Current and former positions

• Chair of the Academy Management of the IBS IT and Business School Oldenburg
• Spokesperson for the Planning/Scheduling and /Configuring/Design section in the AI department of the GI
• Scientific Director at OFFIS (Energy Department)
• Chairman of the FASY 2 examination board at the IHK Oldenburg
• Director of the Department of Computing Science (2024-2025)
• Dean of Studies of School II (until 2024)
• Visiting Research Fellow SIMTech (Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology), 2007-2009
• Representation of the professorship "Software Engineering" at the University of Oldenburg (WS 08/09, SoSe 09)
• Member of GI, AAAI, ACM, IEEE

Review activity

a.o.

• International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems
• HICSS
• BIS
• AI
• AIA
• MKWI
• BCSE
• FedCSIS
• ICSSP
• ISPCM
• ICARCV
• ITEE
• ISC
• PuK-Workshop
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Events/ Presentations

• Organisation of the 34th PuK workshop "Planning and configuration" at KI-24 in Würzburg, September 2024.
• Organisation of the 33rd PuK workshop "Planning and configuration" online at the online KI 2022, September 2022.
• Organisation of the 32nd PuK workshop "Planning and configuring" as an online workshop at KI 2021, September 2021.
• Organisation of the 31st PuK workshop "Scheduling and Configuration" at KI 2018 in Berlin, September 2018.
• Presentation "Scheduling Regarding Energy Efficiency", 30th PuK workshop "Planning and Configuration" at KI 2016, Klagenfurt, September 2016.
• Organisation of the 30th PuK workshop "Scheduling and Configuration" at the KI 2016 in Klagenfurt, September 2016.
• Presentation "Energy Efficiency as a Scheduling Goal", 9th Workshop on Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Berkeley, October 2015.
• Organisation of the 29th PuK workshop "Planning and Configuration" at the KI 2015 in Dresden, September 2015.
• Organisation of the 28th PuK workshop "Planning and Configuration" at KI 2014 in Stuttgart, September 2014.
• KI 2013, Koblenz, Tutorial Chair.
• Panel discussion: "Cloud computing - technology hype or real opportunity?", Moderation, OFFIS, November 2012.
• Panel "Actual Research in planning, scheduling and configuration", PuK-Workshop, KI 2011, Berlin, October 2011.
• Organisation of the 26th PuK workshop "Planning and configuration" as a workshop at the KI 2011 in Berlin, October 2011.
• Lecture "Gestaltung von Ladeinfrastrukturen im Kontext der Elektromobilität", Geoinformatik 2011, Münster, June 2011.
• CETINIA Invited lecture "Agent-based Scheduling", Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, November 2010.
• Lecture "Planning Problems in Container Terminals", 25th PuK-Workshop, Karlsruhe, September 2010.
• Organisation of the 25th PuK-Workshop "Planning and Configuration" as a workshop for KI 2010 in Karlsruhe, September 2010.
• Organisation of the 24th PuK workshop "Planning and Configuration" as a sub-conference of the MKWI 2010 in Göttingen, February 2010.
• Visit of the Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de las Villas (Santa Clara) and CUJAE (La Habana) in the MSc and PhD exchange programme, February 2010.
• Presentation "Simulation of Maritime Supply Chains", 6th Workshop on Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Berkeley, October 2009
• 2nd Workshop "Planning and Simulation in Logistics Applications", GI-Jahrestagung, Lübeck, organisation, moderation, October 2009
• 23rd PuK-Workshop "Planning and Configuration" at the KI2009 in Paderborn, September 2009
• Invited Research Lecture "Fuzzy Scheduling and Rescheduling", Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), August 2009
• Lecture "Planning Problems in Maritime Supply Chains", Elsflether Logistikgespräche, October 2008
• Organisation of the 22nd workshop "Planning and Configuring" at the KI2008 in Kaiserslautern, DFKI, September 2008
• Lecture "Fuzzy Scheduling and Rescheduling", PuK 2008
• Invited Research Lecture "Vertical data integration for reactive scheduling", Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), June 2008
• Lecture "Utilisation of preferences in planning", MKWI 2008, Munich, February 2008
• logis.net Seminar: IT in logistics planning, moderation and organisation, February 2008
• Lecture "Holistic logistics planning with APS", logis.net seminar, February 2008
• Presentation "Coordination problems in decentralised scheduling systems", 5th Workshop on Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Berkeley, October 2007
• 21st PuK Workshop, KI-2007, Osnabrück, moderation, organisation, September 2007
• Presentation "Modelling and solving Workforce Scheduling Problems", PuK 2007
• Workshop "Planning and Simulation in Logistic Applications", GI-Jahrestagung, Bremen, organisation, moderation, September 2007
• Presentation "Planning along the Supply Chain", GI-Workshop Planning and Simulation in Logistic Applications, Bremen, 2007
• Lecture "Multi-Site Planning and Scheduling Technology", Asia Manufacturing Forum AMF, March 2007
• Invited research lecture "Scheduling and Coordination in Distributed Production Networks", Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), March 2007
• Guest editor Artificial Intelligence, issue 1/07, topic "Planning and Configuration"
• 20th PuK-Workshop on AI-2006, organisation, moderation, Bremen, 2006.
• Lecture "Intelligente Lösung mehrstufiger Ablaufplanungsprobleme", Colloquium, University of Stuttgart, April 2006.
• Lecture "DFG-Projekt i3 -sic", 7th conference of the DFN-Nutzergruppe Hochschulverwaltung, TU Braunschweig, May 2005.
• Lecture "Portal für Studierende an der Universität Oldenburg: Planungen im Rahmen des integrierten Informationsmanagements", DINI-Jahrestagung, Heilbronn, October 2004.

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