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Prof. TL McCluskey

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Biography

After obtaining a BSc and MSc in Mathematics, I started work as a commercial scientist modelling heat flow through metals using analytical and numerical methods. Following this I led the development of a computer-aided design software package which was sold commercially to mechanical engineering companies and used as an aid to technical drawing and design. By this time I was interested in Computing as a subject area, and so moved to my first job as a lecturer in Computer Science at (what was then) Hatfield Polytechnic. After only two years at Hatfield I moved on to lecturing at City University, where I obtained a PhD by Publication. My research there in the area of Artificial Intelligence led to contract research with the Civil Aviation Authority and later NATS Ltd. This involved formalising air traffic separation criteria for flight plans over the North Atlantic. After 8 years in London I moved to Huddersfield where I hold the Chair of Software Technology.

When not being an academic, I am an active fell runner, and I sing and perform in a local community choir.

For details see my homepage at http://scom.hud.ac.uk/scomtlm/ or Google "TL McCluskey "

Research & Scholarship

I lead the department's Informatics Research Group and the Knowledge Engineeing and Intelligent Interfaces sub-group. My research interests include automated plan generation, semantic technologies, information extraction, knowledge engineering, machine learning, data mining, requirements validation and formal specification.

Research Events Organisation

  • September 2008: co-chair of ICAPS Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS), Sydney, Australia
  • September 2007: co-chair of The International Workshop on Moving Planning and Scheduling Systems into the Real World, Prvidence, Rhode Island.
  • June 2006: co-chair of The International Workshop on Plan Analysis and Management, Ambleside, Cumbria
  • June 2006: invited speaker at the International Summer School on AI Planning and Scheduling, University of Central Lancashire, Penrith"
  • June 2006: conference co-chair (with Prof D. Borrajo of UCIII Madrid) of ICAPS-06, the 16th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Ambleside, Cumbria
  • June 2005: programme co-chair for the ICAPS International Competition in Knowledge Engineering for Planning
  • June 2005: member of the scientific organizing committee for ICAPS-05, Monterey, California.
  • August 2004: member of the organising committee of the ECAI Workshop: Planning and Scheduling: Bridging Theory to Practice, Valencia, Spain
  • June 2004: member of the organising committee of the ICAPS-04 Workshop: Knowledge Capture for Planning Applications, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
  • June 2004: member of the organising committee of the ICAPS-04 Workshop: Connecting Planning Theory with Practice, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
  • June 2003: member of the organising committee for the ICAPS-03 Workshop: PDDL, Trento, Italy
  • July 2002: joint programme chair with Afredo Milani (University of Perugia), Daniel Barrojo (University of Madrid) of Web-based Resources and Knowledge Interchange Formats for AI Planning and Scheduling', Lyon, France (Workshop co-located with ECAI'02)
  • April 2002: programme chair of: AIPS-2002 workshop: Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques for AI Planning, Toulouse, France
  • September 2001: joint chair with Afredo Milani (University of Perugia) for Automated Planning and Scheduling Technologies in New Methods of Electronic, Mobile and Collaborative Work, at Toledo, Spain (Workshop co-located with the 6th European Conference on Planning)
  • April 2001: member of the organising committee of Analysing and Exploring Domain Knowledge for Efficient Planning, AIPS-2000 Workshop, Colorado
  • January 2001: joint convener with Tony Wren (University of Leeds) The CPHC Research Workshop in Planning, Scheduling and Optimisation

External Support Won

  • Leading: Automated Procesing of Text Messages (2008-9, Blink Media and Common, £3,000)
  • Supporting: Redeveopment of Information Systems (2007-10, DTI and Polyseam, £110,000)
  • Leading: View-based Semantic Systems (2006, DTI and View Based Systems, £100,000)
  • Supporting: Planet2 EU Network of Excellence in AI Planning (2000 – 2003, EU Network of Excellence, 500,000 Euro)
  • Leading: Planform - An open environment for building AI planners (2000-2002, collaborative award - £289,340 from EPSRC).
  • Supporting: Planet1 EU Network of Excellence in AI Planning (1998 – 2000, EU Network of Excellence)
  • Leading: AI Planning for Aircraft Conflict Resolution (1996-1998, award £10,500 from NATS Ltd)
  • Leading: Impress - Improving the quality of formal requirements specifications using machine learning techniques (1995 – 1998, £155,000 from EPSRC plus c.£100,000 in kind support from NATS Ltd).
  • Leading: Animation and Validation of the Conflict Prediction Separation (1993 – 1994, £119,000 from the CAA)
  • Leading: Evaluation of the B-Tool Proof Assistant (1993, £18,000 from the CAA)
  • Leading: Formalisation and Animation of rules for Oceanic Aircraft Separation (Faroas) (1992 – 1993, £110,000 from the CAA)
  • Leading: AI Planning in En-route ATC, (1990-1993, c. £13,000 from the CAA)

Other Contributions

  • I am one of 12 members of the ICAPS council who oversee the yearlt ICAPS international conference series
    on planning and scheduling, including its satellite workshops, competitions and doctoral events. ICAPS was the
    amalgamation of the AIPS and ECP conferences.
  • I have twice served on the EPSRC electoral college.
  • I have played a leading role the foundation of a research area called "knowledge
    engineering for AI planning" through the development of a comprehensive EU roadmap, a new biannual international
    competition, a special issue on the subject in the Knowledge Engineering Review journal, and the production of the
    award winning software ‘GIPO’.
  • I supervise 7 PhD students, have had 9 past succesful supervisons, and I have been a PhD examiner 8 times.
  • My group's software called GIPO was the winner in the ‘general tools’ category of the 1st International Competition on Knowledge
    Engineering for AI Planning, Monterey, California, June 2005. GIPO was a legacy of the Planform project, its main
    author being Mr Ron Simpson

Research Outputs

Shah, M.M.S., McCluskey, T.L. and West, Margaret M. (2009) A study of synthesizing artificial intelligence (AI) planning domain models by using object constraints. In: Proceedings of Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers' Conference 2009: CEARC’09. University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, pp. 64-69.

Shah, M.M.S., McCluskey, T.L. and West, M. M. (2009) An Investigation into Using Object Constraints to Synthesize Planning Domain. In: ICAPS 2009 Doctoral Consortium, September 19th 2009, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Cresswell, S.N., McCluskey, T.L. and West, M.M. (2009) Acquisition of Object-Centred Domain Models from Planning Examples. In: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, USA, pp. 338-341. ISBN 9781577354079

McCluskey, T.L., Cresswell, S.N., Richardson, N.E. and West, Margaret M. (2009) Automated acquisition of action knowledge. In: International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), 19-21st January 2009, Porto, Portugal.

McCluskey, T.L. and West, Margaret M. (2009) Ontological Engineering and ATC. Air Traffic Technology International 2009. pp. 63-65. ISSN 1366-7041

Mustafa, Faisal and McCluskey, T.L. (2009) Dynamic web services composition: current issues. International Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology, 2009. ICCET '08, 2. pp. 463-467.

McCluskey, T.L., Cresswell, S.N., Richardson, N.E., Simpson, R.M. and West, Margaret M. (2008) An evaluation of Opmaker2. In: The 27th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group, December 11-12th, 2008, Edinburgh.

Barnes, Andrew, McCluskey, T.L. and Osborne, Hugh (2008) Benefits of associative classification within text categorisation. In: Proceedings of Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers' Conference 2008: CEARC’08. University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, pp. 34-39. ISBN 978-1-86218-067-3

Mustafa, Faisal and McCluskey, T.L. (2008) Dynamic web services composition: current issues. In: Proceedings of Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers' Conference 2008: CEARC’08. University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, pp. 48-54. ISBN 978-1-86218-067-3

Bartak, Roman and McCluskey, T.L. (2008) Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS). In: Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS) - The International Conference on Automated planning and Scheduling, ICAPS-08, 14th September 2008, Sydney, Australia. (Unpublished)

Thabtah, Fadi Abdeljaber, Mahmood, Q. and McCluskey, T.L. (2008) Looking at the Class Associative Classification Training Algorithm. Fifth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, 2008. ITNG 2008.. pp. 426-431.

Mahmood, Q., Thabtah, Fadi Abdeljaber and McCluskey, T.L. (2007) Looking at the class associative classification training algorithm. In: Proceedings of Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers' Conference 2007: CEARC’07. University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, pp. 1-9.

McCluskey, T.L. (2007) Feasibility criteria for investigating potential application areas of AI planning. In: The 26th Workshop of the UK PLANNING AND SCHEDULING Special Interest Group - PlanSIG 2007, 17th-18th December 2007, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. (Unpublished)

McCluskey, T.L., Cresswell, S.N., Richardson, Nona Elizabeth and West, Margaret M. (2007) Opmaker2: efficient action schema acquisition. In: The 26th Workshop of the UK PLANNING AND SCHEDULING Special Interest Group - PlanSIG 2007, 17th-18th December 2007, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. (Unpublished)

Frank, Jeremy, McCluskey, T.L., Myers, Karen and Yorke-Smith, Neil (2007) Moving planning and scheduling systems into the real world. In: International Workshop on Moving Planning and Scheduling Systems into the Real World To be held in conjunction with ICAPS'07: 17th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling, September 22-26th, 2007, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. (Unpublished)

Simpson, R.M., Kitchin, Diane E. and McCluskey, T.L. (2007) Planning domain definition using GIPO. Knowledge Engineering Review, 22 (2). pp. 117-134. ISSN 0269-8889

Barták, Roman and McCluskey, T.L. (2007) Introduction to the Special Issue on Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques for Automated Planning and Scheduling Systems. Knowledge Engineering Review, 22 (2). pp. 115-116. ISSN 0269-8889

McCluskey, T.L. and Simpson, R.M. (2006) Combining constraint based and classical formulations for planning domains. Proceedings of The 25th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (PlanSIG2006). pp. 55-65. ISSN 1368-5708

Richardson, N.E., McCluskey, T.L. and West, Margaret M. (2006) Towards inducing HTN domain models from examples. In: 25th Annual Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (PlanSIG), 14th-15th December, 2006, Nottingham.

McCluskey, T.L. and Simpson, R.M. (2006) Tool support for planning and plan analysis within domains enbodying continuous change. In: Workshop on Plan Analysis and Management held in conjunction with The 16th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, (ICAPS 2006), June 6-10, 2006, The English Lake District, U.K. (Unpublished)

Srivastava, Biplav, Blythe, Jim, Myers, Karen, Kambhampati, Subbarao and McCluskey, T.L. (2006) Workshop on plan analysis and management. In: Workshop on Plan Analysis and Management held in conjunction with The 16th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, (ICAPS 2006), June 6-10, 2006, The English Lake District, U.K. (Unpublished)

Bartak, Roman and McCluskey, T.L. (2006) The first competition on knowledge engineering for planning and scheduling. AI Magazine, Spring. pp. 97-98. ISSN 0738-4602

Long, Derek, Smith, Stephen F., Borrajo, Daniel and McCluskey, T.L. (2006) Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS 2006. AAAI. ISBN 978-1-57735-270-9

McCluskey, T.L. and Simpson, R.M. (2005) Using GIPO to support learning in knowledge acquisition and automated planning. In: The Twenty-fifth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence - Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Education, 12th-14th December 2005, Peterhouse College, Cambridge, UK. (Unpublished)

McCluskey, T.L. and Simpson, R.M. (2005) The use of an integrated tool to support teaching and learning in artificial Intelligence. Journal of Innovations in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences, 4 (3).

Bartak, Roman and McCluskey, T.L. (2005) KE Competition: an overview. In: Proceedings of the First International Competition on Knowledge Engineering. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

McCluskey, T.L. and Cresswell, S.N. (2005) Importing ontological information into planning domain models. In: ICAPS 05 Workshop on the Role of Ontologies in Planning and Scheduling. AAAI Press, pp. 5-12.

Kitchin, Diane E., McCluskey, T.L. and West, Margaret M. (2005) B vs OCL: comparing specification languages for Planning Domains. In: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2005). AAAI Press. ISBN 978-1-57735-220-4

Simpson, R.M. and McCluskey, T.L. (2004) Synthesising domain descriptions from object-life histories. In: PLANSIG 23, 20th/21st Dec 2004, University of Cork, Ireland. (Unpublished)

McCluskey, T.L. and Simpson, R.M. (2004) Knowledge formulation for AI planning. In: Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the SemanticWeb. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3257/2004 . Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 449-465. ISBN 978-3-540-23340-4

Refanidis, Ioannis, McCluskey, T.L. and Dimopoulos, Yannis (2004) Planning services for individuals: a new challenge for the planning community. In: 14th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling - ICAPS '04 - Workshop on “Connecting Planning Theory with Practice", June 3-7 2004, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. (Unpublished)

Dinh, Tien Ba, Smith, Barbara M. and McCluskey, T.L. (2003) CPPlanner: A Domain-Independent Temporal Planner with Critical Paths. In: PlanSIG 22, 9th/10th Dec 2003, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. (Unpublished)

Simpson, R.M. and McCluskey, T.L. (2003) Plan authoring with continuous effects. In: PlanSIG 22, 9th/10th Dec 2003, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. (Unpublished)

Biundo, Susanne, Aylett, Ruth, Beetz, Michael, Borrajo, Daniel, Cesta, Amedeo, Grant, Tim, McCluskey, T.L., Milani, Alfredo and Verfaille, Gerard (2003) Technological roadmap on AI planning and scheduling. Project Report. European Community under the Information Society Technology Programme, Ulm, Germany.

McCluskey, T.L. (2003) PDDL: A language with a purpose? In: ICAPS-03, 13th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling, June 9-13 2003, Trento, Italy. (Unpublished)

McCluskey, T.L. (2003) Knowledge Engineering (Roadmap). In: PLANET General Network Meeting, 20th-21st February, 2003, University of Ulm, Germany. (Unpublished)

McCluskey, T.L., Fox, Maria and Aylett, Ruth (2003) Planform: An open environment for building planners. Technical Report. University of Huddersfield. (Unpublished)

McCluskey, T.L., Liu, D. and Simpson, R.M. (2003) GIPO II: HTN planning in a tool-supported knowledge engineering environment. In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, pp. 92-101. ISBN 1577351878

West, Margaret M., Kitchin, Diane E. and McCluskey, T.L. (2002) Validating planning domain models using B-AMN. In: PlanSIG 2002, 21st/22nd Nov 2002, Delft University of Technology, Holland. (Unpublished)

McCluskey, T.L. (2002) Knowledge engineering: issues for the AI planning community. In: The AIPS-2002 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques for AI Planning, April 24th, 2002, Toulouse, France. (Unpublished)

Simpson, R.M., Long, Derek, McCluskey, T.L. and Fox, Maria (2002) Generic types as design patterns for planning domain specifications. In: The AIPS-2002 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques for AI Planning, April 24th, 2002, Toulouse, France. (Unpublished)

McCluskey, T.L., Richardson, N.E. and Simpson, R.M. (2002) An interactive method of inducing operator descriptions. In: Proceedings of the sixth international conference on articial intelligence planning systems. AAAI Press, pp. 121-130. ISBN 9781577351429

Simpson, R.M. and McCluskey, T.L. (2002) A tool supported structured method for planning domain acquisition. In: Foundations of Intelligent Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2366 . Springer, pp. 544-552. ISBN 9783540437857

McCluskey, T.L. and Richardson, N.E. (2001) The induction of operator descriptions from examples and structural domain knowledge. In: PlanSIG 2001, 13th/14th Dec 2001, Edinburgh University. (Unpublished)

West, Margaret M. and McCluskey, T.L. (2001) The application of machine learning tools to the validation of an air traffic control domain theory. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 10 (4). pp. 613-637. ISSN 0218-2130

McCluskey, T.L. and West, Margaret M. (2001) The automated refinement of a requirements domain theory. Journal of Automated Software Engineering, 8 (2). pp. 195-218. ISSN 1573-7535

Simpson, R.M., McCluskey, T.L., Zhao, W., Aylett, R.S. and Doniat, C. (2001) An integrated graphical tool to support knowledge engineering in AI planning. In: 6th European Conference on Planning, September 2001, Toledo, Spain. (Unpublished)

Simpson, R.M., McCluskey, T.L., Zhao, W., Aylett, Ruth and Doniat, C. (2001) A tools environment for developing planning domain models. In: 20th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduking Special Interest Group (PLANSIG-2001), 13 - 14 December 2001, Edinburgh.

Kitchin, Diane E., McCluskey, T.L. and Simpson, R.M. (2000) Foundations of an object-centred approach to knowledge engineering for AI planning applications. In: Knowledge based computer systems:proceedings of the international conference KBCS 2000. Allied Publishers, pp. 434-445. ISBN 9788177641103

Simpson, R.M., McCluskey, T.L., Liu, D. and Kitchin, Diane E. (2000) Knowledge representation in planning: a PDDL to OCL h translation. In: Foundations of intelligent systems. Springer, pp. 610-618. ISBN 9783540410942

West, Margaret M. and McCluskey, T.L. (2000) The application of a machine learning tool to the validation of an air traffic control domain theory. In: Tools With Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2000) conference proceedings. IEEE, pp. 414-421. ISBN 0769509096

McCluskey, T.L. A formal specification and rigorous implementation of an AI planner. Technical Report. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

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