Michael Wooldridge (computer scientist)

Michael Wooldridge
Michael Wooldridge
Born (1966-08-26) 26 August 1966
Wakefield, United Kingdom
Nationality British
Known for
Awards
  • ACM Fellow (2015)
  • ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award (2006)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis The Logical Modelling of Computational Mulitagent Systems (1992)
Website cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.wooldridge/

Michael John Wooldridge (born 26 August 1966) is a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford. His main research interests is in Multi-agent systems, and in particular, in the computational aspects of rational action in systems composed of multiple self-interested agents.[1][2][3][4][5] His work is characterised by the use of techniques from computational logic, game theory, and social choice theory.

Career and research

Wooldridge wrote his dissertation The Logical Modelling of Computational Multi-agent Systems[6] at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, where he obtained his PhD in 1992. In the same year he accepted the position of lecturer in Computer Science at the Manchester Metropolitan University. In 1996, he moved to London, where he became senior lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield College in 1998. His appointment as full professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool followed in 1999. In Liverpool he served as head of department from 2001 to 2005 and as head of the School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Computer Science from 2008 to 2011. In 2012 the European Research Council awarded him a five-year ERC Advanced Grant for the project Reasoning about Computational Economies (RACE). In the same year he left Liverpool to become professor of computer science at the University of Oxford, where he has been head of the Department of Computer Science since 2014. In Oxford he is a senior research fellow of Hertford College.

Michael Wooldridge is author of more than 300 academic publications,[7][8] and ranks among the top 100 most cited researchers in computer science according to Microsoft Academic Search.[9] He is a AAAI Fellow, an ECCAI Fellow, an AISB Fellow, and a BCS Fellow. In 2015, he was made ACM Fellow for his contributions to multi-agent systems and the formalisation of rational action in multi-agent environments.[10]

Books

  • Wooldridge, Michael (2000). Reasoning about Rational Agents. MIT Press. ISBN 0262515563.
  • —— (2002). An Introduction to Multi-agent Systems (first edition). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 047149691X.
  • Bussmann, Stefan; Jennings, Nicholas R.; —— (2004). Multiagent Systems for Manufacturing Control. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3540209247.
  • Bordini, Rafael H.; Hübner, Jomi Fred; —— (2007). Programming Multi-agent Systems in AgentSpeak Using Jason. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 0470029005.
  • —— (2009). An Introduction to Multi-agent Systems (second edition). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0470519460.
  • Chalkiadakis, Georgios; Elkind, Edith; —— (2011). Computational Aspects of Cooperative Game Theory. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. ISBN 1608456528.
  • Shaheen, Fatima; Kraus, Sarit; —— (2014). Principles of Automated Negotiation. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 1107002540.
  • —— (22 March 2018). Artificial Intelligence. illus. Stephen Player. London: Ladybird Books. ISBN 978-0-7181-8875-7.

Awards and honours

  • 2015 ACM Fellow. For contributions to multi-agent systems and the formalisation of rational action in multi-agent environments.[10]
  • 2012–17 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant "Reasoning about Computational Economies (RACE)" (5-year €2m award)
  • 2009 British Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB) Fellow
  • 2008 American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow
  • 2008 Influential Paper Award, Special Recognition from the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, for the paper Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice, Knowledge Engineering Review 10(2):115–152, 1995.
  • 2007 European Association for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Fellow
  • 2006 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award. For significant and sustained contributions to the research on autonomous agents and multi agent systems. In particular, Dr. Wooldridge has made seminal contributions to the logical foundations of multi-agent systems, especially to formal theories of co-operation, teamwork and communication, computational complexity in multi-agent systems, and agent-oriented software engineering. [11]

Editorships

Other editorships: Journal of Applied Logic, Journal of Logic and Computation, Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Intelligence.

Personal life

Michael Wooldridge was born in Wakefield (West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) in 1966 as the second son to John and Jean Wooldridge. He is married with two children.

References

  1. ↑ Wooldridge, Michael (2000). Reasoning about Rational Agents. MIT Press. p. 246. ISBN 0262515563.
  2. ↑ Wooldridge, Michael (2002). An Introduction to Multi-agent Systems (first edition). John Wiley & Sons. p. 366. ISBN 047149691X.
  3. ↑ Bussmann, Stefan; Jennings, Nicholas R.; Wooldridge, Michael (2004). Multiagent Systems for Manufacturing Control. Springer-Verlag. p. 288. ISBN 3540209247.
  4. ↑ Bordini, Rafael H.; Hübner, Jomi Fred; Wooldridge, Michael (2007). Programming Multi-agent Systems in AgentSpeak Using Jason. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 292. ISBN 0470029005.
  5. ↑ Wooldridge, Michael (2009). An Introduction to Multi-agent Systems (second edition). John Wiley & Sons. p. 484. ISBN 0470519460.
  6. ↑ Wooldridge, Michael (1992). The Logical Modelling of Computational Multi-agent Systems (PhD). University of Manchester.
  7. ↑ "Google Scholar". Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  8. ↑ "Michael Wooldridge's academic webpage". Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  9. ↑ "website Microsoft Academic Search". Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  10. 1 2 "News release Association for Computing Machinery, December 8, 2015". Archived from the original on 9 December 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  11. ↑ "Web page ACM SIGAI". Retrieved 3 September 2016.
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