The Twelfth IASTED International
Conference
on
Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
~ASC 2008~
September 1 – 3, 2008
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Biography of the Conference Chair
Angel Pasqual del Pobil is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Jaume I University (Spain), and founder director of the UJI Robotic Intelligence Laboratory. He is Co-Chair for Research of the European Robotics Network of Excellence, and has been Co-Chair of the Robot Motion & Path Planning Technical Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and Vice President of the International Society of Applied Intelligence. His research work as Principal Investigator in 20 projects has resulted in over 150 publications, including seven books: Spatial Representation and Motion Planning, Tasks and Methods in Applied Artificial Intelligence, and Methodology and Tools in Knowledge-Based Systems with Springer; Practical Motion Planning in Robotics (Wiley), and the Acta Press Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing series. Prof. del Pobil was co-organizer of some 20 workshops, tutorials and summer schools, he was Program Chair of the 11th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and General Chair of the last five editions of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (2004-2008). He has served on the program committees of 65 international conferences, such as IJCAI, IEEE ICRA, IROS, EUROS, IAS, ICAR, CIRA, IEA/AIE, IWANN, IWINAC, etc.
He has been involved in cognitive robotics research for the last twenty years, his past and present research interests include: motion planning, visually-guided grasping, humanoid robots, service robotics, mobile manipulators, internet robots, collective robotics, sensorimotor transformations, visual servoing, self-organization in robot perception, learning for sensor-based manipulation, and the interplay between neurobiology and robotics. Professor del Pobil has been invited speaker of 39 tutorials, plenary talks, and seminars, and has supervised 11 PhD thesis.
