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Sergio
Alejandro Gomez
is currently working as Full-time Adjoint Professor
(Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad
Nacional del Sur, Argentina) where he teaches Computer
Programming and Data Structures and Part-time Associate
Professor (Facultad Regional Bahia Blanca, Universidad
Tecnológica Nacional) where
he teaches Fundamentals of Informatics. His education
includes a PhD in Computer Science (Universidad Nacional
del Sur, Argentina, 2009), a Master in Computer
Science (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina, 2004), a
Bachelor of Science
(Graduate degree in Informatics (Licenciado en
Informática), Universidad Nacional de
La Plata, 2001) and Computing Analyst (Undergraduate
degree in Informatics, Analista
de Computación), Universidad Nacional de La Plata,
1995. For his graduate studies he was awarded with the
Joaquin V. Gonzalez distinction to best students. He
performs his research at the Artificial Intelligence
Research Lab LIDIA (Lab director: Dr.
Guillermo Simari). His research interests include
Defeasible Argumentation, Semantic Web, ontologies,
Knowledge representation. He has category 4 (four), (1 is
the
highest, 5 the lowest) in Programa de Incentivos a la
Investigación (Argentinian Government Research
Program). He has participated as member in several
research projects since 2003 under the supervision of
Guillermo Simari. He was also a member of DAAD-SECYT
project in 2007 (directors: Carlos Ivan Chesnevar, UNS,
Argentina, and
Jurgen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal,
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Carlos
Ivan Chesnevar
is one of the key persons of the research team. He is
Independent Researcher from the National Council of
Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) of Argentina
since 2004. Associate Professor at the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering of the Universidad
Nacional
del Sur (Bahía Blanca, Argentina). Posdoctoral
activities at the University of Lleida (Spain) as hired
researcher
(Academic Excellence Program Ramon y Cajal, Ministry of
Science and Technology, Spain), from 2003 to 2007.
He has led several scientific projects related to
argumentation and technological applications, supported by
different funding agencies (DAAD Germany, CONICET
Argentina, Microsoft Research USA, etc.).
He is currently member of the Assessment Committe of the
Argentinean government for appointing researchers in
Computer Science within the national research system
(CONICET). He has been also representing Argentina as a
non-European expert in argumentation within an ESF-funded
COST action on Agreement Technologies .
He has carried out research stances in different
universities (Imperial College, London, UK ; University
Leipzig,
Leipzig, Germany; Washington University, USA, etc.). He
has supervised several PhD and MSc Theses in Computer
Science, particularly related to argumentation in
Artificial Intelligence and its applications. He has
participated as PC member in most major AI conferences
(IJCAI, AAMAS, ECSQARU, etc.).
He has published more than 20 journal articles, 7 book
chapters and more than 100 papers in international
and national conferences in his research area. |
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M. Lucero |
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Adrian Groza
received his Phd in 2008 from Technical University of
Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He is member in Open Agent Based
Modeling Consortium (din 2013), Int. Assoc. for Artificial
Intelligence and Law (din 2012), Computer Science Teacher
Assoc@ACM (din 2011), Special Interest Group on Human
Computer Interaction ROCHI@ACM (din 2004). He served on
several program committees of international conferences:
ICCP (Cluj-Napoca, RO), CT (Praga, Cehia,), CDT (Venetia,
Italia), SSW (Barcelona, Spania), MCCSIS (Lisabona,
Portugalia), ICCT (Freiburg, Germania), ICITST (Londra,
UK), NDT (Ostrava, Cehia), RoCHi (Iasi, RO). He has been a
reviewer for some international journals: International
Journal on Semantic Web and Inf. Systems, Argument
Computation, Information Technology Research. His research
interests are multi-agent systems, normative reasoning and
knowledge representation. |
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Ioan Alfred
Letia
is a key person of the research team. He is a full
professor in the Department of Computer Science of the
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and head of the
Intelligent Systems Group.
He is a correspondent member of the Academy for Technical
Sciences in Romania since 1999. He received his Ph.D. in
1975 from the City University, London, UK. He is also
member of the Association for Computing Machinery
(1995-1998, 2004-Date), Gesellschaft fur Informatik,
Artificial Intelligence, Germany (since 1991), IEEE,
Computer Society (1992-1994, 2006-2008). His professional
activities include: guest Resercher, National University
of Singapore, Singapore (April 2002), guest Researcher,
McGill University, Montreal, Canada (May 2001), Course on
''Simulation of Organizations`` taught at the Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2000-2001), guest
Researcher, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(Sep 2000), Tempus Programme Visitor, Hamburg University,
Germany (Nov 1999 ), RoboCup Championship, Paris, France,
place 18 in class ''simulated soccer`` (July 1998), local
Organizer of the 1st ACM Summer School for Central and
Eastern Europe, Belis-Fintinele, Romania (July 1996),
Adjunct Faculty; Course on Object-Oriented Technology in
Information Systems Analysis and Design, Loyola College in
Maryland, Baltimore, USA (Jan-May 1996), Tempus Programme
Visitor Southampton University, UK (Nov. 1995), Guest
Researcher Universities of Saarland and Konstanz, Germany
(Oct-Nov.1994), Tempus Programme Visitor Exeter University
and University of Edinburgh, UK (Nov. 1993). He served on
several program committees of international conferences
and has been a reviewer for some international journals.
He is the program chair of the annual IEEE International
Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and
Processing held in Cluj-Napoca since 2006.
His current research interests include flexible
multi-agent communication, and checking the normative
processes. |
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Anca Goron
is a Phd. student at Technical Universitty of Cluj-Napoca,
Department of Computer Science and member of the Intelligent
Systems Group. Her current research interests
regard model checking and hybrid logics. |