Introduction: Andrei Ciortea

Dear all,

I am an assistant professor at the School of Computer Science at the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland and an external collaborator of the Wimmics team at Inria Sophia Antipolis in France.

I have a general background in AI with a focus on engineering multi-agent systems (MAS). Back in 2012, I discovered the WoT research coming out of ETH Zürich, so I started to apply MAS to the WoT — and in that process, I got a better understanding of how the Web works and the design rationale behind the Web architecture. Over the past years, I've been mostly working on trying to transfer some of those lessons back to the engineering of MAS (e.g., see [1,2]).

I was involved in co-organizing the Dagstuhl seminars mentioned in the welcome message, and I will co-organize this year’s Engineering MAS workshop (EMAS 2023) — co-located with AAMAS 2023 on May 29-30 in London (accepted papers will be published online in a month): https://emas.in.tu-clausthal.de/2023/program.html

I get a kick out of anything related to the Web and MAS — and I very much look forward to collaborating with you on these topics through this community group!

Best wishes,
Andrei

[1] Andrei Ciortea, Olivier Boissier, and Alessandro Ricci (EMAS 2018). Engineering World-Wide Multi-Agent Systems with Hypermedia. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25693-7_15

[2] Andrei Ciortea, Simon Mayer, Fabien Gandon, Olivier Boissier, Alessandro Ricci, and Antoine Zimmermann (AAMAS 2019). A Decade in Hindsight: The Missing Bridge Between Multi-Agent Systems and the World Wide Web. https://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2019/pdfs/p1659.pdf