Keynote speaker

Professor Hussein A. Abbass

University of New South Wales

http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/~abbass/

Speaker bio: Hussein Abbass is currently a Professor and Chair of Information Technology at the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales, the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, Australia. He is the Director of the University Defence and Security Applications Research Centre and the Director of the  Artificial Life and Adaptive Robotics Laboratory. He is the Chair of the Australian Computer Society National Committee on Complex Systems, the chair of the IEEE-CIS task force on Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, and a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre for Complex Systems (ACCS). He holds an Advisory Professor at Vietnam National University, Ho-Chi Minh city, and held visiting positions at Imperial College London and University of Illinois.

He is on the editorial board for two journals IJICC and  IJASS. His main research interests include evolutionary games, learning (data mining) and optimization, ensemble learning, and multi-agent systems. He has 170+ refereed publications and his research is funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC), Eurocontrol, and other government organisations and industry.

Abstract: to be available soon.