General information

• European Editor-in-Chief of Information Systems - An International Journal. If you want to submit a paper to the journal, please use the electronic Editorial System. more
• Associate Editor of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems: An official publication of the Information Resources Management Association more
• Scientific advisor of Deutsche Informatik-Akademie (DIA, German Informatics Academy), the continuous-education subsidiary of the German Computer Science Society more
• University contact person of the German Computer Science Society (GI) as well as speaker of the local GI chapter more
• Member of the Editorial Board of Datenbank-Spektrum, the German journal for database technology, published by Springer, Heidelberg more
• Editor-in-Chief of the dissertation series "Databases and Information Systems" (DISDBIS) of aka Verlag, Berlin und Heidelberg more
• Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL) more
• Member of the Editorial Board of Enterprise Information Systems more
• Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning more
• Member of the International Advisory Board of The International Journal of E-Adoption (IJEA) more
• Member of the organizing committee of GI working group on "Web and Databases" more
• And since I have visited the Department of Information Management at the National Chung Cheng University in Chia-Yi, Taiwan twice, I am a visiting professor there. more
• my (incomplete) DBLife more
• My Erdös number is 3, and I am a JP-2 (explanation provided upon request only). more
• Personal Advice: Due to the increasing number of requests I get from foreign undergraduate students for doing an intership in my group, I request not to be approached without a clear indication of at least one reference AND a statement of how you plan to finance your trip to and stay in Germany.

Personal information

• (Partial) list of publications (as far as compiled by Michael Ley for the DBLP Bibliography Server)
• Here is what the Google Scholar service shows as citations for my books and papers.
• Citations of my papers as found in CiteSeer.
• Citations of my papers as found in The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies.
• A considerably shorter list than that from DBLP comprises only articles published by Elsevier (found through their Scirus search engine, which apparently does not do a very good job yet)
• Information on and slides for the 5th edition (2008) of my German database book ("Datenmodelle, Datenbanksprachen und Datenbankmanagementsysteme") more
• Information on and slides for the 10th anniversary edition (2006) of my German computer architecture book ("Rechneraufbau und Rechnerstrukturen"), written together with Walter Oberschelp more
• Information on and slides for the 4th edition (2006) of my German book on theoretical computer science, automata theory, formal languages, and their applications ("Grundkurs Theoretische Informatik"), written together with Kurt-Ulrich Witt more
• Slides for the 1st edition (2002) of my book on Transactional Information Systems, written together with Gerhard Weikum, for download more
• List of publications as stored on the DBMS Web server

Current activities

• Member of the program committee of Modellierung 2010, Klagenfurt, Austria, March 2010 more
• Member of the program cimmittee of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Indianapolis, June 2010 more
• Member of the program committee of the 19th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD), Prague, Czech Republic, August 2010 more
• Member of the program committee of the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-10), Toronto, Canada, August/September 2010 more
• Member of the Infrastructure for Information Systems (IIS) program committee of the 36th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB) 2010, Singapore, September 2010 more
• Member of the program committee of EMISA 2010 (Workshop der GI-Fachgruppe Entwicklungsmethoden für Informationssysteme und deren Anwendung), Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2010 more
• Member of the program committee of the 10th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E), Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2010 more
• Current lectures: Projektseminar: KeySys 2, Data Integration, Management Information Systems and Data Warehousing

Previous activities

• Area Editor for "Transaction Management" for Springer's Encyclopedia of Database Systems (which in total consists of 1,256 entries or 3,067 including synonyms that were written by 871 authors and which will be 4,100 pages published in five volumes, and which is finally out) more
• Dean (Vice-Dean) of the Muenster School of Business Administration and Economics, Academic Year 2004/5 (2005/6), resp. more
• Vice president and CFO 2004-2005 of the German Computer Science Society (GI) more
• Visiting professor at Waikato Management School, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2003 and 2006/7 more
• Visiting professor at Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering, Potsdam, winter terms 2003/4 and 2004/5
• Visiting professor at Karlstad University, Sweden, 1999-2003
• Local organizer of BTW 2009, the 13th GI Conference on Database Systems in Business, Technology, and Web, University of Muenster, March 2009 more
• Member of the "Infrastructure for Information Systems" program committee of the 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Auckland, New Zealand, August 2008 more
• Tutorials Chair for the 2008 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Vancouver, Canada, June 2008 more
• Program co-chair of the 13th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS), Riga, Latvia, September 2009 more
• Program Co-Chair (Europe) of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), Poznan, Poland, October 2009 more

Now Available:

• Datenmodelle, Datenbanksprachen und Datenbank- managementsysteme by Gottfried Vossen

Now Available:

• Unleashing Web 2.0 by Gottfried Vossen and Stephan Hagemann