The 19th IASTED International Conference on
Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems
~PDCS 2007~
November 19 – 21, 2007
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
SPECIAL SESSION
Distributed Methods for Constraints-Based Reasoning and Optimization
Biographies of the Participants

Sadok Bouamama is a doctor in computer science and a member of the laboratory SOIE (Strategy of optimization of information and knowledge). He is a permanent professor associate in the high institute of mathematics and computer science in Monastir, Tunisia. His scientific interest is oriented to constraint based reasoning, combinatorial discrete and continuous optimization and multi-agent systems.
Khaled Ghedira is Professor in computer science and head of the same laboratory SOIE. He is founder and president of the Tunisian Artificial Intelligence Society. His main scientific interests are Multi-agent systems, combinatorial optimization, constraint based reasoning, scheduling. He is also interested in many other fields of artificial intelligence.
Important Deadlines
| Submissions Due | June 15, 2007 | |
| Notification of Acceptance | August 1, 2007 | |
| Final Manuscripts Due | October 1, 2007 | |
| Registration Deadline | October 8, 2007 |














