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The 2nd Prize of the AIR Institute Award of Scientific Excellence to the Best Demonstration titled "Demo of the Agri-RO5 architecture for Agrirobot Fleet Simulation" by Jorge Gutierrez Cejudo, Francisco Enguix-Andrés, Marin Lujak, Carlos Crarascosa, Luis Hernández, Miguel Rebollo, and Alberto Fernandez, presented during the 22nd Itnernational Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS'24) held at Salamanca (Spain), from June 26th to 28t, 2024
Associate Professor in Computer Science (Profesor Titular de Universidad) Accreditation obtained from ANECA (National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain)
Lujak, M., Gutiérrez-Cejudo, J., Salvatore, A., Giordani, S., and Fernandez, A.: Static and Time-Extended 1-on-1 Multi-Agent Task Allocation with Implements and Limited Autonomy. 2024 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Kuching, Malaysia. Accepted.
Lopez, A., Lujak, M.*, Semet, F., and Billhardt, H.: Capacitated Agriculture Fleet Vehicle Routing with Implements and Limited Autonomy: A model and a two-phase solution approach. 2024 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Kuching, Malaysia. Submitted.
Ribeiro da Costa, A., Moreno París, D., Lujak, M.*, F. Rossetti, R.J., and Kokkinogenis, Z.: Dynamic and Cooperative Multi-Agent Task Allocation: Enhancing Nash Equilibrium through Learning. 2024 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Kuching, Malaysia. Accepted.
Gutiérrez-Cejudo, J., Enguix-Andrés, F., Carrascosa, C., Rebollo, M., Fernandez, A.: Demo of the Agri-RO5 architecture for Agrirobot Fleet Simulation. 22nd International Conference on Practical applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2024). University of Salamanca (Spain). 26th-28th June, 2024. Submitted.
Lopez, A., Lujak, M., Semet, F., and Billhardt, H.: Dynamic, Fair, and Efficient Routing for Cooperative Autonomous Vehicle Fleets. Expert Systems With Applications, Elsevier (2024). Vol. 251, 1 October 2024, 123964. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.123964 [ View PDF ]
Marin Lujak, Adriana Giret, and Sara Rodríguez González: Guest Editorial: Adaptive Smart Areas and Intelligent Agents. Computer Science and Information Systems 21(1): iii–iv https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS240100iiiL
Marin Lujak, Ana L.C. Bazzan, Ivana Dusparic, and Giuseppe Vizzari: Guest Editorial: Role of Agents in Traffic and Transportation. Computer Science and Information Systems 21(1): v–vi. https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS240100vL
A. López Sánchez, F. Semet, M. Lujak and H. Billhardt: Agricultural fleet vehicle routing problem with implements. Odysseus 2024, the 9th International Workshop on Freight Transportation and Logistics. Carmona (Spain) May 19-24, 2024. Accepted.
Cejudo, J.G.; Andrés, F.E.; Lujak, M.; Casamayor, C.C.; Fernandez, A.; López, L.H. Towards Agrirobot Digital Twins: Agri-RO5 — A Multi-Agent Architecture for Dynamic Fleet Simulation. Electronics 2024, 13, 80. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13010080
Ana L. Bazzan, Ivana Dusparic, Marin Lujak, Giuseppe Vizzari: Agents in Traffic and Transportation (ATT 2022): Revised and Extended Papers. AI Communications, IOS Press (2023) DOI: 10.3233/AIC-239001 [link]
Lujak, M., Salvatore, A., Fernández, A., Giordani, S., and Cousy, K.: How to Fairly and Efficiently Assign Tasks in Individually Rational Agents’ Coalitions? Models and Fairness Measures. Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS). Vol. 21(1) pp. 269-289. DOI: 10.2298/CSIS230119075L (2023). [link]
Qasim Khalid, PhD Thesis: Leveraging Knowledge Graphs and Ontologies for Context-Aware Emergency Evacuation in Smart Buildings. Co-directors: Alberto Fernández, Marin Lujak, and Arnaud Doniec. Doctoral Program in Information and Communication Technologies. International Doctoral School, University Rey Juan Carlos. September 15, 2023.
Lujak, M.*, Fernández, A., Billhardt, H., Ossowski, S., Arias Herrero J., and López Sánchez, A.: On value-aligned cooperative multi-agent task allocation. Workshop on Value Engineering in AI (VALE@ECAI2023). Accepted
MDPI Electronics Best Paper Award for the paper Gutiérrez-Cejudo, J., Lujak, M.*, Fernández, A. (2023). Agrobots Architecture and Agrobots-Sim Simulator for Dynamic Agri-Robot Coordination. In: Durães, D., González-Briones, A., Lujak, M., El Bolock, A., Carneiro, J. (eds) Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Cognitive Mimetics. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1838. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37593-4_1 [link]
Gutiérrez-Cejudo, J., Lujak, M.*, Fernández, A. (2023). Agrobots Architecture and Agrobots-Sim Simulator for Dynamic Agri-Robot Coordination. In: Durães, D., González-Briones, A., Lujak, M., El Bolock, A., Carneiro, J. (eds) Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Cognitive Mimetics. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1838. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37593-4_1 [link]
Lopez, A., Lujak, M.*, Semet, F., and Billhardt, H.: How to achieve fair and efficient cooperative vehicle routing? AI-Communications, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 223-245, 2024. DOI: 10.3233/AIC-220315
Lopez, A., Lujak, M.*, Semet, F., and Billhardt, H.: Vehicle Routing Problem with Fair Profits and Time Windows (VRP-FPTW). In Proc. of 2023 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 1-7. Oct. 1-4, 2023, Hawaii, USA DOI: 10.1109/SMC53992.2023.10394012
Researcher in the Industrial Research Project (Art. 60-LOSU) CITIZENLAB – Environment for experimentation and development of a comprehensive predictive model of individual and organizational citizen behavior
Poster Chair of The 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2024) [link]
Grant AGROBOTIX: Scalable, efficient, and decentralized route control of automated agricultural vehicle fleets. 2022-REGING-95993. IMPULSO, own program of the URJC to promote research development for young doctors of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos 2022, Funding 2397,13 euros
Invited talk "Sobre el equilibrio entre la equidad y la eficiencia en la coordinación de flotas cooperativas de robots agrícolas" at Smart Energy Congress & Expo 2022. 16 November 2022. More details
Award of the Campus of International Excellence “Intelligent Energy" by the URJC and UAH for the best patent at the URJC in the amount of 2000 euros: Lujak, M., Billhardt, H., and Ossowski, S.: Method for coordinating fleets for event assistance in dynamic environments. Publication No. ES2445465 (B1), WO/2014/020186. [Patent pitch talk]
Researcher in the R&D Project "VAE": Value Awareness Engineering. Reference: TED2021-131295B-C33. Partners: IIIA-CSIC, VRAIN-UPV, CETINIA-URJC. Funding: URJC: 646 300€ (total 1.967.650€). Duration: 1/12/2022-30/11/2024. Funding body: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. PIs at the URJC: Sascha Ossowski and Holger Billhardt.
Research Infrastructure Project "FUTURLAND-IA: the Laboratory of Digital Technologies of the Future". Principal Investigators: Marin Lujak and Daniel Palacios Alonso, URJC. Funded 200 k Euros by the University Rey Juan Carlos (2022).
Lujak, M.* and H. Billhardt, "Dynamic Algorithm for on-the-Fly Work and Break Balancing in Emergency Fleets," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Prague, Czech Republic, 2022, pp. 724-729, doi: 10.1109/SMC53654.2022.9945262. [link]
Research Project “COSASS: Coordinated Intelligent Services for Adaptive Smart Areas”, Ref.: PID2021-123673OB-C32 funded 155,8 k Euros by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation within the framework "Projects for Generating Knowledge 2021: Oriented Research, Coordinated Type", 2022-2025. Principal Investigators: Alberto Fernandez and Marin Lujak, URJC. Research team: URJC, Polytechnic University of Valencia, and University of Salamanca, Spain. [link]
Invited talk "On balancing fairness and efficiency in cooperative agriculture robot fleet coordination". LAR Mini Conference, June 16, 2022, Lincoln Agri-Robotics, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
Lopez, A., Lujak, M., Semet, F., and Billhardt, H.: On balancing fairness and efficiency in routing of cooperative vehicle fleets. ATT 2022 @ IJCAI 2022. CEUR proceedings vol. 3173, pp. 62-76 (2022). [pdf]
Khalid, Q., Fernandez, A., Lujak, M.*, Doniec, A.: SBEO: Smart Building Evacuation Ontology. Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS) (2022) [link]
Cousy, K., Lujak, M.*, Salvatore, A., Fernández, A., and Giordani, S. (2022). On Balancing Fairness and Efficiency of Task Assignment in Agent Societies. In: González-Briones, A. et al. Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complex Systems Simulation. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1678. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18697-4_8
Co-organizing, together with Ana Bazzan (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil) Ivana Dusparic (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), and Giuseppe Vizzari (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy), of the 12th International Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation (ATT 2022) held in conjunction with IJCAI-ECAI 2022, 25th July 2022
Elected Officer - Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the European Association for Multi-Agent Systems (EURAMAS) for the term 2022-2024
Track co-chair (Workshop on Adaptive Smart areaS and Intelligent Agents (ASSIA)) at PAAMS'22 (20th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems) with Vicente Julián- Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), Adriana Giret - Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), Carlos Carrascosa - Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), Juan Manuel Corchado - Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), Sara Rodríguez - Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), Fernando de la Prieta - Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), Alberto Fernández - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), and Holger Billhardt - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)
Co-Chair with Ana L. C. Bazzan (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil), Ivana Dusparić (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), and Giuseppe Vizzari (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy) of the 12th International Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation (ATT 2022) held in conjunction with IJCAI-ECAI 2022, the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 25th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria, July 23-29 2022.
Independent expert and project proposal evaluator of the Spanish State Research Agency, 2021, 2022
Research Project “AGROBOTS: Scalable, efficient and decentralized coordination of automated agricultural vehicle fleets” funded (123,3 k Euros) by University Rey Juan Carlos and the Community of Madrid within the Beatriz Galindo excellence initiative of the Spanish Ministry of Universities. Principal Investigator: Marin Lujak (URJC). Research team: Alberto Fernández Gil, Dirk Sascha Ossowski, Holger Billhardt. External collaborators: Frederic Semet - Centrale Lille (France), Stefano Giordani - University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy), Elizabeth Sklar -University of Lincoln (UK)
Erasmus+ mobility grant for teaching at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" in Italy. Operations Research course. Undergraduate degree in Management Engineering, L2. Integratory Seminar on the Assignment Problem. 3 ECTS credits: 10 teaching hours in the period from 4/11/2021 to 11/11/2021..
Invited virtual talk titled “Towards scalable, efficient and decentralized coordination of automated agricultural vehicle fleets”. AAAI 2021 FALL Symposium "Where AI meets Food Security: Intelligent Approaches for Climate-Aware Agriculture" sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, held on the 4th November, 2021. Washington DC, USA
Lujak, M.*, Slavkovik, M., Lebis, A., Vermeulen, M., Doniec, A. (2022). Objective Tests in Automated Grading of Computer Science Courses: An Overview. In: Ivanović, M., Klašnja-Milićević, A., Jain, L.C. (eds) Handbook on Intelligent Techniques in the Educational Process. Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04662-9_12 [link]
Novak D., Lujak M.* (2021) Simulation Analysis of the Break Assignment Problem Considering Area Coverage in Emergency Fleets. In: De La Prieta F., El Bolock A., Durães D., Carneiro J., Lopes F., Julian V. (eds) Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Social Good. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS Workshops 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1472. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85710-3_24 [link]
Independent expert and project proposal evaluator of the Israel Science Foundation 2021
Distinguished Researcher Lecturer position at the University Rey Juan Carlos. Beatriz Galindo Junior Grant in the amount of 200k Euros by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the University Rey Juan Carlos. Duration: 15/04/2021-14/04/2025.
Lonlac, J., Doniec, A., Lujak, M.*, Lecoeuche, S.: Extracting Seasonal Gradual Patterns from Temporal Data Sequence using Periodic Patterns Mining. Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data. ACM. Submitted
Lujak, M., Fernandez, A., and Onaindia, E.: Spillover Algorithm: A Decentralized Coordination Approach for Multi-Robot Production Planning in Open Shared Factories. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 70, August 2021, 102110. Elsevier (2021) DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2020.102110 [link] [accepted manuscript]
Independent expert and project proposal evaluator of the French National Research Agency (ANR) 2021
Lujak, M., Dusparić, I., Klügl, F., Vizzari, G.: Introduction to the Special Issue on Agents in Traffic and Transportation (ATT 2020). AI Communications, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 1-3, 2021, IOS Press, DOI: 10.3233/AIC-201640 [link]
Lead Guest Editor together with Ivana Dusparić (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Franziska Klügl (University of Örebro, Sweden), and Giuseppe Vizzari (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy) of the Special Issue dedicated to the 11th International Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation (ATT 2020) in AI Communications, IOS Press. Vol. 34, no. 1 (2021) [link]
Research Project “AGRIFLEETS: Distributed Route Guidance System for Autonomous Coordination of Agriculture Robot Fleets” accepted for funding (306 k Euros) by the French National Research Agency (ANR) within the Young Researchers (JCJC) initiative. Principal Investigator: Marin Lujak (IMT Lille Douai). Partners with their own funds: Centrale Lille (France), IRSTEA/INRAE (France), Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), SAMSYS SA (France), University of Lincoln (UK), University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy), University Rey Juan Carlos (Spain). Total project cost: 531.8 k Euros. Accepted for funding in October 2020
Elected Member of the European Association for Multi-Agent Systems EURAMAS Board of Directors
Lujak, M.*, Sklar, E., and Semet, F.: Agriculture Fleet Vehicle Routing: A Decentralised and Dynamic Problem. AI Communications, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 55-71, 2021 IOS Press, DOI: 10.3233/AIC-201581 [link] [pdf]
Lujak, M.* and Matezović, M.: On Efficiency in Dynamic Multi-Robot Task Allocation. The 7th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics – AIRO 2020 of the 19th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2020) held online on the 26th of November 2020. CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 2806, pp. 49-53 (2021) [link]
Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) Accreditation, qualified by the "Conseil National des Universités" (CNU) 27 - Informatique, France
Invited virtual talk titled “Distributed and Dynamic Decision Making in CPSs for the Future Networked Society”, LAMSADE Seminars, Paris Dauphine University- PSL, held on the 30th of April 2020 [video]
Lujak, M.*, Giordani, S., Omicini, A., and Ossowski, S.: Decentralizing Coordination in Open Vehicle Fleets for Scalable and Dynamic Task Allocation. Complexity, The Wiley Hindawi Partnership. (2020) Open Access [link]
Lujak, M.*, Giordani, S., Omicini, A., and Ossowski, S.: Scalable Distributed Decision-Making and Coordination in Large and Complex Systems: Methods, Techniques, and Models, Editorial. Complexity, The Wiley Hindawi Partnership. (2020) Open Access [link]
Lujak, M.*, Semet, F., Sklar, E.: On Multi-Agent Coordination of Agriculture Vehicle Fleets. The 11th International Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation (ATT 2020) held online in conjunction with the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020). In CEUR Workshop Proc. Vol. 2701(12). Available online at http://ceur-ws.org/ [link]
Lujak, M.*, Fernandez, A., Onaindia, E.: A Decentralized Multi-Agent Coordination Method for Dynamic and Constrained Production Planning . In Proc. of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2020) - May 2020, held online. [video] [paper]
Co-organizing, together with Ivana Dusparic (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Franziska Klügl (University of Örebro, Sweden), and Giuseppe Vizzari (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy), of the 11th International Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation (ATT 2020) held online in conjunction with the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020), 4th Sept 2020
Lead Guest Editing together with Stefano Giordani (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy), Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna, Italy), and Sascha Ossowski (University King Juan Carlos, Spain), of a Special Issue on “Scalable Distributed Decision-Making and Coordination in Large and Complex Systems: Methods, Techniques, and Models” in the Complexity Journal, The Wiley Hindawi Partnership. [link]
Guest co-editing with Estefanía Argente (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain) of a Special Track on the 6th International Conference on Agreement Technologies, AT 2018 together with AT 2017 in AI Communications, vol. 32, no. 4, 2019. IOS Press [link]
Co-organizing, together with Katerina Kaouri (Cardiff University, UK), of the Minisymposium titled: “Academia-industry case studies from MI-NET and ECMI” presented during the 9th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2019), held in Valencia (Spain) from July 15th to 19th, 2019 [link]