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Julie Dugdale, office C212
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (UMR 5217), Magma Team
Maison Jean Kuntzmann, 110 avenue de la Chimie
38400 Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France.
E-Mail: Julie.Dugdale@imag.fr
Phone: +33 4 76 51 46 44
Fax: +33 4 76 51 49 85

Research Interests

I am interested in modelling aspects of human behaviour at the cognitive, work and societal level using an agent-based approach. Often, but not always, my agent-based models are used for simulations. Broadly, my work falls into the domain of Agent based Social Simulation (ABSS). Following my background in artificial intelligence I am primarily interested in cognition and interaction. Specifically, modelling the cognitive activities of human behaviour, the cognitive supports in our work environment and how groups of people interact in order to accomplish a task. Recognising a work situation as being complex necessarily relates my work to adaptive systems and complex systems theory. I have applied my work to many areas, but I am particularly interested in emergency rescue and crisis management: areas which in themselves bring many interesting research questions.

The main areas of my research are as follows:

  • Agent based modelling. Modelling and simulating real-life complex work settings with multi-agent systems.
  • Complex systems theory. Investigating the main features of complex social systems (emergence, self-organisation, etc. in real-life work situations).
  • Communication and cooperation mechanisms. Understanding human communication and cooperation through agent based modelling and simulation.
  • Creativity. Investigating how human creativity may be supported with multi-agent systems.
  • Annotation. Understanding how annotations dynamically emerge and act as an external cognitive support.

Short Biography

I am a researcher with the MAGMA multi-agent systems group which is part of LIG and an associate professor (lecturer) at Université Pierre Mendes France (also known as the University of Grenoble 2). From 2003 until 2006, I was an invited researcher in the IIHM team (Human-Machine Interaction Engineering Team) here in Grenoble. From 1998 until 2006 I was a researcher with the GRIC Team (Cognitive Engineering Research Team) at IRIT, the Computer Science Research Institute of Toulouse. I still have close connections with this team and continue to work with its members, notably Bernard Pavard. Before coming to France, I was a lecturer in computing at De Montfort University. I received my Ph.D from the University of Buckingham in 1994. The title of my PhD thesis title was: "Cooperative Problem Solving using Assumption Based Truth Maintenance".

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