Munindar P. Singh is an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor and a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at

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. Singh is an

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, a

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Fellow, a AAAS Fellow, an

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, a Member of

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, and a ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award recipient.

Education

Singh received his B.Tech. in computer science & engineering from the

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in 1986. He obtained a Ph.D. in computer science from the

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in 1993 under the supervision of

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and Nicholas M. Asher.

Research

Singh's research interests include

multiagent systems A multi-agent system (MAS or "self-organized system") is a computerized system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents.Hu, J.; Bhowmick, P.; Jang, I.; Arvin, F.; Lanzon, A.,A Decentralized Cluster Formation Containment Framework fo ...

, service-oriented computing,

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artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...

, and

social networks A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for an ...

. He has made several important contributions to the understanding of interaction and norms in multiagent systems. He introduced to artificial intelligence the distinction between social commitment (a norm) and psychological commitment (a mental attitude). Singh also introduced the idea that interaction among autonomous social principals (e.g., between two or more organizations) must have a social semantics. This idea has proved to be highly influential within multiagent systems research. In recognition of Singh's contribution, the paper in which he introduced this idea was awarded the IFAAMAS 2016 Influential Paper Award. Taking this line of thinking further, Singh, in joint work with his Ph.D. student

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, introduced the abstraction of commitment protocols. Singh has also made important contributions to social networks, trust, and distributed computing. His Blindingly Simple Protocol Language (BSPL) introduces the idea that message ordering in interaction protocols fall out automatically from information flow requirements. Therefore, one need not model specify control flow at all in interaction protocols.

References

External links

Munindar P. Singh's home page

Multiagent Systems and Service-Oriented Computing Laboratory
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