Les amis du CENA

Jean-Marc Alliot

Graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique (X83) and ENAC (IAC 86-88), he does his PhD under the supervision of Luis Farinas at Toulouse University on the extension of PROLOG to modal logic. He worked at CENA on the ERATO system till 1993.
After his PhD, quite convinced that expert systems such as ERATO had no real future, he leaves CENA to work at ENAC where he is head of research.
From 1997 to 2005, he worked as head of the Global Optimization Laboratory, a common lab between ENAC and CENA. He is one of those who introduced evolutionary algorithms to France. He organized (with others) in 1994 the first french speaking conference on the subject (Evolution Artificielle, which is now an international conference, Artificial Evolution). He holds his Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches on evolutionary algorithms, supervized, among others, by David Goldberg. With Nicolas Durand he developed ERCOS, a set of algorithms for conflict resolution that became, with the support of Jacques Villiers, the ERASMUS project, then later the core algorithmes of task 4.7.2 of the european program SESAR,
From 2005 to 2011, he was deputy head, then head of the R&D department at DGAC.
Since 2011, he is head of the High Performance Computing department at the Toulouse Computer Science Research Institute (IRIT) and since 2014 he is deputy head of the LabEx (Excellency Laboratory) CIMI .
He wrote many technical reports and scientific articles available here.

Along with his career in the french civil aviation, he also pursued a career as mathematician and computer scientist in Toulouse University. He is the author of the book "Intelligence Artificielle et Informatique Théorique". Published in 1992, this book is still sold today and remains a standard textbook in many computer science master programs in France.

He is currently working in bio-informatics and games algorithms. His paper about the problem of ranking chess players received a wide coverage in the french and international press. an article by CNRS, l'Express, 20 minutes, la Dépêche, le Figaro, le site de Chessbase, and even the norwegian press, many times here, here here

The following articles are not available here as they are not in the public domain:

• Intelligence Artificielle et Informatique Théorique , Cépadues, 1993, 2002.
• Evolution Artificielle, Cepadues, 1994.
• Artificial Evolution, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1063, Springer 1995.
• Peut-on supprimer le contrôle au sol?, La Recherche, numéro 319.
• De nouvelles techniques pour le contrôle aérien, La Jaune et la Rouge, numéro 535.
• Résolution de conflits aériens par algorithmes stochastiques, Nouvelle Revue Aéronautique et Astronautique, numéro 6.
• Wind uncertainty and MTCD efficiency, the controller, spring 2011.
• Institution : Polytechnique, réforme obligatoire (Table ronde), l'Usine Nouvelle, numéro 3307.

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