Welcome to Gerhard Wickler's Home Page

Contact Details

At the office:
Gerhard Wickler
AIAI, School of Informatics
The University of Edinburgh
Appleton Tower, Crichton Street
Edinburgh EH8 9LE
SCOTLAND

Phone: +44 (0)131 651 4166
Fax: +44 (0)131 650 6513
Email: g.wickler@ed.ac.uk

Work

Research

• my Ph.D. project (1996-1999) about representing and brokering of agent capabilities (part of the O-Plan project at AIAI)
• my main project is currently the OpenVCE project which is linked with AIAI's I-X systems integration architecture
• recent publications
• conferences:
  • ICAPS 2014: June 21-26, 2014, Portsmouth, NH, USA.; deadline: October 29, 2013
  • ISCRAM 2014: May 18-21, 2014, Penn State University, USA; deadline: November 15, 2013
  • Track on Intelligent Systems
  • ECAI 2014: August 18-22, 2014, Prague, Czech Republic; deadline: March 1, 2014
• useful Resources:
  • for finding papers: the Edinburgh University library, Citeseer, and, of course, Google

Teaching

• the Automated Planning Course together with Austin Tate

Software

• information processing: utilities (jar, doc), compiling (jar, doc)
• artificial intelligence search methods (jar, doc) - examples:
• uninformed search: missionaries and cannibals, travelling salesman, eight queens, eight puzzle
• informed search: eight puzzle
• knowledge representation and reasoning (jar, doc) - examples:
• propositional logic: truth table applet, normal form applet, Davis and Putnam applet, resolution applet
• planning (jar, doc) - examples:
• propositional: forward state-space planner applet
• strips: forward state-space planner application

Other Interests

• read mail to my hotmail account
• read some online comics: Get Fuzzy, Monty, Dilbert, Calvin and Hobbes, Garfield
• take pictures and put them online at my flickr page
• fly cheaply with GermanWings, Hapag-Lloyd Express, Ryanair, EasyJet, Air-Berlin
• drink good wine: Robert Parker/The Wine Advocate, The Wine Spectator, Wine-Searcher, and in German: Wein-Plus, Wein-Suchmaschine, Google Weinsuche