Abstract: In this conference we review the temporal logic approach called Chronicle. We present the different studies regarding the reasoning and learning mechanisms proposed for such an approach and its utilization in different problems: recognition problems, distributed systems, ambient intelligence, etc. Finally, we analyze its potentiality in autonomic computing.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Professor Jose Aguilar received the B. S. degree in System Engineering in 1987 from the Universidad de los Andes-Merida-Venezuela, the M. Sc. degree in Computer Sciences in 1991 from the Université Paul Sabatier-Toulouse-France, and the Ph.D degree in Computer Sciences in 1995 from the Université Rene Descartes-Paris-France. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Houston (1999-2000). He is a Titular Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Universidad de los Andes (ULA), researcher of the Center of Studies in Microelectronics and Distributed Systems (CEMISID). Also, currently he is the head of the Department of Computer Science and Coordinator of the Applied Science Doctoral Program, Faculty of Engineering, University of the Andes. He is member of the Mérida Science Academy and of the IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Neural Networks.
He has published more than 350 papers in journals, books and proceedings of international conferences in the field of parallel and distributed systems (performance evaluation, task/data/transaction assignment and scheduling, fault tolerance, middleware design, etc.), computational intelligence (artificial neural networks, evolutionary computation, fuzzy logic, swarm intelligence, multi-agent systems, etc.) applied to combinatorial optimization, pattern recognition, control systems (identification and supervision systems, distributed and intelligent control, industrial automation, etc.), among others. He has published 9 books in the domain of computational sciences, and science and technology management. He has been Chairman of Symposia, Workshops, etc.; editor of proceedings and books, and member of more than 30 Program Committees for different International Conference and scientific juries. He has more than 50 conferences in different international or national congress. In addition, he has participated in training courses both nationally and internationally. He has received several awards and some of his papers have received special awards.
Dr. Aguilar has been a visiting research/professor in different universities and laboratories (Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris-France, Université de Versailles Paris-France, Université Rene Descarte-Paris-France, Laboratorie d’Automatique et Analyses de Systèmes Toulouse-France, University of Houston-USA, Universidad de la Coruña-Spain, Universidad Complutense Madrid-Spain, Universidad Carlos III Madrid-Spain Institute National de Recherche en Informatique Nice-France, etc.). Aguilar has supervised more than 35 M.S. and Doctoral students in their theses and dissertation work. He is currently supervising 7 Ph.D. dissertations and 2 M.S. theses.