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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2010 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to knowledge representation and reasoning, planning, robotics, and services to the international AI community.
  • 2009 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Informatics

Overview

Bernhard Nebel is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany and specializes primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their main area of research includes Artificial Intelligence, with considerable contributions in the subfields of Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Mechanical Engineering.

Their research covers several core topics such as Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge; AI-based Problem Solving and Planning; Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation; Optimization and Search Problems; Robotic Path Planning Algorithms; Semantic Web and Ontologies; and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence.

Bernhard Nebel has published extensively in notable venues. Frequent publication venues include Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, arXiv (Cornell University), Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, and Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Bernhard Nebel include:

  • On the Computational Complexity of Multi-Agent Pathfinding on Directed Graphs, 2020, Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
  • Symbolic Top-k Planning, 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Evaluation of the moral permissibility of action plans, 2020, Artificial Intelligence
  • The DESIRE service robotics initiative, 2022, Künstliche Intell.
  • Epistemic planning: Perspectives on the special issue, 2022, Artificial Intelligence

Frequent co-authors of Nebel include Robert Mattmüller, Alisa Kovtunova, Markus Krötzsch, Marcel Steinmetz, and Stefano Ardizzoni.

The scientist has been recognized with memberships and fellowships including Member of Academia Europaea since 2011, Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) since 2010 for contributions to knowledge representation and reasoning, planning, and robotics, and membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2009 in Informatics.

Best Publications

  • The FF planning system: fast plan generation through heuristic search

    Jörg Hoffmann;Bernhard Nebel

  • Reasoning and Revision in Hybrid Representation Systems

    Bernhard Nebel

  • COMPLEXITY RESULTS FOR SAS+ PLANNING

    Christer Bäckström;Bernhard Nebel

  • Reasoning about temporal relations: a maximal tractable subclass of Allen's interval algebra

    Bernhard Nebel;Hans-Jürgen Bürckert

  • On the Complexity of Qualitative Spatial Reasoning: A Maximal Tractable Fragment of the Region Connection Calculus

    Jochen Renz;Bernhard Nebel

  • TERMINOLOGICAL CYCLES: Semantics and Computational Properties

    Bernhard Nebel

  • Semantic attachments for domain-independent planning systems

    Christian Dornhege;Patrick Eyerich;Thomas Keller;Sebastian Trüg

  • Extending Planning Graphs to an ADL Subset

    Jana Koehler;Bernhard Nebel;Jörg Hoffmann;Yannis Dimopoulos

  • Exploring artificial intelligence in the new millennium

    Gerhard Lakemeyer;Bernhard Nebel

  • Terminological reasoning is inherently intractable (research note)

    B. Nebel

  • Qualitative spatial reasoning using constraint calculi

    Jochen Renz;Bernhard Georg Nebel

  • Am empirical analysis of optimization techniques for terminological representation systems

    Franz Baader;Bernhard Hollunder;Bernhard Nebel;Hans-Jürgen Profitlich

  • Belief revision and default reasoning : syntax-based approaches

    Bernhard Nebel

  • Plan reuse versus plan generation: a theoretical and empirical analysis

    Bernhard Nebel;Bernhard Nebel;Jana Koehler

  • Encoding Planning Problems in Nonmonotonic Logic Programs

    Yannis Dimopoulos;Bernhard Nebel;Jana Koehler

  • Computational complexity of terminological reasoning in BACK

    B. Nebel

  • A knowledge level analysis of belief revision

    Bernhard Nebel

  • Continual planning and acting in dynamic multiagent environments

    Michael Brenner;Bernhard Nebel

  • Coming up With Good Excuses: What to do When no Plan Can be Found

    Moritz Göbelbecker;Thomas Keller;Patrick Eyerich;Michael Brenner

  • In defense of PDDL axioms

    Sylvie Thiébaux;Jörg Hoffmann;Bernhard Nebel

  • An empirical analysis of optimization techniques for terminological representation systems : or: 'Making KRIS get a move on'

    Franz Baader;Bernhard Hollunder;Bernhard Nebel;Hans-Jürgen Profitlich

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfram Burgard
Wolfram Burgard University of Technology Nuremberg
Christian Freksa
Christian Freksa University of Bremen
Franz Baader
Franz Baader TU Dresden
Gert Smolka
Gert Smolka Saarland University
Jörg Hoffmann
Jörg Hoffmann Saarland University
Birgit Kleim
Birgit Kleim University of Zurich
Jana Koehler
Jana Koehler German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Brunna Tuschen-Caffier
Brunna Tuschen-Caffier University of Freiburg
Werner Nutt
Werner Nutt Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Luc De Raedt
Luc De Raedt KU Leuven

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