ECRIS - Energy Conservation through Resource-literacy and Intelligent Systems (ECRIS) project
Technology Strategy Board
Concerned with changing behaviours relating to the reduction of domestic energy use.
Collaboration with socio-envrionmental design company Onzo, and Dr Sarah Darby at the Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute. During tis project the company developed from a handful ot personnel to over 50 staff and been awarded custom valuing tens of millions of pounds.

OMRAS 2 - Online Music Recognition And Searching - A Distributed Research Environment for Music Informatics and Computational Musicology.
EPSRC
Developing a virtual research environment that is investigating new methods for navigating through large collections of music.              
Collaboration with Queen Mary College.

An Agent-based framework for Modelling Mechanisms for Self-Organisation in Stem Cell Systems.
Leukemia and Lymhoma Society
Experiments with stem cells are fundamentally limited in several significant ways, the modelling and simulation of stem cell models becomes a critical means to investigate cell mechanisms. Agents have a massive advantage over other formal and computational techniques because we are able to investigate the relationship between individual cell behaviour and the self organisation of systems.
Workshop "Stem Cells and Leukemia - Concepts, Models and Simulations" with Dr Ingo Roeder too place and a picture of the group can be found here.

Design for the 21st Century
EPSRC/AHRC
2005/06
Collaborating with the artist Jane Prophet, as well as the international community of members of our the research cluster at interdisciplinary.co.uk, we are designing and building the installation Net Work, a floating network of interacting LEDs modelled as individual autonomous agents. There is a meta-investigation to this project, mapping the processes as they arise when artists, scientists, designers and engineers come together in collaboration.

The SMART Agent Framework
The richness of the agent metaphor that leads to many different uses of the term has also caused a situation where there is no commonly accepted notion of what it is that constitutes an agent. In response, we have developed a framework that precisely and unambiguously provides meanings for common concepts and terms, enables alternative models of particular classes of system to be described within it, and provides a foundation for subsequent development of increasingly more refined concepts. Our concern has been to develop well-defined formal concepts that can be used both as the basis of implementation, and also as a general framework for further research.  This collaboration has been nearly 15 years with Michael Luck.

Agent Systems Specification
Complementing other strands of research, this work aims to start with implemented systems and formalise their architectures and operation in specifications that may then be used to inform more conceptual work. The benefits include better understanding and description of these systems, and the closer integration of agent theory and practice. Some of the most important work came with specifying the dMARS architecture with colleagues Michael Luck, Michael Georgeff and Mike Wooldridge. With the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Spain, we are building a definitive, operational model of an electronic institution. Electronic Institutions are the intelligent agents’ counterpart of human organisations, and are designed to provide support, trust and legitimacy in electronic commerce applications.