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Wolfgang Ketter is Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Decision and Information Sciences at the Rotterdam School of Management of the Erasmus University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in 2007. He founded and runs the Learning Agents Research Group at Erasmus (LARGE) and the Erasmus Center for Future Energy Business. The primary objective of LARGE is to research, develop, and apply autonomous and mixed-initiative intelligent agent systems to support human decision making in the area of business networks, electronic markets, energy grids, and supply-chain management. The energy research enables the robust, intelligent, efficient, and sustainable energy networks of the future. He was co-chairing the TADA workshop at AAAI 2008, the general chair of the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) 2009, is member of the board of directors of the Association for Trading Agent Research (ATAR) since 2009, and its chair since 2010. He is leading Power TAC, a new TAC competition on energy retail markets; the pilot competition was held at International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2011 in Barcelona and the first inaugural competition will be held at AAMAS 2012 in Valencia. Since 2011 Wolfgang also serves as the chair of the IEEE Task Force on Energy Markets. He was the program co-chair of the International Conference of Electronic Commerce (ICEC) 2011. His research has been published in various information systems, and computer science journals such as AI Magazine, Decision Support Systems, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Energy Policy, European Journal of Information Systems, INFORMS OR/MS Today, INFORMS Information Systems Research, and International Journal of Electronic Commerce. He serves on the editorial board of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications. He will be the keynote speaker at the International KES Conference on Agents and Multi-agent Systems Technologies and Applications, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2012, the Agents and Data Mining Interaction Workshop, Valencia, Spain 2012, and has been the keynote speaker at the Scandinavian Energy Conference in Oslo in 2011, many distinguished lectures at international conferences, and renowned universities, such as Harvard, University of Minnesota, University of Liverpool, RWTH Aachen, University of Connecticut, TU Delft, KIT, University of Mannheim, University of St. Thomas, etc.

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