Prof. Dr. Susanne Biundo

Address: Institute of Artificial Intelligence University of Ulm D-89069 Ulm Germany Room: James-Franck-Ring Building O27, Room 449 Phone: +49  731  50  24122 Fax: +49  731  50  24119 Email: susanne.biundo@uni-ulm.de

CV

Susanne Biundo received her Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University of Karlsruhe in 1989. She held a Senior Research Position at the Intelligent User Interfaces Lab of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) from 1989 to 1998. Since 1998, she is a Professor of Computer Science at Ulm University.

Among other professional activities, she served as the Conference- and Program Co-chair of ICAPS 2005, the "15th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling", as the Conference- and Program Co-chair of the "27th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence" (KI 2004), and as the Program Chair of the "5th European Conference on Planning" (ECP-99).

Susanne Biundo was the initiator and coordinator of PLANET, the "European Network of Excellence in AI Planning", which she led from 1998 to 2003.

In 2004, she was elected ECCAI Fellow.

Research Interests

AI Planning, Automated Reasoning, Knowledge Modeling, Cognitive Systems

Selected Publications

• J. Bidot, S. Biundo, and B. Schattenberg, Plan Repair in Hybrid Planning. In: A. Dengel, K. Berns, T. Breuel, F. Bomarius, and Th.R. Roth-Berghofer (eds.): Proceedings of the 31st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2008), LNAI 5243, 169-176, Springer Verlag, 2008.
• B. Schattenberg, J. Bidot, and S. Biundo, On the Construction and Evaluation of Flexible Plan-Refinement Strategies. In: J. Hertzberg, M. Beetz, and R. Englert (eds.): Proceedings of the 30th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2007), LNAI 4667, 367-381, Springer Verlag, 2007.
• B. Schattenberg and S. Biundo, A Unifying Framework for Hybrid Planning and Scheduling. In: C. Freksa, M. Kohlhase, and K. Schill (eds.) Proceedings of the 29th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2006), LNAI 4314, 361-373, Springer Verlag, 2007.
• B. Schattenberg, S. Balzer, and S. Biundo. Semantic Web Technology as a Basis for Planning and Scheduling Systems. In: J. Sauer (ed.) Proceedings of the 20th Workshop "Planen und Konfigurieren" (PuK'06), 26-36, ISBN 3-88722-670-4, 2006.
• B. Schattenberg, S. Balzer, and S. Biundo, Knowledge-based Middleware as an Architecture for Planning and Scheduling Systems. In: D. Long, S. F. Smith, D. Borrajo, and L. McCluskey (eds.) Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-06), 422-425. AAAI Press, 2006.
• B. Schattenberg, A. Weigl, and S. Biundo, Hybrid Planning Using Flexible Strategies. In: U. Furbach (ed.) Proceedings of the 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2005), LNAI 3698, 258-272, Springer Verlag, 2005.
• S. Biundo, R. Holzer, and B. Schattenberg, Project Planning Under Temporal Uncertainty. In: L. Castillo, D. Borrajo, M. A. Salido, and A. Oddi (eds.) Planning, Scheduling, and Constraint Satisfaction: From Theory to Practice, volume 117 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pages 189-198. IOS Press, 2005.
• S. Biundo, R. Holzer, and B. Schattenberg, Dealing with Continuous Resources in AI Planning. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space, ESOC, Germany, June 2004, ESA WPP-228, 213-218, 2004.
• B. Schattenberg and S. Biundo, On the Identification and Use of Hierarchical Resources in Planning and Scheduling. In: M. Ghallab, J. Hertzberg and P. Traverso (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on AI Planning & Scheduling, 263-272, AAAI Press, 2002.
• S. Biundo and B. Schattenberg, From Abstract Crisis to Concrete Relief: A Preliminary Report on Combining State Abstraction and HTN Planning. In: Proceedings of the European Conference on Planning, Toledo, Spain, September 2001.

Teaching

Professional Activities

She acted as Conference- and Program Co-chair of the "15th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling" (ICAPS 2005), as the Conference- and Program Co-chair of the "27th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence" (KI 2004), as Associated Program Chair of the "6th International Conference on AI Planning and Scheduling" (AIPS-02), and as the Program Chair of the "5th European Conference on Planning" (ECP-99).

She initiated and chaired the "European Network of Excellence in AI Planning" (PLANET).

Susanne Biundo was the Area Editor of "Planning and Scheduling" of the Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI) and served on the editorial and review boards of various scientific journals including Applied Intelligence, JAIR, and the Journal of Applied Logic.
Furthermore, she was a program committee member of numerous international conferences including ICAPS 2004, ICAPS 2003, ECAI 2002, ECAI 2000, KR 2000, IJCAI-99, and IJCAI-97.