Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
Name: Dr. Klaus Fischer Address: L ¨uderitzstraße 1, D-66123 Saarbr ¨ucken Phone: +49-681-85775-3917 (office) +49-160-97225454 (mobile) Fax: +49-681-85775-2235 e-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.dfki.de/˜kuf/ Date of Birth: 14. June 1958
Place of Birth: Konstanz Citizenship: German Marital Status: married
Languages: German (native), English, French
Professional Experience
Current Positionsince 06/2003 Research Fellow at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH in Saarbr ¨ucken DepartmentDeduction and Multiagent Systems
since 7/2007 DepartmentAgents and Simulated Reality
since 06/2003 Deputy Head of Department since 11/1993 Head of Multiagent Systems Group since 01/1992 Researcher at DFKI
Project Management at DFKI
since 01/2008 Enterprise Collaboration & Interoperability (COIN, EU FP7)
since 01/2007 Vital Assistance for the Elderly (VITAL, EU FP6)
since 05/2003 MAS Technologies for Steel Production (MATS, Saarstahl AG)
12/2007 – 05/2010 Semantically-enabled Heterogeneous service Architecture (SHAPE, FP7)
01/2004 – 12/2008 Agent-based Supply Chain Management in Steel Production (AgentSteel, Saarland)
02/2004 – 04/2007 Advanced Technologies for Interoperability of Heterogenous Enterprise Networks and their Applications (ATHENA, EU FP6)
01/2001 – 12/2003 Security in (mobile) MAS (SEMAS,BMBF)
11/1999 – 10/2003 Modelling of Social Organisational Forms in DAI and Sociology (DFG)
01/2001 – 07/2003 Social Aid Interactive Developments (SAID, EU FP5)
03/1997 – 04/2003 MAS Technologies for SAP Retail Solutions (SAP AG)
11/1999 – 11/2000 Agents for E-Commerce and dynamic Pricing in SAP-R/3 (SAP AG)
10/1999 – 10/2000 Agent-supported Version Management (AUVM, Dresdner Bank)
01/1998 – 12/2000 Cooperative Man/Machine Architectures:
A Cognitive Architecture for Social Agents (CoMMA-COGs, BMBF)
09/1996 – 09/1999 Scalability of MAS (Siemens AG)
10/1997 – 09/1999 Train Coupling and Sharing (TCS, Deutsche Bahn)
02/1997 – 12/1997 Field Study for the Development of an Online Order Dispatching System (TeleTruck-FM,Saarland)
07/1996 – 10/1997 Agents in Traffic (AiV, Siemens AG)
07/1995 – 12/1997 Cooperative Man/Machine Architectures:
Multiagent Planning and Scheduling (CoMMA-MAPS, BMBF)
10/1994 – 03/1995 Decision Theory and Coordination in MAS (DaimlerChrysler AG)
03/1994 – 11/1994 MAS Approach to Order Dispatching in Shipping Companies — Implementation in DASDIS (CoMOVES, DaimlerChrysler AG)
11/1993 – 06/1995 Modelling of Autonomous Cooperating Agents (AKA-MOD,BMBF)
Important Recent Results
I would like to highlight two major results achieved in recent projects:
1. Agent-based shop floor control system for steel production (DISPO): The development of the agent-based shop floor control system DISPO for steel production in the steelworks of Saarstahl AG in V¨olklingen proved that the conceptual results of investigating a model driven approach to the design of agent-based systems in the context of service oriented architectures could be successfully applied to an industrial use case scenario. DISPO allows a human user to develop his plans for which steel will be produced in the next couple of hours. DISPO displays the inter-actively developed plan and controls its execution. An SQL database that hides behind a service interface is used to connect the agent system with the low-level control of the productive sy-stem. For Saarstahl DISPO is mission critical. After the system was first successfully installed in 2006 Saarstahl could produce new records on specific bottleneck aggregate that is essential for producing high quality steel. High quality steel brings higher earnings given a fixed turn over. Since its installation in the steel work in 2006 DISPO is running for 24 hours a day 7 days a week. DISPO was assigned with an award of the Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
2. Domain Specific Modelling Language for Multiagent Systems (DSML4MAS): DSML4MAS is a metamodel (Platform-Independent Metamodel for Agent-based Systems PIM4Agents) together with a modelling tool based on the Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF/GMF). Together with model transformations that operate on the Ecore representations of EMF, models designed in the graphical DSML4MAS model editor can be transformed to different execution platforms like Jack Intelligent Agents(TM) or JADE. The PIM4Agents metamodel allows extensions for the seamless integration of the agent models with service-oriented architectures. The DSML4MAS framework was developed in the EU projects ATHENA, SHAPE, and COIN as well as the project MODEST that was funded by BMBF (i.e. German government). At AAMAS 2009 selected DSML4MAS for the best academic software award.
Former Position
01.9.86 – 31.8.91 Researcher at Institute for Informatics at TU M ¨unchen
Department forReal-Time Systems and Robotics, Prof. Dr. H.-J. Siegert
ProjectTask-oriented ProgrammingResearch ProgramInformation Processing in autonomous mobile Robot Systems(SFB 331)
Other Professional Experiences
since 06/2004 Founding shareholder of startup company X-aitment GmbH 04/1999 – 04/2001 Vice head of the advisory board of AgroLogic AG (Zweibr ¨ucken)
Education
29.07.1992 Doctoral degree in Informatics
at Technische Universit¨at (TU) M ¨unchen
Title of Thesis:Distributed and Cooperative Planning in a Flexible Manufacturing Environment
2.05.1985 Diploma in Informatics at TU M ¨unchen,
Title of Thesis:Uniform Specification and Implementation of a Class of Syntactical Error Recovery Procedures in Compiler Compliers
10/1979 – 05/1985 Study of Informatics with special emphasis on Economics at TU M ¨unchen
1970 – 1979 Secondary School (Gymnasium) of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in Marktoberdorf, Germany
1965 – 1970 Primary School, Kanton Thurgau, Switzerland
Military Service
07/1985 – 08/1986 Military Service at Technical School of the Air Force, Lagerlechfeld, Germany
Further Training
20.6. – 22.6.94 DFKI Professional Training: Project Management 28.3. – 30.3.94 DFKI Professional Training: English Rhetoric
15.7. – 6.8.89 International Summer SchoolLogic, Algebra and Computation
in Marktoberdorf
2.3. – 6.3.87 DEC Training VAX/VMS System Administrator
2.12. – 4.12.86 CCG Training: Computer-based kinematics and dynamics for vehicles, robots, and mechanisms.
Research Visits
22.11. – 15.12.2001 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT),
Computer Science Department group of Lin Padgham, Melbourne, Australia 08/05 – 06/06/2000 Melbourne University, Computer Science Department,
Director Prof. Leon Sterling, Melbourne, Australia 01/04 – 30/04/1996 Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII),
Director Mike Georgeff, PhD, Melbourne, Australia 30/06 – 18/08/1995 Yale University, group of Prof. Drew McDermott
New Haven, USA
15/02 – 26/03/1993 Carnegie Mellon University, group of Prof. Tom Mitchel Pittsburgh, USA
Professional Organisations
09/1995 – 08/2000 Spokesman of the German DAI-SIG within GI
04/1993 – 08/2000 Founding Member of the Organising Committee of the German DAI-SIG within GI since 1984 Member of German Informatics Society (GI)
Teaching Experience
My teaching responsibilities at DFKI include advanced courses on DAI/MAS and software engineering aspects of MAS design as well as introductory courses in other areas. I have always enjoyed transfor-ming research results into lectures which explain the contents in an intelligible way. Teaching students on undergraduate and graduate level has always been and still is an important part of my work.
In my position at DFKI I have tought the following courses at Universit¨at des Saarlandes:
• Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, 2 hrs ST 2006 • Introduction to Computer Science, 2 hrs ST 2004 • Introduction to Unix ST 1998
• Modelling Autonomous Systems, 2 hrs WT 1997/98 • Introduction to Unix, WT 1997/98
• Multi-Agent Systems, 4 hrs WT 1996/97 (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. J. H. Siekmann) • Distributed Artificial Intelligence, 2 hrs ST 1996
• Modelling Autonomous Systems, 2 hrs WT 1995/96
• Multi-Agent Planning and Decision Theory, 2 hrs WT 1994/95 • Distributed Artificial Intelligence, 2 hrs WT 1993/94
• Modelling Autonomous Systems, 2 hrs ST 1993
• Additionally: seminars, practical courses, supervision of exercises, talks as deputy in lectures.
Currently, 5 researchers are working on a doctoral thesis in the group. In the past the followi-ng doctoral theses were successfully completed: Dr. Michael Schillo: Multiagent Robustness Auto-nomy vs. Organisation, 25.10.2004; Dr. Petra Funk: Intermodal Transport Chains: A Multiagent Sy-stems Approach, 14.02.2003; Dr. J ¨urgen Lind, MASSIVE: Software Engineering for Multiagent Systems, 17.2.2000; Gero Vierke: TeleTruck—A Holonic Multiagent System for Telematics, 21.3.2000; Dr. Chri-stoph G. Jung, Theory and Practice of Hybrid Agents, 14.2.2000; Dr. Christian Gerber, Self-Adaptation and Scalability in Multiagent Societies, 28.1.2000.
Additionally I have supervised a significant number of bachelor, master, and diploma theses as well as more practical work at Universit¨at des Saarlandes and TU M ¨uchen.
Research Experience
For about 20 years I have been active in the research areas ofDistributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI)
andMulti-Agent Systems (MAS)at international level. Since 1992 I have been working as a research scientist at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) in Saarbr ¨ucken. DFKI runs application-oriented and basic research projects funded by public authorities (BMBF, Saarland/Rheinland-Pfalz, EU) and/or industrial partners (DaimlerChrysler AG, Deutsche Bahn AG, SAP AG, Saarstahl AG, Siemens AG), with the aim of transferring basic AI technologies to industrial ap-plication scenarios. Since autumn 1993 I have led the MAS research group (currently 10 researchers) in the department ofDeduction and Multi-Agent Systems. Research in this group is focused on agent architectures and distributed problem solving in a MAS context with the aim of further developing ba-sic MAS technologies and applying these technologies to industrial application scenarios, especially in business management. For example we dealt with online order dispatching in cooperating haulage companies and supply chain management in virtual enterprises.
In the German AI research community I am active in the German special interest group on DAI within the German Informatics Society (GI) since its very beginning. This involves intensive contacts to almost all German DAI research groups.
At international level I actively contribute to the promotion of scientific exchange in the DAI/MAS community through the organisation of international events (e.g., workshops and most recently the European Agent Systems Summer School), presentations at international conferences, participation in program committees of international workshops and conferences and my work as an author and as a referee for articles in international journals. The contacts thus established have also led to rese-arch visits to Carnegie-Mellon University, Yale University, the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII), and Melbourne University.
Administrative and Management Experience
As head of the MAS group and since 1/1996 as deputy head of our department, it has been my main task to define new research directions. The design and implementation of the complex distributed systems described in my research contributions required by their very nature the successful coopera-tion within a team of scientists and assisting students. This demonstrates that I am not only able to define the scientific concepts but also that I am able to supply the necessary technical know-how and to delegate and supervise relevant sub-tasks. In this position I have also proven my ability to carry out extensive administrative tasks and to assume broad responsibilities.
Further Scientific Achievements
• Organisation of international conferences and workshops: Among others Multiagent System
Technologies (MATES) 2006, AAMAS (senior PC and PC memberships); AAMAS Workshops on Agent-based Technologies and applications for enterprise interOPerability (ATOP) 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2005; AAMAS Workshop on Secure Mobile Multi-Agent Systems 2001 and 2002; Inter-national European Agent System Summer School 2000, IJCAI-WorkshopAgent Theories, Archi-tectures, and Languages, 19./20 August 1995.
• Member of the program committee of international conferences and workshops: among others
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT), Paci-fic Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA), and Multiagent System Technologies (MATES).
• Member of the editorial board of international journals: Agent-Oriented Software Engineering,
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems and Applied Intelligence
• Peer reviewer of international journals: among others Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Sy-stems, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Applied Intelligence, Journal of Logic and Computation, Knowledge-Based Systems
Saarbr ¨ucken, den 13. Juni 2010
