Gauvain Bourgne Research

Research Domains

• Distributed Reasoning
• Multi Agent Systems
• Communication Protocol
• Non monotonic Reasoning
• Abduction, Diagnosis
• Machine Learning, Induction
• Multi Agent Learning / Diagnosis
• Argumentation
• Logic Programming (Answer Set Programming, Consequence Finding)
• Knowledge Discovery
• Agent Architecture

Current Work

• Ensuring consistency of multiple knowledge bases with a non-compositional consistency relation
• Combinations of logic programs (with prospect of application in bioinformatic for finding metabolic pathways)
• Multi-agents incremental concept learning in structured networks
• Distributed hypothesis formation framework for discovery science

Past Work

• PhD Thesis subject: Propagation and refinement of hypotheses under communicationnal constraints
• MSc Thesis subject: Affect-based agent Multi-Agent Architecture (for a 5-aside football simulation)

Collaborations

• Nicolas Maudet, Suzanne Pinson -- LAMSADE, Université Paris Dauphine, France.
• Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Vincent Corruble -- LIP6, Université Paris 6, France.
• Henry Soldano -- LIPN, Université Paris 13, France.
• Andrei Doncescu -- LAAS, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
• Katsumi Inoue -- National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.
• Tran Cao Son -- New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, US.

Research activities

• Organisation
  • Member of the organization committee of the Workshop MFI 2007 (Formal Models of Interaction).
  • Volunteer work in organization of ArgMAS workshop during AAMAS 2007.
• Oral presentation in seminary
  • LAMSADE Seminary, Université Paris Dauphine (02/03/2006). Efficient propagation of uncertain information.
  • LAMSADE Seminary, Université Paris Dauphine (30/02/2007). SMILE (Sound Multiagent Incremental LEarning).
  • LIFL Seminary, Université Lille I (07/02/2008). Hypothesis refinement and propagation under communicational constraints.
  • LIP6 Seminary, Université Paris 6 (10/03/2008). Hypothesis refinement and propagation under communicational constraints.
• Summer School
  • Participation to EASSS 2006, Eight European Agent Systems Summer School , Annecy, july 2006. Oral presentation: Hypothesis Refinement and Spreading in Critical Situations.