User:TerryRPayne

Terry has been research in the area of agent-based computing and knowledge-based systems and services for the last 25 years, and has published more than 180 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. He has received numerous research awards, including a Best Industrial Paper award in 2006, and two Distinguished Research paper awards in 2011 & 2012 that recognised his fundamental contribution to his research field his research. He was also Program Co-Chair for The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'2022). He has been awarded University Learning & Teaching Excellence awards in 2013, 2016, 2019 and 2022 for innovative and technology enhanced teaching, and his teaching was also recognised by the student body in 2016 when he was awarded the Guild of Students Best Teacher (Faculty of Science) Award.