From the autumn of 2008, the Software Technology department at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) started with the appointment of prof.dr.ir. Geert-Jan Houben a new group on Web Information Systems (WIS) that is involved in the education in Computer Science and Information Architecture and that concentrates in its research on large-scale information systems, specifically information systems that involve Web and Semantic Web technology.
New(s)
New workshops - Call for Papers
LUPAS 2010 (@ ESWC 2010) - International Workshop on Linking of User Profiles and Applications in the Social Semantic Web
WISM 2010 (@ ER 2010) - Seventh International Workshop on Web Information Systems Modeling
MDWE 2010 (@ ICWE 2010) - 6th Model-Driven Web Engineering Workshop
ComposableWeb 2010 (@ ICWE 2010) - Second International Workshop on Lightweight Composition on the Web
WABBWUAS (@ UMAP 2010) - Workshop on Architectures and Building Blocks of Web-Based User-Adaptive Systems
People
This group is led by Geert-Jan Houben. Currently, his main research area is Advanced technology for Web-based Information Systems (AWIS), with topics like
- Web and Semantic Web technology,
- semi-structured data,
- Web query and transformation languages,
- Web data integration and distribution,
- Web presentation generation,
- adaptation and personalization in Web applications,
- Web engineering, and
- Web information system architecture.
Also, newly appointed are the assistant professors Philipp Cimiano and Jan Hidders.
Philipp Cimiano is mainly interested in the following research topics:
- Natural Language Processing, Text Mining
- Information Systems (IS)
- Semantic Web
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Information Retrieval (IR)
- Computational Semantics/Linguistics
More information about Philipp can be found here, including his previous positions.
Jan Hidders does research on the following subjects:
- Scalable querying of distributed ontologies
- Languages and models for adaptive hypermedia
- Scientific workflow management systems
Before, see here for more on his previous positions, he has worked on the following subjects:
- Business workflows: The equivalence of workflows, access-rule based workflow specifications, the relationship between workflows specifications and case dossier data structures.
- Scientific workflows: Formalisms for describing and reasoning over scientific workflows.
- XQuery/XPath: Formal semantics. Query optimization. Expressive power.
- Lightweight ontology reasoning and data integration.
Other members of the group include
- Erwin Leonardi,
- Beibei Hu,
- Samur Araujo,
- Qi Gao,
- Bernard Sodoyer,
- Kees van der Meer.
Research tags
- web-based systems
- intelligent web data access
- semantic web
- hypermedia and navigation
- adaptation and personalization
- user modeling
- information retrieval
- natural language processing
- web query languages
- web data integration
- ontology population
- natural language interfaces
- scientific workflows
- information filtering
- XML query languages
Positions and vacancies
At TU Delft, the WIS group is always interested in good candidates at the level of Postdoc or PhD-researcher. Important topics of research will be methods, techniques and tools for designing and developing Web-based information systems, and handling distributed data. The applicant's specific areas of interest might include, but are not limited to, technical aspects of the (Semantic) Web, Web engineering, service-oriented architectures, semi-structured data and XML, and data distribution and interoperability. Open applications at any level are always possible.Candidates interested to work as junior researcher or PhD-student in the group, have a look at the page for PhD-students.
Education
The new staff members will offer starting from 2009/2010 new courses and thesis projects for students at TU Delft.
The group is also coordinating the Information Architecture track in the Computer Science master. This includes the master thesis projects.
Contact
For more information on the WIS group, on its research and education, or on the Information Architecture master track, contact prof.dr.ir. Geert-Jan Houben via email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
