Austin Tate

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.

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

Honours

* 1993 – Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
* 1998 – Fellow of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfM)
* 1999 – Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)
* 1999 – Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI)
* 2000 – Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS)
* 2006 – Fellow of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB)

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: [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/oplan/documents/index.html O-Plan Papers] , [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/ix/documents/contents.html I-X Papers]

External links

* [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat Austin Tate's website]

* [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/plan/ AIAI Planning and Activity Management Group website]

* AI Planners: [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/early-planners/ Traverser] , [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/early-planners/ Interplan] , [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/nonlin/ Nonlin] , [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/oplan/ O-Plan] , [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/ix/ I-X/I-Plan]

* Projects: [http://www.aktors.org/ AKT (Advanced Knowledge Technologies)] , [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/coax/ CoAX (Coalition Agents eXperiment)] , [http://firegrid.org/ FireGrid] , [http://openk.org/ OpenKnowledge] , [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/i-room/ I-Room]

* [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/ Austin Tate's Gerry Anderson Web Area] , [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/supercar.html Supercar] , [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/fireball-xl5.html Fireball XL5]