BSc. and MSc. degree in Electronic En-gineering in 1983 and 1986;
respec-tively;
from Teheran University;
Iran. He has received his Ph.D. degree from Chiba University;
Japan;
in 1990. He was awarded a post doctoral fellowship from the Japanese Science and Technol-ogy Agency and joined the Japanese Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) as a research fellow. He is currently a Associate Professor at the Department of Information and Computer Sciences;
Saitama University. The research fields of his interest are qualitative and temporal reasoning;
Knowledge acquisition and distributed AI. Dr. Far is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery;
IEEE Computer society;
Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence;
and Information Processing Society of Japan;