Professional Activities

Membership in Professional Associations

I am member of the following associations:

• American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  also member of
  • SIGMAN
    Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing
• Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
  also member of
  • SIGART
    Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  also member of
  • Computer Society
  • Robotics and Automation Society
  • Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society
• Intelligent Autonomous Systems Society
• Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
• Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
  also member of
  • Founding member of Special Interest Group 1.1.6 (DAI) on Distributed Artificial Intelligence.
  • Member of Chairing Committee of Special Interest Group 1.1.6 (DAI) in 1995 and 1996.

The World Championships in Robotic Soccer, also known as RoboCup and held annually since 1997, are organized by the RoboCup Federation, which currently does not yet feature formal membership. In the RoboCup Federation, I am -- aside of various functions related to organizing specific events and tournaments -- active in the following formal committees since 1999:

• Executive Committee
• F-2000 Middle-Size Robot League Committee
• RoboCup Junior Committee

Organization of Conferences and Workshops

I am or was involved in organizing the following events:

• EURON Summer School on Cooperative Robotics 2002, Lisbon. Organizing Committee.
• Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2002), Bologna, 2002. Co-Chair Robot Demonstrations Track.
• RoboCup German Open 2002, Paderborn, 2002. Chair Junior League.
• Reasoning about Uncertainty in Robotics, Workshop at IJCAI-2001, Seattle, 2001. Workshop Organizing Committee.
• RoboCup-2001 Middle-Size Robot League Tournament, Seattle, 2001. Co-Chair Technical Committee, Member Organizing Committee.
• RoboCup German Open 2001, Paderborn, 2001. Chair Junior League.
• Workshop RoboCup-2000, Melbourne, 2000. Workshop Co-Chair.
• RoboCup-2000 Middle-Size Robot League Tournament, Melbourne, 2000. Co-Chair Technical Committee.
• Autonomous Agents 2000, Barcelona, 2000. Co-Chair Robot Demonstrations Track.
• RoboCup-Euro-2000: European Robot Soccer Championships, Amsterdam, 2000. Conference Co-Chair.
• RoboCup-99 Middle-Size Robot League Tournament, Stockholm, 1999. Chair Organizing Committee, Chair Technical Committee.
• Adaptive Spatial Representations of Dynamic Environments, IJCAI-99 Workshop ROB-2, Stockholm, 1999. Workshop Co-Chair.
• IK-97: Interdisciplinary College 1997, Günne am Möhnesee, 1997. Organizing Committee.
• KIFS-96: Spring School on Artificial Intelligence, Günne am Möhnesee, 1996. Program Committee, Organizing Committee.
• MASSIM-96; Multiagent Systems and Simulation, joint workshop of GI SIGs 1.1.6. and 4.5.3, Ulm, 1996. Workshop Co-Chair.
• Agent-Oriented Techniques for the Specification and Implementation of Multiagent Systems, workshop at Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-94), Saarbrücken, 1994. Workshop Co-Chair.
• Distributed Artificial Intelligence, 5.\ workshop of GI Working Group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Erlangen, 1992. Workshop Chair.
• Reflection, Introspektion and Meta-Level Architekturen, workshop of GI Special Interest Group (SIG) 1.1.1 (Declarative Programming), Erlangen, 1991. Workshop Co-Chair.

Reviewing

.. for Journals

• Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2000, 2002
• Neural Networks, 1997
• Biological Cybernetics, 2000
• Künstliche Intelligenz, 2000

.. for Conferences

• RoboCup Symposium, Fukuoka, 2002
• Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-7), Marina del Rey, 2002
• Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE-2001), Paderborn, 2001
• RoboCup Symposium, Seattle, 2001
• Autonomous Agents, 2001
• Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-6), Venice, 2000
• Autonomous Agents, 2000
• International Joint Conferences on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2000)
• International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN-99), Edinburgh, 1999
• German Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-99)
• Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS-98), Denver, 1998
• International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN-98)
• German Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-96)

.. for Workshops

• Edutainment Robotics 2000, 1st International Workshop, Bonn, 2000.
• Workshop RoboCup-2000, 4th International Workshop, Melbourne, 2000.
• Workshop RoboCup-99, 3rd International Workshop, Stockholm, 1999.
• Workshop RoboCup-98, 2nd International Workshop, Paris, 1998.
• Distributed Cognitive Systems, Workshop at Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-97), Freiburg, 1997.
• Learning, Adaption and Self-Organization in Distributed Intelligent Systems, Workshop at Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-96), Dresden, 1996.
• Learning in Distributed Artificial Intelligence Systems, Workshop at European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-96), Budapest, 1996.
• Decision Theory for DAI Applications, Workshop at European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-94), Amsterdam, 1994.
• PEDE: Planning and Execution in Distributed Environments, Workshop at Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-93), Berlin, 1993.
• Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Founding Workshop of GI SIG 1.1.6 VKI, Saarbrücken, 1993.