Prof. Dr. Peter Struss Telephone: +49 (89) 289-17776 Fax: +49 (89) 289-17757 E-Mail: Website: (personal) Room: 00.13.065 Address: Technische Universität München Computer Science Department IX Boltzmannstr. 3 D-85748 Garching b. München

Head of the MQM (Model-Based Systems & Qualitative Reasoning) research group.

Curriculum Vitae

Education
Peter Struss obtained a Diploma in mathematics from the University of Göttingen, received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Kaiserslautern for his work on qualitative modeling, and accomplished his habilitation in computer science at the Technical University of Munich for his work on a theory of diagnosis based on multiple models.

Career
From 1978 to 1992, he worked in the Corporate R&D division of Siemens Corp., where he was in charge of the knowledge-based systems group. He stayed as a guest researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center several times and also at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley.
In 1992, he joined the Technical University of Munich as a Professor of Computer Science where he heads the Model-based Systems and Qualitative Modeling (MQM) group.

Research Interests
His research interest is in Artificial Intelligence with a focus on the development of foundations and environments for

• modeling and model library building (qualitative modeling and multiple modeling, automated model abstraction)
• model-based problem solvers, esp. automated diagnosis, testing, failure-modes-and-effects analysis (logical foundations, inference engines, modeling of work processes).

The theoretical work has always been performed related to and evaluated in the context of various

• model-based systems applications (such as in the automotive industries as a major focus, aeronautics, food packaging systems, structures (buildings), water treatment, ecological systems)

He and his group have been involved in a number of German and European joint projects with industrial participation: details

Professional Activities
He served as a chair, co-chair, area-chair, or program committee member of numerous conferences and workshops (including IJCAI, ECAI, and the annual international workshops on Qualitative Reasoning and Principles of Diagnosis).
In the German Computer Science Association (GI), he acted as the speaker of the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group (formerly Qualitative Modeling) for over 20 years and promoted organization of work on model-based systems in Europe as a member of the executive board of the MONET network of excellence.
He was a member of the first editorial board of the Journal of AI Research and is an editorial board member of the Artificial Intelligence Journal and the International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management

Awards
In 2004, he was elected as a Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI)

Publications
He edited several books, such as "Recent Advances in Qualitative Physics'', "Knowledge Representation'', and "Intelligent Diagnosis in Industrial Applications'', and was a guest editor of the AI Magazine on Qualitative Reasoning and the IEEE Transactions on Man, Machine and Cybernetics. His publication list  comprises more than 150 journal papers, book chapters, and conference and workshop papers.