Institute of Information and Communication Technologies

Department: "Technologies for Knowledge Management and Processing"

Current activities of the department are concentrated on research and development of context-aware models, methods and tools for representing and processing domain specific semantic information as well as novel architectures for semantically-enabled Web service oriented applications.

The Department has also long-term interests in the technological development of knowledge-based systems, machine learning and case-based reasoning methods and tools, distributed multimedia environments for education etc.

The Technologies for Knowledge Processing and Management, consisting of:

• Associate Prof. Dr. Gennady AGRE (head) - Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Semantic Web Services, Data Mining, Case-Based Reasoning, Knowledge-Based Systems
• Associate Prof. Dr. Danail DOCHEV - Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge-Based Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, e-Learning, Information Society Technologies
• Associate Prof. Dr. Ivo MARINCHEV - Machine learning, Semantic Web Services, Knowledge-Based Systems
• Research Associate Ivo HRISTOV - e-Learning, Distributed Environments, Knowledge-Based Systems
• Research Associate Kamenka STAYKOVA - Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web Technologies, Natural Language Generation
• PhD Student Daniela KOLAROVA - e-Learning, Distributed Environments, Knowledge-Based Systems
• PhD Student Radoslav KIRKOV - Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge-Based Systems, Source Code Analysis
• Programmer Ivan Vassilev - e-Learning, Semantic Web Technologies
• Programmer Lilyana Slavkova – e-Learning, Semantic Web Technologies

The Department actively participates in European and National R&D projects and presents the results in international and national journals and conferences.

The Department is the main driving force in the organization of the bi-annual international conference AIMSA: Artificial Intelligence – Methodology, Systems and Applications (1984–2010).