Juan Pavón Explained

Juan Pavón
Birth Date:1962 11, df=yes
Birth Name:Juan Pavón Mestras
Birth Place:Algeciras, Spain
Nationality:Spanish
Fields:Computer science, Software agents, Artificial Intelligence
Workplaces:Complutense University of Madrid
Alma Mater:Technical University of Madrid, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Known For:Software agents, Metamodelling, Artificial intelligence applications
Website:https://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/jpavon/es/index.html

Juan Pavón (born 19 November 1962) is a Spanish computer scientist, full professor of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He is a pioneer researcher in the field of Software Agents, co-creator of the FIPA MESSAGE and INGENIAS methodologies, and founder and director of the research group GRASIA: GRoup of Agent-based, Social and Interdisciplinary Applications at UCM.[1] [2] [3] He is known for his work in the field of Artificial Intelligence, specifically in agent-oriented software engineering.[4] [5] [6] He has been often cited by mainstream media, as a reference in Artificial Intelligence.[7] [8] [9] [10]

Biography

Education

Pavón belongs to the first Spanish generation to get official studies in Computer Science, during the 1980s.[11] He studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Madrid, graduating in 1985. In 1988, he obtained his PhD in this area with the thesis: "Synthesis of communication protocols from service specifications".[12] While doing this thesis, he worked as assistant professor at the same university. After his PhD, he joined Alcatel-Lucent R&D team, where he worked for 10 years. At the end of 1997 he got an Associate Professor position at UCM, and in 2006, he achieved the Habilitation à diriger des recherches qualification in Computer Science at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) with the thesis "INGENIAS : Développement Dirigé par Modèles des Systèmes Multi-Agents" (in French).[13] [14]

Career

He joined the Alcatel R&D department as a systems engineer. There, he worked on the development of software component-based architectures for distributed systems, and its applications for multimedia services over broadband networks and new generation mobile phones. During the 10 years he worked for the company, he spent periods in Alcatel centers outside Spain, such as France (Lannion and Vélizy) and Belgium (Namur and Antwerp). In this period, he worked several years in the labs of Bellcore in Red Bank, New Jersey (USA), working in the TINA-C Core Team, and helping to produce architectural models for telecommunication services. As a result, he published several popular works.[15] [16]

He then returned to the academic world, as an Associate Professor at the Computer Science School of the Complutense University of Madrid (1997). By then, he researched Multi-Agent Systems within the Eurescom project P815 "Communications Management Process Integration Using Software Agents" (1999) working with Telefónica R+D.[17] His work in several projects combines software engineering practices and MAS. In the Eurescom P907 "Methodology for Engineering Systems of Software Agents", he co-created the MESSAGE methodology, currently part of the main FIPA[18] software agent methodologies.[19]

In 2000 he established the research group GRASIA for the research in Software Agents and Artificial Intelligence in the Complutense University of Madrid. He also held several management positions in the university, serving as Vice Dean for four years (1998–2002).[20] Nowadays, he is full professor at the Universidad Complutense Madrid.

Work

Software Agents Research

Pavón work has focused on Software Agents and Agent-based simulation.[21] His work on Software Agents started at the end of the 1990s, after they emerge as a new paradigm.[22] His first project in the area was funded by Telefonica R+D, "Communications Management Process Integration Using Software Agents" (1999). Later he attracted funding for research projects from the 5th European Framework Programme (PSI3, DEMOS) and from Euroscom (P815, P907), all considered early applications of agents to software engineering processes.[23] In the Eurescom P907 "Methodology for Engineering Systems of Software Agents", he co-created the MESSAGE methodology, currently part of the main FIPA software agent methodologies.

INGENIAS

His main contribution combining agent concepts in software engineering is the INGENIAS methodology and toolkit. INGENIAS (Engineering for Software Agents) is a complete framework for the analysis, design and implementation of multi-agent systems (MAS).[24] [25]

As a result of the research in these years, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz published in 2002 his PhD thesis "A Methodology for the Development of Multi-Agent Systems" (in Spanish) advised by Francisco Garijo and Juan Pavón. This work constitutes the first version of the INGENIAS methodology and its meta-models.[26]

INGENIAS adopts since its inception a model-driven engineering (MDE) approach. Model-driven engineering (MDE) organizes developments around the specification of systems through models that are automatically transformed to generate other artefacts, e.g., code, tests, or documentation.[27] INGENIAS follows these principles specifying the MAS meta-models that define its modeling language and allow generating automatically its development tools distributed as the INGENIAS Development Kit (IDK).[28] This approach supports research in different areas characterized by the use of modeling languages and requiring flexibility to adapt these to new requirements. Thus, it has been also used in Agent-based simulation.[29] [30] INGENIAS development process has been one of the few processes of agent-oriented methodologies in having their development process formally specified with SPEM, a language of the Object Management Group (OMG). Currently, there is one development process based on the Unified Process and another based on Scrum.[31]

The INGENIAS modeling language and the open-source tools for its application made it a popular methodology in the agent literature. It has been included in relevant surveys and comparisons in the field.[32] [33] The open-source INGENIAS associated tools are also successful in the agent community, as assessed by their number of downloads.[34]

Agent-based social simulation

The level of maturity reached by the INGENIAS framework and related tools, mainly INGENME, in its application to Software Agents, allowed the GRASIA group to consider its application to other domains. Agent-based simulation has been one with an immediate application. As in Software Agents, agent-based simulation (ABS) relies on the concept of agent, in this case as the basic block to build computational simulations. The conceptual similarities between the concept of agent in both disciplines, and the suitability of models to work with simulations, made of agent-based simulation a sensible extension for INGENIAS work.

This line of research started in GRASIA with a direct application of the works in INGENIAS with software agents to ABS for the PhD thesis of Candelaria Sansores "A Methodology for the Study of Artificial Societies" (2007), advised by Pavonl.[35] This work pointed out the suitability of applying the MDE approach of INGENIAS to this field, but also the problems of researchers without a background on Software Engineering to use INGENIAS. These first attempts were oriented to simulations intended to verify behavioral principles described by well-known laws, but not to explore simulations based on the use of big amounts of raw data. This data-driven agent-based social simulation was the subject of the interdisciplinary PhD thesis of Samer Hassan "Towards a Data Driven Approach for Agent Based Modelling: Simulating Spanish Postmodernization", also advised by Juan Pavón.[36]

The use of INGENIAS for ABS is based on the adoption of MDE to build simulations. This approach was developed and validated by GRASIA in different domains, e.g., urbanism and group work.[37]

Other research and activity

He has achieved multiple agreements with relevant research groups: ICAR-CNR, SenSysCal.it, INSISOC, SMAC.[38] [39] [40] [41] and industry such as Telefonica R+D or Boeing Research and Technology Europe. His topics of interest cover several disciplines, including simulation of complex systems, agent-oriented software engineering, artificial intelligent applications,[42] Responsible Research and Innovation,[43] [44] [45] Ethics in AI,[46] Smart Cities,[47] [48] Blockchain,[49] Legal Tech[50] [51] and inclusion tech.[52] [53] [54]

Scientific recognitions

Pavón joined the European research networks on Software Agents and Agent-based simulation, AgentLink[55] and AgentCities,[56] and has contributed to different international projects funded by the European Commission: VITAL,[57] MOMOCS,[58] PSI3, DEMOS, AGENTCITIES.NET, P2Pvalue.

He has worked on more than 30 research projects, leading 20 of them, with public and private funding. He accounts more than 260 scientific publications, and an H-index of 34.[59] He is a research consultant for dozens of committees and part of the editorial board of several journals in the field of computer science. He is member of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence.,[60] the European Social Simulation Association, the FIPA board, the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, the IEEE Computer Society, and scientific project evaluator of the European Commission.[61]

In 2006 he received an honorary PhD from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (París 6).[62]

His research group GRASIA has achieved some recognition through several awards:

Selected publications

Pavón is author of several books and more than 260 scientific articles on Software Agents, Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering. A selection of highly cited works are:

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Grupo de investigación en Aplicaciones Sociales e Interdisciplinares basadas en Agentes (GRASIA). Grupos de Investigación. Sistedes. es. 2019-12-21.
  2. Web site: Complutense University of Madrid . UCM GRASIA Research Group . 25 December 2015.
  3. Web site: Juan Pavón / Expressions of interest of Spanish institutions / Horizonte2020. eshorizonte2020.es. 2019-12-21.
  4. Zambonelli . Franco . Omicini . Andrea . 2004 . Challenges and research directions in agent-oriented software engineering . Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems . 9 . 3. 253–283 . 10.1023/b:agnt.0000038028.66672.1e. 10.1.1.146.2928 . 9402422 .
  5. Cernuzzi . Luca . Cossentino . Massimo . Zambonelli . Franco . 2005 . Process models for agent-based development . Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence . 18 . 2. 205–222 . 10.1016/j.engappai.2004.11.015.
  6. Web site: Los académicos nos dicen la verdad sobre el estado del hype de la Inteligencia Artificial. Pastor. Javier. 2015-12-15. Xataka. es. 2019-12-21.
  7. Web site: Vita . Ana Muñoz . 2019-07-03 . El cambio de mentalidad empresarial para acercarse a los mayores . 2023-04-16 . Cinco Días . es.
  8. Web site: Network . L. A. . 2018-06-26 . Cómo el alumbrado público puede ser clave para convertirse en una ciudad inteligente . 2023-04-16 . LA.Network . es.
  9. Web site: Pastor . Javier . 2015-12-15 . Los académicos nos dicen la verdad sobre el estado del hype de la Inteligencia Artificial . 2023-04-16 . Xataka . es.
  10. Web site: Emprendedores . Autónomos y . 2019-07-05 . Cómo rejuvenecer la economía a través de los más mayores . 2023-04-16 . Autónomos y Emprendedores . es.
  11. Web site: Juan Pavón CV for Official Commission at UNED. 2018. UNED (National University of Distance Education). 21 December 2019.
  12. Pavón. Juan. Synthesis of communication protocols from service specifications. 1988. PhD. Thesis director: Jesús García Tomás. Technical University of Madrid.
  13. Pavón. Juan. INGENIAS: Développement Dirigé par Modèles des Systèmes Multi-Agents. 2006. Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches. Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
  14. Web site: Juan Pavón (0000-0002-9553-8123). ORCID. orcid.org. en. 2019-12-21.
  15. Journal of Network and Systems Management. Pavón. Juan. Towards integration of service and network management in TINA. 4. 3. 299–318. 1996. 1064-7570. 10.1007/BF02139148. 24537932.
  16. Journal of Network and Systems Management. Mulder. Harm. Pavón. Juan. TINA: Evolving the TMN. 5. 4. 381–383. 1997. 1064-7570. 10.1023/A:1018788709960. 30955877.
  17. http://archive.eurescom.eu/public/projects/P800-series/P815/default.asp Eurescom P815 "Communications Management Process Integration Using Software Agents"
  18. Web site: Methodologies. fipa.org. 2019-12-21.
  19. http://archive.eurescom.eu/public/projects/P900-series/P907/default.asp Eurescom P907 "Methodology for Engineering Systems of Software Agents"
  20. Web site: Acerca de · Erasmus > Facultad de Informática > Universidad Complutense de Madrid . 2013-01-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090717064105/http://www.fdi.ucm.es/extranjeros/tour/es/acercade.htm . 17 July 2009 .
  21. Book: Mas. Ana. Agentes software y sistemas multiagente: conceptos, arquitecturas y aplicaciones. 2005. Prentice Hall. 978-84-205-4367-3.
  22. Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, Juan Pavón, Francisco J. Garijo: Intelligent Interface Agents Behavior Modeling. MICAI 2000: 598–609
  23. Book: Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VI: 6th International Workshop, AOSE 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005. Revised and Invited Papers. Müller. Jörg. Zambonelli. Franco. 2006-08-29. Springer. 978-3-540-34099-7. en.
  24. Web site: INGENIAS Methodology. sites.google.com. en-US. 2019-12-21.
  25. Book: Pavón. Juan. Gómez-Sanz. Jorge. Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III . Agent Oriented Software Engineering with INGENIAS . Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2003. 978-3-540-40450-7. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2691. 394–403. 10.1007/3-540-45023-8_38. 0302-9743.
  26. PhD. Jorge J.. Gómez-Sanz. Metodología de Desarrollo de Sistemas Multiagente. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 2002. es.
  27. Book: France , Robert . Bernhard Rumpe . Future of Software Engineering (FOSE '07). Model-driven Development of Complex Software: A Research Roadmap. 37–54. 2007. 10.1109/FOSE.2007.14. 1409.6620. 978-0-7695-2829-8. 14920149. Bernhard Rumpe.
  28. Book: Pavón , Juan . Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz . Rubén Fuentes-Fernández . The INGENIAS Methodology and Tools. 236–276. Agent-Oriented Methodologies. Brian Henderson-Sellers, Paolo Giorgini. 2005. 978-1-59140-586-3. Idea Group Publishing.
  29. Fuentes-Fernández. Rubén. Samer Hassan . Juan Pavón . José M. Galán . Adolfo López-Paredes . Metamodels for role-driven agent-based modelling. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. 18. 1. 91–112. 2012. 1572-9346. 10.1007/s10588-012-9110-5. 10.1.1.465.9832. 28688054.
  30. Web site: SiCoSSys PROJECT – Simulation of Complex Social Systems. insisoc.org. 2019-12-21.
  31. Book: García-Magariño , Iván . Alma Gómez-Rodríguez . Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz . Juan C. González-Moreno . INGENIAS-SCRUM Development Process for Multi-Agent Development. International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2008 (DCAI'08). Advances in Soft Computing. 50. 108–117. 2009. Springer. 10.1007/978-3-540-85863-8_14. 978-3-540-85862-1.
  32. Book: Agent-Oriented Methodologies. Brian Henderson-Sellers, Paolo Giorgini. 2005. IGI Global. 978-1-59140-586-3.
  33. Beydoun, G. . Low, G. . Henderson-Sellers, B. . Mouratidis, H. . Gómez-Sanz, J.J. . Pavón, J. . Gonzalez Perez, C.. FAML: a Generic Metamodel for MAS development. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 35. 6. 841–863. 2009. 10.1109/tse.2009.34. 14479364.
  34. Web site: Welcome to INGENIAS. GRASIA. 21 December 2019.
  35. PhD. Candelaria. Sansores. Metodología para el estudio de sociedades artificiales. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 2007. es.
  36. PhD. Samer. Hassan . Towards a Data Driven Approach for Agent Based Modelling: Simulating Spanish Postmodernization. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 2010.
  37. PhD. Juan. Martínez. Herramienta de simulación basada en agentes para la ayuda en la formación y configuración de equipos de trabajo. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 2010.
  38. http://www.pa.icar.cnr.it/icar2/ ICAR-CNR research group
  39. http://www.sensyscal.it/en/#about.php SenSysCal.it research group
  40. http://www.insisoc.org INSISOC research group
  41. http://www.irit.fr/-Equipe-SMAC- SMAC research group
  42. Web site: Call for Papers of the 13th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 9 November 2014. Colombia. 13–16 November 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120839/http://iberamia.dsic.upv.es/iberamia2012/cfp-iberamia2012.html. 4 March 2016.
  43. Web site: Juan Pavón Mestras – Instituto de Innovación Legal. 16 February 2017 . es. 2019-12-21.
  44. Web site: FoTRRIS Outreach Workshop in Spain FoTRRIS. en-US. 2019-12-21.
  45. Web site: Curso de posgrado - Seminario Internacional de Jóvenes Investigadores (SIJI): "Horizontes Europeos más allá de 2020: miradas interdisciplinares" Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales . 2023-04-16 . cchs.csic.es.
  46. Web site: Informática 2018. webmaster. 2018-03-19. Alma Mater. es. 2019-12-21. 21 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191221132445/http://www.almamater.cu/revista/informatica-2018.
  47. Web site: Ciudades inteligentes inclusivas TV Producción & New Media – TVyVideo. RAVT. Richard Santa. TV y Video Latinoamérica. es-es. 2019-12-21.
  48. Web site: Ciudades Inteligentes Inclusivas . 2023-04-16 . www.upb.edu.co . es.
  49. Web site: Cátedra de Prevención y Responsabilidad Social Corporativa . 2023-04-16 . www.prevencionrsc.uma.es.
  50. Web site: El CEU AIM presenta su Master Legal Tech. 2019-09-19. Lawyerpress NEWS. es. 2019-12-21.
  51. Web site: Se constituye oficialmente en Madrid el capítulo español de la Asociación Europea de Legal Tech. 2018-12-14. Lawyerpress NEWS. es. 2019-12-21.
  52. Web site: El cambio de mentalidad empresarial para acercarse a los mayores. Vita. Ana Muñoz. 2019-07-03. Cinco Días. es. 2019-12-21.
  53. Web site: Home. Risewise. en-US. 2019-12-21.
  54. Web site: Cómo rejuvenecer la economía a través de los más mayores. Emprendedores. Autónomos y. Autónomos y Emprendedores. 5 July 2019 . es. 2019-12-21.
  55. Web site: AgentLink . 13 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080723185145/http://www.agentlink.org/. . 23 July 2008 .
  56. http://www.agentcities.org/ AgentCities
  57. http://cordis.europa.eu/infowin/acts/rus/projects/ac003.htm VITAL
  58. http://www.dbis.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/index.php/de/projekte-forschung-51/97-momocs-model-driven-modernisation-of-complex-systems MOMOCS
  59. Web site: Juan Pavón profile. Google Scholar. 8 December 2014.
  60. http://www.aepia.org Asociación EsPañola de Inteligencia Artificial (AEPIA)
  61. http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/experts_en.html List of FP7 Expert Evaluators 2007–2011
  62. Web site: Collège Systèmes Multi-Agents.
  63. Web site: AAMAS 2008: Awards.
  64. Albert Meco, from the GRASIA research group, wins the second prize in the contest Robotrader organized by the UPM 2012. GRASIA research group. 2012. 19 November 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054539/http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/main/?q=news%2Falbert-meco-grasia-research-group-wins-second-prize-contest-robotrader-organized-upm-2012#main-content. 4 March 2016.
  65. http://stcsn.ieee.net/featured-articles IEEE STC on Social Networking-Featured articles
  66. Fuentes-Fernández. Rubén. Gómez-Sanz. Jorge J.. Pavón. Juan. User-Oriented Analysis of Interactions in Online Social Networks. IEEE Intelligent Systems. 18–25. July–August 2012. 10.1109/mis.2010.109. 27. 4. 14741252.
  67. Web site: SEALS at the SemSearch 2010 workshop . seals-project.eu . 22 May 2022 . https://archive.today/20130217111640/http://www.seals-project.eu/news/902-community/31-seals-at-the-semsearch-2010-workshop . 17 February 2013 .

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