Section: Dissemination

Animation of the scientific community

Conference organization, Program committees, Editorial boards

• Olivier Buffet is a member of the editorial board of both the “revue d'intelligence artificielle” (RIA) and the “Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research” (JAIR).

• Olivier Buffet was a reviewer for the journals: JAIR (Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research), IJAR (International Journal on Approximate Reasoning), RIA (Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle); and for the conferences IJCAI'11 (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence), AAAI'11 (National Conference on Artificial Intelligence), UAI'11 (Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence), ICRA'12 (International Conference on Robotics and Automation), IROS'11 (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems), JFPDA'11 (Journées Francophones sur la Planification, la Décision et l'Action pour le contrôle de systèmes), Solstice'10 (Summer Solstice International Conference on Discrete Models of Complex Systems).

• Vincent Chevrier was a reviewer for the journals: ACM TAAS (Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems), JAAMAS (Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent System);

• Vincent Chevrier was 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 (JournÈes Francophones sur les SystËmes Multi-Agents)

  • the program committee of EUMAS 11 (European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems) , IAT 11 (Intelligent Agent Technology), RFIA12 (Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle).

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

• Alain Dutech was a reviewer for JFPDA'11 (Journées Francophones de Planification, Décision, Apprentissage) and UAI'11 (Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence).

• Jörg Hoffmann is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and Area Chair for Planning of AI Communications. In 2011, he was a member of the Senior Program Committees of AAAI'11 (the American Conference on Artificial Intelligence), IJCAI'11 (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence), and ICAPS'11 (International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling). He was a member of the Program Committees of SOCS'11 (International Symposium on Combinatorial Search) and KI'11 (German Conference on Artificial Intelligence).

• Jörg Hoffmann has been appointed to be Program Chair (together with Prof. Bart Selman, Cornell University, USA) for AAAI'12, the 26th edition of the AAAI series which is one of the two most important international conferences in the area.

• Alexis Scheuer was a reviewer for the journal MENG (Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering, Bentham Science Publishers), as well as for the last two more important conferences in robotics, IROS'11 (IEEE-RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) and ICRA'12 (International Conference on Robotics and Automation).

• Olivier Simonin was a program committee member of SASO'2011 (Fifth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems), ICINCO'2011 (9th Int. Conf. on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics), ICAART'2012 (4th Int. Conf. on Agents and AI.) and JFSMA'2011 (French conference on MAS). He also reviewed papers for IROS'2011 (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) and ICRA'2012 (International Conference on Robotics and Automation). In 2012 he will be Chair Man of the Contest track of SASO'2012.

• Vincent Thomas was a reviewer for ISA2011 (Intelligent Systems and Agents) and IJCAI2011 (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence).

Specialist Committees (commissions de spécialistes)

• Vincent Chevrier was a member of the “Specialist Committees” in Université Henri Poincaré

PhD and HDR committees

• Olivier Buffet was a member of the following PhD committees:

  • (as a committee member) Arnaud Glad, Etude de l’auto-organisation dans les algorithmes de patrouille multi-agent fondés sur les phéromones digitales, 15 Nov. 2011, Univ. Nancy 2;

  • (as a committee member) Romain Grasset-Bourdel, Planification et replanification pour une constellation de satellites agiles d'observation de la Terre, 30 Nov. 2011, Univ. de Toulouse;

  • (as a committee member) Boris Lesner, Planification et apprentissage par renforcement avec modèles d’actions compacts, 8 Dec. 2011, Univ. de Caen.

• Vincent Chevrier was a member of the following PhD and HDR committees:

  • as a referee: Laurent Poligny, de l'ordinateur à la machine: création et régulation du traitement des données, 10 janv. 2011, Univ Evry; Richard Moussa Segmentation multi-agent en imagerie biologique et médicale: application aux IRM 3D, 12 Dec 2011, Univ. Bordeaux 1.

• Jörg Hoffmann was a member of the PhD committee of Etesham Zahoor (10 Nov 2011).

Scientific Diffusion

• Jörg Hoffmann was an Invited Speaker at KI'11, the 34th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The title of his (45 min) talk was “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Planning (But Were Afraid to Ask)”. He also published an invited paper on this subject, in the KI'11 proceedings [24] .

• Jörg Hoffmann was an Invited Speaker at the 2011 International Summer School on Automated Planning and Scheduling. The title of his (90 min) talk was “Evaluating Planning Algorithms, or: How to Count Sheep?”.