Positions

• One of the established Slovenian researchers in computer science and informatics, information society, intelligent systems, artificial intelligence, intelligent agents


• Over 900 publications in books, journals and conference proceedings, 1400 items in COBISS, 7 patent (applications)


• Member of the (in analogy to the - USA House of Representatives - the lower chamber) National Council of the Republic of Slovenia, National Councillor for science and research


• Short biography (in Slovene)


• Co-founder, was secretary and several other functions in the Engineering academy of Slovenia, old


• Head of research class of Engineering academy of Slovenia


• Slovenian representative in IFIP Technical Committee 12 - Artificial Intelligence


• Was member of the National council for science and technology


• Member of societies AAAI, IEEE and ACM


• Head of the Department of Intelligent systems at Jozef Stefan Institute


• President of the Org. Comm. for the conference Inform. society 1997-


• Past president of conference of Slovenian union SVIZ for professors, researchers and related professions, was Vice president of SVIZ


• Cofounder, was 2 terms President, and current ex. boards member of ACM Slovenia


• Managing director of the Informatica journal, and (past or current) member of editorial boards of several international journals:
  • International Journal of Advanced Robotics and Automation journal,
  • Innovative Computing and Applications - IJICA,
  • International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems,
  • Journal of Robotics and Computation,
  • Electronic Commerce Journal,
  • Intelligent Data Analysis journal,
  • AI Communications journal,
  • Knowledge and Information Systems journal,
  • International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications (IJICA),
  • The International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (IJCIR),
  • IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems,
  • Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE),
  • International Journal of Automation and Computing (IJAC),
  • Journal of Information and Organizational Sciences,
  • International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation (IJBIC),
  • Stability and Control: Theory and Applications, and the Noetic ournal.
  • Quark.


• Managing director of the English-Slovenian computer dictionary


• Member of a group preparing a new law for science and research in Slovenia, established by the Ministry, 2013


• Cofounder, was President, and current ex. board member of Cognitive sciences of Slovenia


• Was Member of the National strategic council for information society


• Was Member of the the National council for computers in schools


• Was 2 mandates Member of the Board of governors of the JS Institute, and past and current member of the JSI Scientific council,


• Was President, Secretary, cofounding member and current ex. board member of SLAIS Slovenia


• Was Deputy national coordinator of computer science and informatics in Slovenia (several terms)