Eduardo Fermé is an Argentinian

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

and

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

known for his work in

belief revision Belief revision (also called belief change) is the process of changing beliefs to take into account a new piece of information. The formal logic, logical formalization of belief revision is researched in philosophy, in databases, and in artifici ...

and non monotonic reasoning. He is Full Professor at the University of Madeira.

Career

Fermé studied

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

at the

Universidad de Buenos Aires The University of Buenos Aires (, UBA) is a public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the second-oldest university in the country, and the largest university of the country by enrollment. Established in 1821, the UBA has educa ...

, graduating in 1991. After that, he obtained a doctoral degree in Computer Science from the

under supervision of Carlos Alchourrón and

Sven Ove Hansson Sven Ove Hansson (born 1951) is a Swedish philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy and History of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an author and scienti ...

in 1999. In 2011 he obtained a doctoral degree in philosophy from the Kungliga Tekniska högskolan under supervision of John Cantwell. He has more than 90 publications in the area of belief revision, including the books ''Belief Change: Introduction and Overview'' with Sven Ove Hansson and ''Non-prioritized Belief Change'' with Marco Garapa and Mauricio D.L. Reis. He was Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires from 1997 to 2002. From 2002 is

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at the University of Madeira. He is the coordinator of the Pole of NOVA LINCS at the University of Madeira. Fermé served as a member of the steering committee of the workshop series ''International Workshops on Nonmonotonic Reasoning'' (NMR) from 2018 to 2024. He is a member of the editorial board of the ''Journal of Applied Logics'', ''CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology'' and ''Journal Argument and Computation''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferme, Eduardo Argentine computer scientists Living people University of Buenos Aires alumni Academic staff of the University of Madeira 1964 births