Bernhard Nebel
computer science
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Germany
Biography
Bernhard Nebel received his first degree in Computer Science (Dipl.-Inform.) from the University of Hamburg in 1980 and his Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University of Saarland in 1989. Between 1982 and 1993 he worked on different AI projects at the University of Hamburg, the Technical University of Berlin, ISI/USC, IBM Germany, and the German Research Center for AI (DFKI). From 1993 to 1996 he held an Associate Professor position (C3) at the University of Ulm. Since 1996 he is Professor at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and head of the research group on Foundations of Artificial Intelligence. Bernhard Nebel was a member of the the collaborative research center SFB TR/14 Automatic Verification and Analysis of Complex Systems (AVACS) (2004-2015), and he was coordinator of the Freiburg site of the collaborative research center SFB TR/8 Spatial Cognition (2003-20014).
Research Interest
Research interest Knowledge representation and reasoning, AI planning, and robotics.
Publications
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Tischfußball: Mensch versus Computer." Computer Science Spectrum (2008): 323-332 (with T. Weigel) - "Continual Planning and Acting in Dynamic Multiagent Environments." Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (2009): 297-331. 2009. (with M. Brenner)
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In Defense of Axioms in PDDL." Artificial Intelligence (2005): 38-69 (with S. Thiebaux, J. Hoffmann) - The Computer Journal (2007): 391-402 (with S. Li) - "Qualitative spatial representation and reasoning: A hierarchical approach."
