Javier Vázquez

Javier Vázquez Salceda is a "Ramón y Cajal" PostDoc Researcher of the Software Department (LSI), at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).  Javier obtained an MSc degree in Computer Science at UPC. After his master studies he became research assistant in the KEML Group at UPC. In 2003 he presented his PhD dissertation "The role of Norms and Electronic Institutions in Multi-Agent Systems applied to complex domains" (at UPC, with honours). This dissertation was awarded with the 2003 ECCAI AI Dissertation Award, and has been recently published as a book by Birkhauser-Verlag. From 2003 to 2005 he was researcher in the Intelligent Systems Group at Utrecht University. His research is focused on theoretical and applied issues of Normative Systems, software and physical agents' autonomy and social control, especially in distributed applications for complex domains such as eCommerce or Medicine.[jvazquez@lsi.upc.edu]