Role in the project:

• Leader of: WP1 Conceptual framework

Staff:

• Claudia Roda
• Georgi Stojanov
• Eugeni Gentchev
• Damien Clauzel

Description:

The American University of Paris (AUP) was founded in 1962. AUP is accredited in the United States by the Commission on higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and it is a non-profit educational institution incorporated in the state of Delaware. The Institut de Commerce International et de sciences de l’information (ICISI), which includes AUP's departments of International Administration, and Computer Science, Mathematics, and Science, is recognised by the French Ministry of Education as an « établissement d’enseignement technique privé ».

Department

Computer Science, Mathematics, and Science

Expertise

• Attention computing (theoretical models) - Attention Aware Systems
• Cognitive agents
• Multi-agent systems

AUP’s computer science department has expertise on multi-agent systems supporting cognitive and social processes related to learning. In the last fifteen years, research by department members has resulted in the design and implementation of multi-agent systems with a wide variety of applications including knowledge management, and Web based learning. Recently research has focussed on systems supporting cognitive and social processes involved in learning and collaboration. Members of the department have organised the first workshop on “Designing for attention” at the annual International Conference of the British HCI group, and edited and published works on Attention Aware Systems.