{"id":2350,"date":"2024-02-28T23:02:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T23:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/main\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2024-02-28T23:06:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T23:06:18","slug":"michael-woolridge-2005-autonomous-agents-research-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/main\/2024\/02\/28\/michael-woolridge-2005-autonomous-agents-research-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Woolridge (2006 Autonomous Agents Research Award)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>The selection committee for the ACM\/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Wooldridge of the University of Liverpool, UK is the recipient of the 2006 award. Dr. Wooldridge has made significant and sustained contributions to the research on autonomous agents and multi agent systems. In particular, Dr. Wooldridge has made seminal contributions to the logical foundations of multi-agent systems, especially to formal theories of cooperation, teamwork and communication, computational complexity in multi-agent systems, and agent-oriented software engineering. In addition to his substantial research contributions, Dr. Wooldridge has served the autonomous agents research community, in a variety of ways including foundin g of the AgentLink Network of Excellence in 1997 and most recently as the Technical Program co-chair of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS2005).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"146\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Wooldridge.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Michael Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, UK\" class=\"wp-image-1108\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The selection committee for the ACM\/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Wooldridge of the University of Liverpool, UK is the recipient of the 2006 award. Dr. Wooldridge has made significant and sustained contributions to the research on autonomous agents and multi agent systems. In particular, Dr. Wooldridge has made seminal contributions to the logical foundations of multi-agent systems, especially to formal theories of cooperation, teamwork and communication, computational complexity in multi-agent systems, and agent-oriented software engineering. In addition to his substantial research contributions, Dr. Wooldridge has served the autonomous agents research community, in a variety of ways including foundin g of the AgentLink Network of Excellence in 1997 and most recently as the Technical Program co-chair of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS2005).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michael Woolridge (2006 Autonomous Agents Research Award) - ACM SIGAI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/main\/2024\/02\/28\/michael-woolridge-2005-autonomous-agents-research-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michael Woolridge (2006 Autonomous Agents Research Award) - ACM SIGAI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The selection committee for the ACM\/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Wooldridge of the University of Liverpool, UK is the recipient of the 2006 award. 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