Research

My current research is concerned with using ideas from economics in order to develop approaches to allocate resources in decentralised computational systems. In particular, I'm interested in how potential approaches can be modelled, experimented with and analysed using evolutionary computation techniques. Particularly, I'm studying the retail-inspired posted-offer market mechanism, which avoids much of the complexity of other approaches often taken in market-based resource allocation. This is the main thrust of my PhD.

More generally, I am interested in the interplay between Computer Science and the Social Sciences and natural world. Particular areas include natural computation, particularly evolutionary computation, agent-based modelling of complex systems and the development and analysis of game-playing strategies.

My publications are available here.