LIACC --- Report 2002 and Plan 2003 -- B. LIACC Organization

B. LIACC Organization

B. LIACC Organization

LIACC is organized as a set of three groups all of them under coordination of professors of the University of Porto:

NCC -- Computer Science Group coordinated by Prof. Miguel Filgueiras and Prof. Luís Damas;
NIA&AD -- Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis Group coordinated by Prof. Pavel Brazdil;
NIAD&R -- Distributed Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Group coordinated by Prof. Eugénio Oliveira.

A separate presentation of each group is given in the next sections.

LIACC has a Coordinating Board, whose present members are the 4 coordinators of the 3 groups, with a composition aproximately reflecting the proportionality of the number of members in each group. Each year one of the members of the Coordinating Board is appointed, in turn, as the coordinator of LIACC.

LIACC being a research centre dependent of the Rectorate of the University of Porto, the accounting services are provided by the Rectorate.

LIACC activities are periodically reviewed by an Advisory Committee. LIACC invites as members to this committee 3 researchers internationally recognized as outstanding experts. The current members of this committee are Prof. Claude Kirchner (LORIA, Nancy), Prof. Peter Flach (University of Bristol) and Prof. Nick Jennings (University of Southampton). The committee usually visits LIACC once a year and prepares a written commentary on the activities report and plan.

LIACC has a Scientific Council composed by all its researchers holding a PhD. The annual activities reports and plans are submitted to it for approval.

B. LIACC Organization