About the Authors
Malik Ghallab is Directeur de Recherche Emeritus at CNRS and the University of Toulouse. His research is focused on AI and Robotics. He has contributed to topics such as knowledge representation and reasoning, planning, and learning of skills and models of behaviors. He has (co-)authored over 200 scientific papers and several books. He has taught AI at several universities in France and abroad, and has advised 32 PhDs. He has been director of several AI research programs in France, director of LAAS-CNRS and CTO of INRIA. He is involved in initiatives regarding socially responsible research in AI and computational sciences. He is a EurAI Fellow, and Docteur Honoris Causa of the University of Linköping, Sweden.
Dana Nau is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, in the Computer Science Department and the Institute for Systems Research. He has more than 400 refereed technical publications. Some of his accomplishments include the discovery of "pathological" game trees in which looking farther ahead produces worse decisions, the game-playing algorithm used in the program that won the 1997 world computer bridge championship, applications of AI planning in automated manufacturing, AI planning systems such as SHOP, SHOP2, Pyhop, and GTPyhop, and evolutionary game-theoretic studies of factors that affect human behavioral norms. He is an AAAI Fellow, ACM Fellow, and AAAS Fellow.
Paolo Traverso is the Director of Strategic Planning at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy. His main research interests are in automated planning and learning under uncertainty. He directed the FBK ICT Research Center from 2007 to 2020, a center of more than 400 people. In 2017, he was appointed Chair of the Strategic Committee of EIT Digital. Since 2019, he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of DFKI. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of AIxIA and of the National Lab on AI and Intelligent Systems. Since 2023, he has been the leader of the National Project on Integrative AI of "FAIR - Future Artificial Intelligence Research". He is the author and co-author of more than one hundred scientific articles. He is an EurAI Fellow, AAIA Fellow, and AIIA Fellow.