Cancer Research-UK
Cancer Research UK
Cancer Research UK is Europe’s largest independent cancer research organization. John Fox leads its Advanced Computation Laboratory (www.acl.icnet.uk) and is scientific coordinator of ASPIC. The laboratory carries out basic research in computer science and cognitive science and their applications in biomedicine, and has had a longstanding interest in the theory and application of argumentation methods in this field. The ACL has made significant contributions to AI and cognitive systems, particularly in logic-based approaches to decision-making, autonomous agents, and integration of cognitive functions in cognitive systems. The ACL is also committed to practical applications as well as a strong interest in theoretical foundations.
Fox has previously coordinated several successful EU projects including LEMMA and DILEMMA (3F) and PROMPT (4F). In PROMPT he led the design of PROforma, a language and technology for building decision-making and planning agents which uses argumentation methods for decision-making and uncertain reasoning (see Fox and Das, Artificial Intelligence in Hazardous Applications; MIT Press,2000). The work on PROforma attracted the 20th Anniversary Gold Medal of the European Federation of Medical Informatics and led to a spin-off company (www.infermed.com).
In ASPIC, CRUK leads WP1 (state of the art review of argumentation
systems, lead
by Sanjay Modgil - (sm@acl.icnet.uk)
and WP3 (prototyping of argumentation systems and agent architectures, lead
by John Fox - jf@cancer.org.uk).
CRUK is also a major contributor to WP4.
