Posted: 3rd April 2018

Head of Department, Professor Mike Wooldridge,  has won the 2018 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award, which seeks to recognize publications that have made influential and long-lasting contributions to the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. He was recognised for the following two papers by the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems:

* Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings, and David Kinny, The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design, JAAMAS, 3(3):285--312, 2000.

* Franco Zambonelli, Nicholas R. Jennings, and Michael Wooldridge, Developing Multiagent Systems: The Gaia Methodology, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodology, 12(3):317--370, 2003.

which together have 4270 citations in Google scholar

More information about the award and past recipients is available at:

http://www.aamas-conference.org/award-influential.html