Activities

Co-Chair / Co-Organizer

Workshop co-Chair with Nirmalie Wiratunga and Miltos Petridis: Seventeenth UK Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (UKCBR 2012), Cambridge, UK

Workshop co-Chair with Nirmalie Wiratunga and Miltos Petridis: Sixteenth UK Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (UKCBR 2011), Cambridge, UK

General Chair with Michael Beigl and Henning Christiansen: Seventh International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2011), Karlsruhe, Germany 2011

Workshop Co-Chair of the IJCAI 2011 workshop on Explanation-aware Computing (ExaCt 2011), Barcelona, Spain

Workshop co-chair with Kerstin Bach: German Workshop on Experience Management (GWEM 2011) @ WM 2011, Innsbruck, Austria

Workshop Co-Chair of the ICCBR 2010 workshop on Provenance-aware Case-Based Reasoning: Applications to Reasoning, Meta-Reasoning, Maintenance, and Explanation, Alessandria, Italy

Workshop Co-Chair of the ECAI 2010 workshop on Explanation-aware Computing (ExaCt 2010), Lisbon, Portugal

Co-Chair of the workshop on Knowledge and Experience Management (FGWM 2010), Kassel, Germany

Workshop Co-Chair of the IJCAI/AAAI-09 workshop on Explanation-aware Computing (ExaCt 2009), Pasadena, USA

Workshop Co-Chair of the ECAI 2008 workshop on Explanation-aware Computing (ExaCt 2008), Patras, Greece

Workshop Chair of the 31st Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2008), Kaiserslautern, Germay

Workshop Co-Chair of the KI-07 workshop on Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (FAInt-07), Osnabrück, Germany, 2007

Program Co-Chair of the Sixth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'07), Roskilde University, Denmark, 2007

Industry Program Chair of the 7th International Conference on Case-Based Resoning (ICCBR 2007), Belfast, UK

Workshop Co-Chair of the AAAI-07 workshop on Explanation-aware Computing (ExaCt 2007), Vancouver, BC, Canada

Conference Chair of the 8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR 2006), Ölüdeniz/Fethiye, Turkey

AAAI-06: Third International Workshop on Modeling and Retrieval of Context MRC 2006, Boston, USA

Third International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics WSPI 2006, Saarbrücken, Germany

AAAI Symposium: Explanation-aware Computing ExaCt 2005, Washington, DC, USA, November 3–6, 2005

Autumn meeting of the SIG Philosophy and Informatics at the 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence KI 2005, Koblenz, Germany, September 11, 2005

Autumn meeting of the SIG Philosophy and Informatics, 2004, Ulm, Germany, October 19, 2004

KI04 Workshop Modeling and Retrieval of Context MRC 2004, Ulm, Germany, Sept. 20-21, 2004

IJCAI-Workshop: Second International Workshop on Modelling and Retrieval of Context MRC 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 31 July – 1 August 2005

Third Conference Professional Knowledge Management WM 2005, Kaiserslautern, Germany,  10–13 April 2005

First International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics WSPI 2004, Cologne, Germany, March 31 - April 1, 2004.

Second International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics WSPI 2005, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 10–13 April 2005

Workshop Towards a collaborative, open, semantic web of trust for health information on the web: Interoperability of Health Information Gateways, Brussels, Belgium, September 12, 2002.

Workshop Flexible Strategies for Maintaining Knowledge Containers at the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, Germany, August 20-25, 2000.

Workshop The Integration of CBR in Business Processes at the Third International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, Monastery Seeon, Munich, Germany, July 27-30, 1999.

Invited Talks

Invited talk "Explanation, Dialogue, and Communication: Supporting the Use of Complex Information Systems" at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, Trondheim, Norway on May 31, 2007. This talk was given during my visit as an opponent in the defence of Anders Kofod-Petersen's PhD thesis.

Eingeladener Vortrag "Der Semantische Desktop" an der Universität Paderborn, im Rahmen des 4. Workshops Philosophie und Informatik, am 19. April 2007

Invited talk "Explanation, Dialog, and Communication: Supporting the Use of Complex Information Systems" at University of Hildesheim, Germany on January 24, 2007

Invited talk "Explanation, Dialog, and Communication: Supporting the Use of Complex Information Systems" at Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, on January 11, 2007

Invited talk "NEPOMUK - The Social Semantic Desktop" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on July 19, 2006.

Vortrag "Der Gnowsis Semantic Desktop/NEPOMUK" im Rahmen des Forschungsseminars des Lehrstuhls "Künstliche Intelligenz" von Prof. Burkhard am 13. Dezember 2005 an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Vortrag "Der Gnowsis Semantic Desktop/NEPOMUK" im Rahmen des Informatik-Kolloquiums an der Universität Trier am 22. November 2005

Invited talk: "Der Gnowsis Semantic Desktop: Ein Anwendungsframework für das Semantische Web ", Fachvortrag an der Universität Ulm