Collective Responsibilities

Project Proposals and Results Evaluator

  • European Commission. I am involved in evaluating project proposals and ongoing projects for Frameworks 5, 6 and 7 (2000-2010) in Programmes: IST, NEST, FET (IP, SSA, STREP, CA). Keywords: Multi-agent, context aware systems, complex systems, collaborative systems, mobile computing, embedded systems, collaborative systems.
  • L'Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)

Conference Chair/Workshop & Special Sessions Organiser

  • Program Co-Chair ISCRAM 2011 (forthcoming) Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Local organiser for courses at IHM'09 (Interaction Homme-Machine) conference.
  • ISCRAM Doctoral Colloquium Co-organiser ISCRAM 2009.
  • ‘Simulation and Emergency Management’, Track Co-Chair ISCRAM 2009.
  • ISCRAM Doctoral Colloquium Co-organiser ISCRAM 2009.
  • ‘Intelligent Systems for Crisis and Disaster Management’, Track Co-Chair ISCRAM 2008, ISCRAM 2009.
  • ‘Advanced Information Technologies for Crisis and Disaster Management’, Special Session at ISCRAM 2007.
  • ISCRAM Doctoral Colloquium Organiser ISCRAM 2007.
  • Organiser of the Mike Meleshkin Award for best PhD paper, ISCRAM 2007.
  • ‘Stakeholder Coordination for Crisis Management’ Special Session at ISCRAM 2006.
  • ‘Complexity, Crisis and Robustness’, Special Session at the International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Management (ISCRAM) 2005.
  • 'The Practicality of Multi-disciplinary Work', Workshop Organiser. King’s College, London, December 2002.

Program Committee/Scientific Committee Membership/Reviewer

  • Autonoumous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 2009).
  • European Simulation Multiconference (ESM 1999 - Session Chair, ESM 2005, ESM 2006, ESM 2007).
  • European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2007, 2008, 2009).
  • Agent-Based Simulation ABS II, III, IV, V, VI, VII (2001-2006).
  • Future Business Technology Conference (FUBUTEC) 2005,2006, 2007, 2008.
  • International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications: CITSA 2004.
  • International conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2005, ISCRAM 2006, ISCRAM 2007, ISCRAM 2008, ISCRAM 2009).
  • International Workshop on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM-CHINA 2007).
  • Agent-Directed Simulation Conference. (ADS) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.
  • Summer Computer Simulation Conference, (SCSC) 2005, 2006, 2007.
  • Middle Eastern Simulation Multiconference (MESM) 2005,2006, 2007.
  • Asian Simulation Technology Conference (ASTEC) 2007.
  • International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP). 2008 (Workshop Chair), 2010.
  • International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. ICAART-2009, ICAART-2010, ICAART-2011
  • International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-agent systems (PAAMS) 2009, 2010
  • Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence. EPIA2009. Social Simulation and Modelling Track
  • Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence. SBIA 2010. Social Simulation and Modelling Track

Journal Reviewer

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS). Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA). International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling (IJSPM). International Journal of Emergency Management (IJEM), Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International.

Invited Speaker / Keynotes

  • ISCRAM-CHINA 2010. Harbin, China. Title: Modelling and Simulating Crisis Situations. September 2010.
  • Internet Based Control Education International conference (IBCE 04, IFAC). Grenoble, France. Title: Issues in designing usable interfaces for educational software. August 2004.
  • The University of Buckingham, UK. Invited Speaker, Seminar. Title: Agent-based social simulation.

PhD and Masters Supervisor

  • Masters: Uta Hellinger (2007), Yann Henri (2008), Utku Ketenci (2009), Ayesha Khalid (2010), Lyuba Mancheva (2010), Mihail Velichkov (2009).
  • PhD: Ayesha Khalid (in progress); James Marshall (completed 2002) "An investigation into kin selection and reciprocal cooperation in viscous populations".; David Rozier. (completed 1998) "Qualitative modelling and simulation of physical systems for a diagnostic purpose".

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