Research of Achim Hoffmann

Research Interests:

• Artificial Intelligence.
• Natural language Processing.
• Knowledge Acquisition.
• Knowledge-Based Systems.
• Machine Learning.
• Intelligent Data Analysis.
• Philosophical Foundations of AI. My dissertation in philosophy is online here (in German).

Some of my professional involvements:

• Member of the Editorial Board of Intelligent Data Analysis published in print and electronically.
• Co-Chair of the Pacific Knowledge Acquisition Workshop 2002 in Tokyo, Japan.
• Program Committee member of the 5th International Conference on Discovery Science 2002 in Lübeck, Germany.
• Program Committee member of the Intelligent User Interfaces, San Francisco, USA, 13-16 January 2002 ,
• Program Committee member of the Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 10-14 December 2001, Adelaide, Australia ,
• Program Committee member of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining - Workshop on Integrating Data Mining and Knowledge Management ,
• Program Committee member of the Discovery Science 2001, 25-28 November 2001, Washington D.C., USA ,
• Program Committee member of the Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning Authoring Support Tools held at ICCBR 2001, 30 July - 2 August 2001, Vancouver, Canada ,
• Program Committee member of the Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis (AIDA 2001) Conference, 19-22 June 2001, Bangor, Wales, UK ,
• Co-Chair of the Pacific Knowledge Acquisition Workshop 2000,
• Organising Committee Member of the 6th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) 2000 ,
• Tutorial Speaker at International Conference on Neural Information Processing 1999 on Vapnik's Learning Theory. (Slides available online) ,
• Chair of the IJCAI-99 Workshop on Empirical Artificial Intelligence ,
• Program Committee member of the 6th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) 1999 ,
• Program Committee member of the Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis (AIDA 1999) Conference ,
• Program Committee member of the International Workshop on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition 1998,
• Program Committee member of the Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop 1996,
• Organising Committee Member of the Algorithmic Learning Theory Workshop 1996.

• Son Bao Pham

Graduated PhD Students:

• Dr Abdus Salam Khan,
• Dr Ghassan Beydoun,
• Dr Mark Pendrith.