Curriculum Vitae of Bernt Arild Bremdal - Forskningsparken AS

Curriculum Vitae of Bernt Arild Bremdal
Professor II Position in the field of research and education related to the Simulation and
Scenario Centre, the Smart Grid project and teaching activities in the MET. Position will be
financed by NCE Halden.
Name: Bernt Arild Bremdal Languages: Norwegian - Native
Date of Birth: September 2 nd 1957 English - Fluent
Marital Status: Married German - Conversation
Nationality: Norwegian French - Novice
Address: Bleikerfaret 94 Telephone No.: + 47 900 61 173
N-1370 Asker Email address: bernt@xalience.com
• 20 years + experience in decision support and information/knowledge management
• 8 years + of academic research & development
• Extensive experience within management and project leadership, as well as product
development
• Specialist within knowledge and information management, process reengineering and
performance optimisation
• Technical expertise within search, information extraction, AI, computational linguistics,
web applications and operation research
Personal Details
Summary of Experience
• Expertise knowledge-based decision support and knowledge management

1984-1988 Ph.D. NTNU/Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Main
research area: Application of artificial intelligence, rule-based and object-
oriented programming in project planning.
1978-1982 M.Sc. (Siv.ing) Marine Technology, Norwegian Institute of Technology,
Fall 2008 – present
Trondheim, Norway. Main subjects: Operations research and systems
design/development
Digital Xalience a.s
Senior Partner – consultant
2010 - Project leader “Manage Smart in Smart Grid”- NCE Energy and
Emissions Trading Halden
Education
Experience
A project with focus on how to apply AMI systems for intelligent energy management
2008-2010 Participation in various projects
Advisor on R&D, NCE for Emission and Energy Trading
The Lattice Collaboration project, DX and Innovasjon Norge
The Future of media in Norway with Teleplan and ToNeMe, Denmark
Advisor for StatoilHydro in the Find/NextGeneration Project on shaping the future
concept for geological exploration and associated information management.

Participant in X-Media EU funded project on cross-media/multi-media asset management
for large corporations. Project partners include Rolls Royce, University of Sheffield, Fiat
and Solcara.
Small consultant projects on information managemen, processes and search
1998 – present
Narvik University College (HIN), Narvik
Adjunct Professor (Professor II) in Information Technology at
Teaching various courses and personal instructions of master students in Information
Technology within:
• Object-oriented methods
• Knowledge management
• Artificial intelligence
• Intelligent agents and robots
Fall 2007
Norwegian College in Information Technology (NITH), Oslo
Lecturer in “Artificial Intelligence in Video Games” (BSc)
2002 - 2005
Norwegian School of Business Administration and Management (BI), Oslo
Lecturer at various master programmes in two courses in “Knowledge and Information
Management” at BSc and Master level.
1996 - summer 2008
CognIT a.s

2003 – 2008 CEO/business development/sales
Responsible for the company and its business including personell management, business
development and sales.
Also involved in the following projects:
2005 – 2007 Advisor
Advisor on Best Practice, process orientation and value chain analysis for industry
customers associated with CORPORUM Best Practice and MIRIAM license sales
These inclcude Hydro Metals, Hydro Components, TMG, Aker Kvaerner, Gassco,
Statoil, Fortum
2004 – 2005 Various municipalities in Norway
Introduced and facilitated work on process orientation and process modelling in 10
municipalities and colleges associated with the introuction of CORPORUM Best
Practice. Municipalities include Halden, Hvaler, Arendal and more.
2000 – 2004 Project manager – large projects
2003 – 2004 SØRAL
Advisor to QA Manager on the introduction of CORPORUM Best Practice and the
FAROS Methodology on process orientation and knowledge management.
2003 - 2004 TMG
Project manager for Best Practice implementation in TMG. Co-assisted IBM in value
chain process development of automotive production lines.

2001 – 2003 HAMP Business System
Project manager for introduction of implementation of Hydro Best Practice and
CORPORUM Knowledge Factory in Hydro Aluminium. Knowledge Factory consists of
knowledge bases and linguistic tools for efficient knowledge sharing and content
management. Designed for 30.000 end users. Managed the introduction of the FAROS
methodology and spearheaded the facilitation of 28 business processes.
1996 – 2000 Director of Technology and Research
2000 – 2002 OntoKnowledge
Participation in EU-funded project on studies and use of ontologies in content
management. Other participants included University of Amsterdam, University of
Karlsruhe, British Telecom R&D, Enersearch, AI Administrator. Partly responsible for
development of extraction technology based on MIMIR concept.
2000 CORPORUM Summarizer
Responsible for development of a text summarizer based on semantic analysis and ontology
management. Development of fuzzy algorithm for contextual threading of paragraphs and
extraction technique for both summarisation of a multiple discourse document and interest
driven summary. Summarizer was commercialised and is today recognized as one of the
leading commercial summarizers in the world.
1998 – 2000 TEKMO/MIMIR
Project responsible. Text interpretation based on context models. Research on detection
of ontological structures in text. Development of system based on structural
computational linguistics and fuzzy ontological structures for enabling efficient
contextual detection of a discourse and intelligent extraction. Development of the
Resonance Algorithm – a novel approach for combined hypothesis and data driven search
and filtering whereby hypotheses are used as perception filters that are dynamically
adjusted according to what support is given to the different hypothesis mustered.

1996- 1998 Hand-El Skandinavia
Constituted manager for systems development. Responsible for introduction of OO
methodology, know-how co-ordination and training of development staff. Tools:
Rational Rose, C++, OORAM, Customized unified method.
1997 – 1998 Aker Engineering
Research and engineering of ASAP for extended offshore purposes. Chief of anlysis,
design and implementation. Tools: Rational Rose, OORAM, VisualWorks
1996 Aerospatiale Missiles France/IFE Norway
Co-responsible designer for ACCES with emphasis on development of a corporate
ontology based on a standardized objects and a corporate memory unit. Tools: Select
OMT, OORAM, C/C++.
1993 - 1996 Bremdal Technology Services, Asker
Initiated business operations and technology transfer pertaining to object-oriented
systems, knowledge management, decision support, fuzzy technology and advanced
database applications.
Initiator and chairman for AI Petro - International conference on AI in Petroleum,
Lillehammer 1995. Chief of staff and manager for the conference.
Subcontractor and/or consultant to the following projects:

1995 Taskon/SLU Sweden
Diareføringsystem: Responsible for introduction of the OORAM methodology.
Consultant for analysis and design.
1995 Halden industriforening
Technology co-operations with small and mid-sized companies in Østfold: Investigation
of the technology transfer potential between R&D companies in Østfold and small
industry with emphasis on IT.
1993 – 1995 ACCESS: Aerospatiale Missiles France/IFE Norway
ACCESS: Management of design knowledge in weaponry production engineering and
nuclear industry: Chief of research. Responsible for development of intelligent systems
for networking of intellectual resources and content management. Conceptual and
detailed design. Implementation of application framework and business classes. Tools:
Coad&Yourdon and C/C++/VisualWorks.
1992 – 1993 IMPAD Statoil
IMPAD: Decision support system for geologists capitalizing on experience. System based
on a Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) approach.
1993 ASAP: Aker Engineering a.s
ASAP: Design and implementation of risk estimation module using OBA methodology
and VisualWorks.
1993 – 1994 GeoKnowledge a.s
gReport: Re-engineering of prose generating report writer using based on an ATN parser.

gAggregate: Re-engineering of risk estimate aggregation unit.
Courses and seminars:
Object-oriented methods, analysis and design, VisualWorks/Smalltalk, visual
programming, knowledge-based systems, knowledge management, enterprise modelling.
1990-1993 Geoknowledge A.S, Sandvika
1993 Technical Director
Responsible for technology enhancement and all technical services of the company.
Responsible and participating in: The development and sales of OOA/D/P services and
products, the establishment of help-desk services for customer support and product
maintenance, co-ordinating efforts related to product developments of the GeoX product
portifolio.
1990-1992 Technical/Adminstrative Director
Responsible for establishing the company in Sandvika and hiring professionals to form a
company dedicated to product development of knowledge-based decision support
systems for the oil industry, using state-of-the art AI and OO technology. Also
responsible for technology and business operations, including ParcPlace agency.
Reporting to the Board of Directors.
1989-1990 A/S EDB, Oslo

1989-1990 Senior Consultant
General software consultancy. Responsible for preparing, marketing and executing the
introduction of Knowledge-Based Systems consultancy in the company.
1988-1989 Norwegian Petroleum Consultants A.S, Asker
1988-1989 Supervisor
Responsible for marketing and development of R&D pertaining to application of
advanced IS/IT in project management and offshore engineering. Responsible for
research and development of knowledge transfer systems and AI.
1986-1988 Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim
1987-1988 Assistant professor
Tenure with responsibilities within CAD/CAM and Fabrication, Marine Technology
Department.
1986 Research fellow
Thesis oriented research building the LIFT system using a hybrid programming approach
including Flavors, LISP and OPS5 placed in a ZetaLisp environment on a Texas
Explorer.
1986 Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
1986 Visiting scholar

Engaged in faculty dependent and thesis oriented research related to knowledge-based
systems in engineering design.
1983-1985 Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim
1985 Research fellow
Initiated thesis oriented research around AI and OO methods. Lectures and supervision of
undergraduate students in systems design and operation research with emphasis on
marine operations.
1983-1984 Research assistant
Assisting in research and in the supervision of courses in the Division of Marine Systems
Design.
Other Information
Married to Anita, four children (25, 21, 17, 13 years old)
Member of a number of professional associations and committees, both international and
national. President of Norwegian AI Society 1993 - 1996.
External examiner and guest lecture in OO, CAE, AI-related curriculum for four different
academic institutions.
Senior lecturer in IT in Knowledge Management at Norwegian School of Business
Administration.

International network of contacts. Lived in USA and Africa.
Publications
Author of more than 50 articles and published reports on computer applications in
engineering and industry, design and planning, object-oriented technology and artificial
intelligence. Publications the last 10 years:
Stokke, P. S. and Bremdal, B. A. (1994). Information Refineries and the Manufacturing
of Industrial and Corporate Knowledge. Proceedings International Seminar on the
Management of Industrial and Corporate Knowledge, ISMICK 94, Compiégne, France.
Bremdal, Brenne, Sæther, Rueslåtten: “Defining Analytic Strategies in Remote Sensing
Using a Hybrid, Knowledge-Based Decision Support System” in Artificial Intelligence in
the Petroleum Industry”, Vol. 1 (Ed. Braunschweig and Bremdal (Ed.), Edition Technip,
1995.
Bremdal, Mikkelsen, Gulbrandsen: “Risk Assessments with ASAP. Acieving
Competetive Rewards” in “AI in the Petroleum Industry.” Volume 2. Edition Technip
1996.
Braunschweig and Bremdal (Ed.), “AI in the Petroleum Industry.” Volume 2. Edition
Technip 1996.
Bremdal, Olsen: “An Introduction to Fuzzy Systems in Production and Mechanical
Engineering. “ Application of AI to Production Engineering (Ed: Wang, Pranevicius).
Nordic-Baltic Summer School, 1997.

Bremdal: “Expert Systems for Management of Natural Resources” in The Handbook of
Applied Expert Systems (ed: Liebowitz)CRC Press 1998
Bremdal: “Creating a Learning Organisation based on Content Based Knowledge
Management”. OECD HRP Meeting, Loen May 1999.
Bremdal et al. “Intelligente agenter på nett”, Teknisk Ukeblad nr. 48, 1999.
Bremdal, B., Johansen, F., Spaggiari, C., Engels, R., Jones, R. (1999). Creating a
Learning Organisation Through Content Based Document Management. In: Proceedings
of Halden Program Group Meeting (HPG-352/12). OECD.
Bremdal, B., Johansen, F., Spaggiari, C., Engels, R., Jones, R. (1999). Knowledge
Management through Content Interpretation . White Paper. CognIT 2000.
Bremdal, B. and Johansen, F., “CORPORUM technology and applications”, White paper,
CognIT a.s, 2000
Engels, R and Bremdal, B, “Information extraction: state-of-the-art report”, deliverable 5
of the EU 5th framework Project OnToKnowledge (IST-1999-10132), CognIT a.s, 2000
Fensel, D., van Harmelen, F., Klein, M., Akkermans, H., Broekstra, J., Fluit, C., van der
Meer, J., Schnurr, H.-P., Studer, R., Hughes, J.,Krohn, U., Davies, J., Engels, R., Bremdal,
B., Ygge, F., Lau, T., Novotny, B., Reimer, U., and Horrocks, I., ”On-To-Knowledge:
Ontology-based Tools for Knowledge Management”, In Proceedings of the eBusiness and
eWork 2000 (EMMSEC2000) Conference, Madrid, Spain, 2000.

Engels, R and Bremdal, B, “Ontology Extraction Tool”, Deliverable 6 of the EU 5th
framework Project OnToKnowledge (IST-1999-10132), CognIT a.s, 2001
Wang, Hjelmervik, Bremdal: “Introduction to Knowledge Management. Principles and
Practices.” Tapir 2001.
Korsvoll, T, Bremdal, Kirkebak T.: "Learning Driven Innovation - An Actionable
Framework for Creating Organizational Innovation" for Program Session #: 598 ,
Academy of management, August 2004, New Orleans