Amel Bennaceur : The Road to Collaboration is paved with Goals

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Heure et date : le 5 juin 2024 à 12h00
Lieu : PK-4610 et Zoom
Conférencière : Amel Bennaceur
Titre : The Road to Collaboration is paved with Goals

Abstract: Whether it be robots, services, software, or people, collaboration enables achieving goals that cannot be achieved individually. This talk explores the role of goals in supporting autonomy and collaboration. The journey starts by showing how goal models can be used to reason about and assure collaboration between robots. We will then move to physical resources and illustrate how goals can be adapted to optimise the use of resources in the food domain. We will then consider humans and the role of goals in systems that rely on human collaboration. Reasoning about humans’ behaviours and goals requires us to look outside the realm of computing. The journey ends by illustrating how integrating theories from social psychology enables us to achieve goals that require collaboration between robots and human groups.

Bio: Dr Amel Bennaceur is a computing engineer, researcher, and educator. She is an associate professor and director of research at the School of Computing at the Open University. Her research focuses on formally-grounded and practice-informed software engineering methods and techniques to ensure the trustworthiness and resilience of intelligent systems. She published the results of this work in 60+ papers in top journals and conferences (TOSEM, TSE, Middleware, and ECSA) in research areas such as Software Engineering and Distributed Systems. She contributed to several EU and National/EPSRC research projects, including the TAS Resilience Node.