Ismel was born in Puerta de Golpe, Pinar del Río in the far west of Cuba on July 3rd 1975. Like many Cuban children, Ismel attended boarding school until being accepted at the University of Havana where he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. He wrote his thesis on Genetic Algorithms at the Institute on Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics. Upon graduation, Ismel was employed as an internal software developer at the Cuban Ministry of Justice. Ismel was awarded a doctoral scholarship in Artificial Intelligence from the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) in 2002. On June, 2007, Ismel presented his PhD thesis through the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Distributed Constraint Satisfaction. His thesis advisor was Dr. Pedro Meseguer.

At the moment, Ismel is working in IIIA as R&D Software Engineer for Worth Playing: Digital Games for Active and Positive Ageing. His main activities and responsibilities are the following: propose, implement and asset a recommender system as a part of an adaptive online game for elderly people.

Previous projects:
BuscaMedia
LiquidPub: Liquid Publications: Scientific Publications meet the Web
eRep: Social Knowledge for e-Governance
REPLI-II-2006: Constraint reasoning and its application to planning
REPLI-II: Constraint reasoning and its application to planning

Ismel was also involved in Finixer, a sports-related start-up.

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S. Ontañón, J. Lluis Arcos, J. Puyol-Gruart, E. Carasusan, D. Giribet, D. de La Cruz, I. Brito and C. Lopez Del Toro. GENA: A Case-Based Approach to the Generation of Audio-visual Narratives. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-12). Lecture Note in Computer Science, Springer. Vol. 7466, pp. 287-311. Lyon, France. 2012

I. Brito, N. Osman, J. Sabater-Mir, C. Sierra. CHARMS: A Charter Management System. Automating the Integration of Electronic Institutions and Humans. Applied Artificial Intelligence, vol. 26, issue 4: Taylor & Francis Group. 2012. [pdf]

C. Bessière, I. Brito, P. Gutierrez, P. Meseguer. Global Constraints in Distributed Constraint Satisfaction. 11th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2012), 2012.

I. Brito, P. Meseguer. Cluster Tree Elimination for Distributed Constraint Optimization with Quality Guarantees. Fundamenta Informaticae, Vol. 102, Num 3-4, pp. 263-286. 2010 [pdf]

I. Brito, P. Meseguer. Improving DPOP with Function Filtering. Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010). 2010 [pdf]

I. Pinyol, D. Villatoro, I. Brito, J. Sabater-Mir. HIHEREI: human interaction within hybrid environments regulated through electronic institutions. Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), Vol. 2, pp 1417-1418. 2009. It awarded the "Best student software demo Award" at the AAMAS-2009 held in Budapest. [pdf]

I. Brito, P. Meseguer. Distributed Constraint Satisfaction with Partially Known Constraints. Constraints. Vol. 1383-7133, pp. 199-234. 2009 [pdf]

I. Brito, P. Meseguer. Distributed Cluster Tree Elimination. RCRA-2008 workshop, Editor M. Gavanelli, T. Mancini. 2008 [pdf]

I. Brito, P. Meseguer. Connecting ABT with Arc Consistency. Proceeding of CP-2008. Lecture Note in Computer Science, Springer. [pdf]

I. Brito, A. Meisels, P. Meseguer, and R. Zivan. Distributed Constraint Satisfaction with Partially Known Constraints. Constraints. Vol. 1383-7133 (Print) 1572-9354 (Online). 2007. (Impact Factor: the 49th Computer Science Journal over 93 according to Journal Citation Reports). [pdf]

I. Brito, P. Meseguer. Distributed Meeting Scheduling. In Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, proceedings of Desè Congrés Internacional de Associació Catalana Intel.ligència Artificial (CCIA-2007), Andorra, 2007.

I. Brito, P. Meseguer. Distributed Forward Checking May Lie for Privacy, Proceeding of The International Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning (CP-2007), 2007 [pdf]

I. Brito, P. Meseguer. Improving ABT Performance by Adding Synchronization Points. Recent Advances in Constraints, Lecture Note in Artificial Intelligence, 2007

I. Brito, P. Meseguer. Distributed Forward Checking May Lie for Privacy, Recent Advances in Constraints, Lecture Note in Artificial Intelligence, 2006. [pdf]

I. Brito, P. Meseguer. Distributed Stable Marriage Problem with Ties and Incomplete Lists. Workshop on Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems at the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2006), Riva del Garda, 2006. [pdf]

I. Brito, P. Meseguer. Asynchronous Backtracking Algorithms for Non-binary DisCSP. Workshop on Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems at the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2006), Riva del Garda, 2006. [pdf]

I. Brito, P. Meseguer. Distributed Stable Matching Problems with Ties and Incomplete Lists. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2006). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4204, pp. 675-680, Nantes, 2006. [pdf] [poster]

I. Brito, P. Meseguer. Distributed Stable Marriage Problem. Sixth International Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning at the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2005). Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 July - 5 August, 2005. [pdf]

I. Brito, P. Meseguer. Distributed Stable Matching Problems. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2005). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 3709. pp. 152-166. Sitges, Spain. September, 2005. [pdf]

C. Bessière, A. Maestre, I. Brito, P. Meseguer. Asynchronous Backtracking without Adding Links: a New Member to ABT Family. Artificial Intelligence. Volume 161, Issues 1-2. pp. 7-24. January, 2005. [pdf]

I. Brito. Synchronous, Asynchronous and Hybrid Algorithms for DisCSP. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2004). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3258, pp. 791, January 2004. [pdf]

I. Brito, P. Meseguer. Synchronous, Asynchronous and Hybrid Algorithms for DisCSP. Fifth International Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning at the Tenth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2004). Toronto, Canada. September, 2004. [pdf]

I. Brito, F. Herrero, P. Meseguer. On the Evaluation of DisCSP Algorithms. Fifth International Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning at the Tenth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2004). Toronto, Canada. September, 2004. [pdf]

I. Brito, P. Meseguer. Distributed Forward Checking. Proceedings of the Night International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP-2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2833, pp. 801 - 806, November 2003. [pdf] [large version]

E. Ponce de León, F. Maldonado, I. Brito, A. Ciurlizza. Aplicación de Algoritmos Genéticos en un Problema Industrial Modelizado ATSP con Restricciones de Tipo Comercial. X CLAIO: Congreso Latinoamericano de Investigación de Operaciones, 4-8, September, 2000, Mexico.

E. Ponce de León, I. Brito, F. Maldonado. Algoritmo Genético con Restricciones: una Aplicación a la Industria Textil. Segunda Conferencia Internacional de Ciencia, Tecnología y Desarrollo (CIMAF'99). March 22-26, 1999. Habana, Cuba.

I. Brito, E. Ponce de León, F. Maldonado. Algoritmos Genéticos, la Convergencia Temprana y un Problema Asociado al Teñido de Telas. IX Congreso Latino-iberoamericano de Investigación de Operaciones, pp. 144.1-144.6. August 24-31, 1998, Argentina.

E. Ponce de León, R. Santana, I. Brito, F. Maldonado. Análisis de una Familia de Algoritmos Genéticos para un Problema de Secuenciación en el Teñido de Telas. Primer Encuentro Latino Iberoamericano de Optimización, I ELIO, pp. 234-241. November 6-8. Chile.