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.
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2025
Rethinking our Defensive Strategy 
Inge Bryan, Chair of the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure, Netherlands How India Navigates Between Binding Government Regulation and Self-RegulationPavan Duggal, Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Chairman, International Commission on Cyber Security Law India, and Chief Executive, Artificial Intelligence Law Hub, India Rules for AI, Governanbility and the Common Interest of States to Create an International Artificial Intelligence Agency Paul Nemitz, Principal Adviser European Commission, Belgium
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 AIPavan 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 Outracing Champion Gran Turismo Drivers with Deep Reinforcement LearningMichael 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
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
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 RoboticsVanessa 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
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 Intelligence of Agents in Games Pieter Spronck, Tilburg University, Netherlands Demystifying Big Data - From Causality to Correlation H. Jaap van den Herik, Faculty of Computer Science and Faculty of Law, Leiden University, Netherlands
2013
Trends and Directions in Distributed KnowledgeElias M. Awad, University of Virginia, United States Connecting Sciences H. Jaap van den Herik, Faculty of Computer Science and Faculty of Law, Leiden University, Netherlands
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