Martin Beer

Martin Beer is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Computing and the Communications and Computing Research Centre of Sheffield Hallam University. His research interests include the use of agents to assist learners in collaborative online learning environments and in the management of care for the elderly and others, such as autism sufferers, developing improved multilingual support within relational database systems, improved design techniques for mobile applications and the development of personalisation services within recommender systems for local government and other public services. He has organised workshops considering the educational issues of multi-agent systems at AAMAS at Budapest in 2009 and AAMAS at Toronto in 2010. He is one of the organisers of a similar workshop at AAMAS at Taipai in 2011. He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Scientist and Fellow of the British Computer Society.