Pictire Wolfgang Klas   address: Institute for Distributed and Multimedia Systems
Liebiggasse 4/3-4,
A-1010 Wien, Austria
 
 
 
  phone: +43 1 4277-39632
  fax: +43 1 4277-39649
  e-mail: wolfgang.klas@univie.ac.at
 
  Dr. Wolfgang Klas
Universitätsprofessor
Dekan der Fakultät f. Informatik		    
 
 
 
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Univ.Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Klas
  
  Dr. Wolfgang Klas is Full Professor at the Institute for Distributed and Multimedia Systems of the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Vienna, Austria, heading the Multimedia Information Systems group. From Oct. 2001 until Sept. 2008 he served as the Director of the Study Programme of the Faculty of Computer Science. Since Oct. 2008 he is Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science. He is scientific director of the Research Studio Digital Memory Engineering of the Research Studios Austria, a laboratory partially funded by the Austrian government, ARC seibersdorf research, and industry. Until 2000, he was Professor at the Computer Science Department at the University of Ulm, Germany. Until 1996, he was head of the Distributed Multimedia Systems Research Division (DIMSYS) at GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany, and directed many research projects and industrial collaborations in the fields of object-oriented database technology, multimedia information systems, interoperable database systems, and cooperative systems. In 1991/1992, Dr. Klas was a visiting fellow at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests are currently in multimedia information systems and Internet-based applications. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal Multimedia Systems, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Germany, and from 1998 until 2005 on the editorial board of the Very Large Data Bases Journal,  from 2005 until 2008 on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, ACM, USA. He has been a member and chair of program committees as well as general chair of many conferences.

In the following please find a more detailed biography:
 

CURRICULUM VITAE
 		 EDUCATION
 
1986 Dipl.Ing. Computer Science (Informatik),
Technical University of Vienna, Austria.
 
1990 Dr.techn. Computer Science (Informatik, with honours),
Technical University of Vienna, Austria.
 

   POSITIONS
 
since 09/2000 Full Professor at the Institute for Distributed and Multimedia Systems (until 12/2004 Computer Science and Business Informatics) University of Vienna, Austria.
Head of the Multimedia Information Systems group.
 
since 09/2002 Scientific Head of the Research Studio Digital Memory Engineering of Research Studios Austria, ARC seibersdorf research, Vienna, Austria.
04/2002 - 12/2004 Head of the Institute for Computer Science and Business Informatics, University of Vienna, Austria.
08/1996 - 09/2000 Professor at the Computer Science Department,
University of Ulm, Germany.
Database and information systems, in particular multimedia information systems, Internet-based e-commerce applications, and object-oriented database systems.
11/1998 - 09/2000 Director of Steinbeis-Transferzentrum "Datenbanken, Multimedia, Workflow-Management und Verteilte Anwendungen", Ulm, Germany. 
03/1993 - 06/1993 Visiting Professor at the Department of Business Informatics
Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz, Austria.
1992 - 1996 Head of the Distributed Multimedia Information Systems Research Division at GMD-IPSI, Institute of Integrated Publications and Information Systems, Darmstadt, Germany.
Multimedia information systems, object-oriented database systems, interoperable databases, cooperative systems.
1991 - 1992 Visiting fellow at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), University of California at Berkeley, USA.
1987 - 1992 Head of the Distributed Object-oriented Database Systems Group at GMD-IPSI, Institute of Integrated Publications and Information Systems, Darmstadt, Germany.
Object-oriented database system VODAK.
10-11/1987, 04-07/1988 Visiting scientist at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), University of California at Berkeley, USA.
Member of the POSTGRES Group, Prof. Stonebraker, UCB.
02/1986 - 02/1987 Research and Teaching Assistant at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria.
 

  TEACHING
since 1986 teaching courses on several topics in Computer Science and Business Informatics (Wirtschaftsinformatik) at the University of Vienna, University of Ulm, Technical University of Darmstadt, University of Frankfurt, University of Linz, and Technical University of Vienna.
 

  EDITORIAL BOARD
 
since 2006 Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Multimedia Systems, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Germany.
2005 - 2008 Member of the Editorial Board of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, ACM, USA.
 
1997 - 2005 Member of the Editorial Board of VLDB Journal, Spinger Verlag
 

 

 

 CONFERENCE AND PROGRAM CHAIR
(only listed since 1999)
2010
  • PC Member, 16th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS'2010), Oak Brook, Illinois, USA, Oct 14-16, 2010
2009
  • PC Member, 15th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, Redwood City, CA, USA, Sep 10-12, 2009
2008
  • PC Member, International Workshop on Video Mining (VM08) at IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM 2008)Pisa, Italy, Dec 2008
  • PC Member, ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Vancouver, Canada, Oct 27 – Nov 1, 2008
  • PC Co-Chair, International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications “Metadata for Semantic and Social Applications”, Berlin, GermanySep 22-26, 2008
  • 14th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, Boston, USA, Sep 4-6, 2008
2007
  • General Co-Chair, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Vienna, Austria, 2007
     
  • Panel Co-Chair, 2007 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, Hiroshima, Jaüan, January 15-19, 2007
2006
  • PC Co-Chair, 14th ACM Multimedia 2006, Santa Barbara, California, USA, October 22-28, 2006
     
  • PC Member, EDBT Ph.D. Workshop 2006 in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology 2006, Munich, Germany, March 26, 2006
2005
  • PC Member, 13th ACM Multimedia 2005, Singapore, November 6-12, 2005
     
  • PC Member, Workshop on Foundations of Multimedia Computing, Communication, and Interaction (FOM 2005) in conjunction with ACM MM 2005, Singapore, November 6-12, 2005
     
  • PC Member, 7th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2005) in conjunction with ACM MM 2005, Singapore, November 11-12, 2005
     
  • PC Member, ACM Fourteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2005, Bremen, Germany, October 31 - November 5, 2005
     
  • PC Member, 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2005), Vienna, Austria, September 18-23, 2005
     
  • PC Member, DASFAA 2005, Beijing, China, April 16 - 18, 2005
     
  • PC Member, IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (EuroIMSA 2005), Grindelwald, Switzerland, February 21-23, 2005
     
  • PC Member, 11th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (MIS'05) Sorrento, Italy, September 19-21, 2005
     
  • PC Member, IADIS International Conference on Mobile Learning 2005, Qawra, Malta, 28-30 June, 2005
     
2004
  • PC Member, 14th IEEE International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Digital Government Services (RIDE-DGS'2004), Boston, Massachusetts, USA March 28-29, 2004
     
  • PC Member, 20th IEEE Int. Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2004), Boston, Mass., USA, March 30-April 2, 2004
     
  • PC Member, 10th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (MIS'04), College Park, MD, USA, August 25-27, 2004
     
  • PC Member, The conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE04), Larnaca, Cyprus, October 25-29, 2004
     
  • PC Member, 4th IEEE/IPSJ Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT'04) Tokyo, Japan, January 26-30, 2004
     
  • PC Member, First IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Contracting (WEC'04) San Diego, California, USA, July 6-9, 2004
     
2003
  • PC Member, 11th ACM Multimedia 2003, Berkeley, California, USA, November 2-8, 2003
     
  • PC-Member, 2nd International Conference on ONTOLOGIES, DATABASES, AND APPLICATIONS OF SEMANTICS FOR LARGE SCALE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ODBASE), Sicily, Italy, November 3-7, 2003
     
  • Workshop Co-Chair, WISE 2003 - The 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering Conference, Rome, Italy, 10-13 Dec 2003
     
  • PC Member, 9th Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, Ischia, Italy, May, 2003
     
  • PC Member, 14th Conference on ACM Hypertext and Hypermedia 2003, Nottingham, UK, August 26-30, 2003
     
  • PC Member, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) 2003, Baltimore, USA, July 6-9, 2003
     
  • PC Member, 3rd IEEE/IPSJ Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), Orlando, Florida, Jan 27-31, 2003
     
2002
  • PC Member, 10th ACM Multimedia 2002, Juan les Pins, France, December 1- 6 , 2002
     
  • PC Member, Sixth East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS'2002), Bratislava, Slovakia, September 8-11, 2002
     
  • PC Member, Fourth Int. Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM2002), McLean, Virginia, USA, November 8, 2002
     
  • PC Member, EDBT Ph.D. Workshop 2002, Prague, Czech Republic, March 28, 2002
     
  • PC Member, EurAsia-ICT 2002 - First EurAsian Conference on Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Shiraz, Iran, October 29-31, 2002
     
  • PC Member, ICME 2002 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 26-29 2002
     
  • PC Member, IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC), Intelligent Information Processing 2002, Montreal, Canada, August 25-30, 2002
     
  • PC Member, IASTED International Conference Information Systems and Databases (ISDB2002), Tokyo, Japan, September 25-27, 2002
     
  • PC Co-Chair, 8th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (MIS'2002), Tempe, Arizona, October 30 - November 1, 2002
     
  • PC Member, IEEE 12th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Engineering E-Commerce/E-Business Systems (RIDE-2EC'2002), San Jose, USA, February 24-25, 2002
     
  • PC Member, International Web Conference (WWW2002), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 7-11, 2002
     
2001
  • PC Co-Chair, ACM Multimedia 2001, Ottawa, Canada, October 2001
     
  • PC Member, VLDB 2001 - 7th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases Roma, Italy, September 2001
     
  • PC Member, 10th International Conference on Knowledge and Data Engineering (CIKM'2001), Atlanta, USA, November 2001
     
  • PC Member, 3rd Workshop on Web Information and Data Management(WIDM'01), Atlanta, USA, November 9, 2001
     
  • PC Member, 7th International Multimedia Information Systems Workshop, Capri, Italy, November 2001
     
  • PC Member, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2001), Tokyo, August 2001.
     
  • PC Member, 10th International Web Conference (WWW10) Hong Kong, May 2001
     
  • PC Member, 9th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-9): SEMANTIC ISSUES IN E-COMMERCE SYSTEMS, Hong Kong, April 2001
     
  • General Chair, 11th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Document management for data intensive business and scientific applications (RIDE-DM'2001), Heidelberg, Germany, April 2001
     
  • PC Member, 7th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Hong Kong, April 2001
     
  • PC Mmeber, 1st NSF - DELOS Network of Excellence Workshop on "Information Seeking, Searching and Querying in Digital Libraries", Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland, December 2000
     
2000
  • PC Member, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia And Expo ICME, July/August 2000, New York City, USA
     
  • PC Member, 6th International Multimedia Information Systems Workshop, Chicago, USA, October 2000
     
  • PC Member, 5th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Visual Database Systems (VDB5), Fukuoka, Japan, May 2000
     
  • PC Member, 2000 ADBIS-DASFAA - International Conference on East-European Symposium on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Prague, September 2000
     
  • PC Member, International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), New York City, July 2000
     
1999
  • PC Member, ACM Multimedia 1999, Orlando, Florida, USA, October 1999
     
  • PC Member, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM99, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, Nov 1999
     
  • PC Member, Second International Conference on Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce (ICTEC) Nashville, USA, October 1999
     
  • PC Member, 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS'99) Boston, October 1999
     
  • PC Member, International Workshop on Information Technologies for Electronic Business ITeB'99, Florence, Italy, September 1999
     
  • PC Member, 1999 International Workshop on Multimedia Database Management Systems (IW-MMDBMS'99), Blue Mountain Lake, New York, September 1999
     
  • PC Member, IEEE Multimedia Systems '99, International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (IEEE ICMCS'99), June, 1999, Firenze, Italy
     
  • PC Member, 6th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (Dasfaa'99), Taiwan, April 1999
     
  • PC Member, 15th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering 1999 (ICDE'99), Sydney, Australia, March 1999
     
  • PC Member, Data Semantics 8 (DS-8): Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems IFIP TC-2 WG 2.6 Working Conference, Rotorua, New Zealand, 5-8 January, 1999

  FORMER PROJECTS
(not referenced on this site)
 
CARDIO-OP 1998 - 2000. National Project at the University of Ulm, subcontract at the University of Vienna, partially funded by the German Ministry of Research and Technology.
Development of a network-based, database system-driven multimedia system for the education, information and training of physicians, medical teachers, students, and patients in the domain of cardiac surgery. For details see the Cardio-OP project web site.
 
RMP 1998 - 2000. Rural Market Place (EU Project)
RMP is an electronic market place for rural products in Europe and has been established in the context of an EU project with partners from Austria, Greece, France, and Spain. See also http://www.rmp.at/ 
 
TRANSCOOP 1994 - 1996. EU ESPRIT III Basic Research project on Transaction Management for Cooperative Applications.
Details on the results are available in the book:
Transaction Management Support for Cooperative Applications.
IRO-DB 1993 - 1995. EU ESPRIT III IT Project on Interoperable Relational and Object-oriented DBMS.

  MEMBERSHIP
  Dr. Klas is a member of IFIP TC2 WG2.6 Databases, ACM, IEEE CS, GI, OCG, and was a member of the IEEE Task Force on "Multimedia Computing" (1992-1993) and of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on "Multimedia Computing" (1994-1997).

  PUBLICATIONS
 
  For a list of publications see the "publication" tab on my home page

 

 

 
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