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Michal Pěchouček

Member Michal Pěchouček

Dr. Michal Pechoucek works as a reader in Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Cybernetics, CTU. He graduated in Technical Cybernetics from FEE-CTU, got his M.Sc. degree in IT: Knowledge Based Systems from University of Edinburgh and completed his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and Biocybernetics at CTU in Prague. He is the Head of the Agent Technology Group at the Gerstner Laboratory.

His research focuses on problems related to multi-agent systems, especially topics related to social knowledge, meta-reasoning, acting in communication inaccessibility, coalition formation, agent reflection and multi-agent planning. Michal Pechoucek participated in and coordinated several EC FP5/6 projects (e.g. ExPlanTech, ExtraPlanT), is a member of AgentLink III management committee. Michal Pechoucek acts as a principal investigator on several research projects funded by Air Force Research Laboratory,Office for Naval Research and Army Research Laboratory. Besides, Michal Pechoucek collaborates with European and international industries such as Rockewell Automation, CERTICON, Cadence GmbH, gedas s.r.o., Denzo and others. Michal Pechoucek also acts as a reviewer of the EC FP6 projects.

Michal Pechoucek is an author or co-author of cited publications in proceedings of international conferences and journal papers. In addition, he has been a co-chair of the AAMAS Industry Track 2005, HOLOMAS 2000-2002, 2005, KSCO 2002,2004 CEEMAS 2003, 2005 and as member of the programme committee of other relevant conferences and workshop. Michal Pechoucek is chair of EUMAS advisory board and member of CEEMAS steering committee.

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Karel Bartoš

Member Karel Bartoš

Karel Bartoš holds engineering degree in Engineering Informatics from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. He is currently researcher at Agent Technology Center and in the same time pursues his PhD studies at the Department of Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University.

His current research interests include network security, distributed data fusion, trust and multi-agent systems focusing on intrusion detection.

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Petr Benda

Member Petr Benda

Petr Benda is a PhD candidate of Artificial intelligence and biocybernetics at Faculty of Electrical Engineering Czech Technical University. He graduated in Biomedical engineering in 2004. He has been a member of Agent technology group since 2002, where he started the RoboCup Rescue project.

His research interests are biological systems, synergic effects in multi-agent systems and general artificial intelligence.

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Branislav Bošanský

Member Branislav Bošanský

Branislav Bošanský is a research fellow in the Agent Technology Group at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Czech Technical University. He holds master’s degree in theoretic informatics (artificial intelligence and logic programming) from Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague. His research interests include computational game theory with applications in multi-agent environments, game-playing algorithms, and multi-agent simulations. He participated on number of successful projects supported by US Air Force, Office for Naval Research, and CERDEC US Army. The focus of his work was on designing and implementation of novel algorithms for finding strategies in complex adversarial domains, such as humanitarian relief operation in an unstable region, problem of piracy in Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean, and tactical military operations with teams of heterogeneous unmanned systems. The game-theoretic models of security games and multi-stage patrolling games are the topic of his thesis.

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Michal Čáp

Member Michal Čáp

Michal Čáp is a member of the Agent Technology Center at FEE CTU in Prague. He holds a master degree in Agent Technology from Utrecht University. Before joining Agent Technology Group in September 2010, he worked as a developer of 2APL platform at Utrecht University and as a developer of agent-based virtual training systems at TNO Defence, Security and Safety in Soesterberg, the Netherlands.

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Michal Fuksa

Member Michal Fuksa

Michal Fuksa is pursuing bachelor degree in Informatics and computer science at the faculty of Electrical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague. He is member of Agent Technology group working at Gerstner laboratories.

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Martin Grill

Member Martin Grill

Martin Grill holds master degree in Software development at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. At the present time he is a member of the Agent Technology Center, a researcher at CESNet, and a PhD student at the Department of Cybernetics of Czech Technical University in Prague.

His research is focused on network security and collective adaptation in multi-agent systems.

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David Hlavaty

Member David Hlavaty

David Hlavaty is pursuing bachelor degree in Informatics and computer science at the faculty of Electrical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague. He is member of Agent Technology Group.

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Jan Hrnčíř

Member Jan Hrnčíř

Jan Hrnčíř is a PhD student at the Agent Technology Center at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. He holds a master degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. Jan currently works on the SUPERHUB project.

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Ondřej Hrstka

Member Ondřej Hrstka

Ondřej Hrstka holds bachelor degree in Cybernetics and Measurements at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering on the Czech Technical University in Prague. Since July he is member of the Agent Technology Group of the Gerstner laboratory.

Ondřej currently works on AgentC.

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Michal Jakob

Member Michal Jakob

Dr. Michal Jakob is a senior researcher in the Agent Technology Center, Dept. of Computer Science, FEE, CTU. Michal currently leads center’s research on modeling and optimizing multi-modal transport systems, primarily as part of the SUPERHUB FP7 project. In addition, Michal leads the AgentC research project, supported by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, developing novel techniques for analyzing, modeling and ultimately disrupting maritime piracy. Michal is very active in identifying and exploring new, promising application areas for multi-agent technology, including agent-based urban simulation, smartphone-based intelligent mobility support and operational optimization of law enforcement and fare inspection processes. On a more theoretical level, Michal’s research interests include agent-based simulation, computational game-theory and distributed constraint optimization.

Michal Jakob received a PhD degree in Artificial intelligence and biocybernetics from Czech Technical University in Prague in 2008. Before joining the Agent Technology Center, he was a research scientist with British Telecommunications (BT), developing resilient decentralized architectures for service-oriented computing and network-centric information fusion. Earlier in his career, he worked as a game AI programmer for Illusion Softworks (now 2K Czech), a leading European game studio.

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Antonín Komenda

Member Antonín Komenda

Antonin Komenda graduated in Technical Cybernetics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague in 2007. His studies was focused on Multi-Agent Systems. Now he is a researcher and a PhD student at Agent Technology Center of the Gerstner Laboratory. His research is focused on Distributed Planning in Multi-Agent Systems.

His key skills are computer programming (Java, PHP, C++, C) and object oriented analysis. His prior employment was developer/programmer/analyst in private companies since 1998. His work was focused on content managment systems and programming frameworks.

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Štěpán Kopřiva

Member Štěpán Kopřiva

Štěpán Kopřiva is researcher and PhD student at the Agent Technology Center of the Gerstner Laboratory at the Department of Cybernetics of Czech Technical University. Štěpán graduated in 2009 from Imperial College London with M.Sc. degree in Advanced Computing. Prior to his current position, he worked as programmer for the major POS systems manufacturer and researcher in ATG.

Štěpán currently works on AgentFly project - large scale simulation and control in the air-traffic domain. His main research interests are logics and formal methods for multi-agent systems, classical planning and large scale simulations.

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Miloš Kruml

Member Miloš Kruml

Milos Kruml holds bachelor degree in Cybernetics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering on the Czech Technical University in Prague. Now he is pursuing master degree in Air and Space Systems. At the same time he is a member of the Agent Technology Group.

His research is focused on UAVs.

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Viliam Lisý

Member Viliam Lisý

Viliam Lisý is a researcher and a PhD student at Agent Technology Center of the Gerstner Laboratory at the Department of Cybernetics of Czech Technical University. He holds master degree in Technical Artificial Intelingence from VU University Amsterdam and master degree in Theoretical Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague. Prior to his current position, he worked on automatic emotion recognition at Philips CE Innovation Lab and he also worked as programmer for a subcontractor of all Czech mobile telecommunications companies.

He works on defense research projects on adversary behavior modeling, simulation and prediction, funded by the U.S. Air Force Research Lab. His main research interests are logics, formal methods in multi-agent systems, bayesian decision-making and game theory.

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Vladimír Mařík

Member Vladimír Mařík

Prof. Marik is a member of ATG, the founding chairman of the Department of Cybernetics at the Czech Technical University since 1999 and the founder and managing director of the Rockwell Automation Research Center Prague as a part of the Advanced Technology organization of the Rockwell Automation Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The main professional interests of Prof. Marik include artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems and knowledge-based systems, soft-computing, production planning and CIM applications. He is author or co-author of more than 130 journal and conference papers, co-author or editor of 13 books (Springer Verlag, Kluwer Academic). He acted as a visiting professor at many universities, e.g. University of Vienna, Vienna Univ. of Technology, J. Kepler University, Linz, Technical University of Berlin, Gremany, IPN Mexico City, Mexico, St. Petersburgh Technical University etc.

He is a PI or CO-PI numerous research contracts with e.g. Rockwell Automation (USA), Vitatron Medical (NL), Grundfos (DK), Cadence (USA), Robert Bosch GmbH (D), Denso (JP), EOARD, AFRL and ONR (USA). Prof. Marik acted the organizer of many scientific events, ECCAI/EASSS 2001, CEEMAS 2003, IEEE DIS 2006, the whole series of HoloMAS or IEEE ETFA’06. He acts as an Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. SMC, part C since 2005 and Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Systems Studies since 2001. He is an elected member of the Czech Engineering Academy as well as the member of the Executive Council of this Academy. He is a member of IEEE and an honorary member of the Austrian AI Society. Prof. Marik was awarded by the Czechoslovak State Prize in 1989, by the Rockwell’s Chairman Team Award in 1997 and by the Austrian “Honorary Cross for Science and Art” awarded by the President of the Austrian Republic in 2003.

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Tomáš Meiser

Member Tomáš Meiser


Tomas Meiser holds bachelor degree in Software technologies and management at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering on the Czech Technical University in Prague. Now he is pursuing master degree in Artificial inteligence and as minor computer vision. At the same time he is a member of the Agent Technology Group of the Gerstner laboratory.


His research is focused on UAVs, MANETs and topology control.
Tomas currently works on Agentfly

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Ondřej Milenovský

Member Ondřej Milenovský

Ondrej Milenovsky works as a research fellow in the Agent Technology Center at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague. He graduated in Artificial intelligence in 2011 at the Czech Technical University in Prague.

He worked on project Urbansim (later renamed to AgentPolis) which simulates movement of people and vehicles in the streets of the city of Prague. He currently works on the project CSSoft, a branch of the project AgentFly, which addresses airplane collision avoidance within the airspace of the Czech Republic.

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Zbyněk Moler

Member Zbyněk Moler

Zbyněk Moler is a member of the Agent Technology Group at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague. He holds master degree in Electrical Engineering and Informatics - Computer Science from Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. Zbyněk currently works on transport simulation.

He has participated in the Privacy 2.0 project. Before joining the Agent Technology Center in February 2011, he worked as junior Java-programmer in private company since July 2009.

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Peter Novák

Member Peter Novák

Peter Novák is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Agent Technology Center since October 2009. His research interests lie in the field of artificial intelligence. In particular, his research work revolves around cognitive robotics, issues in (multi-)agent systems, such as e.g., agent-oriented programming, coordination, cooperation as well as applications of non-monotonic reasoning in these.

Peter Novák received his master’s degree in artificial intelligence and distributed systems (Mgr.) from the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia and the doctoral degree in informatics (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Clausthal University of Technology, Germany, where he conducted research in the Computational Intelligence Group of the Department of Informatics. Prior to embarking on the academic career, he worked in IT industry as a freelance software engineer, analyst and a team leader in various companies, among other also Whitestein Technologies and MicroStep.

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Dušan Pavlíček

Member Dušan Pavlíček

Dusan Pavlicek works as a research fellow in the Agent Technology Center at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CTU. In 2004 he graduated in Computer Science at the Czech Technical University in Prague.

His professional interests include software engineering, applied computer graphics and scientific visualization.

He has participated in numerous projects, including ACROSS, Collective Robotics, DENSO, DeepA, I-Globe, Tactical AGENTFLY, and most recently FAA.

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Tomáš Pevný

Member Tomáš Pevný

Tomáš Pevný holds the position of researcher at Czech Technical University of Prague. He received his PhD in Computer Sciences from State University of New York in Binghamton in Computer Science at 2008 and MS in Computer Sciences from School of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague in 2003. In 2008--2009, he did his post-doc at Gipsa-lab in Grenoble, France. His research interests are applications of non-parametric statistics (machine learning, data modeling) with focuses on steganography, steganalysis, and intrusion detection.

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Radek Píbil

Member Radek Píbil

Radek Píbil is a PhD student at Agent Technology Center of the Gerstner Laboratory at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Czech Technical University. He holds a master’s degree in Theoretical Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague. Prior to his current position, he worked on a computer games artificial intelligence platform Pogamut at AMIS group at Charles University in Prague. He works on research project on adversary behavior modeling, simulation and prediction. His main research interest is game theory.

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Martin Rehák

Member Martin Rehák

Martin Rehak holds engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris. He is currently researcher at Agent Technology Group of the Gerstner laboratory and in the same time pursues his PhD studies at the Department of Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University. His current research interests are security, network intrusion detection, trust modeling and task allocation in adversarial environments.

Prior to his current position, Martin was member of the Mobile Communication Operations team of Schlumberger Smartcards (now Axalto), where he was working on definition, design and integration of novel location-based and other value added services for major European and African operators. Before obtaining his degree, he was a freelance contractor to diverse Czech and French companies, including General Electric Medical Systems. Martin is a 2005 McKinsey Scholar, and a member of AAMAS’06-08 program committee. In 2006, he was a visiting researcher with National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo.

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Milan Rollo

Member Milan Rollo

Milan Rollo works as a senior researcher at the Center of Applied Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague. He has a MSc in technical cybernetics (2002) and doctoral in artificial intelligence (2009) from CTU. He is a member of the Agent Technology Group at the Gerstner Laboratory. His main research interests are in multi-agent systems focusing on distributed team action planning, communication management and resource allocation in mobile ad-hoc networks and distributed knowledge acquisition and maintenance. At present he is active in a field of collective robotics, with focus on deployment of Agentfly project technologies on autonomous UAVs.

He was a visiting researcher with Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), Pensacola, USA in 2008. In the past he participated on several research projects funded by EU, ONR, ARL and AFRL.

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Martin Selecký

Member Martin Selecký

Martin Selecky holds masters degree with honors in Cybernetics and Measurement from Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague. Currently he works as a researcher and PhD student in the Agent Technology Center. His research interests are automated planning and path planning algorithms and their currently he works on deployment of AgentFly project technologies on autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).

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David Šišlák

Member David Šišlák

Dr. David Šišlák is a senior research scientist in the Agent Technology Center at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague. David is the chief system architect for AgentFly and Aglobe systems. He participates in many research projects related to these systems funded by Czech and also foreign research sponsors. His research interests are in technical cybernetics and multi-agent systems focusing on decentralized collision avoidance algorithms in air-traffic domain, efficient communication, knowledge maintenance in inaccessible multi-agent environment, large-scale multi-agent simulations and agent frameworks.

David Šišlák received a Master degree in Technical Cybernetics and a PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence and Biocybernetics from Czech Technical University in Prague in 2010. David is an author or co-author of many cited publications in proceedings of international conferences and journal papers. During his PhD study, he obtained the IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT Joint Conference The Best Demo Award, the international Cooperative Information Agents workshop (CIA) system innovation award for Aglobe multi-agent platform and related simulations and later he was a member of a team which won the main prize of Engineering Academy of Czech Republic.In 2011, David Šišlák received the Antonin Svoboda prize for the best dissertation of 2010 awarded by the Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics.

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Jan Stiborek

Member Jan Stiborek

Jan Stiborek holds master degree in Software development at Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. At the present time, he is pursuing PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence and Biocybernetics at Department of Cybernetics, FEE CTU. He is also a member of the Agent Technology Group of the Gerstner laboratory, where he works as a researcher.

His current profesional interests focused on network security and information sharing in multi-agents systems.

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Michal Štolba

Member Michal Štolba

Michal Štolba is a researcher at the Agent Technology Center of the Gerstner Laboratory at the Department of Cybernetics of Czech Technical University. Michal holds Master by Research (MRes) degree in Automated Planning for Autonomous Systems from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. His main research interests are classical planning and motion planning and their combination.

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Jan Straka

Member Jan Straka

Jan Straka is pursuing bachelor degree in Software systems at the faculty of Electrical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague. He is member of Agent Technology group working on AgentFly project.

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Jan Tožička

Member Jan Tožička

Jan Tozicka is a researcher in the Agent Technology Center of the Gerstner laboratory at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He holds master degree and doctorate in natural sciences in Computer Science from Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague. His research focuses on distributed learning algorithms and on distributed cooperative algorithms used for collision avoidance in the air traffic control. Prior to this position, Jan worked as a software engineer in IndigoVision Ltd. in Edinburgh, where he focused on design and implementation of integration modules and network video recorders.

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Petr Vála

Member Petr Vála

Petr Vála is currently pursuing his bachelor’s degree in Cybernetics and Robotics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering - Czech Technical University. Petr is member of Agent Technology Group.

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Petr Váňa

Member Petr Váňa

Petr Váňa is member of Agent Technology Center working on AgentFly project. He is studying for a bachelor degree in Cybernetics and Robotics at the faculty of Electrical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague.

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Ondřej Vaněk

Member Ondřej Vaněk

Ondřej Vaněk graduated from Faculty of Electrical Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague in Technical Cybernetics (2008). He is currently a researcher and a PhD student at the Agent Technology Center of the Gerstner laboratory at the Department of Cybernetics, CTU. His current research is focused on multi-agent simulations and application of cooperative and non-cooperative game theory on securing large infrastructures (such as computer networks or transportation networks). He currently works on an U.S. Office of Naval Research funded project from the maritime domain AgentC, researching techniques able to minimize negative impacts of modern maritime piracy on international shipping industry. He was visiting scholar in summer 2010 and 2011 at the University of Southern California in Teamcore research group, applying game theory to optimize allocation of police checkpoints in the city of Mumbai.

Prior to his current position, he spent summer 2008 in Rockwell Automation Center in Cleveland as a visiting researcher and he worked as a Java programmer and IT analyst for various companies.

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Martin Vejmelka

Member Martin Vejmelka

Martin Vejmelka holds master degree in Software engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. He works for Agent Technology Center since March 2011. In October he started his PhD studies at the Department of Cybernetics of Czech Technical University in Prague.

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Jiří Vokřínek

Member Jiří Vokřínek

Jiri Vokrinek is a senior researcher in the Agent Technology Center at Gerstner Laboratory, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic. He has a university master degree in Technical Cybernetics and a PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence and Biocybernetics from Czech Technical University in Prague. His research interests are artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, planning and replanning in multi-agent systems with focus to two fields: (i) manufacturing, virtual organizations, supply-chain management and logistics and (ii) autonomous vehicles coordination and cooperation, mission planning, and team coordination.

He was participating on projects in the fields of agent-based planning in manufacturing (IST Trial Project ExPlanTech, 2000-2002) and extra-enterprise production planning and virtual enterprises (IST Project ExtraPlanT, 2002-2004), advanced agent-based technologies for supporting virtual organizations (IST Integrated Projects ECOLEAD, 2004-2008, PANDA, 2005-2008, and CONTRACT, 2006-2009), and agent-based production processes simulations (Austrian government funded project CONCEERN, 2003-2005). He is also participating on U.S. Army sponsored research in the field of distributed planning and coordination (I-Globe, 2008) and agent-based coordination and planning for heterogeneous teams (AgentScout, 2009-2010 and Tactical AgentFly, 2009-2010).

Now, he is involved in research of agent-based technologies for supporting virtual organizations, negotiation protocols, distributed planning and coordination, and unmanned vehicles cooperation.

He was also in charge of co-organizing Agent Development Tutorials (held on EASSS 2004, BASYS 2004, CEEMAS 2005 and EASSS 2005).

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Přemysl Volf

Member Přemysl Volf

Premysl Volf holds master degree in Software Systems from Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague. He is currently researcher and PhD student at Agent Technology Center of the Gerstner laboratory at the Department of Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University.

His research is focused on distributed large-scale simulation in the air traffic domain, simulation and modeling of human air traffic controllers and distributed cooperative algorithms used for collision avoidance in the air traffic control. He currently works on the project AgentFly and leads its NextGen branch.

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