At the moment, I’m involved with the organisation of the following events:


  1. *IVA 2012 - 12th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents , Organising Committee Member, Santa Cruz, California, September, 2012.


  1. *FDG 2012- Foundations for Digital Games, Area Chair: Artificial Intelligence. North Carolina, June, 2012.


  1. *ITS 2012- Intelligent Tutoring Systems , Senior Program Committee Member, Greece, June, 2012.


  1. *AAMAS 2012- Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Senior Program Committee Member, Spain, June, 2012.



  1. -Financial Chair of AAMAS 2010 (The 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems), Toronto, Canada, May, 2008.


  1. - Organiser and Co-chair of the AAMAS-2009 Workshop on Empathic Agents, May, Budapest, 2009.


  1. -Member of the “Organizational Committee” of AIIDE 2008 (4th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment), California, USA, October 2008, organised by AAAI.


  1. - Local Organization Co-Chair of AAMAS 2008 (The 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems), Estoril, Portugal, May, 2008.


- General Co-Chair of ACII 2007 (The Second International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction), Lisboa, Portugal, September, 2007.


- Program Committee Co-Chair of DIGITEL 2007 (The First IEEE International Workshop on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning), Jhongli, Taiwan, March, 2007.


- Program Committee Co-Chair of CASA 2006 (Computer Animation and Social Agents Conference), Geneva, Switzerland, July, 2006.


  - Short Paper Co-chair of IUI 2006 (International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces), Sidney, Australia, January, 2006.


  - Chair of the workshop “Synthetic Characters: from Body to Mind”, Sintra, Portugal, 2005.


  - Co-Chair of IUI’2005 (Intelligent User Interfaces Conference do ACM) workshop on Affective Interactions: the computer in the affective loop, San Diego, USA, 2005.


  - Co-Chair of AAMAS’2004 (Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Conference do ACM) workshop on “Empathic Agents”, New York, USA, 2004.


  1. -Local Chair of the Rescue Simulation League in the RoboCup’2004, Lisboa, Portugal, 2004.


  1. -Chair of the “International Workshop on Affective Interactions” organised in connection with the annual Conference of the I3 network. Sienna, Italy, 1999.


- Co-Chair of the “European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education”, EuroAIED, Lisboa, Portugal, 1996.

{  Past Program Committees}

{  Organisation of Events}


  1. *AIIDE 2011- AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference, Program Committee Member, Palo Alto, 2011.


  1. *FDG 2011- Foundations for Digital Games, Program Committee Member, Bordeaux, 2011.


  1. * IVA 2011 - 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents ,      Senior  Program Committee Member, Iceland, 2011.


  1. * IJCAI 2011- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Senior  Program Committee Member, Barcelona, 2011.



  1. * AIED 2011- Artificial Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Senior  Program Committee Member, New Zealand, 2011.


  1. *ACII 2011-  International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent interaction, Program Committee Member, US, 2011.


  1. *Culture and Computing 2011- The Second International Conference on Culture and Computing, Program Committee Member, Japan, 2011.


  1. *Workshop on Culturally Motivated Virtual Agents, in conjunction with IVA, Program Committee Member, Iceland, September 2011.


* PALE‘2011- Workshop on Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments, To be held in conjunction with UMAP‘2011, Program Committee Member.


* IVA 2010 - 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Member of the Program Committee, Philadelphia, 2010.

   

* AAMAS 2010 - The Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Financial Chair and member of the Senior Program Committee and Financial Chair Toronto, 2010.

  

  1. *AAAI 2010- Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Member of the Program Committee, Atlanta, 2010.


* ICIDS 2010 - 3rd Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Member of the Program Committee, Edinburgh, 2010.


* IVA 2009 - 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Member of the Senior Program Committee Amsterdam, September, 2009.


* ACII 2009 - International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, IEEE, Member of the Program Committee, Amsterdam, September, 2009.


* AIED 2009 - The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Member of the Program Committee , UK, 2009.


    * ICIDS 2009 - 2nd Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Member of the Program Committee , Guimarães, Portugal, 2009.


    * AAMAS 2009 - The Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, member of the Senior Program Committee, Budapest, 2009.


    * AGS 2009 - The AAMAS-2009 Workshop on Agents for Games and Simulation, Program Committee member, May, Budapest, 2009.


    * EA 2009 - The AAMAS-2009 Workshop on Empathic Agents, Organising Member and Program Committee member, May, Budapest, 2009.


    * AISB’09 - AI&GAMES - The AI in Games Symposium at the AISB, Member of the Program Committee , Edinburgh, April, 2009.


    * AAAI Spring Symposium on Emotion, Personality, and Social Behavior, AAAI, Member of the Program Committee , Stanford University, March 2008.


    * IAT 2008 - The 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Member of the Program Committee, Sidney, Australia, 2008.


    * ICIDS 2008 - 1st Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Member of the Program Committee, Erfurt, Germany, 2008.


    * DIGITEL 2008 - The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, Member of the Program Committee, Banff, Canada, 2008.


    * AIIDE 2008 - Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference, an AAAI conference, Member of the Program Committee, Palo Alto, USA, 2008.


    * IVA 2008 - 8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Tokyo, Japan, 2008.


    * AAMAS 2008 - The Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, part of the Senior Program Committee, Estoril, Portugal, May, 2008.


    * ICVS 2007 - 4th International Conference on Virtual Storytelling (proceedings published by Springer), Member of the Program Committee, Saint Malo, France, 2007.


    * 4th Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications - MASTA, associated with EPIA 2007 - “Décimo Terceiro Encontro Português de Inteligência Artificial (in Portuguese)l”, Guimarães, Portugal, 2007.


    * IVA 2007 - 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Member of the Program Committee, Paris, France, 2007.


    * AI*IA 2007 - The 10th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence - Special Track on AI and Expressive Media, Member of the Program Committee , Rome, Italy, 2007.


    * RoboCup International Symposium 2007,Member of the Program Committee, Atlanta, USA, July, 2007.


    * 2nd Workshop on Narrative Learning Environments, organised within the AIED 2007 - The 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Member of the Program Committee , Los Angeles, USA, July, 2007.


    * CASA 2007 - International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, Member of the Program Committee , Belgium, June, 2007.


    * AAMAS 2007 - International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Member of the Program Committee, Hawaii, USA, May, 2007.


    * IUI 2007 - International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Hawaii (ACM), Member of the Program Committee, USA, January, 2007.


    * TIDSE 2006 - 3rd International Conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (proceedings published by Springer), Member of the Program Committee , Darmstadt, December, 2006.


    * RO-MAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, IEEE, Member of the Program Committee, Hatfield, UK, September, 2006.


  1. *IVA 2006 - The 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Member of the Program Committee, LA, USA, August, 2006.


    * PIT 2006 - International Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perception and Interactive Technologies, Member of the Program Committee, Kloster Irsee, Germany, June, 2006.


    * ACE 2006 - International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACM, Member of the Program Committee, USA, June, 2006.


    * ITS 2006 - 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Member of the Program Committee, Jhongli, Taiwan, June, 2006.


    * AAMAS 2006 - Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Senior Program Committee, Hakodate, Japan, May, 2006.


    * ICVS 2005 - International Conference on Virtual Storytelling,  Member of the Program Committee, Strasbourg, France, November, 2005.


    * ACII 2005 - The First International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Member of the Program Committee, Beijing, China, October, 2005.


    * IVA 2005 - 5th International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Member of the Program Committee, Kos, Greece, September, 2005.


    * AAMAS 2005 - International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, ACM, Member of the Program Committee , Utrecht, Holland, July, 2005.


    * AIED 2005 - The 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Member of the Program Committee, Amsterdam, Holland, July, 2005.


    * AISB Symposium on Mind-Minding Agents, within AISB’2005 symposia, Member of the Program Committee, UK, April, 2005.


    * Workshop of IUI (Intelligent User Interfaces), ACM on “Affective Interactions: The computer in the affective Loop”, Organising Committee Member and Program Committee member, California, USA, January, 2005.


    * IUI 2005 - International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, ACM, Member of the Program Committee, California, USA, January, 2005.


    * Workshop on Architectures and Methodologies for Building Agent-based Learning Environments at the SBIA’ 2004 (The Seventeenth Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence), Member of the Program Committee, Brasil, 2004.


    * ABS’2004 - International Agent Based Simulation Workshop, Member of the Program Committee, 2004.


    * ADS’2004, Research Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems California, Member of the Program Committee, Korsee Irsee, Germany, 2004.


    * ITS’2004- Intelligent Tutoring Systems, (proceedings published by Springer), Member of the Program Committee, Brasil, September, 2004.


    * TIDSE’2004 - International Conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment, Member of the Program Committee, Germany, 2004.


    * AAMAS’2004, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Member of the Program Committee, ACM, New York, 2004.


    * IUI’2004 - International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Member of the Program Committee, ACM, 2004.


    * IVA 2003 - Intelligent Virtual Agents(proceedings published by Springer), Member of the Program Committee, 2003.


    * AIED’2003 - International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Member of the Program Committee, 2003.


    * TIDSE 2003 - 1st International Conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (proceedings published by Springer), Member of the Program Committee, Germany 2003.


    * 3rd Workshop on Affective and Attitude User Modeling in the conference “User Modelling 2003” (proceedings published by Springer), Member of the Program Committee, 2003.


    * MAAII’03 - Workshop on Multi-Agents and AI for the Internet, organised within, “ EPIA’03, 11th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence” (proceedings published by Springer), Member of the Program Committee, Portugal, 2003.


    * IUI’2003 - International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Member of the Program Committee, ACM, 2003.


    * AAMAS 2002 - International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Member of the Program Committee, ACM, Italy, 2002.


    * IUI’2002 - International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Member of the Program Committee, ACM, 2002.


    * 6th Workshop International em “Cooperative Information Agents”, CIA-2002 (proceedings published by Springer), Member of the Program Committee, 2002.


    * Autonomous Agents Conference’2001 (AA’ 2001), Member of the Program Committee, ACM, Canada, 2001.


    * Fifth International Workshop CIA-2001, “Cooperative Information Agents” (proceedings published by Springer), Member of the Program Committee, 2001.


    * MASTA’2001 (Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications), organised within the EPIA, “Encontro Português de Inteligência Artificial (in Portuguese) and with proceedings published by Springer, Portugal, 2001.


    * 2nd Workshop on Attitude, Personality and Emotions in User-Adapted Interaction, in the International Conference on User Modeling, Member of the Program Committee, 2001.


    * AIED workshop on Multi-agent Systems in ED, The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Program Committee Member, 2001.


    * 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Program Committee Member, IVA’2001 (published by Springer), 2001.


    * Autonomous Agents’ 2000 (AA’ 2000) -Autonomous Agents, Program Committee Member, ACM, 2000.


    * IBERAMIA 2000 - Ibero-American Conference in Artificial Intelligence (published by Springer), Program Committee Member, 2000.


    * AIED’99 - The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Member of the Program Committee , France, July, 1999.


    * Symposium on AI and Creativity in Entertainment,in the AISB’99 Convention, Program Committee Member, 1999.


    * CATE’98, CATE’99 - International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education, Program Committee Member in 1998, 1999.


    * Workshop em “Ontologies for Learning Environments”, organised within the AIED99, Program Committee Member, 1999.


    * Third WS on Pedagogical Agents, Program Committee Member, organised within the AIED99.


    * Third Workshop on “Issues in Achieving Cost-Effective and Reusable Intelligent Learning Environments”, Program Committee Member, organised within the AIED97.

{  Current  Events}