Thomas Roth-Berghofer

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Thomas Karl Richard Roth-Berghofer , b. Berghofer (born February 2, 1967 in Butzbach ) is a German computer scientist and writer . Together with his wife he writes novels under the collective pseudonym Alex Thomas . He previously worked as a professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of West London .

biography

Roth-Berghofer grew up in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and graduated from the Leibniz-Gymnasium there in 1986 . After completing his military service in Koblenz , he studied computer science with a minor in economics at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern from 1987 to 1997 . During his studies he was a partner and programmer in a software company. He completed his studies with a degree in computer science and then worked as a software engineer , consultant and software quality manager at the university spin-off Tecinno GmbH in Kaiserslautern (today empolis Information Management GmbH ).

As part of several research projects , Roth-Berghofer obtained his doctorate in 2002 at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern on topics of artificial intelligence (AI) with the thesis Knowledge Maintenance of Case-Based Reasoning Systems. The SIAM Methodology . Then he returned to research and teaching. He moved to 2002 as a researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern. For several years he was a member of the company's works council. The EU- funded MedCIRCLE project under the direction of Gunther Eysenbach and the technical direction of Roth-Berghofer was awarded the Janssen-Cilag Future Prize in 2004.

2010/11 Roth-Berghofer first took over the chair databases and information systems at the University of Hildesheim before succumbing to the chair in September 2011 Artificial Intelligence (dt., Artificial intelligence ') at the University of West London (UWL) in London was appointed . At the beginning of 2017 he gave up his professorship at the UWL.

Roth-Berghofer's scientific focus is in particular the "explanatory skills of (intelligent) software systems". He devoted himself to this topic after completing his doctorate, after his work initially focused on the problem of knowledge maintenance in AI systems. He initiated the workshop series “International Workshops on Philosophy and Informatics” (WSPI), “International Workshops on Modeling and Retrieval of Context” (MRC) and “International Workshops on Explanation-aware Computing” (ExaCt).

Novelist

Author duo "Alex Thomas" (2016)

Roth-Berghofer returned to Germany in 2017 after the negative outcome of the EU membership referendum in the United Kingdom . Together with his wife he settled in Bremen , where he has been working as a freelance writer ever since. Thomas Roth-Berghofer has been writing series of novels under the collective pseudonym Alex Thomas since 2010 together with his wife Ramona Roth (* 1962), who has worked in the book and media business as a translator and editor since the 1990s . So far, the novel series Catherine Bell and Paula Tennant have been published . The series of novels about the rebellious nun Catherine Bell is one of the Vatican and mystery thrillers. The series about the American investigator Paula Tennant has been published since 2018.

editor

Roth-Berghofer and Ramona Roth are co-founders of autorenforum.de and publishers of the electronic information magazine The Tempest, which is published there .

Scientific publications (selection)

Roth-Berghofer is the author and editor of more than 100 scientific publications. This includes:

  • Explanation and Case-Based Reasoning: Foundational Issues. In: Peter Funk, Pedro A. González Calero (arr.): Advances in Case-Based Reasoning. 7th European conference, ECCBR 2004. Madrid, Spain, August / September 2004. Proceedings (=  Lecture notes in computer science , No. 3155). Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 978-3-540-22882-0 , pp. 389-403 (English; conference publication).
  • with Michael M. Richter: On explanation. In: KI - Artificial Intelligence , Volume 22, No. 2/2008, pp. 5–7 (English).
  • with Björn Forcher, Stefan Agne, Andreas Dengel: Intuitive Justifications of Medical Semantic Search Results. In: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) , No. 30, April 2014, pp. 1–17 (English).

Video

Novel publications

Catherine Bell series

  1. Lux Domini. Blanvalet Verlag , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-764-50369-7 ; Paperback: 2012, ISBN 978-3-442-37946-0 ; English Edition: 2018, ISBN 978-1-983-05871-4 .
  2. Angel Pact. Blanvalet Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-442-37989-7 ; Umbra Sumus - we are shadows. Revised and republished by KDP / A ☥ T Books, Bremen 2019, ISBN 978-1-694-89490-8 .
  3. Angel wrath. Blanvalet Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-734-10015-4 .
  4. Blood port. Blanvalet Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-734-10016-1 .

Paula Tennant series

  1. The children's tears. Edition M , Luxembourg 2018, ISBN 978-1-503-95421-2 .
  2. The labyrinth of blood. Edition M, Luxembourg 2018, ISBN 978-2-919-80156-5 .
  3. So dark is the anger. KDP / A ☥ T Books, Bremen 2019, ISBN 978-1-091-53687-6 .

Web links

Commons : Thomas Roth-Berghofer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Professor Thomas Roth-Berghofer. In: uwl.ac.uk. University of West London (UWL), accessed July 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Jens Ihlenfeld: Bertelsmann subsidiary empolis takes over tecinno. In: Golem.de . December 20, 2000, accessed July 8, 2019 .
  3. ^ Thomas Roth-Berghofer: Knowledge Maintenance of Case-Based Reasoning Systems. The SIAM Methodology (=  dissertations on artificial intelligence . Volume 262 ). Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Aka, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89838-262-1 (English, also dissertation, University of Kaiserslautern 2002).
  4. ^ The DFKI works council: New DFKI works council elected . In: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) (Ed.): Newsletter DFKI . No. 2/2006 , p. 15 ( digital copy on dfki.de [PDF; 1.6 MB ; accessed on July 8, 2019]).
  5. ^ German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI): MedCIRCLE research project is awarded the Janssen-Cilag Future Prize. In: dfki.de. March 31, 2004, accessed July 8, 2019 (press release).
  6. ↑ WSPI '04. First International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics 2004. Gregor Büchel, Bertin Klein, Thomas Roth-Berghofer (arr.). In: ceur-ws.org. 2004, accessed on July 9, 2019 . WSPI '05. Second International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics. Gregor Büchel, Bertin Klein, Thomas Roth-Berghofer (arr.). In: ceur-ws.org. 2005, accessed on July 9, 2019 . WSPI 2008. Fifth International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics. Manuel Möller, Thomas Roth-Berghofer, Wolfgang Neuser (arr.). In: ceur-ws.org. 2008, accessed on July 9, 2019 .
  7. ↑ MRC '04. First International Workshop on Modeling and Retrieval of Context. Thomas Roth-Berghofer, Stefan Schulz (arr.). In: ceur-ws.org. 2004, accessed on July 9, 2019 . MRC '05. Second International Workshop on Modeling and Retrieval of Context. Thomas Roth-Berghofer, Stefan Schulz, David B. Leake (arr.). In: ceur-ws.org. 2005, accessed on July 9, 2019 .
  8. ↑ ExaCt 2008. Explanation-aware Computing. Thomas Roth-Berghofer, Stefan Schulz, Daniel Bahls, David B. Leake (arr.). In: ceur-ws.org. 2008, accessed on July 9, 2019 . ExaCt 2010. Explanation-aware Computing. Thomas Roth-Berghofer, Nava Tintarev, David B. Leake, Daniel Bahls (arr.). In: ceur-ws.org. 2010, accessed on July 9, 2019 .
  9. ^ Andreas Kurth: Alex Thomas. In: Krimi-Couch.de . June 2018, accessed on July 14, 2019 (interview with the author duo Alex Thomas).
  10. ↑ Cf. Interview with Ramona and Thomas Roth-Berghofer (Alex Thomas). In: autorenforum.de. The Tempest , issue 13-04, April 20, 2011, accessed July 9, 2019 .
  11. ↑ autorenforum.de - About us. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Dr. Thomas Roth-Berghofer - Google Scholar Citations. In: scholar.google.de . Retrieved July 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Roth-Berghofer, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roth-Berghofer, Thomas Karl Richard (full name); Roth-Berghofer, Thomas R .; Berghofer, Thomas Karl Richard (maiden name); Alex Thomas (collective pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist, university professor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Butzbach