Paul Marrow

Paul works on biologically-inspired solutions to computing and telecommunications problems.

He coordinated the DIET (Decentralised Information Ecosystem Technologies) project, a European collaborative project focusing on the development of lightweight adaptable and decentralised multi-agent systems inspired by the interactions in natural ecosystems. The project has now finished, but further information about its achievements is available in the publications below, or from the web page of the DIET Agents platform. The DIET Agents platform has been released as open source, and is downloadable from here. It is currently being used in the CASCADAS European project.

Paul's current work includes research into applications in the healthcare domain and multimedia content management. As well as work on software agent systems, he has also worked on applications of evolutionary computation and evolutionary game theory.

Paul's background is in evolutionary biology. He has a first degree and DPhil in biology, and carried out research at Leiden and Cambridge Universities on evolutionary dynamics, coevolutionary theory and the evolution of reproductive strategies, before joining BT in 1997.

Conferences and projects

Paul is involved in the following workshops and conferences, amongst others, bringing together researchers in software agents and related communities:

The First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, (SASO 2007), Boston, July 2007.

The Engineering Self-Organising Applications Workshop 2006 (ESOA06) at AAMAS 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.

The Multi-Agents for Modelling Complex Systems Workshop (MA4CS'05) at the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS'05), Paris, November 2005.

He is also a member of the EPSRC eXtended Particle Swarm and Market-Based Control projects.

Selected Publications

For more information about Paul's research, see the following.

Michiardi, P., Marrow, P., Tateson, R. & Saffre, F. 2007 Aggregation Dynamics in Service Overlay Networks. To appear at: First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2007).

Marrow, P. & Koubarakis, M. 2006 Self-organising applications using lightweight agents. In: Hales, D., Brueckner, S., Di Marzo Segundo, G. & Zambonelli, F. (eds.) Engineering Self-Organising Applications. LNAI, Springer.

Bernon, C., Chevrier, V., Hilaire, V. & Marrow, P. 2006 Applications of self-organising multi-agent systems: an initial framework for comparison. Informatica 30, 73-82.

Marrow, P. 2005 An Industrial Perspective on Future ICT in Hospitals. Workshop on Healthcare Information Giving Services and Future ICTs, Lancaster, April 2005.

Marrow, P. 2003 The DIET project: building a lightweight, decentralised and adaptable agent platform. Agentlink News 12, 3-6.

Hoile, C., Wang, F., Bonsma, E. and Marrow, P. 2002 Core specification and experiments in DIET: a decentralised ecosystem-inspired mobile agent system. AAMAS2002 (International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2002), Bologna, Italy.

Marrow, P., Dieckmann, U. & Law, R. 1996 Evolutionary dynamics of predator-prey systems: an ecological perspective. Journal of Mathematical Biology 34, 556-578.

Dieckmann, U., Marrow, P. & Law, R. 1995 Evolutionary cycling in predator-prey interactions: population dynamics and the Red Queen. Journal of Theoretical Biology 176, 91-102.

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