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Conor Muldoon

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Conor
Name and Title: 
Dr. Conor Muldoon B.Sc., Ph.D.
Position: 
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Supervisor: 
Gregory O'Hare
Phone: 
+353 1 716 2922
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Biography

I am an INSPIRE IRCSET Marie Curie Research Fellow currently hosted by the School of Computer Science and Informatics in UCD and previously hosted, from 2009 to 2011, by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Oxford. While at Oxford, I collaborated on the FedeRatEd Secure sensor NEtwork Laboratory (FRESNEL) Project. From 2007 to 2009, I was an IRCSET Government of Ireland Embark Fellow in UCD. I also did my Ph.D. (Computer Science) in UCD. I received a first class B.Sc. (Honours) degree in Computer and Software Engineering from Athlone Institute of Technology in 2002 and won the Cooperative Information Agents System Innovation Award in Helsinki, Finland in 2003. I am widely published and my research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks, Distributed Constraint Optimisation, Bayesian Machine Learning (Gaussian Processes), Distributed Computing, and Multi-Agent Systems. I am a member of the Marie Curie Fellows Association and I am currently working closely with researchers in CLARITY: The Centre for Sensor Web Technologies.

Professional

Awards

Winner of the 'CIA System Innovation Award' at Cooperative Information Agents (CIA), which was held in Helsinki, Finland in 2003. The nomination for the award was given on the basis of a vote by the programme committee for the framework detailed in the paper 'ACCESS: An Agent Architecture for Ubiquitous Service Delivery', C. Muldoon, G. M. P. O Hare, D. Phelan, R. Strahan, and R. W. Collier. To win the award, an oral presentation and demonstration of the software had to be given. The final decision as to the winner was decided by the voting of the programme committee, sponsor, organisational board, as well as a public voting by participants of the demonstration of the finalist systems.

Conference Reviewing

The International Conference on Information Systems (HCI Track), 2008.

The 17th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, 2006.

The 16th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, 2005.

Conference Organising

Local Organising Committee Member for Cybernetic Systems 2007 (IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland Chapter).

Membership

Member of the Marie Curie Fellows Association.

Publications

  •  Muldoon, C., Trigoni, N., and O'Hare, G.M.P., Combining Sensor Selection with Routing and Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks. In International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN)‚ held in conjunction with the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB)‚ ACM, 2011.
  • Muldoon, C.,Tynan, R., O'Hare, G. M. P., and O'Grady, M. J., Agent Based Coordination for the Sensor Web. In the proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'10). Sierre, Switzerland, March 22-26, ACM Press, 2010.
  • Tynan, R., Muldoon, C., O'Hare, G. M. P, and O'Grady, M. J., Coordinated Intelligent Power Management and the Heterogeneous Sensing Coverage Problem, The Computer Journal, Oxford University Press, 2009; doi: 10.1093/comjnl/bxp109.
  • Muldoon, C., O'Hare, G. M. P., and Bradley, J. F. Towards Reflective Mobile Agents for Resource Constrained Mobile Devices. In AAMAS 07: Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Honolulu, Hawai’i, May 14-18 2007), ACM.
  • Muldoon, C., O'Hare, G. M. P., Collier, R. W., and O'Grady, M. J. Multi-Agent Programming: Languages, Platforms and Applications. Springer-Verlag Publishers, 2009, ch. Towards Pervasive Intelligence: Reflections on the Evolution of the Agent Factory Framework, pp. 187–210.
  • Muldoon, C., O'Hare, G. M. P., Collier, R. W., and O'Grady, M. J. Agent Factory Micro Edition: A Framework for Ambient Applications. In Intelligent Agents in Computing Systems (Reading, UK, 28-31May 2006), vol. 3993 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 727–734. 1
  • Muldoon, C., O'Hare, G. M. P., and O'Grady, M. J. Collaborative Agent Tuning. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents’ World (ESAW’05) ( Kusadasi, Turkey, October 26-28, 2005).
  • Muldoon, C., O'Hare, G. M. P., and O'Grady, M. J. AFME: An Agent Platform for Resource Constrained Devices. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents’ World (ESAW’06) (2006).
  • Muldoon, C., O'Hare, G. M. P., and O'Grady, M. J. Collaborative Agent Tuning: Performance Enhancement on Mobile Devices. In Engineering Societies in the Agents’ World (June 2006), vol. 3963 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, pp. 241–261. This is an extended version of the ESAW’05 paper ‘Collaborative Agent Tuning’.
  • Muldoon, C., O'Hare, G. M. P., and O'Grady, M. J. Managing Resources in Constrained Environments with Autonomous Agents. In Engineering Societies in the Agents’ World (Sept. 2007), vol. 4457 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Springer, pp. 320–339.
  • Muldoon, C., O'Hare, G. M. P., O'Grady, M. J., and Tynan, R. Agent Migration and Communication in WSNs. In 1st International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Ambient Intelligence, held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (Dec. 1-4, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2008), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 425–430.
  • Muldoon, C., O'Hare, G. M. P., Phelan, D., Strahan, R., and Collier, R. W. ACCESS: An Agent Architecture for Ubiquitous Service Delivery. In Proceedings Seventh International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA) (Helsinki, August 2003), vol. 2782 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 1–15.
  • Muldoon, C., O’Hare, G. M. P., Collier, R. W., Phelan, D., and Strahan, R. Intelligent Delivery of Multimedia Content in a Device Aware Ubiquitous Environment. In Multimedia Information Systems (September 2005), K. S. Candan and A. Celentano, Eds., vol. 3665 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 131–145.
  • Muldoon, C., Tynan, R., O'Grady, M. J., and O'Hare, G.M. P. Realising an agent-oriented middleware for heterogeneous sensor networks. In ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference (Dec. 2008), ACM Press, pp. 82–83.
  • O'Grady, M.J., Muldoon, C., Dragone, M., Tynan, R., O'Hare, G.M.P. Towards Evolutionary Ambient Assisted Living Systems. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing. Springer, 2010.
  • O’Grady, M.J., Ye, J., O’Hare, G.M.P., Dobson, S., Tynan, R., Muldoon, C. Implicit Interaction. Post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Instinctive Computing. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), vol. 5987. Springer-Verlag, 2010.
  • Bradley, J. F., Muldoon, C., O'Hare, G. M. P., and O'Grady,M. J. Embedded Agents for Mobile Services. Encyclopaedia of Mobile Computing and Commerce (EMCC) 1 (2006).
  • Collier, R. W., O’Grady, M. J., O'Hare, G. M. P., Muldoon,C., Phelan, D., Strahan, R., and Tong, Y. Self-Organisation in Agent-Based Mobile Computing. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, (DEXA’04) (Washington, DC, USA, September 2004), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 764–768.
  • Dragone, M., Lillis, D., Muldoon, C., Tynan, R., Collier, R. W., and O'Hare, G. M. P. Dublin bogtrotters: Agent herders. In Postproceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Programming Multi Agent Systems (PROMAS-2008) (Estoril, Portugal, 2008), vol. 5442, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer.
  • Nolan, G., Muldoon, C., O'Hare, G., and O'Grady, M. Experimental analysis of collaborative agent tuning. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Agent-Based Ubiquitous Computing (ABUC2007), Held in Conjunction with Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) (Hawaii, USA, 2007).
  • O'Grady, M. J., O'Hare, G. M. P., Hristova, N., Keegan, S., and Muldoon, C. Ubiquitous sensing: A prerequisite for mobile information services. In Proceedings of the first ERCIM Workshop on eMobility, held in conjunction with the fifth International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC2007) (Coimbra, Portugal, May 2007), pp. 119–130.
  • O'Grady, M. J., Wan, J., Tynan, R., O'Hare, G. M. P., and Muldoon, C. Exercise in the smart workplace. In 1st International Workshop on Smart Offices and Other Workplaces (SOOW’09), held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE09) (Barcelona, Spain, 2009).
  • O'Grady, M. J., O’ Hare, G. M. P., Dobson, S., Tynan, R., Muldoon, C., and Ye, J. Implicit interaction: A prerequisite for practical ami. In International Workshop on Instinctive Computing (Pittsburgh, USA, 2009).
  • O'Hare, G. M. P., Grady, M. J. O., Tynan, R., Muldoon, C., Kolar, H. R., Ruzzelli, A. G., Diamond, D., and Sweeney, E. Embedding intelligent decision making within complex dynamic environments. Artif. Intell. Rev. 27, 2-3 (2007), 189–201.
  • O'Hare, G. M. P., Diamond, D., Lau, K. T., Hayes, J., Muldoon, C., O'Grady, M. J., Tynan, R., Rancourt, G., Kolar, H. R., and McCarthy, R. The adaptive environment: Delivering the vision of in-situ real-time environmental monitoring. IBM Journal of Research and Development (2008).
  • O'Hare, G. M. P., Muldoon, C., Phelan, D., Strahan, R., and Collier, R. W. ACCESS: An Agent-Based Membrane for the Rapid Deployment of Context Sensitive Services. In AAMAS 04: Proceedings of the Third International Joint conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Washington, DC, USA, July 2004), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1468–1469.
  • O'Hare, G. M. P., O'Grady, M. J., Jurdak, R., Muldoon, C., O Connor, N., ´O Conaire, C., and Kelly, P. Engineering ambient visual sensors. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia and Ambinet Intelligence (IMAI) (Salt Lake City, USA, 22-24 July 2007), World Scientific Publishing.
  • O'Hare, G. M. P., O'Grady, M. J., Muldoon, C., and Bradley, J. F. Embedded Agents: A Paradigm for Mobile Services. International Journal of Web and Grid Services (IJWGS) 2, 4 (December 2006), 379–405.
  • O'Hare, G. M. P., O'Grady, M. J., Muldoon, C., and Byrne, C. Ambient documents: Intelligent prediction for ubiquitous content access. In Proceedings of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) International (22-27 July 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.
  • O’Grady, M. J., Collier, R., O’Hare, G. M. P., Tynan, R., and Muldoon, C. Ambience & collaboration embedded agents in a human-centered world. In 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (2009).
  • Phelan, D., Strahan, R., Collier, R. W., Muldoon, C., and O'Hare, G. M. P. Sos: Accommodation on the fly with ACCESS. In Proceedings of the 17th International FLAIRS Conference (Miami, 2004), AAAI Press.
  • Ruzzelli, A., Muldoon, C., Schoofs, A., Campana, T., Tynan, R., and O’ Hare, G. M. P. Autonomous management and control of sensor network-based applications. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2009.
  • Ruzzelli, A. G., Dragone, M., Jurdak, R., Muldoon, C., Barbirato, A., and O'Hare, G. M. P. Poster abstract: An extensible dashboard for sensor networks control and visualisation. In (EWSN) The 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (Feb. 2009).
  • Strahan, R., Muldoon, C., O'Hare, G. M. P., Bertolotto, M., and Collier, R. W. An Agent-Based Architecture for Wireless Bus Travel Assistants. Proceedings of Second International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems (April 23-26 2003).
  • Strahan, R., O'Hare, G. M. P., Phelan, D., Muldoon, C., and Collier, R. W. ACCESS: An Agent based Architecture for the Rapid Prototyping of Location Aware Services. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2005) (Emory University Atlanta, USA, May 2005), vol. 3516 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 695–702.
  • Tynan, R., Muldoon, C., O'Grady, M. J., and O'Hare, G. M. P. A Mobile Agent Approach to Opportunistic Harvesting in Wireless Sensor Networks (Demo Paper). In AAMAS 08: Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Estoril, Portugal, May 12-16 2008), ACM, pp. 1691–1692.
  • Tynan, R., O'Grady, M. J., O'Hare, G. M. P., and Muldoon, C. Benchmarking latency effects on mobility tracking in wsn. In Second International Workshop on Applications of Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (AASNET), held at the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-09) (2009).
  • Tynan, R., O'Grady, M. J., O'Hare, G. M. P., and Muldoon, C. Benchmarking Latency Effects on Mobility Tracking in WSNs. In Second International Workshop on Applications of Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (AASNET09) (2009), IEEE Computer Society Press.
  • Tynan, R., O'Hare, G. M. P., O'Grady, M. J., and Muldoon, C. Intelligent Power Management Using Multiple Agents. In Second International Workshop on Agent Technology for Sensor Networks (ATSN 08), held in conjunction with AAMAS 08: Seventh International Joint conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Estoril, Portugal, May 13 2008).
  • Tynan, R., O'Hare, G. M. P., O'Grady, M. J., and Muldoon, C. Virtual sensor networks: An embedded agent approach. In International Workshop on Adaptation in Wireless Sensor Networks (AWSN-08) (Dec. 2008), IEEE Computer Society Press.
  • Tynan, R., O'Hare, G. M. P., and O’Grady, M. J.and Muldoon, C. EDLA tradeoffs for wireless sensor network target tracking. In Second International Workshop on Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems (SAHNS 2009 at the 29th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2009) (Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2009).
  • Tynan, R., Schoofs, A., Muldoon, C., O’Hare, G., O’Conaire, C., Kelly, P., and O’Connor, N. Intelligent middleware for adaptive sensing of tennis coaching sessions. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2009.

Research

During the course of my research programme, I gained a wealth of experience through my participation in, and collaboration on, a number of research projects. These have included:

2002-2005 E=mC2 (Empowering the mobile Citizen Creatively). Enterprise Ireland Advanced Research Technology Programme (ARTP).

2003-2007 Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC). Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Fellowship Cluster.

2005-2008 Environmental Monitoring of Phosphates: An Intelligent Mobile Location-based Monitoring Service.

2007 - 2009 Government of Ireland Embark Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme from IRCSET.

2008 - 2009, 2011 - 2012 CLARITY: The Centre for Sensor Web Technologies. Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Centre for Science, Engineering, and Technology (CSET).

2009 - 2011 FRESNEL: FedeRatEd Secure sensor NEtwork Laboratory. EPSRC.

2009-2012 I currently hold an INSPIRE: IRCSET Marie Curie Fellowship.