The Computational Economics and Multi-Agent Systems (CEMAS) Laboratory

The CEMAS laboratory is part of the Future Computing Group in the School of Computing of the University of Kent at Medway Campus. The CEMAS laboratory conducts research in 1) the intersection between computer science and economics (including finance) and 2) the crossroad between multiagent systems and Cloud computing.

Areas of Focus

Members of CEMAS conduct research in the following areas:

• Agent-based Cloud Computing

• Cloud Resource Allocation

• Cloud Economics and Cloud Pricing Models

• Automated Negotiation and Bargaining Theory

• Agent-based Grid Computing

• Collective Intelligence and Biologically Inspired Agents

• Game-theoretic Approach of Multiagent Systems

• Computational Intelligence Techniques for Economics and Finance

• Evolutionary Computation and Optimisation

• Agent-based Information Retrieval, Search Engines and Ontology

Director

Benjamin Kwang-Mong Sim (Professor)

Academic Staff

Michael Kampouridis (Lecturer)

Fernando Otero (Lecturer)