fotoGerhard Brewka

Intelligent Systems Department
Computer Science Institute
University of Leipzig
Augustusplatz 10, Room P823
04109 Leipzig
Germany

brewka <the symbol you know> informatik dot uni-leipzig dot de
phone: ++49 341 9 73 22 35
fax: ++49 341 9 73 22 99

Information for visitors: our group is located on 8th floor of the Paulinum, the part of the university building remembering (and looking like) a church.

To find us enter the building from Augustusplatz and use one of the elevators to the right of the entrance hall to the 8th floor.

Short CV

I was born in 1955 in Regensburg, Germany. I am married and have 3 daughters. I received the diploma in Computer Science from University of Bonn in 1984 and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Hamburg in 1989. I was a member of the Artificial Intelligence Group of Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, Sankt Augustin, from 1984 to 1994 and visiting researcher at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, from 1991 to 1992. In January 1995 I became full professor for Knowledge Based Systems at the Technical University of Vienna. Since September 1996 I am chair for Intelligent Systems at the University of Leipzig where I am heading the doctoral programme in knowledge representation. Since 2002 I am an ECCAI Fellow  selected by the European Coordinating Committee of Artificial Intelligence.

Research Interests

Current activities

I was the program chair of ECAI-06,  the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which took place in beautiful Riva del Garda, Italy, August 28th to Sep. 1st 2006. It was fun to be there!

Together with John Schlipf I co-chaired LPNMR 2007 (Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning), Tempe, Arizona, May 2007. The local arrangements chair was Chitta Baral.

I am also program co-chair (together with Jerome Lang) of KR-2008, the International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning,  Sydney, September 2008. General chair is Patrick Doherty.

I am a PC member of AAAI-08, JELIA-08, CLIMA-08, ICLP-08, ICAI-08 and several other workshops this year. In 2007 I received the AAAI outstanding senior PC member award. I also belong to the advisory board of IJCAI-09.

I am an associate editor of the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) and the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR).

I was invited speaker at the  Spanish AI-conference CAEPIA-05, Santiago de Compostela, at the Swedish AI-workshop (SAIS-06) in Umeå, May 2006, and gave an invited talk at the 8th de Morgan Workshop on Belief Revision, Merging and Social Choice (London, Nov. 2006). I was also invited to speak at the International Conference on Logic Programming, Porto, Sept. 2007, at COMMA (Computational Models of Argument) 2010, NMR-2010 as well as JELIA 2010.

I  was a member of the ECCAI-board (executive board of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence representing 29 national European AI societies) from August 2006 to 2012. From July 2008 onwards I was president of ECCAI for 4 years.

I was general chair of KR-2012, the International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Rome, June 2012. Since that date I am  president of KR, inc.

In Oct. 2012 QuantLA (Quantitative Logics and Automata), a new joint PhD programme of TU Dresden and Leipzig University, will start. Please check the web pages for topics and open positions.

Click here if you are interested in a selection of my recent publications

Click here if you are looking for teaching material (most of it in German)

Click here if you are interested in my former PC memberships and activities

 

Countries I visited






Last update: 8.1.2009