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Biography
B.Sc. Galway 1996 (Physics)
M.Sc. King's College, London 1997 (Communictions and Radio Engineering)
Ph.D. Imperial College 2002 (Specifying Agent Commuication Languages)
In August 2003 I started as a Lecturer in Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen. I joined the Aberdeen Agents research group and carried out research in multi-agent systems, and game-theoretic aspects thereof, as well as agent communication languages. I was PI on an EPSRC project (2006-2008), and co-investigator on an EU FP7 project (2008-2010).
Since 2002 I have been developing a research strand in modelling cognitive development, and as of 2010 I have shifted my research focus more fully into this area. I am currently PI for one Leverhulme project in modelling infant cognitive development.
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Research Interests
I am intertested in the "developmental" approach to Artificial Intelligence, especially copying ideas from how human infants learn. I study infant and childhood cognitive development, especially how new knowledge can build on old knowledge; I focus on means-end behaviour and precursors to tool use. In order to test ideas, I build computational models of infant sensorimotor development. My goal is to build a simulated infant that can play in a simulated world and develop robust and transferrable knowledge of actions with objects, eventually leading to simple tool use; for example to use a stick to knock down a stack of blocks. The model (i.e. simulated "infant") should learn in the same way as a human infant learns, by experimentation and observation.
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Teaching Responsibilities
CS1015 Grand Challenges of Artificial Intelligence
CS5038 The Electronic Society
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Admin Responsibilities
Tutor for Levels 1 and 4 of undergraduate programmes in Computing.
Organiser for final year projects.
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Publications
Contributions to Journals
Articles
- Guerin, F. (2011). 'Learning Like Baby: A Survey of AI approaches'. Knowledge Engineering Review, vol 26, no. 2, pp. 209-236.
- Kraft, D., Detry, R., Pugeault, N., Baeski, E., Guerin, F., Piater, J. & Krüger, N. (2010). 'Development of Object and Grasping Knowledge by Robot Exploration'. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, vol 2, no. 4, pp. 368-383.
[Online] DOI: 10.1109/TAMD.2010.2069098 - Lam, SC., Guerin, F., Vasconcelos, WWMPD. & Norman, TJ. (2009). 'Coping with Exceptions in Agent-Based Workflow Enactments'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5485, pp. 154-170.
[Online] DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02562-4_9 - Tadjouddine, EM., Guerin, F. & Vasconcelos, WWMPD. (2009). 'Abstracting and Verifying Strategy-Proofness for Auction Mechanisms'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5397, pp. 197-214.
- Guerin, F. & Vasconcelos, WWMPD. (2008). 'Component-based standardisation of agent communication'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4897, pp. 227-244.
- Kamyab, F., Guerin, F., Goulev, P. & Mamdani, E. (2001). 'Designing Agents for a Virtual Marketplace'. Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, vol 1, pp. 61-86.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings
Chapters
- Tadjouddine, EM., Guerin, F. & Vasconcelos, WW. (2009). 'Abstracting and Verifying Strategy-Proofness for Auction Mechanisms'. in M Baldoni, TC Son, MB van Riemsdijk & M Winikoff (eds), Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VI, 6th International Workshop, DALT 2008: Revised Selected and Invited Papers Lecture Notes in Computer Science, no. 5397, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 197-214, 6th International Workshop, DALT 2008, Estoril, Portugal, 12/05/08.
[Online] DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-93920-7_13 - Guerin, F. & Pitt, JV. (2003). 'Verification and Compliance Testing'. In: Communications in Multiagent Systems, Springer-Verlag In: Communications in Multiagent Systems, Springer-Verlag, pp. 98-112.
- Guerin, F. & Pitt, JV. (2002). 'Guaranteeing Properties for E-Commerce Systems'. In: Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV. Designing Mechanisms and Systems: AAMAS2002 Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce Bologna, Italy In: Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV. Designing Mechanisms and Systems: AAMAS2002 Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce Bologna, Italy, pp. 253-272.
Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
- Guerin, F. (in press). 'Sensorimotor Schema(s)'. in N Seel (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning Springer Science+Business Media.
[Online] DOI: DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6
Conference Proceedings
- Emele, CD., Norman, TJ., Guerin, F. & Parsons, S. (2010). 'Learning policies through argumentation-derived evidence (extended abstract)'. in W van der Hoek, G Kaminka, M Luck & S Sen (eds), Proceedings of the 9th Internatinal Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010) International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Ninth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Toronto, Canada, 10/05/10.
[Online] AURA: AAMAS2010_0504_40e040e8c.pdf - Emele, CD., Norman, TJ., Guerin, F. & Parsons, S. (2009). 'Learning policy constraints through dialogue'. in T Bench-Capon, S Parsons & H Prakken (eds), Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on The Uses of Computational Argumentation Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
[Online] AURA: emele.pdf - Lam, JSC., Vasconcelos, WW., Guerin, F., Corsar, D., Chorley, A., Norman, TJ., Vázquez-Salceda, J., Panagiotidi, S., Confalonieri, R., Gomez, I., Hidalgo, S., Álvarez-Napagao, S., Nieves, JC., Roig, MP., Ceccaroni, L., Aldewereld, H., Dignum, V., Dignum, F., Penserini, L., Padget, JA., Vos, MD., Andreou, D., Cliffe, O., Staikopoulos, A., Popescu, R., Clarke, S., Sergeant, P., Reed, C., Quillinan, T. & Nieuwenhuis, K. (2009). 'ALIVE: a framework for flexible and adaptive service coordination'. in H Aldewereld, V Dignum & G Picard (eds), Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop "Engineering Societies in the Agents' World" (ESAW 2009) vol. 5881, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 236-239.
[Online] DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10203-5_21
Contributions to Conferences
Papers
- Krüger, N., Popovic, M., Bodenhagen, L., Kraft, D. & Guerin, F. (2011). 'Grasp Learning by Means of Developing Sensorimotor Schemas and Generic World Knowledge'. Paper presented at AISB Convention 2011; Symposium on: Computational Models of Cognitive Development, York, York, United Kingdom, 5/04/11, pp. 23-31.
- Slowinski, W. & Guerin, F. (2011). 'Learning regions for building a world model from clusters in probability distributions'. Paper presented at International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, Frankfurt, Germany, 24/08/11,.
- Emele, CD., Norman, TJ., Guerin, F. & Parsons, S. (2010). 'On the Benefits of Argumentation-Derived Evidence in Learning Policies'. Paper presented at Seventh International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, Toronto, Canada, 10/05/10,.
[Online] AURA: argmas2010_submission_11.pdf - Guerin, F. (2010). 'Advancing Knowledge of Cognitive Development Sequences in Infancy'. Paper presented at International Symposium on AI-Inspired Biology, Leicester, United Kingdom, 29/03/10 - 1/04/10, pp. 29-36.
- Guerin, F. & Starkey, A. (2009). 'Applying the Schema Mechanism in Continuous Domains'. Paper presented at Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Venice, Italy, 12/11/09, pp. 57-64.
- Guerin, F. & Vasconcelos, WWMPD. (2008). 'AISB 2008 Convention: Communication, Interaction and Social Intelligence, 1st-4th April 2008, University of Aberdeen'.
- Tadjouddine, EM., Guerin, F. & Vasconcelos, WWMPD. (2008). 'Abstractions for Model-Checking Game-Theoretic Properties of Auctions'. pp. 1613-1616.
- Guerin, F. & McKenzie, D. (2008). 'A Piagetian model of early sensorimotor development'.
- Guerin, F. (2008). 'Constructivism in AI: Prospects, Progress and Challenges'. pp. 20-27.
Other Contributions
- Guerin, F. & Pitt, JV. (2001). 'Denotational Semantics for Agent Communication Languages'.
[Online] DOI: 10.1145/375735.376427
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