KR Corporate Organization

The operating structure of KR, Inc. consists of the corporate officers and the board. The officers are given below, while as a matter of practice the board consists of both the Board of Directors and the Advisory Board, the distinction between these being purely legal.

Corporate Officers

• Mary-Anne Williams, The University of Technology, Sydney (KR Inc. President)
• Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research, Clerk and Treasurer

Board of Directors

• Anthony G. Cohn,  University of Leeds
• Jon Doyle, North Carolina State University
• Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research

Advisory Board

• Patrick Doherty, Linköping University (KR2006 Program Co-Chair)
• Jim Delgrande, Simon Fraser University (KR2004 Local Organiser)
• Didier Dubois, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (KR2004 Program Chair)
• Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento and ITC-IRST (KR Inc. Past President)
• Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester (KR2006 Local Arrangements Chair)
• Volker Haarslev, Concordia University (DL Representative)
• Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong UST (KR2006 Doctorial Consortium Chair)
• Alankar Karol, The University of Technology, Sydney (KR2004 Treasurer)
• Leora Morgenstern, IBM Watson Research Center (KR2004 Doctoral Consortium Chair)
• John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada (KR2006 Program Co-Chair)
• Sheila McIlraith, Stanford University
(KR2004 Doctoral Consortium Chair and Workshop Chair)
• Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky (NMR Representative)
• Christopher A. Welty, IBM Watson Research Center (KR2006 Conference Chair)
• Mary-Anne Williams, The University of Technology, Sydney (KR Inc. President)

Past Presidents of KR Inc

• 1993 - 1996: Charles Rich, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, USA.
• 1996 - 1998: Jon Doyle, while at MIT, USA
• 1998 - 2000: Stuart Shipiro, University at Buffalo SUNY, USA
• 2000 - 2002: Anthony G. Cohn, University of Leeds
• 2002 - 2004: Fausto Giunchiglia Università di Trento

Advisory Board Alumni

• Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Università di Roma ``La Sapienza''
• James F. Allen, University of Rochester
• Ronald Jay Brachman, DARPA
• Anthony G. Cohn, University of Leeds
• Francesco Donini, Università di Roma ``La Sapienza''
• Jon Doyle, North Carolina State University
• Dieter Fensel, DERI
• Richard E. Fikes, Stanford University
• Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
• Fausto Giunchiglia, Università di Trento
• Andreas Herzig, IRIT
• Werner Horn, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
• Gerhard Lakemeyer, Aachen University of Technology
• Jerome Lang, IRIT
• Neal Lesh, MERL
• Hector J. Levesque, University of Toronto
• Ronald Prescott Loui, Washington University in St. Louis
• Deborah McGuinness, Stanford University
• Bernhard Nebel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Lin Padgham, Royal Melbourne Insitute of Technology
• Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research
• Bruce Porter, University of Texas at Austin
• Raymond Reiter, deceased
• Charles Rich, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory
• Erik J. Sandewall, Linkoeping University
• James G. Schmolze, Tufts University
• Lenhart Schubert, University of Rochester
• Stuart C. Shapiro, State University of New York at Buffalo
• William Roy Swartout, USC Information Sciences Institute
• Pietro Torasso, Università di Torino
• Laure Vieu, IRIT