Schreiber is an associate professor of knowledge engineering at the department of Social Science Informatics of the University of Amsterdam. His research interests lie mainly in the area of knowledge engineering and knowledge-system development. Recently he has also worked on knowledge modelling for the "semantic web". He published more than 80 papers in theses areas. In 2000 he published with MIT Press a textbook on knowledge engineering and knowledge management, based on the CommonKADS methodology.

Schreiber studied medicine at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) and graduated in 1983. After a one-year post-graduate course in computer science, he worked from 1984 to 1986 at the Department of Medical Informatics of the University of Leiden on the development of medical decision-support tools. In 1986 he joined the group of Bob Wielinga at the University of Amsterdam. In 1992 he was awarded a PhD on a thesis entitled "Pragmatics of the Knowledge Level". He has been involved in numerous ESPRIT projects in the knowledge-engineering area, such as KADS & KADS-II (both on methodologies for knowledge-system development), REFLECT (reflective reasoning), GAMES (medical knowledge systems) and KACTUS (technical ontologies). He is currently involved in the Dutch ICES project MIA (Multimedia Information Amalysis) and in the IST project IBROW (Intelligent Brokering on the Web).

He is currently c0-chair of W3C's Web Ontology Working Group. He is co-editor of the Semantic Web area of Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. He is also associate editor of Knowledge and Informatioin Systems. In 1988 he was co-organizer of the first Dutch AI Conference (NAIC'88) and is now co-orgnizer of BNAIC'01. He was also co-chair of the European Knowledge Acquisition Workshops EKAW-90 in Amsterdam, EKAW-94 in Hoegaarden, and EKAW-96 in Nottingham. From 1994 to 1996 he was coordinator of the Sisyphus-VT study. The goal of this study was to compare knowledge modelling approaches by applying these to the same data set.

A. Th. Schreiber. The Web is not well-formed. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 17(2):79--80, March/April, 2002. Contribution to the section "Trends & Controversies: Ontologies KISSES in Standardization", edited by Stffen Staab.

A. Th. Schreiber, I. Blok, D. Carlier, W. van Gent, J. Hokstam, and U. Roos. A mini-experiment in semantic annotation. In I. Horrocks, editor, International Semantic Web Conference, Sardinia, June 10-12, 2002, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2002. Springer-Verlag. Accepted for publication.

A. Th. Schreiber, B. Dubbeldam, J. Wielemaker, and B. J. Wielinga. Ontology-based photo annotation. IEEE Intelligent Systems, May/June 2001. PDF version

B. J. Wielinga, A. Th. Schreiber, J. Wielemaker, and J. A. C. Sandberg. From thesaurus to ontology. Internation Conference on Knowledge Capture, Victoria, Canada, October 2001. Accepted for publication. PDF version Gzipped Postscript version

P.-H. Speel, A. Th. Schreiber, and W. van Joolingen and G. van Heijst and G. Beijer. Conceptual Models for Knowledge-Based Systems. In: Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, 2001. PDF version

M. G. Jansen and A. Th. Schreiber and B. J. Wielinga. Using Strict Implication in Background Theories for Abductive Tasks. Proceedings IJCAI-01 Workshop on Abductive Reasoning, 2001. PDF version

A. Th. Schreiber, M. Crubezy, and M. Musen. A Case Study in Unsing Protege-2000 as a CASE Tool for CommonKADS. In: R. Dieng and O. Corby (eds.) Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: 12th International Conference EKAW­2000, Juan-les-Pins, volume 1937 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 33-48, Berlin/Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 2000 PDF version

M. G. Jansen, A. Th. Schreiber, and B. J. Wielinga. Adapting tableaux for classification. In: R. Dieng and O. Corby (eds.) Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: 12th International Conference EKAW­2000, Juan-les-Pins, volume 1937 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 344-351, Berlin/Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 2000. PDF version

V.R. Benjamins, E. Plaza, E. Motta, D. Fensel, R. Studer, B.J. Wielinga, A. Th. Schreiber, Z. Zdrahal and S. Decker. IBROW3 - An Intelligent Brokering Service for Knowledge-Component Reuse on the World Wide Web. In Proceedings of Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management (KAW'98), Banff, Canada, 1998

B. J. Wielinga, J. M. Akkermans and A. Th. Schreiber. A Competence Theory Approach to Problem-Solving Method Construction. Int. J. Human Computer Studies, 49:315-338, 1998.

A. ten Teije, F. Van Harmelen, A. Th. Schreiber and B. J. Wielinga. Construction of PSM as Parametric Design. Int. J. Human Computer Studies, 49:363-389, 1998.

Wielinga, B. J. and A. Th. Schreiber. Knowledge Technology: Moving Into the Next Millenium. In. A. P. de Pobil (Ed.) Proceedings IEA-AIE-98, Springer-Verlag.

M. G. Jansen, A. Th. Schreiber and B. J. Wielinga. Rocky-III - Round I: A Progress Report. Proceedings of the 11th Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (Banff, Canada). Calgary, SRDG Publications. April 1998

B. J. Wielinga, J. A. C. Sandberg and A. Th. Schreiber. Methods and Techniques for Knowledge Management: What Has Knowledge Engineering to Offer? Expert Systems with Applications, 13(1):73-84, 1997.

B. J. Wielinga and A. Th. Schreiber. Configuration-design problem solving. IEEE Expert, 12(2):49-56, 1997. Special issue on AI and design. PDF version.

W. Post, R. de Hoog, B. J. Wielinga and A. Th. Schreiber. Organizational Modeling in CommonKADS: the Emergency Medical Service. IEEE Expert 12(6), 1997,

G. van Heijst, A. Th. Schreiber and B. J. Wielinga. Roles are not classes: a reply to Nicola Guarino. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 42(2/3):311-318, 1997.

G. van Heijst, A. Th. Schreiber and B. J. Wielinga. Using explicit ontologies for KBS development. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 42(2/3):183-292, 1997.  HTML version

I. Laresgoiti, A. Anjewierden, A. Bernaras, J. Corera, A. Th. Schreiber and B. J. Wielinga. Ontologies as vehicles for reuse: a mini-experiment. In B. R. Gaines & M. A. Musen (eds.) Proceedings of the 10th Banff Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop, Alberta, Canada, November 1996, volume I, pp. 30.1-30.21, SRDG Publications, University of Calgary. HTML version

W. Post, R. W. Koster, M. Sramek, A. Th. Schreiber, V. Zocca, and B. de Vires. FreeCall: A system for emergency-call handling support. Meth. Inform. Med., 35(3):242-255 1996..

A. Th. Schreiber and W. P. Birmingham. The Sisyphus-VT initiative. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 44(3/4):275-280, March/April 1996. Editorial special issue.

A. Th. Schreiber and P. Terpstra. Sisyphus-VT: A CommonKADS solution. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 44(3/4):373–402, March/April 1996.

A. Th. Schreiber and B. J. Wielinga. SWI: Making knowledge technology work. IEEE Expert, 11(2):74–76, April 1996. HTML version

W. Van de Velde and A. Th. Schreiber. A future for knowledge acquisition: A European perspective. IEEE Expert, 11(2):64–66, April 1996. Editorial special track on knowledge acquisition.

M. A. Musen and A. Th. Schreiber. Architectures for intelligent systems based on reusable components. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 7(3):189–199, June1995. Editorial Special Issue "Reusing Knowledge in Intelligent Systems". HTML version

G. van Heijst, S. Falasconi, A. Abu-Hanna, A. Th. Schreiber, and M. Stefanelli. A case study in ontology library construction. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 7(5):227-255, June 1995.

A. Th. Schreiber, B. J. Wielinga, and W. H. J Jansweijer. The KACTUS view on the ‘O’ word. In IJCAI Workshop on Basic Ontological Issues in Knowledge Sharing, 1995. Also in: J. C. Bioch and Y.-H. Tan (eds.). Proceedings 7th Dutch National Conference on Artificial Intelligence NAIC’95, EURIDIS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 159–168, 1995. Abstract.and PDF version.

B. J. Wielinga, J. M. Akkermans, and A. Th. Schreiber. A formal analysis of parametric design. In B. R. Gaines and M. A. Musen, editors, Proceedings of the 9th Banff Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop, Alberta, Canada, 1995. SRDG Publications, University of Calgary. Abstract and PDF version

G. van Heijst, W. Post, and A. Th. Schreiber. Knowledge-based integration of representation formalisms. In A. Cohn, editor, Proceedings of the 11th European Conference On Artificial Intelligence, pages 319–323, London, 1994. Wiley.

A. Th. Schreiber, B. J. Wielinga, J. M. Akkermans, W. Van de Velde, and R. de Hoog. CommonKADS: A comprehensive methodology for KBS development. IEEE Expert, 9(6):28–37, December 1994. Abstract

A. Th. Schreiber. Applying KADS to the office assignment domain. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 40(2):349–377, 1994.

G. van Heijst, G. Lanzola, A. Th. Schreiber, and M. Stefanelli. Foundations for a methodology for medical KBS development. Knowledge Acquisition, 6(4):395–433, 1994.

A. Th. Schreiber, B. J. Wielinga, and J. A. Breuker, editors. KADS: A Principled Approach to Knowledge-Based System Development, volume 11 of Knowledge-Based Systems Book Series. Academic Press, London, 1993. ISBN 0-12-629040-7. Outline

J. M. Akkermans, F. van Harmelen, A. Th. Schreiber, and B. J. Wielinga. A formalization of knowledge-level models for knowledge acquisition. International Journal on Intelligent Systems, 8(2):169–208, 1993. Reprinted in: K. M. Ford and J. M. Bradshaw, eds. (1993), Knowledge Acquisition as Modelling, New York, Wiley.

F. van Harmelen, B. J. Wielinga, B. Bredeweg, A. Th. Schreiber, W. Karbach, M. Reinders, A. Voss, J. M. Akkermans, B. Bartsch-Spörl, and E. Vinkhuyzen. Knowledge-level reflection. In L. Steels and B. Lepape, editors, Enhancing the Knowledge Engineering Process—Contributions from ESPRIT, pages 175–204. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1992.

A. Th. Schreiber. The KADS approach to knowledge engineering. editorial special issue. Knowledge Acquisition, 4(1):1–4, 1992. HTML version

B. J. Wielinga, A. Th. Schreiber, and J. A. Breuker. KADS: A modelling approach to knowledge engineering. Knowledge Acquisition, 4(1):5–53, 1992. Special issue "The KADS approach to knowledge engineering". Reprinted in: Buchanan, B. and Wilkins, D. editors (1992), Readings in Knowledge Acquisition and Learning, San Mateo, California, Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 92-116.

A. Th. Schreiber. Pragmatics of the Knowledge Level. PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, 1992 Abstract PDF version.

T. de Jong, R. de Hoog, and A. Th. Schreiber. Knowledge acquisition for an integrated project management system. Information Processing and Management, 24(6):681–691, 1988.

A. Th. Schreiber. De computer: heelmeester van de toekomst? Tijdschrift voor Gezondheid en Politiek, 2:28-31, 1986. In Dutch. PDF version

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