Alsayed Algergawy
Anahita Kazem
Andrea Hofmann
Andreas Ostrowski
Birgitta König-Ries
Cornelia Fürstenau
David Schöne
Eleonora Petzold
Felicitas Löffler
Franziska Zander
Hamdi Hamed
Ibrahim Mammadov
Jan Martin Keil
Jihen Amara
Jitendra Gaikwad
Leila Feddoul
Luiz Gadelha
Martin Hohmuth
Neha Gupta
Nora Abdelmageed
Roman Gerlach
Samira Babalou
Sheeba Samuel
Susanne M Hoffmann
Sven Thiel
Trupti Padiya
Vamsi Krishna Kommineni
Waqas Ahmed
Prof. Dr. Birgitta König-Ries
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Professor Jentower, Leutragraben 1 , 07743 Jena , Room: 21N05 +49(0)3641-946430 |
Curriculum Vitae
Birgitta König-Ries holds the Heinz-Nixdorf Chair for Distributed Information Systems at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
Before joining FSU, she was working with the TU Munich, Universität Karlsruhe (this is where she obtained both her PhD and her diploma degrees), Florida International University, and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
The central theme of the group’s work is the distributed, automized usage of resources, i.e., information and functionality,
in heterogeneous, dynamic environments. An important application area for the solutions developed is research data management, in particular for biodiversity research projects.
We develop a research data management platform, BEXIS 2, and work on tools to improve data FAIRness and reproducibility of research.
Semantic web technology is used in many of our projects to achieve these goals.
Professional Activities
really outdated, will be updated when I am less busy (whenever that will be the case ….)
- PC-Co-Chair European Conference on Webservices (ECOWS), Halle, 2007
- Workshop Chair Intl. Conf on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Mannheim, 2007.
- Co-Chair Conference “Mobilität und Mobile Informationssysteme“ 2006, 2007, 2009.
- Organisation of Dagstuhl Seminar „Uncertainty Management in Information Systems“, Oktober 2008 (with Volker Markl, Maurice van Keulen, Christoph Koch, Heinz Schweppe, Peter Lockemann)
- Organisation of Dagstuhl Seminar “Mobile Information Management”, Oktober 2004 (with Margaret Dunham, Evaggelia Pitoura, Peter Reiher, Can Türker)
- Organisation of GI Dagstuhl Research Seminar “Mobile Application Development” (with Susanne Boll and Daniela Nicklas), 2007
- Workshop Co-Chair RoSOC-M (part of MDM 08)
- Workshop Co-Chair “Workshop on Mobile Services and Ontologies“ (part of MDM 2006)
- Program Committee Co-Chair EDBT Workshop Pervasive Information Management, EDBT 2004 (with Can Türker) and 2006 (with Can Türker and Hagen Höpfner)
- Program Committee Co-Chair NSF Workshop on an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems, 15. Oktober 2001, Scottsdale, Arizona.
- Member of the Program Committee of (selection)
- MDM 2009
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- International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology, 2009
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- PDP 2009
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- CollaborateCom 2007, 2008
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- AP2PC 07, 08 (part of AAMAS),
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- APIS 08 (part of CAISE)
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- MobiDE 07
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- TWUC 07
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- VLDB PhD Workshop 2007
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- ICDE 2007
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- BTW 2007, 2009
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- WI 2007,2009
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- MCISE 2007
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- ECOWS 2005, 2006, 2008
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- Mobile Commerce Technologien und Anwendungen, Augsburg, 2005
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- Intl. Workshop on Theory Building and Formal Methods in Electronic/Mobile Commerce (TheFormEMC), 2004, 2006.
- Intl. Conference on Mobile Multimedia (MoMM), 2004, 2006, 2008
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- IIT 2006
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- APUC 2006
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- Intl. Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing (IWUC 2004, 2008) (part of ICEIS)
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- Intl. Workshop on Wireless Information Systems (WIS 2003, 2004, 2005) (part of ICEIS)
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- all nine Workshops of the GI Arbeitskreis Mobile Datenbanken und Informationssysteme
- Member of the Editorial Board Computer Science – Research and Development
- Guest Editor of special issues
- International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS): Mobile Services and Ontologies (with Christoph Bussler, Dumitru Roman, Jari Veijalainen)
- Computer Science – Research and Development: Web Services – Infrastructure and Architecture (with Claus Pahl, in preparation)
- It&ti: Mobile Application Development (in preparation)
- Reviews for numerous conferences and Journals
- Chair of GI Arbeitskreises „Mobile Datenbanken und Informationssysteme“ (2003-2005)
- Co-Chair of GI Fachgruppe „Mobilität und Mobile Informationssysteme“ (Special Interest Group on Mobility and Mobile Information Systems of the German Computer Science Society)
- Head of the Institute of Computer Science at FSU Jena (04/06 – 03/08)
- Chair of the universitywide priority research area „Analysis and Management of Complex Systems“ (since 02/08)
- Mentor at Cybermentor (a program to foster interest in STEM in girls aged 11 to 18)
- Reviewer for Grace Hopper Celebration Travel Grants 2008
- Member of GI and ACM
Research Area
The main focus of my current research is on topics including
- data management for (ecological) research
- FAIR data
- reproducible research
- provenance management
- automatic data annotation
- data quality control
- data integration
- personalisation
- semantic web
- ….
In the past, we have also worked on
- evaluation of semantic service frameworks
- service usage in ad-hoc networks
- portal standardization
Publications
2022

Tina Heger, Sina Zarrieß, Alsayed Algergawy, Jonathan Jeschke, Birgitta König-Ries
Research Ideas and Outcomes 8, e80457
1.2.2022

Sheeba Samuel, Birgitta König-Ries
Journal of Biomedical Semantics
6.1.2022
2021

Javad Chamanara, Jitendra Gaikwad, Roman Gerlach, Alsayed Algergawy, Andreas Ostrowski and Birgitta König-Ries
Biodiversity Data Journal
5.11.2021

Dominik Kerzel, Sheeba Samuel, Birgitta König-Ries
13th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR)
25.10.2021

Dina Sharafeldeen, Mohamed Bakli, Alsayed Algergawy and Birgitta König-Ries
Computer Science for Biodiversity (CS4BioDiversity) Workshop at INFORMATIK2021
27.9.2021

Maria Luiza Mondelli, Sheeba Samuel, Birgitta König-Ries, Luiz M. R. Gadelha Jr.
ReWords, co-located with 17th IEEE e-Science 2021 27.9.2021

Nora Abdelmageed, Alsayed Algergawy, Sheeba Samuel, Birgitta König-Ries
Third International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity, co-located with ICBO, 2021 15.9.2021

Fateme Shafiei, Felicitas Löffler, Sven Thiel, Kobkaew Opasjumruskit, Denis Grabiger, Pauline Rauh and Birgitta König-Ries
3rd International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity (S4BioDiv), Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops 2021 Episode VII: The Bolzano Summer of Knowledge co-located with the 12th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2021), and the 12th International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2021)
Bolzano, Italy 15.9.2021

Sheeba Samuel, Alsayed Algergawy, Birgitta König-Ries
JOWO Workshops 2021 13.9.2021

Sheeba Samuel and Birgitta König-Ries
Provenance Week 2021
Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes - 8th and 9th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2020 + IPAW 2021, Virtual Event, July 19-22, 2021 19.7.2021

Sheeba Samuel, Frank Löffler, Birgitta König-Rie
Provenance Week 2021
Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes - 8th and 9th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2020 + IPAW 2021, Virtual Event, July 19-22, 2021 19.7.2021

Alsayed Algergawy, Hamdi Hamed, Birgitta Koenig-Ries
The Semantic Web: ESWC 2021 Satellite Events: poster and demo
4.6.2021

Nora Abdelmageed, Alsayed Algergawy, Sheeba Samuel and Birgitta Koenig-Ries
The Semantic Web: ESWC 2021 Satellite Events: poster and demo
4.6.2021

Felicitas Löffler, Andreas Schuldt, Birgitta König-Ries, Helge Bruelheide, Friederike Klan
RIO - Research Ideas and Outcomes
26.5.2021

Sheeba Samuel, Birgitta König-Ries
PeerJ 21.4.2021

Felicitas Löffler, Valentin Wesp, Birgitta König-Ries, Friederike Klan
PlosONE
24.3.2021
2020

Majid Askar, Alsayed Agergawy, Taysir Hassan A. Soliman , Birgitta König-Ries , Adel A. SEWISY
Baltic Journal of Modern Computing (BJMC)
https://www.bjmc.lu.lv/ 21.12.2020

Samira Babalou, Birgitta König-Ries
19th International Semantic Web Conference 10.11.2020

Felicitas Löffler, Valentin Wesp, Samira Babalou, Philipp Kahn, René Lachmann, Bahar Sateli, René Witte, Birgitta König-Ries
ISWC2020
Virtual Conference 6.11.2020

Alsayed Algergawy · Samira Babalou · Friederike Klan · Birgitta König-Ries
Journal on Data Semantics
1.10.2020

Samira Babalou, Elena Grygorova, Birgitta König-Ries
International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW2020) 16.9.2020

Sheeba Samuel and Birgitta König-Ries
Provenance Week 2020
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA 22.6.2020

Sheeba Samuel, Frank Löffler and Birgitta König-Ries
Provenance Week 2020
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA 22.6.2020

Alsayed Algergawy, Ria Stangneth, Tina Heger, Jonathan Jeschke and Birgitta König-Ries
The Semantic Web: ESWC 2020 Satellite Events: poster and demo
4.6.2020

Samira Babalou, Elena Grygorova, and Birgitta König-Ries.
In 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'20), Poster and Demo Track.
1.6.2020

Samira Babalou, Elena Grygorova, and Birgitta König-Ries.
In 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'20), Poster and Demo Track.
1.6.2020

Elena Grygorova, Samira Babalou, and Birgitta König-Ries.
In 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'20), Poster and Demo Track.
1.6.2020

Felicitas Löffler, Nora Abdelmageed, Samira Bablou, Pawandeep Kaur, Birgitta König-Ries
Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2020
Marseille, France 11.5.2020

Sheeba Samuel, Maha Shadaydeh, Sebastian Böcker, Bernd Brügmann, Solveig Franziska Bucher, Volker Deckert, Joachim Denzler, Peter Dittrich, Ferdinand von Eggeling, Daniel Güllmar, Orlando Guntinas-Lichius, Birgitta König-Ries, Frank Löffler, Lutz Maicher, Manja Marz, Mirco Migliavacca, Jürgen R. Reichenbach, Markus Reichstein, Christine Römermann, Andrea Wittig
Research Ideas and Outcomes
11.5.2020
2019

Dina Sharafeldeen, Alsayed Algergawy, and Birgitta König-Ries
12th International conference on Semantic Web Applications and Tools in Healthcare and Life Sciences (SWAT4HCLS)
Edinburgh 10.12.2019

Alsayed Algergawy and Birgitta König-Ries
12th International conference on Semantic Web Applications and Tools in Healthcare and Life Sciences (SWAT4HCLS)
Edinburgh 10.12.2019

Dina Sharafeldeen, Alsayed Algergawy, Birgitta König-Ries
The 21st International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2019)
Munich, Germany 3.12.2019

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2019 Conferences. Springer, Cham, 2019.
30.10.2019

In Proceeding of the SEMANTICS 2019 Poster and Demo Track.
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2451/ 29.9.2019

In Proceeding of the SEMANTICS 2019 Poster and Demo Track.
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2451/ 29.9.2019

Florian D. Schneider, David Fichtmueller, Martin M. Gossner, Anton Güntsch, Malte Jochum, Birgitta König‐Ries, Gaëtane Le Provost, Peter Manning, Andreas Ostrowski, Caterina Penone, Nadja K. Simons
Methods in Ecology and Evolution 19.8.2019

Alsayed Algergawy, Bernd Kampe, Hamdi Hamed, Birgitta König-Ries, and Udo Hahn
The EGU General Assembly
Vienna (Austria) 9.4.2019
2018

Jitendra Gaikwad; Birgitta König-Ries; Friedrich Recknagel
https://icei2018.uni-jena.de/
Jena, Germany 18.12.2018

Sheeba Samuel, Kathrin Groeneveld, Frank Taubert, Daniel Walther, Tom Kache, Teresa Langenstück, Birgitta König-Ries, H. Martin Bücker and Christoph Biskup
11th International Conference on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Sciences (SWAT4HCLS 2018)
Antwerp, Belgium 5.12.2018

Alsayed Algergawy, Friederike Klan, Erik Faessler, Hamdi Hamed, Bernd Kampe, Birgitta König-Ries and Udo Hahn
11th International Conference on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Sciences (SWAT4HCLS 2018)
Antwerp, Belgium 3.12.2018

Nassira Achich, Alsayed Algergawy, Bassem Bouaziz and Birgitta König-Ries
21st International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management- EKAW
Nancy-France 12.11.2018

Sheeba Samuel and Birgitta König-Ries
The 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Demo Track 2018
Monterey, California, USA 10.10.2018

Dina Sharafeldeen, Alsayed Algergawy, Birgitta König-Ries
10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics- Translating Ecological Data into Knowledge and Decisions in a Rapidly Changing World.
Jena, Germany 24.9.2018

Sheeba Samuel and Birgitta König-Ries
15th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) Posters & Demo 2018
Crete, Greece 6.6.2018

Pawandeep Kaur, Friederike Klan and Birgitta König-Ries
20th EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization (Eurovis2018)
Brno, Czech Republic 6.6.2018

Florian D Schneider, Malte Jochum, Gaëtane Le Provost, Andreas Ostrowski, Caterina Penone, David Fichtmüller, Anton Güntsch, Martin M. Gossner, Birgitta König-Ries, Pete Manning, Nadja K. Simons
bioRxiv 31.5.2018
2017

Samira Babalou, Alsayed Algergawy, Birgitta König-Ries, and Birger Lantow
The 19th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2017)
Slazburg, Austria 4.12.2017

Samira Babalou, Alsayed Algergawy, and Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the ODBASE 2017 - The 16th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics
Greece 24.10.2017

Class-Thido Pfaff, David Eichenberg, Mario Liebergesell, Birgitta König-Ries, Christian Wirth
PLoS ONE12(10): e0186170.
12.10.2017

Friederike Klan, Erik Faessler, Alsayed Algergawy, Birgitta König-Ries, and Udo Hahn
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity co-located with 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017)
Vienna, Austria 22.9.2017

Javad Chamanara, Birgitta König-Ries, H. V. Jagadish
Journal of Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Munich, Germany 28.8.2017

Bahar Sateli, Felicitas Löffler, Birgitta König-Ries, René Witte
PeerJ
3.7.2017

Pawandeep Kaur, Birgitta Koenig-Ries
19th EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization
Barcelona 12.6.2017

Felicitas Löffler, Kobkaew Opasjumruskit, Naouel Karam, David Fichtmüller, Friederike Klan, Claudia Müller-Birn, Uwe Schindler and Michael Diepenbroek
Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2017)
Portoroz, Slovenia 31.5.2017

Samira Babalou, Alsayed Algergawy, and Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the 29th GI-Workshop Grundlagen von Datenbanken,
Blankenburg/Harz, Germany 30.5.2017

Dina sharafeldeen, Michael Owonibi, Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the 29th GI-Workshop Grundlagen von Datenbanken
Blankenburg/Harz, Germany 30.5.2017

Sheeba Samuel, Birgitta König-Ries
14th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2017
Portoroz, Slovenia 28.5.2017
2016

Erik Fäßler, Friederike Klan, Alsayed Algergawy, Birgitta König-Ries, Udo Hahn
20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW)
Bologna, Italy 19.11.2016

Sheeba Samuel, Frank Taubert, Daniel Walther, Birgitta König-Ries and H. Martin Bücker
First International Workshop on Reproducible Open Science, 2016 co-located with TPDL
Hannover, Germany 9.9.2016

Pawandeep Kaur, Jitendra Gaikwad, Birgitta König-Ries
Biodiversity and Conservation
9.6.2016

Alsayed Algergawy, Samira Babalou, Birgitta Konig-Ries
2nd International Workshop on Summarizing and Presenting Entities and Ontologies Co-located with the 13th Extended Semantic Web Conference
Greece 30.5.2016

Bahar Sateli, Felicitas Löffler, Birgitta König-Ries and René Witte
Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data Workshop co-located with the 25th International World Wide Web Conference
Montreal, Canada 11.4.2016

Alsayed Algergawy , Samira Babalou, Friederike Klan, Birgitta König-Ries
EDBT: 19th International Conference on Extending Database Technology
France 15.3.2016
2015

Kobkaew Opasjumruskit, Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Jesus Exposito
Service Oriented and Cloud Computing - 4th European Conference (ESOCC 2015)
Taormina, Italy 16.9.2015

Pawandeep Kaur, Michael Owonibi, Birgitta Koenig-Ries
The 27th GI-Workshop on Foundations of Databases (Grundlagen von Datenbanken)
Gommern, Germany 27.5.2015

Birgitta König-Ries, Udo Hahn
Geoinformationsysteme 2015, 2. Münchner GI-Runde, München, DE, 23.-24. Feb, 2015 23.2.2015
2014

C. Beckstein and S. Böcker and M. Bogdan and H. Bruelheide, H. M. Bücker and J. Denzler and P. Dittrich and I. Grosse and A. Hinneburg and B. König-Ries and F. Löffler and M. Marz and M. Müller-Hannemann and M. Winter and W. Zimmermann
SCITEPRESS
1.10.2014

Löffler, F., B. Sateli, R. Witte, and B. König-Ries
The 26th GI-Workshop on Foundations of Databases (Grundlagen von Datenbanken)
Bozen, Italy 1.10.2014

Alsayed Algergawy, Friederike Klan, Birgitta König-Ries
The Ninth International Workshop on Ontology Matching collocated with the 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy 1.10.2014

Javad Chamanara, Birgitta König-Ries
In: Galhardas, H. and Rahm, E., Data Integration in the Life Sciences, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8574, pp 143-150
Springer International Publishing Switzerland 1.10.2014

Friederike Klan, Birgitta König-Ries
To appear In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Warsaw, Poland 1.8.2014

Friederike Klan, Birgitta König-Ries
In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
Thessaloniki, Greece 1.6.2014
2013

Kobkaew Opasjumruskit, Jesús Expósito, Birgitta König-Ries, Andreas Nauerz, Martin Welsch
IGI Global - Creating Personal, Social, and Urban Awareness through Pervasive Computing
1.10.2013

Felicitas Löffler and Bahar Sateli and Birgitta König-Ries and René Witte
4th Canadian Semantic Web Symposium (CSWS 2013), vol. 1054: CEUR-WS.org, pp. 50–51
Montréal, QC, Canada 1.7.2013

Fedor Bakalov, Marie-Jean Meurs, Birgitta König-Ries, Bahar Sateli, René Witte, Greg Butler, and Adrian Tsang
ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Santa Monica, CA, USA 1.3.2013
2012

Fedor Bakalov, Marie-Jean Meurs, Birgitta König-Ries, Bahar Sateli, René Witte, Greg Butler, and Adrian Tsang
IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA 1.10.2012

Kobkaew Opasjumruskit, Jesús Expósito, Birgitta König-Ries, Andreas Nauerz, Martin Welsch
ABIS Workshop
Konstanz, Germany 1.9.2012

Fedor Bakalov, Bahar Sateli, René Witte, Marie-Jean Meurs, Birgitta König-Ries
IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
Palermo, Italy 1.9.2012

Gabdulkahkova,A., König-Ries,B., Rizvanov, D.
9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Vancouver, Canada 1.5.2012

I-Han Hsiao, Guerra Julio, Denis Parra, Fedor Bakalov, Birgitta König-Ries, and Peter Brusilovsky
11th International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
Naples, Italy 1.5.2012

Birgitta König-Ries, Kobkaew Opasjumruskit, Andreas Nauerz and Martin Welsch
MKWI 2012
Braunschweig, Germany 1.2.2012
2011

Fedor Bakalov, I-Han Hsiao, Peter Brusilovsky, and Birgitta König-Ries
IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
Pittsburgh, USA 1.9.2011

I-Han Hsiao, Fedor Bakalov, Peter Brusilovsky, and Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization
Girona, Spain 1.7.2011

Fedor Bakalov, I-Han Hsiao, Peter Brusilovsky, Birgitta König-Ries
Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web held in conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Palo Alto, CA, USA 1.2.2011

Fedor Bakalov, Birgitta König-Ries, Tobias Hennig, Gabriele Schade
Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web held in conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Palo Alto, CA, USA 1.2.2011
2010

Mohamed Hamdy and Birgitta König-Ries
The 8th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2010)
Paris, France 1.11.2010

Mohamed Hamdy and Birgitta König-Ries
http://fusion.cs.uni-jena.de
University of Jena, Germany 1.8.2010

Mohamed Hamdy and Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Wireless Applications and Computing (WAC2010)
Freiburg, Germany 1.7.2010

Mohamed Hamdy and Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Wireless Applications and Computing (WAC2010)
Freiburg, Germany 1.7.2010

Fedor Bakalov, Birgitta König-Ries, Andreas Nauerz, Martin Welsch
Adjunct proceedings of the 18th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization
Big Island of Hawaii, USA 1.6.2010

Fedor Bakalov, Birgitta König-Ries, Andreas Nauerz, Martin Welsch
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization
Big Island of Hawaii, USA 1.6.2010

Oliver Schimratzki, Fedor Bakalov, Adrian Knoth, Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the Workshop on Adaptation in Social and Semantic Web held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization
Big Island of Hawaii, USA 1.6.2010

Ulrich Küster and Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC10)
Heraklion, Creete, Greece 1.5.2010

Mohamed Hamdy, Abdelouahid Derhab and Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of The Second International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiMo 2010)
Ankara, Turkey 1.5.2010

Mohamed Hamdy and Birgitta König-Ries
https://enterprise1.opnet.com/tsts/4dcgi/MODELS_FullDescription?ModelID=944
Report for/with an Opnet® contributed models 1.4.2010

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries, Matthias Klusch
Progressive Concepts for Semantic Web Evolution: Applications and Developments (Advances in Semantic Web Information Systems series), IGI Global (The link below points to a draft version of the paper. The final version is available through IGI Global)
1.3.2010

Mohamed Hamdy and Birgitta König-Ries
Report for/with an Opnet® contributed models 1.1.2010
2009

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the 7th IEEE European Conference on Web Services (the link below points to a draft version of the paper, the final version is available via IEEE)
Einhoven, The Netherlands 1.11.2009

Thomas Fischer, Fedor Bakalov, Birgitta König-Ries, Andreas Nauerz, Martin Welsch
Proceedings of the 7th IEEE European Conference on Web Services
Eindhoven, The Netherlands 1.11.2009

Moahmed hamdy and Birgitta König-Ries
Communications in Computer and Information Scienc
Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1.10.2009

Mohamed Hamdy and Birgitta König-Ries
JENAER SCHRIFTEN ZUR MATHEMATIK UND INFORMATIK
FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER- UNIVERSITÄT JENA 1.7.2009

Fedor Bakalov, Birgitta König-Ries, Andreas Nauerz, Martin Welsch
IT Professional, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 6-9
Los Alamitos, CA, USA 1.7.2009

Fedor Bakalov, Birgitta König-Ries, Andreas Nauerz, Martin Welsch
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Innovative Internet Community Systems
Jena, Germany 1.6.2009

Fedor Bakalov, Birgitta König-Ries, Andreas Nauerz, Martin Welsch
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Ubiquitous User Modeling (in conjunction with the 1st and 17th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization)
Trento, Italy 1.6.2009

Andreas Nauerz, Fedor Bakalov, Martin Welsch, Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Adaptation and Personalization for Web 2.0 (in conjunction with the 1st and 17th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization)
Trento, Italy 1.6.2009

Mohamed Hamdy and Birgitta König-Ries
International Workshop on the Role of Services, Ontologies, and Context in Mobile Environments (RoSOC-M '09) in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'09), May 19, 2009
Taipei, Taiwan 1.5.2009

Mohamed Hamdy and Birgitta König-Ries
In proceedings of the 4th conference on Mobility and Mobile Information systems (MMS 2009)
Münster, Germany 1.3.2009
2008

Ulrich Küster, Andrea Turati, Birgitta König-Ries, Dario Cerizza, Emanuele Della Valle, Federico M. Facca
Semantic Web Service Challenge - Results from the First Year; Charles Petrie, Holger Lausen, Michal Zaremba, Tiziana Margaria (Eds.)
Semantic Web and Beyond, Vol. 8, Springer, ISBN: 978-0-387-72495-9 1.12.2008

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries, Charles Petrie, Matthias Klusch
International Journal On Semantic Web and Information Systems 4(4)
1.12.2008

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries
Semantic Web Service Challenge - Results from the First Year; Charles Petrie, Holger Lausen, Michal Zaremba, Tiziana Margaria (Eds.)
Semantic Web and Beyond, Vol. 8, Springer, ISBN: 978-0-387-72495-9 1.12.2008

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries, Tiziana Margaria, Bernhard Steffen
Semantic Web Service Challenge - Results from the First Year; Charles Petrie, Holger Lausen, Michal Zaremba, Tiziana Margaria (Eds.)
Semantic Web and Beyond, Vol. 8, Springer, ISBN: 978-0-387-72495-9 1.12.2008

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop SMR2 on Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC08)
Karlsruhe, Germany 1.10.2008

Andreas Nauerz, Fedor Bakalov, Birgitta König-Ries, Martin Welsch
Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering
Toronto, Canada 1.10.2008

Friederike Klan, Mathias Röhl, Birgitta König-Ries, Adelinde M. Uhrmacher
Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Workshop on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (Q2SWinet) at the MSWiM 2008
British Columbia, Canada 1.10.2008

Friederike Klan, Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM2008)
Naples, Italy 1.10.2008

Andreas Nauerz, Fedor Bakalov, Birgitta König-Ries, Martin Welsch
Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Systems
Würzburg, Germany 1.10.2008

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries
International Journal of Semantic Computing 2(3)
1.9.2008

Fedor Bakalov, Birgitta König-Ries, Andreas Nauerz, Martin Welsch
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Ontologies in Interactive Systems held in conjunction with HCI 2008
Liverpool, United Kingdom 1.9.2008

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries, Andreas Krug
Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2008), Demo Session
Santa Clara, CA, USA 1.8.2008

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2008)
Santa Clara, CA, USA 1.8.2008

Mohamed Hamdy, Birgitta König-Ries
A Service Distribution Protocol For Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
1.7.2008

Mohamed Hamdy and Birgitta König-Ries
in the proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems
Porto, Portugal 1.7.2008

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries, Andreas Krug
Proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC08), Poster Session
Tenerife, Spain 1.6.2008
2007

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries, Michael Klein, Mirco Stern
International Journal of Electronic Commerce (IJEC), 12 (2), Special Issue: Semantic Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval on the Web (The paper link points to a draft version, the official final version is available at the publisher's website)
1.12.2007

Ulrich Küster, Holger Lausen, Birgitta König-Ries
Post-Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Emerging Web Services Technology (WEWST07) in conjunction with the 5th IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS07)
Halle (Saale), Germany 1.11.2007

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Service Composition & SWS Challenge at the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2007)
Silicon Valley, USA 1.11.2007

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Service Composition & SWS Challenge at the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2007)
Silicon Valley, USA 1.11.2007

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC07)
Vienna, Austria 1.9.2007

Mohamed Hamdy, Birgitta König-Ries, Ulrich Küster
Proceedings of the first "Non Functional Properties and Service Level Agreements in Service Oriented Computing" Workshop (NFPSLA-SOC 2007), co-located with the 5th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2007)
Vienna, Austria 1.9.2007

Katharina Hahn, Joos-Hendrik Böse, Birgitta König-Ries, Philipp Obreiter
Proceedings of Sixth ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access, Mobide 2007, June 10, 2007, Proceedings
Beijing, China 1.6.2007

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries
Fourth Semantic Web Service Challenge workshop
Innsbruck, Austria 1.6.2007

Ulrich Küster, Andrea Turati, Maciej Zaremba, Birgitta König-Ries, Dario Cerizza, Emanuele Della Valle, Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Federico Facca, Christina Tziviskou
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS2007) - Special Session on Comparative Evaluation of Semantic Web Service Frameworks
Funchal, Madeira-Portugal 1.6.2007

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries, Michael Klein, Mirco Stern
Proceedings of the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007)
Banff, Alberta, Canada 1.5.2007
2006

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries, Mirco Stern, Michael Klein
Proceedings of the 4th IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS06), Poster Session
Zürich, Switzerland 1.12.2006

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries
Second International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications: Design and Composition (WESOA06) at 4th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC06),Chicago, USA
1.12.2006

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries
Third Semantic Web Service Challenge 2006 workshop in Athens
Georgia, USA 1.11.2006

Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries, Michael Klein
Second Semantic Web Service Challenge 2006 workshop in Budva, Montenegro
Budva, Montenegro 1.6.2006

Mohamed Hamdy, Birgitta König-Ries
Workshop on Tools and Applications for Mobile Contents (TAMC2006) in Conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM06)
Nara, Japan 1.5.2006

Philipp Obreiter, Birgitta König-Ries
Fourth International Conference on Trust Managment (iTrust2006), 16-19 May
Pisa, Italy 1.5.2006

Birgitta König-Ries, Michael Klein, Tobias Breyer
Mobile Networks and Applications. Special Issue "Foundations of Mobile Computing",Volume 11, Number 2, Pages 267 - 277
1.4.2006

Ulrich Küster, Michael Klein, Birgitta König-Ries
First Semantic Web Services Challenge 2006 workshop, Challenge on Automating Web Services Mediation Choreography and Discovery
Palo Alto, CA, USA 1.3.2006

Birgitta König-Ries, Philipp Obreiter, Michael Klein
Progress report for the second phase of the DIANE-Project withing DFG SPP 1140 (in German)
1.3.2006
2005

Ulrich Küster, Mirco Stern, Birgitta König-Ries
First International Workshop on Engineering Service Compositions (WESC05) at Third International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC05)
Amsterdam, Netherlands 1.12.2005

Michael Klein, Birgitta König-Ries, Michael Müssig
International Jounal on Web and Grid Services 2005 - Vol. 1, No. 3/4, pages 328-364
1.10.2005

Philipp Obreiter, Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the Forth International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC\NULL05)
Utrecht, Netherlands 1.7.2005

Birgitta König-Ries, Michael Klein
Tutorial at the 6th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2005)
1.5.2005
2004

Birgitta König-Ries, Michael Klein
First AKT Workshop on Semantic Web Services, 8. December 2004
Milton Keynes, UK 1.12.2004

Michael Klein, Birgitta König-Ries
First AKT Workshop on Semantic Web Services
Milton Keynes, UK 1.12.2004

D. Popov, N.I. Yussupova, Birgitta König-Ries, Igor Vaynerman
Workshop on Computer Science and Information Technologies CSITNULL2004, 2004
Budapest, Hungary 1.10.2004

Michael Klein, Birgitta König-Ries
European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2004), 27.-30. September 2004
Erfurt, Germany 1.9.2004

Stefan Fähnrich, Philipp Obreiter, Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the First Intl. Workshop on Data Management in Mobile Environments, 2004
Ulm, Germany 1.9.2004

Michael Klein, Birgitta König-Ries
Short paper at IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004), 6.-9. July 2004
San Diego, CA, USA 1.7.2004

Philipp Obreiter, Birgitta König-Ries, Georgios Papadopoulos
Proceedings of the EDBT Workshop on Pervasive Information Management, 18. March 2004
Heraklion, Greece 1.3.2004

Birgitta König-Ries, Philipp Obreiter, Michael Klein
Progress report for the first phase of the DIANE-Project within DFG SPP 1140 (in German)
1.2.2004

Tobias Breyer, Michael Klein, Philipp Obreiter, Birgitta König-Ries
Proceedings of the First International Working Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems (WONS2004)
Madonna di Campiglio, Italy 1.1.2004
2003

Michael Klein, Birgitta König-Ries, Philipp Obreiter
1st International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC-03), 15.-18. December 2003.
Trento, Italy 1.12.2003

Michael Klein, Birgitta König-Ries, Philipp Obreiter
The Sixth International Workshop on Network-Based Information Systems (NBIS2003)during the 14th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXANULL2003, 1.-5. September 2003
Prague, Czech Republic 1.9.2003

Michael Klein, Birgitta König-Ries
4th VLDB Workshop on Technologies for E-Services (TESNULL03), 8. September 2003
Berlin, Germany 1.9.2003

D. Popov, Igor Vaynerman
Making Decisions under Indeterminacy Conditions. USATU, Ufa, Russia, 2003, pp.14-22. (In Russian).
1.8.2003

Michael Klein, Birgitta König-Ries, Philipp Obreiter
3rd Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks (ASWN2003). 2.-4. July 2003.
Bern, Switzerland 1.7.2003

Michael Klein, Birgitta König-Ries, Philipp Obreiter
Extended Version as technical report: TR 2003-6, ISSN 1432-7864
1.7.2003

D. Popov, N.I. Yussupova, Birgitta König-Ries, Igor Vaynerman
Proc. of the 5th International Workshop Computer Science and Information Technologies CSIT 2003. 2003, Vol. 1, pp. 100-107.
Ufa, Russia 1.6.2003

Philipp Obreiter, Birgitta König-Ries, Michael Klein
Second International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems (WIS2003), 23.-26. April 2003
Angers, France 1.4.2003
2002

Michael Klein, Birgitta König-Ries
International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Computing, Conference of Networking 2002, 24. May 2002
Pisa, Italy 1.5.2002

Birgitta König-Ries, Michael Klein
In: First International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems (WIS2002), Ciudad Real (Spain).2.+3. April 2002
1.4.2002

Birgitta König-Ries, Michael Klein
Mini-Workshop "Mobile Databases and Informationsystems - Databasetechnologie everywhere at any time", 21. und 22. March 2002.
Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Germany 1.3.2002
Talks
2019

Biodiversity_next 2019
Leiden, Netherlands 23.10.2019
2016

20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW)
Bologna, Italy 19.11.2016
2015

iDiv Annual Conference
Leipzig 2.12.2015

GfÖ Annual Meeting
Göttingen 31.8.2015
Supervised Theses
2021

Tarek Al Mustafa - Bachelor
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
17.5.2021

Davood Hadiannejad - Master Thesis
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
1.5.2021

Dominik Kerzel - Bachelor
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
1.4.2021
2020

Antonio Noack - Bachelor thesis
17.8.2020

Samira Madarshahian - Bachelor
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
8.5.2020
2019

Sheeba Samuel - PhD Dissertation
20.12.2019

Vladimir Udovenko - Master
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
17.1.2019
2018

Phil König - Master Thesis
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
28.3.2018
2017

Vaso Diakonidze - Master Thesis
FSU Jena
2.10.2017
2016

2015

P. Mehler - Masterthesis
26.11.2015

Dorothée Wieczorek - Bachelor
FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITÄT JENA
9.2.2015
2010

Oliver Schimratzki - Diploma Thesis
Universit of Jena
1.2.2010
2008

Christoph Bergmann - Study Thesis
University of Jena
1.10.2008

Sirko Schindler - Study Thesis
University of Jena
1.7.2008


Ferdinand Zirker - Diploma Thesis
Universit of Jena
1.9.2008
Teaching
WS 2021/2022
SS 2021
WS 2020/2021
SS 2020
WS 2019/2020
SS 2019
WS 2018/2019
SS 2018
WS 2017/2018
SS 2017
WS 2016/2017
SS 2016
WS 2015/2016
SS 2015
SS 2014
WS 2010/2011
Current Projects
![]() | A virtual “Werkstatt” for digitization in the sciences Data is central in almost all scientific disciplines nowadays. Furthermore, intelligent systems have developed rapidly in recent years, so that in many disciplines the expectation is emerging that with the help of intelligent systems, significant challenges can be overcome and science can be done in completely new ways. In order for this to succeed, however, first, fundamental research in computer science is still required, and, second, generic tools must be developed on which specialized solutions can be built. A virtual manufactory for digitization in the sciences, the “Werkstatt”, which is being established at the Michael Stifel Center Jena (MSCJ) for data-driven and simulation science is a collaborative project funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation to address fundamental questions in computer science and applications. The Werkstatt focuses on three key areas, which include generic tools for machine learning, knowledge generation using machine learning processes, and semantic methods for the data life cycle, as well as the application of these topics in different disciplines. Core and pilot projects address the key aspects of the topics and form the basis for sustainable work in the Werkstatt. Read More |
![]() | AquaDiva D01 - Semantic Technologies for Scientific Data management and Text Mining (SemDaTe) The Collaborative Research Centre AquaDiva (CRC 1076), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), focuses on the important roles of water (Aqua) and biodiversity (Diva) for shaping the structure, properties, and functions of the subsurface. This project aims to answer fundamental questions about the Earth’s Critical Zone (CZ) that begins below the highest density of plant roots (~0.3 meters) and extends down into the first aquifers (~100 meters): What biota live there? How do they interact with and reflect on their environment? and How do they reflect surface properties? In cooperation with the research group of Prof. Dr. Udo Hahn… Read More |
![]() | Balance of the Microverse We aim to understand the formation and balance of microbial consortia and their interactive networks and offer innovative solutions for fighting disease and environmental dysbalance. Balance of the Microverse is a Cluster of Excellence at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. It is funded by the German Research Foundation under Germany's Excellence Strategy. Together with Christoph Steinbeck's Cheminformatics Group, the FUSION group is responsible for research data management in the cluster Read More |
![]() | BExIS++ The Heinz-Nixdorf Endowed Chair for Practical Computer Science at the Friedrich-Schiller-University (FSU) of Jena, Germany is working with the Institute of Ecology (FSU), the Institute for Geography (FSU), the University Data Center (FSU) and the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry for the further development of the established Biodiversity-Exploratories Information System (BExIS). Furthermore, the project will focus on strategic work such as concepts and method development to foster long-term data preservation in biodiversity research at the Friedrich-Schiller-University. Ideally, the further development of the existing BExIS software will serve three purposes: Technical Goals The core of the BExIS software will be revised… Read More |
![]() | Biodiversity Exploratories - Core Project 4: Data Management The Central Data Management Project of the Biodiversity Exploratories (BE) Research provides the platform for data storage and information exchange between the different working groups. In this regard, we support BE researchers in their data management activities which includes data collection planning, description, storage and archiving, quality management, discovery, integration, analysis, visualization, publishing and sharing. Such support includes the management of data repository infrastructure, development of tools to support the above listed activities, help desk, etc. Most of the services we provide to the researchers are delivered through its online platform called BExIS (Biodiversity Exploratory Information System). BExIS is the data repository and information exchange platform… Read More |
Facilitating Semantic Data Interoperability and Integration for Citizen Science Sensor Data Citizen science data is potentially a valuable source of information. The data is heterogeneous in nature and becomes one of the biggest challenge in rendering information in a usable/reusable way. The project mainly focuses on addressing research issues like data interoperability and data integration to overcome the problem. This project is funded by Friedrich Schiller University Jena under the IMPULSE program. Read More | |
![]() | GFBio GFBio (https://www.gfbio.org) is a national infrastructure and contact point for issues concerning research data management and standardization of biological and environmental data. The project was established in 2013 with the main goal is to support scholars in all steps of the data life cycle, from acquisition to archiving and data publication. Five years later, GFBio provides a data portal with access to more than 5 Mio biodiversity metadata files. The majority of this data is linked with primary research data which can be further analyzed in an interactive visualization tool. Furthermore, GFBio is the national contact point for submitting biological data and mediates data archiving in dedicated data centers to ensure sustainable, long-term preservation and publication of research data. In addition, it organizes and supports education and training of scholars on all facets of research data management. Read More |
![]() | iDiv - Biodiversity Data and Code Unit iDiv's Biodiversity Data and Code Unit offers support on all matters related to making iDiv data and code FAIR and open. Read More |
![]() | iKNOW - Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for iDiv and Biodiversity Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are widely regarded as one of the most promising ways to manage and link information in the age of Big Data. KGs are an excellent tool for data integration. They can be queried using SPARQL, a powerful query language. Furthermore, new knowledge can be inferred, using, e.g., machine learning or data mining. While KGs are without doubt very useful, creating and maintaining them is not trivial. The aim of iKNOW is to provide reproducible and reusable workflows for KG creation. In particular, we aim to develop a semantic toolbox for KG creation and evolution and to showcase its usefulness using major iDiv data sources. iKNOW will leverage these data sources to quickly showcase interesting KGs to iDiv scientists and will use them as the foundation for the toolbox. The overarching research question of iKNOW is How can knowledge graph creation be made FAIR based on transparent, reproducible, and reusable workflows? On the practical side, the proposal aims to leverage the developed approach to increase the visibility and usability of iDiv data. Read More |
Interactive Argumentation Support for Invasion Biology Developing a good, new argument is not an easy task. In real-world argumentation scenarios, arguments presented in texts (e.g. scientific publications) often constitute the end result of a long and tedious process. A lot of work on computational argumentation has focused on detecting, analyzing, and aggregating these products of argumentation processes, i.e. argumentative texts. In this project, we adopt a complementary perspective: we aim to develop an argumentation machine that supports users in and during}the argumentation process in a scientific context, enabling them to follow ongoing argumentation in a scientific community and to develop their own arguments. To achieve this ambitious goal, we will focus on a particular phase of the scientific argumentation process, namely the initial phase of claim or hypothesis development. According to Toulmin (1986), the starting point of an argument is a claim, and also data that serves as a basis for the claim. In scientific argumentation, a carefully developed and thought-through hypothesis (which we see as Toulmin’s “claim” in a scientific context) is often crucial for researchers to be able to conduct a successful study and, in the end, present a new, high-quality finding or argument. Thus, an initial hypothesis needs to be specific enough that a researcher can test it based on data, but, at the same time, it should also relate to and extend previous general claims made in the community. In this project, we investigate how argumentation machines can (i) represent concrete and more abstract knowledge on hypotheses and their underlying concepts, (ii) automatically compute semantic relations between hypotheses made in scientific publications, and between hypotheses and datasets, and (iii) interactively support a user in developing her own hypothesis based on these resources. Read More | |
Jena Data Center (JDC) The Jena Data Center (JDC) at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena is a conglomerate of data repositories belonging to various small to mid-scale biodiversity and ecological projects, that are using BEXIS2 research data management tool. The aim of the data centre is to provide F.A.I.R principles-based data and ensure long-term preservation and availability along with its high-quality descriptive metadata, to facilitate open science and biodiversity conservation. As part of the long-term preservation objective, after the completion of the project tenure, the data centre will integrate the associated BEXIS2 based data repositories within the Jena data centre e-infrastructure so as to ensure the data is available… Read More | |
![]() | NFDI4Biodiversity- A Consortium for the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) NFDI4BioDiversity is a consortium of 49 partners dedicated to deliver practical tools for researchers and improve data availability for environmental studies/ecology. We are part of a greater network within the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), which is funded through a 10-year-programme of the Joint Science Minister Conference in Germany (GWK). To know more about the NFDI4Biodiversity project click here Objectives To foster access to interoperable data, NFDI4BioDiversity focuses on the following six objectives: Promoting research data management as an integral part of biodiversity research Enabling FAIRness of data Consolidating FAIRness with quality Embedding NFDI4BioDiversity into the (inter-)national landscape Addressing NFDI-wide… Read More |
Semantic Annotations for Building a Reproducible and Interoperable Solution for End-to-End Machine Learning Pipelines Machine learning (ML) is becoming an increasingly important scientific area supporting decision making and knowledge generation and is creating a high impact on several fields including healthcare, education, and many more. With this, it also becomes more and more important that the results of ML experiments are reproducible. The goal of this proposed project is to enable reproducibility and interoperability of end-to-end ML pipelines via the development and exploitation of semantic annotations. The provenance information along with the semantic annotations will be used to make ML experiments more comparable, thus having a basis to judge progress of the field. The aim of the overall project is the application of semantic technologies to ML pipelines for efficient provenance capture, representation, query, comparison, and visualization to enable reproducibility and interoperability. The project is funded through the IMPULSE program of Friedrich-Schiller University Jena. Read More | |
Semantic Description and (semi-) Automatic Annotation of Citizen Science Data It is a collaborative project between The Heinz-Nixdorf Endowed Chair for Distributed Information Systems at the Friedrich-Schiller-University (FSU) Jena and German Aerospace Center (DLR). The project focuses on interoperability of the citizen science data. Semantic web technologies can be used to realize a model for citizen science measurement and observation data by covering not only the content related aspects, but also including information on the quality, trustworthiness and provenance of the data. Read More | |
ThurAI (Thuringian Artificial Intelligence) The projects focus on the reproducibility and explainability of Deep Learning Pipelines. This is a collaborative project between TU Ilmenau, FSU Jena and IMMS GmbH. Read More | |
AgriSem: Semantic Web Technologies for Agricultural Data Interoperability This project aims to enhance and improve the interoperability of agricultural data in Egypt collected and coordinated by CLAES. To achieve this goal, we are going first to apply a number of steps from the data management life cycle to revise the collected data and its associated metadata. After that we are planning to semantically model and enrich these data to allow data integration and reuse. Semantic web technologies can provide a common structured representation of information gathered from real-time sensors as well as from non-real time sources such as producer and retail systems. Data integration is becoming one of the major issues in agriculture. Consequently semantic web technologies are starting to play a more important role. Read More |
Completed Projects
Adaptive Semantic Assistants in Online Applications The rapid growth rate of available textual documents underlines a prominent need for novel approaches to overcome the information overload that knowledge workers are faced with. In such situations, new information filtering and analysis techniques are required to provide end users with information related to their context and task at hand. In cooperation with the Semantic Software Lab at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada (http://www.semanticsoftware.info), we have been developing a new generation of portals that automatically adapt to their users context using novel techniques from the Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Semantic Computing domains. The vision is to extend an… Read More | |
![]() | BioDialog: Intercultural Dialog through Biodiversity Informatics Ein Kooperationsprojekt der Universität Jena mit der Assiut University und der Ain Shams University, Ägypten und der Sfax University, Tunesien This project serves to prepare a more ambitious three-year project aiming to bring together two vital topics: data management on the one hand and biodiversity research on the other hand. The BioDialog project has the following main objectives: It aims firstly, to establish a scientific exchange, founded on regional expertise which allows understanding biodiversity and biodiversity informatics practices in their specific local context. Biodiversity and biodiversity informatics are common phenomena. However, they have different effects in different contexts which cannot… Read More |
![]() | CoSRe The CoSRe project of the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena investigates how computers can support the entire scientific life cycle. Today in each science computers are needed, not only for the storage of experimental data, but also for generating simulation data and futhermore for the analysis of different kinds of data. Over the internet scientists can work together and can share their results. This collaboration leads to new knowledge and new challenges. To deal with this "flood of information" the complete scientific cycle has to be supported by computers. For more information about CoSRe - please visit the project website http://cosre.c3e.de/ Read More |
![]() | DIANE - Services in ad hoc Networks In the DIANE project, we aim at developing and evaluating concepts that will allow integrated, efficient and effective usage of services offered in open and dynamic environments like ad-hoc networks. To achieve these goals, we propose mechanisms to address a number of questions: How can service search be facilitated in decentralized, dynamic environments? How can services be described, automatically found, and selected? How can services be efficiently executed? How can fairness be ensured in open environments? We propose mechanisms to describe, find and select services as well as methods including overlays and replication mechanisms to efficiently process such queries. Additionally,… Read More |
![]() | iDiv- Biodiversity Informatics Unit (BDU) The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) funded by the German Research Foundation (DGF), is a hub for international biodiversity science whose central mission is to promote theory-driven synthesis and data-driven theory. The concept of iDiv encompasses detection and quantification of biodiversity, understanding its existence and emergence, exploring it’s consequences for ecosystem functions and services, and developing new strategies to safeguard biodiversity. No single institution – not even a whole generation of scientists – possesses the intellectual capacity to exploit the potential of the data it generates and assembles. Without efficient data storage and sharing within iDiv, between iDiv and the outside,… Read More |
![]() | LakeBase: Database Infrastructure for Long-Term Data of German Lakes In this collaborative project coordinated by the IGB, the Leibniz-institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, we plan to develop a database infrastructure for long-term data of lakes. We aim to provide interoperability of LakeBase with international databases, like LTER North Temperate Lake Database and other collections of ecological time series. The challenge will be to achieve interoperability without limiting the data owners' autonomy. The Heinz-Nixdorf-Chair for Distributed Information Systems at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena is responsible for the development of an ontology-based common vocabulary and meta data standards to provide semantic search capabilities and meta data annotation assistance. Read More |
![]() | Managing Multimedia Data for Science (MAMUDS) The MAMUDS (Managing Multimedia Data for Science) is a two year BMBF funded project under the German-Tunisian Science and Technology Cooperation Research Project. The main aim of the project is to develop a multimedia data management platform for biodiversity domain, which will be later integrated with the open source research data management software BEXIS 2. The objectives of the project are- (1) to develop multimedia data management platform for specimens’ images from the herbarium Hausskneckt in FSU Jena, (2) extract diagnostic characters and select functional traits using image recognition methods and (3) annotate plant specimen images using extracted diagnostic characters… Read More |
![]() | Mercury Mercury is a joint project between the Institute of Computer Science at FSU Jena and the IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH in Boeblingen. The main objective of this project is to develop a system that combines the user centric device and service processing. Since the integrated system of utilizing a heterogeneous infrastructure of simple sensors and actuators is complicated for average users, we aim to overcome the complexity of this system integration. Read More |
![]() | Minerva Portals Minerva Portals is a joint effort of the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Jena and the IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH in Boeblingen. The overall goal of this project is provide an architectural solution for the next generation Web portals. Read More |
![]() | MOPS The aim of the "MOPS" project is the development of solutions for the transfer of formerly static business processes into the world of mobile data devices. The project under the title "Adaptive Planung und sichere Ausführung mobiler Prozesse in dynamischen Szenarien (MOPS)" (Adaptive Planning and Secure Execution of Mobile Processes in Dynamic Scenarios) is funded by the “Thüringer Aufbaubank” and began on the 06.08.2009. The whole project runs 30 months and has a volume of 2.2 million euros. For this purpose financial resources from European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) are used. The project consortium includes TU Ilmenau, FH Erfurt, Navimatix,… Read More |
![]() | OPOSSum OPOSSum (Online POrtal for Semantic Services ) is a portal dedicated to collaboratively build a public test collection of semantic web services. Despite significant research efforts in the field of semantic web services, real tools and applications using them are still rare. One of the main obstacles for improvements in this direction is the lack of sufficiently large and high-quality collections to test and evaluate tools and algorithms for semantic web services. Such collections cannot be built by any single group but only in a collaborative way by the community as a whole. The purpose of OPOSSum is to equip… Read More |
![]() | Pluto / JSR 286 Apache Pluto Project - Java Portlet Specifikation 2 in cooperation with the IBM research labs in Böblingen, Stuttgart Read More |
![]() | Project Z2 of CRC ReceptorLight: Integrative Data Management and Processing Project Z2 of CRC ReceptorLight is jointly carried out by the Jena University Hospital and Friedrich Schiller University Jena within the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) "High-end light microscopy elucidates membrane receptor function (Receptor Light)" established in 2015. CRC ReceptorLight is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and consists of around 20 research projects from various institutions located in Jena and Würzburg. It will apply and develop light microscopy techniques with highest resolutions in space and time. The volume of the resulting datasets will be large, expected to be in multi-petabyte data. The overall goal of project… Read More |
QUIS: Query Heterogeneous Data In-Situ Data of interest are often found in a variety of data sources, many of which are not relational databases, but have their own data organization and query capabilities. To answer questions of interest, one has to run queries across data from these heterogeneous sources. The traditional approach is to perform multiple individual data transformation tasks, one per data source, to import the data into a common repository where they can be queried and analyzed. Drawbacks of this approach include the manual effort and the cost of transforming and importing potentially large data sets, and the lost opportunity to exploit any query facilities provided by the data sources. QUIS (QUery In-Situ) proposes an approach for querying the data "in-situ" to the greatest extent possible, by taking the user query and transforming appropriate portions of it into corresponding query expressions on individual data sources. Realizing this approach requires the development of a unified query model. This model can extract sub-queries matching heterogeneous capabilities of individual sources, perform heterogeneous joins on intermediate results as necessary, and deal with barriers such as incompatible type systems en route. Early experiments have shown that QUIS almost eliminates the time to prepare the data while paying only a small cost in query execution time compared to a fully integrated, indexed, and loaded relational database. Read More | |
Semantic User Modeling for the Recommendation of Scientific Data Collaboration with the Semantic Software Lab, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada Researchers in the medical and life sciences are faced with an increasing abundance of data in scientific repositories. Thus, handling and filtering of data becomes a more and more time-consuming and challenging task. Semantic recommender systems are a new rising research area using underlying knowledge bases, e.g., ontologies in the recommendation process. That allows to present relevant results that go beyond a user’s stored preferences and to include other semantic related terms that are not explicitly mentioned in the user profile. One obstacle for semantic recommendation is the poor description of personalization settings in state-of-the-art user model ontologies. Apart from storing general user interests it is not possible to specify further needs. We aim at the establishment of a formal semantic user model for scientific research objects and its integration and usage in semantic recommender systems. Read More | |
![]() | SpeedUp For the security forces and rescue workers engaged in a major operation, no integrative information and communication tool is available up until now. Today such coordination is carried out by personal consultation at the site, via official radio channels or by means of paper-based documentation. In the case of scenarios such as mass casualty incidents, however, personal consultations or the procurement and dispatch of documents are virtually impossible to manage. Processes are inefficient and precious time is lost as a result: factors that, in the worst case, raise the number of victims. In this BMBF-funded project, this problem is tackled… Read More |