Ivan José Varzinczak (Brazil, 1978) received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Université Paul Sabatier, France, in 2006. Former member of IRIT, France, he is currently a postdoctoral researcher at CAIR, the UKZN-CSIR Meraka Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, in South Africa. He received his M.Sc. (2002) and B.Sc. (2000) in Computer Science from the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil.
Ivan is the author of journal articles (JAIR, Artificial Intelligence, JANCL, Logica Universalis), conference papers (IJCAI, KR, ECAI, AI, JELIA, AiML), and papers in refereed workshops (NMR, Commonsense, NRAC, M4M, DL). He is a guest editor of the Special Issue of the Journal of Web Semantics on Reasoning with Context in the Semantic Web, and co-chair of the ARCOE workshop series. Ivan is also a PC member of KR’12 and has served in the PC of IJCAI’11, AAAI’11, ECAI’10 and other conferences and workshops.
Ivan’s main research interest area is logic-based knowledge representation and reasoning in artificial intelligence, with focus on non-monotonic reasoning, modal logics and description logics. He has done work on reasoning about actions and change. His main current research topics are non-classical belief change, preferential reasoning, and ontology repair and maintenance.
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