B.E (Hons)(BITS, Pilani, India), M.E (Software Systems)(BITS, Pilani, India), PhD (Otago, NZ)
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Room
- 7.18, Otago Business School Bldg
- Phone
- +64 3 479 5143
- tony.savarimuthu@otago.ac.nz
- Web page
- http://waitaki.otago.ac.nz/~tonyr
- Supervising
- Priyanka Patel, Mostafa Alwash, Pankaj Sharma, Amir Sedigh, Jithin Cheriyan
- Co-supervising
- Saurabh Malgaonkar, Amritha Anavankot
- Papers
- 2020 S1: COMP120, COMP101
2020 S2: COMP120 - Research group
- Autonomous Systems
About
Assoc. Professor Tony Savarimuthu lectures and coordinates COMP101, the introductory paper in Information Science. Tony has a background of working as a Software Engineer and a Lecturer in India. His main research interests are in the areas of multi-agent systems (particularly normative multi-agent systems) and Software Engineering. Recently, he has also been active in the area of Information Systems. His PhD thesis in the area of multi-agent systems investigated mechanisms for norm emergence and norm identification in artificial agent societies. His thesis was placed in the Dean’s exceptional thesis list for Otago’s School of Business in 2011.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Information Science)
2003 - 2011, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Master of Engineering (Software Systems)
2000 - 2002, BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan, India
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Chemical
1996 - 2000, BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan, India
Experience
Associate Professor (Feb'17 - till date)
Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Senior Lecturer (Feb'13 - Feb'17)
Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Lecturer (Mar'06 - Jan'13)
Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Teaching Fellow (Feb'04 - Feb' 06)
Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Teaching Assistant (Dec'03 - Feb'04)
Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Software Engineer (Jul'02 - Aug'03)
Coralgrid Software Ltd (now a part of Triple Point Technology, Inc.), Chennai, India
Assistant Lecturer (part time, Jul'02 - Aug'03)
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Off Campus centre at Chennai, India
Teaching Assistant (Jul'00 - Jun'02 )
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India
Research
Research interests
- Multi-agent Systems (particularly normative multi-agent systems)
- Software engineering
- Information systems
- Computing Education
Past Projects
- Principal researcher in the ORG grant titled “An experimental framework to facilitate investigations into adaptive wireless networks”, 2007
- A named researcher in the School of Business grant titled “Interactive and Collaborative Learning in a Distributed Environment”, 2007
- A named researcher in the CALT grant on Innovation in Teaching, titled “Promoting active learning in lecture rooms in large courses”, 2005
Completed students
PhD
Amala Arul Sharmila Savarimuthu (2006 - 2011), Title: Mechanisms for self-organization of groups in agent societies, Supervisors: Dr. Maryam Purvis, Prof. Martin Purvis, Mr. Tony Savarimuthu
Masters
Jack Kanimea, (MCom, 2008-2009), Title: Integrating Single Sign On and enabling secure interactions in a composite Web Service, Supervisors: Mr. Tony Savarimuthu and Dr. Maryam Purvis, Status: Completed in 2009.
Tarik Al-ani (MAppSc, 2010-2011), Title: Android In-Vehicle Infotainment System (AIVI), Supervisors: Mr. Tony Savarimuthu and Dr. Maryam Purvis, Status: Completed in 2011.
Honours/Postgraduate diploma (Dissertations cosupervised with Dr. Maryam Purvis)
Jinhong Xie (Title: An RFID-based Location-aware Web Application to Enhance User Experience in an Aquarium, completed in 2010)
Danica Milic (Title: Dynamic ridesharing and social networking application development on Android mobile phone platform, completed in 2008)
Alya Alaali (Title: Mechanisms associated with spread of opinions in human population on a social network, completed in 2007)
Anh Le Thu (Title: Current Problems and Tools Support for Testing Distributed Systems, completed in 2006)
Research Topics for PhD/Master Students
A list of potential research topics is provided on a separate page.
Publications
More details about my publications can be found on my personal page.
Afshar Sedigh, A. H., Frantz, C. K., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. K., & Purvis, M. A. (2019). A comparison of two historical trader societies: An agent-based simulation study of English East India Company and New-Julfa. In P. Davidsson & H. Verhagen (Eds.), Multi-agent-based simulation XIX (MABS): Multi-agent-based simulation XIX: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 11463). (pp. 17-31). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-22270-3_2
Alwash, M., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Parackal, M. (2019). Shallow vs. deep customer engagement: A study of brand value propositions in Twitter. Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). (pp. 1-12). Retrieved from https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2019_rp/96
Malgaonkar, S., Lee, C. W., Licorish, S. A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Tahir, A. (2019). Appsent: A tool that analyzes app reviews. arXiv. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10191
Yasir, M., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, T. B. R. (2018). Complementary-based coalition formation for energy microgrids. Computational Intelligence. doi: 10.1111/coin.12171
Lotter, A., Licorish, S. A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Meldrum, S. (2018). Code reuse in stack overflow and popular open source Java projects. Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC). (pp. 141-150). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ASWEC.2018.00027
Edited Book - Research
Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (Eds.). (2009). Computer-mediated social networking: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 5322). Berlin, Germany: Springer, 201p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02276-0
Chapter in Book - Research
Afshar Sedigh, A. H., Frantz, C. K., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M. K., & Purvis, M. A. (2019). A comparison of two historical trader societies: An agent-based simulation study of English East India Company and New-Julfa. In P. Davidsson & H. Verhagen (Eds.), Multi-agent-based simulation XIX (MABS): Multi-agent-based simulation XIX: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 11463). (pp. 17-31). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-22270-3_2
Yasir, M., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2015). Improving energy outcomes in dynamically formed micro-grid coalitions. In A. Ghose, N. Oren, P. Telang & J. Thangarajah (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions and norms in agent systems X (COIN): Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 9372). (pp. 251-267). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-25420-3_16
Frantz, C., Purvis, M., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Nowostawski, M. (2015). Modelling the impact of role specialisation on cooperative behaviour in historic trader scenarios. In A. Ghose, N. Oren, P. Telang & J. Thangarajah (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions and norms in agent systems X (COIN): Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 9372). (pp. 53-71). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-25420-3_16
Farhangian, M., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2015). Agent-based modeling of resource allocation in software projects based on personality and skill. In F. Koch, C. Guttmann & D. Busquets (Eds.), Advances in social computing and multiagent systems: Communications in computer and information science (Vol. 541). (pp. 130-146). Cham, The Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24804-2_9
Frantz, C., Purvis, M. K., Nowostawski, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2015). Analysing the apprenticeship system in the Maghribi Traders Coalition. In F. Grimaldo & E. Norling (Eds.), Multi-agent-based simulation XV (MABS): Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 9002). (pp. 180-196). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-14627-0_13
Farhangian, M., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2015). The effects of temperament and team formation mechanism on collaborative learning of knowledge and skill in short-term projects. In F. Koch, C. Guttmann & D. Busquets (Eds.), Advances in social computing and multiagent systems: Communications in computer and information science (Vol. 541). (pp. 48-65). Cham, The Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24804-2_4
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Dam, H. K. (2014). Towards mining norms in open source software repositories. In L. Cao, Y. Zeng, A. L. Symeonidis, V. Gorodetsky, J. P. Müller & P. S. Yu (Eds.), Agents and data mining interaction: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 8316). (pp. 26-39). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-55192-5_3
Yasir, M., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2014). An intelligent learning mechanism for trading strategies for local energy distribution. In S. Ceppi, E. David, V. Podobnik, V. Robu, O. Shehory, S. Stein & I. A. Vetsikas (Eds.), Agent-mediated electronic commerce: Designing trading strategies and mechanisms for electronic markets (LNBIP 187). (pp. 159-170). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-13218-1_12
Frantz, C., Purvis, M. K., Nowostawski, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2014). Modelling institutions using dynamic deontics. In T. Balke, F. Dignum, M. Birna van Riemsdijk & A. K. Chopra (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems IX (COIN): Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 8386). (pp. 211-233). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-07314-9_12
Farhangian, M., Purvis, M. K., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2014). Modelling the effects of personality and temperament in small teams. In T. Balke, F. Dignum, M. Birna van Riemsdijk & A. K. Chopra (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems IX (COIN): Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 8386). (pp. 25-41). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-07314-9_2
Yasir, M., Purvis, M. K., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2014). Intelligent battery strategies for local energy distribution. In T. Balke, F. Dignum, M. Birna van Riemsdijk & A. K. Chopra (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems IX (COIN): Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 8386). (pp. 63-80). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-07314-9_4
Andrighetto, G., Cranefield, S., Conte, R., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Villatoro, D. (2013). (Social) norms and agent-based simulation. In S. Ossowski (Ed.), Agreement technologies: Law, governance and technology series (Vol. 8). (pp. 181-189). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-5583-3_11
Singh, M. P., Arrott, M., Balke, T., Chopra, A., Christiaanse, R., Cranefield, S., … Savarimuthu, B. T. R., … Villata, S. (2013). The uses of norm. In G. Andrighetto, G. Governatori, P. Noriega & L. W. N. van der Torre (Eds.), Normative multi-agent systems. (pp. 191-229). Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl. doi: 10.4230/DFU.Vol4.12111.191
Ghose, A., & Savarimuthu, T. B. R. (2013). Norms as objectives: Revisiting compliance management in multi-agent systems. In H. Aldewereld & J. S. Sichman (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems VIII (COIN): Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 7756). (pp. 105-122). Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-37756-3_7
Balke, T., Cranefield, S., Di Tosto, G., Mahmoud, S., Paolucci, M., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Verhagen, H. (2013). Simulation and NorMAS. In G. Andrighetto, G. Governatori, P. Noriega & L. W. N. van der Torre (Eds.), Normative multi-agent systems. (pp. 171-189). Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl. doi: 10.4230/DFU.Vol4.12111.171
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., & Verhagen, H. (2012). An agent-based simulation of employing social norms in energy conservation in households. In S. Cranefield & I. Song (Eds.), Agent based simulation for a sustainable society and multi-agent smart computing: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 7580). (pp. 16-31). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-35612-4_2
Savarimuthu, S., Purvis, M., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Purvis, M. (2012). Gossip-based self-organising open agent societies. In N. Desai, A. Liu & M. Winikoff (Eds.), Principles and practice of multi-agent systems: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 7057). (pp. 105-120). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-25920-3_8
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. A., & Purvis, M. K. (2011). Identifying conditional norms in multi-agent societies. In M. de Vos, N. Fornara, J. V. Pitt & G. Vouros (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems VI (COIN): Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 6541). (pp. 285-302). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-21268-0
Savarimuthu, S., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2011). Mechanisms for the self-organization of peer groups in agent societies. In T. Bosse, A. Geller & C. M. Jonker (Eds.), Multi-agent-based simulation XI: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 6532). (pp. 93-107). Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-18345-4_7
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M. A., & Purvis, M. K. (2010). Internal agent architecture for norm identification. In J. Padget, A. Artikis, W. Vasconcelos, K. Stathis, V. Torres da Silva, E. Matson & A. Polleres (Eds.), Coordination, organizations, institutions and norms in agent systems V: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 6069). (pp. 241-256). Berlin, Germany: Springer.
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M., & Purvis, M. (2010). A data mining approach to identify obligation norms in agent societies. In L. Cao, A. L. C. Bazzan, V. Gorodetsky, P. A. Mitkas, G. Weiss & P. S. Yu (Eds.), Agents and data mining interaction: Lecture notes in computer science (Vol. 5980). (pp. 43-58). Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-15420-1_5
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., & Cranefield, S. (2009). Norm emergence in multi-agent societies. In D. Król & N. Thanh Nguyen (Eds.), Intelligence integration in distributed knowledge management. (pp. 195-206). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.
Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Cranefield, S. (2009). Social norm emergence in virtual agent societies. In M. Baldoni, T. C. Son, M. B. van Riemsdijk & M. Winikoff (Eds.), Declarative agent languages and technologies VI: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 5397). (pp. 18-28). Berlin, Germany: Springer.
Purvis, M., Ebadi, T., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2009). An agent-based library management system using RFID technology. In D. Król & N. Thanh Nguyen (Eds.), Intelligence integration in distributed knowledge management. (pp. 171-181). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.
