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Professor Mark d’Invernois Director of the Centre for Agent Technology at the University of Westminster and has been one of the UKs leading researchers in the formal modelling of agent-based systems for the last 10 years. He is best known for developing the SMART Agent Framework with Michael Luck using formal methods. Much of this research can be found in a book entitled Understanding Agent Systems, which is now in its second edition.
He has collaborated with a number of leading agent researchers such as Michael Luck, MichaelWooldridge and Mike Georgeff and has published over 60 papers in this area in the last 10 years. In addition, he has co-authored a further book published in 2004 on agent-based software development.
He was one of the founding members of the UK’s special interest group on MAS and was general co-chair of the fourth and fifth UK workshops (UKMAS 2000 and 2001) that were both supported by the EPSRC. He was the general co-chair of the First European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS) held at Oxford University in December 2001, which attracted over 130 people. In addition, University of Westminster is a founding member of the EPSRC funded project entitled AgentCities UK and is an original member of the European Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing (AgentLink I, II and III). In the last year or so he has branched from his formal, theoretical work to more practical and cross-disciplinary projects such as a MAS approach to modelling stem cell behaviour and using MAS techniques to build intelligent responsive music installations.
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