Abstract

The purpose of this MEP is to transfer Mozart governance from the Mozart Consortium to representative members of the Mozart community. To this end, the MEP proposes an expanded Board to replace the initial Board. The initial Board was chosen to represent the Mozart Consortium. The expanded Board will represent the Mozart community. The proposed expanded Board consists of the following people:

• Raphaël Collet [3]
• Denys Duchier [4]
• Seif Haridi [5]
• Torbjörn Lager [6]
• Konstantin Popov [7]
• Camilo Rueda
• Christian Schulte [8]
• Gert Smolka [9]
• Peter Van Roy [10]

Rationale

The expanded Board consists of people who have shown technical competence and activity in Mozart development. From the Mozart community, the new members are Torbjörn Lager and Camilo Rueda. Torbjörn Lager is a faculty member at Gothenburg University and a prominent Mozart developer and researcher in natural language processing who has given intensive Mozart courses. Camilo Rueda is a faculty member at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and a prominent researcher and head of a research group (together with Juan Diaz) that is using Mozart for constraint programming and computer science education. Both of these proposed members agree to be on the Board.

In addition, two members are added from within the Mozart Consortium: Seif Haridi from SICS and Raphaël Collet from UCL. These members are added because SICS/KTH and UCL are very active in Mozart research and development. Both of these proposed members agree to be on the Board.

This gives a total of nine members covering the various areas of Mozart research and development. We consider that nine members is just about right: it is large enough to cover the different areas of Mozart work and small enough to make the Board an effective instrument.

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