Zahia Guessoum is "Maître de Conférences" (Associate Professor). She received her doctorship/PhD (1996) and then her "habilitation à diriger des recherches" (2003), both in computer science and from University Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris 6), France. She is member of the Multi-Agent System (MAS) Team of "Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6" (LIP6). Her general research interests are about adaptive agents and multi-agent systems, fault-tolerant MAS, multi-agent oriented software engineering, coordination mechanisms, multi-agent simulation and complex systems.