Austin Tate

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Professor Austin Tate is Director of AIAI (Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute) in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He holds the Chair in Knowledge-Based Systems at the University of Edinburgh. He is known for his contributions to AI Planning and applications of Artificial Intelligence.

1 Biographical Information
2 Honours
3 Selected Publications
4 External links

[edit] Biographical Information

Born 12th May 1951, Knottingley, West Yorkshire, UK
Married 14th July 1975 to Margaret (nee Mowbray) at Knottingley, West Yorkshire, UK
B.A. (Hons) Computer Studies, Lancaster University, 1969-1972
PhD in Machine Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, supervised by Professor Donald Michie, 1972-1975

[edit] Honours

1993 – Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
1998 – Fellow of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfM)
1999 – Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)
1999 – Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI)
2000 – Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS)
2006 – Fellow of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB)

[edit] Selected Publications

Tate, A. (1977) Generating Project Networks, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-77), pp. 888-893, Cambridge, MA, USA, Morgan Kaufmann.

Currie, K. and Tate, A. (1991) O-Plan: the Open Planning Architecture, Artificial Intelligence Vol. 52, pp 49-86, 1991, Elsevier.

Tate, A., Levine, J., Dalton, J. and Nixon, A. (2003) Task Achieving Agents on the World Wide Web, in "Spinning the Semantic Web" (Fensel, D., Hendler, J., Liebermann, H. and Wahlster, W.), Chapter 15, pp. 431-458, MIT Press, 2003.

Tate, A. (2006) The Helpful Environment: Geographically Dispersed Intelligent Agents That Collaborate, Special Issue on "The Future of AI", IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp 57-61, May-June 2006, IEEE Computer Society.

Other Publications: O-Plan Papers, I-X Papers