Dr.-Ing. Erich Rome

Independent Expert, Reviewer and Advisor for International Research Projects and Cooperations

The computer and engineering scientist Dr.-Ing. Erich Rome has many years of professional experience in the field of extramural, multidisciplinary research. He maintains an extensive international network of researchers, scientists and experts in various disciplines and sectors. Focus areas: risk analysis for climate change and critical infrastructure protection, artificial intelligence

Education

• Doctorate in Engineering Sciences, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Bremen (1992-1995), degree Dr.-Ing.
• Degree in Computer Science with a minor in Physics, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (1975-1983), degree Dipl.-Inform.

Professional Experience

• Research Associate, Fraunhofer Society for the Advancement of Applied Research e.V.
• Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS, Sankt Augustin (2006-2024)
• Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems AiS, Sankt Augustin (2001-2006)
• Research Associate, GMD - Society for Mathematics and Data Processing (from 1995 GMD - Research Centre for Information Technology)
• Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems AiS, Sankt Augustin (1998-2001)
• Research Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, Sankt Augustin (1983-1998)
• Research assistant without degree, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern (1981-1983)
• Student assistant, Institute for Computer Science, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (1978-1981)
• Temporary soldier, German Armed Forces, Wuppertal (1973-1975)

Further Training, Qualifications

• Three-part Business Moderation Training according to the MODERATIO method, MODERATIO, Beilngries (2009-2010)
• Four-part advanced leadership training course (various locations, 2002-2003)
• Four-part further training courses in project management (various locations, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003)
• Interdisciplinary College and Artificial intelligence spring school in Günne (KIFS 1994 , KIFS 1996, IK 2002)
• Three-month training programme in AI at the Turing Institute of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (1983-1984)

Organization and Steering Committees

• Steering committee of CRITIS conference series
• General Chair at: 10th International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS '15), Berlin, Germany
• OC CRI!SE, co-located with VFDB convention (Weimar, 27.-29.5.2013, Dortmund, 16.-18.6.2014) and Interschutz fair (Hannover, 16.-18.6.2015)
• Program Co-Chair at: 4th International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS '09), Bonn, Germany
• OC ITCIP 2007 Conference on Information Technology for Critical Infrastructure Protection, joint with 2nd International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS '07), Benalmadena-Costa, Spain
• OC Workshop on Attention in Cognitive Systems (WAPCV 2007), Hyderabad, India, co-located with IJCAI 2007
• Program Co-Chair Dagstuhl Seminar "Towards Affordance-based Robot Control", Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany, June 2006
• OC Workshop on Attention and Performance in Computational Vision 2005, San Diego, CA, USA, co-located with CVPR 2005
• OC Workshop on Attention and Performance in Computational Vision 2004, Prague, Czech Republic, co-located with ECCV 2004

Program Committees und Technical Committees

• International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS '08, ’10, ’11, ’12, ’13, ’14, ’16, ’17, ’18)
• 2nd International Workshop on Modelling of Physical, Economic and Social Systems for Resilience Assessment, Brussels 2017
• International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)
• International Symposium on Architecting Critical Systems (ISARCS 2012)
• International Symposium on Attention in Cognitive Systems (ISACS 2011, ISACS 2013)
• Fifth International CRIS Conference (CRIS 2010), Beijing, China
• Workshop on Attention in Cognitive Systems (WAPCV 2008), Santorini Greece, co-located with ICVS 2008
• 1st International Cognitive Vision Workshop ICVW 2006
• 2006 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2006)
• Workshop on Attention and Performance in Computational Vision 2003, Graz, Austria, co-located with ICVS 2003
• 3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 03) , Graz, Austria

Activities as expert and reviewer

• Advisory Boards
• Security Advisory Group (SAG) for the EU project CIPRNet
• Ethics and Security Advisory Group (ESAG) for the EU project RESIN
• Ethics Board (ESAG) for the EU project ARCH
• Expert reviewer at conferences
• AAAI '96, IJCAI '99, KI 2004, ICRA 2005, IROS 2008, SAFECOMP '11,
• Expert reviewer for scientific journals
• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Image and Vision Computing Journal, International Journal on Critical Infrastructures, International Journal on Critical Infrastructure Protection, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, IEEE’s Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Systems

Memberships

• 2E!SAC - Association for the Improvement of the Resilience of Vital Infrastructures in Europe e.V., Sankt Augustin (Chairman, 2016-2021)
• (German) Society for Computer Science (1981-2006)

Publications (recent, selected)

• Karin André, Åsa Gerger Swartling, Mathilda Englund, Linda Menk, Emmanuel M.N.A.N. Attoh, Katharina Milde, Daniel Lückerath, Adeline Cauchy, Tara Botnen Holm, Mari Hanssen Korsbrekke, Muriel Bour, Erich Rome: Improving stakeholder engagement in climate change risk assessments: insights from six co-production initiatives in Europe. Frontiers in Climate, vol. 5:1038883, 2023. DOI: 10.3389/fclim.2023.1038883
• Linda Petutschnig, Erich Rome, Daniel Lückerath, Katharina Milde, Åsa Gerger Swartling, Carlo Aall, Mark Meyer, Gabriel Jordá, Julie Gobert, Mathilda Englund, Karin André, Muriel Bour, Emmanuel M.N.A.N. Attoh, Brigt Dale, Kathrin Renner, Adeline Cauchy, Saskia Reuschel, Florence Rudolf, Miguel Agulles, Camilo Melo-Aguilar, Marc Zebisch, Stefan Kienberger: Research Advancements for Impact Chain based Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessments, Frontiers in Climate, vol. 5:1095631, 1-18, 2023. DOI: 10.3389/fclim.2023.1095631
• Daniel Lückerath, Erich Rome, Katharina Milde: Using Impact Chains for Assessing Local Climate Risk – A Case Study on impacts of extended periods of fluvial low waters and drought on a metropolitan region, Frontiers in Climate 5:1037117,1-20, 09.02.2023. DOI: 10.3389/fclim.2023.1037117
• Oliver Ullrich, Manfred Bogen, Daniel Lückerath, Erich Rome: Co-operating with Municipal Partners on Indicator Identification and Data Acquisition, Simulation Notes Europe SNE 29(4), 2019, 159-168, DOI: 10.11128/sne.29.on.10491
• E. Pauditšová, E. Streberová, D. Lückerath, K. Milde, K. Nickel, A. Gondová, M. Musilová, E. Rome, O. Ullrich, I. Konrad, M. Bogen: Specification of planning process of adaptation to climate change in urban areas with historic objects, Proc. Of Adapt Northern Heritage Conference 2020, Edinburgh, UK (online), 2020, p. 211-218
• Alcaraz, C.; Huang, X.; Rome, E. (eds): “Security and privacy in cloud-assisted cyber-physical systems”, Special Issue, Computer Networks 138 (2018), Editorial p. 13–14, ELSEVIER, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2018.03.026, 2018.
• Carbone, Anna; Ajmone-Marsan, Marco; Axhausen, Kay; Batty, Mike; Masera, Marcelo; Rome, Erich: Complexity aided design, European Physical Journal Special Topics 214, 435–459 (2012), EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag 2012, DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01701-5
• Frintrop, S.; Rome, E.; Christensen, H.I.: Computational Systems of Visual Attention and their Applications: A Review. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP), Vol. 7, No. 1, 2010, doi dx.doi.org/10.1145/1658349.1658355, pp. 6:1–6:39

Further scientific publications are listed on researchgate.net.