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Jordi Vallverdú is an associate professor for philosophy of science & computing at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He holds a PhD. in philosophy of science (UAB) and a master in history of sciences (physics dept. UAB). After a short research stay as fellowship researcher at Glaxco-Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine-London (1997) and research assistant of Dr. Jasanoff at J.F.K. School of Government – Harvard University (2000), he worked in computing epistemology issues, bioethics (because of the emotional aspects of cognition; he is listed as EU Biosociety Research Expert) and, especially, on synthetic emotions. He co-leads a research group on this last topic, SETE (Synthetic Emotions in Technological Environments), with which has published several book chapters about computational models of synthetic emotions and their implementation into social robotic systems. “

David Casacuberta is a philosophy of science professor in the Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). He has a PhD in philosophy and a master degree in cognitive sciences and language. His current line of research is the cognitive and social impact of new media, and specially, how the inclusion of artificial intelligence and artificial emotions can produce innovative, more interactive and radically different new types of media.

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Tom Adi was an assistant professor for computer science in the 1980’s. He taught at universities in Jordan and Saudi Arabia. He received a PhD in industrial computer science in 1978 from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. While designing a machine translation software in 1985, he discovered a theory of semantics (published in Semiotics and Intelligent Systems Development, 2007). Based on this semantics, he developed a theory of cognition. In a nutshell, the sounds in the names of things point to models of those things. A paper about these theories and their implementations in the software Readware appears in 2009 in the Journal of Information Technology Research. As chief scientist of Management Information Technologies, Inc., he is currently working on theories (ontologies) for mental processes, socio-legal systems, emotions, health and disease, and spiritual relations.

Alberto Amengual graduated in computer science in 1995 after which he worked in the IT industry in Spain for several years, and he worked as part-time faculty at the University of the Balearic Islands. In 2003 he started a dissertation in Natural Language Processing. From 2004, he enjoys an ICSI Fellowship for Spanish Technologists, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science. In Berkeley he changed the focus of his dissertation, finally aimed at building computational models of human motivation, more specifi-

cally of attachment behavior, under the direction of professors Main and Hesse from the Department of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently in the final stage of his PhD.

Michel Aubé is a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, since 1983, where he has been teaching cognitive science, theories of emotions, teacher training, and the integration of computers in education. Since 2004, he has been lent by his Faculty to the Quebec Ministry of Education as a consultant in designing the new curriculum for elementary and secondary schools. He obtained his master’s degree in cognitive psychology from the University of Toronto, and his PhD in education sciences from the Université de Montréal. His doctoral studies bear upon the design of a computational model of emotions, called “The Commitment Theory of Emotions”. He is also involved in the design and implementation of websites dedicated to the scientific training of children from elementary schools, by putting them in contact with adult scientists. His research interests are distributed along three main axes: development of a robust computational model of emotions; use of computer technologies to foster scientific thinking in children; use of computer technologies in building online distance-training systems for teachers.

Sajal Chandra Banik received BSc in mechanical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh in September, 1998. He got MSc in mechatronics from Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH), Germany in April, 2005. From October, 2005 he is a PhD student in the Department of Advanced System Control Engineering, Saga University. From May, 1999 to August, 2002, he was a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET), Bangladesh. During the masters course, he was also a part time research assistant in the Department of Machine Element and Material Handling, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany from January, 2004 to April, 2005. Since July 2005, he has been with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, CUET as an assistant professor. His main research interests are human adaptive and friendly Mechatronics, service robots, Biorobotics, Multiagent system, Human-robot interaction, emotional robotics.

Christoph Bartneck is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He has a background in industrial design and human-computer interaction, and his projects and studies have been published in various journals, newspapers, and conferences. His interests lie in the fields of social robotics, design science, and multimedia applications. He has worked for several companies including the Technology Centre of Hannover (Germany), LEGO (Denmark), Eagle River Interactive (USA), Philips Research (Netherlands), and ATR (Japan).

Gloria Bueno received her MsC from Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1993, and her PhD from Coventry University in 1998. From 1998 to 2000 Gloria worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg. In 2000-2001 she worked at CNRS-Institut de Physique Biologique-Hôpital Civil and from 2001 to 2003 she was a senior researcher at CEIT (Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Técnicas de Gipuzkoa), San Sebastián, Spain. She is currently an associate professor at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. Her main research interests include image processing – particularly for biomedical engineering applications- computer vision, artificial intelligence, modeling and simulation.

Amílcar Cardoso is associate professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering and director of the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, where coordinates the Cogni-

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tive and Media Systems Group. He has developed, in the nineties, pioneering work on Computational Creativity, an area where he has assumed relevant organisational and networking roles and where has a significant record of publications, particularly in computer models of creativity phenomena inspired both in psychological and evolutionary theories. His main current research interests include also affective computing and multi-agent systems, particularly in contexts of creative systems, human-machine interaction and social simulation.

Dale Carnegie (IEEE senior member) received his MSc with first class honours in physics and electronics and his PhD in computer science from the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. He is currently a professor of Computer Systems Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand where he heads the Mechatronics Research Group and co-ordinates the Computer Systems Engineering Programme. His research interests are in the areas of autonomous mobile robotics, sensors, embedded controllers and applied artificial intelligence.

Rocío Carrasco Carrasco is currently a lecturer at the University of Huelva, Spain. In 1999 she graduated in English Studies at the University of Zaragoza. She obtained her MA in masculinity and science fiction cinema from the University of Huelva, and is soon to receive her PhD in the same field. Her current research deals with gender representation in US Science Fiction Films. She has published scientific articles on postmodernism, gender and science fiction. Her bookNew Heroes on Screen. Pro- totypes of Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema was published by Huelva University Press in 2006.

Cristiano Castelfranchi is full professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Siena, Depart- ment of Communication Science and, director of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the National Research Council, in Rome, Italy. His interests cover multi-agent systems research, cognitive modelling and social psychology. Cristiano Castelfranchi is of the pioneers of Distributed AI in Italy and Europe. He has published extensively in cognitive psychology, in artificial intelligence, and in social theory and simulation. He has published 3 books in English and 7 books in Italian, more than 200 conference and journal articles on cognitive, computational and formal-theoretical models of social interaction and social mind. He has been an invited speaker at several international conferences in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Sciences (ex. IJCAI’97, EuroCogSci’07).

Modesto Castrillon is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and a research member of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Numerical Applications in Engineering at the ULPGC (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), Spain. His research interests include facial detection and recognition, and computer vision for human-computer interaction. He holds since 2003 a PhD from the ULPGC, and is member of AEPIA, AERFAI and the IEEE.

Pietro Cipresso, MEc, PhD candidate, graduated at Bocconi University (Milan) in economics with specialization in statistics and operational research. Currently he is research fellow and teaching associate at Institute of Human, Language and Environmental Sciences, IULM University - Milan and PhD candidate, in the same University, in Communication and New Technologies. Cipresso has been business and technology consulting in multinational companies for ten years. Now, he is mainly involved in research on AI, ALife, agent-based computational economics (ACE), economic psychology, com-

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munication, complex systems, computational models of emotional/cognitive processes and bio-signals processing. Cipresso has attended international School in Milan, Budapest, Lion and Paris. He has talked to many international scientific conference about his researches.

Cecile K. M. Crutzen studied mathematics at the University Aachen (Germany) and didactics at the University Eindhoven (The Netherlands). She is associate professor at the Computer Science faculty of the Open University of the Netherlands. Her research is situated in the field of people, society and computers and focussed on computer science and genderstudies, especially in e-learning, ambient intelligence, and object orientation. Her PhD, “Interaction, a World of Differences” was interdisciplinary in computer science and genderstudies, too.

Jean-Marie Dembele, PhD candidate in computer science at Cheikh Anta Diop University. He is also assistant professor in Gaston Berger University (www.ugb.sn). The formation received in both computer science and mathematics has provided the ability to couple mathematical modeling and computer science paradigms and resources of simulation. His main field of interest is agent-based modeling, applied, in his PhD program, to physical systems, described by partial differential equations (transport phenomena, lagrangian models of fluids dynamics, coastal erosion, etc.). He is also interested in dynami- cal social networks and interacting agents. Dembele made productive collaborations with Collegues with different backgrounds (economics, psychology, etc.), to gain a multidisciplinarity in developing modeling tools.

Oscar Deniz: He received his MsC and PhD from Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in 1999 and 2006, respectively. He has been associate professor at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria from 2003 to 2007 and currently at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. His main research interests are human-robot interaction and computer vision. He is a research fellow of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Numerical Applications in Engineering and member of IEEE, AEPIA and AERFAI.

Tillmann Dorsch describes himself as an innovative and creative thinker. He is a passional 3D artist and likes working in cross-functional teams with scientists, architects and other designers. In his working he is dealing with animations, visualizations, games, graphic-, screen- and interaction-design. (www. tillmann-dorsch.de). In 2004 he finished successfully his education as a graphic design at the Akademie für Kommunikation in Stuttgart (Germany). Afterwards he started his studies “virtual design” at the University of Applied Science Kaiserslautern (Germany) which he completed at the Tampere University of Technology (TUT, Finland) in 2008. The topic of his bachelor thesis was “Development of an Ambi- ent Emotional Responsive Character”. He was examining methods to design and measure emotions and movements. Within the practical part he collaborated with Pablo Roman Humanes to realize a virtual character which reacts to his surrounding by motion tracking and gives emotional feedback to the user of the system in real-time. (www.emodo.kilu.de). His passions in private live are photography, video games, architecture, art&design, sports and nature. In 2008 he won a spezial price in photo competi- tion (“blende 2008”).

Anthony G. Francis, Jr. studies human and other minds to help create intelligent machines and emotional robots. He received his PhD from Georgia Tech in 2000 applying principles of human memory to

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information retrieval and continued this work at Enkia Corporation. His academic research also includes work on emotional robotics for Georgia Tech and Yamaha; his software industry experience includes military, law enforcement and public health projects. He has published ten papers, one book chapter, a science fiction short story, and a webcomic. He currently works as a search quality engineer at Google on projects to debug and extend Google’s core ranking algorithms. More details about his research can be found at his blog at http://www.dresan.com/.

Mercedes García Ordaz is a professor at the Department of Financial Economy, Accounting and Operations Research of the University of Huelva, where she has lectured for 20 years. She has published numerous works on accounting and communication. She has obtained The Rainbow Research Award. She has published more than 100 scientific works.

After completing a PhD dissertation on “The Computational Theory of the Mind”, in 1990, Antoni Gomila got a postdoc Fulbright grant from the Spanish Government, to work with Jerry Fodor at Rutgers University. He’s got positions at the University of Salamanca, La Laguna and the Balearic Islands, where he teaches “Thinking and Language” since 2000. He’s published papers on questions on the foundations of psychology, on meaning, language evolution and on theory of mind. He’s just edited, with Paco Calvo, the Handbook of Cognitive Science: an Embodied Approach (Elsevier 2008).

Dorel V. Gorga is a researcher and PhD student in the unit of TECFA, active in the field of educational technology, at the School of Psychology and Education, University of Geneva, Switzerland. His research interests focus on e-learning and affective computing. More particularly: computational models of emotion in educational technology, activity-based instructional designs and integration of technological innovations into communities of practice. Recent publications include articles on the knowledge management within communities of practice and the pedagogical approaches related to collaborative learning.

Claudius Gros holds a chair in theoretical physics at the J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt. He received his degree in theoretical physics from the ETH-Zürich in 1985, where he also completed his PhD studies in theoretical condensed matter physics in 1988. Since then and till 2004 the focus of his research has been the theory of correlated electron systems and of high temperature superconductivity, resulting in over 80 scientific journal publications. Since 2004 C. Gros studies cognitive systems, with the aim to develop an overall framework for an evolvable cognitive system base on biologically inspired principles. He proposed in this context the notion of transient state dynamics for the modelling of the self-sustained and autonomously generated neural activity in the brain.

Maki K. Habib obtained his PhD Eng in intelligent robotics from the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He was a selected research scientist at RIKEN, Japan, and senior researcher at RISO-Laboratories, Japan, and visiting researcher at EPFL-Lausanne, Switzerland. He was a visiting expert under Asian Development Bank (ADB), Associate Professor at UTM, Malaysia, and a Senior Manager at MCRIA, Malaysia. Then, he was a senior research scientist with GMD, Japan, leading Telecooperation group, Associate Professor with Monash University and leading the Mechatronics Engineering Programme. He was appointed as a professor of Robotics and Mechatronics at Swinburne University. Then, he was an invited Professor at KAIST, Korea. Currently he is a full professor at the American University in

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Cairo and a Visiting professor at Saga University, Japan. His main area of research are focusing on human adaptive and friendly mechatronics, autonomous navigation, service robots and humanitarian demining, telecooperation, distributed teleoperation and collaborative control, wireless sensor networks and ambient intelligence, biomimetic robots.

Hans-Werner Hein 1975 finished his informatics diploma at the University Karlsruhe (Germany), focussed on Artificial Intelligence, received 1982 the Dr.-Ing. degree at the University Erlangen-NŸrnberg for research on “Understanding Continuous Speech”. At the research institute GMD, Sankt Augustin, he headed R&D projects on “Expert Systems” and “Multi-modal Adaptive Human-Machine Interfaces”. He founded and headed a research group “Machine Intelligence” at the University Dortmund Robotics Institute. Since 1994 he is independent researcher and consultant focussed on human-machine-relation topics: biometrics, trust management, privacy profiles, dependable agents, ambient intelligence, cyborget- ics. HWH since long is engaged in didactically enlightening all types of IT consumers, and co-operates in special IT activities for highly skilled children.

Perfecto Herrera holds a degree in Psychology by the University of Barcelona (1987), where he also worked as software developer and assistant professor. He has also got courses on computer music, sound engineering and audio postproduction and enrolled in a Technology doctoral program, where he is now finishing his PhD Thesis. He has been working in the MTG since its inception around 1996, first as the responsible for the sound laboratory/studio, then as a researcher. He worked in the MPEG-7 standardization initiative between 1999 and 2001. Then he collaborated in the EU-IST funded CUIDA- DO project, contributing to the research and development of tools for indexing and retrieving music and sound collections. This work was somehow continued and expanded as scientific coordinator for the Semantic Interaction with Music Audio Contents (SIMAC) project, again funded by the EU-IST. He is currently the head of the Department of Sonology in the Higher Music School of Catalonia (ESMUC), where he teaches music technology and psychoacoustics. His main research interests are music content processing, classification, and music perception and cognition.

Pilar Herrero is an associate professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, in Spain. European PhD in Computer Science and Extraordinary Prize of Doctorate (Extraordinary PhD Award), in the last few years, she has also been involved in the organization of more than 10 international events, such as conferences and workshops, as a Steering Committee member, networks of excellence, and she has also been part of more than 50 Program Committees. Pilar has more than 70 international publications, some of them in prestigious international journals that are listed as Journal Citation Reports (JCRs). Editor, of more than 15 international publications and special issues in prestigious journals and several proceedings books, since 2005 she has been involved in the organization board of the On The Move (OTM) Federated Conferences as Workshops general chair, and since then she has coordinated more than 45 international workshops and events.

Mario Hernandez: He received his Graduate in Electrical Engineering and PhD in computer science from the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. He is currently a full professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Computer Science and Systems Department of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University. His current research interests span autonomous systems, knowledge-based systems, active vision, visual learning, scene analysis, mobile robotics and interactive robotic systems. He has been

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the author or coauthor of more than 60 research papers and chapters. He is member of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR), the Asociación Española de Reconocimiento de Formas y Análisis de Imágenes (AERFAI) and the Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial (AEPIA).

Kiyotaka Izumi received a BE degree in electronic engineering from Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science in 1991, a ME degree in electrical engineering from Saga University in 1993, and a DE degree in Faculty of Engineering Systems and Technology from the Saga University in 1996. From April, 1996 to March, 2001, he was a research associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Saga University. From April, 2001, he was with the Department of Advanced Systems Control Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saga University. From August, 2004, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Advanced Systems Control Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saga University. His research interests are in intelligent control, fuzzy control, evolutionary computation, and their applications to the robot control.

Christopher Lee-Johnson completed a BTech (Hons, first class) in electronic engineering and an MSc (Hons, first class) in physics and electronics at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research interests include mobile robot planning and control, cognition and emotion, and biologically-inspired intelligent systems.

Cyril Laurier is a computer science engineer graduated from the IMAC school in Paris, and holds a master degree in acoustics, signal processing and computer science applied to Music (from IRCAM). He worked as a developer and project manager at IK Multimedia, one of the most successful company in the computer music software industry. He has been working at the Music Technology Group (MTG, UPF Barcelona) since 2006 as a PhD candidate. He is also involved in the EU-IST funded PHAROS project and in coordinating the music information retrieval development team at the MTG. His main research topic is music audio analysis, classification, and especially emotions and mood in music.

Javier Lorenzo is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and a research member of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Numerical Applications in Engineering of the Uni- versity of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain. He is currently teaching graduate courses in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence at Facultad de Informática and Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales. He received his PhD in computer science in 2001 on feature selection in machine learning. Since 2001, his research interests have been in computer vision applied to human-computer interaction, bioinspired computer vision systems, machine learning and web us- age mining. Dr. Lorenzo has been co-author of chapters in the books Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI, 1998) and Artificial Intelligence (Inteligencia Artificial, McGraw-Hill, 2008). He has also participated as research member and project coordinator in several research projects.

Emiliano Lorini received the MS degree in artificial intelligence in 2005 from Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France and the PhD in cognitive sciences from the University of Siena, Italy. He is currently post-doctoral student at the Institut the Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse-IRIT (France) and research fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (CNR, Rome) at the Divi- sion of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Modelling and Interaction. His research is focused on several

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topics in the fields of artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems and cognitive sciences. In particular, he is interested in cognitive theories of emotions, theory of intention and intentional action, formal models of trust and reputation, theory of social power and collective action, deontic logic.

Artur Lugmayr describes himself as a creative thinker and his scientific work is situated between art and science. His vision can be expressed as to create media experiences on future emerging media technology platforms. He is the head and founder of the New AMbient MUltimedia (NAMU) research group at the Tampere University of Technology (Finland) which is part of the Finnish Academy Centre of Excellence of Signal Processing from 2006 to 2011 (http://namu.cs.tut.fi). He is holding a Dr.-Techn. degree from the Tampere University of Technology (TUT, Finland), and is currently engaged in Dr.-Arts studies at the School of Motion Pictures, TV and Production Design (UIAH, Helsinki). He chaired the ISO/IEC ad-hoc group “MPEG-21 in broadcasting”; won the NOKIA Award of 2003 with the text book “Digital interactive TV and Metadata” published by Springer-Verlag in 2004; representative of the Swan Lake Moving Image & Music Award (http://www.swan-lake-award.org/); board member of MindTrek (http://www.mindtrek.org), EU project proposal reviewer; invited key-note speaker for conferences; organizer and reviewer of several conferences; and has contributed one book chapter and written over 25 scientific publications. His passion in private life is to be a notorious digital film-maker. He is founder of the production company LugYmedia Inc. (http://www.lugy-media.tv). More about him in Google.

Michael J. Lyons is a professor of Image Arts and Sciences at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto Japan. He has conducted research in human-computer interaction, pattern recognition, visual perception, and the self-organization of complex systems, including many works on several aspects of facial information processing. His work has been published at conference and in journals such as SIGGRAPH, CHI, IEEE Face and Gesture Recognition, and IEEE PAMI. Prior to his current position he was for many years a senior research scientist at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Laboratories in Kyoto, and has been a member of the teaching and research faculties of the University of Southern California and the California Institute of Technology. He holds the PhD and MSc degree in physics from the University of British Columbia, and the BSc degree from McGill University, also in physics.

Luis Macedo is assistant professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, and member of the Cognitive and Media Systems Group of the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He graduated in informatics engineering, obtained the MSc degree in systems and information technologies, and the PhD in informatics engineering. His main interests lie in the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science, especially multi-agent systems, social simulation, cognitive agents, affective computing, computational neuroscience, and planning and decision-making under uncertainty. He has published various articles on these and other topics.

Bruce MacLennan received his BS (1968, mathematics, honors) from Florida State and his MS (1974) and PhD (1975) in computer science from Purdue. He was a senior software engineer for Intel (1975–9) and later assistant professor (1979–83), associate professor (1983–7), and acting chair (1984–5) of the Computer Science Department of the Naval Postgraduate School. Since 1987 he has been in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Much of MacLennan’s academic research has been directed toward understanding the mind in a way integrating both psychological and physical reality. Since the mid-1980s, his research has focused on

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new approaches to robotic artificial intelligence based on neuroscience and informed by phenomenologi- cal philosophy and psychology. His research focus is basic science: what can AI reveal about natural intelligence and the relation of mind and matter? In connection with this work he has published several papers on the neurophenomenology of consciousness and color vision. MacLennan has more than 60 refereed journal articles and book chapters and has published two books. He has made more 60 invited or refereed presentations, most recently in Bologna and Sheffield. He is a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Collegium Budapest.

Francisco José Martínez López is a full professor at Department of Financial Economy, Accounting and Operations Research of the University of Huelva, where he has lectured for 20 years. He currently lectures on Information Technologies, Computer Science and Information Systems at the Faculty of Management Sciences. He holds a PhD in economic and management sciences (with honours). He has given conferences at numerous institutions, courses and masters, as well as more than 30 doctorate courses in Spanish, European and American Universities. He is the director and main researcher of numerous scientific projects, both national and international. He is the author and co-author of more than 200 scientific works. He has been chancellor of the University of Huelva and president of the Economic and Social Council of Huelva.

Manish Mehta is a PhD student under the Human-Centered Computing program at Georgia Insti- tute of Technology. His research interests include Interactive game characters and interactive narrative. Before joining Georgia Tech, he worked on a project that demonstrated natural, fun and experientially rich communication between humans (esp. children and adolescent) and embodied historical and liter- ary characters from the fairy tale universe of Hans Christian Andersen. Currently, he is working on developing a wiki environment for authoring virtual characters using second life as the virtual world. More details about his projects can be found at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~mehtama1/.

François Michaud (M'90) received his bachelor’s degree (‘92), master’s degree (‘93) and PhD degree (‘96) in electrical engineering from the Université de Sherbrooke, Québec Canada. After completing postdoctoral work at Brandeis University, Waltham MA (‘97), he became a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering of the Université de Sherbrooke, and founded LABORIUS, a research laboratory working on designing intelligent autonomous systems that can assist humans in living environments. His research interests are in architec- tural methodologies for intelligent decision-making, design of autonomous mobile robotics, cognitive architectures, social robotics, robot for children with autism, robot learning and intelligent systems. Prof. Michaud is the Canada Research Chairholder in Autonomous Mobile Robots and Intelligent Sys- tems. He is a member of IEEE, AAAI and OIQ (Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec). In 2003 he received the Young Engineer Achievement Award from the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers.

Hector Rafel Orozco Aguirre graduated in 2003 from the University of Guadalajara as computer engineer specialized in system software. In 2006 he obtained his master’s degree in electric engineering and computer systems at CINVESTAV Guadalajara. His thesis named “Virtual Tracking and Monitor- ing in Neurosurgery” gave support to the project number 49 of the Sectorial Found for Investigation in Health and Social Security (Economic Neuronavigator of Multiple Use). At present, Rafael Orozco is studying to obtain the doctor’s degree at CINVESTAV Guadalajara, he continues his reseach work at the

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Virtual Reality Laboratory of the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland. Rafael Orozco has several years of teaching experience at the University of Guadalajara, and Occidental Technological Institute for Advanced Studies (ITESO, Jesuit University of Guadalajara). He also gave courses which formed part of the PAFTI program at CINVESTAV Guadalajara in such topics as development of web applications and the use of Java technology.

Sarantos Psycharis was born at Montreal ,1961. He holds a PhD ,University of Glasgow 1988,in the field of Computational Physics and an Msc in Information Technology, University of Athens, 2002. He has been Lecturer at the Pedagogical Department of Primary Education, Aegean University and currently he is appointed as Associate Professor at the School of Pedagogical and Technological Education in Athens in the field of ICT in Education. He has published numerous articles in Physics, Didactics of Physics, Science Education and ICT in Education. His main interests include the new insights of the use of ICT in education, mainly connected with the algorithmic thinking and the shift from computational– physics education to computational physics–education.

Clément Raïevsky received his master’s degree (2002) in computer science from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. Since 2003, he is pursuing a PhD in computer engineering at LABORIUS. His research interests are artificial intelligent decision-making, agent coordination and artificial emotions.

Ashwin Ram is an associate professor and director of the Cognitive Computing Lab in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, an associate professor of Cognitive Science, and an adjunct professor in Psychology at Georgia Tech and in MathCS at Emory University. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1989, his MS from University of Illinois in 1984, and his BTech from IIT Delhi in 1982. He has published 2 books and over 100 scientific articles in international forums. He is a founder of Enkia Corporation which provides AI software for information assurance and decision support. More details about his research can be found at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/faculty/ashwin.

Felix Francisco Ramos Corchado studied his Phd from Compiègne Technologic University in France. He has 15 years experience working in educations, research, technology development and creation of new groups of research. Academically, professor Ramos started his work as a researcher in 1988, working for Electric and Mechanic Department of the IPN and the Engineering Department of the National University of Mexico. In 1989 he joined Statistic and Calculi Department of the Postgraduate College as a researcher on information systems. In 1997 he joined computer science department of CINVESTAV as a full time researcher. In 2000 created the International Symposium on Advanced Distributed Systems. From 1999 to 2002 he led the Computer Chapter of the IEEE. Prof. Ramos research interests include: multiagent systems, animation of synthetic characters, virtual and augmented virtual reality, is part of scientific committee of different international journals and symposiums around the world and currently is member of the Mexican research System.

Luis Alfonso Razo Ruvalcaba graduated with honours from university as computer engineer and continued his studies at CINVESTAV Guadalajar where he joind the GeDa-3D development group. In 2007 he defended his thesis named “Behavior and Personality Algorithms for Emotional Agents” and obtained master’s degree in computer science. As active participant of Distributed Systems Research Group of CINVESTAV Guadalajara Luis Razo has become a co-author of two articles related to emo-

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tional agent topics and one chapter of the present book. He also has 5 years teaching experience; he is a lecturer at the University of Guadalajara in such subjects as distributed systems, algorithms and programming., development of software for mobile devices over J2ME and Symbian Platform. At present he is studying at CINVESTAV Guadalajara and INP Grenoble to obtain the doctor’s degree in computer science. He wants to orient his future research work towards met-analysis, characterization, meta-models and model oriented engineering; his aim is to develop, deepen and enrich these topics. To reach this aim he is going to dedicate one year to research work in the LCIS-Laboratory of INP Grenoble in Valence, France.

Rainer Reisenzein is full professor of General Psychology at the Institute of Psychology of the Uni- versity of Greifswald, Germany. His research focuses on theoretical and empirical questions of emotion psychology, including the subjective experience of emotion, the relation of cognition and emotion, the facial expression of emotion, the emotion of surprise, and the history of emotion psychology. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on these and other topics, has edited special issues of journals, and is co-author of a three-volume German text book on emotions. He has been an invited speaker at the 2005 conference of the International Society for Research on Emotions, and is currently on the editorial board of the journals Emotion, Cognition and Emotion, and Experimental Psychology.

Olinto Rodriguez is an aggregate professor at the Universidad del Zulia in Maracaibo, Venezuela. His interests include the use of intelligent agents in computing, cryptography, databases and data mining. In the university, Olinto has been tutor of at least 40 end of career projects. He is a software consultant in several organizations since 1992. Currently, he is doing his PhD at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and his work is based on the use of collaborative agents and the reaction of agents.

Sigerist Rodriguez is an assistant professor at the Universidad del Zulia in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Currently he is doing his PhD at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. His interests include intelligent agents behavior, machine learning and emotion inclusion in agents. He is the curriculum commission coordinator at the Universidad del Zulia’s computing science department.

Huma Shah is a research scientist investigating the Turing Test, her study is currently supervised by professor Kevin Warwick at the School of Systems Engineering, The University of Reading, UK. She has been involved in organising the 2006 and 2008 Loebner Prizes for Artificial Intelligence, a science contest that stages Turing’s imitation game. With professor Warwick, she believes the ‘canonical Turing Test’ is one that involves a five minutes, unrestricted conversation, parallel-paired comparison of a machine with a human. She believes that current entries into the Loebner Prize are missing the ‘Turing schoolmaster’, and that the developers, ‘Turing mechanics’ could improve their systems with an interdisciplinary approach to passing the imitation game. She believes that passing the Turing Test is on the road to true AI, for it would involve inculcating emotional intelligence into artificial systems.

Matthias Scheutz received the MSc.E. degrees in formal logic and computer engineering from the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Technology, respectively, in 1993, and the MA and PhD in philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1989 and 1995, respectively. He also received the joint PhD in cognitive science and computer science from Indiana University Bloomington in 1999.

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He is an associate professor in the Cognitive Science Program and the School of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington and director of the Human-Robot Interaction Laboratory. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications in artificial intelligence, artificial life, agent-based computing, cognitive modeling, foundations of cognitive science, and robotics. His current research interests include agent- based modeling, complex cognitive and affective robots for human-robot interaction, computational models of human language processing for mono- and bilinguals, distributed agent architectures, and interactions between affect and cognition.

Paul Schermerhorn received a BA from Goshen College (Goshen, IN) in 1995, double-majoring in accounting and psychology. He then pursued graduate studies in the Department of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL), completing the MA In 1999. In 2002, he received a MS in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN) for research focusing on runtime systems for intelligent memory devices. He completed the PhD at Notre Dame in the field of agent-based modeling in 2006, and is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Human- Robot Interaction Laboratory at Indiana University Bloomington. His research interests include affective robot control systems and agent-based modeling of social interactions in biological agents.

Daniel K. Schneider is senior lecturer and researcher at TECFA, a research and teaching unit in the faculty of psychology and education, University of Geneva. Holding a PhD in political science, he has been working in educational technology since 1988 and participated in various innovative pedagogical and technological projects. He has been a prime mover towards the introduction of creative pedagogical strategies and ICT technologies. His current R&D interests focus on modular, flexible and open Internet architectures supporting rich and effective educational designs. Within TECFA’s blended master program in educational technology, he teaches educational information and communication systems, interactive multimedia, virtual environments and research methodology.

Marco Villamira, MD, PhD, full professor of General Psychology and head of the Institute of Human, Language and Environmental Sciences. Currently, his main interests deal with complex systems, agent-based models, AI, ALife and the relations between emotions, perception, cognition and consciousness.

Kevin Warwick is professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, England, where he carries out research in artificial intelligence, control, robotics and biomedical engineering. At 22 he took his first degree at Aston University, followed by a PhD and a research post at Imperial College, London. He subsequently held positions at Oxford, Newcastle and Warwick universities before being offered the Chair at Reading, at the age of 33. He has been awarded higher doctorates (DScs) both by Impe- rial College and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. He was presented with The Future of Health technology Award from MIT (USA), was made an Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences, St.Petersburg and received The IEE Achievement Medal in 2004. In 2000 Kevin presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, entitled “The Rise of The Robots”.

Keigo Watanabe received the BE and ME degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan, in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and the DE degree in aeronautical engineering from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1984. From 1980 to March 1985, he was a

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research associate at Kyushu University. From April 1985 to March 1990, he was an associate professor at the College of Engineering, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan. From April 1990 to March 1993, he was an associate professor, and from April 1993 to March 1998, he was a full professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Saga University, Saga, Japan. Since April 1998, he has been with the Department of Advanced Systems Control Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saga University. He has published more than 570 technical papers in transactions, journals, and international conference proceedings, and is the author or editor of 25 books. His research interests are in intelligent signal processing and control using softcomputing, bio-inspired robotics, and nonholonomic systems.

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