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STEERING COMMITTEE

Current Members

The DL Steering Committee is responsible for carrying out policy determined at the DL business meetings and otherwise assisting the organizers of the DL workshops. Its current members are

Enrico Franconi	Free University Bozen-Bolzano	DL2007 organizer, selected 2007-2010
Giuseppe De Giacomo	Università di Roma "La Sapienza"	elected 2006-2009
Carsten Lutz	TU Dresden	elected 2006-2009
Ralf Möller	TU Hamburg-Harburg	elected 2007-2010
Bijan Parsia	University of Maryland	elected 2004-2007; DL2006 organiser, selected 2006-2009
Ulrike Sattler	University of Manchester	elected 2005-2008
Frank Wolter	University of Liverpool	DL2005 organiser, selected 2005-2008

The organisers of the upcoming DL workshop are ex-officio members of the DL steering committee. The current organisers are

Franz Baader	TU Dresden	DL2008 organiser
Carsten Lutz	TU Dresden	DL2008 organiser

The DL community has a representative on the KR Advisory Board. The representative for 2006 to 2008 is Bijan Parsia.

Steering Committee Mailing List

There exists a moderated mailing-list for the discussions by the steering committee. Requests and comments to the committee should be sent to this list, whose address is:

Mail sent to the above address will be distributed to all members of the steering committee. An archive of the list is publically available at https://dl.kr.org/pipermail/steering/.

Former Members and Membership Policy

Former members of the DL Steering Committee are:

Franz Baader	TU Dresden	2000-2002
Diego Calvanese	Free University Bozen-Bolzano	DL2003 organiser, selected 2003-2006
Volker Haarslev	Concordia University, Montreal	DL2004 organiser, selected 2004-2007
Ian Horrocks	University of Manchester	DL2002 organiser, selected 2002-2005
Maurizio Lenzerini	Università di Roma "La Sapienza"	2000-2002
Deborah L. McGuinness	Stanford University	2001-2003
Ralf Möller	TU Hamburg-Harburg	DL2004 organiser
Peter Patel-Schneider	Bell Labs, Murray Hill	2000-2006
Ulrike Sattler	TU Dresden	2000-2003
Sergio Tessaris	Università di Bolzano	DL2002 organiser, selected 2002-2005
David Toman	University of Waterloo	elected 2004-2007

The steering committee is currently formed according to the following policy:

1. At the DL workshop, the workshop organizers select one organizer to carry on for three years (to give continuity).

2. At the workshop, one person is elected to a three-year term.

3. At the workshop, the attendees may decide to add an extra member to the committee for a three-year term.

4. Two organizers of the upcoming DL workshop are ex-officio members of the committee, added as they are determined.

The KR Advisory Board representative is currently selected as the continuing DL workshop organizer for even-numbered years.