Professor Mary-Anne Williams
Mary-Anne Williams, MSc, LLM, Ph.D. is
Research Chair, University of Technology, Sydney; Director,
Innovation
and Technology Research Laboratory,
University of Technology, Sydney; College of Experts Member, Australian
Research Council; and Guest Professor, University of Science and
Technology of China.
Her research program centers on modeling decision making in complex
business environments. Her primary focus is modeling decision
making
in
environments where the information gathered by the decision maker is
uncertain, incomplete, or susceptible to change. Broadly speaking, her
research program fits in the area of Intelligent Information
Management and Decision Support, and she develops and uses techniques in
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.
Mary-Anne began working at the University of Newcastle in 1990, and
before
that
she was at the University of New England in the Department of Accounting
and Finance. She spent 1985/1986 at Kent State University. She has also
worked in Industry, and was at one time an Actuarial Analyst with MLC
Insurance in Sydney.
During 2000 she was on sabbatical and working at Dow Digital, Stanford
University, and IBM Research Laboratories in New York. While away she
was
able to visit CNRS in France, Lund University in Sweden, SUNY at
Buffalo, Harvard Business School, MIT Media Lab, and MIT Sloan School of
Management.
During the second half of 2005 and early 2006 Mary-Anne was on study
leave and
was working as a Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School
for the second half of 2005 on FXRED; an Agent-Oriented Treasury
Management System supported by Danish National Bank. She also spent time
at Lund University Cognitive Science, Sweden, IBM Research Labs in New
York, and Stanford University working on several research projects.
Mary-Anne authored
Iterated Theory Base Change: A Computational Model and
Anytime Belief Revision,
On the Logic of Theory Base Change,
and coauthored
Reasoning about Categories in Conceptual Spaces,
Weakening Conflicting Information for Iterated Revision and Knowledge
Integration,
A Practical Approach to Revising Prioritized Knowledge Bases,
A Preliminary Comparative Feature Analysis of
Multi-agent Systems Development Methodologies,
Case Based Game Play in the RoboCup Four-Legged League: Part I The
Theoretical Model,
SATEN: An Object-Oriented Web-Based Revision and Extraction
Engine,
and
A Novel and Practical Approach Towards Color Constancy for Mobile
Robots Using Overlapping Color Space Signatures.
Mary-Anne earned a Bachelor of Science,
Graduate Diploma of Computing Science,
Master of Science (Research),
Master of Laws (LLM), and
Doctor of Philosophy (University of Sydney).
Read her
LinkedIn profile.