Research

I have been involved in a number of research projects and am a founder member of ARG:dundee the argumentation research group in the School of Computing @ Dundee. I also maintain an open research notebook and frequently post to my blog about my research interests so you can get an idea for some of the things that I am working on.

My research is broadly in the fields of artificial intelligence, but specifically in argumentation theory and automated reasoning systems, intelligent agents and multi-agent systems (MAS). I am also interested in both physical and computer security, ludic theory, and sustainable design. The common research thread through all areas is that of complex systems, particularly complex real-world systems. I am interested in how these systems can be represented in formal models and visualised, and how software to work with these systems is designed, constructed, deployed, and utilised. I am also interested, perhaps most importantly in how such systems can fail.

I was previously employed on the EPSRC funded research project the Information Exchange which ran from 2002-2006 and which was evaluated as “tending towards excellence”.

I am a member of the School of Computing’s ethics committee which seeks to ensure that research is carried out in our school to the highest ethical standards and that the interests of all vulnerable participants are sufficiently protected.

I am very interested in collaborating with others on interesting research.