Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni

Current position

Full Professor at Sorbonne University (Faculté des Sciences et d'Ingénierie)
Head of Multi-Agent System Group (SMA) at LIP6
On leave at the CNRS since September 1st, 2018

Background and skills

I'm specialized in Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems . I got my Ph.D from the University Pierre and Marie Curie in the domain of Artificial Intelligence. The title of my Ph.D was Distributed architecture of a knowledge base for the analysis and the validation of concurrent programs modeled by means of Petri Nets. Then I got my Habilitation à diriger les recherches from the University Paris 13. The title of my HDR was Agents’ Coordination: models, algorithms and protocols»(2000). My research in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems is applied in several domains such as Smart Cities, Intelligent Assistants and UCAVs

The main topics : Agent Oriented Programming, Mobile Agents, Coordination (Coalition Formation, Distributed Planning, Negotiation), Interaction Protocols, Ambient Intelligence, Languages, Formal Specification, Distributed Observation, Petri Nets, Hybrid Automata, True Concurrency Semantics, Verification.

Focus: I'm interested in the design, analysis and verification of cognitive MAS. My main research topics include the multi-agent coordination models (negotiation, distributed planning, protocols of interaction) and programming of MAS. These research topics find a large number of applications in the fields of design of complex systems, simulation (air missions, coordination of UAVs, fault tolerance, etc.) and ambient intelligence. This applicative range is supported by a large number of industrial collaborations (e.g. Thales Research and Technology and the ONERA - French Lab of Aerospace). I have (co-)advised 27 Ph.D students and currently advising 2 others. Some of these theses were or are done in “co-tutelle” with other European labs. I have been also involved in thesis committees including at Italy, Netherland, Melbourne, Bucharest, Japan, etc.

Previous Positions

External Collaborator at Thales Airborne Systems (2009-2015)
Delegation at the CNRS (2010 - 2012)
Professor at the University Paris 10 - Nanterre (2002-2006)
Assistant Professor (MdC) and Researcher at LIPN Laboratory - University of Paris 13 (1993 - 2002)
On a sabbatical year (2000 - 2001)
On leave at the CNRS (2001 - 2002)
President of Collège SMA - AFIA (Association Française d'Intelligence Artificielle) - (2001-2011)

Recent invited talks / conferences

(slides are available on demand)

Conference - debate with Cédric Villani "Êtes-vous prêts à vivre dans un monde piloté par l’Intelligence Artificielle ?" , EPITA, 13rd of December 2018.
Keynote speaker at DNAC 2018 “Quelle Intelligence Artificielle pour bâtir la ville intelligente du futur ?” , 16th of November 2018.
Participation to the fundraising launched by the foundation of Sorbonne Université "BIENVENUE AU FUTUR" , 13rd of June 2018. My talk was about "The Smart City of the Future".

Chairing Responsabilities

General Chair of AAMAS 2020 with with Gita R. Sukthankar - University of Central Florida.Auckland, New Zeland. May 2020.
Track Chair of AAMAS 2019 with Michael Winikoff of Engineering Multi-Agent Systems Track at AAMAS 2019 13-17 May, Montreal - Canada.
Track Chair at IJCAI 2019 with David Sarne at IJCAI 2019 - August 10-16 2019, Macao, China.
Présidente du Comité de Programme @ APIA 2019 avec Juliette Mattioli de la Conférence Nationale sur les Applications Pratiques de l’Intelligence Artificielle (APIA) qui se déroulera au sein de la plateforme PFIA - du 1 au 5 Juillet à Toulouse.
General Chair of IDC 2016
Program chair of the European Agent Systems Summer School EASSS 2016
Finance Chair of AAMAS 2017 (Sao Paulo - Brazil)
local chair of AAMAS 2014 (Paris)
Area Expert of AAMAS 2016 (Singapor),
Co-chair with Milind Tambe of the “Innovative Applications” Track @ AAMAS 2015 (Istambul, Turkey).
Area-Chair of AAMAS2009 (Budapest)

Research Management Responsabilities

Editor-in-Chief of the Online Journal in Open Access Multi-agent Systems
Elected member of the Board of Directors of International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)
Elected member of the Board of Directors of the European Association for Multi-Agent Systems (EURAMAS)

Books

Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni and co. Here are some of my books related to Multi-Agent Systems, Ambiant Intelligence and Smart Cities".

Recent Publications

"A multi-agent platform for the deployment of ambient systems". by Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Ferdinand Piette, Costin Caval and Patrick Taillibert. International Journal Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, Vol. 6, Nos. 3/4, 2018 - pp 369-401.
Best Paper Award: "Computational Intelligence and Adaptation in VANETs:Current Research and New Perspectives". Marcia Pasin, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Assia Belbachir, Sarajane Marques Peres and Anarosa Alves Franco Brandao. 2nd Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Smart Cities in conjunction with IEEE WCCI 2018.
"Path Generation with LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks in the context of the Multi-agent Patrolling". Mehdi Othmani-Guibourg ONERA, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni and Jean-Loup Farges. In the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence. pp 430-437 – IEEE –Volos, Greek – November 5-7 2018.
Decentralized Multi-agent Patrolling Strategies Using Global Idleness Estimation . Mehdi Othmani-Guibourg, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Jean-Loup Farges. PRIMA 2018: 603-611
Engineering Multi-Agent Systems Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Alessandro Ricci, Tran Cao Son:Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop, EMAS 2017, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 8-9, 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10738, Springer 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-91898-3 [contents]
Fostering Agent Cooperation in AmI: A Context-Aware Mechanism for Dealing with Multiple Intentions . Arthur Casals, Assia Belbachir, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Anarosa Alves Franco Brandão. IDC 2018: 225-234
Preliminary Results for Secure Traffic Regulation Assia Belbachir, Sorore Benabid, Marcia Pasin, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni. ICINCO (2) 2018: 429-434
Gestion d'intentions multiples pour agents ambiants coopératifs Arthur Casals, Assia Belbachir, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Anarosa Alves Franco Brandão. JFSMA 2018: 127-136
An Architecture for the Development of Ambient Intelligence Systems Managed by Embedded Agents Carlos Eduardo Pantoja, Heder Dorneles Soares, José Viterbo, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni. SEKE 2018: 215-214
Book Enablers for Smart Cities - Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni (Editor), Fuyuki Ishikawa (Editor), Laurent Hérault (Editor), Hideyuki Tokuda (Editor)