NAME(S): Dávila Quintero

FIRST NAMES(S): Jacinto Alfonso

ACADEMIC TITLE: PhD, MSc, MPhil, Ing.

POSITION: Ordinary Associated Lecturer

FACULTY/DEPT./SERVICE: INGENIERIA/Centro de Investigación y proyectos en Simulación y Modelos, CESIMO

e-mail: jacinto at ula dot ve

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• 1991. System Engineer. Universidad de Los Andes. Facultad de Ingeniería.

• 1994. MSc on Information Tecnology. Imperial College. Deparment of Computing. Title of dissertation: Knowledge Assimilation in Multi-agent systems.

• 1997. PhD (Logic and Artificial Intelligence). Imperial College. Deparment of Computing. Thesis: Agents in Logic Programming.

RESEARCH&TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

• 1991-1993. Trainer on Telecommunication and information technology. Network Designer. Proyecto HACER. Universidad de Los Andes.

• 1997. (from Nov. 1th). Ordinary, full-time lecturer on modelling and simulation at Universidad de Los Andes. Facultad de Ingeniería. CESIMO. http://cesimo.ing.ula.ve.

• 1998. (from July). Member of the Information Technology Comitee of the Latin-american Long Term Ecological Research Network (LA-ECO-RED). URL: http://cesimo.ing.ula.ve

• 1998 (from July) - 2000 (until september). Coordinator of graduate studies on Computing. Universidad de Los Andes. URL:http://www.pgcomp.ula.ve.

• 1998 (from November). member. Research Development Program (PPI). National Science and Tecnology Council (CONICIT).

• 1999 (from July). Coordinator of the advance computing laboratory (LABCAMV). Facultad de Ingeniería. Universidad de Los Andes. URL:http://pgvirtual.pg.ing.ula.ve/labcamv

• 1999 (from July). Member of the center for interactive distance education (CEIDIS). Universidad de Los Andes.1999. (from November).

• 2004 (from August). Coordinator of the ULAnux Project (http://nux.ula.ve).

STAYS AT FOREIGNER RESEARCH CENTRES

• Long periods (for 1 month or longer) UK, London, Imperial College, Department of Computing.1993-1997. UK. Bristol. University of Bristol, Department of Computing. Machine Inteligence Group. 2006.

• Short periods (for less than 1 month), FRANCE, Sophia-Antípolis. INRIA, June, 1997. 3 days. GERMANY, Ulm, University of Ulm. Department of Computing. June, 1997. 1 day. SWITZERTLAND, Lugano, IDSIA, 2000, 5 days. Universidad de Holguin, Holguin, Cuba. October, 2005. 4 días. Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile. December 2005, 5 días.

PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS

• 2000. MAPEV. Modelo Apertura Petrolera de Venezuela. Funded by CONICIT and INTEVEP. Venezuela.

• 2001. GALATEA. A multi-agent simulation platform. Funded by ULA-CDCHT. Venezuela.

• 2001. Bioinformants: Bio-information provided by agents on Internet. Funded by Fonacit. Venezuela.

• 2002. Biocomplexity. University of North Texas. Funded by NFS. USA.

• 2005. Modelling and Simulation with GALATEA. Funded by ULA-CDCHT. Venezuela.

Fifth IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Simulation, and Optimization

J. Dávila, M. Uzcátegui

Agents that learn to behave in MultiAgent Simulations

Oranjestad, Aruba.

10

2005

Fifth IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Simulation, and Optimization

J. Dávila, M. Uzcátegui, K. Tucci

A Multi-Agent Theory for Simulation

Oranjestad, Aruba

9

2005

Fifth IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Simulation, and Optimization

K. Laffaille, K.Tucci, M. Uzcátegui, J. Dávila

gSpaces: a meta model for simulating agent mobility in urban or architectonic designs

Oranjestad, Aruba

9

2005

Simposio de la Maestría en Seguridad y Defensa Nacional. IAEDEN.

J. Dávila

Software Libre y Soberanía

Mérida

1

2005

Nuevas Fronteras de la Bioinformática en Latino América. BIOLAC-ONU.

J. Dávila

Bioinformantes

Mérida

11

2004

Simposio de la Maestría en Seguridad y Defensa Nacional. IAEDEN.

J. Dávila

Modelado y Simulación en la ULA

Mérida

2

2004

European Simulation and Modelling Conference. iEmss2004.

M. Ablan, J. Dávila, N. Moreno, R. Quintero, M. Uzcátegui

Agent Modeling of the Caparo Forest Reserve

Napoles

10

2003

2003 Joint Conference on Declarative Programming APPIA-GLUP-PRODE 2003

J. Dávila, M. Uzcátegui

Agents' executable specifications

Reggio di Calabria

9

2003

Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática CLEI2001

Yelitza Contreras y Jacinto Dávila.

Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural basado en una "gramática de estilos" para el idioma español.

Mérida

10

2001

International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Neural Networks. AMSE.

Davila, Jacinto y Uzcátegui, Mayerlin.

GALATEA: A multi-agent simulation platform.

Mérida

6

2000

International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Neural Networks. AMSE.

Dávila, Jacinto y Tucci, Kay

Towards a logic-based, multi-agent simulation theory

Mérida

6

2000

III Conferencia Latinoamericana de Facultades y Escuelas de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Ciencias de la Computación. UCLA.

Dávila, Jacinto

Postgrado Virtual y con orientación a productos

Barquisimeto, Estado Lara

6

1999

ESSLLI’97 Symposium on Logical Approaches to Agent Modelling and Design. Aix-in-Provence, Francia

Pollitzer, Elizabeth y Dávila, Jacinto

Application of agent architecture to modelling human-computer interactions.

Francia.

6

1997