Professor Mordechai Ben Ari,
Weizmann Institute, Israel
Moti Ben Ari researches into Computer Science Education, and has been highly influential in the study of conceptual models of software artefacts.
Dr Chris Beck,
University of Toronto, Canada
Chris Beck is an expert in optimization, heuristic search, constraint programming, constraint-directed scheduling, hybrid algorithms, dynamic and uncertain problems, and problem modeling
Dr Adi Botea,
Australian National University, Australia
Adi Botea works in planning, heuruistic search and games. A major thrust of his work is in the automated construction of macros for use in planning. He developed the Macro-FF planning system.
Professor Rowena Cullen,
University of Victoria, New Zealand
Rowena Cullen's research interests encompass e-government, health informatics, and evaluating information services.
Dr Antonio Garrido,
University of Valencia, Spain
Toni Garrido works in the integration of planning and scheduling, and the solution of resource intensive planning problems. He developed the temporal planning system, TPSYS.
Dr Malte Helmert,
University of Freiburg, Germany
Malte Helmert is well known for his work in the complexity of planning and the analysis of planning domains as well as in the development of fast planning systems. He developed the Fast Downward planning system which proposed a novel search heuristic based on exploitation of problem structure.
Dr Peter Andrea Heuch,
National Veterinary Institute, Norway
Dr Heuch's research interests are in the area of biology and ecology of parasitic crustaceans, from epidemiology to genetics and behaviour. He is one of the many subject specialists collaborating with the data and statistical modellers from the epi-informatics group.
Professor Kalervo Jarvelin,
University of Tampere, Finland
Kalervo Jarvelin researches into information seeking and retrieval, query formulation, IR interfaces, cross-language IR and document databases.
Sergio Jiminez,
University of King Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Sergio Jimenez is a PhD student working with Daniel Borajo in planning under uncertainty and machine learning to determine plan robustness.
Iain Little,
Australian National University, Australia
Iain Little is a PhD student working with Dr Sylvie Thiebaux on concurrent probabilistic planning.
Dr David Losada,
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
David Losada is an expert in Information Retrieval models and techniques.
Mr. Andrea Manzi,
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (ISTI)
Dr Iadh Ounis,
University of Glasgow, Scotland
Iadh Ounis researches into Web and Enterprise search, Desktop, Intranet and Vertical search engines, and developing and evaluating novel large-scale text information retrieval techniques and applications.
Dr Ivan Serena,
University of Brescia, Italy
Ivan Serina researches into plan generation and adaptation through local and systematic search techniques. He spent a year as a Marie Curie fellow working in the Strathclyde Planning Group.
Professor Benjamin Wah,
University of Illinois, USA
Ben Wah is an expert in non-linear optimisation, and developer of the SGPlan sub-goal partitioning planner.
Professor Brian Williams,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Brian Williams' research concentrates on model-based autonomy. Current research focuses on model-based programming and cooperative robotics. Applications include deep space explorers, distributed satellites, unmanned air vehicles, Mars rovers, intelligent offices and automobiles. Research interests include cooperative and space robotics, intelligent embedded systems, model-based programming, data-driven exploratory modelling, and hybrid system control.