Professional service

Chair/Co-Chair

  • ECCBR'08
    Program co-chair of 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (jointly with R. Bergmann) at the University of Trier (1.-4.9.2008)
  • LWA'06
    General chair of GI Workshop Days „Learning-Knowledge-Adaptivity“ (jointly with M. Schaaf) at the University of Hildesheim (9.-12.10.2006)
  • WM'05
    Conference chair (jointly with A. Dengel) of the 3rd Conference Professional Knowledge Management – Experience and Visions, Kaiserslautern (10.-13.4.2005)
  • GWEM'03
    Program co-chair of the 2nd German Workshop on Experience Management (jointly with M. Nick), Luzern, in the scope of the WM'03 Conference.
  • LSO'01
    Program co-chair of the 3rd International Workshop on Learning Software Organizations (jointly with R. Feldmann & W. Müller), University of Kaiserslautern, in the scope of the Profes'01 Conference.
  • WI’01
    Co-chair of the track on „Knowledge management in the digital economy – technologies and methodologies, applications and experiences“ (jointly with S. Kirn) at the 5th International Conference “Wirtschaftsinformatik” (WI-2001) at the University of Augsburg, 19.-21.9.2001.
  • WM'01
    Co-chair of the workshop "Knowledge management in practice – Experiences from successful and less successful knowledge management projects” (jointly with B. Bartsch-Spörl, BSR Consulting Munic, and C. Jargon, Siemens ICM Munic), in the scope of the 1st Conference Professional Knowledge Management – Experience and Visions, Baden-Baden, 14.-16.3.2001.
  • LSO'00
    Program co-chair des 2nd International Workshop on Learning Software Organizations (jointly with S. Hartkopf & W. Müller), Oulo (Finnland), in the scope of the Profes'00 Conference.
  • ICCBR'99
    Program co-chair der 3rd International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (together with K. Branting), 27.-30.7.1999, Monestary Seeon close to Munic.
  • ICCBR'97
    Section chair of a „Focus Area on Case-Based Reasoning and Software Engineering“ at the 2nd International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, 25.-27.7.1997 (jointly with R. Bergmann)
  • XPS'95
    Workshop chair of the 3rd German Conference „Knowledge-Based Systems“ in Kaiserslautern, March 1995
  • FGML'94
    Chair and local organizer of the 7th annual meeting of the special interest group on “Knowledge discovery, data mining, and machine learning” within the German computer science society (GI) in Kaiserslautern (1994) (jointly with C. Globig)
  • EWCBR'93
    Local organization of the 1st European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (together with S. Wess and F. Maurer), 1.-5.11.1993, European Academy Otzenhausen
  • EWCBR'93
    Industry day chair at the 1st European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning, 1.-5.11.1993
  • EWCBR'93
    Working group chair on „Integrated Problem Solving and Learning Architectures“ at the 1st European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (EWCBR'93), 1.-5.11.1993 (jointly with A. Aamodt)
  • EKAW'92
    Program co-chair of the 6th European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management (together with T. Wetter (chair), M. Linster and F. Schmalhofer), 18.-22.5.1992, European Academy Otzenhausen
  • GWCBR'92
    Chair and local organizer of the 1st annual meeting of the special interest group on “case-bsed reasoning” within the German computer science society (GI) in Kaiserslautern (1992) (jointly with S. Wess)
  • KEKOG'91
    Section chair on „Case-based approaches“ at a German Workshop (with international participants and proceedings in English, 21.-22.2.1991) on „Knowledge engineering and cognition“
  • FGML'90
    Chair of the 3rd annual meeting of the special interest group on “Knowledge discovery, data mining, and machine learning” within the German computer science society (GI) in Bonn (1990) (local organization: K. Morik)

Member of Programme Committee and/or Reviewer for Conferences

PC Member of:

  • ECCBR'08
    Program committee member of the 6th to 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR'02), Sept. 2002, Aberdeen, Schottland/UK, in Madrid 30.8.-2.9.2004 (ECCBR’04), in Ölüdeniz/Fethiye (Turkey) 4.9.-7.9.2004 (ECCBR’06), and in Trier 1.9.-4.9.2008 (ECCBR'08)
  • WM'07
    Program committee member of the 4th Conference Professional Knowledge Management – Experiences and Visions, Potsdam (28.-30.3.2007) (WM’07)
  • LSO
    Program committee member of the 1st to 8th International Workshop on Learning Software Organizations on 16.6.1999 in Kaiserslautern (LSO'99 in combination with the 11th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering), on 20.6.2000 (LSO'00 in combination with Profes'00), 12.-13.9.2001 (LSO'01 in combination with Profes'01) at the University of Kaiserslautern, 6.8.2002 in Chicago (LSO'02 in combination with Agile Universe), 2.-4.4.2003 in Luzern (LSO'03 in combination with WM'03), on 21.6.2004 in Banff (LSO'04), 11.-12.4.2005 in Kaiserslautern (LSO'05 in combination with WM'05), 15.-16.9.2006 in Rio de Janeiro (LSO'06), and 28.-30.3.2007 in Potsdam (LSO’07 in combination with WM’07)
  • GWEM
    Program committee member of the 4th German Workshop on Experience Management (GWEM’07), March 2007, Potsdam,  3rd German Workshop on Experience Management (GWEM'05), April 2005, Kaiserslautern, 2nd German Workshop on Experience Management (GWEM'03), April 2003, Luzern and the 1st German Workshop on Experience Management (GWEM'02), March 2002, Humboldt University Berlin
  • FLAIRS
    Program committee member of the 20th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS’07) Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning, Casa Marina Resort – Key West, Florida, USA, 7.-9.5.2007, of the 19th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS’06) Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning, Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA, 11.-13.5.2006, of the 18th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS’05) Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning, of the 17th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS’04) and the Special Tracks on Case-Based Reasoning, Miami Beach, Florida, USA, 17.-19.5.2004, of the 16th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS’03) Special Tracks on Knowledge-Based Knowledge Management and Case-Based Reasoning, St. Augustine, Florida, USA, 12.-14.5.2003 and of the 15th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS’02) Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning, Pensacola, Florida, USA, 16.-18.5.2002
  • AAMAS
    Program committee member of the 5th and 6th International Joint Conferences on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 8.-12.5.2006 in Hakodate, Japan (AAMAS’06) and 14.-18.5.2007 in Honolulu, Hawaii (AAMAS'07)
  • KI-KESE
    Program committee member of the Workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering in the scope of the 29th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Bremen, (KI-KESE’06, 14./19.6.2006) and the 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Koblenz, (KI-KESE’05, 11.9.2005)
  • ECAI-ER
    Program committee member of the Workshop on Experiential Reasoning 2006 (ER’06) in the scope of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2006 in Riva del Garda, Italy, 29.8.2006
  • KSEM 2006
    Program committee member of the 1st First International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM'06), Guilin City, China August 5-8, 2006
  • ICDM
    Program committee member of the 4th to 6th Industrial Conference on Data Mining in Leipzig (ICDM’06, 14.-15.7.2006), (ICDM’05, 1.7.2005), (ICDM’04, 2.-3.7.2006)
  • SOAS
    Program committee member of the International Conference on Self-Organization and Adaptation of Multiagent and Grid Systems (SOAS’05)
  • Informatik-WMSE
    Program committee member of the Workshop “Knowledge management in software development” in the scope of the 35th annual conference of the German computer science society (GI), Bonn, (Informatik-WMSE’05, 21.9.2005)
  • ICCBR-SPW
    Program committee member of the Workshop Similarities – Processes – Workflows in the scope of the 5th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, Chicago (ICCBR-SPW’05, 24.8.2005)
  • ICCBR
    Program committee member of the 1st to 5th International Conferences on Case-Based Reasoning 23.-26.10.1995 in Portugal (ICCBR’95), 25.-27.7.1997 in the USA (ICCBR'97), 27.-30.7.1999 in Deutschland (ICCBR'99), 30.7.-2.8.2001 in Kanada (ICCBR’01), 23.-26.6.2003 in Norwegen (ICCBR'03) and 30.8.-2.9.2005 in the USA (ICCBR’05)
  • ICML-CD
    Program committee member of the International Workshop on Chance Discovery - From Data Interaction to Scenario Creation in the scope of the International Conference on Machine Learning, Bonn, (ICML-CD’05, 11.8.2005)
  • KMDAP
    Program committee member of the 1st to 3rd Workshop “Knowledge Management for Distributed Agile Processes: Models, Techniques, and Infrastructure” (KMDAP'03), 9.-11.6.2003 in Linz, 14.-16.6.2004 in Modena (KMDAP’04) sowie 12.-13.4.2005 in Kaiserslautern (KMDAP’05).
  • IOA
    Program committee member of the 1st Workshop on Intelligent Office Appliances (IOA’05) in the scope of the 3rd Conference on Professional Knowledge Management (WM’05) in Kaiserslautern, 10.-13.4.2005
  • CIKM
    Program committee member of the 13th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 8.-13.11.2004 in USA (CIKM’04),
  • EWCD
    Program committee member of the 1st European Workshops on Chance Discovery 2004 (EWCD’04) in the scope of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2004 in Valencia, Spain, 22.-27.8.2004
  • KM-OM
    Program committee member of the Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organiza-tional Memories 2004 (KM&OM’04) in the scope of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2004 in Valencia, Spain, 22.-27.8.2004
  • LvA
    Program committee member of the Dagstuhl Symposium on Logic versus Approximation, 23.-24.10.2004, Schloss Dagstuhl
  • FGWM
    Program committee member of the Workshop Knowledge- and Experience Management 2003 (FGWM’03) of special interest group on knowledge management in the scope of the GI-Workshop Days -Teaching-Learning-Knowledge-Adaptivity 2003 (LLWA’03), 6.-8.10.2003 in Karlsruhe
  • NODe
    Program committee member of the Net.ObjectDays 2003 (NODe’03), 22.-25. September 2003 in Erfurt
  • WI
    Program committee member of the 6th Internationalen Conference „Wirtschaftsinformatik“ (WI’03), University of Technology Dresden, 17.-19. Sept. 2003 and Program committee member of the extended program committee of the 5th International Conference “Wirtschaftsinformatik”(WI’01), University of Augsburg, 19.-21.9.2001.
  • NZCBR
    Program committee member of the New Zealand Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (NZCBR'03), Jan. 2003, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • INOR
    Program committee member of the Workshop on "Individual and Organizational Learning for Software Improvement" on 12.6.2001 (INOR'01) in the scope of the 13th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'01) in Buenos Aires.
  • GWCBR
    Program committee member of the 9th German Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning, March 2001 in Baden-Baden (GWCBR'01; in combination with the "1st Conference Professional Knowledge Management: Experiences and Visions") and the 1st German Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in June 1992 in Kaiserslautern (GWCBR'92).
  • ICCBR'01
    Program committee member of the Workshop „Process Oriented Knowledge Management" and „Case Authoring“ at the 4th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning in Vancouver 2001
  • ECML'00
    Program committee member of the European Conference on Machine Learning 2000, Barcelona.
  • EWCBR
    Program committee member of the 4th European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning, September 1998, in Dublin (EWCBR'98), and the 5th European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in Trento (EWCBR'00:).
  • IJCAI'99
    Program committee member of the Workshop „Automating the Construction of Case-Based Reasoners" at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Stockholm 1999
  • ICCBR'99
    Program committee member of the Workshop „Practical Case-Based Reasoning Strategies for Building Corporate Memories" at the 3rd International Conference on Case-Based Rea-soning in München 1999
  • XPS'99
    Program committee member of the Workshop „Knowledge management and organiza-tional memories“ at the 5th German Conference „Knowledge-Based Systems“ (3.-5.3.1999, University of Würzburg)
  • FGML'99
    Program committee member of the annual meeting of the special interest group on “Knowledge discovery, data mining, and machine learning” (FGKDML) within the scope of the GI Workshop Days "Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Adaptivity" at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, 27.-29.9.1999
  • ECML'95
    Program committee member of the Workshop „Knowledge Level Modelling and Machine Learning“ at the 7th European Conference on Machine Learning
  • EKAW, JKAW, KAW 1992-1995
    member of the international program committee for „Knowledge Acquisition“
  • KEKOG'91
    Program committee member of the Workshop „Knowledge Engineering and Cognition“, Kaiserslautern, February 1991

Reviewer of:

  • IJCAI
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: IJCAI'07, IJCAI’05, IJCAI'01, IJCAI'99 Workshop on Automating the Construction of Case-Based Reasoners, IJCAI'97
  • ECAI
    European Conference on Artificial Intelligence: ECAI’04, ECAI’02
  • ECIS
    European Conference on Information Systems: ECIS’03, ECIS’02
  • SEKE
    International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering: SEKE’01
  • ECML
    European Conference on Machine Learning: ECML'00, ECML'95 Workshop on Knowledge Level Modeling and Machine Learning
  • EKAW
    European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling, and Management: EKAW'99
  • EWCBR
    European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning: EWCBR'96, EWCBR'94, EWCBR'93
  • FGML
    Annual meeting of the GI special interest group „Knowledge discovery, data mining, machine learning": FGML’05, FGML'99, FGML'97, FGML'95, FGML'94, FGML'93, FGML'90
  • FGWM
    Annual meeting of the GI special interest group „Knowledge management": FGWM’04, FGWM’03
  • GWCBR
    Annual meeting of the GI special interest group „Case-based reasoning” (German Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning): GWCBR'97, GWCBR'93
  • KI
    German annual conference Artificial Intelligence: KI'94

Editorial Board Member, Editor and/or Journal Reviewer

Member of the Editorial Board:

Guest Editor of:

  • Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering: Special of the German Journal "Artificial Intelligence"

Reviewer of:

  • IJAIT
    International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 2005, 2004 & 2003
  • AI Magazine
    AI Magazine, 2005
  • JBCS
    Journal of Brazilian Computer Science Society, Special Issue on Ontology Issues and Applications, 2005
  • IEEE-IS
    IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2005, (area editor) 2001 & 2002, (Special Issue on Knowledge Management) 2000
  • ACM-TOSEM
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2004 & 2003
  • INF - F&E
    Informatik – Forschung und Entwicklung, 2004
  • CEP
    Chemical Engineering and Processing, 2003
  • AI-Com
    Artificial Intelligence Communications, 2003
  • SPIP
    Software Process: Improvement and Practice, 2003
  • IJPRAI
    International Journal of Pattern Recognition and AI, 2002/2003
  • IEEE-TSE
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2002, 1999
  • DKE
    Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal, 2002
  • AIMJ
    Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal, 2002 (2x), (Special Issue on Case-Based Reasoning) 1996
  • Springer
    Springer Verlag, Informatik/Software Engineering, 2002
  • World Scientific
    Handbook on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 1 & 2, 2000/2001
  • MKP/AI
    Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Artificial Intelligence Reihe, 2000/2001
  • KI
    Zeitschrift Künstliche Intelligenz, Sonderheft "KI & Electronic Commerce", 2000
  • AI
    Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2000
  • KBS
    Knowledge-Based Systems Journal, (Special Issue on "AI in Knowledge Management") 2000
  • CI
    Computational Intelligence Journal, (Special Issue on Maintenance of Case-Based Reasoning Systems) 2000, 1998
  • AAI
    Applied Artificial Intelligence - An International Journal, 1999
  • IJHCS
    International Journal on Human-Computer Studies - Special Issue on "Building, Maintaining, and Using Organizational Memories", 1998
  • SEKE
    Software Engineering Knowledge Engineering Journal, (Special Issue on Software/Knowledge Sharing and Reuse via Networks) 1998
  • WI
    Zeitschrift Wirtschaftsinformatik, 1997
  • KER
    Knowledge Engineering Review, 1996