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1 Curriculum Vitae 1 Personal data Family name : Chesñevar First and second name : Carlos Iván Date of birth : 20 / July / 1969 Place of birth : Bahía Blanca, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina Nationality : Argentine / Spanish Spanish ID (DNI).... : L Argentinean ID (DNI) : address : [email protected] Homepage : cic Current affiliations... : Universidad Nacional del Sur Dept. de Cs. e Ing. de la Computación Av. Alem 1253 B8000CPB Bahía Blanca, Argentina Tel Education External researcher at: Artificial Intelligence Research Institute Bellaterra, Spain Tel PhD in Computer Science Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Guillermo Simari. Thesis: Formalizing Argumentation Processes using Labeled Deductive Systems. Qualification: 10 (highest degree) Magister in Computer Science Department of Computer Science, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Guillermo Simari Thesis: Speeding Up Inference in Defeasible Argumentation. Qualification: 10 (highest degree) BSc in Computer Science (5 years). Department of Computer Science, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Award from the Federal Government of the Province of Buenos Aires for graduation with highest qualifications from the Universidad Nacional del Sur, year Technician in Computing. National School of Technical Education, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. March

2 3 Current and past Positions 1. Full-time associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina) (2007-). 2. Full-time adjunct professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina) ( ). 3. Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), Argentina since Promoted to Adjunct Researcher in November External researcher (professor vinculat) at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institut (IIIA-CSIC, Bellaterra, Spain) within the research project MULOG ( ), funded by the Ministry of Science and Education (Spain). 5. Researcher under contract within the Ramón y Cajal Research Program (Ministery of Science and Technology of Spain), Department of Informatics, University of Lleida. Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. 4 Participation in Research Projects 1. Project leader together with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Dix (Univ. of Clausthal, Germany). Bilateral project Modelling Inference and Preferences in Multiagent Systems through Argumentation. Univ. of Clausthal (Germany) and Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina). Funded by DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) and SeCyT, Argentina. Period: Project code: DA Project leader of the Project Labelled Defeasible Logic Programming for Argument-Based Intelligent Systems: formalization and web applications. Secretaría General de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina. Period: Project member in bilateral project Knowledge Capture and Construction in Multilingual Document Management Applications. Hungarian Academy of Science (Hungary) and and Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina). Project leaders: Ana Maguitman (Argentina) and Andras Benczur (Hungary). Funded by NKTH, Hungary and SeCyT, Argentina. Period: Coordination of research in sub-project concerning defeasible argumentation within the research project Autonomous Electronic Institutions. Funded by MEC, Spain ( ). 5. Research line Interaction among intelligent agents in electronic auctions using defeasible argumentation. Coordinators: C. Chesñevar and Dr. Felip Manyá. Supported by Univ. de Lleida (Spain) and Ministery of Science and Technology of Spain. Ramón y Cajal Research Program ( ). 6. Project member of the research project MULOG: Multivalued Logics: foundations and applications for the treatment of vagueness and uncertainty. University of Lleida, Catalunya, Spain. Project leader: C. Fernández. Funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, Spain (TIN C03-01/03). Period: Project member of the research project MULOG 2 (Multivalued Logic: Foundations and Applications in Argumentation and Ontologies). Artificial Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC, Bellaterra). Catalunya, Spain. Project leader: Francesc Esteva Massaguer. Funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, Spain (TIN C04-01). Period:

3 8. Member of the research project Platform for the Development and Implementation of Multiagent Systems based on Collaborative Deliberative Agents with BDI Architecture. PICT 2002-No Supported by FONCYT (Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica), Secretaría de Ciencia y Tecnología, Argentina. Project coordinator: G. Simari. 9. Member of the research project Argument-based and logic-based systems ( ). Supported by the Secretaría de Ciencia y Tecnología of the Universidad Nacional del Sur, B.Blanca, Argentina. Project coordinator: G. Simari. 10. Member of the research project DeReLop: Automating Defeasible Reasoning with Logic Programming under the direction of Dr. Jürgen Dix and Dr. Guillermo R. Simari ( ). Supported by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Germany) and the Secretaría de Ciencia y Tecnología of the Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina). 11. Member of the research project Non-monotonic reasoning: knowledge revision and theory change under the direction of Dr. Guillermo R. Simari during Supported by the Secretaría de Ciencia y Tecnología of the Universidad Nacional del Sur. 12. Member of the research project Systems for Defeasible reasoning in 1993 under the direction of Dr. Guillermo Simari. Supported by the Secretaría de Ciencia y Tecnología of the Universidad Nacional del Sur. 5 Publications 5.1 Book chapters 1. Information Distribution Decisions Supported by Argumentation (R. Brena, C. Chesñevar). In Encyclopaedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technology. Frederic Adam, University College Cork, Ireland (ed). Published by IDEA Group, Inc. USA, 2008 (to appear). 2. Recommender Systems based on Argumentation (C. Chesñevar, A. Maguitman, G. Simari). In Emerging Artificial Intelligence Applications in Computer Engineering. Ilias Maglogiannis, Kostas Karpouzis and John Soldatos (eds). Series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 160, pp IOS Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ISBN Towards Argument-based Recommender System Technologies (C. Chesñevar, A. Maguitman, G. Simari). In Emerging Artificial Intelligence Applications in Computer Engineering. (Series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications). Ilias Maglogiannis, Kostas Karpouzis and John Soldatos (eds). IOS Press, 2007 (in preparation). 4. Argument-Based User Support Systems using Defeasible Logic Programming (C. Chesñevar, A. Maguitman, G. Simari). In Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Vol Eds. Maglogiannis, I., Karpouzis, K., Bramer, M., (Boston, Springer Verlag), pp , ISBN On Warranted Inference in Possibilistic Defeasible Logic Programming ( C. Chesñevar, G. Simari, L. Godo, T.Alsinet). In Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Vol. 131 (Series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications). López, J. Meléndez, P. Radeva and J. Vitrià (eds). ISBN , IOS Press. 3

4 6. A Framework for Combining Defeasible Argumentation with Labelled Deduction (C. Chesñevar, G. Simari). In Computer Modeling of Scientific Reasoning (C.Delrieux, J.Legris, Eds.). Pp , Ed. Ediuns, Argentina, ISBN Articles in journals and LNCS/LNAI Springer Series 1. Formalizing Argumentative Reasoning in a Possibilistic Logic Programming Setting with Fuzzy Unification (T. Alsinet, C.Chesñevar, L. Godo, G. Simari). In International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, S. Benferhat and G. Kern-Isbener (eds.), Elsevier, Holland (in press), ISSN X 2. A Logic Programming Framework for Possibilistic Argumentation: Formalization and Logical Properties (T. Alsinet, C.Chesñevar, L. Godo, G. Simari). In Fuzzy Sets and Systems (FSS), Elsevier, Holland (in press), Knowledge and Information Distribution Leveraged by Intelligent Agents (R. Brena, J. Aguirre, C. Chesñevar, E. Ramirez, L. Garrido). In Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Vol. 12, Nr. 2, pp Springer Verlag, July ISSN Modelling Shared Knowledge and Shared Knowledge Awareness in CSCL Scenarios through Automated Argumentation Systems (M. P. González, C. Chesñevar, C. A. Collazos, G. R. Simari). Proc. of the 13th International Workshop on Groupware (CRIWG 07). In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4715, pp Springer Verlag, Alemania. 5. On the Construction of Dialectical Databases (M. Capobianco, C. Chesñevar, G. Simari). In Revista Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial, Vol. 11, No. 35, pp , Published by AEPIA (Asociación Española Para La Inteligencia Artificial), Madrid, Spain. ISSN Inconsistent Ontology Handling by Translating Description Logics into Defeasible Logic Programming (S. Gómez, C. Chesñevar, G. Simari). Vol. 11, No. 35, pp.11-22, Published by AEPIA (Asociación Española Para La Inteligencia Artificial), Madrid, Spain. ISSN Modelling Inference in Argumentation through Labelled Deduction: Formalization and Logical Properties (C. Chesñevar, G. Simari). Logica Universalis, Birkhäuser Basel / Springer Verlag, Jean-Yves Beziau (editor), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp , ISSN Towards an Argument Interchange Format (C.Chesñevar, J. McGinnis, S. Modgil, I. Rahwan, C. Reed, G. Simari, M. South, G. Vreeswijk, S. Wilmott). The Knowledge Engineering Review (KER), Volume 21, Issue 04, pp , Cambridge University Press, ISSN Defeasible Reasoning in Web based Forms through Argumentation (S. Gómez, C. Chesñevar, G. Simari). Intl. Journal of Information Technologies and Decision Making, World Publishing Press (submitted), Processing Customer Complaints Scenarios through Argument-based Decision Making (B. Galitsky, M. González, C. Chesñevar). Decision Support Systems, Elsevier (submitted),

5 11. Argument-based Decision Support System for Assessing Natural Language Usage on the Basis of the Web Corpus (Carlos I. Chesẽvar, Mariona Sabaté, Ana Maguitman). In Intl. Journal of Intelligent Systems, Wiley. Vol. 21, Issue 11, pp , November ISSN Towards an Argument Interchange Format for Multiagent Systems (S. Wilmott, G. Vreeswijk, C. Chesñevar,M. South, J. McGinnis, S. Modgil, I. Rahwahn, C. Reed, G. Simari). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS), Proc. of the 3rd. Intl. Workshop on Argumentation and Multiagent Systems (ArgMAS 2006). Hakodate, Japan, May 2006 (in press). 13. Solving Power and Trust Conflicts through Argumentation in Agent-mediated Knowledge Distribution (C. Chesñevar, R. Brena, J. Aguirre). In International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems (KES), special issue on agent-based Knowledge Management. Vol. 10, No. 4, pp , IOS Press, ISSN Argument-Based Critics and Recommenders: A Qualitative Perspective on User Support Systems (C. Chesñevar, A. Maguitman, G. Simari). Data and Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier Press, Vol.59, Issue 2, pp , ISSN X 15. Argumentation and the Dynamics of Warrant in Changing Environments (M. Capobianco, C. Chesñevar, G. Simari). Intl. Journal on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Vol. 11, pp Springer Verlag, Sept TAGS: A Software Tool for Simulating Transducer Automata (A. Esmoris, C. Chesñevar, M. González). International Journal for Electronical Engineering Education (IJEEE), Vol. 42, No.4, pp Manchester Univ. Press, UK, Oct Modelling Power and Trust for Knowledge Distribution: An Argumentative Approach (C. Chesñevar, R. Brena, J. Aguirre). In Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) Springer Series, Vol. 3789, pp (Proc. of the 4th Interntational MICAI Conference, Monterrey, México, Nov. 2005). A. Gelbukh, A. de Albornoz, H. Terashima (Eds.). Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany. 18. Computing Dialectical Trees Efficiently in Possibilistic Defeasible Logic Programming (C. Chesñevar, G. Simari, L. Godo). In Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) Springer Series, Vol. 3662, pp (Proc. of the 8th Interntational LPNMR Conference, Sept. 2005). C.Baral et. al (eds.). Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany. 19. Argumentation-supported Information Distribution in a Multiagent System for Knowledge Management (R. Brena, C. Chesñevar, J. Aguirre). In Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS), Vol 4049, pp , Proc. of the Second Intl. Workshop on Argumentation in Multiagent Systems (ArgMAS 2005), Intl. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2005), S. Parsons et al (eds), Springer Verlag series, Argument-based Expansion Operators in Possibilistic Defeasible Logic Programming: Characterization and Logical Properties (C. Chesñevar, G. Simari, L. Godo, T. Alsinet). In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Procs. of the 8th European Conference on Symbolic and Qualitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU). 5

6 Barcelona, Spain, July Springer Series, Vol. 3571, pp , 2005 (L. Godo, ed.). Springer Verlag. 21. Knowledge Distribution in Large Organizations using Defeasible Logic Programming (C. Chesñevar, R. Brena, L. Aguirre). Procs. of the Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2005). Victoria, Canada, May In Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS), Vol. 3501, B. Kgl and G. Lapalme, Eds., pp , 2005, Springer Verlag. 22. An Argument-based Framework to Model an Agent s Beliefs in a Dynamic Environment (M. Capobianco, Carlos I. Chesñevar, G. Simari). Procs. of the First International Workshop on Argumentation in Multiagent Systems (ArgMAS 2004), pp N.York, USA, July In Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) Springer Series, Vol. 3366, pp , Combining Argumentation and Web Search Technology: Towards a Qualitative Approach for Ranking Results (Carlos I. Chesñevar - Ana G. Maguitman). Intl. Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence & Intelligent Informatics. Vol. 9, No. 1, pp , January Fuji Technology Press Ltd., Japan. Honorary Editor: Lofti Zadeh. ISSN Teaching Fundamentals of Computing Theory: A Constructivist Approach (Carlos I. Chesñevar Ana G. Maguitman María P. González Laura Cobo). Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp , Aug Iberoamerican Science & Technology Education Consortium, Univ. of New Mexico, USA. ISSN Integrating Defeasible Argumentation with Fuzzy ART Neural Networks for Pattern Classification (Sergio A. Gómez Carlos I. Chesñevar). Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp , May Iberoamerican Science & Technology Education Consortium, Univ. of New Mexico, USA. ISSN Using Theoretical Computer Simulators for Formal Languages and Automata Automata Theory (Carlos I. Chesñevar María L. Cobo William Yurcik). In ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol. 35, Nro. 2, Junio 2003, pp Relating Defeasible and Normal Logic Programming through Transformation Properties (Carlos I. Chesñevar - Jürgen Dix - Frieder Stolzenburg - Guillermo R. Simari). In Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 290, Issue 1, pp , 2003.ISSN Computing Generalized Specificity (Frieder Stolzenburg - Alejandro J. García - Carlos I. Chesñevar - Guillermo R. Simari). Journal of Applied Non-classical Logics, Vol. 13, Nr. 1, pp , ISSN Logical Models of Argument (C. Chesñevar, A. Maguitman, and R. Loui). In ACM Computing Surveys, Vol.32, No. 4, 2000, pp ISSN Formalizing Defeasible Argumentation Using a Labeled Deductive System (C. Chesñevar - G. Simari). In Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol.1, No.4, 2000, pp False Friends in English-Spanish translations in Computer Science Literature (M. Sabaté - C. Chesñevar). In Perspectives: Studies in Traslatology, Vol. 6, Number 1, 1998, pp

7 32. Syntactic diagrams as a tool for solving text-processing problems (C.Chesñevar). In SIGCSE Bulletin of the ACM, Vol. 26, No. 4, Dec. 1994, pp Some problems about English-Spanish translations in computer science literature (C.Chesñevar). In SIGCSE Bulletin of the ACM, Vol.26, No. 3, Sep. 1994, pp , Publications in international conferences and workshops 1. An Abstract Presentation of Dialectical Explanations in Defeasible Argumentation (A. García, C.Chesñevar, N. Rotstein, G. Simari). Proc. of the 1st Intl. Workshop on Argumentation and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (ArgNMR 2007). Tempe, Arizona, USA, May A Lattice-based Approach to Computing Warranted Belief in Skeptical Argumentation Frameworks (C.Chesñevar, G. Simari). Proc. of the 20th Intl. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007), pp Hyberabad, India, January Inductive Learning of Dispute Scenarios for Online Resolution of Customer Complaints (B. Galitsky, M. González, C.Chesñevar). Proc. of the 3rd Intl. IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS 2006), pp Westminster, UK, 4-6 Sep IEEE Press. ISBN An Abstract Model for Computing Warrant in Skeptical Argumentation Frameworks (C.Chesñevar, G. Simari). Proc. of the 11th Intl. Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2006). Windermere, Manchester, UK, June 2006, pp , ISSN (J. Dix and A. Hunter, editors). IfI Technical Report Series, Clausthal University, Germany. 5. On the Computation of Warranted Arguments within a Possibilistic Logic Framework with Fuzzy Unification (T.Alsinet, C.Chesñevar, L. Godo, S.Sandri, G. Simari). Proc. of the 11th Intl. Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2006). Windermere, Manchester, UK, June 2006, pp , ISSN (J. Dix and A. Hunter, editors). IfI Technical Report Series, Clausthal University, Germany. 6. Modeling Defeasible Argumentation within a Possibilistic Logic Framework with Fuzzy Unification (T.Alsinet, C.Chesñevar, L. Godo, S.Sandri). In Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2006), pp Editions EDK,ISBN X. Paris, France, July Expansion Operators for Modelling Agent Reasoning in Possibilistic Logic Programming (C. Chesñevar, G. Simari, T.Alsinet, L.Godo). Proc. of 3rd European Workshop on Multiagent Systems (EUMAS 2005). Brussels, Belgium, Dec Incorporating Defeasible Knowledge and Argumentative Reasoning in Web-Based Forms (S.Gómez, C.Chesñevar, G.Simari). Proc. of the 3rd Intl. Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization (ITWP 2005), pp. 9-16, S.Anand and B.Mobasher (eds). 19th Intl. Joint Conf. in Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2005). Edinburgh, UK, July Towards Computational Models of Natural Argument using Labelled Deductive Systems (C. Chesñevar, G. Simari). Proc. of the 5th Intl. Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA 2005), pp. 9-16, C.Reed (ed.). 19th Intl. Joint Conf. in Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2005). Edinburgh, UK, July

8 10. Modelling Agent Reasoning in a Logic Programming Framework for Possibilistic Argumentation (C. Chesñevar G. Simari T. Alsinet L. Godo). Procs. of the 2nd. European Workshop on Multiagent Systems (EUMAS 2004), pp Barcelona, Spain, Dec An Argumentative Approach to Assesing Natural Language Usage based on the Web Corpus (Carlos I. Chesñevar Ana G. Maguitman). Procs. of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2004), pp Valencia, Spain, August Lopez de Mantaras and Saitta, Eds. ISBN A Logic Programming Framework for Possibilistic Argumentation with Vague Knowledge (C. Chesñevar G. Simari T. Alsinet L. Godo). Procs. of the 20th Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Conference (UAI-2004), pp Banff, Canada, July ISBN A first Approach to Argument-Based Recommender Systems based on Defeasible Logic Programing (Carlos I. Chesñevar Ana G. Maguitman G. Simari). Procs. of the 10th International Workshop on Non Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2004), pp Whistler, Canada, June ISBN X. 14. Promoting Significant Learning in Formal Languages and Automata Theory (Carlos I. Chesñevar Ana G. Maguitman M. P. González). Procs. of the 9th Intl. ACM- ITICSE Conference (Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education), pp Leeds, UK, June 2004, ISBN ArgueNet: An Argument-Based Recommender System for Solving Web Search Queries (Carlos I. Chesñevar Ana G. Maguitman). Procs. of the 2nd. Intl. IEEE Intelligent Systems Conference, pp ISBN Varna, Bulgaria, June A Hybrid Approach To Pattern Classification Using Neural Networks and Defeasible Argumentation (Sergio A. Gómez Carlos I. Chesñevar). Procs. of the 17th Intl. FLAIRS Conference, pp Palm Beach, Florida, USA. May A Framework for Combining Defeasible Argumentation with Labelled Deduction (Carlos I. Chesñevar Guillermo R. Simari). In Procs. of the 3rd. International Workshop on Computational Models of Scientific Reasoning and Applications (CMSRA), pp Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept Modeling Argumentation in a Logic-Programming Setting: Formalization and Logical Properties (Guillermo R. Simari - Carlos I. Chesñevar - Alejandro J. García). Workshop Adventures in Argumentation. In 6th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty. Toulouse, France, Sept Pruning Search Space in Defeasible Argumentation. (Carlos I. Chesñevar, Guillermo R. Simari y Alejandro García). XX International Conference of the SCCC. In Procs. of the Workshop on Advances and Trends in Artificial Intelligence, pp Santiago, Chile, Nov A Formalization of Dialectical Bases for Defeasible Logic Programming (M. Capobianco - C.Chesñevar - G.Simari). Proc. of International Conference in Informatics Engineering (ICIE 2000). Buenos Aires, Argentina, Apr

9 21. An Argumentative Framework for Reasoning with Inconsistent and Incomplete Information. (A. García - G. Simari - C. Chesñevar). In Proc. of Workshops at European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Brighton, United Kingdom, Aug Pp A Prolog metainterpreter for implementing algorithms in an introductory course on programming [in Spanish] C.I.Chesñevar and M.J.Cáccamo. Proc. IV Ibero American Congress on Higher Education in Computer Science. Canela (Brasil), July Pp Arguments and Contexts. G.R.Simari y C.I.Chesñevar. Proc. IV Latinamerican Conference in Informatics, Canela (Brazil), Jul Pp Syntactic Diagrams: a tool for solving text processing problems. C.Chesñevar. Proc. of the III Ibero American Congress on Higher Education in Computer Science. Concepción (Chile), Nov Pp The Role of Dialectics in Defeasible Reasoning. G.R.Simari, C.I. Chesñevar y A.J.García. Proc. of the XIV Intl. Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, Concepción (Chile), Nov Pp Focusing Inference in Defeasible Argumentation G.R.Simari, C.I. Chesñevar y A.J.García. Proc. of the IBERAMIA 94 Conference, sponsored by the Venezuelan Association for Artificial Intelligence. Caracas, Venezuela, Oct Making Argument System Computationally Attractive. (A. García, C. Chesñevar, G. Simari). Proc. XIII Int. Conference of the Chilean Society for Computer Science, Oct Pp Publications in local refereed conferences and workshops 1. A first approach to Abductive Defeasible Logic Programming: formalization and properties (M. L. Gómez, A. García, C. Chesñevar, G. Simari). In Proc. of the 13th Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación (CACIC 2007), Univ. del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina, October An Argument-Based Approach to Cope with Trust and Pluralism in Web News Reports (F. Sagui, A. Maguitman, C. Chesñevar, G. Simari). In Proc. of the 13th Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación (CACIC 2007), Univ. del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina, October An Approach to Handling Inconsistent Ontology Definitions based on the Translation of Description Logics into Defeasible Logic Programming (S. Gómez, C. Chesñevar, G. Simari). In Proc. of the 12th Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación (CACIC 2006). Univ. de San Luis, Argentina, October Building precompiled knowledge in ODeLP (M. Capobianco, C. Chesñevar, G. Simari). In Proc. of the 12th Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación (CACIC 2006). Univ. de San Luis, Argentina, October Incremental Methods for Context-Based Web Retrieval (C. Lorenzetti, F. Sagui, A. Maguitman, G. Simari, C. Chesñevar). In Proc. of the 12th Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación (CACIC 2006). Univ. de San Luis, Argentina, October

10 6. An approach for identifying design principles in argument systems a preliminary report (M. Capobianco, C. Chesñevar, G. Simari). In Proc. of the 8th Argentinean Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2006). Univ. de Morón, Argentina, Junio ISBN Extensión de la Argumentación Rebatible para considerar Etiquetas (M. Gómez, C. Chesñevar, G. Simari, A. García). In Proc. of the 8th Argentinean Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2006). Univ. de Morón, Argentina, June ISBN Exploiting User Context and Preferences for Intelligent Web Search (C. Chesñevar, C. Lorenzetti, A. Maguitman, F. Sagui, G. Simari). In Proc. of the 8th Argentinean Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2006). Univ. de Morón, Argentina, June ISBN Problems and Challenges for Ontology Integration in the Semantic Web (S. Gómez, C. Chesñevar, G. Simari). In Proc. of the 8th Argentinean Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2006). Univ. de Morón, Argentina, June ISBN Un Primer Acercamiento al Aprendizaje del Código Genético usando Redes Neuronales (Natalia L. Weinbach, Carlos I. Chesñevar). In Proc. XI CACIC 2005, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina. 10. A First Approach to Combining Ontologies and Defeasible Argumentation for the Semantic Web (S. Gómez, C. Chesñevar, G. Simari) In Proc. XI CACIC 2005, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina. 11. A first approach to the automatic generation of service graphs for building trust (W. Grandinetti, C. Chesñevar). In Proc. XI CACIC 2005, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina. 12. A preliminary study of computational complexity in non-monotonic reasoning (M. Capobianco, C. Chesñevar, G. Simari). In Proc. of the 7th Argentinean Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2005). Río Cuarto, Argentina,2005, pp Capturing Reputation Features in Multiagent Systems through Emerging Patterns (W. Grandinetti, C. Chesñevar). In Procs. of the 7th Argentinean Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2005). Río Cuarto, Argentina,2005, pp Enhanced Approximation of the Emerging Pattern Space using an Incremental Approach (W. Grandinetti, C. Chesñevar). In Procs. of the 7th Argentinean Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2005). Río Cuarto, Argentina, 2005, pp Embedding Defeasible Argumentation in the Semantic Web: an ontology-based approach (S. Gómez, C. Chesñevar, G. Simari). In Procs. of the 7th Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2005). Río Cuarto, Argentina, 2005, pp Analyzing the Defeat Relation in Observation-based DeLP (M. Capobianco, C. Chesñevar, G. Simari). Procs. X Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación (CACIC 2004), pp La Matanza, Buenos Aires, Argentina, octubre de

11 17. Platform for Development and Implementation of Multiagent Systems integrated with Deliberative Social Agents with BDI Architecture (G.Simari, A.García, M. Falappa, C. Chesñevar). Procs. 6to. Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2004). Neuquén, Argentina, May Caracterizing defeat in observation - based defeasible logic programming (M. Capobianco, C. Chesñevar). Procs. 6to. Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2004). Neuquén, Argentina, May Combining Counterpropagation Neural Networks and Defeasible Logic Programming for Text Classification (S. Gómez, C. Chesñevar). Procs. 6to. Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2004). Neuquén, Argentina, May Tecnología Informática en un curso de Lenguajes Formales y Teoría de Autómatas: un enfoque constructivista (Carlos I. Chesñevar Ana G. Maguitman María P. González María L. Cobo). In Procs. IX Argentinean Congress in Computer Science, pp La Plata, Argentina, Oct Una Herramienta para la Simulación de Autómatas Traductores en la Enseñanza de las Ciencias de la Computación (Agustín Esmoris Carlos I. Chesñevar). In Procs. IX Argentinean Congress in Computer Science, pp La Plata, Argentina, Oct Combining Argumentation and Clustering techniques in Pattern Classification Problems (Sergio A. Gómez Carlos I. Chesñevar). In Procs. IX Argentinean Congress in Computer Science, pp La Plata, Argentina, Oct (distinguished with best paper award) 23. Integrating Defeasible Argumentation and Machine Learning Techniques (Sergio A. Gómez Carlos I. Chesñevar). In Procs. of the V Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2003), pp (Proceedings in CD). Tandil, Argentina, May Formalización de Web-Mining Como Conocimiento Estructurado (G. Filocamo C. Chesñevar). In Procs. of the V Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2003), pp (Proceedings in CD). Tandil, Argentina, May An Architecture for Rational Agents Interacting with Complex Environments (A. Stankevicius M. Capobianco C. Chesñevar). In Procs. of the V Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2003), pp (Proceedings in CD). Tandil, Argentina, May Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning in Defeasible Argumentation (Carlos I. Chesñevar - Guillermo R. Simari). Procs. of the VIII Argentinean Congress in Computer Science, pp Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct Precompiled knowledge support for dynamic argumentation (Marcela Capobianco - Carlos I. Chesñevar - Guillermo R. Simari). Procs. of the VIII Argentinean Congress in Computer Science, pp Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct Simulators for Teaching Formal Languages and Automata Theory: A comparative Survey (Carlos I. ChesñeVAR - María L. Cobol). Procs. of the VIII Argentinean Congress in Computer Science, pp Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct

12 29. Logical Properties in Defeasible Logic Programming A Preliminary Report (M. Capobianco - A.Stankevicius - C. Chesñevar). Proceedings IV Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science, pp (CD version). Bahía Blanca, Argentina, May Visualizing Association Rules: A comparative approach [in Spanish] (G. Filocamo - W. Grandinetti - S. Castro - S. Martig - C. Chesñevar). Proceedings IV Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science, pp (CD version). Bahía Blanca, Argentina, May Introducing Probabilistic Reasoning in Defeasible Argumentation Using Labeled Deductive Systems (Carlos I. Chesñevar - Guillermo R. Simari). Proceedings IV Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science, pp (CD version). Bahía Blanca, Argentina, May On the use of Internet as a communication tool in a traditional university environment [in Spanish] (Carlos I. Chesñevar - M. Paula González). II National Conference of Research in Education. Cipolletti, Río Negro, Argentina, Oct Proceedings in CD, ISBN Consequence Operators for Defeasible Argumentation: characterization and logical properties (Carlos I. Chesñevar - Guillermo R. Simari). VII Argentinean Congress in Computer Science, pp ISBN El Calafate, Argentina, Oct Modeling Argumentation with Labeled Deduction: Formalization and Theoretical Considerations (Carlos I. Chesñevar - Guillermo R. Simari). Proc. VII Argentinean Congress in Computer Science, pp ISBN El Calafate, Argentina, Oct An argumentative formalism for implementing rational agents (Marcela Capobianco - Carlos I. Chesñevar - Guillermo R. Simari). VII Argentinean Congress in Computer Science, pp ISBN El Calafate, Argentina, Oct A Taxonomy for Argumentative Frameworks based on Labeled Deduction (C. Chesñevar). Proc. III Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science, pp San Luis, Argentina, May Formalizing Argument-based Agent Interaction in Electronic Institutions (C. Chesñevar). Proc. III Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science, pp San Luis, Argentina, May Relating Defeasible and Normal Logic Programming through Transformation Properties (Carlos I. Chesñevar - Jürgen Dix - Frieder Stolzenburg - Guillermo R. Simari). Proc. VI Argentinean Congress in Computer Science, pp Ushuaia, Argentina, Oct ISBN Introducing Generalized Specificity in Logic Programming (Frieder Stolzenburg - Alejandro J. García - Carlos I. Chesñevar - Guillermo R. Simari). Proc. VI Argentinean Congress in Computer Science, pp Ushuaia, Argentina, Oct ISBN A Formalization of Defeasible Argumentation using Labeled Deductive Systems (Carlos I. Chesñevar - Guillermo R. Simari). Meeting of Postgraduate Students, VI Argentinean Congress in Computer Science, Ushuaia, Argentina, Oct ISBN

13 41. Conceptual Maps for Teaching How to Program [in Spanish] (Carlos I. Chesñevar). In Proc. of the 2nd. Meeting in Pedagogical Innovation, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina, Aug Pp ISBN Using Logic Programs to Model an Agent s epistemic state (M. Capobianco - C. Chesñevar). Proc. II Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2000). La Plata, Argentina, May Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Pp A Logical Framework for Modeling Argumentation Using Labeled Deduction (C. Chesñevar - G.Simari). Proceedings del II Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2000). La Plata, Argentina, May Pp The Turing language as an alternative for Pascal for teaching how to program (C. Chesñevar-M. Capobianco). Proc. of the First National Meeting in Higher Education in Computer Science. Talca, Chile, Nov A Formalization of Dialectical Bases for Defeasible Logic Programming (M. Capobianco - C.Chesñevar - G. Simari). Proc. of the V Argentinean Congress in Computer Science. Tandil, Argentina, Oct Modeling defeasibility into an extended logic programming setting using an abstract argumentation framework (C.Chesñevar - G.Simari). In Proc. of the Argentinean Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ASAI 1999). Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sep Pp The Role of Labeled Deductive Systems in a Formal System for Defeasible Argumentation (C.Chesñevar - G.Simari). Proc. I Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 1999) San Juan, Argentina, May Pp Introducing Dialectical Bases in Defeasible Argumentation (M. Capobianco - C. Chesñevar). Proc. I Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 1999). San Juan, Argentina, May Pp A Formalization of defeasible argumentation using Labeled deductive systems (C. Chesñevar - G.Simari). Proc. IV Argentinean Congress in Computer Science, Neuquén, Oct Pp Argument forms: an approach to defeasible argumentation with non-grounded information [in Spanish] (C. Chesñevar and G. Simari). Proc. III Argentinean Congress in Computer Science and IV Workshop of Theoretical Aspects in Artificial Intelligence. La Plata, Argentina, Oct Pp Evaluation Ordering in Defeasible Argumentation: Properties and Theoretical Considerations [in Spanish] (C. Chesñevar and G. Simari). Proc. III Argentinean Congress in Computer Science, IV Workshop of Theoretical Aspects in Artificial Intelligence. La Plata, Argentina, Oct Pp A multilanguage system for defeasible argumentation [in Spanish] (C. Chesñevar and G. Simari). Proc. II Argentinean Congress in Computer Science, San Luis, Argentina. Nov Pp Some theoretical considerations on resource-bounded defeasible argumentation (C. Chesñevar and G. Simari). Proc. III Workshop of Theoretical Aspects in Artificial Intelligence. San Luis, Argentina. Nov Pp

14 54. A software environment for teaching how to program in undergraduate courses: theoretical considerations and implementation [in Spanish] (C. I. Chesñevar y M. J. Cáccamo). II Meeting in Informatics, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina, Nov On the use of contexts for representing knowledge in defeasible argumentation. Carlos I. Chesñevar. Proc. II Workshop of Theoretical Aspects in Artificial Intelligence. I Argentinean Congress in Computer Science. B. Blanca, Oct Pp Distinguishing ground from non ground information in defeasible argumentation (C. Chesñevar and G. Simari). Proc. II Workshop of Theoretical Aspects in Artificial Intelligence. Bahía Blanca, Oct Pp Some considerations and motivating exercises for teaching recursion [in Spanish] (C. Chesñevar). II Educational Meeting of University Professors and Researchers in Computer Science. Sponsored by the State Secretariat for Science and Technology and the University of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Nov An Argumentative Inference Engine for KB-systems. G. R. Simari, C. I. Chesñevar, A. J. García. III Argentinean Symposium on Artificial Intelligence. Nov Argument-based expert systems [in Spanish]. (C. Chesñevar, A. García, G. Simari) Fourth Academic-technological Conference sponsored by IBM Argentina, at the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Sept Awarded with the First Prize in Area Informatics. 60. Argument bases: its maintenance and revision. A. J. García, C. I. Chesñevar, G. R. Simari. Proc. of the XIX Latinamerican Conference on Informatics (CLEI 1993). 22as.Jornadas Argentinas de Informática e Investigación Operativa, Aug Pp Lecture notes and teaching material 1. Theory of Computing [in Spanish]. (Carlos Chesñevar Laura Cobo). Notas de curso, 150 pp., An Information Guide for the student of Computer Science at the Universidad Nacional del Sur [in Spanish] Feb pp. 3. Algorithms and Problem Solving: Exercises and some theoretical considerations [in Spanish]. March pp. 4. Algorithms for solving game problems in Pascal: a survey [in Spanish]. July pp. 6 Teaching 6.1 Postgraduate and advanced courses 1. Postgraduate course Advances in Defeasible Argumentation: theory and applications. Departamento de Cs. e Ing. de la Computación, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina, May Advanced course Computational Models of Argument in Multiagent Systems. 7th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2005), lecturers: C.Chesñevar and G. Simari. Utrecht, Netherlands, July

15 3. Postgraduate course Datamining and knowledge discovery. Departamento de Informática e Ing. Industrial. University of Lleida, Spain, and Postgraduate course Techniques for Machine Learning and Datamining: fundamentals and applications. Departamento de Cs. e Ing. de la Computación, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina, Oct Postgraduate course Datamining & Machine Learning. Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina ( ). 6. Postgraduate course Formal Systems for Computer Science. Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina ( ). 7. Postgraduate course Foundations of Argumentative Systems. Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina ( ). 8. Advanced course Foundations of Argumentative Systems. Escola Universitaria Politécnica, Universitat de Lleida, Spain, October-November Undergraduate courses 1. Computational Logic (collaborating as lecturer for part of the course). Dept. of Computer Science, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain, Theory of Computing. Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. Nacional del Sur, B. Blanca, Argentina ( ). 3. Datamining & Machine Learning. Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. Nacional del Sur, B. Blanca, Argentina ( ). 4. Artificial Intelligence.Universitat de Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, Seminar in Prolog Programming.Universitat de Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, Problem Solving and Algorithms and Elements of Computer Programming. Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. Nacional del Sur, B. Blanca, Argentina ( ). 6.3 Past teaching activities 1. Teaching Assistant in undergraduate courses in CS1 and CS2 (Problem Solving and Algorithms and Elements of Programming) Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur, B. Blanca, Argentina ( ). 2. Secondary school teacher of German Language for Technicians at the National School of Technical Education in Bahía Blanca, Argentina ( ) 3. Teaching activities as undergraduate student in CS1 and CS2 courses ( ), in Artificial Intelligence (1992) and Theory of Programming (1993). Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur, B. Blanca, Argentina. 15

16 7 Other academic activities 1. Member of the Commission for Curricula Assessment in Computer Science of the Department of Computer Science (Universidad Nacional del Sur, B.Blanca, Argentina) ( ). 2. Member of the Postgraduate Studies Commission of the Department of Computer Science (Universidad Nacional del Sur, B.Blanca, Argentina) ( ). 3. Professor member of the Council of the Department of Computer Science (Universidad Nacional del Sur, B.Blanca, Argentina) ( ). 4. Graduate member of the Council of the Department of Computer Science (Universidad Nacional del Sur, B.Blanca, Argentina) ( ). 5. Graduate member of the Council of the Department of Mathematics (Universidad Nacional del Sur, B.Blanca, Argentina). ( ). 6. Student member of the Council of the Department of Mathematics (Universidad Nacional del Sur, B.Blanca, Argentina). ( ) 8 Participation in research groups and professional associations 1. Member of AEPIA (Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence) since Member of the Research Group in Artificial Intelligence at the Dept. of Informatics, University of Lleida (Lleida, Catalonia, Spain) since Member of the Laboratory for Research and Development in Artificial Intelligence (LIDIA) at the Dept. of CS & Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur (B.Blanca, Argentina) since Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ( ) 5. Member of the Argentine Association in Computer Science since Awards 1. Special Award for the paper Combining Argumentation and Clustering techniques in Pattern Classification Problems (Sergio A. Gómez Carlos I. Chesñevar). IX Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación.La Plata, Argentina, octubre de Special Award for the paper Evaluation Ordering in Defeasible Argumentation: Properties and Theoretical Considerations (C. Chesñevar, G. Simari) [in Spanish]. III Congreso Argentino de Cs. de la Computación, La Plata, Argentina, Best Paper Award (area Informatics) at the Fourth National Academic-Technological Meeting sponsored by IBM Argentina and Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (Sept. 1993). Paper: Argument-based Expert Systems (C.I.Chesñevar, A.J.García and G.R.Simari). 4. Honor Award 25 de Mayo for graduation with highest qualifications from the Universidad Nacional del Sur in the area of Natural Sciences, year Honor Award from the Government of the Province of Buenos Aires for graduation with highest qualifications from the Universidad Nacional del Sur, year

17 10 Fellowships 1. Fellowship of the Ministery of Education of Spain for postgraduate studies (Program Young Doctoral Researchers ). Note: this fellowship could not be accepted for incompatibility with research activities in Program Ramón y Cajal. 2. Fellowships of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) for developing research activities in Artificial Intelligence ( ). 3. Fellowship Intercampus granted by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI) for developing research and teaching activities at the Universitat de Lleida (Catalonia, Spain), Feb./March Fellowship Intercampus granted by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI) for developing research activities as postgraduate student at the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (Madrid, Spain), Jan./Feb Fellowship of the Scientific Council of the Province of Buenos Aires (C.I.C) for developing research activities in Artificial Intelligence ( ). 6. Scholarship based on academic performance awarded to students years 1991 and Granted by Dept. of Mathematics, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. 7. Fellowship granted by the Goethe-Institut Buenos Aires (Argentina) for advanced German studies in Schwäbisch Hall (Germany), January-February Research stances 1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Supported by a Bilateral Agreement from the University of Lleida, Spain. May Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (Monterrey, México). Supported by International Relation Office (University of Lleida, Spain). Nov Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität Clausthal (Clausthal, Germany). Supported by Erasmus Program and the University of Lleida, Spain. October Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Supported by a Bilateral Agreement from the University of Lleida, Spain. October Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, (Jan.-Feb.2001 and Jan.-Feb.2002). Research activities in defeasible argumentation systems and agent theory. 6. University of Lleida, Spain (October-November 2000). Research activities in foundations of argumentative systems and applications in multivalued logics. 7. Koblenz University, (February 2000). Research activities in defeasible argumentation and transformation properties in logic programming. 8. Institut für Informatik, Universität Leipzig, Germany, January-March Research activities in defeasible argumentation and logic programming. 17

18 9. Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, United Kingdom, February-March Research activities in defeasible argumentation and logic programming. 10. Department of Computer Science (Washington University, USA), February-March Research activities in defeasible reasoning and defeasible argumentation. 11. Department of Informatics, Universitat de Lleida (Lleida, Catalonia, Spain). February- March Research activities in artificial intelligence, multivalued logics. 12. Research stance as graduate student at the Univ. Pontificia Comillas de Madrid (Madrid, Spain). January-February Research activities in computer-assisted education. 12 Presentations and Talks 1. Argument-Based Recommender Systems using Defeasible Logic Programming. Agent Research Labs, Universitat de Girona. Girona, Spain (February 2006). 2. Defeasible Argumentation in User-Support Systems. Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey. Monterrey, México, Nov Defeasible Logic Programming: Theory and applications in Recommender Systems. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität Clausthal. Clausthal, Germany, October Argument-Based Recommenders: a Qualitative Perspective on User Support Systems. Institut de Investigació en Intel. ligencia Artificial, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, February Recommender Systems using Defeasible Logic Programming. ASPIC Project Meeting, Valencia, Spain, August Argument-Based Recommender Systems: a first approach. Department of Informatics, University of Pisa, Italy. June A First Approach to Argument-Based Recommender Systems: two case studies. Department of Computer Science, University College of London. London, UK, May Defeasible Argumentation & Defeasible Logic Programming. Department of Computing, University of Manchester, UK. March Defeasible Argumentation Using Labeled Deduction. Institut de Investigació en Intelligencia Artificial, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, February Defeasible Logic Programming: theory and applications. Institut de Investigació en Intelligencia Artificial, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, February Introducing Defeasible Argumentation. Basic Research Institute for Computer Science (BRICS) Aahrus, Denmark, March 9, A formalization of defeasible reasoning using labeled deduction. Informatik Kolloquium at Universität Koblenz, Germany, Feb. 16, Defeasible Argumentation: theoretical considerations and implementation. Universität Leipzig, Institut für Informatik, Leipzig, Germany, February

19 14. Modeling Defeasible Argumentation Using Labeled Deductive Systems. University of Edinburgh, Scotland, August Participation as Thesis Advisor 13.1 PhD Theses 1. Defeasible Logic Programming with Observations. Student: Marcela Capobianco. Univ. Nac. del Sur, Argentina, Modelling Reputation & Trust in Multiagent Systems through Emerging Patterns. Student: Walter Grandinetti. Univ. Nac. del Sur, Argentina (being developed). 3. An Argument-Based Ontology for Multiagent Systems. Student: Sergio A. Gómez. Univ. Nac. del Sur, Argentina (being developed) Master Theses 1. Combining Argumentative Systems and Machine Learning Techniques Student: Sergio A. Gómez. Univ. Nac. del Sur, Argentina, Pattern Discovery using Association Rules and its application in System Security [in Spanish]. Student: Walter M. Grandinetti. Univ. Nac. del Sur, BSc Theses 1. Association Rules in Datamining [in Spanish] Students: W. Grandinetti and G. Filócamo. Univ. Nac. del Sur, Dialectical Bases in Defeasible Argumentation [in Spanish] (in coordination with Dr. G. Simari). Student: Marcela Capobianco. Univ. Nac. del Sur, Honors Thesis Interaction and computing (Student: Johnatan Pollock) in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Ronald Loui. Washington University, St.Louis, USA, Honors Thesis Fairness, arguments and the computational representation of games (Student: David Goldman) in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Ronald Loui. Washington University, St.Louis, USA, Conference Committees and Reviewing in Journals 14.1 Program Committees Organization Committees 1. ASAI 2007 (Argentinean Symposium in Artificial Intelligence). Mar del Plata, Argentina, Aug (PC member). 2. ECSQARU 2007 (9th European Conf. on Symbolic and Qualitative Aspects of Reasoning under Uncertainty). Hammamet, Tunisia, October 2007 (PC member). 3. AAMAS 2007 (6th Intl. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems). Honolulu, Hawai, May 2007 (PC member). 19

20 4. KRAQ 2007 (3rd Intl. Workshop for Knowledge and Reasoning in Answering Questions). Hyderabad, India, January 2007 (PC Member). 5. WASI 2006 (Workshop on Agents and Intelligent Systems). San Luis, Argentina, Oct (Program Co-Chair). 6. COMMA 2006 (1st. Intl. Conference on Computational Models of Argument). Liverpool, UK, Sept 2006 (PC Member). 7. NMR 2006 (11th Intl. Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning - Track: Argumentation & Dialogue). Windermere, UK, May 2006 (PC member). 8. ArgMAS 2006 (3rd. Intl. Workshop on Argumentation in Multiagent Systems). Hakodate, Japan, May 2006 (PC Member). 9. AAMAS 2006 (Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems). Hakodate, Japan, May 2006 (PC Member). 10. ASAI 2005 (Argentinean Symposium in Artificial Intelligence). Rosario, Argentina, Sept (Chair). 11. ECSQARU 2005 (European Conference on Symbolic and Qualitative Aspects of Reasoning with Uncertainty). Barcelona, Spain, July 2005 (Organization Committee and PC Member). 12. AAMAS 2005 (Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems). Utrecht, Holland, July 2005 (PC Member). 13. AAMAS 2004 (Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems). New York, USA, July 2004 (PC Member). 14. Argentinean Symposium on Artificial Intelligence. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004 (PC Member) Reviewing Activities in Conferences 1. PRICAI 2006 (Pacific Rim Intl. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence), IBERAMIA 2006 (Iberoamerican Conf. on Artificial Intelligence), UAI 2004 (Uncertainty in AI conference), JELIA 2004 (Joint European Conference on Logics in AI). External reviewer. 2. ACM Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Conference (ITICSE), Leeds, UK, 2004 (Reviewer). 3. IJCAI 2003 (Poster Track). Acapulco, Mexico, 2003 (Reviewer). 4. III International Workshop on Computational Models of Scientific Reasoning and Applications (CMSRA), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2003 (Reviewer). 5. II International Workshop on Computational Models of Scientific Reasoning and Applications (CMSRA), Las Vegas, USA, 2002 (Reviewer). 6. I International Workshop on Computational Models of Scientific Reasoning and Applications (CMSRA), Las Vegas, USA, 2001 (Reviewer). 7. Argentinean Conference in Computer Science, (period ) (Reviewer). 20

21 14.3 Reviewing activities in Journals Reviewer for Intl. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (2005), Theory & Practice of Logic Programming (2003), and Artificial Intelligence Journal (2002 and 2006). 15 Participation in conferences (last 3 years) 1. 3rd Intl. IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations (AIAI 2006). Athens, Greece, June 2006 (author) th Intl. Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NMR 2006). Windermere, UK, June 2006 (author) th Intl. Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NMR 2006). Windermere, UK, June 2006 (author). 4. European Conference on Multiagent Systems (EUMAS) Brussels, Belgium, Dec (author). 5. Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LNPMR) Diamante, Italy, September 2005 (author). 6. Intl. Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Workshops ITWP and CMNA. Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2005 (author). 7. Intl. Workshop on Argumentation in Multiagent Systems (ArgMAS 2005). Utrecht, Holland, August European Conference on Multiagent Systems (EUMAS) Barcelona, Spain, Dec (author). 9. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) Valencia, Spain, Aug (author). 10. Intl. ACM-ITICSE Conference (Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education), pp Leeds, UK, June 2004 (author) nd. Intl. IEEE Intelligent Systems Conference. Varna, Bulgaria, June 2004 (author) th Intl. FLAIRS Conference. Palm Beach, Miami, USA Mayo de 2004 (author). 13. V Workshop for Researchers in Computer Science. Tandil, Argentina, May 2003 (author). 14. VIII Argentinean Conference in Computer Science. Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct (author). 16 Foreign languages 1. English: reading (very good), writing (very good), overall comprehension (very good). 2. German: reading (very good), writing (very good), overall comprehension (very good). Zentrale Oberstufenprüfung (Central Exam of High Level in German). Goethe Institut, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, Feb and Zentrale Mittelstufe Prüfung (Central Exam of Intermediate Level in German) Goethe Institut, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Dec

22 3. Spanish: mother tongue 4. Catalan: Certificat de Nivell Intermedi de Llengua Catalana (Certificate of Intermediate Level in Catalan language), Universitat de Lleida, Reading (very good), writing (good), overallcomprehension (very good). 5. Portuguese, French: comprehensive reading in mathematics and computer science. 6. Slovenian: basic skills Last updated: October