Dr. Christian GUTTMANN

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

Email: firstname.lastname@gmail.com

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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

Short Bio: Dr. Guttmann is a research fellow at Monash University. His most recent involvement was in the Intelligent Collaborative Care Management (ICCM) project -- a joint project between the British Telecom, United Kingdom and Monash University, Australia. He holds a PhD degree in Computer Science (CS) from Monash and two Master degrees in CS from German and Swedish universities (and received an annual Swedish AI Master Thesis award). Dr. Guttmann has many years of industry experience working for Ericsson and companies now acquired by IBM or Microsoft. He also worked in industry linkage projects with the British Telecom and Hewlett Packard. He was a short-term scholarly visitor at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI International), Harvard University, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Technical University of Delft, Utrecht University, University of Magdeburg, and University of Duisburg/Essen.

From August 2010 onwards, he will also hold a senior researcher position at EBTIC -- an innovation and R&D centre established by the British Telecom, Khalifa University and Etisalat.

Guttmann's short resume (please request password by email)

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 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, University of Southern California) NOW CALLING FOR PARTICIPATION!!
	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)

Current Activities

2011 CARE (General Co-Chair) Third International Workshop on Collaborative Agents -- REsearch and Development (CARE)

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

2011 URMASSN11 (Program Committee, pending) International workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning and Multi-Agent Systems for Sensor Networks

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

2011 MATES (Program Committee) German Conference on Multi-Agent Systems TechnologieS

2011 IE11 (Program Committee) International Conference on Intelligent Environments

2011 JDIQ (Guest Editor) ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality on E-health

2011 JOCS (Reviewer) Journal of Computational Science

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

Previous Activities

2011 WIVS (Program Committee) International Workshop on Flexible Workflows in Distributed Systems (WiVS)

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

2010 CARE (General Chair) Second International Workshop on Collaborative Agents -- REsearch and Development (CARE)

2010 SERVAGENTS (Program Committee) International Workshop on Services and Agents

2010 AAMAS (Program Committee) International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS)

2010 SOCMAS (Program Committee) International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing and Multi-Agent Systems

2010 SAIS (Program Committee) Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS) Workshop

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

2010 IE10 (Program Committee) International Conference on Intelligent Environments

2010 AAMAS SOCASE (Program Committee) International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems, Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering (SOCASE)

2009 CARE (General Chair) First International Workshop on Collaborative Agents -- REsearch and Development (CARE)

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

2009 AAMAS (Program Committee) International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS)

2009 MATES (Doctoral Mentor, Session Chair) German Conference on Multi-Agent Systems TechnologieS

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

2009 AAMAS SOCASE (Program Committee) International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems, Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering (SOCASE)

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

2008 AMAI (Reviewer) Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

2007 IJCAI (Program Committee) International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence

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

2005 EIS (Reviewer) Journal “Engineering Intelligent Systems”

2004 CLEI (Reviewer) Latin American Conference of Informatics

2000 RoboCup “Mucows” (Co-Organiser) team of computer science graduates entering one of the most challenging programming competition, Melbourne University, Australia

1999 RoboCup “Team Sweden” (Co-Organiser) team of computer science graduates entering one of the most challenging programming competition, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Selected Publications

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

Conference and Journal Articles

1. Guttmann, Christian. Advancements of AI in Healthcare (Invited Talk). Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings. Bol, Roland, The Swedish AI Society Workshop May 20-21, 2010, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2010 [bibtex]
2. Guttmann, Christian, Thomas, Ian, Georgeff, Michael, Wickramasinghe, Kumari, Gharib, Hamid, Thompson, Simon and Schmidt, Heinz: Intelligent Collaborative Care Management (ICCM): Achieving and Managing Contractual Relationships and Service Delivery. Proceedings on Collaborative Agents – REsearch and development (CARE 2009/2010), LNAI 6066, Springer, (accepted in April 2010, to appear in 2011) [bibtex

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3. Guttmann, Christian, Thomas, Ian, Georgeff, Michael, Wickramasinghe, Kumari, Gharib, Hamid, Thompson, Simon and Schmidt, Heinz: Intelligent Adherence Support to Manage Contractual Relationships. Proceedings on Collaborative Agents – REsearch and development (CARE 2010), IEEE, [bibtex]
4. Guttmann, Christian, Wickramasinghe, Kumari, Georgeff, Michael, Thomas, Ian, and Schmidt, Heinz: A Framework to Manage Contractual Relationships in Customer Life Cycle Management Systems. SOCASE workshop collocated with International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), Toronto, Canada, May, 2010 [bibtex]
5. Wickramasinghe, Kumari, Guttmann, Christian, Georgeff, Michael, Thomas, Ian, and Schmidt, Heinz: An Adherence Support Framework for Service Delivery in Customer Life Cycle Management. COIN workshop collocated with International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), Toronto, Canada, May, 2010 [bibtex]
6. Wickramasinghe, Kumari, Georgeff, Michael, Thomas, Ian, Schmidt, Heinz and Guttmann, Christian: Goal-Directed Approach for Process Specification and Service Composition in Customer Life Cycle Management. ATOP workshop collocated with International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), Toronto, Canada, May, 2010 [bibtex]
7. Guttmann, Christian, Thomas, Ian, Georgeff, Michael, Wickramasinghe, Kumari, Gharib, Hamid, Thompson, Simon and Schmidt, Heinz: Towards an Intelligent Agent Framework to Manage and Coordinate Collaborative Care. Proceedings on Collaborative Agents – REsearch and development (CARE 2009), Workshop Proceedings, (accepted in October 2009, to appear in 2010) [bibtex]
8. Guttmann, Christian and Georgeff, Michael and Rahwan, Iyad: Collective iterative allocation: Enabling fast and optimal group decision making, International Journal of Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, to appear in 2010. [bibtex] [pdf]
9. Guttmann, Christian. Towards a Taxonomy of Decision Making Problems in Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the Seventh German Conference on Multi Agent system TEchnologieS (MATES). Winfried Lamersdorf, Lars Braubach, Wiebe van der Hoek, Paolo Petta, Alexander Pokahr, Hamburg, Germany: Springer, 2009 [bibtex] [pdf]
10. Guttmann, Christian, Georgeff, Michael, Wickramasinghe, Kumari, Gharib, Hamid, Thomas, Ian, Thompson, Simon and Schmidt, Heinz: Towards an Intelligent Agent Framework to Manage and Coordinate Collaborative Care. Workshop Proceedings on Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation - Well Being (BMI 2009). Collocated with of 32nd Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Paderborn, Germany, September, 15., 2009. [bibtex] [pdf]
11. Jones, Kay, Thomas, Ian, Wikramasinghe, Kumari, Guttmann, Christian, Schmidt, Heinz, Thompson, Simon, Gharib, Hamid and Georgeff, Michael. The Intelligent Collaborative Care Management (ICCM) Project. Proceedings of the 2009 General Practice and Primary Health Care Research Conference (PHCRIS09), 2009
12. Sadedin, Suzanne and Guttmann, Christian. Promotion of Selfish Agents in Hierarchical Organisations. International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence – Workshop on Coordination, Organisation, Institutions, Norms (COIN), California, United States of America, 2009
13. Wickramasinghe, Kumari, Guttmann, Christian, Georgeff, Michael, Gharib, Hamid, Thomas, Ian Thompson, Simon and Schmidt, Heinz: Agent-based Intelligent Collaborative Care Management. Proceedings of Eighth International. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), Decker, Sichman, Sierra, and Castelfranchi (eds.), Budapest, Hungary, May, 10–15., 2009
14. Guttmann, Christian: Making Allocations Collectively: Iterative Group Decision Making under Uncertainty, in Bergmann et al. (eds), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the sixth German Conference of Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2008), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, Vol 5244, pp 73-85, September 2008.[bibtex] [pdf]
15. Guttmann, Christian and Rahwan, Iyad and Georgeff, Michael: An approach to the collective iterative task allocation problem, International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT), ISBN 0-7695-3027-3, 2007.[bibtex] [pdf] (Nominated for best paper award)
16. Guttmann, Christian and Zukerman, Ingrid: Agents with limited modeling abilities: Implications on collaborative problem solving, International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering, ISSN 0267 6192, vol 21, ed 3, CRL Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 183-196, May 2006.[bibtex] [pdf]
17. Guttmann, Christian: ETAPP: A Collaboration Framework That Copes with Uncertainty Regarding Team, in A Mitrovic, P Brna and L Ardissono (eds), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, [Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on User Modeling, (UM'05), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK], Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, ISSN: 0302-9743, ISBN-10: 3-540-27885-0, ISBN-13: 978-540-27885-6, Vol 3538, pp 502-505, 24-29 July 2005. [bibtex] [pdf]
18. Guttmann, Christian: ETAPP: A Framework of Agent Collaboration under Conditions of Uncertainty Regarding Team Members, (short paper), F Dignum, V Dignum, S Koenig, S Kraus et. al (eds), Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 2005), Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. New York NY, USA, ISBN: 1595930930, pp 1378, 25-29 July 2005. [bibtex] [pdf]
19. Guttmann, Christian and Zukerman, Ingrid: Voting Policies that Cope with Unreliable Agents, in F Dignum, V Dignum, S Koenig, S Kraus et. al (eds), Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 2005), Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, USA, ISBN: 1-59593-093-0, pp 365-372, 24-29 July 2005. [bibtex] [pdf]
20. Zukerman, Ingrid and Guttmann, Christian: Modeling Agents That Exhibit Variable Performance in a Collaborative Setting, in A Mitrovic, P Brna and L Ardissono (eds), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, [Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on User Modeling, (UM'05), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK], Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, ISSN: 0302-9743, ISBN-10: 3-540-27885-0, ISBN-13: 978-540-27885-6, Vol 3538, pp 210-219, 24-29 July 2005. [bibtex] [pdf]
21. Guttmann, Christian and Zukerman, Ingrid: Towards Models of Incomplete and Uncertain Knowledge of Collaborators' Internal Resources, in G Lindemann, J Denzinger, I J Timm and R Unland (eds), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the 2nd German Conference of Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2004), 2930, Erfurt, Germany], Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, ISSN: 0302-9743 & ISBN: 3-540-23222-2, Vol 3187, pp 58-72, September 2004. [bibtex] [pdf]
22. Boman, Magnus, Kevin LeBlanc, Christian Guttmann, Alessandro Saffiotti. Team Sweden. Manuela Veloso, Enrico Pagello, Hiroaki Kitano (Eds.): RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III, LNCS 1856, Springer-Verlag, 2000

Dissertations

23. Guttmann, Christian. Collective Iterative Allocation, Ph.D. thesis, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 2008 [bibtex] [pdf]
24. Guttmann, Christian. A Software Architecture for Four-legged Robots, Master’s thesis, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University and the Royal Institute of Technology, December 1999
25. Guttmann, Christian. Narrative Reasoning in Natural Language Dialogue Systems to Win User’s Trust, Minor Thesis (C-uppsats), Department of Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University and the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (submitted)

Presentations

Invited Speaker

· 2010 SAIS Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS) Workshop

Presentations (International Conferences, Workshops and Seminars)

· University of Frankfurt, Germany, 2010

· University of Orebro, Sweden, 2010

· Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden, 2010

· Swedish Ministry for Health and Social Affairs, Sweden, 2010

· Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Sweden, 2010

· Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden, 2010

· AAMAS SOCASE Workshop, Toronto, Canada, 2010

· Towards an Intelligent Agent Framework to Manage and Coordinate Collaborative Care. CARE workshop collocated with Australasian Joint Conference on AI, Australia, 2009

· Towards a Taxonomy of Decision Making Problems in Multi-Agent Systems. Multi Agent system TEchnologieS (MATES), Hamburg, Germany, 2009

· Towards an Intelligent Agent Framework to Manage and Coordinate Collaborative Care. University of Frankfurt, Germany, 2009

· Towards an Intelligent Agent Framework to Manage and Coordinate Collaborative Care. University of Hohenheim, Germany, 2009

· Many heads think better than one, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2009

· Collective Iterative Allocation: Enabling a Group of Agents to Find Optimal Solutions, Fast. Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany, 2008

· Collective Iterative Allocation: Enabling a Group of Agents to Find Optimal Solutions, Fast. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2008

· Towards Intelligent Collaborative Care Management. British Telecom Research Laboratories, United Kingdom, 2008

· Making Allocations Collectively: Iterative Group Decision Making under Uncertainty. Multi Agent system TEchnologieS (MATES), Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2008

· On the Collective Iterative Task Allocation Problem. University Duisburg-Essen, Germany, 2007

· Collective Iterative Task Allocation Problem. Harvard University, United States of America, 2007

· An Approach to the Collective Iterative Task Allocation in Multi-Agent Systems. International Conference on IAT, United States of America, 2007

· A Collective Agent Modelling Approach to Iterative Task Allocations in Multi-Agent Systems. Agents Victoria Workshop 2007, Melbourne, Australia

· A Theoretical Analysis of a Collective Agent Modelling Approach to Iterative Task Allocation. University Duisburg-Essen, Germany, 2006

· Models of Team Members to Coordinate Collaborative Activities in Multi-Agent Systems. University Melbourne, Australia, 2005

· Modeling Agents that Exhibit Variable Performance in a Collaborative Setting. International Conference on User Modelling (UM) 2005, Edinburgh, England

· ETAPP: A Collaboration Framework for an Open Multi-Agent System. Doctoral Consortium at UM 2005, Edinburgh, England

· Voting Policies that Cope with Unreliable Agents. Int. Conf on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) 2005, Utrecht, Netherlands

· ETAPP: A Framework of Agent Collaboration under Conditions of Uncertainty Regarding Team Members. Doctoral Consortium at AAMAS 2005, Utrecht, Netherlands

· Towards Models of Incomplete and Uncertain Knowledge of Collaborators’ Internal Resources. Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2004

· Towards Models of Incomplete and Uncertain Knowledge of Collaborators’ Internal Resources. Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Stockholm, 2004

· Towards Models of Incomplete and Uncertain Knowledge of Collaborators' Internal Resources. Technical University of Delft, Netherlands, 2004

· Towards Models of Incomplete and Uncertain Knowledge of Collaborators’ Internal Resources. Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, USA 2004

· Towards Models of Incomplete and Uncertain Knowledge of Collaborators’ Internal Resources. German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies (MATES) 2004, Erfurt, Germany

· A Software Architecture for Four-legged Robots. Sony Research Laboratories, Stuttgart, Germany, 2001

· Neue Herausforderungen an die Künstliche Intelligenz. University Paderborn, Germany, 2001

· A Hybrid System Dealing with The Real-World. Intelligent Agent Group, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2000

· A Software Architecture for Four-legged Robots. University Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2000

· A Software Architecture for Four-legged Robots. Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 1999