PAUL DAVIDSSON - CURRICULUM VITAE


Born September 8, 1964 in Malmö, Sweden.

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Lund University, Department of Computer Science, Sweden, May 1996.
  • Tekn.Lic. in Computer Science, Lund University, Department of Computer Science, Sweden, March 1994.
  • M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, December 1989.

Academic positions

  • Professor, since March 2002
  • Associate Professor (docent), December 2000 - March 2002
  • Assistant Professor (universitetslektor), August 1996 - December 2000

all at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Department of Systems and Software Engineering, Ronneby, Sweden.

  • Graduate student position (doktorandtjänst), October 1991 - July 1996
  • Teaching assistant, August 1990 - September 1991

at Lund University, Department of Computer Science, Lund, Sweden.

Publications

More than 100 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, conference proceedings, and books. A list of publications is available here.

Some Recent Research Grants from External Funding Agencies

As main applicant (DISL project owner)

Funding agency

Duration

MSEK

Agent-based Monitoring and Control of District Heating Systems

VINNOVA

2001-2003

1,3

Intelligent Transport Systems and Logistics

Karlshamn Municipality

2002-2008

» 9,0

Effects of Governmental Control Policies in Transportation Chains: A Micro-level Study

VINNOVA

2003-2007

2,3

Health Logistics (with Jan Persson)

Landstinget Blekinge

2004-2009

0,6

Integrated Production and Transport Planning within Food Industry (with Jan Persson)

Swedish Knowledge Foundation

2004-2007

1,6

“Omplanering av tåglägen” I + II (with Johanna Törnquist)

Swedish Rail Admin.

2005-2009

2,0

Mobile IT on the Road (with Jan Persson)

Swedish Road Admin.

2007-2009

2,5

Intelligent Goods and ERP Systems (with Jan Persson)

Swedish Road Admin.

2008-2010

1,9

 

As co-applicant (partner outside DISL project owner)

Funding agency

Duration

MSEK

Software Research Platform (4 partners)

Swedish Knowledge Foundation

2000-2002

2,4 (of 15)

Transport informatics for increased cooperation between the parties in a logistic chain (12 partners)

VINNOVA

2001-2004

0,5 (of 3)

Digital Music Distribution (3 partners)

Swedish Knowledge Foundation

2004-2010

1,6 (total)

“Integration mellan små företags affärssystem” (3 partners)

Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan

2005-2006

0,5 (of 1,5)

Management Framework for Intelligent Intermodal Transport (55 partners)

EU, FP6

2006-2009

1,3 (of 76)

ARENA – Road User Charging (4 partners)

VINNOVA and Swedish Road Admin.

2006-2008

1,8 (of 11)

East West Transport Corridor (38 partners)

EU, Interreg

2006-2007

1,8 (of 15)

National Research School in Intelligent Transport Systems (6 partners)

VINNOVA and Swedish Road and Rail Admin.

2007-2011

1,4 (of 10)

ARENA 2.0 (4 partners)

EU Structural Funds, VINNOVA and Swedish Road Admin.

2008-2011

6-8 (of 23)

Ph.D. supervision

To date I have been the main advisor of the following Ph.D.s:

  • Niklas Lavesson, “On the Metric-based Approach to Supervised Concept Learning”, Dec. 11, 2008,
  • Linda Ramstedt, “Transport Policy Analysis Using Multi-Agent-Based Simulation”, May 30, 2008.
  • Andreas Jacobsson, “Privacy and Security in Internet-Based Information Systems”, Jan. 25, 2008. (from Lic. to Ph.D.)
  • Lawrence Henesey, “Multi-Agent Systems for Container Terminal Management”, Dec. 22, 2006.
  • Johanna Törnquist, “Railway Traffic Disturbance Management”, June 14, 2006.
  • Fredrik Wernstedt, “Multi-Agent Systems for Distributed Control of District Heating Systems”, Dec. 12, 2005.
  • Stefan Johansson, “On Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems”, May 31, 2002.
  • Bengt Carlsson, “Conflicts in Information Ecosystems”, Dec. 7, 2001. (from Lic. to Ph.D.)

and the following Licentiate theses:

  • Johan Holmgren, “Multi-Agent-Based Simulation and Optimization of Production and Transportation”, Jun. 5, 2008
  • Dawit Mengistu, “Multi-Agent Based Simulations in the Grid Environment”, June, 2007.
  • Niklas Lavesson, “Evaluation and Analysis of Supervised Learning Algorithms and Classifiers”, March, 2006.
  • Linda Ramstedt, “Analysing the Effects of Governmental Control Policies in Transport Chains Using Micro-Level Simulation”, Sep. 1, 2005.
  • Larry Henesey, “Enhancing Container Terminal Performance: A Multi Agent Systems Approach”, May 14, 2004.
  • Johanna Törnquist, “Computer-Based Decision Support for Handling Uncertainty in Railway Traffic and Transportation”, Jan. 9, 2004.
  • Fredrik Wernstedt, “Multi-Agent Systems for District Heating Management”, Nov. 7, 2003.
  • Stefan Johansson, “Game Theory and Agents”, Oct. 28, 1999.

In addition, I have been secondary advisor for a number of Ph.D. and Licentiate theses.

Commission of trust

  • Member of management team of ProVision, a research environment funded by the KK Foundation (approx 10 MSEK per year in 10 years), since December 2008.
  • Member of the management committee for EU COST Action IC0801: Agreement Technologies, since October 2008.
  • Member of the management team for BESQ (Blekinge Engineering Software Qualities) Research Center, since December 2007.
  • Chair of the Board of Noda Intelligent Systems AB since May 2005. 
  • Chair of the Appointments Board (Lärarförslagsnämnden) of Blekinge Institute of Technology  since Mar. 2005
  • Member of the Faculty board (Fakultetsnämnden) of Blekinge Institute of Technology  since Jan. 2005
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS), July 2003  – Dec. 2007.
  • Member of the The European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) management committee, Dec. 2002 – Aug. 2006.
  • Member of the MABS (Multi Agent Based Simulation, the International Workshop Series) steering committee, since 2000.
  • Board member of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS) since Dec. 1999
  • Director (studierektor) of Ph.D. studies of Blekinge Institute of Technology, April 2000 – Feb. 2005
  • Member of the AgentLink management committee, Sept.1998 - July 2003
  • Coordinator of the AgentLink Agent-Based Social Simulation Special Interest Group, Feb. 2001 - July 2003 (during Feb. 2001 - Feb. 2002 co-coordinator together with Prof. Scott Moss)
  • Vice chair of the Department board, Department of Software Engineering and Computer Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology, June 2002 – Dec. 2003
  • Deputy Head (ställföreträdande prefekt) of the Department of Software Engineering and Computer Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology, April 2000 – Dec. 2003
  • Member of the program council for the “System Technicians - Tele & Computer  Communications” program at Blekinge Vocational University (“Blekinge Yrkeshögskola”), Jan 1997 - July 1999 and from August 1999 to November 2000  I was also member of the steering committee of this program. 
  • Board member of the School of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Lund University, September 1995 – July 1996
  • Board member of the Department of Computer Science, Lund University, September 1993 – July 1996

Editorship

  • Member of the Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems since January 2008.
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems since June 2006.
  • Co-editor (together with Brian Logan and Keiki Takadama) of the book Multi-Agent and Multi-Agent Based Simulation, Springer Verlag, 2005.
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour since Jan. 2004.
  • Co-editor (together with Jaime Sichman and Francoise Bousquet) of the book Multi-Agent Based Simulation II, Springer Verlag, 2003
  • Editor-in-chief of AgentLink News (ISSN 1465-3842), Sept. 1998 - Sept. 2002
  • Co-editor (together with Scott Moss) of the book Multi Agent Based Simulation, Springer Verlag, 2000.

Organization

  • Local co-organizer of the AgentLink annual Agent Technology Conference (ATC 2005), Stockholm, October 18, 2005.
  • Co-chair of the International Joint Workshop on Multi-Agent and Multi Agent Based Simulation in New York City, USA, July 19, 2004.
  • Co-chair for the Third International Workshop on Multi Agent Based Simulation, Bologna, Italy, 2002
  • Co-organizer of the ECAI Workshop on Agent Technologies in Logistics, Lyon, France, 2002.
  • Local organizer and program chair of the 19th Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS'2002), Ronneby, Sweden, April 10-11, 2002.
  • Co-organizer of the ECAI Workshop on Agent Technologies and their Application Scenarios in Logistics, Berlin, Germany, 2000.
  • Co-chair for the Second  International Workshop on Multi Agent Based Simulation, Boston, USA, 2000.

Program committees (since 2003)

  • Fourth International Workshop on Multi Agent Based Simulation (MABS), Melbourne, Australia, 2003.
  • Fourth International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW’2003), London, England, 2003.
  • First Joint Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society and the Swedish Society for Learning Systems (SAIS/SSLS'2003), Örebro, Sweden, 2003
  • Model to Model (M2M) workshop, Marseille, France, 2003.
  • 1st European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems, Oxford, UK, December, 2003.
  • Second International Workshop on Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 17th, 2004.
  • Second Model to Model (M2M2) workshop, Valladolid, Spain,  2004.
  • Second Joint Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society and the Swedish Society for Learning Systems (AILS'2004), Lund, Sweden, 2004.
  • First International Workshop on Applied Artificial Intelligence and Logistics (AAIL-2004), Ulm, Germany, 2004.
  • Fifth International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW’2004), Toulouse, France, 2004.
  • AAMAS workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation, New York City, USA, July 20, 2004
  • Second Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, September 16-19, Valladolid, Spain, 2004.
  • 1st International Symposium on Normative Multiagent Systems, Hatfield, England, April 12-15, 2005.
  • Sixth International Workshop on Multi Agent Based Simulation (MABS), Utrecht, Netherlands, July, 2005.
  • International Workshop on Recommender Agents and Adaptive Web-based Systems, Wroclaw, Poland, 2005.
  • Third Joint Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society and the Swedish Society for Learning Systems (AILS'2005), Västerås, Sweden, April, 2005.
  • AAMAS workshop on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multiagent Systems, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July, 2005
  • Third annual conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Koblenz, Germany, September 5-9, 2005.
  • Third international Industrial Simulation Conference (ISC-2005) , Berlin, Germany, June 9-11, 2005.
  • Sixth international workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW’2005), Izmir, Turkey, 26-28 October 2005.
  • International Symposium on Agent Based Modeling and Simulation, Vienna, Austria, April 18-21, 2006.
  • 23rd Annual Conference of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society, Umeå, Sweden, May 10 - 12, 2006.
  • 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Hakodate, Japan, 8-12 May,  2006.
  • First International Workshop on Agents and Multiagent Systems, from Theory to Application, Québec, Canada, June 5-6, 2006.
  • 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-06), Wuhan and Three Gorges, China, September 3-6, 2006.
  • International Joint Conference of IBERAMIA´2006 (the 10th Ibero-American AI Conference), SBIA´2006 (the 18th Brazilian AI Symposium), Ribeirão Preto (SP), Brazil, October 23-27, 2006.
  • Seventh International Workshop on Multi Agent Based Simulation, Hakodate, Japan, May 8-9,  2006.
  • Invited Session on Recommender Agents and Adaptive Web-based Systems (RAAWS 2006) at the 10th International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2006), Bournemouth, England, 9-11 October 2006
  • 8th International Middle Eastern Multiconference on Simulation and Modelling (MESM 2006), Alexandria, Egypt, August 28-30, 2006.
  • IFAC workshop on Energy Saving Control in Plants and Buildings (ESC’06), Bansko, Bulgaria, October 2-5, 2006.
  • Seventh international workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW’2006), Dublin, Ireland, September 6–8, 2006.
  • 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Hawaii, USA, 14-18 May, 2007.
  • 1st KES Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems – Technologies and Applications, Wroclaw, Poland, 31 May -1 June 2007
  • The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007.
  • Third International Model-to-Model Workshop (M2M 2007), Marseilles, France, 15-16 March 2007.
  • Eighth International Workshop on Multi Agent Based Simulation, Hawaii, USA, May 13,  2007.
  • 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-07), Hong Kong, China, July 11-13, 2007.
  • 11th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2007), Vietri sul Mare, Italy, 12-14 September 2007.
  • 24rd Annual Conference of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society, Borås, Sweden, May 22 - 23, 2007.
  • International Conference on Adaptive Business Systems (ICABS’2007), Chengdu, China, 22-24 July 2007.
  • Eighth international workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW’2007), Athens, Greece, October 22-24, 2007.
  • 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, track on Advances in Computer Simulation, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, March 16-20, 2008.
  • 2nd KES Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems – Technologies and Applications, Incheon, Korea, 26 - 28 March 2008.
  • Second International Symposium on Agent Based Modeling and Simulation, Vienna, Austria, March 25 - 28, 2008.
  • 10th Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, Sweden, May 26-28, 2008.
  • Ninth International Workshop on Multi Agent Based Simulation, Estoril Portugal, May 12-13, 2008.
  • Fifth Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation, Estoril Portugal, May 12-13, 2008.
  • 3rd International Workshop on Normative Multiagent Systems (NorMAS 2008), Luxembourg, July 15-16, 2008.
  • 2nd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC'2008), Catania, Italy, September 18-20, 2008.
  • 6th International Conference on Multimedia & Network Information Systems, Wrocław, Poland, September 18-19, 2008
  • 9th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, Saint-Etienne, France, September 24-26, 2008.
  • First International Workshop on Enterprise Interoperability (IWEI 2008), Munich, Germany, September 18, 2008.
  • 10th Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics Congress (TRAIL), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, October 14-15, 2008.
  • Sixth European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems, Bath, UK, 18-19 December 2008
  • 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing track on Advances in Computer Simulation, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 8 - 12, 2009.
  • 1st Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, Dong Hoi City, Quang Binh Province, Vietnam, 1-3 April 2009.
  • Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 2009), Budapest, Hungary, May 10-15, 2009.

Reviewing (since 2003)

Since 2003 I have reviewed one or more manuscripts for the following journals:

  • Agent Oriented Software Engineering, International Journal of
  • Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Journal of
  • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Journal of
  • Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory, Journal of
  • Computational Intelligence, International Journal of
  • Computer Systems Science & Engineering, International Journal of
  • Computers and Applications, International Journal of
  • Computing And Information Science In Engineering, Journal of
  • Cybernetics & Systems
  • Decision Support System Journal
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iranian Journal of
  • IEE Proc. Intelligent Transport Systems
  • IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A
  • IET Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Information and Software Technology, Journal of
  • Information Sciences, Journal of
  • Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, An International Journal
  • Intelligent Information and Database Systems, International Journal of
  • Management Science
  • New Generation Computing Journal
  • Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal
  • Scheduling, Journal of
  • Simulation and Process Modelling, International Journal of
  • Software Quality Journal
  • Theoretical Politics, Journal of
  • Transportation Research Part C

Invited talks

  • The International Conference on Measurement, Analysis and Control in Bioprocess Technologies (Cambridge, UK)
  • The Second European Agent Systems Summer School (Saarbruecken, Germany)
  • The Fourth International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (Boston, USA)
  • Dagstuhl seminar on Normative Multi-agent Systems, 2007.
  • 1st KES Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems – Technologies and Applications, Wroclaw, Poland, 2007.

Evaluation

  • Submissions to the Agent Technology Competition 2003  (ATC-03), organized by AgentCities
  • External reviewer for an assistant professorship in computer science at Dalarna University, Sweden, February 2001.
  • External reviewer for an assistant professorship in computer science at Skövde University, Sweden, 2003.
  • External reviewer for a promotion to Associate Professor at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, November, 2006.
  • External reviewer for a promotion to Associate Professor (Docent) at Örebro University, January 2007.
  • External reviewer for a promotion to Professor at Stockholm University, June, 2008.
  • Member of the Ph.D. evaluation committee for:
    • Mikael Johanesson, “Geometric Models of Similarity”, Lund University, May 29, 2002.
    • Thomas Thelin, “Empirical Evaluations of Usage-Based reading and Fault Content Estimation for Software Inspections”, Lund Institute of Technology, September 20, 2002. 
    • Stefan Zemke, “Data Mining for Prediction: A Financial Series Case”, Stockholm University, December 2003.
    • Tobias Andersson, “Decision Support Tools for Dynamic Fleet Management”, Linköping University, May 20, 2005.
    • Martynas Jonkus, “Research and Optmization of EU Shortsea Shipping”,  Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, November 2006.
    • Martin Jonsson, “Sensing and Making Sense: Designing Middleware for Context Aware Computing”, Stockholm University, June 20, 2007.
  • Expert evaluator of a number of research proposals for funding organisations such as
    • the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Apr.2003
    • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, May 2004
    • the Research Council of Canada, January, 2006
    • Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), June, 2007.

Teaching

At Blekinge Institute of Technology I have taught the following basic and supplementary courses for which I had full responsibility, including lecturing, budgeting, developing, planning, examination, and generation and grading of exam questions (all courses are 5 credits, i.e., corresponding to 5 weeks of full-time studies):

  • Programming in C (1996)
  • Data Structures and Algorithms in Java (1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001)
  • Operating Systems (1996 and 1997)
  • Applied Artificial Intelligence (1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004)
  • Methods in Software Engineering (1997)
  • Applied Agent Programming (1999). 

Since 2005 I have been “invited lecturer” at several courses at BTH, e.g., Agent Systems, Applied Artificial Intelligence, and Research Methodology.

 

I have also been invited lecturer at several courses at Lund University and Stockholm University. In addition, I have been supervisor at a number of undergraduate software engineering project courses as well as for a large number of B.Sc. and M.Sc. theses.

My teaching at Lund University (33% of full-time between 1990-1996) was carried out at the following courses:

  • Computer Programming 1 (EDA010),
  • Computer Programming 2 (EDA020),
  • Algorithms and Data Structures (EDA025),
  • Object Oriented Programming (EDA030),
  • Concurrent Programming (EDA040),
  • Operating Systems (EDA050),
  • Introduction to Computer Science (EDA100),
  • Functional Programming (EDA120),
  • Applied Artificial Intelligence (EDA131),
  • Program Design Project (EDA320),
  • Computer Programming (EDA500).

and I supervised 6 Master's theses at Lund University.

I have taught a number of Ph.D. courses including:

  • Agent-Based Approaches to Logistics, March-November 2002.
  • Multi Agent Based Simulation, May 2004 – March 2006.
  • Scientific Publishing, the part on Bibliometrics, December 2007 – February 2008.
  • Distributed and Intelligent Systems Research Seminars, March 2005 -

I developed the Master’s program “Intelligent Software Systems” and was the Program Chair between August 2003-July 2004.

Entrepreneurial activities

Founder of the company Noda Intelligent Systems AB together with Fredrik Wernstedt and Christian Johansson in May 2005. Together we have received a number of prize awards (and nominations):

  • Nominated Venture Cup finals 2005 (11 out of more than 200)
  • Won the Guldeken (The Golden Oak) award 2005, ALMI's innovation prize 
  • Nominated SKAPA finals 2005
  • 2nd place in Miljöinnovation (Environmental Innovation)  2005 (out of approx. 200)
  • Nominated for the European Business Award for the Environment 2005

as well as seed-money for the commercialization of research results:

  • Vinnova 300 KSEK
  • Blekinge forskningsstiftelse 200 KSEK

Other

  • I have founded and am currently managing a research group called Distributed and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (DISL). The group currently consists of ten senior members (Docent Bengt Carlsson, Docent Stefan Johansson, Dr. Stefan Axelsson, Dr. Larry Henesey, Dr. Andreas Jacobsson, Dr. Niklas Lavesson, Dr. Jan Persson, Dr. Linda Ramstedt, Dr. Johanna Törnquist, and Dr. Fredrik Wernstedt) and about ten Ph.D. students. 
  • Member of Exystence, The European Network of Excellence in Complex systems since October 2002
  • Member of the IFIP Working Group 5.8 on Enterprise Interoperability, since Sept. 2008.
  • I was opponent at:
    • Harko Verhagen's Licentiate thesis defense (thesis title: “Agents and Sociality”) at the Department of Computer and System Sciences, Stockholm University, June 1998.
    • Johan Kummeneje's Licentiate thesis defense (thesis title: “RoboCup as a Means to Research, Education, and Dissemination”) at the Department of Computer and System Sciences, Stockholm University, March 2001.
    • Lisa Browers’ Licentiate thesis defense (thesis title: “Flood Risk Management Policy from an Insurance Perspective”) at the Department of Computer and System Sciences, Stockholm University, June 2002
  • Additional education
    • Personal leadership (a comprehensive individual course), Sweden, Jan. 2001 – Jan. 2002.
    • Communication Techniques (oral and written), 5 ECTS, Lund University, Centre for Teaching and Learning, Lund, Sweden 1993.
    • European Summer School on Machine Learning, Oud-Turnhout, Belgium, July 1991.
    • Behavioral Science for Engineers, 30 ECTS, Lund University, Department of Psychology, Lund, Sweden, 1990.
    • Theoretical Philosophy, 30 ECTS, Lund University, Department of Philosophy, Lund, Sweden, 1990.
    • Mathematics, 30 ECTS, Lund University, Department of Mathematics, Lund, Sweden, 1985.