About the instructor

Dr. Gerd Wagner is currently a research scientist in the informatics department at the Free University of Berlin. He received an MSc in mathematics and a PhD in philosophy from the Free University of Berlin, and a German Habilitation degree in computer science from the University of Leipzig. He was visiting researcher at the Institute de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse in 1994 and at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 1995. His research interests are focused on the foundations of information and knowledge systems and of multiagent systems. Dr. Wagner is the guest editor of a 1997 special issue of the Journal of Applied Nonclassical Logic on Handling Inconsistency in Knowledge Systems, and the author of the book Foundations of Knowledge Systems with Applications to Databases and Agents (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998). In 1999, he initiated and co-organized the first International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (http://www.AOIS.org). In recent years, Dr. Wagner has also worked with the enterprise resource planning system BaanERP. He has been involved in several BaanERP customization projects, and has taught BaanERP Tools to programmers and consultants.

Homepage at: http://www.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/~gwagner/