Institute Name:INFOLAB, Tilburg University
Description:
The Infolab belongs to the Chair of Computer Science (held by Prof. Mike
Papazoglou), and is part of the Department of Information Management at
Tilburg University.
Due to market pressure, new organizational forms built around business
processes and inter-organizational relationships are emerging. Cross
function, cross business unit, and cross company availability of
information is the cornerstone of a modern organization. These
developments result in an ever-increasing demand for globalization in
addition to unified access to information resources which are
distributed throughout a local or worldwide network. Access to these
resources is currently hampered by the presence of proprietary or legacy
systems, poor design of business processes, and the rapid expansion of
information networks that include a wide range of information and users
with a variety of requirements.
The focus of the Infolab concentrates on the long-term objective of
supporting the design and development of state-of-the-art IT tools which
are able to access, synthesize, and reason about large volumes of
distributed information. Our work is interdisciplinary and is based on
results of currently disjoint research fields, in particular data and
knowledge representation and modeling, requirements engineering,
distributed and interoperable data bases, client/server systems, and
Internet technologies. These objectives are achieved through strategic
research, advanced prototyping, technology transfer, and collaborative
product development with industry and government agencies and by
presentation of our results to the wider scientific community.
Researchers associated with the project:
Dr. Wilhelm Hasselbring, Dr. Manfred Jeusfeld, Prof. Dr. Michael P.
Papazoglou, Dr. Hans Weigand
Brief CVs of Key Researchers:
Name: Dr. Wilhelm Hasselbring
Nationality: German
Email:hasselbring@kub.nl
Home page:http://infolab.kub.nl/people/willi
Academic Qualifications & Experience:
Wilhelm Hasselbring received his Diploma in Computer Science from the
Technical University of Braunschweig in 1989; Ph.D. in Computer Science
from the University of Dortmund in 1994. From 1989 to 1993 he has been
researcher in Software Engineering at the University of Essen. In 1993
he joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of
Dortmund as University assistant (C1). Since 1998 he is Assistant
Professor at the INFOLAB, Tilburg University. In between, he visited
Trinity College, Dublin, the University of Edinburgh, Department of
Artificial Intelligence and Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC).
He is a member of ACM, IEEE Computer Society, GI (German Association for
Computer Science), and GMDS (German Association for Medical
Informatics).
His main research interests include software engineering for parallel
and distributed systems, in particular requirements analysis and
traceability, formal specification, prototyping, software architectures
for heterogeneous information systems, and hospital information systems.
Name: Dr. Manfred Jeusfeld
Nationality: German
Email:jeusfeld@kub.nl
Home page:http://infolab.kub.nl/people/jeusfeld
Academic Qualifications & Experience:
Manfred Jeusfeld studied computer science from 1980 to 1986 at the
Technical University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany. After getting his
Diploma degree, he moved to University of Passau, Germany, to join the
institute of Prof. Matthias Jarke. He worked on development support for
database applications and on foundations of deductive & object-oriented
databases. In 1992 he received his Doctoral degree in Natural Sciences
from the University of Passau.
In 1992 he returned to the RWTH Aachen as a senior researcher. He led
several research projects projects in the areas of distributed
cooperative information systems, meta modelling techniques and medical
terminology. He has been the principal developer of the ConceptBase
system which is now used by about 200 institutes and companies
world-wide for designing information systems.
In 1995, he spend one year as a visiting assistant professor at the Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Information &
Systems Management. There, he worked on interoperable decision support
systems and information architectures for electronic shops.
Since 1997, he is assistant professor at the faculty of economics of the
Tilburg University, The Netherlands. His research covers cooperative
conceptual modeling, data warehouse quality management, electronic
commerce repository systems, and information models for information
exchange between engineers.
Dr. Jeusfeld has published more than 10 journal articles (Information
Systems, Decision Support Systems, etc) and numerous conference
articles. He is or has been reviewer for international journals like
Transactions on Informations Systems and conferences including ICIS,
VLDB, CAiSE, ER and others.
Name: Prof. Dr. Michael P. Papazoglou
Nationality: Greek and Australian
Email:mikep@kub.nl
Home page:http://infolab.kub.nl/people/mikep
Academic Qualifications & Experience:
Michael P. Papazoglou is a full Professor and director of the Infolab at
the Univ. of Tilburg in the Netherlands. Prior to this he held the
positions of full Professor and head of School of Information Systems at
the Queensland Univ. of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane Australia
(1991-1996); Reader (Research Assoc. Professor) at the Australian
National University Dept. of Computer Science (1989-1991); and principal
research scientist at the German Research Center for Computer Science
(GMD, St. Augustin), (1984-1989).
His scientific interests include cooperative information systems,
heterogeneous database systems, object-oriented systems and modelling,
distributed computing, digital libraries, electronic marketing and
commerce.
Papazoglou is the founding editor and co-editor in charge of the
International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems. He also serves
on several committes and advisory boards for international journals such
as Information Systems, AI Tools, Pattern Recognition and AI, Applied
Knowledge Engineering, and Knowledge and Information Systems. He has
served as general and program chair for a number of well-known
international conferences such as Tools for AI (TAI), Cooperative
Information Systems (CoopIS), Entity-Relionship (ER), Distributed
Computing Systems (ICDCS), and Data Engineering (ICDE). He has authored
or edited eight books and approximately 100 journal articles and
refereed conference papers. His research was/is funded by the European
Commission, the Australian Research Council, the Japanese Society for
the Promotion of Science, and Departments of Science and Technology in
Europe and Australia.
Papazoglou has given invited lectures on Information Technology related
topics in several countries in Europe, in N.America, Asia and Oceania.
He is a golden core member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), and a recipient of the prestigious IEEE certificate of
appreciation - awarded to only 5 IEEE members per year - for his
contributions to Computer Science as Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE.
Name: Dr. Hans Weigand
Nationality: Dutch
Email:weigand@kub.nl
Home page:http://infolab.kub.nl/people/weigand
Academic Qualifications & Experience:
Hans Weigand is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics of
Tilburg University, and a Researcher at the Infolab. He has studied
Computer Science and Mathematics at the Free University in Amsterdam.
His Ph.D thesis was about the application of linguistic theory in
knowledge engineering. In 1989 he moved to Tilburg and worked as
senior-researcher in the ESPRIT II project SPRITE (database support for
technical documentation). Since 1991 he is Lecturer at the Faculty of
Economics of Tilburg University and participated in the LIKE project
sponsored by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
He has participated in several external projects, including two recent
ESPRIT projects, TREVI (news filtering) and MEMO (electronic commerce).
He has been co-organizing two international workshops on the
Language/Action Perspective (LAP) and is one of the initiators of the
SPECIE platform for Electronic Commerce.
His research interests include conceptual modelling, logics for
knowledge representation, computational linguistics, cooperative agents,
and electronic commerce. Hans Weigand has worked particularly on the use
of linguistic instruments in requirements engineering. This includes
work on the relationship between linguistic representations and
knowledge representations, the use of upstream CASE tools that support
the elicitation of design models from NL requirements documents, the use
of speech act theory for the analysis of communication structures, the
development of a large conceptual lexicon that integrates lexical
semantics and ontological knowledge, and, more recently, the role of
language in knowledge elicitation techniques such as interviewing and
think-aloud protocols.
Selected Publications:
W. Hasselbring, A. Kroeber: Combining OMT with a Prototyping Approach,
The Journal of Systems and Software, 43(3): 177-185, November 1998.
W. Hasselbring: The ProSet-Linda Approach to Prototyping Parallel
Systems, The Journal of Systems and Software, 43(3): 187-196, November
1998.
W. Hasselbring: Erfahrungen mit dem Einsatz von anwendungsspezifischen
Piktogrammen zur partizipativen Anforderungsanalyse (Experience with the
use of application-specific pictograms for participatory requirements
analysis), Informatik Forschung und Entwicklung, Springer-Verlag, 13(4),
1998.
J. Hoppenbrouwers et al: NL Structures and Conceptual Modelling:
Grammalizing for KISS. Data & Knowledg Engineering, 1997.
M.A. Jeusfeld, M. Jarke, H.W. Nissen, M. Staudt: ConceptBase - Managing
Conceptual Models about Information Systems. To appear in P. Bernus, K.
Mertins, G. Schmidt (eds.): Handbook on Architectures of Information
Systems, Springer-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-540-64453-9.
M. Jarke, P. Peters, P. Szczurko, M.A. Jeusfeld: Model-driven Planning
and Design of Cooperative Information Systems. Appears in M. Papazoglou,
G. Schlageter (eds.): Cooperative Information Systems - Trends and
Directions, Academic Press, 1998.
B. Kr‰mer, M. P. Papazoglou (edited) ``Information Systems
Interoperability'', Research Studies Press - J. Wiley & Sons, 1998.
H.W. Nissen, M.A. Jeusfeld, M. Jarke, G.V. Zemanek, H. Huber: Managing
multiple requirements perspectives with metamodels. IEEE Software, 13,
2, pp. 37-48, March 1996.
M. Jarke, M.A. Jeusfeld, P. Peters, K. Pohl: Coordinating distributed
organizational knowledge. Data & Knowledge Engineering, 23, 3, pp.
247-268, 1997.
M. Jarke, M.A. Jeusfeld, T. Rose: A software process data model for
knowledge engineering in information systems. In Information Systems,
15, 1, 1990, pp. 85-116.
M.P.Papazoglou, L.Marinos, N.G.Bourbakis: The Organizational Impact of
Integrating Multiple Tools, Journal of Software Engineering & Knowledge
Engineering, vol. 1, no.2, pp. 165-188, 1991.
M.P.Papazoglou, S. Laufmann, T.K.Sellis: An Organizational Framework for
Cooperating Intelligent Information Systems, Int'l Journal of
Intelligent & Cooperative Information Systems: IJICIS , vol.1, no.1,
pp. 169-203, March 1992.
M.P. Papazoglou, G. Schlageter (edited): Cooperative Information
Systems: Current Trends and Directions, Academic Press, 1998.
H. Weigand: Linguistically Motivated Principles of Knowledge Base
Systems. Foris, Dordrecht, 1990.
H. Weigand, E. Verharen, F. Dignum: Integrated Semantics for information
and communication systems. In: R. Meersman (ed), Proc. IFIP WG 2.5 Conf
on Database Application Semantics, Chapman & Hall, 1996.
H. Weigand: A multilingual ontology-based lexicon for news filtering.
Proc. IJCAI workshop on multilingual ontologies, 1997.
Contact Details:
Principal Investigator: Dr. Wilhelm Hasselbring
Address: INFOLAB, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, NL-5000 LE
Tilburg
Telephone number: ++31 13/466-8080
Telefax number: ++31 13/466-3069
EMail: hasselbring@kub.nl
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