2026 Michael Wooldridge: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	103	317	307	20	20	574	78080

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2015 - Member of Academia Europaea
2015 - ACM Fellow For contributions to multi-agent systems and the formalization of rational action in multi-agent environments.
2008 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to logical foundations and complexity analysis of multiagent systems, including formal theories of teamwork and agent-oriented software engineering.

Overview

Michael Wooldridge is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and has a research focus primarily in computer science, with significant contributions to artificial intelligence. Their recent publications span several areas within multi-agent systems and software engineering.

Wooldridge's work includes the following papers:

Multi-agent systems research in the United Kingdom, 2022, AI Communications
Multiagent Model-based Credit Assignment for Continuous Control, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
Language-Models-as-a-Service: Overview of a New Paradigm and its Challenges, 2024, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Some challenges of calibrating differentiable agent-based models, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
Reasoning about Causality in Games, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators include:

Stefano V. Albrecht
Emanuele La Malfa
Aleksandar Petrov
Simon Frieder
Christoph Weinhuber

Wooldridge's publications are often featured in the following venues:

arXiv (Cornell University)
AI Communications
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

The main fields of study for Wooldridge comprise computer science with subfields spanning artificial intelligence, software, biomedical engineering, cell biology, and information systems.

Key research topics include:

Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
Robotic Locomotion and Control
Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference

Wooldridge's work has been recognized with several awards, including:

Member of Academia Europaea (2015)
ACM Fellow (2015) for contributions to multi-agent systems and the formalization of rational action in multi-agent environments
Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2008) for contributions to logical foundations and complexity analysis of multiagent systems, including formal theories of teamwork and agent-oriented software engineering

Best Publications

An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems

Michael Wooldridge

12510
Citations
Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice

Michael J. Wooldridge;Nicholas R. Jennings

11907
Citations
The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design

Michael Wooldridge;Nicholas R. Jennings;David Kinny

3223
Citations
Automated Negotiation: Prospects, Methods and Challenges

N. R. Jennings;P. Faratin;A. R. Lomuscio;S. Parsons

2207
Citations
Agent theories, architectures, and languages: a survey

Michael Wooldridge;Nicholas R. Jennings

2080
Citations
Programming Multi-Agent Systems in AgentSpeak using Jason

Rafael H. Bordini;Jomi Fred Hübner;Michael J. Wooldridge

2029
Citations
A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development

Unknown

2006
Citations
Reasoning about Rational Agents

Michael J. Wooldridge

1910
Citations
Introduction to Multiagent Systems

Michael Woolridge;Michael J. Wooldridge

1897
Citations
Developing multiagent systems: The Gaia methodology

Franco Zambonelli;Nicholas R. Jennings;Michael Wooldridge

1873
Citations
Agent technology: foundations, applications, and markets

Nicholas R. Jennings;Michael J. Wooldridge

1488
Citations
Intelligent agents: theory and practice The Knowledge Engineering Review

Michael J. Wooldridge;Nicholas R. Jennings

1412
Citations
Agent-based software engineering

Michael J. Wooldridge

1390
Citations
Applications of intelligent agents

N. R. Jennings;M. Wooldridge

1249
Citations
The Belief-Desire-Intention Model of Agency

Michael P. Georgeff;Barney Pell;Martha E. Pollack;Milind Tambe

1002
Citations
ORGANISATIONAL RULES AS AN ABSTRACTION FOR THE ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

Franco Zambonelli;Nicholas R. Jennings;Michael J. Wooldridge

634
Citations
Programming Multi-Agent Systems in AgentSpeak using Jason (Wiley Series in Agent Technology)

Rafael H. Bordini;Jomi Fred Hübner;Michael Wooldridge

571
Citations
A Formal Specification of dMARS

Mark d'Inverno;David Kinny;Michael Luck;Michael Wooldridge

570
Citations
A methodology for agent-oriented analysis and design

Michael Wooldridge;Nicholas R. Jennings;David Kinny

551
Citations
An agenda-based framework for multi-issue negotiation

Shaheen S. Fatima;Michael Wooldridge;Nicholas R. Jennings

542
Citations
A Classification Scheme for Negotiation in Electronic Commerce

Alessio Lomuscio;Michael Wooldridge;Nicholas R. Jennings

480
Citations
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Qiang Yang;Michael Wooldridge

230
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas R. Jennings Loughborough University

Wiebe van der Hoek University of Liverpool

Simon Parsons University of Lincoln

Sarit Kraus Bar-Ilan University

Michael Fisher University of Manchester

Peter McBurney King's College London

Paul E. Dunne University of Liverpool

Rafael H. Bordini Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul

Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar Spanish National Research Council

Carles Sierra Spanish National Research Council

External Links

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