Re: Introduction: Julian Padget

hi everyone,

A belated introduction... I'm an associate professor (my actual job title is "reader" but that only has a meaning in the UK academic system) in the Computer Science department at the University of Bath.

Not surprisingly, the reason I'm "here" is because my research is centred on multiagent systems and more specifically norm representation and reasoning as a means to provide guidance to agents in their decision-making. On the agent side this has focussed on the extension of BDI agents and in particular agents on the Jason platform to incorporate normative facts in their belief base, by treating sets of norms as a "normative environment" that the agent can sense, and whose actions result in the creation of new normative facts through the interpretation of those actions by the norms. On the normative side this has focussed on a domain specific language for authoring norms [1] and their computational representation, through which we have explored interaction between norm sets and how one set of norms may govern another set of norms. We have also made some preliminary steps towards normative reasoning as a service [2].

I'm really excited about the opportunity this initiative presents to de-silo software agents from agent platforms and allow them to interact and scale up across a web, rather than an internet environment.

--Julian.

[1] https://github.com/instsuite/instsuite.github.io
[2] Padget, J., De Vos, M., & Page, C. (2018). Deontic Sensors. In J. Lang (Ed.), International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2018: IJCAI-18 (pp. 475-481). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/66