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

Dr. Sadok Bouamama
SOIE/University of Tunis, Tunisia
Sadok.Bouamama@ensi.rnu.tn

Khaled Ghédira
University of Tunis, Tunisia
khaled.ghedira@isg.rnu.tn

Biographies of the Participants

Special Session Portrait

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 DueJune 15, 2007
Notification of AcceptanceAugust 1, 2007
Final Manuscripts DueOctober 1, 2007
Registration DeadlineOctober 8, 2007