(cv as of April 2009) Peter
Vojtas is a full professor of Computer Science at the Department
of Sofware Engineering (School
of Computer Science, Faculty
of Mathematics and Physics), Charles
University in Prague,
Czech Republic.
He also keeps a part time position
at the Institute of Computer Science,
Czech Academy of Science, Prague. He has held the Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, Bonn, Germany in 90's. He
has founded Institute
of Computer Science at the P. J. Safarik University, Kosice, Slovak
republic and acted as founding director several years. In 2004 he permanently
moved to Praue. In spring 1994 he was visiting professor at
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA.
Peter Vojtas has MSc Suma Cum
Laude in Theoretical Cybernetics and CSc(PhD) in Mathematical Logic from
Charles University, Prague. He got Professor Titulaire in Mathematical
Informatics from the President of Slovak Republic and DrSc.- Doctor of
Science from Czech Academy of Science.
His research interests include:
- computational intelligence, connecting
web to the user, process of the Web semantization
- user preferences - modelling, learning,
querying/searching with, user objectives and utility
- uncertainty and preferences in databases
and indexes, web reasoning, information systems
- many valued/fuzzy logic programming/Datalog
- deduction, induction, abduction
- formerly - set theoretic aspects
of asymptotics and Galois-Tukey connections, etc.
He is a member of ACM,
IEEE Computer
Society and Computational Intelligence
Society, Geselschaft fuer Informatik,
Czech Society for
Cybernetics and Informatics and DVMLG.
He has supervised several PhD students (4 graduated,
5 studying), founded conference ITAT,
led several research projects in Slovakia and participated in several research
projects in Czech Republic in computer science, led the Kosice branch of
the project NAZOU
leading to prototype implementation of a tool
connecting web to users based on several computation intelligence features.
He acts in editorial board of
Computing
and Informatics, Neural Network
World, several organizing and program committees of conferences, several
bodies of Czech Science Foundation and Ministry of Education.