1. Prof. Austin Tate FREng FRSE FAAI FEurAI FBCS CEng
Professor of Knowledge-Based Systems, University of Edinburgh
Director, Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI)
Coordinator for the Virtual University of Edinburgh (Vue)
Affiliate member of ICCS, IPAB and Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Senior Visiting Research Scientist, Institute of Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), Florida
Retired, part-time fellowship ( ) funded by US Army Research Laboratory
Research, development and use of planning and activity management systems:
Task, process, plan and activity representation (<I-N-C-A> and SPAR)
I-X: Intelligent Planning and Execution Agent Technology
Earlier planners: Traverser, Interplan, Nonlin, O-Plan
Execution support, replanning and workflow
Inter-agent collaboration (e.g., CoAX, Co-OPR, CoAKTinG)
Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT, OpenKnowledge)
Applications in manufacturing, spacecraft mission sequencing, FireGrid, search and rescue, coalition planning, etc.
Virtual Worlds (Vue, Openvue, I-Room)
Helpful Environment
Open Virtual Collaboration Environments (OpenVCE.net)
AI Planning MOOC
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