Leader in ASP joins PARK
Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:34:00 GMT
Wolfgang Faber’s current research interests are in knowledge representation, logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning, planning and knowledge-based agents. He has published more than 100 refereed articles and papers in journals, collections, and conference proceedings in these areas. He is one of the architects of DLV, a state-of-the-art system for computing answer sets of disjunctive deductive databases, which is used all over the world. Before starting as a Reader in Huddersfield in September 2013, he had served as an Associate Professor at the University of Calabria (Italy) since 2006, was the recipient of an APART grant of the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 2004 to 2006, and served as the equivalent of a Lecturer at the Vienna University of Technology from 1999 to 2004. He holds the title of Privatdozent at the Vienna University of Technology because of his Habilitation in 2006, obtained the equivalent of a PhD in Computer Science in 2002, and the equivalent of an MSc in Computer Science in 1998, both from the Vienna University of Technology.