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
• University contact person of the German Computer Science Society (GI) as well as speaker of the local GI chapter more
• Deputy chairman of the steering committee of the German information technology certification agency Cert-IT 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 Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IJISMD) 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 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 the Practice-driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET) event 4 during CAiSE 2012, Gdańsk, Poland, June 2012 more
• Member of the program committee of the 16th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS) 2012, Poznan, Poland, September 2012
• Member of the program committee of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Web Information Management (SWIM) 2012, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 2012 more
• Member of the program committee of the 1st International Workshop on Cloud Intelligence (Cloud-I) in conjunction with VLDB 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2012 more
• Member of the program committee of the 14th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics, Hangzhou, China, September 2012 more
• Member of the program committee of the EMISA 2012 Workshop (EMISA 2012 Fachtagung - Der Mensch im Zentrum der Modellierung), Vienna, Austria, September 2012 more
• Member of the program commitee of the Workshop "Architekturen für Services & Cloud Computing" in conjunction with GMDS 2012 / INFORMATIK 2012, Braunschweig, Germany, September 2012 more
• Co-organizer of the Workshop "Integrationslösungen für Routineversorgung und Klinische Forschung" in conjunction with GMDS 2012 / INFORMATIK 2012, Braunschweig, Germany, September 2012 more
• Tutorial co-chair of the 31st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER) 2012, Florence, Italy, October 2012 more
• Member of the program committee of the 1st International Workshop on Modeling for Data-Intensive Computing (MoDIC) 2012 (in conjunction with ER 2012), Florence, Italy, October 2012 more
• Member of the program committee of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'12), Macau, China, December 2012 more
• Member of the program committee of BTW 2013, the 15th GI Conference on Database Systems in Business, Technology, and Web, Magdeburg, Germany, March 2013 more
• Current lectures: Rechnerstrukturen und Betriebssysteme

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 The University of Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand, July 2011 - March 2012 more
• Visiting professor at Waikato Management School, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2003 and 2006/7 more
• 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 Editorial Board of Datenbank-Spektrum, the German journal for database technology, published by Springer, Heidelberg, 2008-2011 more

Now Available:

• Datenmodelle, Datenbanksprachen und Datenbank- managementsysteme by Gottfried Vossen

Now Available:

• Unleashing Web 2.0 by Gottfried Vossen and Stephan Hagemann