Academic Links
Professor Rzevski has strong international links with many universities and research establishments around the globe.
Some of the current active collaborations are described below:
:: | Westminster, Samara and Cologne
At Cologne University of Applied Sciences in Germany George is Visiting Professor in Multi-Agent Technology. His main role there is to help International Institute for Management and Logistics to develop a centre of excellence in Adaptive Logistics and Multi-Agent Decision-Support Systems.
At Westminster Business School (WBS), London he is Visiting Scholar in Complexity and Multi-Agent Applications. His PhD students use Magenta Technology system development tools to investigate agent-driven websites and semantic search engines. WBS is co-operating with Cologne on Adaptive Logistics for airports.
He is a frequent visitor to Institute for Control of Complex Systems of Russian Academy of Sciences, Samara in Russia, where he gives regular seminars on Complexity and Agent-based Computing. The Institute is linked to Cologne Logistics research team.
Westminster, Samara and Cologne now form an international research triangle.
:: | GLORI (Global Logistics Research Initiative)
George is an active member of GLORI (Global Logistics Research Initiative), www.glori.com consisting of several universities around the Glob engaged in advanced logistics research, including Cranfield University, UK; Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA; Chalmers Institute of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden; University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, and Delft Technological University, The Netherlands.
GLORI members meet several times a year in various working groups and conferences and undertake joint research.
:: | European network of excellence in Complexity
Professor Rzevski belongs to the European network of excellence in Complexity, ONCE-CS, www.once-cs.net, which is pioneering research and education in complex adaptive systems throughout the Union; He is also a member of the European and UK Complexity Societies.
:: | Sri Lanka
In 1998 George was engaged as a consultant by British Council to help the Open University of Sri Lanka to develop academic computing. As a result of his several visits to Sri Lanka and his donation of essential books, the University developed a research group in Artificial Intelligence under the leadership of Dr Asoka Karunananda. Since then the group has been very active, supervising a number of MPhil projects and launching the Sri Lanka Association of Artificial Intelligence. The research collaboration with Asoka flourished, resulting in him spending six months in the UK as a Commonwealth Scholar, where he worked with George on implications of philosophical aspects of Ontology for the design of multi-agent systems. Asoka is now professor at the leading technological university in Colombo and George is planning an extended visit to his laboratory.
:: | Open University
At the Open University George spent his most creative years in academic research. He still maintains strong links with his old Department where he participates in the research into intelligent geometry for turbo machinery. The idea is to build agents into movable parts of machines with a view to making them capable of self-organisation. An initial simulation shows that such machines may be capable of achieving adaptation and resilience similar to those exhibited by biological systems.