Research
I'm not active in the research field any more. In the past, I've worked in and industrial R&D setting on: artificial intelligence and knowledge-based systems, autonomous agents, functional programming, and semantic web & linked-data. I also completed my PhD in autonomous agent interaction design at University of Liverpool, under Prof. Mike Wooldridge.
Preserving history, below are selected publications and programme committee memberships.
Publications
| [1] | Ian Dickinson. Agent standards. Technical Report HPL-97-156, HP Laboratories, 1997. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [2] | Ian Dickinson. Human-agent communication. Technical Report HPL-98-130, HP Laboratories, 1998. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [3] | Edmund Chattoe, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Ian Dickinson, Jim Doran, and Nir Vulkan. A multidisciplinary perspective on multi-agent systems. The Knowledge Engineering Review, 15(3):293-301, September 2000. [ bib ] |
| [4] | Valentina Tamma, Michael Wooldridge, and Ian Dickinson. An ontology based approach to automated negotiation. In Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV, Designing Mechanisms and Systems, pages 219-237. Springer, July 2002. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [5] | Valentina Tamma, Michael Wooldridge, and Ian Dickinson. An ontology for automated negotiation. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, Bologna, Italy, 2002. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [6] | David Banks, Steve Cayzer, Ian Dickinson, and Dave Reynolds. The ePerson snippet manager: a semantic web application. Hewlett-Packard Technical Report HPL-2002-328, Hewlett-Packard, 2002. [ bib | .html ] |
| [7] | Dave Reynolds, Steve Cayzer, Ian Dickinson, and Paul Shabajee. Semantic Web Applications - Analysis and Selection. Report from work package 12.1 of SWAD-Europe (IST-2001-34732), W3C, October 2002. [ bib | .html ] |
| [8] | Ian Dickinson, Dave Reynolds, Dave Banks, Steve Cayzer, and Poorvi Vora. User Profiling with Privacy: A Framework for Adaptive Information Agents, volume 2586 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 123-151. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2003. [ bib ] |
| [9] | Ian Dickinson and Michael Wooldridge. An Initial Response to the OAS'03 Challenge Problem. In Proc. 3rd Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, pages 63-71, July 2003. [ bib | .html ] |
| [10] | I. Dickinson and M. Wooldridge. Towards practical reasoning agents for the semantic web. In Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems, pages 827-834. ACM New York, NY, USA, 2003. [ bib | .html ] |
| [11] | Ian Dickinson. Implementation experience with the DIG 1.1 specification. Technical Report HPL-2004-85, HP Laboratories, 2004. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [12] | Ian Dickinson. The Semantic Web and Software Agents: Partners, or Just Neighbours? AgentLink News, 15:3-7, September 2004. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [13] | Jeremy Carroll, Ian Dickinson, Chris Dollin, Dave Reynolds, Andy Seaborne, and Kevin Wilkinson. Jena: implementing the semantic web recommendations. In Proc. of the 13th international World Wide Web conference, pages 74-83, New York, NY, USA, 2004. ACM. [ bib ] |
| [14] | Stephen Phelps, Valentina Tamma, Michael Wooldridge, and Ian Dickinson. Toward Open Negotiation. IEEE Internet Computing, 8(2):70-75, 2004. [ bib ] |
| [15] | Valentina Tamma, Steve Phelps, Ian Dickinson, and Michael Wooldridge. Ontologies for supporting negotiation in e-commerce. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 18(2):223-236, 2005. [ bib ] |
| [16] | Ian Dickinson and Michael Wooldridge. Agents are not (just) web services: considering BDI agents and web services. In Proc. of the 2005 Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing and Agent-Based Engineering (SOCABE'05), Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2005. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [17] | Ian Dickinson. BDI Agents and the Semantic Web: Developing User-Facing Autonomous Applications. PhD thesis, University of Liverpool, September 2006. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [18] | Georgi Kobilarov and Ian Dickinson. Humboldt: Exploring Linked Data. In Proc. Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDW'08), Beijing, China, April 2008. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [19] | Tristan Webb and Ian Dickinson. Visualizing Irish Banter. Technical Report HPL-2009-83, HP Laboratories, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [20] | Mark Butler, Dave Reynolds, Ian Dickinson, David Grosvenor, Brian McBride, and Seaborne. Semantic Middleware for E-Discovery. Technical Report HPL-2009-127, HP Laboratories, 2009. [ bib ] |
| [21] | Dave Reynolds, Ian Dickinson, and David Grosvenor. A query refinement model for exploratory semantic search. Technical Report HPL-2009-167, HP Laboratories, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [22] | Ian Dickinson. In favour of (more) intelligence in the semantic UI. In Proc. Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop (SWUI'09), October 2009. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [23] | Ian Dickinson. COINS as Linked Data, 2010. [ bib | http ] |
| [24] | Ian Dickinson. An introduction to the Jena platform: semantic web and linked data for Java. Linux Magazine, 2011. [ bib ] |
| [25] | Ian Dickinson. Semantic Interfaces: Patterns and Principles. London, 2011. Semantic Tech & Business Conference. [ bib ] |
Programme committees
I have recently served on the programme committees of:
- Workshop on Ontologies and Distributed Systems 2003 ODS
- Agent Theories to Agent Implementations (AT2AI) 2003
- International Workshop on Semantic Intelligent Middleware for the Web and the Grid 2004 SIM 2004
- Workshop on Semantic Intelligent Middleware for Interoperable Systems SIMIS 2004
- International Semantic Web Conference 2004 (research track) ISWC'04
- Agent Theories to Agent Implementations (AT2AI) 2004
- International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2005
- Agents and Web Services Merging in Distributed Environments AWeSOMe 2005
- 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium on Agents and the Semantic Web AAAI-FFS05
- Fifth International Joint Conference on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems AAMAS 2005 Industrial Track
- 10th International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Invited Session on Engineered Applications of Semantic Web SWEA
- Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium SWIG'06
- 5th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC'06
- 5th International Workshop on Web Semantics WebS 2006
- Fifth International Joint Conference on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems AAMAS'06 and Industrial Track
- 2007 Artificial Intelligence and the Web a special track of technical conference papers at AAAI-07 AIW'07
- International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering SOCASE'08
- 5th Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems PAIS 2008
- 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference ASWC 2009
- 6th International Workshop on Agent Theories to Agent Implementations AT2AI 2009
- 6th European Semantic Web Conference 2009 ESWC'09
- Seventh International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems PROMAS'09
- 1st International Workshop on Semantic Web Information Management SWIM'09
- Eighth International Joint Conference on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems AAMAS'09
- IUI Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web VISSW'10
- 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence ICAART 2010
- The Eighth International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems PROMAS 2010
- Seventh International Symposium "From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation" AT2AI-7
- 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC-2011
- 10th International Workshop on Web Semantics and Information Processing WebS-2011
- 10th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2011
- 9th International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems ProMAS-2011
- 11th International Workshop on Web Semantics and Information Processing WebS-2012
- W3C Workshop on Linked Data on the Web LDOW2012
- 11th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2012