| Klaus Mainzer received his Ph.D. degree (1973) and the Habilitation in philosophy (1979) at the University of Münster. After a Heisenberg Grant (1980), he was Professor for Foundations and History of Exact Sciences (1981-1988) and Vice-President of the University of Konstanz (1985-1988). Since 1988 he is Full Professor for Philosophy of Science, Director of the Institute of Philosophy (since 1989), and Director of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Informatics (since 1998) at the University of Augsburg. He is member of several national and international academies (e.g. European Academy of Science / Academia Europaea) and interdisciplinary institutions (e.g. Leibniz Association, Daimler-Benz-Foundation). Since 1996, he is President of the German Society of Complex Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics. His research interests include Logics, Epistemology, Philosophy and History of Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Media Science. He has been the organizer of many scientific meetings/congresses. He has published more than 10 books in English or German, for example: “AI -Artificial Intelligence. Foundations of Intelligent Systems”, “Brain, Computer, Complexity”, “Computational Philosophy”, “Computer - New Wings of Mind? The Evolution of Computer-Aided Technology, Science, Culture, and Philosophy, Symmetry and Complexity --The Spirit and Beauty of Nonlinear Science”, “Computer Networks and Virtual Reality”, “Thinking in Complexity--The Complex Dynamics of Matter, Mind, and Mankind”. |
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| Leading expert in applications of knowledge based systems and cooperating autonomous cognitive systems. He is founder of the Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge Based Systems (FORWISS). Further on, he is co-founder and member of the editorial board of the Journal Künstliche Intelligenz (Artificial Intelligence) and member of the editorial board of the International Journal on Pattern Recognition. He got the Order of Merit the Federal Republic of Germany (1992) and the Award of the Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and Arts for outstanding contributions to science in Bavaria (2002). |
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He works on database systems and is also co-director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Informatics. He organized several multi-disciplinary international workshops on preferences and personalized applications, in particular a Dagstuhl-workshop on preference handling at the German Center of Informatics at Castle Dagstuhl. Moreover, he is the spokesperson of the Bavarian Research Cooperation FORSIP for Situated, Individualized and Personalized Human-Computer Interaction, where nine research groups from four Bavarian Universities cooperate. His current research focuses on preference handling in database systems with personalized applications for e-commerce. At the international level, He is the member of Advisory Board of TELRI (Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure), the member of International Advisory Committee of the First, Second and Third LREC (Language Resources and Evaluation Conference), the member of editorial board of IJCL (International Journal of Corpus Linguistics), IJCC (International Journal of Chinese and Computing). He is also the member of editorial board of the series "Corpus research and Discourse”, Continuum Publishing Company. |
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| Prof. in University of Mannheim, a leading expert in e-learning technology and one of the leaders of the Lehrverbund Freiburg-Mannheim. |
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| Professor of the L3S Research Center and the chair for knowledge-based systems at University of Hannover, specialized on Internet search, E-Learning and Web-based knowledge management. |
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| Prof. in Rheinisch-Westfälische Technical University of Aachen, specialized in distributed knowledge organization and peer-to-peer networks. |
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| Full professor of Computer Science at Augsburg University, Germany and Chair of the Laboratory for Multimedia Concepts and their Applications. Prior to that, she worked as a principal researcher at DFKI GmbH where she has been leading various academic and industrial projects in the area of intelligent user interfaces. Her current research interests include intelligent multimedia interfaces, affective computing, embodied conversational agents, and the integration of vision and natural language. Elisabeth Andre is the Chair of the ACL Special Interest Group on Multimedia Language Processing (SIGMEDIA). She is on the editorial board of Artificial Intelligence Communications (AICOM), Cognitive Processing (International Quarterly of Cognitive Science), Universal Access to the Information Society (UAIS) and Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS). She is also an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), and was a member of the editorial board of Computational Linguistics for the period 2002-2004. She was appointed a Fellow of the Alcatel-SEL-Stiftung for the summer semester 2007. |
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| Associate Research Director of the L3S Research Center at University of Hannover and an associated member of the Augsburg Institute of Interdisciplinary Informatics. The L3S is specialized on Internet and knowledge applications and Web-based services offering access to a vast variety of information sources and a world famous institute for learning science. Dr. Balke, Professor Kießling and Professor Mainzer cooperated already at a Dagstuhl-workshop with respect to this symposium’s topic. |
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| Member of the German Research Center of Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and also belongs to the research group ‘Philosophy and Informatics’ of the German Society Informatics (GI). |
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| Professor for Communication Studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany. She is author of several books and articles on political discourse in editorials and news, on news selection and information processing by journalists and recipients, and on media and war. She focuses on political communication in general and theories of the public sphere in particular. |
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| Professor of socioeconomics at the University of Augsburg and works on social and economic conditions of automatic systems. |
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| Professor of philosophy and also belongs to the research group ‘Philosophy and Informatics’ (GI). She works on the epistemic foundations of knowledge representation and cooperates with the department of informatics at University Paderborn. |
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| Director of the Center for Management Education and Knowledge Transfer. The Augsburg Center of Management Education and Knowledge Transfer was distinguished by the “Stifterverband der deutschen Wissenschaft” as center of excellence. Professor Mainzer is member of the scientific board of the center. |
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| Scientific chairman of the Center of Management Education and Knowledge Transfer at the University of Augsburg. |
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