Laurent Vercouter
Professor in Computer Science, INSA de Rouen
LITIS Laboratory EA 4108, MIU Group


E-mail: click here

Phone: (+33) 232 959 986

Address: INSA de Rouen, LITIS, Avenue de l'Université - BP 8, 76801 Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray Cedex



Since the 1st september 2011, I moved to INSA de Rouen in the LITIS laboratory.
Research Activities
Teaching Activities

Research interests

Publications

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PhD students
Other scientific participations

1st year of "Ingénieur Civil des Mines"
2nd year of "Ingénieur Civil des Mines"
3rd year of "Ingénieur Civil des Mines" / 2nd year Master Web Intelligence


WI-IAT 2011
MALLOW 2010
Summer School EASSS 2010
Workshop ESAW 2008
Post-proceedings ESAW 2008 Numéro spécial RIA

Teaching Activities (all lectures are in french)

Coming soon...
Research Activities

Research interests

My domain of research is Multi-Agent Systems. My research takes place in the MIU group of the LITIS laboratory. More specifically I am interested in:
  • Trust and Reputation in MAS
  • Ambient Intelligence
  • Multi-Agent Systems and Component-Oriented Programming
Full list of my publications
Current research projects
  • Coming soon...
Past research projects
  • Web Intelligence project. Rhônes-Alpes regional project (2006-2008)
  • ForTrust project. French ANR project "Security and Computer Science" (2007-2010). Collaboration with the IRIT (France) and Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Rome
  • ART project: Agent Reputation Testbed. Collaboration with the University of Texas , National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam  and Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Bellaterra .
  • Integration of the functional ontology of reputation into the agent reputation testbed. Collaboration with the Laboratório de Técnicas Inteligentes (LTI) of the University of Sao Paulo . Supported by FAPESP 2005/02902-5.
  • MAAC (Multi-Agent, Aspects and Components) project: study of the relations between multi-agent, aspect and component oriented-programming. French collaboration with Ecole des Mines of Alès, Douai and Nantes. Supported by ANVAR from 2003 to 2005
  • MAST (Multi-Agent System Toolkit) project: Component-based IDE for Multi-Agent Systems.
Current PhD students
  • Yann Krupa, "Multidimensional reasoning for privacy and sensitive data protection in multi-agent systems", co-supervised with Pr. Olivier Boissier. Expected defence: fall 2011
Past PhD students
  • Mathieu Vallée, "Flexible composition of communicating object services for ambient communication", co-supervised with Pr. Olivier Boissier and Dr. Fano Ramparany (France Telecom R & D). Defended the 21st of january 2009
  • Guillaume Grondin, "Component-based agents for ubiquitous computing", co-supervised with  Pr. Olivier Boissier and Dr. Noury Bouraqadi (École des Mines of Douai). Defended the 24th of november 2008
  • Guillaume Muller, "Use of norms and reputation to detect and sanction contradictions - contribution to the social control of interactions in decentralized and open multi-agent systems" , co-supervised with Pr. Olivier Boissier. Defended the 11th of december 2006
Participation to PhD committees
  • Laurent Poligny (univ. Évry), "De l'ordinateur à la MACHINE : création et régulation du traitement des données", Janvier 2011
  • Hugo Pommier (univ. Caen), "Placement et stockage de l'information bio-inspirée : une approche orientée agent mobile", October 2010
  • Katia Potiron (Thalès, LIP6), "Systèmes Multi-Agents et tolérance aux fautes : conséquences de l'autonomie des agents", April 2010
  • Mikael Atès (Telecom Saint-Étienne), "Identités numériques : gestion inter-organisationnelle centrée sur l'utilisateur et respectueuse de la vie privée", October 2009
  • Benoît Gaudou (IRIT), "Formalizing social attitudes in modal logic", July 2008
Other scientific participations
  • Co-chair: WI&C 11, WIVE 10, WIVE 09, ESAW 08
  • Co-chair of the Program Committee: Atelier "IA et Web Intelligence"
  • Co-editor of a special issue of the Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle about Intelligence Artificielle et Web Intelligence
  • Member of the Program Committee:
    • AAMAS (Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems): 2011, 2010, 2009
    • IAT (International Conference on Intelligent Agent Techonology): 2011
    • ICAART (International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence): 2012, 2011
    • EC-WEB (International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies): 2011
    • EUMAS (European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems): 2010, 2009
    • ESAW (Engineering Societies in the Agents' World): 2009
    • ICINCO (Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics): 2009, 2008
    • ICIS (Information Systems): 2010
    • IDC (Intelligent Distributed Computing): 2010, 2009, 2008
    • ISA (Intelligent Systems and Agents): 2009, 2008, 2007
    • JFSMA (Journées Francophones des Systèmes Multi-Agents): 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008
    • LMO (Langages et Modèles à Objets): 2010
    • MASTA@EPIA (Multi-Agent Systems, Theory and Applications): 2011
    • ABSS@Autonomics: 2009
    • IEEE workshop on EOCS-MCP: 2008
    • JMAC (Journée Multi-Agent et Composants): 2006, 2004
    • MAS session@ISCIS: 2009
    • MASUPC: 2007
    • PIIPES@ADBIS: 2010
    • Privacy on the Web@SAC: 2010
    • Student Session@EASSS: 2009, 2008
  • Member of the Organization Committee: WI-IAT 11,EASSS 10, MALLOW 10, INCOM 06, Specif 06, JMAC 06, JMAC 04
  • Tutor of lectures:
    • EASSS (European Agent Systems Summer School): "Computational Trust and Reputation Models" in 2010, 2009 (slides), 2008 (slides) and 2007 (slides)
    • AAMAS tutorials: "Computational Trust and Reputation Models" in 2008 (slides)
  • Reviewer for the journals: Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, World Wide Web Journal, Information Sciences, Journal of Pervasive Computing and Computation, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle, L'Objet
  • Reviewer for: AAMAS 08, ECAI 08, SBIA 08, IJCAI 07, INCOM 06, JFSMA 06, JFSMA 05, JFSMA 04, JFSMA 03, IEEE P2P 07, IEEE P2P 06, IEEE P2P 05, IAT 04
  • Project Evaluator for: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), FONDECYT