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Professor
Chris Price Professor
Mark Lee Dr.
Neal Snooke Dr.
Louise Travé-Massuyès Dr.
Bert Bredeweg Dr.
George Macleod Coghill Dr.
Peter Lucas Professor
Luca Console Dr.
Robert Milne Professor
Dr. Peter Struss Steering Committe Meeting Minutes
Professor Chris Price Network Director Deputy
Director of the Centre for Intelligent Systems within the Department
of Computer Science UWA and presently shares MONET responsibilities
with Mark Lee and Neal Snooke
as a Deputy Director. His main research interests lie in the application
of model-based reasoning and case-based reasoning to engineering
problems. He teaches courses in Artificial Intelligence and in Human
Computer Interface Design. Before returning to pursue research in
Aberystwyth, Dr Price spent nine years working in the software industry
in the UK and Italy. An important part of his time in the software
industry was spent constructing software tools for building expert
systems. He also worked on many expert systems applications, and
still provides consultancy to several major companies,
Professor Mark Lee Network Director Professor Lee
is currently Professor of Intelligent Systems in the Department
of Computer Science, at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He
is also Director of the Centre for Intelligent Systems and a Director
of the European Network: MONET. Professor Lee is a diirector of the Centre for Intelligent Systems within the Department of Computer Science UWA, Head of Research and a director of MONET. He has spent sabbaticals at the University of Massachusetts, USA and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a European and Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the IEE. Prof. Lee is also a member of many editorial and advisory boards and has published many technical papers and several books on robotics.
Dr Neal Snooke Network Director Neal Snooke received an Honours degree in Microelectronics and Computing in 1990 and a PhD in Wavelet based image compression in 1994, both from The University of Wales, Aberystwyth. While working as a research associate in the model based systems group he was involved in the development of the AutoSteve automotive electrical FMEA tool in addition to acting as research director of a successful spin-off company. He is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University specializing in network technologies and telemetics. His research interests include model based and qualitative reasoning with application to automated design analysis tools for electrical, electronic, network-based, and embedded systems.
Bridge Task Group Leader (Fault Detection and Diagnosis) Task Group Page Link Louise Travé-Massuyès was born in July 1959, in Manresa, Spain. She received an Engineering Degree specialized in control, electronics and computer science in 1982 and a Ph.D. degree in control in 1984, both from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA); Award from the Union des Groupements d'Ingenieurs de la Region Midi-Pyrénées; D.E.A. in control from Paul Sabatier University in 1982, all in Toulouse, France. She is currently a Research Director of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), working at LAAS, Toulouse, France, in which she has led the "Qualitative Diagnosis, Supervision and Control" Group for several years. Her main research interests are in qualitative and model-based reasoning and applications to dynamic systems monitoring and diagnosis. Her current responsibilities include; Co-director of the European Laboratory LEA-SICA; Chairperson of the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Qualitative Reasoning; member of the IFAC Safeprocess Technical Committee. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society.
Education and Training Task Group Leader Task Group Page Link This Task Group is led by Dr. Bert Bredeweg, of the University of Amsterdam. Bert Bredeweg has a research history in artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology. While working on the construction of software artefacts that are able to have a 'communicative interaction' with humans, particularly with learners, the need for knowledgeable problem solvers became clear. Among others, this focussed his research on the development and use of qualitative reasoning techniques as the basis for 'knowledge communication'. Recent research includes model-based diagnosis of learner behaviour, explanation, and learning by building qualitative simulations. The latter emphasises the notion of knowledge construction as an important aspect of learning.
Dr. George Macleod Coghill MONET Policy Expert (Joint Bio-Medical Task Group Leader) Task Group Page Link George Coghill has recently moved to Aberdeen University, where he is a lecturer. He previoously worked in the Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His main research interests are Model-based and Qualitative Reasoning; specifically in the development of Fuzzy Qualitative Reasoning Systems, the use of multiple models in diagnosis and bio- informatics, and the methodologies of diagnosis. As a Physicist in the Department of Clinical Physics, University of Glasgow he researched the use of qualitative reasoning for simulating the behaviour of compartmental models of drug uptake. Within the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at Herriot-Watt University he worked on a number of model-based diagnosis projects where his interest in fuzzy qualitative reasoning developed, and in 1996 he was awarded a Ph.D for designing a framework for constraint based fuzzy qualitative reasoning. Latterly his research work was focused on the the use of multiple models for the diagnosis of dynamic systems and methodologies for diagnosis.
Joint Bio-Medical Task Group Leader Task Group Page Link Peter Lucas has recently moved to Nijmegen University and has interests such as 'Theory of model-based diagnosis' and 'Bayesian network and decision theory'.
Automotive Task Group Leader Task Group Page Link Luca is currently Full Professor of Computer Science at the Università di Torino, his interests include Model-based Diagnosis, Abductive Reasoning, Temporal Reasoning and Adaptive systems.
Dr. Robert Milne Industrial Expert Dr. Robert Milne was the founder and Managing Director of Sermatech Intelligent Applications. He was considered one of the most knowledgeable persons in the UK with regard to expert system applications in industry with particular emphasis on condition monitoring. He had a BSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with special emphasis on Artificial Intelligence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1978) and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh University (1981). Dr. Milne had over 75 technical publications and co-edited 5 books. He was a member of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, AISB and the British Computer Society. He was also a former chairman of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence, the largest AI umbrella organisation in the world. He was on the national committee for the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert Systems. He was Conference Chairman of Expert Systems 1991, 1992 and 1996, the UK national expert systems conference. He was a Chartered Engineer and a Certified European Engineer. He was also a Director of ScotlandIS, the trade body for software in Scotland.
Professor Dr. Peter Struss Industrial Expert Prof. Dr. Peter Struss teaches and leads the model-based systems and qualitative reasoning group at the Technical University of Munich. He obtained a Diploma in mathematics from the University of Goettingen, received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Kaiserslautern, and accomplished his habilitation in computer science at the Technical University of Munich. He stayed as a guest researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (1985 and 1988/89) and at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley (1994/95). Until 1992 he was the head of the Advanced Reasoning Methods group at Siemens Corporate Research and Development in Munich. His active research areas are qualitative reasoning, non-monotonic reasoning and model-based systems. In the German Computer Science Society (GI), he acts as the speaker of the special interest group on "Qualitative and Model-based Reasoning". He was a co-chairman of the Fourth International Workshop on Qualitative Physics and of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems in Engineering ISE-94. He edited a book on "Recent Advances in Qualitative Physics" (jointly with Boi Faltings) and was a member of the first editorial board of the Journal for Artificial Intelligence Research. He was involved in the ESPRIT-project ARTIST, the BriteEuRam project VMBD, and the German collaborative projects TEX-B, BEHAVIOR, and INDIA, all aimed at applying model-based diagnosis to real application problems and at providing a general software framework for such systems. In the ongoing FFT-Project IDD, the goal is to develop new software tools for designers of on-board systems for vehicles that allow the early consideration design for diagnosability., while AUTAS is targeted at model-based support for failure-modes-and-effects and criticality analysis of aircraft. Applying model-based
technology to process-type industrial systems and also natural systems
is another focus of research. In this area, AGUA is a joint effort
with Brazilian universities and institutions to develop decision
support systems in the area of hydro-ecology and water treatment
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