KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Intelligent Decision Support for Solving Wicked Planning and Design Problems

Prof. Gunther Ruhe
University of Calgary, Canada

Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Dr. Ruhe received a doctorate rer. nat degree in Mathematics with emphasis on Operations Research from Freiberg University, Germany and a doctorate habil. nat. degree from both the Technical University of Leipzig and University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He had a visiting professorship at University of Bayreuth in 1991/92 and got an Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship at University of Kaiserslautern in 1992. Ruhe was visiting scientist at the IBM Research Centre in Heidelberg in 1993. From 1996 until 2001 he was Deputy director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering Fh IESE in Germany. He holds an Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering at University of Calgary. This is a joint position between department of Computer Science and department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Guenther Ruhe is an iCORE Professor since July 2001. His laboratory for Software Engineering Decision Support (see www.seng-decisionsupport.ucalgary.ca) currently includes 20 graduate students, post-doctoral students and research associates. He is leading a research team whose primary aim is to establish and demonstrate scientific

excellence in the area of software engineering decision support. He has comprehensive experience as a team leader and was the Principal Investigator for various European research projects (CEMP, PROFES, HYPER, SOFTQAULI, KOBRA, CORONET). He has extensive experience in industry collaboration and technology transfer (Allianz, Bosch, City of Calgary, Corel, DaimlerChrysler, Ericsson, Nokia, Nortel, Schlumberger, Siemens, Solid, Trema).

Dr. Ruhe has organized different international conferences and workshops, has given keynotes at various conferences and is a regular reviewer for a couple of journals in software engineering, computer science and operations research. He has published more than 155 reviewed research papers at journals, workshops and conferences. Dr. Ruhe is a member of the ACM, the IEEE Computer Society and the German Computer Society GI.