Artificial Intelligence

• 2015 Scene Based Reasoning
  

  Frank W. Bergmann, Brian Fenton, published in Artificial General Intelligence on July 22nd, 2015 (pdf). This paper describes Scene Based Reasoning SBR, a cognitive architecture based on the notions of "scene" and "plan" that implements perception, action, learning and control operations on the level of "plans", with scenes acting as planner states.

• 1995 Parallelizing Description Logics (IJCAI-95)
  

  Frank Bergmann, J. Joachim Quantz, published in: Ipke Wachsmuth, Claus-Rainer Rollinger, Wilfried Brauers (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, 1995 (pdf)
  Description Logics (DL), one of the major paradigms in Knowledge Representation, face efficiency problems. We present two alternative PROLOG implementations of parallelized propagation on a loosely coupled MIMD (Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data) system. Whereas a "farm" topology yields only poor results, an implementation based on distributed objects achieves a considerable speedup.

• 1995 The FLEX System - KIT Report 124
  

  J. Joachim Quantz, Guido Dunker, Frank Bergmann, Ivonne Kellner, submitted for publication (pdf), the "user guide" of the Description Logic system FLEX. The FLEX system has been used within the Verbmobil project for the semantic and pragmatic disambiguation of speech.

• 1995 Parallelizing Description Logics (2)
  

  Frank Bergmann, J. Joachim Quantz, submitted for publication, 1995 (pdf).

• 1995 Parallelisierung eines Wissensrepräsentationssystems
  

  Frank Bergmann, Diplomarbeit (german MSc Thesis), 1995, (ps.gz)

Project Management

• 2021 Project Invoicing With Open Source Tools
  Frank Bergmann, published in opensource.com on September 9th, 2021 (opensource.com, pdf)
  

  The article explains how to organize (IT) projects to simplify the process of writing invoices to a customer, despite changes in the project and an unclear status of bugs vs. extension developments.

• 2019 Learned Lessons from PPM / Multi Project Management Rollouts
  Frank Bergmann, presented in PMI Conference Taiwan on November 11th, 2019 (pdf)
  

  Lessons from ~300 PMO Projects:

  1. Reasons for Resistence
  2. Change Management
  3. Management Buy-In
  4. Six Types of Power
  5. Force-Field Analysis
  6. Gradual Roll-Out

• 2005 Localization Project Management Best Practices
  Frank W. Bergmann, presented at the 27th Unicode Conference on April 8th, 2005 (pdf, ppt)

Entrepreneurship

• 2015 Factor 10x - Super Efficient Startups
  Frank W. Bergmann, presented at London Meetup on October 22nd, 2015 (pdf)
  Business patterns for servicing many customers with a small team.
  

  This talk is about the usual stuff: War stories from a start-up, software reuse and disparate roles and their communication in developer teams. But there are special twists: Extreme efficiency (we were only two guys), using a heavy mix of business + tech language to explain how this works and nice pictures & awkward jokes

Acting as a Tutor

• 2001 Multiportal Multilanguage Virtual Communities (Spanish)
  The masters thesis of Juanjo Ruiz at Universidad Automoma de Barcelona. He analyzes and implements a virtual community application allowing for multiple portals and multiple languages simultaneously (pdf, 2.1Mb)