Cees Witteveen is a full professor in the Algorithmics group at the Department of Software Technology in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science of Delft University of Technology. He studied psychology and mathematics at Utrecht University. He did his PhD research (Programmed Production Systems) on the induction of control structures for formal languages with an application in artificial intelligence.
In 1985, he joined Delft University of Technology. There he became involved in research on logic programming and its connection to non-monotonic logic and, together with G. Brewka, he founded and chaired the Dutch-German workshop on Non-Monotonic Logic and its Applications (1993-2001).

Since 1998 he is also involved in research on planning and scheduling and constraint handling. Currently, his research interests concentrate on the construction and evaluation of coordination models and algorithms in distributed systems with selfinterested actors. In the context of this research, he has been visiting researcher at both CWI Amsterdam and Utrecht University.

He published more than 150 refereed papers and journal articles in these fields. He has been project leader of more than 15 externally funded research projects on plan coordination in multi-agent systems, diagnosis, incident management and decomposition in constraint systems.

His recent research is focusing on composition and decomposition of constraint systems studying both computational aspects of (de)composition mechanisms in constraint systems as well as improving (de)composition techniques as well as the development of energy efficient algorithmics.