Keynote Speakers

Prof. Martin Bichler

Department of Informatics of the TU München, Munich, Germany

Martin Bichler is a full professor at the Department of Informatics of the TU München, Munich, Germany. He received his MSc in Information Systems from the Technical University of Vienna, and his Ph. D. as well as his Habilitation from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. He was working as a research fellow at UC Berkeley, and as research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. Since 2003 he is full Professor at the Department of Informatics, and also a faculty member at the TUM School of Management. Martin has contributed to different areas in computer science, information systems, and operations research. In particular he is interested in the design of multi-object markets and in computational methods to solve managerial decision and planning problems. Martin has published his work in top-tier journals, co-developed a few commercial software products, and founded a company in the area of market design.

Link to Web page: dss.in.tum.de

Title of presentation: Market Design - Foundations and Applications [abstract]

Prof. Dr. Manfred Hauswirth

Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland

Manfred Hauswirth is the Vice-Director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland and a professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). His research current research focus is on linked data streams, semantic sensor networks, sensor networks middleware, large-scale semantics-enabled distributed information systems and applications. Manfred has also worked extensively in peer-to-peer systems, Internet of things, self-organization and self-management, service-oriented architectures and distributed systems security. He has published over 160 papers in these domains, he has co-authored a book on distributed software architectures and several book chapters on data management and semantics. Manfred is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, has served in over 180 program committees of international scientific conferences and was program co-chair of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (IEEE P2P) in 2007, general chair of the Fifth European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in 2008, program co-chair of the 12th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE) in 2011, and program co-chair of the 10th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE) in 2011. He is a member of IEEE and ACM and is on the board of WISEN, the Irish Wireless Sensors Enterprise Led Network, the scientific board of the Corporate Semantic Web research center at FU Berlin, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Sensor Web Technologies (CLARITY) in Dublin, Ireland.

Link to Web page: Homepage

Title of presentation: Do you speak "Real World"? Streams, Linked Data and Processes. [abstract]

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Günter Müller

Institute of Computer Science and Social Studies, Department of Telematics, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Günter Müller is a full professor at the Faculty of Informatics and the Faculty of economics of the University of Freiburg, Germany. He received his Doctorat from the University of Duisburg and his Habilitation from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. He was working as a post-doc at IBM Almaden in California where he contributed to SQL and relational data base development. In 1985 he was named director of IBM European Network Research Center, where he was responsible for IBM involvement in the definition and development of the future digital computer network infrastructure. The work was demonstrated as European effort in Telecom 1987 in Geneva. In 1991 he helped to set up the Technical Faculty in Freiburg and established the center for Computer Science and Social Studies to study interrelationships of technology and society. He has defined in Freiburg the concept of multilateral security, by beeing the speaker of the German Research Foundation focal area Security, the chairman of the Daimler-Benz Kolleg "Security" and a consultant to German and Japanese Ministry of Economics and Technology. He has a large list of publications and received since 2010 several honors. The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration has awarded him with the "Ehrenmedaille" , the Austrian President awarded him the "Ehrenkreuz 1. Klasse" for his contributions to Internet", and the Technical University of Darmstadt endowed him with an Honorary Doctor because of his contributions to making security an academic discipline. The University of Zagreb-Varazdin appointed him Friend of Faculty.

Link to Web page: www.telematik.uni-freiburg.de

Title of presentation: Resilience - a Paradigm for Service oriented IT? [abstract]

Abstracts

Martin Bichler: Market Design - Foundations and Applications

Electronic markets have come in wide-spread use in the past decade. Market Design is a discipline focusing on the theory, design, and development of auctions and markets. Examples of innovative market design include combinatorial auctions for selling spectrum as they have been used in the recent years worldwide, as well as multi-lot auctions in procurement and in transportation. Discrete optimization, game theory, lab experiments, and behavioural studies all play a role in the design of such markets. In this talk, I will introduce market design goals and provide examples of specific auction formats as they are being used for the sale of spectrum licenses, as well as in industrial procurement. I will discuss some of the central problems, game-theoretical properties of these new auction formats, and empirical observations.

Manfred Hauswirth: Do you speak "Real World"? Streams, Linked Data and Processes.

Until recently the virtual world of information systems and activities in the real world have separated. However, knowledge in information systems may influence activities in the real world and vice versa, but these influences are usually indirect and not immediate. We still lack general-purpose means to interconnect and link this information in a meaningful and simple way. Additionally, information comes in the form of streams which complicates the data management at all levels - from the Internet of Things (IoT) up to the backend information systems. The increasingly popular Linked Data paradigm along with RESTful access mechanisms provide the tools to address some of these problems. However, supporting these techologies from resource-constrained sensors on the IoT to (stream) databases, (stream) reasoning systems, and processes, possibly as hosted solutions in the cloud, opens up many genuine research problems that require well-orchestrated and synchronized research efforts in and across research communities. In this talk I will discuss these problems and possible solutions.

Günter Müller: Resilience - a Paradigm for Service oriented IT?

Remaining responsive in cases of unplanned disruptions has been difficult for management in the past, but for IT it is almost impossible. IT Systems are developed to handle predefined properties, and offer a limited set of exception handling functionality. All exception must be planned ahead. Resilience encompasses reaction on disturbances beyond the scope of known properties. A company is resilient if its capabilities can be adapted to new requirements which have not been incorporated into the existing IT design. After an introduction into resilience and its state of art, by using cases studies the potential of the paradigm resilience is demonstrated, but also the still existing deficits exemplified.