School of Informatics Department of Computing
			UDE ICB DAWIS
			Fraunhofer FhG-SIT UNITE
Home Page My Research Publications Diploma Thesis CV Interests and Hobbies	Reinhold Kloos Home Page Representative of Ph.D.-students at the Computing Department (1999-2005)		Diplom-Informatiker Reinhold Kloos PhD-Student Department of Computing School of Informatics City University DAWIS ICB University of Duisburg-Essen r.kloos at soi.city.ac.uk Reinhold.Kloos at stud.uni-due.de
Hello! I started my studies as a Ph.D.-student in the agents-group (Prof. Dr. Michael Schroeder) at the Department of Computing, City University, London, and as a scientific researcher at the Fraunhofer institute for secure Telecooperation (FhG-SIT) in Darmstadt, Germany. Currently, I do my research at the institute of Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) at the university of Duisburg-Essen in Essen, Germany. I am a member of the DAWIS group under the guidance of Professor Dr. Rainer Unland, my supervisor. My research interest is in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In 1999, I started to examine the complex problems of service description and composition in open environments, designed for the support of the project-work of a world-wide dispersed group. In my doctoral research, I develop an adaptive and agent based trading framework, called ACTAS, which allows to find current possibilities for communication using methods of AI. My effort is to find a general model for the trading and composition, which can also be applied for several environments like for instance e-business and communication-services. In recent time, Web-Services showed an amazing development in description technology like WSDL, UDDI, and application. Another big approach for services and their composition is based on the ideas of Semantic Web (e.g. OWL-S, and EnTish). The properties of agents (Autonomy, Re-Activeness, Pro-Activeness, Communication) makes multi-agent systems an ideal environment for the Composition and Trading process as well as the implementation of the services. I am grateful that my research was supported by scholarships of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (1 year) and City University (3 years). I am member of the Security Group of FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents) and was also member of the Agentcities working group for Service Description and Composition in Agentcities. Agentcities-RTD was a European Commission funded 5th Framework IST Research project which ran from July 2001 - June 2003 and is now complete. Our working group examined service description technologies and analysed their suitability for the Agentcities network. Goal was the development of technical and technology requirements for dynamic service composition. Tutoring and teaching in subjects like Distributed Systems, Software Agents, Java, System Architecture, Data Bases, and Principles of Programming Languages extended my skills. From 1999 to 2005, I was the representative of the doctoral students of the Computing Department at City University. I published papers of my work at ICLP1999 (Workshop: Verification of Logic Programs), Agents2000 (Workshop: Intelligent Agents for Computer Supported Cooperative Work: Technology and Risks), ACAI2001, and in the JASS journal. My latest talk was at the MATES 2008 in Kaiserslautern. As the representative of the Ph.D.-students at the department of Computing, I was always open for ideas and comments of my fellow Ph.D.-students. My achieved goals were more transparent information about the decisions of the research student committee, and a program for research students, which allowed them more influence in the selection of books for the library of the university.