Lawrence Cavedon's Homepage

Hell Hole rapid, Trinity River, CA

Email: lcavedon@csse.unimelb.edu.au
Phone: (+61 3) 9035-8079

Quick Bio:
Current: National ICT Australia, Victoria Research Lab, Senior Researcher; and School of CS and IT, RMIT University, Senior Lecturer
2002-2005: Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Senior Researcher
2000-2002: Verticalnet Inc. (California), Advanced Products and Strategy Group, Senior Scientist and Lead Engineer
1994-1999: RMIT University, Dept. of Computer Science, Lecturer
1991-1995: PhD, University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Science
1987-1990: Australian AI Institute, Research Scientist

Research ...

• Research interests:
  • Models of human dialogue interaction
  • Natural-language dialogue systems for human-machine interaction
  • Models of autonomous agents and multi-agent teams
  • Architectures for multi-agent systems and their application to Web services infrastructure
  • Formal methods and models in AI and computer science
  • Situated reasoning and default reasoning
  • Applications of logic, esp. non-standard logics
  • Issues at the boundary of AI and Cognitive Science

• Publications

• Tutorial on Dialogue Systems, given at ALTW2005

• PhD thesis: A Channel Theoretic Approach to Conditional Reasoning,
  ( Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh, 1995).

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