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Carles Sierra. Artificial Intelligence Research Institute-CSIC Campus UAB (http://www.iiia.csic.es). www.agreement-technologies.org. Mission. Mission
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Carles Sierra Artificial Intelligence Research Institute-CSIC Campus UAB (http://www.iiia.csic.es) www.agreement-technologies.org
Mission • Mission • To carry out very high quality research in AI keeping a good balance between basic research and applications, and paying particular attention to training PhD students and to technology transfer.
Research Strategy • Focus the efforts on subdomains of AI (avoid dispersion) • Favour projects that involve synergistic collaboration among the 3 IIIA departments and with external groups • Establish strong links with other leading national and foreign groups • Favour projects that involve challenging application domains (medicine, tourism, music, e-commerce, etc.) • Pay special attention to technology transfer opportunities including promoting spin-off companies • Favour participation in PhD programmes of local universities
Personnel (as of February 2008) • Permanent full-time scientists 18 • “Ramon y Cajal” contract scientists 3 • “Juan de la Cierva” contract scientists 1 • Postdocs 1 • PhD students 23 • Contract R+D engineers (UDT) 4 • Administrative staff 5 • Technical staff 2 TOTAL 57
# Competitive Research Projects (since 2000) • European Projects: 8 (total) 2 (ongoing) • National Plan (Spain): 21 (total) 7 (ongoing) • CENIT 1 (ongoing) • CONSOLIDER 2 (ongoing) • Regional (Catalan Govt.) 1 (ongoing) • Australian Research Agency: 1 (ongoing) • Nets of Excellence: 3 (finished) • EUREKA/PROFIT: 1 (finished) • Spain-USA Fulbright programme: 1 (finished) • USA National Bureau of Census: 2 (finished) • UNESCO Intergov. CS Programme: 1 (finished) A total of 42 (16 international) projects amounting to more than 9 milion €
Technology Transfer and Industrial Contracts (since 2000) • AI & Music • ROLAND Electronics • CBR Systems • TECNIUM Eng. (design of chemical absorption plants) • VF Corporation (Market demand prediction) (through UDT*) • E-business (Multi-Agent System) • AUTEC (Girona), several fish exchange-markets (through UDT*) • Others (European Projects-related transfer): • PHILIPS, COGNITECH (Paris), CRI (Copenhaguen), STARLAB (Brussels), • MAZARS Consulting, OMT (through UDT*)
Technology Transfer and Industrial Contracts (other) • “spin offs” • ISOCO (QUOTES Decision Support System for e-procurement) • Aceralia, Gas Natural, Gallina Blanca, Sharp Codorniu, Leche Pascual, Sumasa (La Caixa), Danone, Damm, Pastas Gallo • 2005 National Computer Science Prize for innovation • MusicStrandsInc. (music recommender, music discoverer) • Unidad deDesarrollo Tecnológico (UDT) • (with partial support of the IT Network of the Generalitat de Catalunya)
Departments at the IIIA • Three departments: • Logic, Reasoning and Search • Learning Systems & Case-Based Reasoning • Multi-Agent Systems
Current LRS Research Lines • Logic, Reasoning and Search • Fuzzy logic, approximate reasoning and soft computing: logical foundations and applications to: rule-based reasoning, case-based reasoning, autonomous agents, privacy in SDB. • Automated deduction: algorithmic issues and • applications to reasoning models • Constraint satisfaction and search: algorithmic issues and applications to: planning, job-shop scheduling.
Current Research Lines at the IIIA • Logic, Reasoning and Search • Case-Based Reasoning & Learning • Integrating knowledge modelling, case-based reasoning and inductive methods • (development of Noos representation language) • Inductive Learning • Learning in Multiagent Systems • Learning Graphical Models • (TAN models) • Distributed CBR • Explanations in CBR • Applications to: intrusion detection, e-commerce, medicine, • toxicology prediction, music, robotics, • data mining for sales forecast.
Generating Expressive Music (SaxEx Project) All of me Inexpressive Input phrase Happy SaxEx Sad Affective value
Current MAS Research Lines Electronic Institutions Auctions Negotiation/Argumentation Trust Context Aware Personal Agents Recommender systems Applications to: E-Commerce: Fish auctions (MASFIT project) e-procurement (in coll. with iSOCO) Autonomous Robots Navigation Music recommendation (in coll. with MyStrands) • Logic, Reasoning and Search • Learning Systems & CBR • Multi-Agent Systems
Research Lines at the IIIA • Logic, Reasoning and Search • Learning Systems & CBR • Autonomous Robots 3X CBR applied to Robocup Landmark-based navigation and mapping for Autonomous Robots in non-structured environments (CBR and MAS techniques). Applications to exploration (In collaboration with IRII)
Wrap-up • Premier AI group in Spain with high world-wide recognition • We have published several highly cited papers (over 1400 citations in the last 5 years) • We have been awarded a total of 12 international awards (Best Papers, software competitions), 7 of them during the last 5 years • Several IIIA scientists are in editorial boards of more than 20 international journals • Several IIIA scientists have been (or are) General Chair or Conference Chair or PC Chair of the top AI Conferences (IJCAI, ECAI, AAMAS, ECML, UAI, ICCBR, CP, FUZZY-IEEE, ECSQUARU, etc.) • Several IIIA scientists have been or are members of leading collegiate bodies (IJCAI Boad of Trustees, ECCAI Board, IFMAS, AA, EUMAS, EUSFLAT) • 4 out of the 6 Spanish ECCAI Fellows are from the IIIA • High scientific production • We produce approx. the 25% of the Spanish AI publications in top journals and conferences (we are approx the 7% of the total Spanish manpower in AI)
Additional information in: http://www.iiia.csic.es
IIIA UDT – Projects
Budget (in K €) Total Budget (2000-2004): 8.27 Milion € (approx $10 M) Total external funding: 3.02 Milion € (approx $3.6 M) Total Salaries: 4.01 Milion € (approx $4.8 M) Total ordinary budget: 0.57 Milion € (approx $0.7 M) Total investments 0.67 Milion € (approx $0.8 M)
Publications -Total (1985-1999) = 539 -Total (2000-2004) = 389 (151 in journals) -Average (2000-2004) = 2.59 publications/person x year -7 Awards at international conferences (best papers, software competitions)
Technology Transfer and Industrial Contracts (I) • MILORD (Expert Systems Shell for diagnosis & classification): • Fuzzy Logik Systeme GmbH (Germany) • DIGITAL EUROPE (France) • SIEMENS (Germany) • Wastewater treatement plant of Manresa (Spain) • IFR S.A. (Spain) (Farm management) • Medical applications based on MILORD • PNEUMON-IA (Pneumonia diagnosis Expert System): • Hospital “La Alianza Mataronina” (Spain) and Hospital of Vroclaw (Poland). • RENOIR (Reumathology diagnosis expert system): • General Hospital of Castellón (Spain) • Improvement of Decision Tree Learning algorithms: • ISOFT (France), INGENIA (France)