Research Interests

My primary research goal is to make the engineering and use of industrial-strength agent-based intelligent personal assistants, context-aware mobile systems and web-services easier.

My research involves and integrates several different areas, which bring multi-agent systems, component reuse, web-services and intelligent software together. The primary themes that interest me are:

• software agents as next generation reusable components - this leads to components and frameworks that are more flexible, adaptable, robust and self-managing
• harmonized architectures RESTfully integrating software agents, web-services and software bus transport
• context-aware software agents to assist in personal and team tasks - such as email, scheduling, information management and software development and reuse

Related to that are interests in several component-reuse technolgies and processes, including:

• agent-based components
• software generators
• model-based development
• reuse metrics, refactoring and technical debt