Rene Jorna

Rene Jorna is full professor in Knowledge Management and Cognition at the Faculty of Management and Organisation of the University of Groningen. He studied Analytic Philosophy and Logic (Master in 1981) and Experimental Psychology (Master in 1982) and did his PhD in 1989 in Cognitive Science on knowledge representation. His research and publications address cognition, semiotics, knowledge management, sustainable innovation, knowledge technology and decision support systems especially related to...See more

Rene Jorna is full professor in Knowledge Management and Cognition at the Faculty of Management and Organisation of the University of Groningen. He studied Analytic Philosophy and Logic (Master in 1981) and Experimental Psychology (Master in 1982) and did his PhD in 1989 in Cognitive Science on knowledge representation. His research and publications address cognition, semiotics, knowledge management, sustainable innovation, knowledge technology and decision support systems especially related to planning and scheduling. In 1990 he published Knowledge Representation and Symbols in the Mind (Tubingen: Stauffenburg) and in 1994 Semiotic Aspects of Artificial Intelligence (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter). From 1990 to 1995 he was manager of a large research project on planning and scheduling (DISKUS), which resulted in commercial software and five dissertations. From 2001 until 2004 he was programme manager of the NIDO project on Sustainable Innovation. In 2006 the book Planning in Intelligent Systems was published (with van Wezel and Meystel; John Wiley). He supervises seven PhD projects on sustainable innovation, planning, scheduling and cognition and social simulation. See less