Tutors
Benjamin Hirsch
Dr. Benjamin Hirsch studied Artificial Intelligence at the
University of Amsterdam, and obtained his PhD in 2005 at the
University of Liverpool (with distinction). His thesis has been
nominated for the "distinguished dissertation award 2006" of the
British computer science society.
Dr. Hirsch is the Director of the Competence Center Agent Core
Technologies at the DAI Labor, which is part of the Technische
Universität Berlin. The Competence Center consists of roughly 10
doctoral students as well as 5 graduate students, and focuses on
service-centric agentframeworks. Under his supervision, the
competence center staffs several projects related to service
delivery platforms and service engineering. He has been teaching
a course "Service Engineering" since 2006.
Cees Witteveen
Cees Witteveen is a full professor in Algorithmics at Delft
University of Technology. The research fields he has been active
in include inductive inference, nonmonotonic reasoning, logic
programming and theory revision. Currently, his research
interests concentrate on the design and evaluation of
coordination algorithms in distributed systems with
self-interested actors. He has published more than 100 refereed
papers and journal articles in these fields. He is project
leader of more than 10 research projects on plan coordination in
multi-agent systems, diagnosis, inference mechanisms, incident
management and hybrid computing. He has been program chair of
several DGNMR and PLANSIG workshops and is PC member of several
conferences and workshops in the AI-community (AAMAS, EUMAS,
PROMAS, CLIMA, PLANSIG, ECSQUARU, MBS, BNAIC).
Danny Weyns
Danny Weyns is a senior researcher at the Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, funded by the Research Foundation Flanders.
He received a Ph.D in Computer Science in 2006 from the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for work on multi-agent systems
and software architecture. His main research interests are in
situated multi-agent systems, middleware for decentralized
systems, and the connection between multi-agent systems and
software architecture. Currently, he is working on formal
architectural description language for analyzing and verifying
decentralized software systems, and applications to the wireless
sensor network domain. Contact information and home-page:
Danny.Weyns@cs.kuleuven.be, http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~danny/
Davide Grossi
Davide Grossi is Postdoctoral researcher at the University of
Luxembourg. He has obtained a degree in philosophy at Università
di Pisa and the diploma of Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in
2003. In 2007 he obtained a PhD in artificial intelligence at
Utrecht University. His PhD thesis dealt with formal aspects of
the specification and design of agent organizations and
institutions. He is in the program committee of NorMAS'08.
Further details at: http://www.davidegrossi.name
Edith Elkind
Edith Elkind is a lecturer in Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
group of School of Electronics and Computer Science, University
of Southampton. She obtained her PhD from Princeton University
in June 2005 and her MSc in Mathematics from Moscow State
University, Russia. Her primary research interests are
algorithmic game theory and computational social choice. In
recent years, her work focused on computational aspects of
various multiagent problems, such as auctions, voting, and
coalitional games.
Eric Platon
Eric Platon is a visiting researcher at the National Institute
of Informatics, funded by the JSPS. He holds M.Sc. degrees in
Automatic Control (Savoie University, France) and Distributed
Artificial Intelligence (Savoie University & EMSE, France), and
a joint Ph.D. in Computer Science from Paris 6 University and
Sokendai for work on exception management in multi-agent
systems. His research interests pertain to self-adaptive
programs, security, and exception handling in mobile systems,
notably wireless ad hoc networks of sensors. He is the principal
investigator and software architect of the XAC project, a
government-funded research project for secure and self-adaptive
applications in embedded systems. Contact information and
home-page: platon@nii.ac.jp,
http://honiden-lab.ex.nii.ac.jp/~eric/
Evangelos Markakis
Evangelos Markakis is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the
Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), in Amsterdam.
He completed his PhD degree in August 2005 at the Georgia
Institute of Technology under the supervision of Richard Lipton.
Before that, he received his BS degree from the National
Technical University of Athens. His research interests lie in
the areas of analysis of algorithms (especially approximation
algorithms), game theory, and auction design. In Fall 2008, he
will be starting a new appointment as a lecturer at the Athens
University of Economics and Business in Greece.
Federico Cecconi
Federico Cecconi teaches computer science and numerical methods
in microeconomic framework in LUMSA. He is a reviewer for JASSS.
He is the author of several books about agent-based social
simulation. Its research interests are in the field of dynamics
of cellular automata and complex networks, neural networks and
cognitive modeling, microeconomic modeling by agent based
simulation. He is Member of IASTED (International Association of
Science And Technology for Development). After other research
positions, he is now a researcher at ISTC, Institute of
Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of CNR, Rome (LABSS,
Laboratory on Agent Based Social Simulation). Within LABSS, he
studies the complex (micro-macro) dynamics of social cognitive
artefacts (f.i., norms and reputation) regulating societies of
autonomous intelligent agents (EMIL, "EMergence In the Loop:
simulating the two way dynamics of norm innovation", it is a
three-year EC funded project, Sixth Framework Programme).
Federico Cecconi is on the Program Committee of IASTED
International Conference on Modelling and Simulation.
Guido Boella
Guido Boella received the PhD degree at the University of Torino
in 2000. He is currently professor at the Department of Computer
Science of the University of Torino. His research interests
include multi-agent systems, in particular, normative systems,
institutions and roles using qualitative decision theory. He is
the co-chair of the NorMAS'05 and NorMAS'08 workshops, of the
coordination and organization (CoOrg'05 and CoOrg'06) workshops,
of the COIN'06 workshop and of the AAAI Fall Symposium on roles
(Roles'05). Further details at: http://www.di.unito.it/~guido
Guillaume Muller
Dr. Guillaume Muller is a postdoctoral researcher and a member
of the MAIA team (Intelligent and Autonomous Machine) at LORIA
(Lorraine Laboratory of IT Research and its Applications) in
France. The global research theme of G. Muller is the control of
open and decentralized systems. From 2002 to 2006, he developed
in collaboration with Laurent Vercouter a reputation model for
the detection and exclusion of liars in peertopeer systems and
published several papers internationally. In 2006, he worked at
Aix-Marseille II University on the application of this model to
the sharing of information in the Web 2.0. He is now a member of
the LORIA, where he works on organizational modeling of the Air
Traffic Management system, on the sharing of authority between
humans and machines and on adjustable autonomy. He is also a
member of the ART testbed initiative from its beginning and has
participated in the development of the platform and the
organization of the competitions.
John-Jules Ch. Meyer
Prof.dr. John-Jules Ch. Meyer studied mathematics with computer
science and digital signal processing at Leyden University. In
1985 he obtained his Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in
Amsterdam on a thesis entitled "Programming Calculi Based on
Fixed Point Transformations", a subject in theoretical computer
science. From 1988 to 1993 he was a professor at the computer
science department at the VU Amsterdam holding a chair in "Logic
for distributed systems and artificial intelligence". From 1989
to 1993 he also was a professor of theoretical computer science
at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen. Since 1993 he has been
a professor at the computer science department of Utrecht
University (UU). At the moment he is heading the Intelligent
Systems Group of the Institute of Computing and information
Sciences of the UU. Prof. Meyer was also the scientific director
of the national Dutch graduate school in Information and
Knowledge-based Systems (SIKS) during the period 1995-2005. He
is a member of the IFAAMAS board steering the international
AAMAS conferences, and of the editorial boards of the Journal of
Applied Non-Classical Logics, Data and Knowledge Engineering and
the Journal of Intelligent Agents & Multi-Agent Systems. In 2005
he was appointed as a Fellow of the European Coordinating
Committee for Artificial Intelligence. His current research
interests include logics for AI, intelligent agents and
cognitive robotics, and he has been involved with agent research
for over a decade now, ranging from theoretical / logical
foundations, via agent programming to the many applications that
are currently being investigated in his group. A list of his
publications can be obtained from my home page:
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/jj/
Juergen Dix
Jürgen Dix is full professor for Computational Intelligence at
Clausthal University of Technology. He did his Master's at
Heidelberg University (1986, Major Mathematics, minor Physics),
his PhD at Karlsruhe University (1992, Computer Science) and his
habilitation (1996, Databases and Information Systems) at the
Technical University of Vienna (Austria). He worked as a
visiting professor at the University of Maryland (1999, USA) and
as an associate professor (Reader for Foundations of Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning) at Victoria University Manchester
(UK) from 2000-2004. He served as Head of Department (2004-2008)
and since 2008 as Dean.
While he started his research in nonmonotonic reasoning and
logic programming, he moved in the late nineties to the
foundations of agent oriented programming. He is organising,
jointly with Mehdi Dastani and Peter Novak the agent contest
since 2005. He is editing, with Rafael Bordini, Mehdi Dastani
and Amal El-Fallah Segrouchni a series of books on Multi-Agent
Programming (Springer). He co-authored two monographs (MIT Press
and Cambridge University Press), co-edited 13 books (Springer
LNCS, LNAI, MASA) and nine special issues of various journals.
He published more than 200 papers and gave more than 70 invited
talks/tutorials (USA, UK, Australia, Argentina, France, Austria,
Poland). He led a range of successful projects (ca.~1 Mio
pounds) and organised more than 40 international conferences and
workshops. He is on the PC of most conferences and workshops in
computational logic, on the steering committees of ProMAS and
CLIMA, and on the Editorial Boards of six journals.
Julian Padget
Julian Padget is a senior lecturer at the University of Bath in
the United Kingdom. He has been working on the design of
implementation of multi-agent systems for 10 years (previous
work was on programming language design, distributed systems and
computer algebra), focusing primarily on the concepts of
organisations and institutions, which are directly relevant to
the content of the proposed tutorial. He has been an academic
member of staff for 20 years and has taught a wide range of
topics (functional languages, introductory programming, advanced
compilers, software engineering) over this time. He has
taught at the agent summer schools in 2006 and 2007.
Laurent Vercouter
Dr. Laurent Vercouter is an assistant professor and a member of
the multiagent systems research department at the Ecole des
Mines of SaintEtienne in France. The global research theme of
Laurent Vercouter is decentralized multiagent systems and more
specifically trust and reputation in MAS. In this field he
developed in collaboration with Guillaume Muller a reputation
model for the detection and exclusion of liars in peer-to-peer
systems and published several papers internationally. In 2006,
he has worked as an invited researcher at the University of Sao
Paulo on ontological aspects of reputation. He is a member of
the ART testbed initiative and is involved in the national
project ForTrust about the formalization of trust for multiagent
systems.
Leila Amgoud
Leila Amgoud is a researcher at the French National Research
Agency in I.R.I.T. (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de
Toulouse). She is a specialist in argumentation theory. She has
developed an original approach to preference-based
argumentation, and has published several papers on applying
argumentation for modeling decision making, learning, handling
inconsistency, merging conflicting bases, and practical
reasoning. She has also made significant contributions to work
on argumentation based dialogue systems; in particular
persuasion and negotiation dialogues. Dr. Amgoud has given three
invited talks on argumentation, and its application in MAS. She
also supervises Masters and PhD students working on
argumentation, and gives a course on Argumentation based
Dialogue for Master students at the René Descartes University in
Paris.
Leon van der Torre
Leon van der Torre is full professor in intelligent systems at
the University of Luxembourg. His main research interest is
logic for multiagent systems and knowledge representation. He
developed the BOID agent architecture, the input/output logics
and the game theoretic approach to normative multiagent systems.
He organized workshops on normative multiagent systems and
deontic logic (NORMAS05/NORMAS07/DEON08). Further details at:
http://agamemnon.uni.lu/ILIAS/vandertorre
Luis Antunes
Dr. Luis Antunes holds a PhD in Computer Science from University
of Lisbon (2001). He has been a researcher in Artificial
Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems since 1988, has
participated in several research projects, and published more
than 40 refereed scientific papers. After other teaching and
research positions, he is now an Auxiliary Professor in
Department of Informatics of the Faculty of Sciences of
University of Lisbon, where he was until recently Vice-Head of
Department. His long-term research goals deal with the
construction of a methodology for principled experimentation
with self-motivated agents in complex dynamic contexts. He
recently founded the Group of Studies in Social Simulation
(GUESS), a multi-disciplinary research group within the
Institute for Science of Complexity (ICC), involving 16 (of
which 7 PhDs) scientists, researchers and students from computer
and social sciences. Within GUESS, he is conducting research
projects involving multi-agent-based simulation applied to tax
compliance greenhouse gases emission and policy rehearsal.
During 2007 he was the Visiting International Fellow of the
Institute of Social Research of the University of Surrey
(Guildford). Luis Antunes is on the Program Committee of some of
the most important international conferences on Multi-Agent
Systems and Social Simulation, such as AAMAS, ESSA, WCSS and
MABS. He was co-chair of the international workshops MABS'05,
MABS'06, MABS'07 on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, and co-editor
of the Springer-Verlag proceedings volumes. He is now a member
of MABS Steering Committee, of EUMAS Advisory Board, and will
host AAMAS 2008 and ECAI 2010 as local organisation co-chair.
Marc Esteva
Marc Esteva is a postdoctoral researcher at the Artificial
Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Spanish Scientific
Research Council (CSIC). He holds a PhD in Computer Science form
the Technical University of Catalonia (2003). He has been a
researcher in Multiagent Systems since 1998 participating in
several national and international projects. Mos of his work has
focused on the development of normative multiagent systems based
on the notion of electronic institution. Furthermore, he has
lead the development of the Electronic Institutions Development
Environment (EIDE) a set of tools that support the construction
of electronic institutions. His main areas of research include
normative multiagent systems, agent-oriented software
engineering and agent mediated electronic commerce.
Marina De Vos
Marina De Vos is a lecturer at the University of Bath in the
United Kingdom. Her main area of research is answer set
programming (ASP), a logic programming formalism, and its
applications. In current and previous work, she studied the
relationship between ASP and classical game theory, logical
games, multi-agent systems and virtual institutions. She was the
vice-coordinator of the European work-group on answer set
programming. Marina holds a postgraduate certificate in teaching
and has several years of experience of teaching at various
levels: high school, higher education and industry. She
co-authored two papers on teaching multi-agent systems to
undergraduates and postgraduates. She has taught at the agent
summer schools in 2006 and 2007.
Matthijs de Weerdt
Mathijs de Weerdt completed his Master's in computer science at
the Utrecht University. After that he did his PhD on "Plan
Merging in Multiagent Systems" at the Delft University of
Technology. Since then he is an assistant professor in the
Algorithmics group there. In 2004 he obtained a VENI grant to
study the interaction of efficient planning and task allocation
algorithms with coordination mechanisms for self-interested
agents. He has given tutorials on multiagent planning in
previous editions of the EASSS and at the AAMAS, and a lecture
on mechanism design in Delft.
Michael Luck
Michael Luck is a Professor in the Department of Computer
Science at King's College London, where he leads the Agents and
Intelligent Systems group. He has been working in the field of
autonomous agents and multi-agent systems since its early days,
with over 150 publications.
His work has sought to take a principled approach to the
development of practical agent systems, and spans: the
development of an extensive formal framework for understanding
and modelling intelligent agents and multi-agent systems; the
formalisation of existing practical agent systems and theories;
the development of information-based agent applications in
domains such as genome analysis; norms and institutions; trust
and reputation; agent infrastructure; and other areas.
Michael was a member of the Executive Committee of AgentLink
III, the European Network of Excellence for Agent-Based
Computing, having previously been the Director of AgentLink II.
He was a co-founder of the European Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS)
workshop series, a member of the Management Board of
Agentcities.NET, and is a Steering Committee member for the
Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems
(CEEMAS). He was also a member of the Advisory Board for the
European Agent Systems Summer Schools (until 2007) and for FIPA.
Michael is an editorial board member of the journal of
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, the International
Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, Web Intelligence
and Agent Systems, and ACM Transactions on Autonomous and
Adaptive Systems. He is principal author of AgentLink's two
agent technology roadmaps, and has been involved in significant
efforts to build bridges with industry and commerce.
Nicola Gatti
Nicola Gatti obtained his PhD in 2005 from Politecnico di
Milano, Italy, with a thesis on cooperative negotiations and
multi-agent systems. From 2006 Nicola Gatti is Assistant
Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the
Politecnico di Milano. His main research interests concern: game
theory, algorithms for game theory, negotiations and bargaining,
mechanism design, multi-agent learning, and multi-agent
planning. He has published about 30 papers in international
journals, books, and conferences. Currently, he teaches: the
course “Algorithmic Game Theory” in the PhD program in Computer
Engineering and the course “Industrial Informatics” in the
undergraduate program in Automation Engineering at Politecnico
di Milano. From 2005 to 2008 he has been teaching assistant for
the courses “Artificial Intelligence” and “Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems” in the graduate program in Computer
Engineering.
Onn Shehory
Onn Shehory is a researcher at IBM research lab in Israel. He is
also an adjunct faculty at several Israeli universities. Dr.
Shehory has been studying, designing and developing agent-based
systems for 13 years. He has a comprehensive knowledge of the
leading technologies in the field, and has published dozens of
papers, of which several ones directly address the topics of
this tutorial. Onn Shehory has a rich teaching and lecturing
experience. Since 1999, Dr. Shehory has taught several courses
on agent technology at three institutes (Carnegie Mellon,
Technion and Bar Ilan). Some of the materials for this tutorial
were successfully presented in those courses. Dr. Shehory has
also given several tutorials at international scientific
meetings, including EASSS 2002, EASSS 2003, EASSS 2004,
EASSS2005, AAMAS 2002, AAMAS 2003, AAMAS 2004, and AAMAS 2007.
Paul Harrenstein
Paul Harrenstein studied philosophy in Amsterdam. In 2004 he
defended his PhD Thesis called /Logic in Conflict/ on logic and
games, which he wrote at Utrecht University. After a year as
tutor at the Delft University of Technology, he is now a
post-doctoral researcher in the PAMAS (Preference Aggregation in
Multi-agent Systems) project at the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. He has given
tutorials on Game Theory at three previous editions of EASSS.
Paul Valckenaers
Dr. Paul Valckenaers is a Research Fellow of the IOF, the
Industrial Research Fund of the K.U.Leuven (Belgium). The
objective of the IOF is to bridge the gap between industry and
academia. Paul Valckenaers received the applied mathematics
engineering degree in 1983, the computer science engineering
degree in 1985, and the mechanical engineering Ph. D. degree in
1993, all from the K.U.Leuven. Since 1986, Paul Valckenaers has
been investigating decentralized control of manufacturing
systems. He has published over 100 papers. He participated in
over 10 EU projects, mostly as member of the technical board and
twice as project coordinator.
Sanjay Modgil
Sanjay Modgil completed his PhD in computational logic at
Imperial College, and is currently a post-doctoral research
fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Kings College
London (www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/modgilsa/). His doctoral and
post-doctoral work has focussed on non-monotonic logics, belief
revision, argumentation theory, and applications of these logic
based models of reasoning in practical technologies. He has
contributed to development of abstract argumentation frameworks
that accommodate meta-level reasoning about arguments, and
applications of these frameworks to agent reasoning. He has
played a leading role in the development of architectures and
standards for enabling argumentation based reasoning and
dialogue in agent systems, and development of medical
multi-agent systems deploying argumentation enabled agents. His
work on a recent European research project (ASPIC ?
www.argumentation.org) also involved coordinating transition of
theoretical models of argumentation to implemented software
components for deployment in agent systems.
Wojtek Jamroga
Wojtek Jamroga did his Master's at the Gdansk University of
Technology in Poland, and his PhD (Computer Science) at the
University of Twente in the Netherlands. He works as a postdoc
researcher at the Clausthal University of Technology (Germany)
now. His main interests lie with theoretical approaches to
multi-agent systems, especially modal logics for multi-agent
systems, and game-theoretical models of agents' behaviour. He is
in the PC of many conferences in MAS and AI, including AAMAS and
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