Pascal Hitzler
Assistant Professor (tenure track),
Kno.e.sis Center,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Wright State University,
Dayton, Ohio, USA.
I sometimes blog here. 2008-04-15, 2008-07-25, 2008-10-30, 2008-10-30, 2008-11-27, 2009-02-21, 2009-04-07, 2009-04-21, 2009-06-12, 2009-08-15
Main academic interests: Knowledge representation and reasoning.
Some keywords: semantic web, knowledge representation, information systems, automated reasoning, machine learning, neural-symbolic integration, intelligent systems, conceptual structures, mathematical foundations.
Publications
Presentations
Reviewing
External Funding
Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies (CRC Press Textbook).
Semantic Web - Grundlagen (Springer Textbook).
Selected Recent Events and Activities
Editor-in-Chief, book series Studies on the Semantic Web by IOS Press and AKA Verlag (since 2009).
Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Conference Series Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (since 2007).
Member of the Steering Committee of the Workshop Series OWL - Experiences and Directions, OWLED (2007-2009).
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence (since 2008).
Member of the Editorial Board of the Logic Journal of the IGPL (since 2009).
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Algorithms in Cognition, Informatics and Logic (2008-2009).
Member of the Board of Editors of the book series Thinking Machines, Atlantis Press (since 2008)
Member of the OWL (Web Ontology Language) Working Group.
- ISWC2010, 9th International Semantic Web Conference, Shanghai, November 2010. (vice chair for in-use and industrial track)
- RR2010, Fourth International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, Bressanone, Italy, September 2009. (PC Chair)
- Dagstuhl Seminar on Learning paradigms in dynamic environments, 2010. (co-organiser)
- Linked AI, AAAI Spring Symposium "Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence", Stanford, CA, March 2010. (panel member on KR Needs For Linked Data)
- GeoS2009, Third International Conference on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS 2009), Mexico City, Mexico, December 2009. (conference keynote speaker on Semantic Web - Past, Present, and Future)
- GeoS2009, Third International Conference on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS 2009), Mexico City, Mexico, December 2009. (invited tutorial on OWL 2 Rules)
- RR2009, Third International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, Washington D.C., USA, October 2009. (steering committee vice-chair)
- RR2009, Third International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, Washington D.C., USA, October 2009. (sponsor chair)
- OWLED2009, OWL - Experiences and Directions, Sixth International Workshop, Washington D.C., USA, October 2009. (steering committee member)
- NatuReS 2009, 2nd International Workshop on Nature Inspired Reasoning for the Semantic Web, at ISWC2009, October 2009. (organiser) (cancelled)
- AST2009, 4th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies at Informatik2009, Lübeck, Germany, September 2009. (co-organiser)
- Informatik 2009, 39th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Informatik, Lübeck, Germany, September/October 2009. (Tutorial, Semantic Web Ontology Languages)
- AI Mashup Challenge 2009, at the 32nd Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Paderborn, Germany, September 2009. (co-organiser)
- KI 2009, 32nd Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Paderborn, Germany, September 2009. (Tutorial, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for the Semantic Web - OWL 2 and Rules)
- IJCAI-09, 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pasadena, California, July 2009. (PC member)
- IJCAI-09, 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pasadena, California, July 2009. (tutorial on Semantic Web Ontology Languages)
- NeSy'09, Fifth International Workshop on Neural-symbolic Learning and Reasoning at IJCAI-09. (organiser)
- ICCS2009, 17th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Moscow, Russia, July 2009. (editorial board member)
- ESWC2009, 6th European Semantic Web Conference, May/June 2009, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. (sponsor chair)
- ESWC2009, 6th European Semantic Web Conference, May/June 2009, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. (tutorial on OWL 2 Rules)
- AGI-09, Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, Arlington, Virginia, March 2009. (programme co-chair)
Teaching
Knowledge Representation for the Semantic Web, Winter 2010. Based on the textbook Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies.
Miscellaneous
You can find some pictures of me in my Picture Gallery.
My Erdös Number is at most 3, via Paul Erdös, E. Rodney Canfield, Guo-Qiang Zhang.
Some External Links.