Jaime Simão Sichman received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Escola Politécnica, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France. Prof. Jaime Simão Sichman is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering and Digital Systems, Escola Politécnica, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. He has published around 300 refereed papers, in journals and conferences. He has been involved in the organization of several conferences and journal special issues. His main interests are multi-agent systems, agent-based social simulation, normative systems, and computing frameworks/platforms for multi-agent systems.