Simon Miles

I am a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at King's College London, a member of the Software Engineering research group and of the Agents and Intelligent Systems sub-group.

My primary research areas are

  • Applying agent-based systems and Grid technologies to e-Science problems.
  • Establishing principles and creating technologies for determining the provenance of results of experiment results and other process outputs.
  • The use of agent-oriented software engineering in open systems with complex non-functional requirements.
  • Using semantic web technologies to infer beneficial facts about scientific experiments.

I was previously a researcher at the University of Southampton.

My full CV can be found here.

The Contract project is developing agent-based technologies for establishing, representing and verifying electronic contracts in the areas of aerospace engineering, insurance and IT qualification examinations. I manage a workpackage of the project, developing the underlying software architecture and conceptual framework on which the rest of the project's work is built.

Previously I worked on the Provenance-Aware Service-Oriented Architecture (PASOA) project, developing theories, specifications and software for determining the provenance of data in scientific and other applications.

I have around 60 publications including the following (for a full list and downloads see the Publications page).

  • The Requirements of Using Provenance in e-Science Experiments, Journal of Grid Computing, 2007.
  • Extracting Causal Graphs from an Open Provenance Data Model, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2007.
I have been on the programme or organising committees for many conferences and workshops including the following (for a full list and downloads see the Research and Publications page).
  • 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2008 (AAMAS 2008).
  • 13th International Euro-Par Conference European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2007 (EuroPar 2007).
  • 8th International Workshop on Agent Oriented Software Engineering, 2007 (AOSE 2007)
  • 5th International Semantic Web Conference, 2006 (ISWC 2006).

In the coming year, 2008/2009, I am teaching the following courses. Follow the links for the course teaching pages where material for the course will be available during the course.

If any student wishes to see me about these courses, please email me for an appointment.