Dr. Ulrich Scholz

Since December 2004 I am working at the European Media Laboratory GmbH. Currently, I am involved in the MUSIC project, which develops a design methodology and an architecture for distributed systems supporting the efficient design and implementation of self-adapting applications in ubiquitous computing environments.

Former projects I have been involved include DynAMITE and DaMiT. I have been research assistant at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and studied Informatics (Computer Science) at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Research Interests

My research interests include Artificial Intelligence planning and constraint programming. I am also interested in theorem proving and programming in Prolog.

My scientific starting point - and the topic of my PhD thesis - is AI planning, and here especially the development of preprocessing techniques (domain analysis).

For an introduction into AI planning, have a look at the planning chapter of the book Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach (in English) and at Handlungsplanung - Ein erster Einstieg of Jana Koehler (in German).

Teaching

SS2008: Grundlagen des KI Planens, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

SS2007: Ausgewählte Themen der Künstlichen Intelligenz, together with Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg.

SS2006: Einführung in die Künstliche Intelligenz, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg.

WS2005/6: Grundlagen des KI Planens, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

Before: Support of lectures, seminars, and lab courses on graduate and undergraduate level at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and the Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg.

Publications

Ulrich Scholz and Romain Rouvoy. Divide and Conquer - Organizing Component-based Adaptation in Distributed Environments. Communications of the EASST, 11, 2008.
Luís Fraga, Svein Hallsteinsen, and Ulrich Scholz. "InstantSocial" - Implementing a Distributed Mobile Multi-user Application with Adaptation Middleware. Communications of the EASST, 11, 2008.
Peter Wullinger, Ute Schmid, and Ulrich Scholz. Spanning the Middle Ground between Classical and Temporal Planning. 22. Workschop Planen, Scheduling, und Konfigurieren, Entwerfen (PuK 2008), Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 2008.
Ulrich Scholz and Romain Rouvoy. Divide and Conquer - Scalability and Variability for Adaptive Middleware. Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Engineering of Software Services for Pervasive Environments (ESSPE'07), pages 35-39, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 2007. ©ACM.
Yun Ding, Christian Elting, and Ulrich Scholz. Seamless Integration of Output Devices in Intelligent Environments: Infrastructure, Strategies and Implementation. 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE06, Athens, Greece, vol. 1, pages 21-30, July 2006.
Ulrich Scholz. Reducing Planning Problems by Path Reduction. Dissertation, Number 285 in DISKI. Akademische Verlags-Gesellschaft, Berlin, 2004.
Patrik Haslum and Ulrich Scholz. Domain Knowledge in Planning: Representation and Use. ICAPS 2003 Workshop on PDDL, Trento, Italy, pages 69-78, June 2003.
Klaus Varrentrapp, Ulrich Scholz, and Patrick Duchstein. Design of a Testbed for Planning. AIPS 2002 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques for AI Planning, Toulouse, France, pages 51-58, April 2002.
Ulrich Scholz. Extracting State Constraints from PDDL-like Planning Domains. AIPS 2000 Workshop on Analyzing and Exploiting Domain Knowledge for Efficient Planning, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA, pages 43-48, 2000.
Ulrich Scholz. Action Constraints for Planning. Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Planning, ECP'99, pages 148-160. Springer Verlag. September 1999.
Ulrich Scholz. Strategien zur Domänenanalyse. In J. Sauer and B. Stein, editors, Tagungsband zum 12. Workschop Planen und Konfigurieren (PuK'98), pages 17-22, April 1998.
Ulrich Scholz, Olaf Steinmann, Thomas Stützle, and Michael Thielscher. Planning by Local Search. Proceedings of the Workshop at AAAI on Robots, Softbots, Immobots: Theories of Action, Planning, and Control, pages 124-125, July 1997, C. Baral and R. Goldman, Providence, RI.
Ulrich Scholz. Planning by Local Search. Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 1997.

Personal Interests

I enjoy hiking, climbing, and playing the didgeridoo.