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.

• 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.

• 7CCSMINT Internet Systems masters module in the first semester.
• 6CCS3DSM Distributed Systems undergraduate module in the second semester.
• 7CCSMDSM Distributed Systems postgraduate module in the second semester.

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