Dr Terry R. Payne


Department of Computer Science

University of Liverpool

Ashton Building, Ashton Street,

Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK

 

Research - Overview

Current Projects

  1. •Negotiation of Ontology Correspondences

  2. •Dendrites: Enabling Instrumentation Connectivity (KTP funded)

  3. •Curator II; curation of linked open data


Recent Projects

  1. •BluScreen - Agent-based Intelligent Public Advertising

  2. •Evolutionary ontologies for open agent environments (EPSRC grant EP/D064287/1)

  3. •TAO - Transitioning Applications to Ontologies (EU FP6 funded)

  4. •HIPARSYS - High PErformance and Robust Systems (DTI funded)

  5. •AgentLink III (EU FP6 funded)

  6. •myGrid (EPSRC funded)

  7. •ANS: Autonomic Networked System Management Tool for Ubicomp in the Home (DTI funded)

  8. •Semantic Firewall (EPSRC funded)

  9. •DAML - The DARPA Agent Markup Language (DARPA funded)

  10. •CoABS - Control of Agent Based Systems (DARPA funded)

My research focus is on the use of knowledge by agents to support service discovery, provision and use.  Much of my earlier work in this area included the development of the OWL-S ontologies with the other members of the OWL-S coalition, as well as the use of the OWL-S profile for service discovery.  More recently, my focus has been on the notion of Agent capabilities as services; how they are described, how they are provisioned (with Sebastian Stein) and how they could affect agent self-organization based on perceived community demand for services (with Mariusz Jacyno) or based on coalition formation (with Luke Riley).  I’ve also explored the use of service discovery and data harmonisation for Semantic Web Services within Grid environments (with Martin Szomszor).


I am currently investigating how distributed systems (agents, services, Internet of Things, etc) can autonomously resolve semantic heterogeneity within just-in-time scenarios, to facilitate the dynamic connection of devices and services within a transient and dynamic environment.  Much of this work is in collaboration with Dr Valentina Tamma, and encompasses topics as diverse as Ontology Modularisation (with Paul Doran & Ignazio Palmisano), Argumentation over correspondences (with Loredana Laera), correspondence selection and rewriting (with David Geleta) and more recently, taking a cognitive approach within dialogue systems (with Gabby Santos). 


My other research interests include the use of agents in pervasive systems, from discovery of devices, through to the use of awareness for service provision (as illustrated in the BluScreen system for public signage).  I’ve also worked with others on ontology and knowledge engineering issues, from supporting bibliometrics, pervasive social networking, and ontological image description.

Projects & Grants

More details of selected areas of my research can be found in the following pages:


  1. •Knowledge-Based Agents

  2. •Agents, Service Provisioning and Service Selection

  3. •Smart Labs, Grids, Big Data and Intelligent Ubiquitous Environments


A full list of my publications can also be found here.

Research - Areas