About

João Leite is Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon.

He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from NOVA University Lisbon in 2002. Before that, he obtained a MSc in Computer Science from NOVA University Lisbon in 1997 and graduated in Electronic Engineering from the University of Coimbra in 1994.

His primary research interests include:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  • Neuro-symbolic Artificial Intelligence
  • Answer-Set Programming
  • Argumentation Theory
  • Multi-Agent Systems
Current Appointments:

Profiles:

Research

Publications

He authored and co-edited several books and journal special issues, and co-authored several papers.

Projects

He led and participated in several research projects and several scientific networks.

Software

He developed or coordinated the development of several software.

Events

He organised several scientific events, and participated in a large number of program committees.

Publications

Books and Journal Special Issues

J. A. Leite, Evolving Knowledge Bases, vol 81 of Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence and Applications, xviii + 307 p. Hardcover. IOS Press, ISBN: 1 58603 278 X, 2003.

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J. Leite, T. C. Son, P. Torroni and S. Woltran, Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA XIV), Journal of Logic and Computation, 28(3), 2018.

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J. Leite, T. C. Son, P. Torroni and S. Woltran, Applications of Logical Approaches to Argumentation, Argument & Computation, 6(1), 2015.

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E. Fermé, J. Leite and M. Reis (eds.), Logics in Artificial Intelligence. Fourteenth European Conference, JELIA 2014, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, September 2014, Proceedings. Vol. 8761 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. xvi + 704 p. Softcover. Springer. ISBN: 978-3-319-11557-3, 2014.

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U. Endriss and J. Leite (eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh Starting AI Researchers' Symposium, STAIRS 2014, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2014. Volume 264 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. xii+303 p. Hardcover. IOS Press. ISBN: 978-1-61499-420-6, 2014.

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J. Leite, P. Torroni, T. Agotnes, G. Boella and L. van der Torre, Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA XII), Journal of Logic and Computation, 24(6), 2014.

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J. Leite, T. C. Son, P. Torroni, L. van der Torre and S. Woltran, Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems. 14th International Workshop, CLIMA XIV, Corunna, Spain, September 2013, Proceedings. Vol. 8143 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. xxiv+391 p. Softcover. Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-40623-2, 2013.

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J. Dix and J. A. Leite (eds.), Computational Logic and Multi-Agent Systems, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 62(1-2), ISSN: 1012-2443, 2011.

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J. Leite, P. Torroni, T. Agotnes, G. Boella and L. van der Torre, Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems. 12th International Workshop, CLIMA XII, Barcelona, Spain, July 17-18, 2011, Proceedings. Vol. 6814 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Xv+383 p. Softcover. Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-22358-7 , 2011.

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M. Dastani, A. El Fallah-Seghrouchni, J. Hubner and J. Leite (eds.), Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems, Third International Workshop, LADS'010, Lyon, France, August 30th - September 2nd, 2010. Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 6822 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. IX+153 p. Softcover. Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-22722-6, 2011.

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J. Dix, J. Leite, G. Governatori and W. Jamroga (eds.), Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems. 11th International Workshop, CLIMA XI, Lisbon, Portugal, August 16-17, 2010, Proceedings. Vol. 6245 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Xiv+258 p. Softcover. Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN: 978-3-642-14976-4, 2010.

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M. Dastani, A. El Fallah-Seghrouchni, J. Leite and P. Torroni (eds.), Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems, Second International Workshop, LADS'009, Turin, Italy, September 7-9, 2009. Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 6039 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. xii + 183 p. Softcover. Heidelberg: Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-13337-4 , 2010.

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M. Baldoni, C. Baroglio, J. Bentahar, G. Boella, M. Cossentino, M. Dastani, B. Dunin-Keplicz, G. Fortino, M. P. Gleizes, J. Leite, V. Mascardi, J. A. Padget, J. Pavón, A. Polleres, A. El Fallah-Seghrouchni, P. Torroni and R. Verbrugge: Proceedings of the Second Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops (MALLOW’09), Turin, Italy, September 7-10, Vol 494 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2009.

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M. Dastani, A. El Fallah-Seghrouchni, J. Leite and P. Torroni (eds.), Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems, First International Workshop, LADS'007, Durham, UK, September 4-6, 2007. Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 5118 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. xii + 278 p. Softcover. Heidelberg: Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-85057-1, 2008.

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M. Dastani and J. Leite (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th European Agent System Summer School (EASSS'08), pp xii + 401, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2008.

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J. J. Alferes and J. Leite (eds.), Selected Papers from the Ninth European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA’04), Journal of Applied Logics, 5(3), ISSN: 1570-8683, 2007.

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J. Leite and P. Torroni (eds.), Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems. 5th International Workshop, CLIMA V, Lisbon, Portugal, September 29-31, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Vol. 3487 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. xii + 281 p. Softcover. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 3-540-28060-X, 2005.

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J. Leite, A. Omicini, P. Torroni and P. Yolum (eds.), Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies II. Second International Workshop, DALT 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 3476 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. xii + 289 p. Softcover. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 3-540-26172-9, 2005.

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J. Dix and J. Leite (eds.), Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems. 4th International Workshop, CLIMA IV, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, January 6-7, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Vol. 3259 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. XII + 251 p. Softcover. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 3-540-24010-1, 2004.

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J. J. Alferes and J. Leite (eds.), Logics in Artificial Intelligence. Ninth European Conference, JELIA 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2004, Proceedings. Vol. 3229 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. xiv + 744 p. Softcover. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 3-540-23242-7, 2004.

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J. Leite, A. Omicini, L. Sterling, and P. Torroni (eds.), Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies. First International Workshop, DALT 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 15, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Vol. 2990 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. xii + 281 p. Softcover. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 3-540-22124-7, 2004.

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J. Dix, J. A. Leite and K. Satoh (eds.), Computational Logic and Multi-Agent Systems, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 42(1-3), ISSN: 1012-2443, 2004.

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J. Dix, J. A. Leite and K. Satoh (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems, (CLIMA'02), Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 70(5), ISBN: 04445-12985, 2002.

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Papers

  • F. Aleixo, M. Knorr, J. Leite. Revising Boolean Logical Models of Biological Regulatory Networks. In P. Marquis, T. C. Son, and G. Kern-Isberner (eds.), Procs. of the 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'23), 2023. [PDF]

  • J. Leite, M. Slota. A Brief History of Updates of Answer-Set Programs. Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 23(1):57-110, 2023. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr, J. Leite. Forgetting in Answer Set Programming - A Survey. Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 23(1):111-156, 2023. [PDF]

  • J. Ferreira, M. de Sousa Ribeiro, R. Gonçalves, J. Leite. Looking Inside the Black-Box: Logic-based Explanations for Neural Networks. In G. Kern-Isberner, G. Lakemeyer, and T. Meyer (eds.), Procs. of the 19th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'22), 2022. [PDF]

  • M. Knorr, C. V. Damásio, R. Gonçalves and J. Leite. Towards Provenance in Heterogeneous Knowledge Bases. In G. Gottlob, D. Inclezan and M. Maratea (eds.), Procs of the 16th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR'22), LNAI 13416, 2022. [PDF]

  • M. Knorr, C. V. Damásio, R. Gonçalves and J. Leite. Modular Provenance in Multi-Context Systems (Extended Abstract). In F. Baader et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Explainable Logic-Based Knowledge Representation (XLoKR'22), 2022. [PDF] [PDF]

  • M. de Sousa Ribeiro and J. Leite. Aligning Artificial Neural Networks and Ontologies towards Explainable AI. In Procs. of the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'21), pp. 4932-4940, AAAI Press, 2021. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, T. Janhunen, M. Knorr, J. Leite. On Syntactic Forgetting Under Uniform Equivalence. In W. Faber, G. Friedrich, M. Gebser, and M. Morak (eds.), Procs. of the 17th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA'21), pp. 297-312, LNCS 12678, Springer 2021. [PDF]

  • J. Heyninck, R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr, J. Leite. Tractable Reasoning Using Logic Programs with Intensional Concepts. In W. Faber, G. Friedrich, M. Gebser, and M. Morak (eds.), Procs. of the 17th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA'21), pp. 329-345, LNCS 12678, Springer 2021. [PDF]

  • R. Ferreira, Ca. Lopes, R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr, L. Krippahl, J. Leite. Deep Neural Networks for Approximating Stream Reasoning with C-SPARQL. In G. Marreiros, F. S. Melo, N. Lau, H. L. Cardoso and L. P. Reis (eds.), Procs of the 20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'21), pp. 338-350, LNCS 12981, Springer 2021. [PDF]

  • J. Ferreira, D. Lavado, R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr, L. Krippahl, J. Leite. Faster Than LASER - Towards Stream Reasoning with Deep Neural Networks. In G. Marreiros, F. S. Melo, N. Lau, H. L. Cardoso and L. P. Reis (eds.), Procs of the 20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'21), pp. 363-375, LNCS 12981, Springer 2021. [PDF]

  • M. de Sousa Ribeiro and J. Leite. On Generating Symbolic Explanations for Recurrent Neural Networks (Extended Abstract). In F. Baader et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Explainable Logic-Based Knowledge Representation (XLoKR'21), 2021. [PDF]

  • M. de Sousa Ribeiro and J. Leite. Towards Generating Symbolic Explanations for Recurrent Neural Networks - a position paper. In E. Della Valle, T. Eiter, D. Le Phuoc and K. Schekotihin, Procs of the Fifth Stream Reasoning Workshop (SRW'21), 2021. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr, J. Leite, S. Woltran. On the limits of forgetting in Answer Set Programming. Artificial Intelligence 286:103307, 2020. [PDF]

  • Vedran Kasalica, M. Knorr, J. Leite, C. Lopes. NoHR: An Overview. Künstliche Intelligenz 34(4): 509-515, 2020. [PDF]

  • M. de Sousa Ribeiro, L. Krippahl, J. Leite. Explainable Abstract Trains Dataset. CoRR abs/2012.12115, 2020. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, T. Janhunen, M. Knorr, J. Leite, and S. Woltran. Obfuscating Knowledge in Modular Answer Set Programming. In M. V. Martínez and I. Varzinczak (eds.), Procs of the 18th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR'20), 2020. [PDF]

  • J. Heyninck, R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr, and J. Leite. Towards Efficient Reasoning with Intensional Concepts. In M. V. Martínez and I. Varzinczak (eds.), Procs of the 18th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR'20), 2020. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, T. Janhunen, M. Knorr, J. Leite, S. Woltran. Forgetting in Modular Answer Set Programming. In Procs. of the Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'19), pp. 2843-2850, AAAI Press, 2019. [PDF]

  • M. Berthold, R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr, J. Leite. A Syntactic Operator for Forgetting that Satisfies Strong Persistence. Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 19(5-6):1038-1055, 2019. [PDF]

  • V. Kasalica, I. Gerochristos, J. J. Alferes, A. S. Gomes, M. Knorr, J. Leite. Telco Network Inventory Validation with NoHR. In M. Balduccini, Y. Lierler, and S. Woltran (eds.), Procs of the 15th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR'19), pp. 18-31, LNCS 11481, Springer, 2019. [PDF]

  • J. G. Martins, A. Platzer, J. Leite. Dynamic Doxastic Differential Dynamic Logic for Belief-Aware Cyber-Physical Systems. S. Cerrito and A. Popescu (eds.), Procs of the 28th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX'19), pp. 428-445, LNCS 11714, Springer, 2019. [PDF]

  • M. Berthold, R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr, J. Leite. Forgetting in Answer Set Programming with Anonymous Cycles. In. P. M. Oliveira, P. Novais, and L. P. Reis (eds.). In Procs of the 19th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'19), pp. 552-564, LNCS 11805, Springer, 2019. [PDF]

  • J. Leite, T. C. Son, P. Torroni, S. Woltran. Preface to the Special Issue on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA XIV). Journal of Logic and Computation 28(3): 475-476 (2018). [PDF]

  • G. Brewka, S. Ellmauthaler, R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr, J. Leite, J. Pührer. Reactive multi-context systems: Heterogeneous reasoning in dynamic environments. Artificial Intelligence 256:68-104, 2018. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, T. Janhunen, M. Knorr, J. Leite, S. Woltran. Variable Elimination for DLP-Functions. In M. Thielscher, F. Toni and F. Wolter (eds.), Procs of the Sixteenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'18), pp. 643-644, AAAI Press, 2018. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr, J. Leite and S. Woltran. When you must forget: Beyond strong persistence when forgetting in answer set programming. Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 17(5-6):837-854, 2017. [PDF]

  • J. Leite. A Bird's-Eye View of Forgetting in Answer-Set Programming. Invited Talk. In M. Balduccini and T. Janhunen (eds.), Procs. of the Fourteen International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR’17), pp.10-22 , Springer-Verlag, LNAI 10377, 2017. [PDF]

  • C. Lopes, M. Knorr and J. Leite. NoHR: Integrating XSB Prolog with the OWL 2 Profiles and Beyond. In M. Balduccini and T. Janhunen (eds.), Procs. of the Fourteen International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR’17), pp.236-249 , Springer-Verlag, LNAI 10377, 2017. [PDF]

  • O. Sabuncu and J. Leite. moviola: Interpreting Dynamic Logic Programs via Multi-shot Answer Set Programming. In M. Balduccini and T. Janhunen (eds.), Procs. of the Fourteen International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR’17), pp.336-342 , Springer-Verlag, LNAI 10377, 2017. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr and J. Leite. Iterative Variable Elimination in ASP. In E. Oliveira, J. Gama, Z. Vale and H. Cardoso (eds.), Progress in Artificial Intelligence - Procs. of the 18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'17), pp.643-656, Springer-Verlag, LNAI 10423, 2017. [PDF]

  • J. Leite. Efficient Reasoning with Rules and Ontologies. Invited Talk. In H. J. van den Herik, A. P. Rocha and J. Filipe (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART'17), Volume 1, pp.7, SciTePress, 2017. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr, and J. Leite. You Can't Always Forget What You Want: on the limits of forgetting in answer set programming. In M. Fox and G. Kaminka (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2016, The Hague, Holland, 2016, Proceedings. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press 2016. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr, and J. Leite. The Ultimate Guide to Forgetting in Answer Set Programming. In C. Baral, J. P. Delgrande, F. Wolter (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR’16), pp.135-144, AAAI Press, 2016. [PDF]

  • G. Brewka, S. Ellmauthaler, R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr, J. Leite, and J. Pührer. Inconsistency Management in Reactive Multi-Context Systems. In M. Loizos (ed.), Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2016), Springer-Verlag, LNAI, 2016. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr, and J. Leite. Forgetting in ASP: The Forgotten Properties. In M. Loizos (ed.), Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2016), Springer-Verlag, LNAI, 2016. [PDF]

  • G. Brewka, S. Ellmauthaler, R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr, J. Leite, and J. Pührer. Towards Inconsistency Management in Reactive Multi-Context Systems. In R. Booth, G. Casini, S. Klarman, G. Richard and I. Varzinczak (eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop on Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning (DARe-16), The Hague, Holland, August 29, vol 1626 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2016. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr, and J. Leite. On Some Properties of Forgetting in ASP. In R. Booth, G. Casini, S. Klarman, G. Richard and I. Varzinczak (eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop on Defeasible and Ampliative Reasoning (DARe-16), The Hague, Holland, August 29, vol 1626 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2016. [PDF]

  • M. Slota, J. Leite and T. Swift. On updates of hybrid knowledge bases composed of ontologies and rules. Artificial Intelligence, 229 pp. 33–104, 2015. [PDF]

  • T. Kaminski, M. Knorr and J. Leite. Efficient Paraconsistent Reasoning with Ontologies and Rules. In Q. Yang and M. Wooldridge (eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'15), pp.3098--3105, AAAI Press, 2015. [PDF]

  • N. Costa, M. Knorr and J. Leite. Next Step for NoHR: OWL 2 QL. In M. Arenas and O. Corcho (Eds.) Proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'15), Springer-Verlag, LNCS 9366, 2015. [PDF]

  • N. Costa, M. Knorr and J. Leite. Querying LUBM with Non-monotonic Features in Protégé using NoHR. In S. Villata and J. Heflin (editors), Proceedings of the P&D Track at the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'15), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2015. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr and J. Leite. Minimal Change in Evolving Multi-Context Systems. In F. Pereira, P. Machado, E. Costa and A. Cardoso, Proceedings of the 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence EPIA 2015, Springer-Verlag, LNAI, 2015. [PDF]

  • V. Ivanov, M. Knorr and J. Leite. Reasoning over Ontologies and Non-monotonic Rules. In F. Pereira, P. Machado, E. Costa and A. Cardoso, Proceedings of the 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence EPIA 2015, Springer-Verlag, LNAI, 2015. [PDF]

  • T. Kaminski, M. Knorr and J. Leite. Reasoning Efficiently with Ontologies and Rules in the Presence of Inconsistencies (Extended Abstract). In D. Calvanese and B. Konev (eds.) Proceedings of the 28th International Workshop on Description Logics, vol 1350 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2015. [PDF]

  • N. Costa, M. Knorr and J. Leite. Extending NoHR for OWL 2 QL. In O. Papini (ed.), First workshop on Ontologies and logic programming for query answering, Buenos Aires, July 2015. [PDF]

  • T. Kaminski, M. Knorr and J. Leite. Well-founded Paraconsistent Semantics for Hybrid Theories composed of Rules and Ontologies. In T. Hahmann et al. (eds.), First Joint Ontologies Workshop, Buenos Aires, July 2015. [PDF]

  • M. Correia, J. Cruz and J. Leite. On the Efficient Implementation of Social Abstract Argumentation. In T. Schaub, G. Friedrich, B. O'Sullivan (eds.) 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2014, Prague, Czech Republic, 2014, Proceedings. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press 2014. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr and J. Leite. Evolving Multi-Context Systems. In T. Schaub, G. Friedrich, B. O'Sullivan (eds.) 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2014, Prague, Czech Republic, 2014, Proceedings. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press 2014. [PDF]

  • M. Slota and J. Leite. The Rise and Fall of Semantic Rule Updates based on SE Models. Theory and Practice of Logic Programming. 14(6):869-907, 2014. [PDF]

  • M. Knorr, M. Slota, M. Homola and J. Leite. What if no hybrid reasoner is available? - Hybrid MKNF in Multi-Context Systems. Journal of Logic and Computation. 24(6):1279-1311, 2014. [PDF]

  • M. Knorr, R. Gonçalves and J. Leite. On Efficient Evolving Multi-Context Systems. In D.-N. Pham and S.-B. Park (eds), Trends in Artificial Intelligence - Proceedings of the 13th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI’14), Springer-Verlag, LNAI 8862, pp.284-296, 2014. [PDF]

  • M. Slota, M. Balaz and J. Leite. On Supporting Strong and Default Negation in Answer-Set Program Updates. In A. Bazzan and K. Pichara (eds), Advances in Artificial Intelligence - Proceedings of the 14th Ibero-American Conference on AI (IBERAMIA’14), Springer-Verlag, LNAI 8864, 2014. [PDF]

  • M. Slota, M. Balaz and J. Leite. On Strong and Default Negation in Logic Program Updates. In S. Konieczny and H. Tompits (eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR'14), Vienna, Austria, July 17-19, INFSYS Research Report 1843-14-01, July 2014. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr and J. Leite. Evolving Bridge Rules in Evolving Multi-Context Systems. In N. Bulling, L. van der Torre, S. Villata, W. Jamroga and W. Vasconcelos (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA XV), Springer-Verlag, LNAI 8624, 2014. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr and J. Leite. Towards Efficient Evolving Multi-Context Systems (Preliminary Report). In S. Ellmauthaler and J. Pühre (eds.) First International Workshop on Reactive Concepts in Knowledge Representation, ReactKnow’14, Prague, Czech Republic, 2014. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, M. Knorr and J. Leite. On Minimal Change in Evolving Multi-Context Systems (Preliminary Report). In S. Ellmauthaler and J. Pühre (eds.) First International Workshop on Reactive Concepts in Knowledge Representation, ReactKnow’14, Prague, Czech Republic, 2014. [PDF]

  • M. Slota, M. Balaz and J. Leite. On Strong and Default Negation in Answer-Set Program Updates. Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 13(4-5-Online supplement), 2014. [PDF]

  • M. Slota and J. Leite. On Condensing a Sequence of Updates in Answer-Set Programming. In F. Rossi (Ed.) Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’13), pp.1097-1103, AAAI Press, 2013. [PDF]

  • V. Ivanov, M. Knorr and J. Leite. A Query Tool for EL with Non-monotonic Rules. In H. Alani and L. Kagal (Eds.) Proceedings of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC’13), pp216-231, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 8218, 2013. [PDF]

  • V. Ivanov, M. Knorr and J. Leite. NoHR: Querying EL with Non-monotonic rules. In E. Blomqvist and T. Groza (Eds.) Proceedings of the ISWC 2013 Posters & Demos Track, CEUR, 2013. [PDF]

  • R. Gonçalves, J. Leite, M. Knorr, and M. Slota. Non-monotonic Temporal Goals. In P. Cabalar and T. C. Son (Eds.), Procs. of the Twelveth International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR’13), pp.374-386 , Springer-Verlag, LNAI 8148, 2013. [PDF]

  • M. Slota, M. Balaz and J. Leite. Early Recovery in Logic Program Updates. In P. Cabalar and T. C. Son (Eds.), Procs. of the Twelveth International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR’13), pp.512-517, Springer-Verlag, LNAI 8148, 2013. [PDF]

  • M. Knorr, A. Gabaldon, R. Gonçalves, J. Leite and M. Slota. Time is up! - Norms with Deadlines in Action Languages. In J. Leite, T. C. Son, P. Torroni, L. Van der Torre and S. Woltran (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA XIV), pp.223-238, Springer-Verlag, LNAI 8143, 2013. [PDF]

  • S. Egilmez, J. Martins and J. Leite. Extending Social Abstract Argumentation with votes on attacks. In E. Black, S. Modgil and N. Oren (Eds.) Procs of 2nd International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA'13), 2013. [PDF]

  • J. Alferes, R. Gonçalves and J. Leite. Equivalence of defeasible normative systems. Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics 23(1–2): 25–48, 2013. [PDF]

  • S. Modgil, F. Toni, F. Bex, I. Bratko, C. I. Chesñevar, W. Dvořák, M. A. Falappa, X. Fan, S. A Gaggl, A. J. García, M. P. González, T. F. Gordon, J. Leite, M. Možina, C. Reed, G. R. Simari, S. Szeider, P. Torroni, and S. Woltran. The added value of argumentation. Chapter 21 in Agreement Technologies, Law, Governance and Technology Series 8, pp. 357-404. Springer-Verlag, 2013. [PDF]

  • M. Knorr, A. Gabaldon, R. Gonçalves, J. Leite and M. Slota. Towards Action Languages with Norms and Deadlines. In J. Ji, H. Strass and X. Wang (Eds.), Proceedings of the The Tenth International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action and Change (NRAC’13), Beijing, China, August 2013. [PDF]

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  • M. Homola, M. Knorr, J. Leite and M. Slota. MKNF Knowledge Bases in Multi-Context Systems. In M. Fisher, L. van der Torre, M. Dastani, and G. Governatori (eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA XIII), Springer-Verlag, LNAI 7486, Montpellier, France, August 27-28, pages 146-162, 2012.[PDF] [PDF]

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  • M. Slota and J. Leite. On Semantic Update Operators for Answer-Set Programs. In H. Coelho, R. Studer and M. Wooldridge (ed.) 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010, Proceedings. Volume 215 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pages 957-962, IOS Press 2010. [PDF]

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  • M. Slota and J. Leite. Marrying stable models with belief update. In T. Meyer and E. Ternovska (eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR'10), Toronto, Canada, May 14-16, 2010. [PDF]

  • J. Leite. Playing with Rules. Invited Paper, In M. Baldoni, J.Bentahar, J. Lloyd and B. Van Riemsdijk (eds.), Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VII, Seventh International Workshop, DALT 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 2009, Selected, Revised, and Invited Papers, Springer-Verlag, LNAI 5948, pages 1-19, 2010. [PDF]

  • J. Leite, J. Alferes, and B. Mito. Resource allocation with answer-set programming. In Keith S. Decker, Jaime Sichman, Carles Sierra, and Cristiano Castelfranchi, editors, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), Budapest, Hungary, May 10-15, pages 649-656, 2009. [PDF]

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  • R. H. Bordini, L. Braubach, M. Dastani, A. El F. Seghrouchni, J. J. Gomez-Sanz, J. Leite, G. O'Hare, A. Pokahr and A. Ricci. A Survey of Programming Languages and Platforms for Multi-Agent Systems. Informatica 30(1): 33-44, 2006. [PDF]

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  • J. Dix, J. A. Leite and K. Satoh. A Report on the 2002 Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-agent Systems (CLIMA'02). In The Association for Logic Programming Newsletter, 15(3): 5 pages, August 2002. [PDF]

  • J. A. Leite. Evolving Knowledge Bases - Specification and Semantics. PhD thesis, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, pp xx + 271, July 2002. [PDF]

  • J. A. Leite, J. J. Alferes and L. M. Pereira. MINERVA - A Dynamic Logic Programming Agent Architecture. In J. J. Meyer and M. Tambe (eds.), Intelligent Agents VIII, pages 141-157, Springer-Verlag, LNAI 2333, 2002. [PDF]

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  • J. J. Alferes, P. Dell'Acqua, E. Lamma, J. A. Leite, L. M. Pereira and F. Riguzzi. A Logic Based Approach to Multi-Agent Systems. Invited paper in The Association for Logic Programming Newsletter, 14(3): 13 pages, August 2001. [PDF]

  • J. J. Alferes, A. Brogi, J. A. Leite and L. M. Pereira. Environment-aware Computations via Program Updates. In A. Pettorossi (ed), Pre-Proceedings of the Eleventh International Workshop on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR'01), pages 112-123, Paphos, Cyprus, November 2001. [PDF]

  • J. A. Leite. A Modified Semantics for LUPS. In P. Brazdil and A. Jorge (eds.), Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 10th Portuguese International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'01), pages 261-275, Springer-Verlag, LNAI 2258, December 2001. [PDF]

  • J. A. Leite, J. J. Alferes and L. M. Pereira. On the Use of Multi-dimensional Dynamic Logic Programming to Represent Societal Agents' Viewpoints. In P. Brazdil and A. Jorge (eds.), Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 10th Portuguese International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'01), pages 276-289, Springer-Verlag, LNAI 2258, December 2001. [PDF]

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  • J. A. Leite, J. J. Alferes and L. M. Pereira. Combining Societal Agents' Knowledge. In L. M. Pereira and P. Quaresma (eds.), Procs. of the APPIA-GULP-PRODE'01 Joint Conference on Declarative Programming (AGP'01), pages 313-327, Évora, Portugal, September 2001. [PDF]

  • J. A. Leite, J. J. Alferes and L. M. Pereira. Multi-dimensional Dynamic Knowledge Representation. In T. Eiter, W. Faber and M. Truszczynski, Procs. of the Sixth International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR'01), pages 365-378, Springer-Verlag, LNAI 2173, 2001. [PDF]

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  • J. A. Leite, F. C. Pereira, A. Cardoso and L. M. Pereira. Metaphorical Mapping consistency via Dynamic Logic Programming. In G. Wiggins (ed.), Procs. of the AISB Symposium on Creative and Cultural Aspects and Applications of AI and Cognitive Science (AISB'00), pages 41-50, AISB, Birmingham, England, April 2000. [PDF]

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Reference: PTDC/CCI-INF/32219/2017

Role: PI

The project aimed developing a theory, architecture and tools to forget information from data and knowledge bases.


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RIVER - Reasoning with Knowledge and Streams

Dates: 2018-2022

Funding Agency: FCT

Reference: PTDC/CCI-COM/30952/2017

Role: Co-PI

The project aimed at developing a theory, architecture and tools to joint use of knowledge bases and data streams.


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The Politics of constraints: Discursive strategies in a three-level game

Dates: 2017-2019

Funding Agency: Santander-Totta

Reference: SantanderTotta/2017

Role: Co-PI

This award-winning collaborative research project aimed determining how political decision-makers in Portugal, France and Spain legitimize their public policy choices in public opinion at a time when governments are strongly constrained by international actors, particularly by the European Union and the financial markets.


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Bridging Theory and Practice: Update Semantics and Multi-shot ASP

Dates: 2017-2019

Funding Agency: FCT

Reference: 441.00.DAAD

Role: Co-PI

The project aimed at bridging the gap between theory and practice regarding update answer set semantics for dynamic logic programs and multi-shot Answer Set Programming (ASP) solving.


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Knowledge-Aware Cyber-Physical Systems

Dates: 2015-2019

Funding Agency: NSF

Reference: CNS-1446712

Role: Participant

The project, (led by A. Platzer, CMU), aimed at investigating the fundamental problem of the limits of knowledge in cyber-physical systems.


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ERRO - Efficient Reasoning with Rules and Ontologies

Dates: 2011-2015

Funding Agency: FCT

Reference: PTDC/EIA-CCO/121823/2010

Role: PI

The project aimed at developing a theory, architecture and tools to joint use of knowledge representation rules and ontologies.


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ReDik - Reasoning with Dynamic and Incomplete Knowledge

Dates: 2011-2013

Funding Agency: FCT

Reference: FCT/2487/3/6/2011/S

Role: PI

The project aimed at addressing the problem of reconciling different reasoning techniques to deal with inconsistent knowledge in dynamic, open and heterogeneous domains.


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ASPEN - Answer Set Programming with BoolEaN Satisfiability

Dates: 2010-2014

Funding Agency: FCT

Reference: PTDC/EIA-CCO/110921/2009

Role: Local-PI

The project, (led by I. Lynce, IST/UL) aimed at providing a flexible albeit competitive Answer Set Programming solver, which will be able to take into account the user needs and preferences.


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DiFoS - Dialogical Foundations of Semantics

Dates: 2009-2013

Funding Agency: ESF

Reference: LogICCC/0001/2007

Role: Participant

The DiFoS project, (led by R. Kahle) aimed at describing the foundational value of Lorenzen's dialogical logic, and embed it into a modern scientific context taking into account its historical roots.


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Asia-Link - Computational Logic as a Foundation for Computer Science and Intelligent Systems

Dates: 2004-2007

Funding Agency: EU

Reference: IST Asia-Link/VN/001

Role: Participant

This project, (led by S. Hölldobler, TU Dresden) aimed at promoting Computational Logic in Southeast Asia.


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FLUX - FleXible Logical Updates

Dates: 2002-2005

Funding Agency: FCT

Reference: POSI/SRI/40958/2001

Role: Participant

The project (led by J. Alferes) aimed at establishing a extensible declarative language for the speci cation of dynamic knowledge, and to apply it to realistic application domains.


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TARDE - Tabulation and Revision in a Distributed Prolog Environment

Dates: 2001-2004

Funding Agency: FCT

Reference: PRAXIS XXI C/EEI/12097/98

Role: Participant

The project (led by C. Damásio) aimed at the cross fertilisation of the know-how in the implementation of PROLOG distributed systems with the know-how in tabling systems and reasoning techniques.


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MENTAL - Mental Agents Architecture in Logic

Dates: 1997-2000

Funding Agency: FCT

Reference: PRAXIS 2/2.1/TIT/1593/95

Role: Participant

The project (led by L. M. Pereira) aimed at developing a logic programming architecture for rational multiple agents comprising combinations of various modes of reasoning, updating, planning, learning, and applications.


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ACROPOLE - Actions and reasoning in Extended Logic Programming

Dates: 1994-1999

Funding Agency: FCT

Reference: PRAXIS XXI PBIC/C/TIT/2519/95

Role: Participant

The project (led by J. Alferes) aimed at defining a logic programming language sensitive to stimuli (or triggers), and with action performing abilities too, not just over a program itself but on its environment as well.


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RIEM - A System for Optical Recognition and Interpretation of Printed Music

Dates: 1993-1994

Funding Agency: UC

Reference: UC/PFC/LEE/1

Role: Participant

The project (led by A. Cardoso) aimed at developing a system for Optical Music Recognition and Interpretation.


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Networks

APPLY - European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis

Dates: 2019-2022

Funding Agency: EU

Reference: CA17132

Role: Participant

The European network for Argumentation and Public PoLicY analysis (APPLY) aims to improve the way European citizens understand, evaluate and contribute to public decision-making on such matters of common concern as climate change or energy policies. Addressing this need from a multidisciplinary perspective on argumentation, the APPLY Action identifies gaps between the citizens’, policymakers’ and scholarly experts’ argumentation, and explores ways of treating them.


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SintelNet - European Network for Social Intelligence

Dates: 2011-2014

Funding Agency: EU

Reference: FP7-ICT-2009-C-286370

Role: Participant

SINTELNET is a Coordination Action whose aim is to explore the interplay of future and emerging information technologies and the development of Philosophy, Humanities and the Social Sciences.


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EMCL - ERASMUS-Mundus International M.Sc. Program in Computational Logic

Dates: 2004-2020

Funding Agency: EU

Reference:

Role: Participant

The European Master's Program in Computational Logic (EMCL) was a two years joint MSc programme offering a joint degree between four European universities as a part of the Erasmus Mundus co-operation and mobility programme.


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AgentLink III - Co-ordination Action for Agent Based Computing

Dates: 2004-2006

Funding Agency: EU

Reference: IST-2003-002006

Role: Participant

AgentLink III is a Network of Excellence acting as a unifying focus for agent-based activities, whose long-term goal is to put Europe at the leading edge of international competitiveness in this increasingly important area.


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DALT - Declarative Agent Languages and Tecnologies

Dates: 2003-2012

Funding Agency:

Reference:

Role: Co-Founder

Workshop Series on Declarative Agent Languages and Tecnologies


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CoLogNET - Network of Excellence in Computational Logic

Dates: 2002-2005

Funding Agency: EU

Reference: IST-2001-33123

Role: Participant

CologNet is a network of excellence whose objective is to combine the scattered communities working in Computational Logic into a virtual centre of excellence and to provide an entry point via website, email distribution lists as well as workshops and online documents and a newsletter.


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CLIMA - Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems

Dates: 2000-2014

Funding Agency:

Reference:

Role: Co-Founder

Workshop Series on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems


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Software

SWARG

SWARG is an online debating tool based on Social Abstract Argumentation.


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Pack4Sustain

Pack4Sustain is an online tool to classify packages according to their recyclability.


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NOVA GTI

The NOVA GTI (NOVA Game Theory Interactive) is an experimental platform, to be used as a teaching aid to play games specified in normal and extensive forms, including both perfect and imperfect Information, both through a web-interface or through an API.


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NoHR

NoHR (Nova Hybrid Reasoner) is a plug-in for the ontology editor Protégé that allows its users to query knowledge bases composed of both an Ontology in any of the tractable OWL 2 profiles (and even beyond) and a set of Reasoning Rules.


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DLP

DLP (Dynamic Logic Programming) is an implementation with a web interface that computes the dynamic stable models of a dynamic logic program.


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EVOLP

EVOLP (Evolving Logic Programming) is an implementation with a web interface that computes the evolving stable models of an evolving logic program.


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ERASP

ERASP is a prototypical recommmender system enhanced with features from Answer-Set Programming


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DRASP

DRASP is an implementation that computes the repairs of a relational database implemented in PostgreSQL to restore consistency due to the specification of new integrity constraints.


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RIEM

RIEM is an optical music recognition system that reads scanned sheets of music and outputs SCORE and MIDI files.


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Events

Organisation

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Program Committee Co-Chair

20th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA’17). Nice, France, October/November 2017.

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Program Committee Co-Chair

Fourteenth European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA’14). Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, September 2014.

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Symposium Co-Chair

7th European Starting AI Researcher’ Symposium(STAIRS’14). Prague, Czech Republic, August 2014.

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Workshop Co-Chair

Fourteenth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA XIV). Corunna, Spain, 16-17 September 2013.

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Workshop Co-Chair

Twelfth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA XII). Barcelona, Spain, 17-18 July 2011.

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Workshop Co-Chair

Third International Workshop on Languages Methodologies And Development Tools for Multi-Agent System (LADS’010). Lyon, France, August 30th - September 2nd, 2010.

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Workshop Co-Chair

Eleventh International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA XI). Lisbon, Portugal, 16-17 August 2010.

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Workshop Co-Chair

Second International Workshop on Languages Methodologies And Development Tools for Multi-Agent System (LADS’009). Turin, Italy, 7-11 September 2009.

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Special Session Organiser

Twelfth International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR’08), Sydney, Australia, September 13-15, 2008.

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Summer School Co-Chair

10th European Agent System Summer School (EASSS'08). Caparica, Portugal, 5-9 May 2008.

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Workshop Co-Chair

First International Workshop on Languages Methodologies And Development Tools for Multi-Agent System (LADS’007). Durham, UK, 4-6 September 2007.

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Conference Chair

Ninth European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA'04). Lisbon, Portugal, 27-30 September 2004.

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Workshop Co-Chair

Fifth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA V). Lisbon, Portugal, 29-30 September 2004.

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Workshop Co-Chair

Second International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT'04). New York, USA, 19 September 2004.

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Workshop Co-Chair

Fourth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA IV). Fort Lauderdale, USA, 6-7 January 2004.

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Workshop Co-Chair

First International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT'03). Melbourne, Australia, 15 July 2003.

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Workshop Co-Chair

Third International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA'02). Copenhagen, Denmark, 1 August 2002.

Program Committees (before 2023)

Teaching

University (selection)

Artificial Intelligence

Bachelor in Computer Science and Engineering

Nova University Lisbon

2002-2007; 2009-2010; 2016-current

Computational Game Theory

Master in Computer Science and Engineering

Nova University Lisbon

2016-current

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Master in Computer Science and Engineering

Nova University Lisbon

2011-2015; 2016-2020

Multi-Agent Systems

Master in Computer Science and Engineering

Nova University Lisbon

2003-2008; 2009-2015

Databases

Bachelor in Computer Science and Engineering

Nova University Lisbon

2002-2015

Conferences and Summer Schools

Agent Programming Languages

Course at 17th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS'15), Barcelona, Spain, July 2015.

Programação Orientada a Agentes

Course at Workshop-Escola de Sistemas de Agentes, seus Ambientes e apliCaçcões (WESAAC'14), Porto Alegre, Brazil, May 2014.

Evolving Logic Programming

Tutorial at 2013 Basic Training Camp of the European PhD Program in Computational Logic, Dresden, Germany, November 2013.

Programming Multi-Agent Systems

Course at 13th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS'12), Valencia, Spain, May/June 2012

(joint with K. Hindriks)

Agent Oriented Programming

Course at 7th Workshop-School on Agent Systems, Environments and Applications (WESAAC’12), Florianópolis, Brazil, May 2012.

Programming Multi-Agent Systems

Course at 12th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS'11), Girona, Spain, July 2011

(joint with M. Dastani)

Programming Multi-Agent Systems

Course at 11th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS'09), Turin, August/September 2009

(joint with K. Hindriks)

Programming Languages for Multi-Agent Systems

Course at 9th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS'07), Durham, August 2007

(joint with R. Bordini and M. Dastani)

Answer-Set Programming

Course at EA Summer School on Computational Logic and Logic Foundations of Computer Science, Hanoi, Vietname, July/August 2007.

Programming Languages and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems

Tutorial at 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'09), Budapest, Hungary, May 2009

(joint with M. Dastani and K. Hindriks)

Programming Languages and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems

Tutorial at 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'08), Estoril, Portugal, May 2008

(joint with R. Bordini, M. Dastani and K. Hindriks)

Programming Languages and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems

Tutorial at 6th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'07), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 2007

(joint with R. Bordini, M. Dastani and M. Winikoff)

Programming Languages and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems

Tutorial at 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'06), Honolulu, Hakodate, Japan, May 2006

(joint with R. Bordini, M. Dastani and M. Winikoff)

Contact

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Call:

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