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Catherine Garbay
Université Joseph Fourier
Membership Number: 20
Address: Laboratoire TIMC-CNRS-IMAG, Institut Albert Bonniot, Faculté de Médecine, Université J. Fourier, F-38706 La Tronche Cedex, France.
Email: Catherine.Garbay@imag.fr
Phone: +33 (0) 476 549 410
Fax: +33 (0) 476 549 549
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Biographical Sketch
Dr. Garbay was born in Paris in 1954. She graduated from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble as a Computer Science Engineer (1977) and obtained her PhD degree in 1979 from this institution. She obtained the degree of "Docteur es Sciences" from the Université Joseph Fourier and from the INPG, Grenoble in 1986. She is now employed by the CNRS as Research Associate. She was responsible for the creation, in 1988, of the SIC (Integrated Cognitive Systems) group. She is responsible of a federative national structure called GDR I3 "Information - Interaction - Intelligence".She has been involved in several european research projects in the framework of the CEE DGXIII AIM (Advanced Informatics in Medicine) and Telematics programmes and has been involved several times in the refeering process of these programmes. She has been organizing the 6th European Conference on "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine" (AIME'97) in Grenoble in 1997 and is a member of the scientific programme committee of this conference. She is a member of the advisory board of the IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine journals and the editor-in-chief of a recently founded french journal entitled "Revue I3 - Information - Interaction - Intelligence". She is adjunct-director of the CNRS department "Information and Communication Science and technology".

Université Joseph Fourier (Laboratoire TIMC)
The TIMC laboratory (Techniques de l'Imagerie, de la Modélisation et de la Cognition) is part of the IMAG Institute, a federative research center evolving from UJF (Grenoble Scientific University), CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) and INPG (Grenoble Polytechnic Institute), and fostering fundamental and applied research in the field of Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics. The TIMC laboratory is also a CNRS Associated Unit (UMR n° D 5525). The laboratory has a permanent interdisciplinary research staff of about 50 people with expertise in mathematics, computer science, medicine and biology. Its main objective is to contribute to progress in the health care domain, by fostering advanced research in the field of biomedical information processing and data modelling. The laboratory is organised into a number of research groups, one of which will participate in the project, under the responsability of C. Garbay : the Integrated Cognitive Systems Group.

The group is aimed at designing systems able to develop complex interaction schemes with their physical and human environments for the modeling, simulation and solving of complex problems. The keywords for such design are the ones of cooperation, adaptation and distribution. Two different metaphors are being currently studied : the cognitive metaphor, according to which the emphasis is rather on the symbolic representation of knowledge and tasks, and the biological metaphor according to which the emphasis is rather on the capacity to adapt and evolve dynamically in an unknown and unpredictable environment.The group has been concretely involved in projects dealing with user modelling, knowledge acquisition, cytological diagnosis and medical image interpretation and processing. Distributed Artificial Intelligence methods are used to support the designing approach and to highlight the role of interaction in the development of complex solving strategies. The group currently comprises 2 graduates and 6 undergraduates researchers from various disciplines (software engineering, biomedical engineering and medicine).


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