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about me
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer
Science at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
I graduated from Essex University and returned to take
an M.Sc. in Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems in the Department
of Computer Science. After obtaining my M.Sc. I went to live in
New York for a year and then returned to the UK to study for a Ph.D.
in the Department
of Computer Science at Liverpool University. In collaboration
with the Knowledge Engineering Group at Unilever
Research I developed a knowledge analysis methodology that
supports Sowa's
conceptual
graphs.
After my PhD I started work at the University
of Salford iand was a Lecturer, Senior Lecture
and briefly promoted to Reader in Computer Science. Whilst there I developed an
expert system called EMMY to predict the cost of housing maintenance
for Housing Associations. This system has subsequently gone on to be
sold commercially by Engineering
Technology Ltd. I was also involved in the development of the
Client Centred Approach. This is a development methodology for
expert systems that supports rapid prototyping within the Waterfall
model.
From my first hand experience of the difficulty of developing
knowledge-based expert systems I became interested in Case-Based
Reasoning (CBR) and am now one of the world's most active researchers in
this discipline running AI-CBR
the Internet site for CBR.
In recent years I have become interested in AI on the web and have
recently worked with an Australian firm to implement a CBR system on
the web. A paper describing this project won the "Distinguished
Paper Award" at IJCAI-99. I have also worked for the UK
government's Cabinet Office on the development of the INFOSHOP
a web-based information support system for local government.
I am currently a co-chair of the CBR
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