Prof. Tate's research interests are in the use of rich process and plan representations along with tools that can utilize these representations to support planning and activity management. He pioneered the early, now widely used and deployed, approaches to hierarchical planning and constraint satisfaction in the Interplan, Nonlin, O-Plan and I-Plan planning systems. His recent work on "I-X" is concerned with supporting collaboration between human and system agents to perform cooperative tasks in a "Helpful Environment". Prof. Tate was the Edinburgh PI in the Advanced Knowledge Technologies Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration funded by EPSRC. He also led the DARPA funded Coalition Agent eXperiment (CoAX) project involving some 30 organizations in 4 countries over a 3 year period. His work is being applied to search and rescue and emergency response tasks. His internationally sponsored research work is focused on the use of advanced knowledge and planning technologies, and collaborative systems especially using virtual worlds. He leads the Virtual University of Edinburgh, Vue, a virtual educational and research institute bringing together those interested in the use of virtual worlds for teaching, research and outreach. He is also the Coordinator for Distance Education in the University's School of Informatics.
Prof. Tate is a Senior Visiting
Research Scientist at the Institute of Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC)
in Florida. He is on the Senior Advisory Board for IEEE
Intelligent Systems journal.
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Prof. Austin Tate Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute School of Informatics The University of Edinburgh Appleton Tower, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE, UK |
E-mail:
a.tate@ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 2732 Fax: +44 131 650 6513
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