Professor John DEBENHAM

debenham@it.uts.edu.au

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John Debenham is Professor Emeritus at the University of Technology, Sydney. John has a long standing research interest in the design of knowledge-based systems. During 1997 he developed an interest in multi-agent systems. He presently retains both of these interests.

The focus of his research on knowledge-based systems has been on the preservation of system integrity. This has been achieved by building a maintenance mechanism into the conceptual design, this mechanism incorporates a comprehensive suite of constraints for knowledge. A range of techniques have been developed that may be used to simplify the structure of this maintenance mechanism. Much of this work is summarised in the research monograph "Knowledge Engineering: Unifying Knowledge Base and Database Design" that was published with Springer-Verlag in 1998.

In 1997 John developed an interest in management systems for emergent process; in particular, in the use of intelligent multi-agent architectures. During 1999 and 2000 he has been particularly interested in the design of multi-agent process management systems. During the period 1998 to 2002 he published extensively on multiagent systems for managing complex business processes.  During the period 2002 to 2006 John’s work is on eNegotiation and argumentation agents.  He is particularly interested in the design of agents that can exploit the information-rich environment of electronic markets.  In collaboration with Carles Sierra (IIIA, Barcelona) John is pioneering the foundations of information-based agency.  John is a member of the eMarkets Research Group in the Faculty of IT.  He is presently first-named principal investigator on an ARC Discovery Grant and an ARC Linkage Grant (with Alcatel Australia) and the second-named principal investigator on a second ARC Discovery Grant.

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