Rafael Bordini will be visiting us in SoC next week. He will be giving a seminar entitled "A Verifiable Approach to Programming Multi-Agent Systems" and hopefully will spend the rest of the day chatting with ARG about possible avenues for joint work. The absract for his talk is as follows;
"This talk will provide an overview of a particular approach to programming multi-agent systems and how we aim to do formal verification of systems programmed according to that approach. The talk covers some features of
Jason, a Java-based interpreter for a variant of a logic-based agent-oriented programming language called AgentSpeak, and mentions various ongoing research strands related to it. The talk also gives a brief account of recent research aimed at developing a library of common features of agent programming languages so as to facilitate the use model-checking techniques for the verification of multi-agent systems written in such languages."
I have met Rafael a couple of times and he is a thoroughly nice chap so I am quite looking forward to his visit. Anybody who can make it to the Wolfson Research Theatre on 27th February @ 12:30 should come along because they are in for a treat.