The Wittgenstein-award funds three projectgroups: 1. Technical Expert Systems 2. Theoretical foundations of
Computer Science and Al 3. Internet and Software-Agents
The first group deals with practical aspects of AI up to the implementation of prototypes: configuration, diagnosis,
scheduling, fuzzy reasoning, systeraverification, shiftplaning, constraints
The second group works on theoretical aspects of computer science and especially with respect to AI: Theory of
databases and knowledge bases, algorithms and complexity, logical and epistemic foundations of AI, combinatorial
foundations of information systems, parallel processing in information-systems, nonmonotonic systems and logic
programming, finite models and descriptive complexity
The main field of the third group is as follows: agent-architectures, agent-communication, techniques of agent-
programming, internet in education, internet data mining, automatic data mining, automatic data acquisition and
learning on the web, multimedia interfaces, mail and message processing, digital libraries