Agents@RMIT

Staff

Lin Padgham BDI agents and extended BDI reasoning; agent oriented software engineering; agent oriented applications; agent learning; emotional modelling in agents; agent architectures; agent based simulations and games; environmental applications using agents; formalisation of commonsense reasoning.

James Harland computability logic & mathematical logic for computer science; BDI reasoning systems; modal & temporal linear logic; logic-programming

Lawrence Cavedon dialogue systems for human-machine interaction; conversational agents; agent architectures; collaboration in multi-agent teams; logics for reasoning about BDI agents; AI and Cognitive Science

Sebastian Sardina agent programming (logic-based agents and BDI systems); reasoning about action and change (situation calculus); automated planning; verification & synthesis; logic programming

John Thangarajah agent programming; agent software engineering; agent goal reasoning

Sarah Hickmott automated planning; reasoning about concurrent systems

Steven Shapiro reasoning about action; specification and verification of multiagent systems; belief change; formal methods for software engineering; agent theories and languages; reasoning about action; nonmonotonic reasoning; foundations of knowledge representation and reasoning.

Andy Song mostly associated with the ECML group but also interested in learning agents

Jimmy Sun programmer (currently working on PDT)

Dave Scerri programmer (currently working on simulation platform for exploring climate change adaptation)

For other AI staff belonging to the Evolutionary Computation group, please visit the ECML group web page.

Students	Past PhD Students	Other Past Students
Lavindra de Silva (PhD) Planning in BDI Agent Systems Lin Padgham and Sebastian Sardina   Simon Duff (Masters) Enhancing Goal Selection for Intelligent Agents James Harland and John Thangarajah   Jennifer Sandercock (Masters) Using Emotions and Learning to Improve Adaptation and Individuality of Non-Player Characters Lin Padgham and Fabio Zambetta   Dhirendra Singh (PhD) Agent Learning for Energy Management Lin Padgham Zhiyong Zhang (PhD) Automated Test with AOSE Methodology Lin Padgham and John Thangarajah Daniel Macias Galindo (PhD) Modular Knowledge for Interactive Agents Lin Padgham and Lawrence Cavedon Nitin Kumar Yadav (Minor) Behavior Composition Sebastian Sardina	Khanh Hoa Dam Supporting Software Evolution in Agent Systems Michael Winikoff and Lin Padgham David Poutakidis Debugging Multi-Agent BDI Systems Supervisor: Lin Padgham and Michael Winikoff Chris Cheong  A New Approach To Agent Interactions: Towards Flexibility And Robustness Michael Winikoff and Lin Padgham   Vu Binh Tran  Expectation Logic  James Harland and Margaret Hamilton John Thangarajah  Managing Multiple Concurrent Goals in Intelligent Agents Lin Padgham and Michael Winikoff James Brusey PhD in 2002   Lito Cruz  PhD student Lin Padgham Rosette Kidwani Lin Padgham and Michael Winikoff Gaya Jayatilleke  A Framework for Component Based Agent Design  Lin Padgham and Michael Winikoff Toan Phuoc Phung Michael Winikoff and Lin Padgham Quang Duc Pham A logic-based approach to flexible agent interaction protocols James Harland and Michael Winikoff	Dave Scerri Summer student 2007 Mikhail Perepletchikov Honours 2004 Jason Khallouf Honours 2004 Robert Tanaman Honours 2004 Arran Bartish Honours 2001 Khanh Hoa Dam  Masters 2003 Joshua Hutchison Honours 2002 Mohit Gupta Honours 2002 Duncan Bayly Honours 2001 Keith Villiers AgentCities project 2003 Hiten Ravani Summer student 2003 Sheilina Geerdharry Summer student 2003 Sindawati Hoetomo Summer student 2003 Yenty Frily Summer student 2003 Nathaniel Orchis Summer student 2003 Chandaka Fernando Project student 2001 David Charlton SE agent project 2001 Michael Styles SE agent project 2001 Michael Wong SE agent project 2001 Mukesh Chawl Summer student 2002

Former Members	Visiting Researchers & Collaborators
Michael Winikoff (now at University of Otago) Charles Thevathayan Margaret Hamilton Seng Wai Loke (now at Monash University) Wei Liu (now at the University of Western Australia) Aloys Mbala Ian Mathieson Bao Quoc Vo (now at Swinburne University) Scott Parkinson (now working in Canberra) Patrick Ye Clemens Mayr	A logic-based approach to flexible agent interaction protocols James Harland and Michael Winikoff  David Morely  Neil Yorke-Smith  Yves Lesperance  Giuseppe De Giacomo  Stephane Airiau (2007)  Sandip Sen (2007)  Stephen Cranefield (2007)  Hu Qinyou (2006)  Steven Fonseca (2003)