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Research studentship advertised (position funded by the Selex Galileo; student may register for a Professional Doctorate, EngD, if prior qualifications are at taught Masters level):

Two research studentships advertised (positions funded by the ITA project):

The ITA project has been highlighted by Prime Minister Cameron and President Obama as strong U.S.-UK collaboration in education, science and innovation. Quotations from Joint U.S.-UK Press Release issued by The White House, March 14, 2012:

"The U.S. and UK have a long history of collaboration in science and technology, reflecting the two nations' mutual recognition that research and developmenbt - along with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education - are essential elements of economic prosperity, enhanced health, environmental sustainability, and national security. Today President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron reaffirmed their shared commitment to strong collaboration in science, innovation, and higher education, highlighting recent joint efforts." [...] "Since 2006, an International Technology Alliance of industrial and academic organizations from the U.S. and UK, led by U.S. Army Research Laboratory and UK Defense Science and Technology Laboratory, have been jointly conducting collaborative research to enhance information-sharing and distributed, secure, and flexible decision-making to improve networked coalition operations."

Research Interests

Professor Norman's principal research field is multi-agent systems, with a focus on computational models of policies (or norms), trust, and argumentation. He is interested in how systems may be designed and analysed for policy compliance, and how these techniques can be applied to support for human decision making (e.g. in collaborative planning teams). His interests in computational models of argumentation include dialogue strategy and formal models of delegation.

Brief Biography

Timothy J. Norman read Engineering at the University of Wales Swansea (1992), then graduated from University of London (University College) in 1997 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He worked as a postdoctoral research assistant at Queen Mary, University of London until 1999, at which time he was appointed as Lecturer in Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2005, Reader in 2008 and in 2009 (at age 38) to a personal chair as Professor of Computing Science.

Curriculum Vitae