Welcome to my homepage. I am Peter Bloodsworth a Research Fellow in the Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Before that I was a Research Student within the CAP group at Oxford Brookes University. Prior to this I studied for a BSc in Computing and Mathematics at Bristol UWE - its nice to be back again. I also own a consultancy business - Agentsis Consulting (website pending still!!).
My research is mainly within the field of Artificial Intelligence, especially that involving:
- Complex distributed systems
- Multi-agents
- The Semantic Web and ontological representation
- Information extraction
- Data integration
- Healthcare application of agents
Other areas of interest include:
- Java programming
- Linux construction and administration
- Grid computing
- Decision support systems
The main focus of my research program is to apply multi-agent systems to real-world problems, finding novel solutions where necessary to overcome important challenges. Interdisciplinary research is central to my aims, I have already applied my research in the area of Healthcare and envisage future collaboration in other domains. My Thesis contains research work in two related areas. Firstly providing a generic model for the construction of systems that can schedule in real-time based on dynamic heterogeneous data. The model describes a generic system structure, which can then be re-used in many problem domains. The second area is the development of ontology-centric multi-agent systems. The functionality and services that an agent provides is described in an ontology which is then used to configure the agent when it is created at run-time. In order to make changes to the system, the ontology can be edited without requiring any major changes to the system coding.
