Welcome
Hello, my name is Brahim
Chaib-draa. I received the "Ingénieur"
degree from École Supérieure
d'Électricité (SUPELEC)
Paris (France) in 1978, and the PhD degree from Université du
Hainaut-Cambrésis, Valenciennes
(France) in 1990. I have been employed on many projects in Europe, Africa and
in North America. In 1990, I joined the Computer
Science & Software Engineering (CSSE) Department of Laval University, Ste-Foy,
PQ, Canada, where I am Professor and Leader of the Decision, Adaptation, Multi-Agents (DAMAS)
group.
Research Interests
- Multiagent Learning
Keywords: Reinforcement Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Multiagent Learning - Multiagent
Planning/scheduling via MDP, POMDP
Keywords: Online POMDP, heuristics pour (PO)MDP. - Interactions
between Agents
Keywords: Game Theory, Stochastic Games, Repeated Games, Games in Incomplete Information. - Spoken
dialogues and Communication between agents
Keywords: Stochastic Spoken Dialogues, Game Theory and Dialogues - Multiagent
Applications as Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Robotic Systems,
Supply Chains, RoboRescue,
Defense Systems, UAVs, etc.
Projects
The projects I direct are presented here.
Essai Chaire
Publications
The complete list of my publications may be found here.
Teaching
- Design
3 (in French)
- Multiagent Systems (in French)
- Advanced AI (in
French)
All the courses are given in french.
Students
Here is the list of my actual (and former) students.
Society Memberships
- IEEE
- ACM
- American
Association for Artificial Intelligence
- Canadian Society for Computational Studies
of Intelligence (CSCSI)
Center
Affiliations
Other Scientific
Activities
- Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Systems, man and
Cybernetics, Part-C
- Associate Editor of Computational
Intelligence
- Member of the Editorial Board of Applied Intelligence (AI)
Funding Sources
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
- Le
Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les
technologie (FQRNT)
- Networks of Centres of
Excellence (NCE)
Contact Information
Computer Science & Software Engineering Department
Laval University, Pavillon Pouliot, Ste-Foy, PQ,
G1K 7P4, Canada
Research Group: DAMAS
Phone (418) 656-2131 ext: 3226, Fax (418) 656-2324
Email: chaib[at]ift.ulaval.ca
Damas is located on the 3rd floor of the Pouliot Building. See our campus map for
details.