Dr. Ian Watson, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Auckland

research

Through the 1990s I was been involved in the development of several expert systems for the construction industry which are now being marketed in the Lead Consultant range by Engineering Technology. My principle research area is case-based reasoning. I founded and ran ai-cbr, the primary Internet site for CBR and I was a programme chair of the 4th. International CBR Conference (ICCBR'01) held in Vancouver in 2001.
I am a member of the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert Systems (until I left the UK I was an active committee member) and I am a member of the IEEE. Within the Dept. of Computer Science I am a member of the Intelligent Systems & Informatics Research Group.

In recent years I have applied CBR and other machine learning techniques to Game AI, which is now the main application area for my research.

click here to go to ai-cbr.org "the Internet site for case-based reasoning"

The CBR Wiki

Performance-Based Research Fund - Evaluating Research Excellence: the 2003/06 assessment

Ian Watson was assigned an A grade by the NZ Tertiary Education Committee: "A signiﬁes research of a world-class standard". Further information can be obtained from the PBRF website.

UK Government Computing Award for Innovation 2000

The Infoshop project for the UK Cabinet Office on which I was a Central Partner for 18 months won the GC2000 Award for Innovation. Further details can be found by following the links below:

the Infoshop project (HTML) or 326Kb pdf version
GC2000 Award (HTML) or 98Kb pdf version

Liz Buttimer from Camden, Mark Charsley from Waltham Forest, Jo Lloyd from the Cabinet Office, Dennis Passingham from Tagish and Sheila Apicella from Reigate & Banstead accepting the GC2000 Award on behalf of the Infoshop Project.

IJCAI-99 Distinguished Paper Award

Watson, I. & Gardingen, D. (1999). A Distributed Case-Based Reasoning Application for Engineering Sales Support. In, Proc. 16th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-99), Vol. 1: pp. 600-605. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. ISBN 1-55860-613-0 download 232KB pdf
IJCAI-99 Award Presentation

The IJCAI-99 Programme Chair, Tom Dean, presenting me the "Distinguished Paper Award"

Stockholm 6th. August 1999

current activities

I'm on the following programme committees:

18th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, Alessandria, Italy, July 2010
Co-Chair of the Case-Based Reasoning Track of FLAIRS 09, Sanibel Island, USA, May 2008
International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, Seattle, USA, July 2009
IJCAI 09 AI Video competition

I am a regular reviewer for the following journals:

collaboration

If you have an interest in applied AI, case-based reasoning, knowledge-based systems, game AI or applications of AI on the web and are looking for someone to collaborate with why not contact me. I have collaborated on successful research projects with many people in the past and am keen to be involved in both national and international projects. If you are a postgraduate researcher it is also possible for you to visit and work with me for a few months or even to do your entire doctorate under my supervision (all my previous graduate students have obtained their doctorates successfully).

Photograph of myself with Prof. Lotfi Zadeh, the originator of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic, taken at Expert Systems 96 when I was Conference Chair.
I have visited 28 states (12.4%) Create your own visited map of The World

last updated 19/03/2008