Dr. Christian GUTTMANN

M.Sc. Dipl.-Inf. Fil.Mag. Ph.D.

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Monash University

Faculty of Information Technology

Clayton School of Information Technology, Bdlg 63

Wellington Road

Clayton, 3800

Melbourne, Australia

Monash University

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

School of Primary Health Care, Bldg 1
270 Ferntree Gully Road
Notting Hill, 3168

Melbourne, Australia

Biography: Dr. Guttmann works as a research scientist for the IBM Australian Research Lab, where he leads and defines projects around health care ICT. One focus of Guttmann’s work is to build intelligent systems that enable health care entities to deliver care with reduced cost and better health outcomes. His work addresses challenges faced by tomorrow’s world of health care: How to create and apply collaborative care technologies that cope with the large burden of chronic and mental diseases.

Prior to his role at IBM Research, Dr. Guttmann led the research themes on health care and disaster at the Etisalat British Telecom Innovation Centre (EBTIC). The theme partnered with major stakeholders, including governmental health authorities and ministries. He has been a research fellow at the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University, where he researched how intelligent systems can improve collaborative health care. He worked also in industry projects with BT, HP and Ericsson.

Dr. Guttmann holds a PhD degree from Monash University, two Master degrees from Paderborn University (Germany) and the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), and a psychology degree from Stockholm University (Sweden). He organised major conferences and workshops, edited two books on intelligent agent technologies, and co-authored over 30 articles in leading conferences and journals.

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Research

My research interests are in Multi-Agent Systems, Agent-Based Modelling, Complex systems, Service Oriented Systems and Artificial Intelligence.

I am interested in applying research to health care systems, epidemiology and social networks.

Prospective students: Highly ambitious and capable students interested in completing a Master or PhD degree with me, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Professional Activities

I am the sponsorship chair for the Asian Pacific region of AAMAS 2014.

Please contact me, if you wish to sponsor AAMAS 2014!

THIRTHEENS CONFERENCE on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) 2014 In Paris, France (with Prof. Ana Bazzan and Prof. Mike Huhns)

I am in the steering committee of Semantic Cities 2013.

SECOND WORKSHOP on Semantic Cities 2013 In Beijing, China (with Dr. Freddy Lecue, Dr. Biplav Srivastava, and Dr. Zaiqing Nie)

I am a co-chair of MATES 2012.

TENTH CONFERENCE on Multi-Agent Systems Technologies (MATES) 2012 In Trier, Germany (with Prof. Ingo Timm, Uni Trier)

I am the founder and a general chair of the CARE workshop series.

	THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on Collaborative Agents – REsearch and Development (CARE) 2011 In Taipei, Taiwan (with Prof. Michael Luck, Kings College and Prof. Milind Tambe, Uni of Southern California)
	SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on Collaborative Agents – REsearch and Development (CARE) 2010 In Toronto, Canada (with Prof. Frank Dignum, Utrecht University) FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on Collaborative Agents – REsearch and Development (CARE) 2009 In Melbourne, Australia (with Prof. Michael Georgeff, Monash University and Prof. Frank Dignum, Utrecht University)

Conference/Workshop Organiser & Steering Committee

2014 AAMAS (Sponsorship Chair) Int. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems

2013 Semantic Cities in preparation (Steering committee) 2^nd IJCAI Workshop on Semantic Cities

2012 MATES (Conference Chair) 10^th German Conference on Multi-Agent Systems TechnologieS

2011 CARE (Workshop Chair) 3^rd Workshop on Collaborative Agents -- Research & Development

2011 IHS (Workshop Chair) International Workshop on Interoperable Healthcare Systems (IHS) - Challenges, Technologies, and Trends

2010 CARE (Workshop Chair) 2^nd Workshop on Collaborative Agents -- Research & Development

2009 CARE (Workshop Chair) 1^st Workshop on Collaborative Agents – Research & Development

2009 AI09 (Conference Workshop Chair) Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

2007 Agents-Vic (Local Organiser) Agents Victoria Workshop, Melbourne University, Australia

Program Committee (PC) and Journal Reviewer

2013 IJCAI (PC) International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

2013 AAMAS (PC) International Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems

2013 ADAPT (PC) AAMAS Workshop Agent Design – Advancing from Practice to Theory

2013 EMAS (PC) AAMAS Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems

2013 CISIS (PC) International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Service Intensive Systems

2012 AAMAS (PC) International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems

2012 AI12 (PC) 25^th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

2012 INDIN (PC) International Conference on Industrial Informatics

2012 CEC-SWNAM (PC) Evolutionary Computation in Social Network Analysis and Applications

2012 SEN-MAS (PC) International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi Agent Systems

2011 MATES (PC) 9^th German Conference on Multi-Agent Systems TechnologieS

2011 AAMAS (PC) International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems

2011 INCoS (PC) Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems

2011 WiVS (PC) International Workshop on Flexible Workflows in Distributed Systems

2011 CAEPIA (PC) Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence

2011 JOCS (Reviewer) Journal of Computational Science

2011 ServAgents (PC) Second International Workshop on Services and Agents

2010 AAMAS (PC) International Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems

2010 MATES (PC) German Conference on Multi-Agent Systems TechnologieS

2010 IAHC (PC) International Workshop on Intelligent Agents in Health Care

2010 SERVAGENTS (PC) International Workshop on Services and Agents

2010 SAIS (PC) Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society Workshop

2010 SOCMAS (PC) AAMAS Workshop: Service-Oriented Computing and Multi-Agent Systems

2010 SOCASE (PC) AAMAS Workshop: Service-Oriented Comp.: Agents, Semantics & Engineering

2010 IE10 (PC) International Conference on Intelligent Environments

2009 AAMAS (PC) International Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems

2009 IGPL (Reviewer) Journal on Pure and Applied Logic (Modelling in Social Epistemology)

2009 SOCASE (PC) AAMAS Workshop: Service-Oriented Comp.: Agents, Semantics & Engineering

2009 COIN (PC) IJCAI International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence – Workshop on Coordination, Organisation, Institutions, Norms

2008 AMAI (Reviewer) Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

2007 IJCAI (PC) International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

2005 EIS (Reviewer) Journal Engineering Intelligent Systems

2004 CLEI (PC) Latin American Conference on Informatics

1999 RoboCup (Co-Leader) team of computer science graduates to enter one of the most challenging competition: RoboCup, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Selected Publications

For a full list of my publications, please contact me.

Bibtex file for below publications.

Edited Books

[1] Timm, I. and Guttmann, C., 2012. MATES 2012: Proceedings of 10th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, Trier, Germany: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.

[2] Guttmann, C., Dignum, F. and Georgeff, M., 2011. CARE@AI09 2009 / CARE@IAT10 2010: Proceedings of International Workshops on Collaborative Agents - Research and Development, Melbourne, Australia and Toronto, Canada: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.

Refereed Journal Publications

[3] Hajat, C., Bouziane, S., Guttmann, C., Shather, Z., under review

[4] Guttmann, C., Georgeff, M. and Rahwan, I., 2010. Collective Iterative Allocation: Enabling Fast and Optimal Group Decision Making. International Journal of Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, 8(1), pp.1–35.

[5] Guttmann, C. and Zukerman, I., 2006. Agents with limited modeling abilities: Implications on collaborative problem solving. International Journal of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE), 21(3), pp.183–196.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

[6] Hirsch, B., Al-Rubaie, A., Wang, D., Guttmann, C. and Ng, J.W.P., 2012. Enabling the Next Generation Learning Environment. In 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT’12). IEEE Computer Society, pp. 352–356.

[7] Hajat, C., Bouziane, S., Guttmann, C. and Shather, Z., 2012. Regional differences in Cardiovascular Risk in Abu Dhabi: the Weqaya programme. In World Congress of Cardiology Scientific Sessions. American Heart Association, p. 67.

[8] Boman, M., Hosani, F. Al, Cakici, B., Guttmann, C. and Mannaei, A. Al, 2012. Syndromic surveillance in the United Arab Emirates. In 2012 International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT). IEEE Computer Society, pp. 31–35.

[9] Wickramasinghe, K., Georgeff, M., Guttmann, C., Thomas, I. and Schmidt, H., 2011. Cost/Benefit Analysis of an Adherence Support Framework for Chronic Disease Management. In B. Gottfried & H. K. Aghajan, eds. Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation. IOS Press, pp. 105–127.

[10] Guttmann, C., Wickramasinghe, K., Thomas, I., Georgeff, M. and Schmidt, H., 2010. Intelligent Adherence Support to Manage Contractual Relationships. In X. Huang, I. King, V. Raghavan, & S. Rüger, eds. International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology WIIAT 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM. Taipei, Taiwan: IEEE Computer Society, pp. 342–345.

[11] Guttmann, C., 2009. Towards a Taxonomy of Decision Making Problems in Multi-Agent Systems. In A. P. Winfried Lamersdorf, Lars Braubach, Wiebe van der Hoek, Paolo Petta, ed. Multiagent System Technologies (MATES). Hamburg, Germany: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 195–201.

[12] Jones, K., Thomas, I., Wikramasinghe, K., Guttmann, C., Schmidt, H., Thompson, S., Gharib, H. and Georgeff, M., 2009. The Intelligent Collaborative Care Management (ICCM) Project. In Proceedings of the 2009 General Practice and Primary Health Care Research Conference (PHCRIS09). Melbourne, Australia, p. 85.

[13] Wickramasinghe, K. Guttmann, C., Georgeff, M., Gharib, H., Thomas, I., Thompson, S. and Schmidt, H., 2009. Agent-based intelligent collaborative care management. In C. Sierra, C. Castelfranchi, K. S. Decker, & J. S. Sichman, eds. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. IFAAMAS, pp. 1387–1388.

[14] Guttmann, C., 2008. Making Allocations Collectively: Iterative Group Decision Making under Uncertainty. In R. Bergmann, G. Lindemann, S. Kirn, & M. Pechoucek, eds. Proceedings of the Sixth German Conference on Multi-Agent system TEchnologieS (MATES). Kaiserslautern, Germany: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 73–85.

[15] Guttmann, C., Rahwan, I. and Georgeff, M., 2007. A Study of an Approach to the Collective Iterative Task Allocation Problem. In 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT’07). IEEE Computer Society, pp. 363–369. NOMINATION FOR BEST PAPER AWARD.

[16] Guttmann, C. and Zukerman, I., 2005. Voting policies that cope with unreliable agents. In F. Dignum, V. Dignum, S. Koenig, S. Kraus, M. P. Singh, & M. Wooldridge, eds. Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). Utrecht, The Netherlands: ACM Press, pp. 365–372.

[17] Zukerman, I. and Guttmann, C., 2005. Modeling Agents that Exhibit Variable Performance in a Collaborative Setting. In L. Ardissono, P. Brna, & A. Mitrovic, eds. Proceedings of the tenth International Conference on User Modeling (UM). Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 210–219.

[18] Guttmann, C., 2005. ETAPP: A Framework for Agent Collaboration under Conditions of Uncertainty Regarding Team Members. In F. Dignum, V. Dignum, S. Koenig, S. Kraus, M. P. Singh, & M. Wooldridge, eds. Proceedings of the fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). Utrecht, The Netherlands: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, p. 1378.

[19] Guttmann, C., 2005. ETAPP: A Collaboration Framework That Copes with Uncertainty Regarding Team Members. In A. Mitrovic, P. Brna, & L. Ardissono, eds. Proceedings of the tenth International Conference on User Modeling (UM). Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, pp. 502–505.

Refereed Workshop Proceedings

[20] Wickramasinghe, K., Georgeff, M., Thomas, I., Schmidt, H. and Guttmann, C., 2012. Goal-directed approach for process specification and service selection in customer life cycle management. In K. Fischer, J. P. Müller, & R. Levy, eds. Agent-Based Technologies and Applications for Enterprise Interoperability. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 151–169.

[21] Sadedin, S. and Guttmann, C., 2010. Promotion of Selfish Agents in Hierarchical Organisations. In J. Padget, A. Artikis, W. Vasconcelo, K. Stathis, & V. T. Da Silva, eds. International Conference on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 163–178.

[22] Guttmann, C., Thomas, I., Georgeff, M., Wickramasinghe, K., Gharib, H., Thompson, S. and Schmidt, H., 2011. Intelligent Collaborative Care Management (ICCM): Achieving and Managing Contractual Relationships and Service Delivery. In C. Guttmann, F. Dignum, & M. Georgeff, eds. Collaborative Agents - Research and Development. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 68–84.

[23] Wickramasinghe, N., Guttmann, C. and Schaffer, J., 2011. Designing Intelligent Healthcare Operations. In C. Guttmann, F. Dignum, & M. Georgeff, eds. Collaborative Agents - Research and Development (CARE). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 152–162.

[24] Wickramasinghe, L., Guttmann, C., Georgeff, M., Thomas, I. and Schmidt, H., 2011. An Adherence Support Framework for Service Delivery in Customer Life Cycle Management. In M. Vos, N. Fornara, J. Pitt, & G. Vouros, eds. Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems VI. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 210–229.

[25] Guttmann, C., 2010. Advancements of AI in Healthcare. In R. Bol, ed. Swedish AI Society Workshop. Uppsala, Sweden: Linköping University Electronic Press, p. 5. INVITED.

[26] Boman, M., LeBlanc, K., Guttmann, C. and Saffiotti, A., 2000. Team Sweden. In M. M. Veloso, E. Pagello, & H. Kitano, eds. RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III. London, United Kingdom: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 784–787.

Workshop Proceedings

[27] Guttmann, C. and Zaabi, A. Al, 2011. Bounded Rationality in Maintaining Agreements. In International Workshop on Collaborative Agents – Research and Development (CARE) collocated with International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Taipei, Taiwan.

[28] Guttmann, C., Wickramasinghe, K., Georgeff, M., Thomas, I. and Schmidt, H., 2011. A Framework to Manage Contractual Relationships in Customer Life Cycle Management Systems. In Workshop in Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics and Engineering (SOCASE) workshop collocated with International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Toronto, Canada.

[29] Guttmann, C., Georgeff, M., Wickramasinghe, K., Gharib, H., Thomas, I., Thompson, S. and Schmidt, H., 2009. Towards an Intelligent Agent Framework to Manage and Coordinate Collaborative Care. In Proceedings of Workshop on Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation - Well Being (BMI). Paderborn, Germany.

[30] Guttmann, C., Thomas, I., Georgeff, M., Wickramasinghe, K., Gharib, H., Thompson, S. and Schmidt, H., 2009. Towards an Intelligent Agent Framework to Manage and Coordinate Collaborative Care. In Proceedings on Collaborative Agents -- Research and development (CARE).

[31] Sadedin, S. and Guttmann, C., 2009. Selfishness in Hierarchical Organisations. In Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms (COIN) collocated with the International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Pasadena, USA.

Theses

[32] Guttmann, C., 2008. Collective Iterative Allocation. Ph.D. thesis. Melbourne, Australia: Monash University.

[33] Guttmann, C., 1999. A Software Architecture for Four-Legged Robots. Master’s thesis. Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm University and the Royal Institute of Technology.

[34] Guttmann, C., 2010. Narrative Reasoning in Natural Language Dialogue Systems to Win User’s Trust. Minor Thesis (C-uppsats). Stockholm, Sweden: Department of Psychology, Stockholm University.

Public Media

[35] Stieler, W. and Guttmann C., RoboCup 1999, Computertechnik Ct, Hans Heise Verlag, Germany