Terry R Payne

Terry has been research in the area of agent-based computing and knowledge-based systems and services for the last 20 years, and has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers in the area. His specific interest is in the use of ontological knowledge for the support of agent-based service discovery and provision and is currently exploring the exploration of dialogue-based negotiation approaches to establish contextually-relevant ontological alignment between interacting agents on the fly. This supports the longer term aim of describing, discovering and utilising capability descriptions that agents offer or exploit when collaborating within open and pervasive environments, such as the Internet of Things. In 2011 & 2012 his research was recognised through two distinguished paper awards, and in 2013 he was awarded a University Learning & Teaching Excellence award for innovative teaching practices for Mobile Computing.