Maria Fasli is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the
University of Essex. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2000. Her current research interests
lie in agents and their theoretical foundations and practical applications such as electronic markets, web
service discovery and composition, web search and dynamic user profiles. She has published papers on
logics for reasoning agents, formal models of multi-agent systems, trading agents and platforms, trust,
and web search assistants. She is the author of “Agent Technology for E-commerce” (John Wiley and
Sons, 2007). Her interests extend to technology-enhanced learning and she was also awarded a National
Teaching Fellowship for her innovative approaches to learning and teaching.