Auteur: Nada Lavrac

Prof. Dr. Johannes Fürnkranz is a professor of knowledge engineering at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. He has chaired and served on the boards of the main journals and conferences in this field. His research interests include inductive rule learning, preference learning, game playing, web mining, and data mining in social science. Dr. Dragan Gamberger heads the Laboratory for Information Systems at the Rudjer Bošković Institute in Zagreb. He has chaired the main related conference ECML/PKDD, and is a coauthor of the publicly available Data Mining Server. His research interests include data mining and the medical applications of descriptive rule induction. Prof. Dr. Nada Lavrač heads the Department of Knowledge Technologies at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana. She is the author and editor of several books and proceedings in the field of data mining and machine learning, and she has chaired or served on the boards of the main related journals and conferences. Her research interests include machine learning, data mining, and inductive logic programming, and related applications in medicine, public health, bioinformatics, and the management of virtual enterprises. In 1997 she was awarded the Ambassador of Science of Slovenia prize, and in 2007 she was elected as an ECCAI Fellow.