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Overview

Leon Sterling is affiliated with Swinburne University of Technology in Australia and specializes primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their research interests span several subfields, including Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Systems, General Health Professions, and Computer Networks and Communications.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, with significant focus on Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation, Semantic Web and Ontologies, and Technology Use by Older Adults. Additional research topics include Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge, Mobile Agent-Based Network Management, Innovative Human-Technology Interaction, and Persona Design and Applications.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Leon Sterling include:

  • "An agent-based approach to modelling pedestrian behaviour," 2024, Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • "Guidelines for constructing reusable domain ontologies," 2024, Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • "Evaluating Engagement in Technology-Supported Social Interaction by People Living with Dementia in Residential Care," 2022, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  • "The role of users' emotions and associated quality goals on appropriation of systems: two case studies," 2024, Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • "Agents in logistics planning: experiences with the coalition agents experiment project," 2024, Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)

Leon Sterling frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Sonja Pedell
  • Diego Muñoz
  • Nicole Ronald
  • Muthukkaruppan Annamalai
  • Rachel Burrows

The most common venues for their publications are:

  • Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  • Health Informatics Journal
  • Journal of Mental Health

Best Publications

  • The Art of Prolog: Advanced Programming Techniques

    Leon Sterling;Ehud Shapiro

  • The art of Prolog

    Leon Sterling;Ehud Shapiro;Randy Garrett

  • ROADMAP: extending the gaia methodology for complex open systems

    Thomas Juan;Adrian Pearce;Leon Sterling

  • The Art of Agent-Oriented Modeling

    Leon Sterling;Kuldar Taveter

  • Intelligence as Adaptive Behavior: An Experiment in Computational Neuroethology

    Leon Sterling;Yoh-Han Pao;Randall Dean Beer

  • A biological perspective on autonomous agent design

    Randall D. Beer;Hillel J. Chiel;Leon S. Sterling

  • The art of Prolog (2nd ed.): advanced programming techniques

    Leon Sterling;Ehud Shapiro

  • Learning and classification of monotonic ordinal concepts

    A. Ben-David;L. Sterling;Y.-H. Pao

  • Metainterpreters for expert system construction

    Leon Sterling;Randall D. Beer

  • Emotion-led modelling for people-oriented requirements engineering

    Tim Miller;Sonja Pedell;Antonio A. Lopez-Lorca;Antonette Mendoza

  • AI '92: Proceedings of the 5th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

    Anthony Adams;Leon Sterling

  • Integrating Case‐Based and Rule‐Based Reasoning to Meet Multiple Design Constraints

    Cynthia R. Marling;G. J. Petot;Leon Sterling

  • JUSTICE: a judicial search tool using intelligent concept extraction

    James Osborn;Leon Sterling

  • An agile manufacturing workcell design

    Roger D. Quinn;Greg C. Causey;Frank L. Merat;David M. Sargent

  • Meta-level inference and program verification

    Leon Sterling;Alan Bundy

  • The ROADMAP meta-model for intelligent adaptive multi-agent systems in open environments

    Thomas Juan;Leon Sterling

  • An artificial insect

    Randall D. Beer;Hillel J. Chiel;Leon S. Sterling

  • The Practice of Prolog

    Leon S. Sterling

  • The Gaia Methodology

    Luca Cernuzzi;Thomas Juan;Leon Sterling;Franco Zambonelli

  • Quality of Service for Web Services

    Saeed Araban;Leon Sterling

  • Agent-Oriented Methodologies

    Leon S. Sterling;Kuldar Taveter

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Miller
Tim Miller University of Queensland
Frank Vetere
Frank Vetere University of Melbourne
Steve Howard
Steve Howard University of Melbourne
Shanika Karunasekera
Shanika Karunasekera University of Melbourne
Randall D. Beer
Randall D. Beer Indiana University
Ehud Shapiro
Ehud Shapiro Weizmann Institute of Science
Hillel J. Chiel
Hillel J. Chiel Case Western Reserve University
Seng Wai Loke
Seng Wai Loke Deakin University
John Farhall
John Farhall La Trobe University
Neil Thomas
Neil Thomas Swinburne University of Technology

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