Leon van der Torre

Leon van der Torre was born on March 18, 1968, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He lived in Zevenhuizen, where he attended primary school, before he later attended the secondary school division VWO of the Orange-Nassau College in Zoetermeer. During that time he bought his first computer, a ZX-81, which he programmed himself, and liked to write articles for a computer magazine. He also became national youth champion in the game of bridge.

Leon van der Torre studied computer science at the Erasmus University Rotterdam at the Faculty of Economics, and also pursued studies in philosophy. He held positions at EURIDIS and the Department of Computer Science during which he obtained his Master of Science (1992) and his PhD in computer science (1997) with Yao-Hua Tan. His thesis was concerned with deontic logic in computer science and its combination with nonmonotonic logic. His main research topic are logics in Artificial Intelligence and computer science.

After positions in Germany (Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken), France (Marie Curie fellow, CNRS-IRIT, Toulouse), and the Netherlands (CWI Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit), he joined the University of Luxembourg as a full professor for Intelligent Systems in January 2006. Currently, he is also the head of the Computer Science and Communication Research Unit.[http://wwwen.uni.lu/research/fstc/computer_science_and_communications_research_unit/members Members of CSC] As of March 2015, 12 students have completed their PhD under his supervision, and 10 of his postdocs have obtained a permanent position in research or university education.

After working on qualitative decision theory,Jérôme Lang, Leendert van der Torre, Emil Weydert (2002): [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1015508524218#page-1 Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.] Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 5, Issue 3, pp 329-363. Leon van der Torre turned towards cognitive science and agent theory. He developed the BOID agent architectureJan Broersen, Mehdi Dastani, Joris Hulstijn, Zisheng Huang, Leendert van der Torre (2001): [http://homepage.tudelft.nl/w98h5/Articles/boid.pdf The BOID architecture: conflicts between beliefs, obligations, intentions and desires] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321115506/http://homepage.tudelft.nl/w98h5/Articles/boid.pdf |date=2016-03-21 }}, Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents. (with colleagues from the Vrije Universiteit), created the area of input/output logicsDavid Makinson, Leendert Van Der Torre (2000): [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.114.6153&rep=rep1&type=pdf Input/output logics], Journal of Philosophical Logic. (with David Makinson), and the game-theoretic approach to normative multi-agent systemsGuido Boella, Leendert van der Torre, Harko Verhagen (2006): [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10588-006-9537-7 Introduction to normative multiagent systems.] Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory. Volume 12, Issue 2, pp 71-79.Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre (2004): [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.3.3947 Regulative and Constitutive Norms in Normative Multiagent Systems.] Proceedings of KR 2004. (with Guido Boella from the University of Turin). He initiated the workshops on coordination and organization (CoOrg), on interdisciplinary perspectives on roles (ROLES), and on normative multi-agent systems (NORMAS). He became an ECCAI Fellow in 2015.[http://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/news_events/snt_scientist_prof_leon_van_der_torre_appointed_eccai_fellow University of Luxembourg News: SnT scientist Prof. Leon van der Torre appointed ECCAI Fellow]

Leon van der Torre is furthermore the editor of the deontic logic corner of the Journal of Logic and Computation,{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/logcom/editorial_board.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060504062041/http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/logcom/editorial_board.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2006-05-04|title=Journal of Logic and Computation - Editorial Board|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}} a member of the editorial boards of the Logic Journal of the IGPL and the IfCoLog Journal of Logics and their Applications, chair{{Cite web|url=http://deonticlogic.org/|title=Deontic logic|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}} of the DEON steering committee, a member of the CLIMA steering committee, and an editor of the Handbooks of Deontic Logic and Normative Systems,[http://icr.uni.lu/deonticlogic/handbook.html Handbook of Deontic Logic and Normative Systems] with further handbooks in preparation.[http://formalargumentation.org/ Handbook Of Formal Argumentation (HOFA)]

Leon van der Torre has been married to the artist Egberdien van der Torre – van der Peijl since 2000.Egberdien van der Torre - van der Peijl: http://www.egberdien.com/ They have two sons.

• [http://icr.uni.lu/leonvandertorre/ Leon van der Torre's research website]
• [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/t/Torre:Leon_van_der Publications on DBLP]

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