ECS research group - Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM)

Head of Group: Professor Nick Jennings
www.iam.ecs.soton.ac.uk

We are a world leader in our field, with 100 researchers and a broad-based, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research agenda. Our three major themes (intelligence, agents, multimedia) come together in a number of grand challenges for computer science, including grid computing, the Semantic Web and pervasive computing environments. (See here for PhD opportunities in web science.)

Staff

Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee FRS: Semantic Web; web science

Dr Les Carr: Hypermedia information systems; documentation structures; digital libraries; knowledge technologies

Dr Enrico Costanza: Human–computer interaction

Dr Richard Crowder: Hypermedia applied to applications and business processes; special-purpose robotic systems

Professor David De Roure: Internet protocols; secure systems; pervasive computing; grid computing; Semantic Grid

Dr Enrico Gerding: Automated mechanism design; evolutionary algorithms; autonomous agents

Dr Nick Gibbins: Semantic Web; hypertext; hypermedia; agent-based computing

Professor Dame Wendy Hall FRS: Web science; hypermedia/multimedia information systems; knowledge technologies; agent-based systems

Professor Stevan Harnad: Cognition; category learning; language evolution; open access; scientometrics

Professor Nick Jennings: Agent-based computing; complex systems; game theory; automated negotiation

Professor Paul Lewis: Image and video analysis; multimedia knowledge management; Semantic Web technologies

Dr Kirk Martinez: Augmented reality; image-processing applications for art; high-resolution imaging

Professor Luc Moreau: Provenance; grid computing; distributed computing; e-science

Dr Maria Polukarov: Agent-based computing

Dr Sarvapali Ramchurn: Multi-agent systems; coordination technologies; smart grids; emergency response

Dr Alex Rogers: Agent-based computing; auction mechanism design; sensor networks

Dr M C Schraefel: Hypermedia; human–computer interaction

Professor Nigel Shadbolt: Biorobotics; knowledge technology; grid computing; Semantic Web; web science

Ed Zaluska: Advanced computer architectures; distributed computing systems