Dissertation Abstract

In November 2012 I joined the research group Artificial Intelligence of the university of Basel as a Ph.D. student, supervised by Malte Helmert. Since at the time of writing of this abstract, I have been working as a Ph.D. student for roughly three months, I can not develop an elaborated research plan of my studies, as it is not very clear to me on what area my thesis will focus yet. Therefore I cannot give a real abstract of my thesis in the following, but only write about what I did so far (both during previous studies and as a Ph.D. student so far) and which of my interests I intend to pursue during my further Ph.D. research. Although this abstract is very short, I hope that I can expose my ideas in a satisfying way so that I can possibly get the chance to participate in the doctoral consortium of this year’s ICAPS. I consider the DC to be most helpful for Ph.D. students who are at the beginning of their studies rather than for students who have done research for a few years already and to whom the contents of their thesis should be very clear anyway.