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 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 Board of Editors of the book series Thinking Machines, Atlantis Press (since 2008)
- 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)
- RR2010, Fourth International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, Bressanone, Italy, September 2009. (Steering Committee Vice President)
- ECAI2010, 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lisboa, Portugal, August 2010. (PC member)
- AAAI-10, Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 11-15, 2010. (PC member)
- Dagstuhl Seminar on Learning paradigms in dynamic environments, 2010. (co-organiser)
- ESWC2010, 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion, Greece, May/June 2010. (PC member)
- ICCS 2010, 18th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, 2010. (PC member)
- 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)
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.