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Bernhard Nebel
University of Freiburg
Membership Number: 19
Address: Institut fuer Informatik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet, Georges-Koehler-Allee, Geb. 52, D-79110 Freiburg, Germany
Email: nebel@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Phone: +49 761 203-8221
Fax: +49 761 203-8222
URL: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~nebel

Biographical Sketch
Bernhard Nebel received his Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University of Saarland in 1989. Between 1982 and 1993 he worked on different AI projects at the University of Hamburg, the Technical University of Berlin, ISI/USC, IBM Germany, and the German Research Center for AI (DFKI). From 1993 to 1996 he held an Associate Professor position (C3) at the Computer Science Department of the University of Ulm. Since 1996 he is Professor (C4) at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and head of the Laboratory for Foundations of Artificial Intelligence.

Bernhard Nebel is a member of the IJCAI Inc board of trustees, and the co-chair of the graduate school on and Machine Intelligence at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität.

Among other professional services, he served as the Program Co-Chair for the 3rd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'92), as the Program Chair for the 10th German Spring School on AI (KIFS'92), as the Program Co-chair for the 18th German Annual Conference on AI (KI'94), as the Tutorial Chair of the 15th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'97), as the General Chair of the 21st German Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI'97), and as the Program Chair for the 17th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'01). In addition, he is a member of the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence and AI Communication, Research Note, editor of Artificial Intelligence, a member of the advisory board of Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and the chair of the advisory board of Künstliche Intelligenz.

Bernhard Nebel is author and co-editor of 6 books and proceedings, as well as author and co-author of more than 80 refereed papers on Aritifical Intelligence in scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings.

University of Freiburg (Laboratory for Foundations of Artificial Intelligence)
The Laboratory for Foundations of Artificial Intelligence at the Albert-Ludwigs-University exists since 1996. The research group has expertise in the following research areas relevant for the proposed network:

- Qualitative spatio-temporal representation and reasoning (as part of the priority programme ‘Spatial Cognition’ of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft): We analyze the computational complexity of existing qualitative calculi (such as Allen's interval calculus, the topological calculus RCC-8 and the double cross calculus), design reasoning algorithms and combine different formalisms. In addition we investigate alternative formalisms such as planar graphs with topological constraints. This research is funded by DFG. [See also http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~sppraum/]

- Multi-robot systems in dynamic environments aka ‘RoboCup’. We have designed and implemented a team of robotic soccer agents in the F2000 RoboCup league that won the worldchampionship in 1998, 2000 and 2001. The success of the team is based on its superior self-localization method based on laser range finders and on its flexible action selection mechanism. This research is funded by DFG and SICK. [See also http://www.cs-freiburg.de] Efficient action planing: In the past three years, we have designed and implemented two planning systems -- IPP and FF -- which won the respective planning system competitions at the international AIPS planning conferences in 1998 and 2000. They are both based on advanced search techniques that allow to generate actions plans with a size two orders of magnitue larger than planning system in the last decade could generate. [See also http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/]


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