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Richard Booth

Dr Richard Booth

Senior Lecturer

School of Computer Science and Informatics

Email
BoothR2@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 74749
Campuses
Abacws, Room Abacws/5.58, Senghennydd Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4AG
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

I am Senior Lecturer in the Cardiff School of Computer Science and Informatics Before that I was lecturer at Mahasarakham University, Thailand. I have previously been a post-doc in Germany, Australia and, most recently, Luxembourg.

Publication

2023

2022

2021

  • Singleton, J. and Booth, R. 2021. Rankings for bipartite tournaments via chain editing. Presented at: 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2021), Virtual, 3-7 May 2021AAMAS '21: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems. IFAAMAS pp. 1236-1244.
  • Booth, R. and Varzinczak, I. 2021. Conditional Inference under disjunctive rationality. Presented at: 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Virtual, 2-9 February, 2021.

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

  • Booth, R. and Chandler, J. 2016. Extending the Harper identity to iterated belief change. Presented at: 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New York, USA, 9-15 July 2016 Presented at Brewka, G. ed.IJCAI'16: Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 987-993.
  • Caminada, M. and Booth, R. 2016. A dialectical approach for argument-based judgment aggregation. Presented at: 6th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2016), Potsdam, Germany, 13-16 September 2016 Presented at Baroni, P. et al. eds.Computational Models of Argument, Vol. 287. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications IOS Press pp. 179-190., (10.3233/978-1-61499-686-6-179)

2015

  • Hunter, A. and Booth, R. 2015. Trust-sensitive belief revision. Presented at: 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 25-31 July 2015 Presented at Yang, Q. and Wooldridge, M. eds.IJCAI'15: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. ACM pp. 3062-3068.
  • Booth, R., Casini, G., Meyer, T. and Varzinczak, I. 2015. On the entailment problem for a logic of typicality. Presented at: 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 25-31 July 2015.
  • Booth, R. 2015. Judgment aggregation in abstract dialectical frameworks. In: Thomas, E. et al. eds. Advance in Knowledge Representation, Logic Programming and Abstract Argumentation. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Springer, pp. 296-308., (10.1007/978-3-319-14726-0)

2014

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Research

Research interests: logical approaches to artificial intelligence and knowledge representation, specifically belief revision/merging, argumentation theory and computational social choice.

Teaching

  • Introduction to the Theory of Computation (2nd year undergrad)
  • Combinatorial Optimisation (3rd year undergrad)
  • Knowledge Representation (Masters)

Biography

  • October 2015 - present: (Senior) Lecturer at Cardiff University
  • July-Sept. 2015: Lecturer at Mahasarakham University, Thailand
  • 2009-2014: Postdoc at University of Luxembourg
  • 2006-2009: Lecturer at Mahasarakham University, Thailand
  • 2005: Postdoc at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  • 2004-2005: Postdoc at University of Wollongong, Australia
  • 2000-2004: Postdoc at University of Leipzig, Germany
  • 1999: Postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken, Germany
  • 1995-1998: PhD student, Dept. of Mathematics (supervisor: Jeff Paris), University of Manchester, UK

Supervisions

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Knowledge representation
  • Computational social choice theory
  • Reasoning about preferences

See here for a couple of more specific ideas for PhD topics.

Current supervision

Aric Fowler

Aric Fowler

Teaching Associate and PhD student

Past projects

  • Joseph Singleton (2019-2022), Trustworthiness and Expertise: Social Choice and Logic-based Perspectives

Research themes

Specialisms

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Knowledge representation and reasoning