAS 2008 (Estoril) AAMAS2007 (Honolulu) AAMAS2006 (Future University-Hakodate) AAMAS2005 (Urtecht) AAMAS2004 (New York City) AAMAS2003 (Melbourne)
PAKDD 2008, Osaka
AI 2006 (Hobart) - Previous - AI2005 (Sydney) AI2004 (Cairns) AI2003 (Perth)
ICML2002 (Sydney)
Organizing Committee membership
Reviewing for the following journals
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Companies (start-ups) of students & colleagues
Autonomous Decision-Making Software
KESEM International
Intelligent Software Development
Acheron Design
bluetongueDSTO Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Air Operations & Simulation Division, DSTO, Australia, 1998
PhD in Computer Science (APAI Postgraduate Award), Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia 1997
BSc(Hons - 1st class) in Computer Science, The University of Melbourne, Australia 1991Best Program Committee Member Award, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Portugal 2008.
Teaching Commendation, CSSE, The University of Melbourne, 2007482 Software Agents (2001-2009)
330 Theory of computation (2004)
255 Logic and Computation (2000-2001)
380 Graphics and Computation (2000-2009)
343 Professional Issues in Computation (2001-2009)
257 Frontiers of Computer Science (2002)
Adrian Pearce (Email: [my first name followed by "rp"] [at] unimelb [dot] edu [dot] au)
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