Christian Bessiere

Christian Bessiere is a French computer scientist. He is research director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, the French national institute for research).[1] His lab is hosted by University of Montpellier, France. He is known for his work in artificial intelligence, especially in the area of constraint programming.

Career

Christian Bessiere received a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992.[2]

In 2007, Bessiere was the program chair of the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP)..[3] In 2012, he was the organizing committee chair of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI).[4] In 2020, he was the program chair of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)..[2][5] He has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) from 2008 to 2011, and Associate Editor of the Artificial Intelligence Journal from 2011 to 2017.[6][7] He has been a Member of the Advisory Board of the Constraints Journal since 2009.[8]

In 2005, Bessiere was a founding member of the Association for Constraint Programming (ACP).[9] He was a member of its Executive Committee until 2009, and its Treasurer until 2007.[10]  He was the president of the IJCAI Board of Trustees from 2021 to 2023.[11]  In 2024, he founded the Artificial Intelligence Scientific Organizations Coordinating Council (AISOCC) together with Eugene Freuder and Francesca Rossi.[12]

In 2024, Bessiere was a Member of the AAAI Presidential Panel on the Future of AI Research.[13] In 2024, he gave a keynote speech at the UNESCO World Conference on Digital Education, in Shanghai.[14] In 2025, he spoke at the Panel on 'Artificial Intelligence: Risks and Global Regulation' at the World Peace Forum, in Beijing.[15]

Honours and awards

In 2006, Bessiere has been elected a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI).[16] In 2012, his paper Arc consistency and arc consistency again[17] received an honourable mention at the 'AAAI Classic Paper Award'.[18] In 2022, his paper An Optimal Coarse-grained Arc Consistency Algorithm[19] received the 'AIJ Classic Paper Award'[20]

References

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  2. ^ a b "Short Bio". LIRMM. Retrieved 22 August 2025.
  3. ^ "CP 2007". Retrieved 16 September 2025.
  4. ^ "ECAI 2012". Retrieved 16 September 2025.
  5. ^ "Conference Committee – IJCAI-PRICAI2020". Retrieved 23 August 2025.
  6. ^ "JAIR". Retrieved 16 September 2025.
  7. ^ "Artificial Intelligence Journal". Retrieved 16 September 2025.
  8. ^ "Constraints Journal". Retrieved 16 September 2025.
  9. ^ "ACP". Retrieved 16 September 2025.
  10. ^ "ACP Elections". Retrieved 28 September 2025.
  11. ^ "IJCAI Presidents". Retrieved 28 September 2025.
  12. ^ "AISOCC". Retrieved 16 September 2025.
  13. ^ AAAI 2025 Presidential Panel (PDF). Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  14. ^ "World Digital Education Conference 2024". Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  15. ^ "World Peace Forum 2025". Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  16. ^ "EurAI Fellows". Retrieved 28 September 2025.
  17. ^ Bessiere, Christian (1 July 1993). "Arc-consistency and arc-consistency again". AAAI'93. 65: 108–113. doi:10.1016/0004-3702(94)90041-8. ISSN 0004-3702.
  18. ^ "AAAI Classic Paper Award". AAAI. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
  19. ^ Bessiere, Christian; Régin, Jean-Charles; Yap, Roland H. C.; Zhang, Yuanlin (1 July 2005). "An optimal coarse-grained arc consistency algorithm". Artificial Intelligence. 165 (2): 165–185. doi:10.1016/j.artint.2005.02.004. ISSN 0004-3702.
  20. ^ "Awards - Artificial Intelligence | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
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