Vicent J. Botti Navarro is a full professor (Computer Systems and Languages) and Head of The Grupo de Tecnología Informática – Inteligencia Artificial (GTI-IA) http://www.dsic.upv.es/users/ia/ia.html at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain http://www.upv.es/menui.html.

His current research activities include two interdisciplinary areas, Real-Time Artificial Intelligence and Multiagent Systems. He leads the following research lines:

1)Multi-agent systems :
Within the MAS research line, he is working in the following areas:

• MAS architectures: The main contributions in this area are the ARTIS Architecture (a Hard Real-Time Agent Architecture), and SIMBA a Real-Time Multiagent System Platform.

• Methodology and Software Engineering for MAS: The main contribution in this area is the RT-Message Methodology an extension of the Message Multiagent System Methodology suitable for developing Real-Time Multiagent Systems.

• Communication, coordination and negotiation among agents: The main contributions in this area is an extension of the SL-2 language suitable for expressing real-time restrictions in the agent interactions.

• Holonic systems: The main contribution in this area is the Anemona a new Multiagent System Based Methodology for developing Manufacturing Multiagente Systems from a Holonic Systems point of view.

2) Real-Time Artificial Intelligence:

The main contributions in this area are the Slack Slide Scheduling (SSS) Algorithm, a heuristic for scheduling soft real-time tasks in the ARTIS architecture, and ARLIPS a Rule-Based Language suitable for hard real-time systems.

3) Soft-computing:

The main contribution in this area is a Soft Computing technique based on the combination of neural networks and a genetic algorithm for the discovery and optimization of new catalytic materials when exploring a high-dimensional space.

 

Professional Career

Vicent J. Botti  is Electrical Engineer from the UPV (1983), he received his PhD degree in 1990 from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia under the supervision of Prof. Alfons Crespo. (Reason Maintenance System for Time-Dependent Knowledge-Based Systems)

Academic positions:

(1984-1987)               Associate lecturer in Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

(1987-1992)               Assistant Professor in the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

(1992-2000)               Asociate profesor in the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

(2000-        )             Full Professor in Universidad the Politécnica de Valencia

 

Member of the AEPIA (Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial) board (1988-2002).