Quantitative Semantics and Soft Computing Methods for the Web: Perspectives and Applications - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Ramon F. Brena is full professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, since 1990, where he is head of a research group in Distributed Knowledge and Multiagent Systems. Dr Brena is the head of the Master level graduate programs in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Brena holds a PhD from the INPG, Grenoble, France, where he presented a doctoral Thesis related to Knowledge in Program Synthesis. His current research and publication areas include Intelligent Agents and Multiagent Systems, Ubiquitous computing and Ambient Intelligence, Formal Methods in Software Engineering, Knowledge representation and reasoning, Semantic Web, and Artificial Intelligence in general. He has been visiting professor at the U. of Texas at Dallas and the Université de Montréal. Dr Brena is member of the ACM, and is recognized as an established researcher by the official Mexican research agency, CONACyT (SNI level I).

Adolfo Guzmán-Arenas is a Computer Science professor at Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, of which he was Founding Director. He holds a B. Sc. in Electronics from ESIME-IPN, and a Ph. D. from MIT. He is an ACM Fellow, IEEE Life Fellow Member, member of MIT Educational Council, member of the Academia de Ingeniería and the Academia Nacional de Ciencias (Mexico). From the President of Mexico, he has received (1996) the National Prize in Science and Technology and (2006) the Premio Nacional a la Excelencia “Jaime Torres Bodet.” He works in semantic information processing and AI techniques, often mixed with distributed information systems. More at http://alum.mit.edu/www/aguzman .