International Cooperation

Slovenian AI researchers have been participating in EEC funded research projects, including COST-13 (project Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition), ESPRIT II (project ECOLES in Machine Learning) and ESPRIT III (project Inductive Logic Programming). The Jozef Stefan Institute Department of Intelligent Systems is a node in European Networks of Excellence in Computational Logic, Machine Learning, and Evolutionary Computing. It is also a funding member of the International School for the Synthesis of Expert Knowledge (ISSEK), joining a group of laboratories from Australia, Austria, Great Britain, Italy, Slovenia and USA conducting research in computer-aided synthesis of new knowledge. International cooperation is also based on academic links and agreements of cooperation with academic institutions from various European countries.

Research results that are best recognised internationally include: innovative application of qualitative modelling, deep knowledge and machine learning techniques in the KARDIO expert system for the diagnosis of heart disorders, and significant contributions to machine learning from noisy data. The KARDIO project is described in the book KARDIO: a Study in Deep and Qualitative Knowledge for Expert Systems (by I. Bratko, I. Mozetic and N. Lavrac, published by the MIT Press in 1989). Professor Bratko is also the author of the widely accepted textbook Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence, published by Addison-Wesley (second edition 1990), and translated to German, Italian, French, Japanese, Russian and Slovenian. In 1994, the book Inductive Logic Programming: Techniques and Applications (by N. Lavrac and S. Dzeroski) was published by Ellis Horwood.

In addition, Slovenian researchers have contributed papers to major international AI conferences, including IJCAI and ECAI, and publications in international journals and books. Also, they have been members of editorial boards of international journals and programme committees of international conferences, including IJCAI, ECAI, EWSL and ECML.