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Gauthier Picard
Associate Professor
Henri Fayol Institute Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (LIST) ISCOD team École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne 158, cours Fauriel, 42023 SAINT-ÉTIENNE cedex 2, France Ph: +33 (0) 4 77 42 66 84 Fax: +33 (0) 4 77 42 66 66 E-mail: e-mail |
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News
- Master thesis proposal (3) [12/12/11]
- Decentralized stable matching in mixed communities
- Master thesis proposal (2) [12/12/11]
- Dynamic Management of Openness in Multiagent Organisations
- Master thesis proposal (1) [12/12/11]
- Multi-agent systems for complex system optimization
- Course on version control with SVN and TRAC [04/11/11]
- A Course on version control using JUnit and project management using TRAC is available for ISI 2A students on Mon, 7 Nov 2011, 8:15-11:30.
- Course on Test-Driven Development with JUnit [26/08/11]
- A Course on Test-Driven Developement using JUnit is available for ISI 2A students on Fri, 16 Sep 2011, 8:15-11:30.
- Course on GUI Development with Java Swing [26/08/11]
- A Course on GUI Developement using Java Swing is available for ISI 2A students on Mon, 19 Sep 2011, 8:15-11:30.
- AI Introduction Course for 1A Students [19/05/11]
- An AI Introduction Course is proposed this year. All the material is (will be) available here.
- Java Course for 1A Students [02/05/11]
- Java Course starts this week. All the material is (will be) available here.
- Tutorial on Multi-Agent Problem Solving [24/11/10]
- A tutorial on the implementation of ABT in Jason.
- Lecture on Multi-Agent Problem Solving [24/11/10]
- A short introduction to the classical algorithms for problem satisfaction and optimisation in multi-agent systems.
Research
Themes
- Multi-agents systems, and more specifically adaptive multi-agent systems (AMAS)
- Distributed optimization by cooperation between agents
- Emergence and emergent phenomena
- Self-organisation, as a mechanism to design emergent artificial systems
- Software engineering, to build such systems
Supervising
PhD Students
- D. Villanueva (Joint PhD UF-EMSE, 2010-2012): "Uncertainty propagration in multi-agent and multi-disciplinary optimisation"
- R. Yaich (PhD EMSE, 2009-2012): "Adaptation and evolution of trust policies within communities"
- C. Persson (PhD Orange Labs/EMSE, 2009-2012): "Agile governance in M2M networks"
Master Students
- A. Sorici (Master Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti, EURAMUS, 2011):
"Dynamic, reactive and pro-active context information aggregation in an AmI environment"

- M. Bilal (Master UTT, Orange Labs, 2011): "Multi-agent governance model for M2M networks: Application to a smart parking management system"

- S. Villarreal (Master EMSE/UJM, 2010): "Distributed
constraint-based Optimisation and Social Choice"

- G. Clair (Master EMSE/UJM, 2008): "Self-organisation
for manufacturing control based on multi-agent systems"

- E. Kaddoum (Master IRIT/UPS, 2008): "Self-regulation
for manufacturing control using self-organising MAS"

- F. Cornet (Master IRIT/UPS, 2006): "Study of a
frequency assignment problem using adaptive multi-agent
systems"

Committees
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Chairs
- Steering Committee member for ESAW (Engineering Societies in the Agents World)
- Session chair at IICAI'07 (Session on Multi-Agent Systems), ROADEF'11 (Session on MDO)
- Program chair at ESAW'08, ESAW'09
- Demo Chair at WI-IAT'11
- Organisation chair at SASO'12
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Programme Committees
- Member of PC for ESAW'04, EUMAS'04, EUMAS'05, IICAI'07, RJCIA'07, SARC'08, BADS'09, SARC'09, IICAI'09, IAMA'09, SASO'09 (posters), AAMAS'10, BADS'10, AOSE'10, SASO'10, WIVE'10, AOSE'11, BADS'11, IDETC'11, IICAI'11, SASO'11
- Reviewer for FGCS Journal, IJAOSE Journal, TAAS Journal, RIA Journal, SIMPAT Journal, WIAS Journal, COIN@AAMAS'08, AAMAS'05, AAMAS'08, COIN@AAMAS'08, AOMP'08, APSLA'08, SBIA'08, RFIA'08, AOSE'09, ISA'09, ICRA'10, WI-IAT'11
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Organisation
- ESAW'04, JFSMA'07, ESAW'08, ESAW'09, WI'09 Web Intelligence Summer School, EASSS'10, MALLOW'10, WI-IAT'11, SASO'12
Teaching
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1st year of "Ingénieur Civil des Mines"
(web site)
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2nd year of "Ingénieur Civil des Mines"
- Analysis and Design with UML
- Project Management (eXtreme Programming, Unified Process)
- Test-Driven Development with JUnit
- GUI Development with Java Swing
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Master on Software Engineering
- Object-oriented Analysis and Design with UML
- Detailed contents
-
2nd year of Master Web Intelligence
(web
site)
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Self-Organisation

- Multi-Agent Constraint Problem Solving

Documents
- Slides for the lecture on Multi-Agent Problem Solving

- Slides for the lecture on Self-Organisation in MAS

- Slides for the lecture on Design Patterns

- Subject for the practical works on JUnit 4

- Slides for the lecture on JAR

- Slides for introducing project management

- Slides for the lecture on eXtreme Programming

- Slides for the lecture on Unified Process

- Slides for the short introduction to Minimax
algorithm

- Slides for the short introduction to Prolog

- Slides for the lecture on Test-driven Development

Topics
- Introduction to computer sciences and programming with C
- Object and parallelism programming with Java
- Object-oriented Analysis and Design with UML
- Functionnal and imperative programming with CAML
- Artificial intelligence with CAML
- UNIX O/S and parallelism
- Imperative programming with Pascal
- Expert systems and neural networks
- Initiation to Linux and Windows NT
Publications
- Publications in DBLP
- Publications in Google Scholar
- Publications in pdf format

- Publications of the whole department on HAL website
| [1] | D. Villanueva, R. Le Riche, G. Picard, and R.T. Haftka. Surrogate-based agents: Application to design under uncertainty. In 14th AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Conference, Honolulu, HI. AIAA, 2012. [ bib ] |
| [2] | C. Persson, G. Picard, F. Ramparany, and O. Boissier. A jacamo-based governance of machine-to-machine systems. In Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems, Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 12), Advances in Soft Computing Series. Springer, 2012. [ bib ] |
| [3] | R. Yaich, O. Boissier, P. Jaillon, and G. Picard. Asc-tms: An agent-based trust management system for multiagent-based virtual communities. In Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems, Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 12), Advances in Soft Computing Series. Springer, 2012. [ bib ] |
| [4] | R. Yaich, O. Boissier, P. Jaillon, and G. Picard. An adaptive and socially-compliant trust management system for virtual communities. In The 27th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2012). ACM Press, 2012. [ bib ] |
| [5] | C. Persson, G. Picard, F. Ramparany, and O. Boissier. A multi-agent organization for the governance of machine-to-machine systems. In European Workshop on Multi-agent Systems (EUMAS'11), 2011. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [6] | R. Yaich, O. Boissier, G. Picard, and P. Jaillon. Social-compliance in trust management within virtual communities. In European Workshop on Multi-agent Systems (EUMAS'11), 2011. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [7] | A. Sorici, O. Boissier, G. Picard, and A. Santi. Exploiting the jacamo framework for realising an adaptive room management application. In AGERE! (Actors and aGEnts REloaded) Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control workshop at ACM SPLASH 2011. ACM Press, 2011. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [8] | R. Yaich, O. Boissier, P. Jaillon, and G. Picard. Social-compliance in trust management within virtual communities. In 3rd International Workshop on Web Intelligence and Communities (WI&C'11) at the International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2011), pages 322-325. IEEE Computer Society, 2011. [ bib | DOI ] |
| [9] | C. Persson, G. Picard, and F. Ramparany. A multi-agent organization for the governance of machine-to-machine systems. In IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'11), pages 421-424. IEEE Computer Society, 2011. [ bib | DOI ] |
| [10] | D. Villanueva, R. Le Riche, G. Picard, R.T. Haftka, and B.V. Sankar. Decomposition of system level reliability-based design optimization to reduce the number of simulations. In ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Washington, DC, USA, 2011. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [11] | M. Morge and G. Picard. Privacy-preserving strategy for negotiating stable, equitable and optimal matchings. In Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems, Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 11), Advances in Intelligent and Soft-Computing, pages 97-102. Springer, 2011. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
| [12] | R. Yaich, P. Jaillon, G. Picard, and O. Boissier. Toward an adaptive trust policy model for open and decentralized virtual communities. Liquid Publication, 2010. [ bib ] |
| [13] | J.-P Georgé, M.-P. Gleizes, E. Kaddoum, L. Masciardi, G. Picard, and C. Raibulet. Criteria for self-* systems evaluation: a unified proposal. In ICSE 2010 Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-managing Systems (SEAMS), Cape Town, South Africa, pages 29-38. ACM/IEEE, 2010. [ bib | DOI | .pdf ] |
| [14] | E. Kaddoum, M.-P. Gleizes, J.-P. George, and G. Picard. Characterizing and Evaluating Problem Solving Self-* Systems. In International Conference on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2009), 2009 Computation World: Future Computing, Service Computation, Cognitive, Adaptive, Content, Patterns, Athens, Greece, November 15-November 20, pages 137-145. IEEE Computer Society, 2009. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
| [15] | G. Picard, J.F. Hübner, O. Boissier, and M.-P. Gleizes. Reorganisation and self-organisation in multi-agent systems. In International Workshop on Organizational Modeling (OrgMod'09), pages 66-80, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [16] | G. Clair, M.-P. Gleizes, E. Kaddoum, and G. Picard. Self-Regulation in Self-Organising Multi-Agent Systems for Adaptive and Intelligent Manufacturing Control. In Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaption and Self-Organization (SASO 2008), Venice, Italy, 20-24 October 2008. IEEE Computer Society, 2008. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
| [17] | J. F. Hübner, R. H. Bordini, and G. Picard. Jason and MOISE+: Organisational programming in the Agent Contest 2008. In R. Bordini, M. Dastani, J. Dix, and A. El Fallah-Seghrouchni, editors, Dagstuhl Seminar on Programming Multi-Agent Systems, volume 08361, 2008. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [18] | J. F. Hübner, R. H. Bordini, and G. Picard. Using jason and MOISE+ to develop a team of cowboys. In K. Hindriks, A. Pokahr, and S. Sardina, editors, Proceedings of the Seventh international Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS 08), Agent Contest, held with The Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2008), 2008. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
| [19] | J. E. Garcia Ruiz, J.-P. Georgé, and G. Picard. The AmICriM Project: A Truly Body Area Network Application. In First International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN 2008), in conjunction with ICCCN 2008, August 4-7, Virgin Islands, USA, 2008. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [20] | G. Picard, M.-P. Gleizes, and P. Glize. Distributed Frequency Assignment Using Cooperative Self-Organization. In First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO'07), Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007, pages 183-192. IEEE Computer Society, 2007. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
| [21] | C. Bernon, M.-P. Gleizes, and G. Picard. Enhancing Self-Organising Emergent Systems Design with Simulation. In Seventh International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW'06), Dublin, Ireland from the 6th - 8th September, 2006, number 4457 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 284-299. Springer-Verlag, 2006. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
| [22] | G. Picard and P. Glize. Model and Experiments of Local Decision Based on Cooperative Self-Organization. In Prasad, B., editor, Second International Indian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI'05), 20-22 December 2005, Pune, India, pages 3009-3024, 2005. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [23] | G. Picard and M.-P. Gleizes. Cooperative Self-Organization to Design Robust and Adaptive Collectives. In Second International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO'05), 14-17 September 2005, Barcelona, Spain, Volume I, pages 236-241. INSTICC Press, 2005. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [24] | G. Picard, C. Bernon, and M.-P. Gleizes. Emergent Timetabling Organization. In Multi-Agent Systems and Applications IV - 4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS'05), 15-17 September 2005, Budapest, Hungary, volume 3690 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), pages 440-449. Springer-Verlag, 2005. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
| [25] | G. Picard and P. Glize. Cooperative self-organization: Modeling and experiments of local decision to solve distributed problems. In 3rd European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS'05), 7-8 December, Brussels, Belgium, pages 497-498. Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, 2005. [ bib ] |
| [26] | G. Picard and M.-P. Gleizes. Cooperative self-organization: Designing robust and adaptive robotic collectives. In 3rd European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS'05), 7-8 December, Brussels, Belgium, pages 495-496. Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, 2005. [ bib ] |
| [27] | G. Picard, C. Bernon, and M.-P. Gleizes. ETTO : Emergent Timetabling by Cooperative Self-Organization. In Engineering Self-Organizing Applications - Third International Workshop (ESOA) at the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agents Systems (AAMAS'05), July 2005, Utrecht, Netherlands, volume 3910 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), pages 31-45. Springer-Verlag, 2005. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
| [28] | G. Picard, S. Mellouli, and M.-P. Gleizes. Techniques for Multi-Agent System Reorganization. In O. Dikenelli, M.-P. Gleizes, and A. Ricci, editors, Sixth International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW'05), 26-28 October 2005, Kusadasi, Aydin, Turkey, volume 3963 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). Springer-Verlag, 2005. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
| [29] | D. Capera, G. Picard, M.-P. Gleizes, and P. Glize. A Sample Application of ADELFE Focusing on Analysis and Design : The Mechanism Design Problem. In M.-P. Gleizes, A. Omicini, and F. Zambonelli, editors, Fifth International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW'04), 20-22 October 2004, Toulouse, France, volume 3451 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), pages 231-244. Springer-Verlag, 2005. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
| [30] | G. Picard. Cooperative Agent Model Instantiation to Collective Robotics in ADELFE. In M.-P. Gleizes, A. Omicini, and F. Zambonelli, editors, Fifth International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW'04), 20-22 October 2004, Toulouse, France, volume 3451 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), pages 209-221. Springer-Verlag, 2005. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
| [31] | D. Capera, G. Picard, M.-P. Gleizes, and P. Glize. Applying ADELFE Methodology to a Mechanism Design Problem. In Third Joint Conference on Multi-Agent System (AAMAS'04), pages 1508-1509, New York, USA, July 2004. IEEE Computer Society. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
| [32] | G. Picard, C. Bernon, and M.-P. Gleizes. Cooperative Agent Model within ADELFE Framework: An Application to a Timetabling Problem. In Third Joint Conference on Multi-Agent System (AAMAS'04), pages 1506-1507, New York, USA, July 2004. IEEE Computer Society. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
| [33] | C. Bernon, V. Camps, M.-P. Gleizes, and G. Picard. Designing Agents' Behaviours within the Framework of ADELFE Methodology. In A. Omicini, P. Petta, and J. Pitt, editors, Fourth International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW'03), volume 3071 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), pages 311-327, Imperial College London, UK, October 2003. Springer-Verlag. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
| [34] | J.-P. Georgé, G. Picard, M.-P. Gleizes, and P. Glize. Living Design for Open Computational Systems. In M. Fredriksson, A. Ricci, R. Gustavsson, and A. Omicini, editors, International Workshop on Theory And Practice of Open Computational Systems (TAPOCS) at 12th IEEE International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE'03), pages 389-394, Linz, Austria, June 2003. IEEE Computer Society. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
| [35] | C. Bernon, V. Camps, M.-P. Gleizes, and G. Picard. Tools for Self-Organizing Applications Engineering. In G. Di Marzo Serugendo, A. Karageorgos, O. F. Rana, and F. Zambonelli, editors, Engineering Self-Organizing Applications - First International Workshop (ESOA) at the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agents Systems (AAMAS'03), volume 2977 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), pages 283-298, Melbourne, Australia, 2003. Springer-Verlag. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
| [36] | G. Picard. UML Stereotypes Definition and AUML Notations for ADELFE Methodology with OpenTool. In The First European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS'03), St Catherine College, Oxford, 18th and 19th December 2003, 2003. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [37] | C. Bernon, M.-P. Gleizes, S. Peyruqueou, and G. Picard. ADELFE: a Methodology for Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems Engineering. In P. Petta, R. Tolksdorf, and F. Zambonelli, editors, Third International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW'02), volume 2577 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 156-169, Madrid, Spain, September 2002. Springer-Verlag. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
| [38] | C. Bernon, M.-P. Gleizes, G. Picard, and P. Glize. The ADELFE Methodology For an Intranet System Design. In P. Giorgini, Y. Lespérance, G. Wagner, and E. Yu, editors, Fourth International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS-2002), volume 57, Toronto, Canada, May 2002. CAiSE'02, CEUR Workshop Proceedings. [ bib | http | .pdf ] |
| [39] | G. Picard and M.-P. Gleizes. An Agent Architecture to Design Self-Organizing Collectives: Principles and Application. In D. Kazakov, D. Kudenko, and E. Alonso, editors, AISB'02 Symposium on Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems (AAMASII), volume 2636 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), pages 141-158, Univerity of London, UK, April 2002. Springer-Verlag. [ bib | DOI | http ] |
PhD Thesis
- Title: Methodology for developing adaptive multi-agent systems and designing software with emergent functionality
- Institute: IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse).
- Ecole Doctorale: EDIT (Ecole Doctorale Informatique et Télécommunications)
- Formation Doctorale: RCFR (Représentation de la Connaissance et Formalisation du Raisonnement)
- Supervisor: Marie-Pierre Gleizes
- Working Group: Equipe Systèmes Multi-Agents Coopératifs (SMAC), IRIT
- Keywords: Multi-agent systems, adaptation, emergence, complex systems, self-organisation, software engineering
Curriculum Vitæ
Academic Activities
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Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne,
Henri Fayol Institute,
ISCOD
Computer Science Department,
France
- 2007 – present, Assistant Professor
- 2007 – present, Assistant Professor
-
Institute
of Research in Computer Science, University of
Toulouse III, Toulouse, France
- 2006 - 2007, Researcher and Research and European Relations Engineer
- 2004 - 2006, Assistant Lecturer
- 2001 - 2004, Researcher (PhD)
Education
- 2004, Doctorate in Computer Science (IRIT, Toulouse III, France)
- 2001, DEA in Artificial Intelligence (equivalent to MS) (IRIT, Toulouse III, France)
- 2000, Maîtrise et Licence in Computer Science (equivalent to BS) (Toulouse III, France)
- 1998, DEUG in Mathematics and Computer Science (2-year university degree) (Pau, France)
- 1995, Baccalauréat in Mathematics & Physics (secondary school diploma) (Clermont-Fd, France)
Resume
Personal
- roleplaying games (paper, live...) and particularly within the Incarna association...
- music listening (always and loud...), playing (bass, double bass, guitar, sampling, ...) and arranging...
- vegetarian cooking...
- nature in general...

Links
- Henri Fayol Institute - http://www.emse.fr/spip/-Institut-Henri-Fayol-.html?lang=en
- ISCOD Department - http://www.emse.fr/spip/-ISCOD-.html
- LIST -
http://www.emse.fr/spip/-LSTI-.html?lang=en
- G2I -
http://www.emse.fr/spip/-G2I,47-.html?lang=en
- SMA -
http://www.emse.fr/spip/-SMA-.html?lang=en
- Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne -
http://www.emse.fr
- Institute of Research in Computer Science of Toulouse -
http://www.irit.fr
- Upetec - Emergence Technologies - http://www.upetec.fr/
- Les Ludopathes Editeurs - french publishers of roleplaying games - http://www.ludopathes.com



























