Dr. Roman Barták <http://kti.mff.cuni.cz/~bartak> works as an associate
professor and a researcher at Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic). He
leads Constraint & Logic Programming Research Group that is involved in
activities of the ERCIM Working Group on Constraints, PLANET II and
CologNet. In 1999-2004 he led research activities of Visopt BV, a
multinational company located in The Netherlands, Israel, Germany, and the
Czech Republic. He was a main architect of the scheduling engine developed by
this company. His work focuses on techniques of constraint satisfaction and
their application to planning and scheduling. Since 1998 he is teaching a
course on Constraint Programming at Charles University, he had several
tutorials on constraint processing at conferences and summer schools and he is
an author of the On-line Guide to Constraint Programming.