September 04, 9:00 am - 12:15 pm (CEST)

Speakers: Gauthier Picard, Pierre Rust

Tutorial website: https://www.emse.fr/~picard/dcop4iot/

Agenda: Tutorial on Distributed Constraint Optimization for the Internet-of-Things (DCOP for IoT)

The ever-growing nature of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and related application domains (Smart home, Smart buildings, etc.) with numerous objects and configurations require more and more autonomy and coordination. Multi-agent systems are a suitable paradigm to model and develop applications and infrastructure to implement such IoT environments. Within the multi-agent techniques, distributed constraint reasoning is a relevant approach to model complex problems and decentralize decisions in a coordinated way. The workshop proposes to review some DCOP solution methods relevant for the IoT context, to model a real smart home case study, and finally to program and deploy DCOP solutions methods on a real IoT environment composed of Raspberry Pis.

Gauthier Picard received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Toulouse in 2004, and the Habilitation degree in Computer Science from the University of Saint-Etienne in 2014. He is currently an associate professor in Computer Science at MINES Saint-Etienne and a full researcher at Laboratoire Hubert Curien UMR CNRS 5516. His research focuses on cooperation and adaptation in multiagent systems and distributed optimization with applications to smart grids, aircraft design, ambient intelligence, and intelligent transport. He has been in charge of the following organization activities: SASO (2016, PC Chair), SASO (2015, WS Chair), JFSMA (2015, Organization Chair), SASO (2014, Doctoral Consortium Chair), SASO (2012, Organization Chair), WI-IAT (2011, Demo Chair), ESAW’09 (2008-2009, Chair). He has also previously been member of the organization committees of the following events: ESAW (2004), JFSMA (2007), Web Intelligence Summer School (2009), EASSS (2010), MALLOW (2010), WI-IAT (2011). Gauthier Picard teaches Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems and DCOPs for Master-level students for more than 10 years, at Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne. He is also coordinating the International Master Track on Cyber-Physical and Social System. Some sample slides and pratical works are available online, on DCSP and DCOP, Programming DCSP with Jason or Self-organization in Multi-Agent Systems.

Pierre Rust received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Lyon in 2018. He is a software developer and computer science researcher, at Orange Labs. After more than 10 years of experience as a developer in the industry, he is now focusing on research; his main topics of interest are distributed computing, artificial intelligence and the impact of software on sustainability. He also enjoys helping fellow developers by sharing knowledge and occasionally giving lectures, notably at Mines Saint-Etienne, and teaches Python language at Orange.