Universität Wien

Institute Name: Universität Wien, Institute of Applied Computer Science and Information Systems

Description: The Institute of Applied Computer Science and Information Systems of the University of Vienna has about 25 permanent academic staff. Courses in computer science are offered for master and PhD. students. The Institute is divided into four departments, Advanced Computer Engineering, Data Engineering, Knowledge Engineering, and Information Engineering. The last one will contribute to this project. The Information Engineering Lab focuses on database systems (security issues, multimedia databases, object-oriented databases) and on software engineering (reuse, process-driven software development, relationships between CSCW and software engineering, reverse engineering). About ten researchers work on these topics.The Information Engineering Lab has participated in the following research projects: RACE Europublishing, expert system KONTERM, KOBOLD - ooDBS Technology for KBL, CIRCE - Evaluation of Object-Oriented Database Systems, ITS - Improvements of Text Retrieval Systems, Natural Language Interfaces to Deductive Database Systems.The Information Engineering Lab cooperates with the following research institutions: Technical University Lingby, Denmark, Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, Germany, University of Kyoto, Japan, Universite de Geneve, Switzerland, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, University of Houston-Downtown, USA.

Researchers associated with the project:

Prof. Dr. Dr. G. Quirchmayr

Brief CVs of Key Researchers:

Name: G. Quirchmayr

Nationality: Austrian

Academic Qualifications & Experience: Gerald Quirchmayr holds doctors degrees in law and computer science and currently is professor for computer science at the University of Vienna where he chairs the Institute of Applied Computer Science and Information Systems. Apart from a large number of other application-oriented projects, he has been involved as principal researcher in RACE II (Europublishing) and TEMPUS (Joint Education Program in CIM) projects. His research interest include multimedia, CSCW, formal models and requirements engineering and applications thereof to business administration and law. Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerald Quirchmayr is the author of over 60 journal and conference publications.

Selected Publications:

G. Pernul, G. Quirchmayr.(1994): Organizing MLS Databases from a Data Modelling Point of View. Proc. of the 10th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ACSAC '94, Orlando, Florida

A. de Korvin, G. Quirchmayr, S. Hashemi.(1994): Dealing with Uncertainty in Insurance Contracts. Proc. of the 6th Conference on Expert Systems Applications and Artificial Intelligence, EXPERSYS-94, p. 397., Houston, Texas

E. Ellmer, G. Pernul, G. Quirchmayr. (1994): Security for Workflow Management. Proc. 6th IASTED/ISMM Intl. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Washington, DC, USA

E. Ellmer, G. Pernul, G. Quirchmayr, A M. Tjoa.(1994): Access Controls for Cooperative Environments. ACM CSCW'94 Workshop on Distributed Systems, Multimedia, and Infrastructure Support in CSCW, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, October 22, 1994, published in: SIGOIS Bulletin, Vol. 15, Number 2

F. Burger, G. Quirchmayr, S. Reich, (1994): A M. Tjoa. Managing Structured Documents in Distributed Publishing Environments. Proc. of the 5th International Conference of Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA 94 Athens, Greece

E. Ellmer.(1995): Improving Software Processes. Proc. of the 7th Conference on Software Engineering Environments, IEEE CS Press, 1995, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands

Contact Details:

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerald Quirchmayr

Address:Information Engineering Lab Univie Applied CS Liebiggasse 4 Vienna A-1010 Austria

Telephone number: +43 1 4277 384 31

Telefax number: +43 1 4277 384 49

EMail: gerald.quirchmayr@univie.ac.at

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