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Previous Invited Speakers

The researchers below were distinguished invited speakers at previous ICAART conferences.
We are indebted to them for their contribution to heighten the conference level.

2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009

2024

Is Artificial Consciousness the Missing Ingredient for Ethical AI?    
Antonio Chella, University of Palermo, Italy

Understanding and Improving the Next Generation of Conversational Systems: Trends, Challenges and Future    
Luis Fernando D'Haro Enriquez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

The Major Challenges for Cyber Security and AI
Pavan Duggal, Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Chairman, International Commission on Cyber Security Law India, and Chief Executive, Artificial Intelligence Law Hub, India


2023

Quantum Annealing for Constraint Satisfaction and Constrained Optimization    
Philippe Codognet, JFLI - CNRS / Sorbonne University / University of Tokyo, Japan

AI and Music with Knowledge Graphs  
Valentina Presutti, University of Bologna, Italy

Outracing Champion Gran Turismo Drivers with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Michael Spranger, Sony AI, Japan

AI Grappling with Things  
Aldo Gangemi, University of Bologna, Italy


2022

Knowledge Representation & Reasoning in CRAM: A Cognitive Architecture for Robot Agents Accomplishing Everyday Manipulation Tasks  
Michael Beetz, University of Bremen, Germany

Bio-Inspired AI for Autonomous Systems  
Jan Seyler, Festo SE & Co. KG, Germany

Interacting with Socially Interactive Agents    
Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS/University of Pierre and Marie Curie, France


2021

Con Espressione! AI, Machine Learning, and Musical Expressivity    
Gerhard Widmer, Johannes Kepler University and LIT | AI Lab, Linz Institute of Technology, Austria

Bioinspired Soft Robotics: Nature-inspired Solutions for Artificial Intelligent Systems  
Barbara Mazzolai, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy

From Probabilistic Circuits to Probabilistic Programs and Back    
Guy Van Den Broeck, UCLA, United States

Explainable Machine Learning for Trustworthy AI  
Fosca Giannotti, ISTI-CNR, Italy


2020

Responsible Agency    
Carles Sierra, IIIA-CSIC, Spain

Reasoning on Data: Challenges and Application    
Marie-Christine Rousset, Université Grenoble-Alpes and Institut Universitaire de France, France

A 20-Year Roadmap for AI Research  
Bart Selman, Cornell University, United States

Testing and Training Theory of Mind for Hybrid Human-agent Environments    
Rineke Verbrugge, Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen, Netherlands


2019

Evolving Art  
Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Computational Sustainability  
Carla Gomes, Cornell University, United States

Understanding Future Technologies through Agent-Based Simulation  
Michal Pechoucek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Continuous Learning in Large-scale Problems: The Case of Multi-script Historical Handwritten Document Collections  
Lambert Schomaker, University of Groningen, Netherlands


2018

Agent-based Models for Language Adaptation and Change  
Luc Steels, ICREA, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC) Barcelona, Spain

Accountability, Responsibility, Transparency - The ART of AI    
Virginia Dignum, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Reading Agents that Hunger for Knowledge  
Eduard Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University, United States

What We Do: Challenges in Individual Rationality and Its Collective Consequences  
Luís Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal


2017

Socially Intelligent Robotics
Vanessa Evers, University of Twente, Netherlands

Efficient Reasoning with Rules and Ontologies  
João Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Learning Tasks in Robotics: Problems and Solutions    
Nuno Lau, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Ethical Embodied Decision Making  
Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, Italy


2016

Robust Human Interaction with Robotic Swarms    
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Causal Discovery from Big Data - Mission (Im)possible?    
Tom Heskes, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Computational Social Choice    
Jérôme Lang, Université Paris-Dauphine, France

Multiagent Organizations  
Jaime Sichman, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Social Agents  
Eric Postma, Tilburg University, Netherlands


2015

Time for a Good Argument  
Chris Reed, University of Dundee, United Kingdom

Language-based Games    
Joseph Halpern, Cornell University, United States

On Human-Agent Collectives    
Nick Jennings, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Computational Logic as an Intelligent Agent’s Language of Thought    
Robert Kowalski, Imperial College London, United Kingdom


2014

Advances in Learning with Bayesian Networks  
Philippe Leray, Université de Nantes, France

The New Era of High-Functionality Computing    
Henry Lieberman, Independent Researcher, United States

Agents and Semantics for Human Decision-Making    
Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Germany

The Brain Agent  
Claude Frasson, University of Montreal, Canada

The Intelligence of Agents in Games    
Pieter Spronck, Tilburg University, Netherlands

Demystifying Big Data - From Causality to Correlation  
Jaap van den Herik, Leiden University, Netherlands


2013

Trends and Directions in Distributed Knowledge
Elias M. Awad, University of Virginia, United States

Connecting Sciences    
Jaap van den Herik, Leiden University, Netherlands

Control and Delegation    
Wiebe van der Hoek, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom


2012

MULTI-ROBOT INTELLIGENCE - Flexible Strategy for Robotic Teams    
Luís Paulo Reis, University of Porto, Portugal

LEARNING ABOUT ACTIVITIES AND OBJECTS FROM VIDEO    
Anthony Cohn, Independent Researcher, United Kingdom

TOWARDS SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKED CARS AS SOCIAL AGENTS  
Wolfgang Wahlster, Independent Researcher, Germany

AGENTS FOR SERIOUS GAMING - Challenges and Opportunities    
Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, Netherlands


2011

GOALS ONTOLOGY AND DYNAMICS IN MIND AND SOCIETY - The Ag&MAS Modeling  
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies - National Research Council, Italy

MODEL DRIVEN DESIGN OF AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS - DSML4MAS a Domain Specific Modelling Language for Multiagent Systems  
Klaus Fischer, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH, Germany

UNCERTAINTY THEORIES, DEGREES OF TRUTH AND EPISTEMIC STATES  
Didier Dubois, , France

THE MIT DELIBERATORIUM - Enabling Large-scale Deliberation about Complex Systemic Problems  
Mark Klein, Independent Researcher, United States

GETTING AGENTS TO TELL THE TRUTH  
Boi Faltings, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland


2010

AGENTS AND AGREEMENT TECHNOLOGIES - The Next Generation of Information Distributed Systems  
Vicente Botti, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

CREATING AND EXPLOITING A WEB OF SEMANTIC DATA  
Tim Finin, University of Maryland, United States

COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY - Progress and Prospects  
Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal

DEVELOPMENT OF LARGE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE BASES  
Peter D. Karp, , United States

PURPOSIVE MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS  
Yves Demazeau, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble,, France


2009

Past, Present and Future of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments  
Juan C. Augusto, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, United Kingdom

AI in Medicine Comes of Age: Blossoming or Languishing?  
Edward H. Shortliffe, Arizona State University, United States

Swarm-Bots  
Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Multi-Agent Coordination and Collective Artificial Paintings  
Paulo Urbano, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Conceptual Autonomy of Agents  
Timo Honkela, , Finland


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