ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award 2006
In 2006, Michael Wooldridge was the recipient of the ACM
Autonomous Agents Research Award. The citation for the award was as
follows:
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents
Research Award is pleased to announce that Prof Michael Wooldridge
of the University of Liverpool, UK is the recipient of the 2006
award. Prof Wooldridge has made significant and sustained
contributions to the research on autonomous agents and multiagent
systems. In particular, Prof Wooldridge has made seminal
contributions to the logical foundations of multiagent systems,
especially to formal theories of cooperation, teamwork and
communication, computational complexity in multiagent systems, and
agent-oriented software engineering. In addition to his substantial
research contributions, Prof Wooldridge has served the autonomous
agents research community in a variety of ways, including founding
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).
About the award:
ACM SIGART, in collaboration with the International Conference on Autonomous Agents, has instituted an annual award for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. Award winners will receive an honorarium and will be invited to give a talk at the annual Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) Conference. This award is specifically intended to recognize researchers whose current research is influencing the field. Award candidates will therefore be evaluated based on the quality and significance of their research contributions over the last five years. It is expected that at least some of these contributions should have been reported at one or more Autonomous Agents or AAMAS conferences. Previous winners of the ACM SIGART Autonomous Research Award were Milind Tambe (2005), Makoto Yokoo (2004), Nicholas Jennings (2003), Katia Sycara (2002), and Tuomas Sandholm (2001).