Curriculum Vitae

Paul-Andre Tourtier
Research Engineer
French, 28

Education

1991-1995
PhD - U. of Nice Sophia-Antipolis
Distributed AI
1985-1988
MS - ENSIMAG (State School of Comp. Sci. and Appl. Math.), Grenoble
Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
1983-1985
Classes Preparatoires - Rennes
Mathematics (M')

Work experience

1993-1995
PhD Fellow - INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (ACACIA, R. Dieng)
1992-1993
Visiting Scholar - Stanford University, CA (KSL, B. Hayes-Roth)
1991
Expert Engineer - INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (SECOIA/CERMICS, B. Neveu)
1989,1990
Expert Engineer - INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (SIDE, A. Michard)
1987-1988
Visiting Fellow - DELPHIA-Prolog, Grenoble (J. Coutaz)

Research interests

  • Human Computer Interaction (HCI): hypertext, multimedia, UIMS, help systems, WWW
  • Knowledge Acquisition (KA): multi-expert systems, validation, qualitative reasoning
  • Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI): multi-agent systems, agent architectures, agent-oriented programming

    • Software

  • CTALK: agent-oriented programming language (C++)
  • RACE: flexible, facilitator-based, multi-agent platform (C/C++)
  • BB1++: enhancement of BB1 (CommonLisp)
  • HYPERHELP: help and documentation server (C/C++/Ctalk)
  • CONCEPT: user interface builder (Prolog)

    • Foreign Languages

    Activities and Interests

    Selected Papers

    1. Tourtier P.-A. and Amerge C. (1995) Towards Human-Computer Cooperation. Proc. of HCI'95. Tokyo, Japan (to appear)
    2. Tourtier P.-A. (1995) About the Art of Multi-Agent Programming. submitted to ICMAS'95
    3. Tourtier P.-A. (1994) A Flexible Facilitator-Based Cooperation Framework. Proc. of FGCS'94 Workshop on Heterogeneous Cooperative Knowledge-Bases. Tokyo, Japan
    4. Tourtier P.-A. and Boyera S. (1994) Validating at Early Stages with a Causal Simulation Tool. A Future for Knowledge Acquisition: Proc. of the 8th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, EKAW'94. Springer-Verlag.
    5. Dieng R. & al (1993) A Model of Cognitive Agent for the Design of a Cooperative, Explanatory System. The CKBS-SIG Workshop on Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems. Keele University, UK
    6. Dieng R. & al (1992) Knowledge Acquisition for Explainable, Multi-Expert Knowledge-Based Design Systems. in "Current Developpements in Knowledge Acquisition: EKAW-92", Springer Verlag, p 298-317
    7. Dieng R. and Tourtier P.-A. (1991) A Composite System for Knowledge Acquisition and User Assistance. Proc. of AAAI Spring Symposium on Design of Composite Systems. Stanford, CA

    Contacts

    

    Email:	tourtier@sophia.inria.fr

    Fax:	(+33) 93657783

    Voice:	(+33) 93657920

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	F-06903 Sophia-Antipolis Cdx (FRANCE)

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