This article summarizes the New Faculty Highlights talk with same title at AAAI 2021. Intelligent agents such as different types of robots will soon become an integral part our daily lives. In real-world multi-agent systems, most fundamental challenges are assigning tasks to multiple (task-level coordination problems) and planning collision-free paths for task locations (motion-level problems)....

Space and time are key elements for many computer-based systems often elevated to first-class abstractions. In tuple-based coordination, Linda primitives have been independently extended with space (with tuples queries spanning spatial regions) or information (mostly tuple scoping). However, recent works in collective adaptive aggregate computing show that can naturally be considered as two int...

ontology is the main infrastructure of the semantic web which provides facilities for integration, searching and sharing of information on the web. development of ontologies as the basis of semantic web and their heterogeneities have led to the existence of ontology matching. by emerging large-scale ontologies in real domain, the ontology matching systems faced with some problem like memory con...

This proposal aims to extend and expand the work of the LSCITS Research Programme (RP) in its third, fourth, and fifth years (2010–2012) by extending the scope of the project into an exciting new area. The partners for this proposal are current LSCITS consortium members Bristol and St Andrews, both of whom have LSCITS PhD students working in cloud computing, and Aston University, an addition to...

Information Systems (IS) are integrated systems for providing information to support operations, processes, management analysis and decision-making functions in an organisation [1]. The IS area is characterised by rapid technical change and innovation. In recent years there has been a shift in IS from technological to managerial and organisational issues. This shift has led to increased interes...

Our daily lives heavily depends on the social information infrastructure, which includes a huge numbers of VLSI chips. Various system failures are caused by physical faults in the circuits, human errors in design/fabrication/operation and malicious attacks. In this paper, the causes and countermeasures of failures of VLSI are summarized. The discussion leads a new direction of researches of des...