EDITING AND REVIEWING

Journals (guest editor)

• Theory and Practice of Logical Programming (Cambridge University Press) - Special issue with selected papers from RuleML+RR 2020

• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Springer) - Special issue on explainable and interpretable machine learning and data mining

Journals (invited reviewer)

Machine Learning, Journal of Web Semantics, Expert Systems with Applications, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery,  Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Knowledge-based Systems, Information Sciences, Applied Intelligence, Group Decision and Negotiation, The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, Semantic Web, Scientific Reports - Nature, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Theory and Practice of Logical Programming, BMC Bioinformatics, Scientometrics, Journal of Supercomputing.

Member of program committees

I am serving as a member of the program committee for the following upcoming conferences on machine learning and artificial intelligence:

In 2025:

• European Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference (ECAI 2025),  https://ecai2025.eu/  

• European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases 2025, research-track, https://ecmlpkdd.org/2025/  

• The 3rd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence, https://xaiworldconference.com/2025/ 

• CogSci 2025 (acting as a "reviewer"), San Francisco. https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2025/ 

• RuleML+RR 2025. https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr 

In 2024:

• European Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference (ECAI 2024),  https://ecai2024.eu/  

• European Conference on Machine Learning and the Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery from Databases (ECML/PKDD 2024). https://2024.ecmlpkdd.org/ 

• International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024): resource track. https://iswc2024.semanticweb.org/ 

• DeclarativeAI 2024, https://2024.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr 

• 4th International Joint Conference on Learning and Reasoning, https://www.lamda.nju.edu.cn/ijclr24/  

• Stimulating cognitive engagement in hybrid decision-making: friction, reliance and biases - Workshop at HHAI24.

• The 2nd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial (XAI 2024) Intelligence, https://xaiworldconference.com/2024/ 

• Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2024): resources track, PD track https://2024.eswc-conferences.org/

• 19th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems FedCSIS 2024. https://fedcsis.org/ 

In 2023:

• European Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference (ECAI 2023),  https://ecai2023.eu/  

• DeclarativeAI 2023, https://2023.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr 

• Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2023): resource track, https://2023.eswc-conferences.org/ 

• RuleML Challenge 2023, https://2023.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/ruleml-rr-rule-challenge (program co-chair)

• 3rd Interpretable Machine Learning (XI-ML) workshop co-located with ECAI 2023, http://www.cslab.cc/xi-ml-2023/  (program co-chair)

• European Conference on Machine Learning and the Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery from Databases (ECML/PKDD 2023). https://2023.ecmlpkdd.org/ 

•  International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2022): resource track. https://iswc2023.semanticweb.org/ 

• 13th International Workshop on Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming, https://ijclr2023.di.uniba.it/~ijclr2023/aaip2023.html/index.html 

• International IFIP Cross Domain (CD) Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction, CD-MAKE 2023  https://cd-make.net/ 

• 18th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems FedCSIS 2023. https://fedcsis.org/ 

In 2022:

• Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'22)

• European Conference on Machine Learning and the Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery from Databases (ECML/PKDD 2022)

• DeclarativeAI 2022, https://2022.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr 

• Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2022): Posters and demos track

• International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2022): resource track.

• 11th International Workshop on Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming, https://dmip.webs.upv.es/AAIP2022/ 

• 2nd Interpretable Machine Learning (XI-ML) workshop co-located with KI 2022.  - program co-chair

• 17th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems FedCSIS 2022. https://fedcsis.org/ 

In 2021:

• European Conference on Machine Learning and the Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery from Databases (ECML/PKDD 2021). Applied Data Science track. 

• International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021): resource track.

• 10th International Workshop on Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming 2021

In 2020: 

• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI 2020)

• European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020) 

• Annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence  (AAAI 2020, AAAI 2021)

• European Conference on Machine Learning and the Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery from Databases (ECML/PKDD 2020)

• International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020): resource track, software demos track

• Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2020)

PC member of previously held international conferences and workshops:

IJCAI/ECAI (2018, 2019), ECML/PKDD (2018, 2019),  RuleML+RR (2014, 2015, 2019), ISWC (2019), ESWC (2017-2018), ISWC Posters and Demos (2016-2019). QOD  - Quality of Open Data workshop (2018-2019), several ITAT workshops, Znalosti, Data-Znalosti, LWDA.

Conference organization

Publicity co-chair of RuleML+RR 2024, Program co-chair of Rule Challenge@DeclarativeAI 2023. Program co-chair Explainable Machine Learning workshop at KI 2020, 2nd Interpretable Machine Learning (XI-ML) at KI 2022. Program co-chair RuleML+RR 2020 (as part of DeclarativeAI 2020). Steering committee member of RuleML (2019-).  Track co-chair at RuleML 2015. Local co-chair for RuleML 2014. 

Reviews of doctoral theses or doctoral projects

Charles University (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics), Czech Technical University (Faculty of Information Technology, Faculty of Electronic Engineering), University of West Bohemia (Faculty of Applied Sciences), University of Technology Brno (Faculty of Information Technology), Slovak Technical University (Faculty of Informatics and Information Technology).

Reviews for funding bodies

Flanders Research Foundation (FWO)

Member of College of Expert Reviewers of the European Science Foundation (ESF)

Theses supervision

Supervised two successfully defended doctoral theses and over 30 Master and Bachelor theses.   

RuleML Webinar

Since July 2019, I run the RuleML Webinar.