Olivier Boissier obtained his PhD in Computer Science from INP Grenoble in 1993 and his "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" (HdR) from ENS Mines de Saint-Etienne and Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne in 2003. He is currently Full Professor of Computer Science at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines of Saint-Etienne, France. He is the coordinator of the ISCOD research group in Computer Science.
Olivier Boissier is active in the research and development of multi-agent systems for 15 years. His main research contributions concern: coordination and control of multi-agent systems. MSc and PhD theses that he has advised have contributed to the development of organizational models (see the MOISE framework), agents' architectures, autonomy and control. The MOISE framework is part of the JaCaMo Multi-Agent Oriented Programming Platform. These different works contribute to the definition of multi-agent models, tools and methodologies for the multi-agent oriented engineering of software applications in the field of industrial systems, Web Intelligence and Ambient Computing.
Olivier Boissier is serving on the program committees of many conferences (IAT/WI, AAMAS) and workshops. He was the program chair of the 12^th French National Conference on Multi-Agent System, of the WI-IAT 2011 International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. He has presented different tutorials in conferences, summer schools. He was member of the steering committee of the COIN Workshop series
O. Boissier is coordinating the Web Intelligence project. He is also participating to the COST Action IC0801 on Agreement Technology , to the Social Trust Analysis and formalization (ForTrust) project funded by the ANR.