1. Education

1.2 Secondary Education and Military Service

1989 - 1990
Grundwehrdienst (basic military service)
1989
Abitur
1980 - 1989
Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium Kleve

1.3 Primary Education

1976 - 1980
Kath. Bekenntnisgrundschule St. Michael Kleve-Reichwalde

2. Scholarships

1992-1997
Bischöfliche Studienförderung Cusanuswerk

3. Scientific Career

March 2004 - today
Senior Consultant at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Oktober 2002 - November 2002
Visiting researcher at the Intelligent Systems Group, University of Utrecht (NL)
1999 - today
Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in the Knowledge Management department
1998 - 1999
Researcher at the University of Heidelberg at the Institute of Psychology
1996 - 1998
Student worker at the University of Heidelberg at the Institute of Psychology
1993 - 1998
Student worker at DFKI GmbH in the Intelligent Engineering Systems department

4. Internships

1991
Fuji Magnetics, Kleve, 6 weeks
1990
Bull AG, Erkrath, 6 weeks
1990
IBR GmbH, Wulfen, 8 weeks

5. Teaching Experience

L. van Elst, V. Dignum, & A. Abecker (2003): Agent-based Approaches for Knowledge Management Information Systems: Rationale and Overview, In: L. van Elst et al. (Eds): Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management, Springer,  2003.

L. van Elst, V. Dignum, & A. Abecker (Eds) (2003): Agent-mediated Knowledge Management, Springer,  2003.

A. Abecker & L. van Elst: Ontologies for Knowledge Management (to appear). to appear in: Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems (St. Staab, R. Studer, eds), Springer, 2003

F.-R. Aschoff & Ludger van Elst (to appear): Empirical Evaluations of Organizational Memory Information Systems: A Literature Overview, DFKI Document DD-03-01, to appear in 2003.

A. Bernardi, L. van Elst, P. Dannenmann, & T. Bähr (2003): Towards information visualization in cooperative, evolutionary knowledge spaces, In: I-KNOW'03 Workshop on Knowledge and Information Visualisation 2003 (KIV2003), 2003.

L. van Elst, F.-R. Aschoff, A. Bernardi, H. Maus, & S. Schwarz (2003): Weakly-structured Workflows for Knowledge-intensive Tasks: An Experimental Evaluation, In: Proceedings of the Twelfth IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2003), pp. 340-345, IEEE Press, 2003.

L. van Elst, V. Dignum, & A. Abecker (Eds) (2003): Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management - Papers from the 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium. Technical Report SS-03-01, AAAI Press, March 2003.

A. Abecker, A. Bernardi, L. van Elst: Agent Technology for Distributed Organizational Memories. Accepted for: 5th International Conference On Enterprise Information Systems, Angers - France - 23-26 April, 2003.

L. van Elst & A. Abecker: Ontologies for Information Management: Balancing Formality, Stability, and Sharing Scope, Expert Systems with Applications, 23(4):357-366, November 2002. Elsevier.

L. van Elst & A. Abecker: Domain Ontology Agents for Distributed Organizational Memories. In: Rose Dieng-Kuntz and Nada Matta (eds.): Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories. Kluwer Academic Publishers,  July 2002.

A. Abecker, S. Dioudis, L. van Elst, C. Houy, M. Legal, G. Mentzas, S. Müller, G. Papavassiliou: Enabling Workflow-Embedded OM Access With the DECOR Toolkit. In: R. Dieng-Kuntz and N. Matta (eds.): Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories. Kluwer Academic Publishers, July 2002.

M. Schaaf & L. van Elst: An Approach to Cooperating Organizational Memories Based on Semantic Negotiation and Unification. In: Papers from the AAAI-2002 Workshop on Meaning Negotiation, Technical Report WS-02-09, pp. 13-16.

L. van Elst & A. Abecker: Negotiating Domain Ontologies in Distributed Organizational Memories. In: Papers from the AAAI-2002 Workshop on Meaning Negotiation, Technical Report WS-02-09, pp. 32-35.

M. Bauer, L. van Elst, K. Fischer, B. Freisleben, P. Funk, G. Große, G. Paul, S.M. Thomas, H. Vogler: AgentSurvey: Assessing the state of the Art of Industrial Applications Using Agent Technology and AI, Online Proceedings of the AI-2002 Workshop on Business Agents and the Semantic Web, May 26, 2002, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

A. Dengel, A. Abecker, A. Bernardi, L. van Elst, H. Maus, S. Schwarz, M. Sintek: Konzepte zur Gestaltung von Unternehmensgedächtnissen, KI, 1/02, pp. 5-11.

A. Abecker, A. Bernardi, L. van Elst, A. Lauer, H. Maus, S. Schwarz, & M. Sintek: FRODO: A  Framework for Distributed Organizational Memories. Milestone M1: Requirements Analysis and System Architecture. DFKI Document D-01-01.

L.  van Elst and A.  Abecker: Ontology-Related Services in Agent-Based Distributed Information Infrastructures. In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering, June 13-15, 2001, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 79-85.

L.  van Elst, A. Abecker, and H. Maus: Exploiting User and Process Context for Knowledge Management Systems. In for: Workshop on User Modelling for Context-Aware Applications at User Modeling 2001, Sonthofen, Germany

L. van Elst and A. Abecker (2001). Integrating Task, Role, and User Modeling in Organizational Memories. In: I. Russell, & J. Kolen (Eds.) Proceedings of the Fourteenth International FLAIRS Conference, Key West, Florida, USA, May 21-23, 2001, pp. 295-99, AAAI Press: Menlo Park, CA.

L. van Elst and A. Abecker: Domain Ontology Agents in Distributed Organizational Memories. In: IJCAI'2001 Working Notes of the Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories, August 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA, pp. 39-48.

A. Abecker, A. Bernardi, L. van Elst,  R. Herterich, C. Houy, S. Müller, S. Dioudis, G. Mentzas, M. Legal: Workflow-Embedded Organizational Memory Access: The DECOR Project. In: IJCAI'2001 Working Notes of the Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories, August 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA, pp. 1-9.

M. Sintek, M. Junker, L. van Elst, and A. Abecker: Using Information Extraction Rules for Extending Domain Ontologies - Position Statement for the IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Ontology Learning, In: IJCAI'2001 Working Notes of the Workshop on Ontology Learning, August 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA. CEUR Proceedings Vol. 38.

F. Schmalhofer,  & L. van Elst (2000). Cognitive Analyses within Increasingly Larger Organizational Contexts. In: J.M. Schraagen, S.F. Chipman, & V.L. Shalin (Eds.) Cognitive Task Analysis, pp. 303-316. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Mahwah, New Jersey, London.

L. van Elst, & F. Schmalhofer (1999). A Cooperative Comprehension Assistant for Intranet-Based Information Environments. In: M. Klusch, O. M. Shehory, & G. Weiss (Eds.) Cooperative Information Agents III, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop, CIA'99, Uppsala, Sweden, July 31 - August 2, 1999, pp. 390-401. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.

F. Schmalhofer, & L. van Elst (1999). An Oligo-Agents System with Shared Responsibilities for Knowledge Management. In: D. Fensel, & R. Studer (Eds.) Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management, Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop, EKAW '99, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, May 26-29, 1999, pp. 379-384 . Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.

F. Schmalhofer, L. van Elst, R. Aschoff, O. Bärenfänger, & L. E. Jr. Bourne (1999). Mentale Modelle sozialer Interaktionen: Wie Texte über Sozialbetrügereien verstanden werden. Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie, 46, 3, 204-216.

L. van Elst (1998). Ein Informationsassistent zum gemeinsamen Verstehen von Textdokumenten (An Information Assistant for the  Cooperative Comprehension of Text Documents). Diplomarbeit, Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Kaiserslautern.

L. van Elst, & F. Schmalhofer (1998). Concatex: A Tool For Connectionist Simulations Of Assimilation And Contrast Effects In Impression Formation. Paper presented at the Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP) Conference.

F. Schmalhofer, & L. van Elst (1998). The comprehension of scandals: Cognitive implications from descriptions of cheating behavior. Paper presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse in Madison, WI.

L. van Elst, & F. Schmalhofer (1997). Die Persistenz von Inferenzen in einem verstehensbasierten kognitiven Modell (The Persistence of Inferences in a Comprehension-Based Cognitive Model). Kognitionswissenschaft, 6, pp. 86-98.

F. Schmalhofer, & L. van Elst (1997). Soziale Inferenzen beim Textverstehen. In: W. Krause, U. Kotkamp, & R. Goertz(Hrsg.). KogWis97: Proceedings der 3. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft, Jena. pp. 182-184.

F. Schmalhofer, & L. van Elst (1997). A Unified Model for Social Inferences in Text Comprehension. Paper presented at the Workshop on Connectionism, Social Psychology, and Dual-Process Theories, in Ebrach, 10.-12.01.1997.

F. Schmalhofer, L. van Elst, & L. E. Bourne (1997).The Cognitive Consequence of Whitewater: Social Inferences in Text Comprehension. In: M. G. Shafto & P. Langley (Eds) Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Stanford University, 1997. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, p. 1040.

F. Schmalhofer, L. van Elst, & R. Vogel (1996). Die Generierung und Persistenz von Inferenzen. Ein verstehensbasierter Modellierungsansatz. In: R.H. Kluwe und M. May (Hrsg.) Proceedings der 2. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft, Universität Hamburg, pp. 152-154.

F. Schmalhofer, & L. van Elst (1995). Entwicklung von Expertensystemen: Prototypen, Tiefenmodellierung und kooperative Wissensevolution.In W. Dzida & U. Konradt (Eds.), Psychologie des Software-Entwurfs (pp. 223-244). Göttingen: Verlag für Angewandte Psychologie. also published as DFKI-Document D-94-04.

F. Schmalhofer, L. van Elst, R. Vogel., & M. McDaniel (1995). Die Generierung von Inferenzen und ihre Stabilität über die Zeit. Paper presented at the workshop “Künstliche Intelligenz und Kognitionswissenschaft”, Bielefeld, Germany.

F. Schmalhofer, S. Aitken, B. Tschaitschian, & L. van Elst (1994). User Guided Machine Learning for Generating Abstractions. Paper presented at the ECAI94 Workshop on “Integration of knowledge acquisition and Machine Learning”, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August, 8, 1994.

6.4 Invited Talks

Von Wissensverbindungen und verbindendem Wissen, Eingeladener Vortrag am 13.01.2004 in der Kath. Hochschulgemeinde Kaiserslautern

Domain Ontology Societies in Distributed Organizational Memories, Invited Talk at the Institute of Computer and Information Science, University of Utrecht, November 20, 2002

Enterprise Knowledge Management: Balancing Individual and Organizational Needs, Invited Talk at the Cognitive Science Institute, University of Osnabrück, April 24, 2002

Das Menschenbild der Künstlichen Intelligenz, Eingeladener Vortrag am 9.11.2000 in der ESG Kaiserslautern

6.5 Services to the Scientific Community

Chair of the 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium on Agent-mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM)

PC member and reviewer for several conferences and workshop in the area of Knowledge Management, AI, and Cognitive Science

Member of the Berufspraxiskommission (committee for job and carreer aspects) of the Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft (German Cognitive Science Society)


Stand: 06.09.2007