Professor Michael Wooldridge
Professor of Computer Science
Senior Research Fellow
Michael gained a BSc Computer Science in 1989, and a PhD in Computation in 1992. He joined the University of Oxford as a Professor of Computer Science on 1 June 2012, after 12 years as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool; during his time at Liverpool, he was Head of Department of Computer Science (2001-05), and Head of School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Computer Science (2008-11). In 2011, Michael was awarded a five-year European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant, which fully funds him and his group from 2012 to 2017.
Michael is a AAAI Fellow, an ECCAI Fellow, an AISB Fellow, and a BCS Fellow. In 2006, he was the recipient of the ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award. In 1997, he founded AgentLink, the EC-funded European Network of Excellence in the area of agent-based computing. He was program chair for the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2010), held in Lisbon, Portugal, in August 2010. He will be General Chair for the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2015), to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Between 2003 and 2009 he was co-editor-in-chief of the Journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) (2006-2009, 2009-2012), an associate editor of Artificial Intelligence journal (2009-2012) and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Logic, Journal of Logic and Computation, Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Intelligence.
Photo credit: Department of Computer Science
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Research interests
Michael’s main research interests are in the use of formal techniques of one kind or another for reasoning about multiagent systems. He is particularly interested in the computational aspects of rational action in systems composed of multiple self-interested computational systems. His current research is at the intersection of logic, computational complexity, and game theory, and is focused around the problem of identifying and managing the equilibria of game-like concurrent programs.
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Publications
Authored books
- G. Chalkiadakis, E. Elkind, and M. Wooldridge. Computational Aspects of Cooperative Game 
Theory. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, October 2011. (168 pages)
- M. Wooldridge. An Introduction to Multiagent Systems — Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, 
May 2009. (484 pages)
- R. Bordini, J. F. Hubner, and M. Wooldridge. Programming Multi-Agent Systems with AgentSpeak. John Wiley & Sons, October 2007. (273 pages)
- S. Bussmann, N. R. Jennings, and M. Wooldridge. Multiagent Systems for Manufacturing Control. Springer-Verlag, June 2004. (288 pages)
- M. Wooldridge. An Introduction to Multiagent Systems. John Wiley & Sons, March 2002. (367 pages) 
Chinese translation, Publishing House of the Electronics Industry, 2004. Greek translation, Klidarithmos Publishing, 2008.
- M. Wooldridge. Reasoning about Rational Agents. The MIT Press. July 2000. (240 pages)
Journal articles (since 2007)
- N. Hazon, Y. Aumann, S. Kraus, and M. Wooldridge. On the Evaluation of Election Outcomes 
under Uncertainty. In Artificial Intelligence, 189:1–18, 2012.
- T. Rahwan, T. Michalak, M. Wooldridge, and N. R. Jennings. Towards Anytime coalition structure generation in multi-agent systems with positive or negative externalities. In Artificial Intelligence, 86:95–122, July 2012.
- W. van der Hoek, N. Troqard, and M. Wooldridge. Reasoning about Social Choice Functions. In Journal of Philosophical Logic, 40:473–498, 2011.
- B. Lithgow-Smith, V. A. M. Tamma, and M. Wooldridge. An Ontology for Coordination. In Applied Artificial Intelligence, 25:235–265, 2011.
- F. Wolter and M. Wooldridge. Temporal and Dynamic Logic. In Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, XXVII(1):249–276, January–March 2011.
- 30. T. Agotnes, W. van der Hoek, and M. Wooldridge.On the logic of preference and judgment aggregation. In Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 22:4–30, 2011.
- P. E. Dunne, A. Hunter, P. McBurney, S. Parsons, and M. Wooldridge. Weighted Argument Systems: Basic Definitions, Algorithms, and Complexity Results. In Artificial Intelligence, 175:457-486, 2011.
- T. Moyaux, P. McBurney, and M. Wooldridge. A Supply Chain as a Network of Auctions. In Decision Support Systems, 50:176–190, 2010.
- J. Grant, S. Kraus, D. Perlis, and M. Wooldridge. Postulates for BDI Structure Revision. In Synthese, 175:39–62, 2010.
- W. van der Hoek, D. Walther, and M. Wooldridge. Reasoning about the Transfer of Control. In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 37:437–477, 2010.
- 35. T. Agotnes, W. van der Hoek, and M. Wooldridge. Robust normative systems and a logic of norm compliance. In Logic Journal of the IGPL, 18(1):4-30, February 2010
- P. E. Dunne, S. Kraus, E. Manisterski, and M. Wooldridge. Solving Coalitional Resource Games. In Artificial Intelligence, 174(1):20–50, 2010.
- J. Ruan, W. van der Hoek, and M. Wooldridge. Verification of Games in the Game Description Language. In Journal of Logic & Computation, 19(6):1127-1156, 2009.
- R. Bordini, M. Fisher, M. Wooldridge, and W. Visser. Property-Based Slicing for Agent Verification. In Journal of Logic & Computation, 19(6):1385-1425, 2009.
- E. Elkind, L. A. Goldberg, P. Goldberg, and M. Wooldridge. On the Computational Complexity of Weighted Voting Games . In Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 56(2):109-131, June 2009.
- T. Michalak, J. Tyrowicz, P. McBurney and M. Wooldridge. Exogenous coalition formation in the e-marketplace based on geographical proximity. In Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 8(4):203-223, July–August 2009.
- E. Elkind, P. Goldberg, L. A. Goldberg, and M. Wooldridge. A Tractable and Expressive Class of Marginal Contribution Nets and Its Applications. In Mathematical Logic Quarterly, 55(4):362– 376, August 2009.
- T. Agotnes, W. van der Hoek, J. A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, C. Sierra, and M. Wooldridge. Multi-Modal CTL: Completeness, Complexity, and an Application. In Studia Logica, 92(1):1–26, 2009.
- T. Agotnes, W. van der Hoek, and M. Wooldridge. Reasoning about Coalitional Games. In Artificial Intelligence, 173(1):45-79, January 2009.
- S. S. Fatima, M. Wooldridge, and N. R. Jennings. A Linear Approximation Method for the Shapley Value. In Artificial Intelligence, 172(14):1673–1699, September 2008.
- T. Agotnes, W. van der Hoek, and M. Wooldridge. Quantified Coalition Logic. In Knowledge, Rationality, and Action, 165:269–294, 2008.
- F. Lopes, M. Wooldridge, and A. Q. Novais. Negotiation Among Autonomous Computational Agents: Principles, Analysis and Challenges. In Artificial Intelligence Review 29(1–44), June 2008.
- P. E. Dunne, W. van der Hoek, and M. Wooldridge. A Logical Characterisation of Qualitative Coalitional Games. In Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, 17(4):277–509, 2007.
- S. Paurobally, V. Tamma, and M. Wooldridge. A Framework for Web Service Negotiation. In ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 2(4), November 2007.
- R. Vieira, A. F. Moreira, M. Wooldridge, and R. H. Bordini. On the Formal Semantics of Speech- Act Based Communication in an Agent-Oriented Programming Language. In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 29:221-267, 2007.
- W. van der Hoek, M. Roberts, and M. Wooldridge. Social Laws in Alternating Time: Effectiveness, Feasibility, and Synthesis. In Synthese, 156(1):1–19, May 2007.
- W. van der Hoek, W. Jamroga, and M. Wooldridge. Towards a Theory of Intention Revision. In Synthese, 155(2):265–290, March 2007.