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)