current activities

• Chair of the first Workshop Computers in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (CAIC) at (AIMDM'99)
• Co-chair of the 4th Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-99) at the AMIA 1999 Annual Symposium
• Co-chair of the 5th workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-2000) at the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2000)
• Co-chair of the 7th Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-2002) at the ECAI-2002, Lyon, France
• Co-chair of the Symposium on Computerized Guidelines and Protocols (CGP-2004)
• Chair of Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME-2005)
• Co-chair of Workshop on AI Techniques in Healthcare: Evidence-Based Guidelines and Protocols, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2006)
• Co-Chair of the Workshop on Body of Knowledge for Visual Analytics Education at the VisWeek (Vis, InfoVis, VAST) 2008.
• Co-Chair of the Workshop Knowledge Representation for Health-Care (KR4HC 2009): Data, Processes and Guidelines, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME-2009)
• Co-Chair of the Workshop Knowledge Representation for Health-Care (KR4HC 2010), European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2000)
• Programme Co-Chair of IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (IEEE VAST) 2010

Conference/Workshop Program Committee (PC) Member

• Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI’03)
• Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME 07, AIME 09) Doctoral Consortium
• Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME since 2001)
• EUNITE Workshop: Intelligent Systems in Patient-Care
• Eurographics Conference (EG 2007 - 2008)
• European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2002; ECAI-2004 (Area Chair))
• First International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence (HAI, since 2007)
• German/Austrian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2001 - 2003)
• German/Austrian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (OeGAI/KI)
• IASTED Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC)
• IASTED International Conference on Knowledge Sharing and Collaborative Engineering (KSCE 2004)
• IASTED International Symposium on "Artificial Intelligence and Applications" (AIA-2002-2005)
• International Conference for Human-Computer Interaction (CHI)
• International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence (ICAAI-2003)
• International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering (CME 2005)
• International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
• International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-Know 2003)
• International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES2006)
• International Conference Information Visualisation (IEEE IV 2009, 2010)
• International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA-97)
• International Symposium on Medical Data Analysis (ISMDA-2000, 2003)
• International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC)
• International Workshop on Ontology Alignment and Visualization (OnAV, since 2008)
• Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS-2000 - 2004), sub-conference of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
• Simulation and Visualization Conference (SimVis)
• Symposium of the WG Medical Informatics and eHealth of the Austrian Computer Society (eHealth)
• Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) at VisWeek
• Usability Symposium, Symposium of the WG HCI&UE of the Austrian Computer Society (USAB)
• Workshop Knowledge and Information Visualisation at International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-Know 2003)
• Workshop Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition for Planning at the Fourth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems (AIPS-1998)
• Workshop Series on Process-Oriented Information Systems in Healthcare (ProHealth) at the International Conference on Business Process Modelling Conference (2007-2010)
• Workshop Series: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP; since 1996)
• Workshop Series: Knowledge-Based Information Management in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (1999, 2001, 2003)
• Workshop on Visual Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (VAKD 2009), ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2009
  

Guest Editor

• Guest-Editor with Michel Dojat and Jim Hunter special issue of the journal "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine"; Theme: Knowledge-Based Information Management in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia

Positions in Scientific Societies

• Chair of the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (ÖGAI ) 1997 - 2006
  
• Member of the Board of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) - 1998-2002
  
• Member of the the Advisory Committee for IJCAI-01, to be held in Seattle in August 2001