Marc Spaniol

Full Professor, Dr., HDR
Head of Team HULTECH
GREYC - CNRS UMR 6072
Room S3 383

Université de Caen Basse-Normandie
Department of Computer Science
Campus Côte de Nacre
F-14032 Caen Cedex
France

Email: spaniol@unicaen.fr
Phone: +33 2 31 56 73 32
Fax: +33 2 31 56 73 30

Research Interests

Temporal Web Analytics
Web Archiving
Knowledge Management & Evolution
Digital Libraries
Multimedia & Community Information Systems
Multimedia Metadata Standards
Cross-Media Analysis
Analysis of Digital Social Networks
Technology Enhanced Learning

Publications

2017

Govind and M. Spaniol
ELEVATE: A Framework for Entity-level Event Diffusion Prediction into Foreign Language Communities
Proceedings of the 9^th International ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci '17), Troy, NY, USA, June 26-28, 2017, 10 pages (to appear).
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N. Boldyrev, M. Spaniol, J. Strötgen and G. Weikum:
SESAME: European Statistics Explored via Semantic Alignment onto Wikipedia
Proceedings of the 26^th World Wide Web Conference (www2017), Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017, (ACM 978-1-4503-4914-7), pp. 177-181.
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M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and J. Masanès (Eds.):
Proceedings of the 7^thInternational Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2017), Perth, Australia, April 3, 2017, (ACM 978-1-4503-4914-7), pp. 1557-1558.
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M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and J. Masanès:
TempWeb 2017 Chairs’ Welcome Message
Proceedings of the 7^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2017), Perth, Australia, April 3, 2017, (ACM 978-1-4503-4914-7), pp. 1557-1606.
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2016

D.K.W. Chiu, I. Marenzi, U. Nanni, M. Spaniol and M. Temperini (Eds.):
Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2016
Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 10013, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-319-47440-3, 2016.
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N. Boldyrev, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
ACROSS: A Framework for Multi-Cultural Interlinking of Web Taxonomies
Proceedings of the 8^th International ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci '16), Hannover, Germany, May 22-25, 2016, (ACM 978-1-4503-4208-7), pp. 127-136.
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M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and J. Masanès (Eds.):
Proceedings of the 6^thInternational Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2016), Montreal, Canada, April 12, 2016, (ACM 978-1-4503-4144-8), pp. 837-868.
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M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and J. Masanès:
TempWeb 2016 Chairs’ Welcome Message
Proceedings of the 6^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2016), Montreal, Canada, April 12, 2016, (ACM 978-1-4503-4144-8), pp. 837-838.
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2015

P. Martin, M. Spaniol and A. Doucet:
Temporal Reconciliation for Dating Photographs Using Entity Information.
Proceedings of the 8^th International Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR’15), Melbourne, Australia, October 23, 2015, ACM (978-1-4503-3790-8), pp. 39-41.
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N. Prytkova, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
Methods for the Alignment of Multi-Cultural Knowledge Taxonomies
Proceedings of the 24^th World Wide Web Conference (www2015), Florence, Italy, May 18-22, 2015, pp. 93-94.
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M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and J. Masanès (Eds.):
Proceedings of the 5^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2015), Florence, Italy, May 18, 2015, pp 1311-1380.
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M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and J. Masanès:
TempWeb 2015 Chairs’ Welcome Message
Proceedings of the 5^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2015), Florence, Italy, May 18, 2015, pp 1311-1312.
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2014

M. Spaniol:
A Framework for Temporal Web Analytics
Habilitation Thesis, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, December 9, 2014, pdf-file
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M. A. Yosef, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
AIDArabic: A Named-Entity Disambiguation Framework for Arabic Text
Proceedings of the Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, Doha, Qatar, October 25, 2014, 9 pages, pdf-file
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M. Spaniol, J. Masanès and R. Baeza-Yates (Eds.):
Proceedings of the 4^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2014), Seoul, Korea, April 8, 2014, ACM (978-1-4503-2745-9), pp. 823-864.
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M. Spaniol, J. Masanès and R. Baeza-Yates:
The 4^th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb'14)
Proceedings of the 4^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2014), Seoul, Korea, April 8, 2014, ACM (978-1-4503-2745-9), pp. 863-864.
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2013

M. Spaniol, N. Prytkova and G. Weikum:
Knowledge Linking for Online Statistics
Proceedings of the 59^th World Statistics Congress (WSC 2013), Hong Kong, SAR, China, August 22-30, 2013, pdf-file.
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M. A. Yosef, S. Bauer, J. Hoffart, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
HYENA-live: Fine-Grained Online Entity Type Classification from Natural-language Text
Proceedings of the 51^st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013), Sofia, Bulgaria, August 4-9, 2013, pp. 133-138.
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R. Baeza-Yates, J. Masanès and M. Spaniol (Eds.):
Proceedings of the 3^rd International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2013), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13, 2013, ACM (978-1-4503-2038-2), pp. 1033-1108.
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R. Baeza-Yates, J. Masanès and M. Spaniol:
The 3^rd Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb)
Proceedings of the 3^rd International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2013), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13, 2013, ACM (978-1-4503-2038-2), pp. 1033-1034, pdf-file.
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2012

M. A. Yosef, S. Bauer, J. Hoffart, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
HYENA: Hierarchical Type Classification for Entity Names
Proceedings of the 24^th Intl. Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2012), Mumbai, India, December 8-15, 2012, pp. 1361-1370.
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Y. Wang, M. Dylla, Z. Ren, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
PRAVDA-live: Interactive Knowledge Harvesting
Proceedings of the 21^st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), Maui, Hawaii, October 29 - November 2, 2012, pp. 2674-2676, pdf-file.
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G. Weikum, J. Hoffart, N. Nakashole, M. Spaniol, F. M. Suchanek and M. A. Yosef:
Big Data Methods for Computational Linguistics
In IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin Special Issue on Data Management beyond Database Systems, Vol. 35, No. 3, September 2012, pp. 46-55, pdf-file.
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J. Göbölös-Szabó, N. Prytkova, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
Cross-Lingual Data Quality for Knowledge Base Acceleration across Wikipedia Editions
Proceedings of the 10^th International Workshop on Quality in Databases (QDB 2012), Istanbul, Turkey, August 27, 2012, pdf-file.
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Y. Wang, M. Dylla, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
Coupling Label Propagation and Constraints for Temporal Fact Extraction
Proceedings of the 50^th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2012), Jeju, Republic of Korea, July 8-14, pp. 233-237, 2012, pdf-file.
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N. Prytkova, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
Predicting the Evolution of Taxonomy Restructuring in Collective Web Catalogues
Proceedings of the 15^th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2012), Scottsdale, AZ, May 20, 2012, pdf-file.
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M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
Tracking Entities in Web Archives: The LAWA Project
Proceedings of the 21^st World Wide Web Conference (www2012), Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012, pp. 287-290, pdf-file.
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R. Baeza-Yates, J. Masanès and M. Spaniol (Eds.):
Proceedings of the 2^nd International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2012), in conjunction with the 21^st International World Wide Web Conference (www2012), Lyon, France, April 17, 2012, ACM (ISBN 978-1-4503-1188-5).
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R. Baeza-Yates, J. Masanès and M. Spaniol:
The 2^nd Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb)
Proceedings of the 2^nd International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2012), in conjunction with the 21^st International World Wide Web Conference (www2012), Lyon, France, April 17, 2012, ACM (ISBN 978-1-4503-1188-5), pdf-file
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M. Spaniol, A. Benczúr, Z. Viharos and G. Weikum:
Big Web Analytics: Toward a Virtual Web Observatory
ERCIM News No. 89 Special Issue on "Big Data", pp. 23-24, April, 2012, pdf-file.
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2011

Y. Wang, B. Yang, L. Qu, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
Harvesting Facts from Textual Web Sources by Constrained Label Propagation
Proceedings of the 20^th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, October 24-28, 2011, pp. 837-846, pdf-file.
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J. Hoffart, M. A. Yosef, I. Bordino, H. Fürstenau, M. Pinkal, M. Spaniol, S. Thater and G. Weikum:
Robust Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text
Proceedings of EMNLP 2011: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 27-31, 2011, pp. 782-792, pdf-file.
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M. A. Yosef, J. Hoffart, I. Bordino, M. Spanioland G. Weikum:
AIDA: An Online Tool for Accurate Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text and Tables
In Proc. of the 37^th Intl. Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2011), August 29 - September 3, 2011, Seattle, WA, USA, pp. 1450-1453, pdf-file.
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R. Baeza-Yates, J. Masanès and M. Spaniol (Eds.):
Proceedings of the 1^st International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TWAW 2011), in conjunction with the 20^thInternational World Wide Web Conference (www2011), Hyderabad, India, March 28, 2011, CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 707, ISSN 1613-0073, urn:nbn:de:0074-707-8, pdf-file.
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D. Denev, A. Mazeika, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
SHARC: Framework for Quality Conscious Web Archiving
VLDB Journal, Vol. 20, Number 2, 2011, pp. 183-207, pdf-file.
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R. Baeza-Yates, J. Masanès and M. Spaniol:
The 1^st Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TWAW).
Proceedings of the 20^th World Wide Web Conference (www2011), Bangalore, India, March 28 - April 1, 2011, pp. 307-308, pdf-file.
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Y. Wang, B. Yang, S. Zoupanos, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
Scalable Spatio-temporal Knowledge Harvesting
Proceedings of the 20^th World Wide Web Conference (www2011), Bangalore, India, March 28 - April 1, 2011, pp. 143-144, pdf-file.
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G. Weikum, N. Ntarmos, M. Spaniol, P. Triantafillou, A. Benczúr, S. Kirkpatrick, P. Rigaux and M. Williamson:
Longitudinal Analytics on Web Archive Data: It's About Time!
Proceedings of the 5^th biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), Asilomar, CA, USA, January 9 - 12, pp. 199-202, 2011, pdf-file.
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2010

X. Luo, M. Spaniol, L. Wang, Q. Li, W. Nejdl and W. Zhang (Eds.):
Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2010
Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 6483, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-642-17406-3, 2010.
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J. Masanès, A. Rauber and M. Spaniol (Eds.):
Proceedings of the 10^th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2010), in conjunction with the 7^th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES2010), Vienna, Austria, September 22 - September 23, 2010, pdf-file.
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A. Mazeika, D. Denev. M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
The SOLAR System for Sharp Web Archiving
Proceedings of the 10^th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2010), pdf-file, in conjunction with the 7^thInternational Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES2010), Vienna, Austria, September 22 - September 23, pp. 24-30, 2010.
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T. K. Shih, R. Lau, N. Magnenat-Thalmann M. Spaniol and Baltasar Fernández-Manjón:
The 2^nd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Leaning (Preface)
Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Learning (MTDL 2010), in conjunction with ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Florence, Italy, October 29, 2010.
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M. Spaniol, Q. Li, R. Klamma and R. Lau (Eds.):
Advances in Web Based Learning
Journal of Distance Education Technologies (JDET), Special Issue: Advances in Web-Based Learning, Vol 8., Issue 3, 2010.
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M. Spaniol, Q. Li, R. Klamma and R. Lau:
Advances in Web Based Learning (Guest Editorial Preface)
Journal of Distance Education Technologies (JDET), Special Issue: Advances in Web-Based Learning, Vol 8., Issue 3, Preface, 2010.
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L. Jäger, M. Jarke, R. Klamma and M. Spaniol:
Transkriptivität: Operative Medientheorien als Grundlage von Informationssystemen für die Kulturwissenschaften
Schriftenreihe "Automatismen", H. Bublitz, R. Marek, C. L. Steinmann and H. Winkler (Eds.): Automatismen, ISBN 978-3-7705-4987-0, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München, pp. 299-313, 2010.
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Y. Wang, M. Zhu, L. Qu, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
Timely YAGO: Harvesting, Querying, and Visualizing Temporal Knowledge from Wikipedia
Proceedings of the 13^th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) [demo paper], Lausanne, Switzerland, March 22-26, pp. 697-700, 2010.
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2009

M. Spaniol, Q. Li, R. Klamma and R. Lau (Eds.):
Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2009
Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 5686, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-642-03425-1, 2009.
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J. Masanès, A. Rauber and M. Spaniol (Eds.):
Proceedings of the 9^th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2009), in conjunction with the 13^th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009), Corfu, Greece, September 30 - October 1, 2009, pdf-file.
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M. Spaniol, A. Mazeika, D. Denev and G. Weikum:
''Catch me if you can'': Visual Analysis of Coherence Defects in Web Archiving
Proceedings of the 9^th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2009), pp. 27-37, pdf-file, in conjunction with the 13^th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009), Corfu, Greece, September 30 - October 1, 2009.
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R. Klamma, M. Spaniol and M. Jarke:
Knowledge Multimedia Processes in Technology Enhanced Learning
Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Learning (MTDL 2009), in conjunction with ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Beijing, China, October 23, 2009.
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D. Denev, A. Mazeika, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
SHARC: Framework for Quality Conscious Web Archiving
Proceedings of the 35^th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2009), Lyon, France, August 24-28, pp. 586-597, 2009.
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M. Spaniol, D. Denev, A. Mazeika, P. Senellart and G. Weikum:
Data Quality in Web Archiving
Proceedings of the 3^rd Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW 2009), pp. 19-26, pdf-file, in conjunction with the 18^th World Wide Web Conference (www2009), Madrid, Spain, April 20, 2009.
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M. Spaniol, R. Klamma and Y. Cao:
Media Centric Knowledge Sharing on the Web 2.0
M. D. Lytras, R. Tennyson and P. O. de Pablos (Eds.): Knowledge Networks: The Social Software Perspective, IDEA Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, USA, pp. 46-60, 2009.
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2008

M. Lux, M. Granitzer and M. Spaniol (Eds.):
Multimedia Semantics - The Role of Metadata
Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-540-77472-3, 2008.
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Publications 2002-2008

Software and Data Sets

A Framework for Entity-level Event Diffusion Prediction into Foreign Language Communities (ELEVATE)

Projects

Previous Projects

The Scientific Network "Media of Collective Intelligence" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

The EU Small or Medium-Scale Focussed Research Project (STREP) on Longitudinal Analytics of Web Archive data: LAWA

The EU Large-Scale Integrating Project (IP) on LivingKnowledge - Facts, Opinions and Bias in Time

The EU Small or Medium-Scale Focussed Research Project (STREP) on Living Web Archives: LiWA

SFB/FK 427: "Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation"
The EU Network of Excellence (NoE) in Professional Learning: PROLEARN

Recent Positions

Program Co-Chair of the 2^nd International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education (SETE 2017), Cape Town, South Africa, September 20-22, 2017

Workshop Co-Chair of the 7^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2017), in conjunction with the 26^th World Wide Web Conference (www2017), Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017
Conference Co-Chair of the 15^th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2016), Rome, Italy, October 26-29, 2016

Workshop Co-Chair of the 6^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2016), in conjunction with the 25^th World Wide Web Conference (www2016), Montreal, Canada, April 12, 2016
Workshop Co-Chair of the 5^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2015), in conjunction with the 24^th World Wide Web Conference (www2015), Florence, Italy, May 18, 2015
Workshop Co-Chair of the 4^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2014), in conjunction with the 23^rd World Wide Web Conference (www2014), Seoul, Korea, April 8, 2014
Workshop Co-Chair of the 3^rd International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2013), in conjunction with the 22^nd World Wide Web Conference (www2013), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13, 2013
Workshop Co-Chair of the 2^nd International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2012), in conjunction with the 21^st World Wide Web Conference (www2012), Lyon, France, April 17, 2012
Scientific advisory board member of the EU integrated project (IP) ARchive COmmunities MEMories (ARCOMEM)
Member of the Scientific Network "Media of collective Intelligence" (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG)
Workshop Co-Chair of the 1^st International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TWAW 2011), in conjunction with the 20^th World Wide Web Conference (www2011), Hyderabad, India, March 28, 2011
Program Co-Chair of the 9^th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2010), Shanghai, PR China, 2010

Workshop Co-Chair of the 12^th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community (SMDT 2010), Saarbrücken, Germany, December 1-3, 2010
Workshop Co-Chair of the 10^th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2010), Vienna, Austria, September 22-23, 2010
Workshop Co-Chair of the 2^nd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Leaning (MTDL 2010), Florence, Italy, October 29, 2010
Special Session Chair of the 3^rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing (U-Media 2010), Jinhua, PR China, July 5-7, 2010
Program Co-Chair of the 8^th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2009), Aachen, Germany, August 19-21, 2009

Workshop Co-Chair of the 9^th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2009), Corfu, Greece, September 30 - October 1, 2009
Journal reviewer (occasional) of:

• IEEE Multimedia

• IEEE Internet Computing

• IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Conference/Workshop Organization & Reviews

Teaching

Education

March 2008 - present:
Post-Doctoral Researcher at Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Department 5: Databases and Information Systems
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weikum
March 2002 - February 2008:
Ph.D. student at the Chair of Databases and Information Systems, RWTH Aachen University within the Collaborative Research Center 427: Media and Cultural Communication (Subproject: Capacity to Act in Digital Social Networks)
Thesis title: "Methods of Information Technology in Support of Transcription, Localization and Addressing for Cultural Science Communities" (pdf-file, in German)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Matthias Jarke and Dr. Ralf Klamma
October 1996 - February 2002:
Diploma in Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
Thesis title: "Situationsgesteuerte Inhaltspräsentation unter Verwendung mobiler Assistenten: Modellierung und Bewertung von Situationsmustern" (pdf-file, in German)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Jarke

Awards

Friedrich-Wilhelm Preis dissertation award 2008 of RWTH Aachen University
2^nd place in the Sun Software competition 1998 "Rugball" together with Rajendra Persaud at RWTH Aachen University
2^nd place in the Sun Software competition 1997 "Wormworld" together with Rajendra Persaud at RWTH Aachen University

Private

Hobbies

Travelling
Soccer (Alemannia Aachen in particular)
Jogging
Swimming