Planning, Agents, and Intelligent Systems
Planning, Agents, and Intelligent Systems (PAIS) is an expanding research group in the Department of Informatics at King's College London.
The Planning, Agents, and Intelligent Systems group comprises 12 academic staff, including five professors (Maria Fox, Derek Long, Michael Luck, Peter McBurney and Andrew Jones) and seven lecturers (Elizabeth Black, Andrew Coles, Jeroen Keppens, Simon Miles, Sanjay Modgil, Katarzyna Musial and Adel Taweel), as well as a rapidly growing number of postdoctoral researchers and PhD students.
Our work is concerned with investigating various aspects of automated planning, agent technologies, and intelligent systems, as well as AI more generally, and their applications. Planning is concerned with the identification of sequences of actions in order to achieve specified goals from specified initial conditions. Agents are intelligent (typically software) entities that interact or work together to achieve goals they would not be able to achieve by themselves, or not as easily.
Some of our recent work has focussed on the following areas, or themes:
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Automated Planning
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Multi-Agent Systems
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Normative Systems
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Argumentation
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Provenance
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Market-Based Control
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eScience and Grid Computing
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Health Informatics
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Approximate and Qualitative Reasoning
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Virtual Organisations
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Trust and Reputation
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Artificial Intelligence and Law
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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
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Formal Theory of Communication
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Complex Networks and Systems
We are involved in several research projects, contribute to the organisation of various conferences and workshops, and are represented on advisory boards and steering committees in the areas of agents and intelligent systems.
We also contribute to the teaching on the MSc in Web Intelligence and the MSc in Computing, IT Law and Management, both run in the Department of Informatics.
Details of the members of PAIS, our publications and projects can be found on these web pages.
Requests for further information about PAIS, its research, or research opportunities should be directed to the Head of Group, Professor Peter McBurney:
peter.mcburney@kcl.ac.uk