• Jürgen (jointly with Koen Hindriks, Brian Logan and Wayne Wobcke) organizes the Dagstuhl seminar Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. During the seminar, a new workshop series, Engineering Multiagent systems (EMAS), has been founded. It is a merger of the three workshop series ProMas, DALT and AOSE.
• Jürgen and Nils gave a lecture at EASSS 2012, T4 Introduction to the modelling and verification of, and reasoning about multi-agent systems.
• Jürgen organizes the Multi-Agent Programming Contest together with Tristan, Michael and Federico.
• The IT Ecosystems project (where Jürgen and Michael were involved) was finished successfully.
• The new project GALOT (a DFG-Luxembourg cooperation with Wojtek Jamroga) was accepted.
• Nils (jointly with Natasha Alechina, Mehdi Dastani and Brian Logan) gave the lecture Logics and Multi-Agent Programming Languages at the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'12) in Valencia, Spain, June 2012.
• The book Programming Multi-Agent Systems edited by Jürgen, Collier and Peter Novák, 8th International Workshop, ProMAS 2010, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 11, 2010. Revised Selected Papers was finally published.

• Jürgen, Wojtek and Dov Samet organize the Dagstuhl seminar Reasoning about Interaction : From Game Theory to Logic and Back.
• Jürgen organizes an Agent Contest together with Tristan, Michael, Federico and Jomi Hübner.
• Jürgen together with Tristan, Michael, M. Dastani and J. Hübner publish two AMAI Special Issues about the Multi-Agent Programming Contest.
• Jürgen together with G. Kern-Isberner, G. Simari and Sven-Ove Hansson got a Dagstuhl seminar on Belief Change and Argumentation in Multi-Agent Scenarios accepted.
• The special issue for the journal on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems edited by R. Bordini, M. Dastani, J. Dix and A. El Fallah Segrouchni (containing selected papers of the Dagstuhl seminar in 2008) was finally published.
• Jürgen gave an invited talk at the NRAC workshop in Barcelona.
  
• Nils got the Beth Dissertation Prize 2011 and the Förderpreis des Vereins von Freunden für his dissertation
• Nils and Wojtek give a course at the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) on "Decision Problems and Decision Procedures for Strategic Logics".

• Rem Collier and Jürgen organize ProMAS at AAMAS together with Peter Novak.
  
• Jürgen organizes the CLIMA Workshop together with Joao Leite.
  
• Jürgen and Cees Witteveen organize the MATES conference at GI.
  
• Jürgen organizes an Agent Contest together with Tristan, Michael and Jomi Hübner.
• Jürgen and Nils organize a tutorial at EASSS.
• Jürgen, Peter Novak and Michael Fisher (finally) publish the proceedings of CLIMA-X 2009 in September.

• Tristan, Jürgen, Michael and Peter organize the Multi-Agent Contest 2009 together with Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University).
• Jürgen and Peter organize the CLIMA Workshop together with Michael Fisher.
• Our NTH project begins. Jürgen participates in LoCom and Barbara participates in AIM.
• Jürgen gives an invited talk at the ICR International Symposium: Games, Argumentation and Logic Programming (April in Luxemburg).
• Together with Michael Biehl, Sepp Hochreiter, Stefan C. Kremer, and Thomas Villmann, Barbara organizes a Dagstuhl seminar on Similarity-based learning on structures.
• Barbara coorganizes a session on Frontiers of Virtual Reality at the 6th Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in Tokyo. (link)
• Matthias Reuter earned two prizes with Detectino. Land der Ideen and Bauma Innovationspreis.

• Jürgen organizes the Dagstuhl Seminars Programming Multiagent Systems, Planning in Multiagent Systems, and Perspectives Workshop: Theory and Practice of Argumentation Systems.
• Barbara (co-)organizes a Dagstuhl seminar on Recurrent Neural Networks- Models, Capacities, and Applications.
• Tristan, Jürgen and Peter organize the Agent Contest 2008 together with Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University, NL).
• Jürgen attends the Perspective Workshop: Theory and Practice of Argumentation Systems , which was organized by S. Parsons (Brooklyn College, USA), E. Prakken (Utrecht University, NL), G. Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur - Bahia Blanca, RA) and himself.
• Jürgen and Wojtek give a course on What Coalitions Can Achieve at EASSS'08 in Estoril, Portugal.
• Jürgen acts as Associate Editor for the Annals of Math and AI. For the past 10 years, he acted on the Editorial Board of this journal.
• Matthias received the Technologiepreis der wehrtechnischen Industrie for the application of CI-methods on the detection of landmines.
• Barbara got grants from the DFG for a 3 years's project entitled 'Relevance Learning in Temporal Neural Maps'.
• Barbara coorganizes a session on Frontiers of Bioinformatics at the 5th Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in Mainz.
  Within an Erasmus cooperation, Barbara visits the Computational Intelligence Group of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

2007

• Matthias Reuter receives the award "Technologiepreis der wehrtechnischen Industrie" for his research on the detection of land-mines using computer-based, self-adaptive methods. He shares the price money of 20000 EUR with Wolfgang Schade.
• Dagstuhl seminar: "Programming Multi-Agent Systems" accepted (2008), Bordini, Dastani, Dix, El Fallah Segrouchni.
• Together with Michael Biehl (Groningen) and Wolfgang Kinzel (Würzburg), Barbara Hammer is organizing a seminar on From Statistical Physics to Computer Science: Analysis of Biological and Medical Data at the MPI Physik komplexer Systeme in Dresden, October, 1-26,2007.
• Jürgen and Wojciech are giving a lecture course on Modeling the Dynamics of Knowledge. Two Traditions: Logic Programming vs. Modal Logic. at ESSLLI 07 Dublin, Ireland, August 6-17, 2007 .
• I the 9th European Agent Systems Summer School Jürgen and Wojciech are giving a lecture course on Modal Logic for Multi-Agent Systems .
• Dagstuhl seminar on "Multi Agent Systems Planning" (J. Dix, Ed Durfee, Cees Witteveen) has been accepted.
• Dagstuhl seminar on "Argumentation Systems" (J. Dix, S Parsons, H. Prakken, G. Simari) has been accepted.
• Dagstuhl seminar on "Recurrent neural networks" (L.DeRaedt, B.Hammer, P.Hitzler, W.Maass) has been accepted.
• Barbara Hammer has been invited by the German Humboldt Foundation to Coorganize a session in the area of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Conference 2008 in Germany; she will participate as invited attendee at the JGFSC 2007 in Japan.
• The paper 'Relational Neural Gas' authored by Barbara Hammer and Alexander Hasenfuss won the best paper award at KI'07.
• Jürgen Dix spent March 2007 in Paris as guest Professor (Paris 6, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6).
• Jürgen Dix is Expert Evaluator in the Seventh Research Framework Programme (EU).
• Barbara Hammer was shortlisted (3rd) in the election of the W3 professorship 'Machine Learning' of Freiburg University.
• Barbara Hammer gives an invited Tutorial on Neuroinformatics, (March 9-16), Interdiciplinary College 2007, Günne.

2006

• Barbara Hammer has been invited as speaker in the session Machine Learning of the 3rd Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium organized by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in November 2006. Overall, 12 German and 12 Japanese scientists from diverse fields including Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, etc. were invited to present their research at the cutting edge of different disciplines to a diverse audience.
• Jürgen Dix is member of the EPSRC Peer Review College.
• Jürgen Dix gives an invited Lecture (with Wojtek Jamroga) on Modal Logics for Multi-Agent Systems, (July 17-21), European Summer School in Agents, Annecy, France.
• Jürgen Dix is Expert Evaluator in the Sixth Research Framework Programme (EU).
• Jürgen Dix has organized, together with Tony Hunter, the 11th workshop on non-monotonic reasoning, Lake District, UK, 2006.

2005

• Barbara Hammer has been invited to give a plenary talk at WSOM'05, the leading conference in the field of self-organizing maps, which took place in September 2005 in Paris, France.
• In March 2005 Barbara Hammer visited the group SAMOS-MATISSE of the University Paris I (Sorbonne) as invited guest professor.
• Jürgen Dix acted as expert evaluator (jointly with V. Lifschitz and T. Eiter) in a promotion committee from assistant to associate professor at Cyprus University, Cyprus.

2004

• Jürgen Dix and Barbara Hammer become professor for Computer Science at Clausthal University of Technology.
• 2-7 Sept 2004: Jürgen Dix is visiting Helsinki University of Technology (Prof. Ilkka Niemelae) and giving an invited talk. Jürgen Dix is also being invited from the Finnish Academy of Sciences as Expert Evaluator for the national research programme.

2003

• Jürgen Dix is invited guest-professor at NICTA, Sydney, Australia, July-August 2003
• Jürgen Dix is invited speaker at KRAR '03, Olsztyn, Poland in May 14-17, 2003.

2001

• Jürgen Dix is an invited speaker on Computational Logic and Heterogenous Agent Systems on September 17, 2001 at International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2001), Vienna, Austria.

2000

• Jürgen Dix is an invited speaker on Heterogenous Agent Systems on October 1, 2000 at National Argentine Conference on Computer Science (CACIC 2000), Usuahia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.