Section: Dissemination

Conference, workshop, PhD and HDR committees, invited talks

Journal and Conference reviewing

• Olivier Buffet was a reviewer for the conferences: JFPDA-09, RFIA-10, SAS-09; and for the journals: AIJ (Artificial Intelligence Journal), JAIR (Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research), RIA (Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle), SMC-C (IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - C) .

• Alain Dutech has been a reviewer for JFPDA-2009, for two special issues of RIA (JFPDA and Agents' Rights) and for the following journals: RIA; JAAMAS.

• Bruno Scherrer was a reviewer for ICML, IJCAI, RFIA and JFPDA.

• Alexis Scheuer was a reviewer for AIAA JGCD (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics), for IEEE TRO (Transactions on Robotics) and for Elsevier's international journal SIMPAT (Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory).

• Olivier Simonin was a reviewer for TAAS (ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems), Mechatronics (International Journal), for the conferences JFSMA'09, JFSMA'10, HUMOUS'10, FIRA ICER09 & ICSR09, and for the workshops MMAS'09 (AAMAS workshop), AT2AI-7 (2010), SIM'09, SIM'10 and ACM SAC'09.

• Vincent Thomas was a reviewer for AAMAS09 (Autonomous Agents and Multi Agents Systems), ISA-IADIS 2009 (Intelligent Systems and Agents) and JFPDA-2009.

Conference organization, Program committees, Editorial boards

• MAIA is a leading force in the PDMIA group (Processus Décisionnels de Markov et Intelligence Artificielle) and played a great part in the annual meeting of the group. This year, the group annual meeting was held in Paris as the fourth edition of the JFPDA conference (JFPDA'09) where people from the planning community exchanged with people from reinforcement learning .

• Vincent Chevrier is a member of:

  • the editorial board of Interstices(http://interstices.info ), a site to disseminate research work about computer science for French-speaking person,

  • the advisory board of JFSMA (Journées Francophones sur les Systèmes Multi-Agents)

  • the program committee of AAMAS 09 and AAMAS 10 (the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems) ; Eumas09 (European workshop on multi-agent systems) ; ICAART09 (the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence) ; MCPC 2009 (the international Conference on Mobile Communications and Pervasive Computing) ; and SSS09 (track on Self-Organizing Systems at the International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems).

• Vincent Chevrier is the moderator of the mailing list of the French spoken community on multi-agent systems.

• François Charpillet was a member of the following conference committees:

  • Cinquièmes Journées Francophones Modèles Formels de l'Interaction, 2009,

  • JFSMA'09 (Journées Francophones sur les Systèmes Multi-Agents),

  • SFTAG 2009 (congrès de la Société Française des Technologies pour l'Autonomie et de Gérontechnologie),

  • MSDM 2009 - 2010 (Multi-agent Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Domains),

  • ECAI 2010 (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence).

• François Charpillet is member of the editorial committee of "revue d'intelligence Artificielle".

• Christine Bourjot, Vincent Chevrier and Olivier Simonin are members of the working group "Colline” (AFIA, GDR I3).

• Christine Bourjot is member of the scientific council of CogniEst “Reseau Grand Est des Sciences Cognitives”

• Christine Bourjot is member of the administration council of ARCo “Association for cognitive research”

• Joerg Hoffmann is Conference Co-Chair of the “20th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling” (ICAPS 2010).

• Joerg Hoffmann is an Associate Editor of the “Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research” (JAIR).

• Joerg Hoffmann is Area Chair for Planning of “AI Communications”.

• Joerg Hoffmann was a member of the following conference program committee:

  • Senior Program Committee of the 19th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2009)

  • Senior Program Committee of the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2009)

  • Program Committee of the 6th International Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization (CPAIOR 2009)

• Olivier Simonin was a member of the following conference Program Committee:

  • JFSMA'09 (Journées Francophones sur les Systèmes Multi-Agents).

  • HUMOUS'2010 (Conference on Humans Operating Unmanned Systems).

  • ICSR 09 Inter. Conference on Social Robotics (FIRA RoboWorld Congress).

  • ICER 09 Inter. Conference on Entertainment Robotics (FIRA RoboWorld Congress).

  • SIM 09 track on Advances in Computer Simulation at ACM Symp. on Applied Computing (SAC 09).

  • AT2AI-7, Seventh International Symposium "From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation" co-located with the 20th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR'2010), 2010.

• Olivier Buffet is a member of the editorial board of the “revue d'intelligence artificielle” (RIA).

• Vincent Thomas was a member of IADIS 2009 program committee.

PhD and HDR committees

• François Charpillet was a member of the following PhD committees:

  • (as a reviewer) Jilles Dibangoye, Contributions à la résolution des processus décisionnels de Markov centralisés et décentralisés: Algorithmes et Théorie, decembre 2009, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada.

  • (as a reviewer) Jean Michel Contet, Modèle multi-agents réactifs pour la navigation multi-véhicules: Spécification formelle et Vérification, UTBM, 4 décembre 2009

  • (as a reviewer) Marc Ricordeau, Espace de Généralisation pour l'Apprentissage par Renforcement, Université de Montpellier, 16 juillet 2009.

  • (as a reviewer) Frédéric Maris, Planification SAT et Planification temporellement expressive : les systèmes TSP et TLP-GP, 18 septembre, université de Toulouse

  • (as a committee member) Nadir Karam, Agrégation de données décentralisées pour la localisation multi-véhicules, Université de Clermont Ferrant. 15 decembre 2009.

• François Charpillet was a member of the following HDR committees:

  • (as a reviewer) Nicolas Bredeche, contributions to evolutionary design of embodied agents: from autonomous artificial creatures to self-organizing, self-adaptive swarm of embodied agents, Univ. Paris-Sud XI, INRIA, CNRS., 7 décembre 2009.

  • (as a reviewer) Régis Sabbadin, Modèles et Algorithmes pour la Décision Séquentielle dans l'Incertain, Université de Toulouse, 5 février 2009.

• Vincent Chevrier was a member of the following PhD Committees:

  • (as a reviewer) Maya Ruppert, Univ Claude bernard Lyon 1, September 2009.

• Joerg Hoffmann was a member of the PhD committee of Hector Palacios (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain), dec. 2009.

Specialist Committees (commission de spécialistes)

• François Charpillet is a member of the “Specialist Committees” in INPL Nancy and UTBM Belfort.

• Olivier Simonin is a member of the “Specialist Committees” in UHP.

• Bruno Scherrer is a member of the “Specialist Committees” in Lille 3.

• Olivier Buffet is a member of a “Specialist Committee” in UTBM.

Other responsibilities

• François Charpillet is member of the AERES evaluation committee for LIRMM.

• Olivier Simonin is a member of the LORIA Direction team, in charge of the scientific theme “Perception, Action, Cognition” (until 31 dec. 2009).

• Olivier Simonin is a member of the “comipers-chercheur” 2010, the INRIA Nancy Grand Est examination committee for scientific employees (doctoral and post-doctoral positions).

• Olivier Simonin is a member of the “operation committee” of the MIS Project (Modélisation, Interaction, Simulation) of CPER MISN INRIA & Region Lorraine.

• Vincent Chevrier is member of the “comipers”, the INRIA Lorraine LORIA examination committee for scientific employees.

• Olivier Buffet is a member of the “CDT”, the INRIA Nancy Grand-Est committee for technologic developments.