Geert-Jan Houben

Geert-Jan in Rome

Geert-Jan Houben

www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~houben

www.gjhouben.nl

TU Delft

From the summer of 2008, Geert-Jan Houben is working as a full professor at the Software Technology department at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), heading 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.

Short bio

Previously, Geert-Jan studied computing science, got his Ph.D. with a thesis on complex objects databases, had several consultancy jobs with consultancy firms in the Netherlands (e.g. Bakkenist, BSO, Origin), held a position in the ADREM group in the Computer Science department of the University of Antwerp, was leading the Architecture of Information Systems (AIS) group in the Computer Science department of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, served between 2001 and 2004 as the chairman of the board of the Computer Science department in Eindhoven, was associated with the INS2 group at CWI in Amsterdam, was a guest-professor at the University of Antwerp, was the director of the Business Information Systems (BIS) master program in Eindhoven, was between 2005 and 2008 full professor of information systems at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and co-director of the WISE laboratory for Web & Information System Engineering, and was at VUB member of the board of the faculty of Sciences. He leads in Delft and Eindhoven the Hera research program on Web Information Systems.

Research

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.

Most of his research and his PhD-students are part of the Hera program. In it, the focus is on the application of Semantic Web and Web 2.0 technologies and concepts to provide innovative solutions for (personalized) access to large-scale networked information collections. These specific topics are embedded in the fundamental and applied research done by the group in the general area of information systems.

Geert-Jan is managing editor of JWE, the Journal of Web Engineering, and he is member of the Editorial Board of ACM TWEB, ACM Transactions on the Web.

For more information on his current research and activities, have a look at his research page with a description of research subjects, some links, and publications.

Web Information Systems group

For more information on the group at TU Delft, for example on vacancies, have a look at the page of the WIS group or contact prof.dr.ir. Geert-Jan Houben via email at g.j.p.m.houben at tudelft.nl.

Links & pointers

Some workshops:

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

Some selected research links: