Marko Bohanec

Jožef Stefan Institute, Department of Intelligent Systems, Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone: (+386)(61) 1773 309, Fax: (+386)(61) 1251 038, E-mail: marko.bohanec@ijs.si

• Biographical sketch
• Research areas
• Long-term research projects
• Research & development projects
• Selected bibliography

Biographical Sketch

Born

April 29, 1958, Maribor, Slovenia

1981

B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering

1987

M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering

1991

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Since 1981

Researcher at Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana

Since 1993

Assistant Professor for Information Systems, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kranj

Research Areas

Long-Term Research Projects

1979-1982

Computer information systems

1983-1985

Information systems and data bases

1986-1991

Information systems and artificial intelligence

1991-1994

Knowledge engineering

1992-1994

Automated knowledge synthesis

1995-1997

Knowledge synthesis from data

1995-1997

Analysis of clynical databases and synthesis of medical knowledge

1997-1999

Methods for developing hierarchical models

Research & Development Projects

• Development of multi-attribute decision support systems ABACON (1980), DECMAK (1980-1987) and DEX (1988-1993)
• About 50 consulting projects involving the systems ABACON, DECMAK and DEX in supporting realistic decision problems in various fields such as: selection and evaluation of computer hardware and software, evaluation of enterprises and business partners, personnel management, project evaluation.
• Development of SI2000, a distributed switching system (1981-1986 and 1992-1993)
• Development of an information system for ranking applications for nursery schools (1983-1985)
• Development of BES, an expert system for liquidity planning in banks (1984-1985)
• Expert systems for performance evaluation of enterprises (in collaboration with International Center for Public Enterprises, Ljubljana, and Corporacion Nacional de Desarollo, Lima, Peru; 1988-1989)
• Ptah: Information system for supporting medical therapeutic activities (in collaboration with Infonet, d.o.o., Kranj; 1994-1996)
• Expert system for the sanation of waste disposals (in collaboration with Oikos, d.o.o., Domžale; 1994-1997)
• Talent: Expert system for advising children in choosing sports (1996-1997)

Selected Bibliography

1. Bohanec, M., Bratko, I., Rajkovič, V.: An expert system for decision making, in Processes and tools for decision support (ed. Sol, H.G.), pp. 235-248, North-Holland, 1983.
2. Efstathiou, J., Rajkovič, V., Bohanec, M.: Expert systems and rule based decision support systems, in Computer assisted decision making (ed. Mitra, G.), pp. 165-174, North-Holland, 1986.
3. Rajkovič, V., Bohanec, M., Efstathiou, J.: Ranking multiple options with DECMAK, in Effective decision support systems (eds. Hawgood, J., Humphreys, P.), pp. 49-60, Gower Technical Press, 1987.
4. Rajkovič, V., Efstathiou, J., Bohanec, M.: A concept of rule-based decision support systems, in Optimization models using fuzzy sets and possibility theory (eds. Kacprzyk, J., Orlovski, S.A.), pp. 292-299, D. Riedel Publishing Co., 1987.
5. Rajkovič, V., Bohanec, M., Batagelj, V.: Knowledge engineering techniques for utility identification, Acta Psychologica 68(1-3), pp. 271-286, 1988, and in Advances in decision research (eds. Rohrmann, B., Beach, R.L., Vlek, C., Watson, R.S.), North-Holland, 1988.
6. Olave, M., Rajkovič, V., Bohanec, M.: An application for admission in public school systems, in Expert systems in public administration (eds. Snellen, I.Th.M., van de Donk, W.B.H.J., Baquiast, J.-P.), pp. 145-160, Elsevier, 1989.
7. Rajkovič, V., Bohanec, M.: Decision support by knowledge explanation, in Environments for Supporting Decision Processes (eds. Sol, H.G., Vecsenyi, J.), pp. 47-57, North-Holland, 1991.
8. Bohanec, M., Rajkovič, V.: DEX: An expert system shell for decision support, Sistemica 1(1), pp. 145-157, 1990.
9. Rajkovič, V., Bohanec, M., Leskošek, B., Šturm, J.: A knowledge-based advising system for choosing sports, in Decision support systems: Experiences and expectations (eds. Jelassi, T., Klein, M.R., Mayon-White, W.M.), Elsevier (North-Holland), pp. 215-224, 1992.
10. Bohanec, M., Urh, B., Rajkovič, V.: Evaluating options by combined qualitative and quantitative methods, Acta Psychologica 80, pp. 67-89, North-Holland, 1992.
11. Gams, M., Bohanec, M., Cestnik, B.: Is multiple knowledge beneficial?, in Cybernetics and Systems Research '92 (ed. R. Trappl), World Scientific, pp. 49-56, 1992.
12. Bohanec, M., Rajkovič, V.: Knowledge-based explanation in multiattribute decision making, in Computer aided decision analysis: Theory and applications (ed. Nagel, S.), pp. 189-204, Westport: Quorum Books, 1993.
13. Gams, M., Bohanec, M., Cestnik, B.: A schema for using multiple knowledge, in Computational learning theory and natural learning systems (eds. Hanson, S.J., Petsche, T., Kearns, M., Rivest, R.L.), pp. 157-170, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994.
14. Bohanec, M., Bratko, I.: Trading accuracy for simplicity in decision trees, Machine Learning 15, pp. 223-250, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
15. Bohanec, M., Rajkovič, V., Semolič, B., Pogačnik, A.: Knowledge-based portfolio analysis for project evaluation, Information & Management 28, pp. 293-302, Elsevier, 1995.
16. Bohanec, M., Bratko, I.: Representing examples by examples, in Mathematical and statistical methods in artificial intelligence (eds. Della Riccia, G., Kruse, R., Viertl, R.), pp. 221-235, Vienna: Springer-Verlag, 1995.
17. Bohanec, M., Cestnik, B., Rajkovič, V.: A management decision support system for allocating housing loans, in Implementing systems for supporting management decisions (eds. Humphreys, P., Bannon, L., McCosh, A., Migliarese, P., Pomerol, J.-C.), pp. 34-43, London: Chapman & Hall, 1996.
18. Demšar, J., Zupan, B., Bohanec, M., Bratko, I.: Constructing intermediate concepts by decomposition of real functions, in Machine Learning: ECML-97 (eds. van Someren, M., Widmer, G), pp. 93-107, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1997.
19. Zupan, B., Bohanec, M., Bratko, I., Demšar, J.: Machine learning by function decomposition, in Proceedings ICML-97 (ed. Fisher, D.H.), pp. 421-429, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 1997.
20. Bohanec, M., Zupan, B., Bratko, I., Cestnik, B.: A function-decomposition method for development of hierarchical multi-attribute decision models, in Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the International Society for Decision Support Systems ISDSS-97, pp. 503-514, Lausanne, 1997.
21. Bohanec, M., Rems, M., Slavec, S., Urh, B.: Ptah: A system for supporting nosocomial infection therapy, in Intelligent data analysis in medicine and pharmacology (eds. Lavrač, N., Keravnou, E., Zupan, B.), pp. 99-111, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
22. Zupan, B., Bohanec, M., Demšar, J., Bratko I.: Feature transformation by function decomposition, IEEE Intelligent Systems 13(2), pp. 38-43, 1998.
23. Bohanec, M., Cestnik, B., Rajkovič, V.: Evaluation models for housing loan allocation in the context of floats, in Context sensitive decision support systems (eds. Berkeley, D., Widmeyer, G.R., Brezillon, P., Rajkovič, V.), pp. 174-189, London: Chapman & Hall, 1998.
24. Zupan, B., Bohanec, M.: Experimental evaluation of three partition selection measures for decision table decomposition, Informatica 22, pp. 207-217, 1998.
25. Zupan, B., Bohanec, M., Demšar, J., Bratko I.: Feature transformation by function decomposition, in Feature extraction, construction and selection: A data mining perspective (eds. Liu, H., Motoda, H.), pp. 325-340, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.