ISCRAM

Positions and Awards

• CNRS Délégation 2019-2020
  • Invited Professor, Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics at University of L’Aquila. September 2019-December 2019
  • Invited Scientist, CSIRO (The Commomwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), Melbourne, Australia. February 2020-May 2020
• Departmental representative on the University Grenoble Alps, UFR SHS council (conseil de l'UFR SHS)
• Honorary member of ISCRAM Association
• Ex-President of the ISCRAM (Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management) Association - Elected
• ISCRAM Distinguished Service Award. 2010. For outstanding support to the ISCRAM Community
• Former Adjunct Full Professor, ICT Department, University of Agder, Norway
• Member of the IFIP Disaster Risk Reduction Domain Committee (invited)
• Membre du collège, IRD CSS5-Commission scientifique 2016-2020
• ISCRAM Member
• INSTICC Member (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication)
• Member of the CoMSES International Network for agent based modeling in the soical and ecological sciences.
• IJATS (International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems). New title from 2018 International Journal of Distributed Artificial Intelligence (IJDAI). Editorial Board Member
• IJISCRAM (International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management). Editorial Board Member
• International Journal on Artificial Intelligence and Application. Editorial Board Member
• International Journal of Simulation: Systems, Science and Technology. Editorial Board Member

Project and Proposal Evaluator

• European Commission (from 2000 to present: Frameworks 5, 6, 7 and H2020). Programmes: IST, NEST, FET, Security, Energy. Keywords: multi-agent systems, simulation, human behaviour modelling, context aware systems, collaborative systems, cognitive systems, complex systems, mobile computing.
• L'Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
• COFECUB, Comité Français d'Évaluation de la Coopération Scientifique et Universitaire avec le Brésil
• Portuguese Research Council (FCT). Funding Area: Computer Science and Engineering

Keynote / Invited Speaker

• Keynote. ISCRAM Asia Pacific 2018, Wellington, New Zealand.
• Invited speaker, Journées de Recherche Scientifique GLORY (Génie Logiciel, environnements intégrés et systèmes complexes communicants), RIADI laboratoire. 6-8 February, 2014.
• Speaker at seminar on 'Le Web: quelles mutations dans la prise des décisions?' Title: Social media in crisis situations. October 2012
• Invited Panelist ISCRAM 2012, Vancouver, Canada, April 2012
• ENSI - L'Ecole Nationale des Sciences de L'informatique, Tunisia (Invited Seminar), January 2012
• ISCRAM-CHINA. Harbin, China. (Keynote). 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.

Conference Program Chair / Track Organiser

• Internet of Things for Emergency Management (IOT4Emergency) Workshop, at IOT 2020, 10th International Conference on the Internet of Things, Sweden, 2020.
• ISCRAM Asia Pacific 2018, Wellington, New Zealand. PhD Colloquium Chair and organiser.
• Associate Editor: Track "Use of ICT in Crisis Situations", European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). 2017, Portugal; 2018 UK.
• ISCRAM Med 2015, 2016, 2017 Conference co-chair.
• HICSS 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. Co and Mini-track Chair, Communication and Information Systems for Crisis and Disaster Management. USA.
• ISCRAM Vietnam 2013 Program Co-Chair
• ISCRAM-CHINA 2012 Program Co-Chair
• COOP 2012 Proceedings Chair, Marseille, France
• ISCRAM 2011 Program Co-Chair. Lisbon, Portugal
• IHM'09 Local Course Organiser, Grenoble.
• ISCRAM Doctoral Colloquium 2012 (Chair), 2009 (Co-Chair), 2007 (Co-Chair).
• ISCRAM 2009 Simulation and Emergency Management Track Co-chair.
• ISCRAM 2013, 2012, 2009, 2008, 2007 Intelligent Systems Track Co-chair
• ISCRAM 2006, Stakeholder Coordination for Crisis Management Track Chair
• ISCRAM 2005, Complexity, Crisis and Robustness Track Chair
• Multi-disciplinary Work, 2002, Workshop Organiser, King's College, London.

Journal Editorship

• Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle (RFIA). Special Issue: Agent based social Simulation. Vol.25, No.1. 2011 Co-editor.

Journal Manuscript Reviewer

• JASSS (Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation)
• CMOT (Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory)
• IJEM (International Journal of Emergency Management)
• Simulation. Transactions of the society for modeling and simulation international
• IJSPM (International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling)
• JITTA (Journal of Information Technology Theory and Applications)
• TFSC (Technological Forecasting and Social Change)
• PLOS ONE
• Communications of the ACM
• Simulation and Gaming Journal
• IJDRR (International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction)
• IJDRS (Inernatinal Journal of Disaster Risk Science)
• International Journal of Emergency Management

PhD Jury Member - as examiner or external examiner (rapporteur)

• Marion Lara Tan (Massey University, New Zealand). "Usability of disaster apps: Understanding the perspectives of the public as end-users". March 2020 (Overseas Examiner).

• Maude Arru (Université Paris-Dauphine). "Introduction de connaissances relatives aux comportements des populations dans les systèmes d'alerte précoce". November, 2019 (Rapporteur)
  
• Simon Pageaud (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1). " Architecture générique pour la co-construction de politiques urbaines basée sur l'apprentissage par renforcement multi-agent". September 2019 (Examiner)
• Justin-Herve M. Noubissi (Université Pierre et Marie Curie). "Modélisation et Simulation spatio-temporelles de systèmes dynamics complexes - application en Epidémiologie : cas du Paludisme. May 2019 (Examiner)
• Galateia Terti (Université Grenoble-Alpes). "Forecasting of flash-flood human impacts integrating the social vulnerability dynamics". March 2017 (Examiner)
• Nguyen-Tuan-Thanh LE (University of Toulouse). "Coordination Models for Crisis Resolution: Discovery, Analysis and Assessment". December 2016 (Rapporteur)
• Jacon Chapman. (University of Nottingham). "Multi-agent Stochastic Simulation of Occupants in Buildings". November 2016 (External Examiner. Equiv. 'Rapporteur')
• Thomas Huraux, (Université Pierre et Marie Curie). "Simulation multi-agent d’un système complexe : combiner des domaines d’expertise par une approche multi-niveau - Le cas de la consommation électrique résidentielle.". Octobre 2015 (Rapporteur)
• Guillaume Macé-Ramète, (Universite de Toulouse délivré par l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux). "Système d’Information de Médiation pour le pilotage réactif et anticipatif de la réponse à une situation de crise : application aux perturbations sur les réseaux routiers". Avril 2015 (Rapporteur)
• Minh Thai TRUONG, (University of Toulouse 1 Capitole) "To develop a database management tool for multi-agent simulation platform". February 2015. (Rapporteur)
• Dimitri Masso, (University of Grenoble) "Inspirez ! Explorez ! Soutien à la créativité en conception d’interfaces homme-machine". September 2014 (Examiner)
• Duncan Wilson (Durham University, UK) "Online optimisation of casualty processing in major incident response". September 2014. (Rapporteur)
• M'hammed Ali Oulhaci (Université d'Aix-Marseille) "Evaluation individuelle et collective dans les jeux sérieux collaboratifs : Application à la gestion de crise. June 2014. (Examiner)
• Santiago Ruano Rincon (Télécom Bretagne/Université de Bretagne-Sud) "Integrating Cultural Factors in User-Interface Design". February 2013. (Examiner)
• Jörn Franke (LORIA/INRIA/Université de Nancy) “Coordination of Activities in Dynamic Situations - The Case of Inter-organizational Crisis Management”. October 2011. (Examiner)
• Thanh-Quang Chu (Paris 6) “Using Agent based models and machine learning to enhance Spatial Decision-Support Systems”. July 2011. (Examiner)

PhD Supervision

• PhD 2019 - Present. Morteza Alaeddini. Subject: A multi-agent architecture for trading on an open and secure interbank money market. Financed by IDEX-IRS 2019. Joint supervision with Paul Reaidy and Philippe Madiès (CERAG lab).
• PhD 2018 - Present. Bouzianne Seiffeddine. Subject: Multi-agent Predicitive system for simulating pollution dur to energy production and usage. Financed by the University of Annaba. Co-supervisor/ Julie Dugdale. In collaboration with the University of Annaba, Algeria.
  
• PhD. 2018 - Present. Rouba Iskandar. Université Grenoble Alpes. Subject: In integrated seismic risk modelling approach including human behaviour. Joint supervision with Elise Beck (PACTE) and Cécile Cornou (ISTerre)
• PhD. 2018 - Present. Manon Predhumeau. Université Grenoble Alpes. Subject: Social navigation of autonomous vehicles among crowds. Joint supervision with Anne Spalanzani, INRIA.
• PhD. 2016 - Present. Antoine Flepp, Orange Labs, Caen, France. Subject: Creation of knowledge from professional tools for communication and collaboration
• PhD. 2015 - 2019.  Completed. Julius Bangate, Université Grenoble Alpes. Subject: Multiagent modelling and simulation of seismic crisis.
• PhD. 2013 - 2016. Completed. Lauren Thévin, Université Grenoble Alpes. Subject: Un Système Multi-Agent normatif pour le soutien évaluatif
  à la collaboration Humain-Machine : application à la gestion de crise. Joint supervision with Catherine Garbay, AMA team, LIG and Olivier Bossier, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne.
• PhD. 2012 - 2017. Completed. Sabri Ghazi, Université Badj-Malhtar, Annaba, Algeria. Subject: Approche multi-agent pour la simulation de la pollution de l'air. Joint supervision with Pr. Khadir Mohamed Tarek, LabGED, Université de Annaba.
• PhD. 2012 - June 2015. Completed. Parvaneh Sarshar, University of Agder, Norway. Subject: Smartphone Support for Best Practive Evacuation Policies. Joint supervision with Jose J. Gonzalez and Ole-Christoffer Granmo.
• PhD. 2011 - 2014. Completed. Ayesha Kashif, Université Joseph Fourrier. Subject: Human Behaviour Modelling for Energy Management. Joint G-SCOP / LIG Supervision.
• PhD. 1999 - 2002. Completed. James Marshall. De Montfort University. Subject: An investigation into kin selection and reciprocal cooperation in viscous populations. Keywords: agent-based simulation, genetic algorithms, kin selection theory, reciprocal cooperation.
• PhD. 1995 - 1998. Completed. David Rozier. De Montfort University. Subject: Qualitative modelling and simulation of physical systems for a diagnostic purpose. Keywords: simulation, model-based reasoning, fault diagnosis, qualitative reasoning, causality.

Selection Committee for Assistant Professor and other Posts

• Ingénieur d'études (IRD) 2017
• MCF Université de Technologie de Troyes (Informatics) 2013
• MCF Université Pierre-Mendès France (section 27) 2013
• MCF Université Toulouse 1 (section 27), 2010, 2013, 2019
• MCF Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (section 27) 2012 and 2015
• Assistant Professor, ICT. University of Agder, Norway, Faculty of Engineering and Science, 2011

 
Program/Scientific Committee

• AAMAS (Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems) 2021. 3-7 May, London, UK.
• JFSMA 2017, Journées Francophones sur les Systèmes Multi-Agents, 3-7 July, Caen, France.
• International Workshop on Context and Emergency Management (CAEM 2017), June, Paris, France.
• WorldCIST 2017, 2018, 2019, World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies.
• IFIP conference on IT in Disaster Risk Reduction, 2016, 2017
• Advisory Board/Technical Program Committee ICACDS, Advances in Computing and Data Sciences (ICACDS-2016) on 29-30 July 2016
• L'atelier Jeux Video et IA de la PFIA. 29 juin au 3 juillet, 2015 à Rennes.
• WSC 2014 Agent Based Simulation, Winter Simulation Conference. 7-10 December 2014, Savannah, USA.
• SIMULTECH 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH).
• SIMUL 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020. International Conference on Advances in System Simulation.
• ABSEA (Agent-based modeling and simulation of complex systems: engineering and applications) Workshop, PAAMS (Practical Applications of Multi-Agent Systems), 2014.
• ISCRAM Med 2014, 15-17 October, Toulouse, France.
• SAGEO 2014. Atelier: Innovation géomatique pour la gestion des risques naturels.
• ICT Conference 2013, Can Tho City, Viet Nam. 1st November 2013.
• MASyCo (Modélisation Agents pour les Systèmes Complexes) Workshop. Co-located with the JFSMA (Journées Francophones sur les Systèmes Multi-Agents. 1-5 July 2013. Lille, France.
• WACAI 2012 - Workshop Affect, Comagnon Artificial, Interaction. 15th/16th November 2012 (Organizing Committee)
• Intelligent Systems Development Session, 6th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems, 13th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems. November, 2012, Kobe, Japan
• International Conference on the Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation 2012 (EPOS)
• International conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2005 to 2020)
• International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 2009).
• Agent Technology for Disaster Management (ADTM 2010) workshop, during PRIMA 09
• Brazilian Symposium on Arificial Intelligence (SBIA), 2010, 2012; including the Workshop on Social Simulation (2009, 2010, 2014)
• 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 Workshop on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM-CHINA 2007).
• Agent-Directed Simulation Conference. (ADS) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.
• Summer Computer Simulation Conference, (SCSC) 2005, 2006, 2007.
• Middle Eastern Simulation Multiconference (MESM) 2005,2006, 2007.
• Asian Simulation Technology Conference (ASTEC) 2007, 2012
• International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP). 2008 (Workshop Chair), 2010, 2012 (Proceedings Chair), 2014, 2016.
• International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. ICAART-2009, ICAART-2012, ICAART-2013, ICAART-2014, ICAART-2015, ICAART 2016, ICAART 2017, ICAART 2018, ICAART 2019.
• International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-agent systems (PAAMS) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.
• Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence. EPIA2009, EPIA2011, EPIA2013, EPIA2018. Social Simulation and Modelling Track
• CT2CM track ( Collaborative Technology for Coordinating Crisis Management) within the WETICE conference, 2011, 2012, 2013
• International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Application. Editorial Board Member.