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Department of Intelligent Systems:
Activities

Members of AI lab actively cooperate in:

• SLAIS (Slovenian Aritificial Intelligence Society), a member society of ECCAI (European Coordination Committee for AI)
• SATENA (Slovenian Association of Technical and Natural Sciencies)
• Informatica (An International Journal of Computing and Informatics)
• European Scientific Networks (MLNET, ILPNET,...)
• The society of cognitive sciences
• Seminars (in Slovene)
• Other international activities
• Organizational activities
• Awards
• Lecturing
• Scholarships
• Slovenian e-conference CATHY::Artificial_intelligence

Other international activities

• Founding member of ISSEK ( International School for the Synthesis of Expert Knowledge) association
• Member of ECCAI (European Coordination Committee for AI)
• Academic link with The Turing Institute, Glasgow, UK
• Agreement of cooperation with Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1990-1995
• Agreement of cooperation with Austrian Research Institute for AI, Vienna, Austria, 1990-92
• Agreement of cooperation with Klagenfurt University, Institute for Informatics, Klagenfurt, Austria, 1990-92
• Members of the editorial board of Machine Intelligence volumes, Informatica journal, Intelligent Data Analysis journal, AI Communications journal, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, ML Journal, Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, AI Journal, CIT Journal, Journal of AI Research, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, ILP Newsletter, Acta Analitica, Informatica
• Members of programme committees of international AI conferences, such as ECAI, EWSL, ECML, IJCAI

Organizational activities

• CADAM-97 Workshop (Computer-Aided Data Analysis in Medicine), Bled, Slovenia, November 1997
• ILP-97, The Seventh International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming, Prague, Czech Republic, September 1997
• IDAMAP-97, an IJCAI-97 Workshop, (Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology), Nagoya, Japan, August 1997
• Selected Themes from Medical Informatics and Medical Data Analysis, Seminar, Ljubljana, May 1997
• Analysis of Ecological Data With Machine Learning Methods, Seminar, Ljubljana, February 1997
• IDAMAP-96, an ECAI-96 Workshop, (Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology), Budapest, Hungary, August 1996
• CADAM-95 Workshop, (Computer-Aided Data Analysis in Medicine), Bled, Slovenia, November 1995
• Third Inductive Logic Programming Workshop ILP'93, Bled, Slovenia, April 1993
• ISSEK Workshop 92, (International School for the Synthesis of Expert Knowledge), Bled, Slovenia, September 1992
• Co-organisers of CAS Summer Symposium on AI, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, September 1988, September 1990
• Workshop on Qualitative Modelling (a COST-13 conference), Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, November 1987
• EWSL 87 (European Working Session on Learning, a COST-13 conference), Bled, Yugoslavia, May 1987
• ISSEK Workshop 86, (International School for the Synthesis of Expert Knowledge), Bled, Yugoslavia, August 1986
• Yugoslav Seminar on AI Technology, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, April 1985
• ISSEK Workshop 84, (International School for the Synthesis of Expert Knowledge), Bled, Yugoslavia, August 1984

Awards

• Kidric award for research in heuristic programming, 1979 (Ivan Bratko)
• The Yugoslav Cybernetics Association award for the development of a medical expert system, 1982 (Ivan Bratko, Nada Lavrac, Igor Mozetic)
• Kidric award for the research in knowledge synthesis using qualitative modelling techniques, 1986 (Ivan Bratko, Nada Lavrac, Igor Mozetic, Matija Horvat, Bojan Cercek, Anton Grad, Primoz Rode)
• Kidric Innovations Prize for the development of the inductive learning system ASSISTANT, 1988 (Bojan Cestnik, Igor Kononenko, Ivan Bratko)
• Kidric award for the development of computer-aided AI-based decision support methods, 1990 (Vladislav Rajkovic, Marko Bohanec)
• Kidric Innovations Prize for contribution to the development of the KRONOS timing and attendance data acquisition system, 1990 (Bogdan Filipic)
• Danish Association for Artificial Intelligence award for the best presentation at The Third Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, SCAI'91, Roskilde, Denmark, 1991 (Nada Lavrac, Saso Dzeroski, Vladimir Pirnat, Viljem Krizman)
• Jozef Stefan gold medal for the outstanding internationally recognised Ph.D. Thesis, 1993 (Bojan Cestnik)
• Jozef Stefan gold medal for the outstanding internationally recognised Ph.D. Thesis, 1996 (Saso Dzeroski)
• Ambasador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia, 1991 (Ivan Bratko)
• Ambasador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia, 1997 (Nada Lavrac)

Lecturing activity

• University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science (Ivan Bratko, Matjaz Gams, Vladislav Rajkovic, Marko Bohanec, Bogdan Filipic, Blaz Zupan)
• University of Ljubljana, Faculty for Pedagogics (Matjaz Gams)
• University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics (Matjaz Gams, Vladislav Rajkovic)
• University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engeneering (Bogdan Filipic)
• University of Maribor, Faculty of Organisational Sciences (Vladislav Rajkovic, Marko Bohanec, Bojan Cestnik)
• University of Maribor, Faculty of Technical Sciences (Vladislav Rajkovic, Marko Bohanec)
• Klagenfurt University, Austria (Ivan Bratko, Nada Lavrac)
• Udine University, Italy (Ivan Bratko)
• Stockholm University, Sweden (Nada Lavrac)
• George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA (Nada Lavrac)
• University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (Matjaz Gams, Nada Lavrac)
• University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Vladislav Rajkovic)
• University of Strathclyde / The Turing Institute, Glasgow, UK (Ivan Bratko)
• Linkoping University, Sweden (Nada Lavrac)
• University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Brasil (Nada Lavrac)
• Aarhus University, Denmark (Nada Lavrac)

Scholarship leaves of absence

• Machine Intelligence Research Unit, University of Edinburgh, UK, 1977, Summer 1978, Fall 1979, Fall 1980, Summer 1981, Summer 1983 (Ivan Bratko)
• University of Durham, UK, 1978 (Vladislav Rajkovic)
• Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Logic Programming Group, Portugal, Summer 1984 (Nada Lavrac)
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science Department, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, USA, 1984-86 (Igor Mozetic)
• Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Logic Programming Group, Portugal, Summer 1985 (Ivan Bratko, Nada Lavrac)
• The Turing Institute, University of Strathclyde, UK, 1985-86, 1987-88, Spring 1989, Fall 1990, Fall 1991, Fall 1992 (Ivan Bratko)
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science Department, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, USA, Fall 1985 (Nada Lavrac)
• The Turing Institute, University of Strathclyde, UK, Spring 1986 (Matjaz Gams)
• George Mason University, Computer Science Department and Centre for Artificial Intelligence, USA, Fall 1988 (Nada Lavrac)
• The Turing Institute, UK, Fall 1991 - Spring 1992 (Saso Dzeroski)
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Computer Science Department, Belgium, Fall 1991 - Spring 1992 (Nada Lavrac)
• University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Brasil, Fall 1992 (Nada Lavrac)
• University of Campinas, Campinas, Brasil, Fall 1992 (Nada Lavrac)
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Summer 1994 (Nada Lavrac)