General information

• Since January 2002: Tenured lecturer (Akademischer Oberrat since October 2006) at the Dept. of Information Systems, University of Muenster, Germany.
• June 2001: Doctoral degree in computer science
• August 1997: Joined Prof. Vossen's group
• July 1997: Diploma in computer science from the University of Oldenburg.

Personal information

• List of publications
• Slides of my keynote address at DOLAP 2005: My Favorite Issues in Data Warehouse Modeling
• At the German database conference BTW 2003 I received a dissertation award.
• Research and scientific interests (potential students' thesis topics!)
  • All areas of databases, in particular data warehousing, normalization, and concurrency control
  • Security, privacy, and anonymity on the Internet, in particular for Android devices
• My gpg key (fingerprint: 4DFA 220E 15DD 0A34 53A9 CFDC 7290 F5E8 9774 9D63) and a revocation certificate for an older key.
• I'm a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V.
• List of publications as stored on the DBMS Web server

Current activities

• Member of the program committee of the 14th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK), Vienna, Austria, September 3 - 7, 2012 more
• Member of the program committee of the 2nd International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2012), Poitiers, Futuroscope, France, October 3-5, 2012 more
• Member of the program committee of the special issue Evolution and Versioning in Semantic Data Integration Systems of the Journal on Data Semantics (JODS), 2012 more
• Member of the program committee of the ACM Fifteenth International Workshop On Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2012), Maui, Hawaii, USA, November 2, 2012 more
• I maintain a list of database related conferences (essentially a DBWorld archive)
• Current lectures: Rechnerstrukturen und Betriebssysteme

Previous activities

• Member of the program committee of the 2nd Business intelligencE and the WEB (BEWEB) workshop (in conjunction with EDBT/ICDT 2011), Uppsala, Sweden, March 25, 2011 more
• Member of the program committee of the 13th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK), Toulouse, France, August 29 - September 2, 2011 more
• Member of the program committee of the 1st International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI), Óbidos, Portugal, September 28-30, 2011. more
• Member of the program committee of the 3rd International Workshop on Business intelligencE and the WEB (BEWEB), Berlin, Germany, March 30, 2012 more
• Member of the program committee of the workshop on User Oriented Information Integration (UOII), Riga, Latvia, October 6-8, 2011. more
• Member of the program committee of the ACM Fourteenth International Workshop On Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2011), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, October 28, 2011 more
• Member of the program committee of the Seventh International Workshop on Foundations and Practices of UML (FP-UML), Brussels, Belgium, October 31 - November 3, 2011 more
• Member of the program committee of the 6th International Workshop on Foundations and Practices of UML (FP-UML), Vancouver, Canada, November 1-4, 2010 more
• Chair of the Committee for Research of the School of Business Administration and Economics (2009-2010)
• Member of the program committee of the track on Warehousing and OLAPing Complex, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data" (WOCD 2010 at ADBIS 2010), Novi Sad, Serbia, September 20-24, 2010 more
• Member of the program committee of the 12th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK), Bilbao, Spain, August 30 - September 3, 2010 more
• Member of the program committee of the Business intelligencE and the WEB (BEWEB) workshop at EDBT, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 22-26, 2010 more
• Member of the program committee of the special issue contribution of ontologies in designing advanced information systems of the Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal (DKE) more
• Member of the program committee of the 4th International Workshop on Foundations and Practices of UML (FP-UML), Gramado, Brazil, November 9-12, 2009 more
• Member of the program committee of the ACM Twelfth International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2009, in conjunction with ACM CIKM 2009), Hong Kong, China, November 2, 2009 more
• Member of the program committee of the 13th East-European Conference on Advances in Database and Information Systems (ADBIS), Riga, Latvia, September 7-10, 2009 more
• Member of the program committee of the 11th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK), Turin, Italy, August 3 - September 4, 2009 more
• Member of the program committee of the 13th BTW 2009, Münster, Germany, March 2-6, 2009 more
• Member of the program committee of the special issue Semantic Data Warehouses of the Journal on Data Semantics (JODS), 2008
• Member of the program committee of the 4th International Workshop on Foundations and Practices of UML (FP-UML, in conjunction with ER 2008), Barcelona, Spain, October 20-23, 2008 more
• Member of the program committee of the 10th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK), Turin, Italy, September 1-5, 2008 more
• Member of the program committee of the conference on Business Intelligence Systems (MIPRO-BIS'08), Opatija, Croatia, May 26-30, 2008 more
• Member of the program committee of the ACM Tenth International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2007, in conjunction with ACM CIKM 2007), Lisbon, Portugal, November 9, 2007 more
• Member of the program committee of the 3rd International Workshop on Foundations and Practices of UML (FP-UML, in conjunction with ER 2007), Auckland, New Zealand, November 5-9, 2007 more
• Member of the program committee of the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet, Vila Real, Portugal, October 5-8, 2007 more
• Member of the program committee of the 9th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK), Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007 more
• Member of the program committee of the ACM Fifteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Arlington, VA 22202 USA, November 6-11, 2006 more
• Member of the program committee of the ACM Ninth International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2006, in conjunction with ACM CIKM 2006), Arlington, VA, USA, November 10, 2006 more
• Member of the program committee of the 2nd International Workshop on Best Practices of UML (BP-UML, in conjunction with ER 2006), Tucson, Arizona, November 6-9, 2006 more
• Member of the program committee of the 8th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK), Krakow, Poland, September 4-8, 2006 more
• Member of the program committee of the ACM Eighth International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2005) at CIKM 2005, Bremen, Germany, November 4-5. 2005 more
• Member of the program committee of the 1st International Workshop on Best Practices of UML (BP-UML 2005) at ER 2005, Klagenfurt, Austria, October 24-28, 2005 more
• Member of the program committee of the 7th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 22-26, 2005
• Member of Sergio Lujan Mora's PhD committe at the University of Alicante. Thesis title: Data Warehouse Design with UML. Defense: July 22, 2005
• Member of the program committee of the 11th BTW 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany, March 2-4, 2005
• Member of the program committee of the ACM Seventh International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP, Washington, D.C., USA, November 12-13, 2004
• Member of the program committee of the ACM Sixth International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP, New Orleans, LA, USA, November 7, 2003
• Co-organizer and member of the program committee of the Web and Databases Workshop in conjunction with the Berlin XML Days 2003, Berlin, October 13, 2003

Now Available:

• Datenmodelle, Datenbanksprachen und Datenbank- managementsysteme by Gottfried Vossen

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• Unleashing Web 2.0 by Gottfried Vossen and Stephan Hagemann