Prof. Jennings has undertaken a broad research agenda that continues to have a broad impact on the agent research community. His work is consistently among the most frequently cited agent researchers, both within the agent research community and in the computer science literature in general. He has developed a number of agent-based applications in a variety of domains. Furthermore, the Gaia methodology for agent-based software engineering, which he developed with Michael Wooldridge, is well recognized in the field. In addition, Prof. Jennings has made contributions to areas of automated negotiation and combinatorial auctions. Prof. Jennings has also been active in other technical areas that overlap with agent research, such as the semantic Web and grid computing. Prof. Jennings has had good success in promoting the transfer of agent-based methods into industry. He acts as chief scientist at Lost Wax, and consults on a number of commercial agent projects. We believe that his efforts have helped fuel commercial interest in agent-based techniques.
