Other Functions

• Member of the Association of Computing Machinery.
• Member of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence.


• Expert Evaluator for the Italian Ministry for Education University and Research (MIUR).
• Expert Evaluator for the Fifth Programme framework (European Commission).
• Expert Evaluator for the British Council in Poland.


• Member of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Student Scholarship from 1980-1986.
• Member of the Institute for Informationsystems, Technical University of Vienna, Favoritenstrasse 9/3/3, A-1040 Vienna, Austria since 1996.
• Sprecher des Fachausschusses 1.2 (Inferenzsysteme) des Fachbereiches 1 (Künstliche Intelligenz) der Gesellschaft für Informatik (von 1996-1999).