Steffen Staab - Page with old stuff, too

Professor for Databases & Information Systems
Head of Research Group "ISWeb - Information Systems and Semantic Web"
Institute for Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Koblenz-Landau

Research	Semantic Web, Knowledge Management, Metadata, Semantic Interoperability, Text Mining, Emergent Semantics, Self-organizing Information Systems doIT Software Research day awards 1st prize to Bibster; "Computerzeitung" Interview In the eye of the Semantic Web
Publications	Recent highlights: WWW-05, Middleware-04, ECAI-04, KRR-04, ISWC-04 Book: Handbook on Ontologies. Springer Int. Handbooks on Information Systems Book: Annotation for the Semantic Web IEEE Intelligent Systems: Department on Trends & Controversies, Department on Semantic Web
Teaching	Winter 2004/2005: lecture Database 1, seminar Semantic Grid Summer 2005: lecture: Database 2, lecture: Semantic Web, seminar: Semantic Access to Multimedia Data Winter 2005/2006: lecture Database 1, Seminarpraktikum "Multimedia Grid" Summer 2006: lecture "Multimedia Databases", lecture "Informatics for Information Managers", lecture "Logical foundations of deductive databases", seminar "Knowledge Management", seminar "Personal information management" Winter 2006/2007: lecture Database 1 ICML-2005 Tutorial on Machine Learning for the Semantic Web
Recent Activities	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: Special issue "Peer-to-Peer Communications and Applications" - Call for Papers IUI 2006 Tutorials/Workshop co-chair EKAW 2006 in Prague (co-chair) Sponsorship chair, ISWC-2006, University of Georgia, USA Programme Co-Chair of SAMT-2006 - 1st International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, Athens, 7-8 December 2006 WWW-2005 Track on the Semantic Web Workshop on Peer-to-Peer and Agent Infrastructures for Knowledge Management to be held in conjunction with the 3rd Conference Professional Knowledge Management (WM2005): Experiences and Visions, Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 11.-13, 2005 Dagstuhl Seminar on "Machine Learning for the Semantic Web", Dagstuhl 13.02.2005 - 18.02.2005 ECAI 2004 Area Chair STAIRS-2004@ECAI-2004, Valencia, ES - Starting AI Researcher Symposium (Call for Papers) Dagstuhl Seminar on "Semantic Interoperability and Integration", Sept. 19.-24, 2004 International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2004 and Semantic Annotation (see the ISWC-2003 annotation here)
Editorial Work	IEEE Intelligent Systems International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Journal of Web Semantics IT&T- Journal of Information Technology and Tourism
Current Projects	EU IST Integrated Project ASG - Adaptive Services Grid EU IST Integrated Project aceMedia Project Halo - Phase 1: OntoNova; Phase 2: Dark Matter
Some Recent Projects	BMBF Project SmartWeb - Semantic mobile access to WWW EU IST SWAP - Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer; read about the BIBSTER case EU IST Dot-Kom - Designing Adaptive Information Extraction from Text for Knowledge Management EU IST WonderWeb - Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web BMBF PADLR - Personalized Access to Distributed Learning Resources EU IST Bizon BMBF GETESS
Business
Students and Postdocs having worked under my auspices include:
	Philipp Cimiano, Marc Ehrig, Siegfried Handschuh, Andreas Hotho (and his Hommingberger Gepardenforelle), Alexander MÃ¤dche, Daniel Oberle, Viktor Pekar, Jorge Santos, York Sure, Christoph Tempich, Raphael Volz (access the unlinked via AIFB web page)
	Master's and Bachelor's Theses (Diplom- und Studienarbeiten)
	Come and see me on Tuesdays, 10.00 (official "Sprechstunde")


email	staab .. .. uni-koblenz . de
phone	+49-(0)261-287 2761
cellular	+49-(0)177-3524834
fax	+49-(0)261-287 2721

postal address	Institute for Computer Science, University of Koblenz, PO Box 201 602 56016 Koblenz, Germany
location	UniversitÃ¤tsstraÃŸe 1, Room B110, Koblenz, Germany

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