Austin Tate
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Professor Austin Tate is Director of AIAI (Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute) in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He holds the Chair in Knowledge-Based Systems at the University of Edinburgh. He is known for his contributions to AI Planning and applications of Artificial Intelligence.
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[edit] Biographical Information
- Born 12th May 1951, Knottingley, West Yorkshire, UK
- Married 14th July 1975 to Margaret (nee Mowbray) at Knottingley, West Yorkshire, UK
- B.A. (Hons) Computer Studies, Lancaster University, 1969-1972
- PhD in Machine Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, supervised by Professor Donald Michie, 1972-1975
[edit] Honours
- 1993 – Fellow of AAAI, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
- 1998 – Fellow of WfMC, the Workflow Management Coalition
- 1999 – Fellow of RSE, the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1999 – Fellow of ECCAI, the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence
- 2000 – Fellow of BCS, the British Computer Society
- 2006 – Fellow of SSAISB, the Society for Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour
[edit] Selected Publications
Tate, A. (1977) Generating Project Networks, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-77), pp. 888-893, Cambridge, MA, USA, Morgan Kaufmann.
Currie, K. and Tate, A. (1991) O-Plan: the Open Planning Architecture, Artificial Intelligence Vol. 52, pp 49-86, 1991, Elsevier.
Tate, A., Levine, J., Dalton, J. and Nixon, A. (2003) Task Achieving Agents on the World Wide Web, in "Spinning the Semantic Web" (Fensel, D., Hendler, J., Liebermann, H. and Wahlster, W.), Chapter 15, pp. 431-458, MIT Press, 2003.
Tate, A. (2006) The Helpful Environment: Geographically Dispersed Intelligent Agents That Collaborate, Special Issue on "The Future of AI", IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp 57-61, May-June 2006, IEEE Computer Society.
Other Publications: O-Plan Papers, I-X Papers
[edit] External Links
- AI Planners: Traverser, Interplan,Nonlin,O-Plan, I-X/I-Plan
- Projects: AKT (Advanced Knowledge Technologies), CoAX (Coalition Agents eXperiment), FireGrid, OpenKnowledge
Categories: 1951 births | Living people | Artificial intelligence researchers | Academics of the University of Edinburgh | Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | British computer scientists | Fellows of the British Computer Society | Fellows of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
