Patrick BRÉZILLON: Short biography

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Dr Patrick Brezillon defended his Thèse d'Etat (a 6-year duration) in 1983 on "Mathematical Modeling of Self-Oscillating Nonlinear Systems. Application in Biology to Serotonin and Calcium Metabolisms."  During a stage of two years (1987-1988) at Electricité de France, the French National Company of Power Systems, he was responsible of the design and development of SEPT, an expert system to aid operator to diagnose equipment in Extra High Voltage substation (400 000 volts). From 1992 to 1996, he was responsible of the MUSTIL team (MUSTIL is the French acronym of User-System-Task Models and Software Integration). The team was composed of 10 faculty persons (professors, associated professors, lecturers, researchers) and 15 Ph.D. Students. The objective of the team was to lead theoretical studies on real-world problems. His research axis was the merging of the expert-system approach and the decision-support approach in the framework of cooperative systems. Since 1997, he belongs to the SYSDEF team (based mainly on the MUSTIL team, but enlarged) after the merging of the Lab. in a bigger Lab., LIP6, which stands for Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, with two other Laboratories. With its 450 members, the LIP6 is the biggest Lab. of Computer Science in Paris.

The personal research of Dr P. Brezillon focuses since 1992 on the study of Intelligent Assistant Systems, and particularly the aspects explanation, context and incremental knowledge acquisition. Since several years, the emphasis of his studies is on the notion of context. Dr P. Brezillon was the Chair of the first international and interdisciplinary conferences focusing on context, CONTEXT-97 and CONTEXT-99. He was the Chair of the Steering Committee of CONTEXT-01 and a member of the Steering Committee of CONTEXT-03.

He published papers in international conference and international journals (e.g., IEEE Expert, AI Magazine, The Knowledge Engineering Review, the International Journal on Human-Computer Studies, etc.). He have been the chair of several workshops (at ECAI-92, IJCAI-93 and IJCAI-95), co-organizer of two international conferences in AI area, member of several program committees, gave several invited talks and tutorials (the last one will be at ECAI-2002, Lyon, France, July 2002, and the next at MATA'02, Barcelona, Spain, October 2002), and published more than 290 papers. Information is available at http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~brezil/) .

Dr P. Brezillon is the Coordinator of the SART project (a real-world application dealing explictly with context)  since 1995. The SART project meets (or met) around 50 persons in France (Paris) and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) for developing an intelligent assistant systems to support the responsible of subway lines in incident situation. Information on this project is available at http://www.lip6.fr/SART . The French Foreign Ministry retained SART as a leader project in the France-Brazil cooperation.
 


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