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Vincenzo Loia
Vincenzo Loia
University of Salerno, Salerno
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Short Biography
Vincenzo Loia received the PhD in Computer Science from the University of Paris VI, France in 1989, and the bachelor degree in Computer Science from the University of Salerno in 1984. From 1989 he is Faculty member at the University of Salerno where he teaches Operating Systems based Systems and Multi Agent-based Systems. His current position is as Professor and Head of Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

He was principal investigator in a number of industrial R&D projects and in academic research projects. He is author of over 180 original research papers in international journals, book chapters, and in international conference proceedings. He edited five research books around agent technology, Internet, and soft computing methodologies. He is co-founder of the Soft Computing Laboratory and founder of the Multi Agent Systems Laboratory, both at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. He is Co-Editor-in Chief of Soft Computing, an International Springer-Verlag Journal, and serves as editor in a dozen of international Journals. He is founder and Editor-in-Chief of bient Intelligence and Humanized Computing a novel international Journal of Springer-Verlag.

His current research interests focus on merging soft computing and agent technology to design technologically complex environments, with particular interest in Web Intelligence and Ambient Intelligence applications . Dr. Loia is chair of the IEEE Emergent Technologies Technical Committee in the IEEE Computational Intelligence. He is also member of the International Technical Committee on Media Computing, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society.

He is Head of CORISA( www.corisa.org), a research consortium composed of academic and firms, created to play an active role in national and international research projects where agent technology is a key issue.
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