Invited Talks

• Feb'08, IBM Research Center in Zurich
• Nov'07, given a Tutorial on Distributed Constraint Reasoning, at IAT 2007 (the 2007 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology)
• Aug'07, IAM group of Prof. Nick Jennings at the University of Southampton, UK; [slides]
• July'06, Harvard University, ECONCS group, Boston, USA
• June'06, SAP Research, Karlsruhe, Germany;
• Nov'06, EPFL, Switzerland, Graduate Student Meeting [slides];
• Jan'06, LABOS group at EPFL, Switzerland;

Presentations

• ODPOP: An algorithm for Open/Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCR06 at AAMAS'06, Hakodate, Japan)
• Optimal Solution Stability in Continous-Time Optimization (DCR05 at IJCAI 05, Edinburgh, Scotland)
• Super-stabilizing, Fault-containing Multiagent Combinatorial Optimization (AAAI 05, Pittsburgh/PA, USA)
• A Scalable Method for Multiagent Constraint Optimization (IJCAI 05, Edinburgh, Scotland)
• Solving Meeting Scheduling Problems Using Distributed Pseudotree-Optimization Procedure (George Ushakov, MS Thesis presentation, August 2005, EPFL/LIA)
• A Distributed, Complete Method for Multi-Agent Constraint Optimization (CP 2004 Toronto, Canada - Distributed Constraint Reasoning workshop - DCR04)
• Heuristics for the Distributed Breakout Algorithm (CP 2004 Toronto, Canada - doctoral programme)
• A Value Ordering Heuristic for Local Search in Distributed Resource Allocation (CSCLP 2004, Lausanne)
• Applying Interchangeability Techniques to the Distributed Breakout Algorithm (IJCAI 2003 - Distributed Constraint Reasoning workshop - DCR03)