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B. Archim, He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University Bordeaux I in 1991 Since 1992, he has been researcher in the Department Production Automatis! ee of the Laboratoire G! enie de Production of the national school of engineers at Tarbes. He is also Assistant Professor of the Ecole Nationale d'Ing! enieurs de Tarbes where he gives lectures on computer science, simulation and computer integrated manufacturing systems. Now, he has broad interest in planning distributed architectures and multi-agents systems, 1959.