University of Ljubljana
University of Ljubljana
The
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, founded in 1985, carries out basic
and applied research in Artificial Intelligence, and specializes in Machine
Learning.
Ivan Bratko, CV
Ivan Bratko is professor of computer science at University of Ljubljana,
Faculty of
Computer and Information Science. Professor Bratko has also directed the AI
group at
J. Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, and has been visiting professor at various
universities in Europe and elsewhere. Professor Bratko has conducted research
in machine learning, knowledge-based systems, qualitative modelling,
intelligent robotics, heuristic programming and computer chess. His main
interests in machine learning have been in learning from noisy data, combining
learning and qualitative reasoning, constructive induction, Inductive Logic
Programming and various applications of machine learning, including medicine
and control of dynamic systems.
Best known among Bratko's many publications are the books Prolog Programming
for
Artificial Intelligence (Addison-Wesley/Pearson Education, third edition,
2001),
KARDIO: a Study in Deep and Qualitative Knowledge for Expert Systems (MIT
Press, 1989; co-authored by I. Mozetic and N. Lavrac), and Machine Learning
and Data Mining:
Methods and Applications (Wiley, 1998; co-edited by R.S. Michalski and M.
Kubat). He is or has been member of the editorial board of several journals,
including Artificial
Intelligence Journal, Journal of Machine Learning, Journal of AI Research,
Jornal of
Machine Learning Reaserch and Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems. He
was one of the founders and the first chairman of SLAIS(Slovenian AI Society)
and the chairman of ISSEK, International School for the Synthesis of Expert
Knowledge, based in Udine, Italy. He is Fellow of ECCAI.
Blaz Zupan, CV
Blaz Zupan received his Ph.D. degree in computer science in 1997 from the
University of Ljubljana. He has a B.Sc. degree from the University of
Ljubljana and a M.Sc. degree from the University of Houston, Texas. He is an
Associate Professor at University of Ljubljana and Visiting Assistant
Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. His main research
interest is in machine learning, data mining and systems for decision support,
and applies these technologies to biomedical data analysis and construction of
medical decision support systems. He is a principal author of HINT, a
Hierarchy Induction Tool, and a coauthor of Orange, a component-based data
mining freeware, and Genepath, a system for genetic data analysis.
Dorian Suc, CV
Dorian Suc received his Ph.D. degree in computer science in 2001 from the
University of Ljubljana. He has Dipl.Ing. and M.Sc. degree from the same
university and is a teaching assistant at the Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory. For his doctoral dissertation he received the 2001 ECCAI
Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award, sponsored by European Coordinating
Committee for Artificial Intelligence. His research interests include machine
learning, human skill reconstruction and behavioural cloning, reinforcement
learning, combining qualitative and numerical models and induction of
qualitative models as a general method to discover qualitative relations in
data.
Martin Mozina, CV
Martin Mozina received a Dipl.Ing. degree in computer science from the
University of
Ljubljana in 2003. He is a Ph.D. student of computer and information science
at the
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research includes applications of
machine
learning in data mining, systems for decision support and data visualization
methods.
