Université Paris Cité
LIPADE · Distributed Artificial Intelligence Group

Projects

Scientific supervisor of the agent-technology workstream of the following projects unless otherwise noted. Partners and funding bodies are listed where relevant.

  • 2026–2029 GRAIL — Generative Argumentative AI Funder: ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) · Jan 2026 – Dec 2029 Partners: DAI Group (LIPADE), LLF (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle — Formal Linguistics Laboratory), and IRIT (Toulouse).
  • 2024–2027 TwinODIS Funder: Horizon Europe · Oct 2024 – Oct 2027 Partners: Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research & Technology (FORTH, Greece); Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) — Erasmus School of Economics (ESE); UPC-LIPADE (with Prof. Themis Palpanas). Project page.
  • 2019–2021 Decentralized Task Allocation Funder: Thales Research & Technology · Jan 2019 – Dec 2021 Research contract that funded the doctoral work of Douae Ahmadoun.
  • 2020 Automated generation of accessible PDF files Funder: Ipedis (France) · Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 Research contract on the use of computational argumentation for the automated generation of accessible PDF files.
  • 2008–2013 COST Action IC0801 — Agreement Technologies Role: Member of the Management Committee A pan-European network coordinating research on agreement technologies.
  • 2009–2012 HERA — Home sERvices for specialised elderly Assisted living Collaboration with SingularLogic (Greece) Funder: Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Joint Programme A platform of cost-effective assisted-living services for elderly people with mild Alzheimer or identified cardiovascular risk factors, aimed at extending and improving the quality of home life and reinforcing social networking. Partners: Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG (Germany), Diagnostic and Therapeutic Center of Athens “HYGEIA” (Greece), Paris Descartes University (France), Red Cross (Austria), Solinet GmbH (Germany), SingularLogic S.A. (Greece), Telekom Austria TA AG (Austria).
  • 2004–2007 ASK-IT — Ambient Intelligence System of Agents for Knowledge-based and Integrated Services for Mobility Impaired Users Collaboration with SingularLogic (Greece) Funder: European Integrated Project 45 partners in total, including SingularLogic (Greece), Siemens (Spain), Nokia Mobile Phones (USA), Sun Microsystems (UK), Alcatel SEL (Germany), Lucent Technologies (Germany), Motorola (UK), Groupe des Écoles des Télécommunications — INT (France), Royal National Institute of the Blind (UK), Europäisches Microsoft Innovations Centre (Germany), Vodafone España (Spain), and CERTH / Hellenic Institute of Transport (Greece).
  • 2004–2006 IM@GINE-IT — Intelligent Mobility AGents, Advanced Positioning and Mapping Technologies, INtEgrated Interoperable MulTimodal location-based services Collaboration with SingularLogic (Greece) Funder: European Project IST-2003-508008 Partners: PTV Planning Transport Verkehr AG (Germany), Porsche Engineering Services GmbH (Germany), HaCon Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH (Germany), Daimler-Chrysler AG (Germany), Athens International Airport S.A. (Greece), Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (Greece), TransEuropean Consulting Unit of Thessaloniki S.A. (Greece), 3C Systems Oy (Finland), Ministry of Transport and Communications of Finland (Finland), MMI Tietoverkot OY (Finland), TOPOLISZ Terinformatikai Studio Kft. (Hungary), 5T S.c.r.l. (Italy), Mizar Mediaservice S.R.L. (Italy), CRF Società Consortile per Azioni (Italy), Motorola Electronics S.p.A. (Italy), SingularLogic S.A. (Greece).
  • 2003–2005 NEOGNOS — RPF 39/2002 (University of Cyprus) Funder: National Center for Research Promotion (Cyprus) Partner: Medical Center of Preventive Medicine.
  • 2001–2003 IMAGE — IST-2000-30047 Collaboration with SingularLogic (Greece) Funder: European Project Partners: Hellenic Institute of Transport (Greece), University of Newcastle (UK), Centro Studi sui Sistemi di Trasporto S.p.A. (Italy), Mizar Mediaservice (Italy), Intrasoft S.A. (Greece), Unicom Consulting, Ministry of Transport and Communication (Finland), Mobisoft (Finland), Tampere City Transport (Finland).
  • 2001–2003 SOCS — A Computational Logic for the Description and Verification of Global and Open Societies of Heterogeneous Computees Funder: European Project IST-2001-32530 · Role: Agent-technology expert Partners: Imperial College of Science and Medicine (UK), Università degli Studi di Pisa (Italy), City University (UK), Università di Bologna (Italy), Università degli Studi di Ferrara (Italy).
  • 1994–1996 CTI No. 904-15-4371-123 — Intelligent agents Affiliation: Paris Dauphine University & CNET / R&D — France Télécom · Role: Project manager A research project on intelligent agents, supported by a France Télécom contract.