Visiting the Holgate Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska

 

 

 

 

Dr. rer. pol. (Dipl.-Inform.)
Andreas Abecker
Head of Dept. “Knowledge Management”

Postal Address

FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik 
Information Process Engineering (IPE) Division  
 Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14 
 D-76131 Karlsruhe 
 Germany

EMail

abecker@fzi.de or 
Andreas.Abecker@fzi.de

Phone

++49 (0) 721 9654 802

Fax

++49 (0) 721 9654 803

 



Semantic Web Services Book CoverSemantic Web Services
Concepts, Technologies, and Applications
Studer, Rudi; Grimm, Stephan; Abecker, Andreas (eds.)
2007, VI, 406 p. 103 illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-540-70893-3

 

 

 

 


 

 

Agent Mediated Knowledge Management
International Symposium AMKM 2003, Stanford, CA, USA, March 24-26, 2003, Revised and Invited Papers
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Elst, Ludger van; Dignum, Virginia; Abecker, Andreas (eds.)
2004, XI, 428 p. Also available online. Softcover.
ISBN: 3-540-20868-2

AMKM Book Cover

 


 

 

WM 2003: Professionelles Wissensmanagement - Erfahrungen und Visionen

Ulrich Reimer, Andreas Abecker, Steffen Staab, Gerd Stumme (Hrsg.)
Beiträge der 2. Konferenz Professionelles Wissensmanagement,
2.-4. April 2003 in Luzern

GI-Edition - Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), P-28

Bonner Köllen Verlag (2003)
ISSN 1617-5468
ISBN 3-88579-357-1

AMKM Book Cover


 

 

Mentzas, G., National Technical University of Athens, Greece; Apostolou, D., Planet Ernst & Young SA, Athens, Greece ; Young, R., Knowledge Associates, Cambridge, UK; Abecker, A., DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany:

Knowledge Asset Management   

Beyond the Process-centred and Product-centred Approaches  

November 2002. Approx. 250 pp. 76 figs. Hardcover. ISBN 1-85233-583-1

Series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing

Knowledge Asset Management Book Cover

 


 

 

Abecker, A.DFKI, Kaiserslautern; Hinkelmann, K.FH Solothurn Nordwestschweiz, Olten, Schweiz; Maus, H., DFKI, Kaiserslautern; Müller, H.J., Berufsakademie Mannheim (Hrsg.): 

Geschäftsprozessorientiertes
Wissensmanagement 

Effektive Wissensnutzung bei der Planung und Umsetzung von Geschäftsprozessen 

472, S. 70 Abb. Geb.  ISBN 3-540-42970-0, Listprice: EUR 46,68 plus MwSt , Springer Verlag, Mai 2002. 

Reihe: Xpert.press

GPOWM Book Cover

 


AAAI Spring SymposiumSemantic Web meets eGovernment”, March 2006, Stanford University / California (USA)


ECAI-2004 Tutorial on Semantic Web: Vision, Tools, and Applications, August 2004, Sevilla, Spain (with Raphael Volz)


IJCAI-2003 Tutorial on Ontologies: Representation, Engineering, and Applications, August 2003, Acapulco, Mexico (with Raphael Volz)



2003 AAAI Spring Symposium on Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management



Workshop "
Geschäftsprozeßorientiertes Wissensmanagement ", Baden-Baden, March 2001. Proceedings available.



KALIF Sharing Day on Ontologies 1999


 

Projects (at FZI)

- FZI KM Department service offer -
                                                     
Within the IPE department (Information Process Engineering) of FZI - Karlsruhe University’s technology transfer center for Information Technology - I am leading the research team “Knowledge Management and Semantic Technologies”. In this role, I am or was involved (leading, managing, working in, coaching,  administrating, controlling, inspiring, ...)  - among others - in the following projects (where the most part of the work is actually done by my excellent team of FZI KM researchers):

 

Running:

 

·         eGIFF – Early Warning Systems for Landslides (bmb+f Project, 2007 - 2010)

·         KEWA SUI – Semantic Search in Environmental Information Portals (Umweltministerium Baden-Württemberg, 2008/09)

·         SEALS – Evaluation of Semantic Technologies (EU Infrastructures Project, running since 2009)

·         SYNERGY – Knowledge-Based Collaboration in Engineering (EU-STREP Project, 2008 – 2011)

·         TEAM – Knowledge Management in Distributed Software Engineering (EU-STREP Project, 2006 – 2009)

·         THESEUS – New Technologies for the Internet of Services (BMWi-Programme, 2007 – 2011)

 

Finished:

  • Classifier - Intelligent Spam Detection for GROUP Technologies AG (2002/03)
  • CollaBaWü - Collaborative, component-based Software Engineering (Baden-Württemberg project, 2004 - 2008)
  • DIP - Data, Information, and Process Integration (EU-Integrated Project, 01/2004 – 12/2006)
  • FIT – Adaptive Portals and Processes in eGovernment (EU-STREP Project, 2006 - 2009)
  • HRMore - Intelligent Human Resource Management for DaimlerChrysler AG Werk Wörth (until 02/2006)
  • Im Wissensnetz – Knowledge Management in eScience (bmb+f project, 2005 - 2008)
  • Nepomuk – Towards the Social Semantic Desktop (EU-Integrated Project, 01/2006 – 12/2009)
  • OntoGov - Ontology-enabled eGovernment Services (EU-STREP Project, 01/2004 – 06/2006)
  • Ontologging – Ontology Infrastructures (EU RTD project, until end of 2003)
  • ROCKET (EU Roadmap project, ended in Summer 2003)
  • SAKE – Knowledge Management in eGovernment (EU-STREP Project, 2006 - 2008)
  • SAUER – Semantic Technologies for SAP (2005)
  • SWWS - Semantic Web Enabled Services (ended in Spring 2005)
  • VISION (EU Roadmap project, ended in Summer 2003)
  • WAVES – Knowledge Management in Distributed Software Engineering (bmb+f Project, 2006 - 2008)

 

There is a number of additional industrial consulting or prototyping projects, for customers such as Siemens, Daimler, IBM, SAP, Bosch, Bayer CropScience, SVA, ontoprise, or Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen.


Former Projects (at DFKI)

  • INKASS (Counsellor)
    • Project name: Intelligent Knowledge Asset Sharing and Trading
    • Keywords: E-Commerce, Knowledge Trading, Ontology Learning, Knowledge Asset Metadata, Ontology Lifecycle, Knowledge Trading Business Models
    • Funded by the European Commission under grant IST-2001-33373
    • Duration: March 2002 - February 2004
  • DECOR (Project Director)
    • Project name: Delivery of Context-Sensitive Organizational Knowledge
    • Keywords: Active Knowledge Delivery, Business Knowledge Modelling Method, Weakly-Structured Workflow, Business-Process Oriented Knowledge Management
    • Funded by the European Commission under grant IST-1999-13002
    • Duration: July 2000 - September 2002
  • FRODO (Associated Researcher)
    • Project name: A Framework for Distributed Organizational Memories
    • Keywords: Agent-mediated Knowledge Networks, Ontology Engineering, Weakly-Structured Workflow, Distributed Organizational Memory, Semantic Web Technologies
    • Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research under grant 01 IW 901
    • Duration:January  2000 - December 2002
  • Know-Net (DFKI Project Manager)
    • Project name: Knowledge Management with Intranet Technologies
    • Keywords: Holistic Framework and Method for Knowledge Management, Lotus Notes based Collaboration Tool, Ontology-Based Retrieval Tool, Process and Product Approach to KM
    • Funded by the European Commission under grant EP28928
    • Duration: October 1998 - March 2000
    • Know-Net led to the Know-Net commercial offering .
  • KnowMore    (Research Scientist)
    • Project name: Knowledge Management for Learning Organizations
    • Keywords: Organizational Memory, Context-Sensitive Information Delivery, Workflow-Oriented Knowledge Management, Ontology-Based Information Modelling
    • Funded by German Federal Ministry for Education and Research under grant ITW 9705/3
    • Duration: April 1997 - March 2000
  • VEGA (Research Scientist)
    • Project name: Validation and Exploration of Knowledge Bases by Global Analysis
    • Keywords: Inductive Logic Programming, Theory Revision, Data Mining, Knowledge Compilation
    • Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research


Studies

  • Bidjan Tschaitschian, Andreas Abecker, Michael Sintek: Szenarien im Wissensmanagement. Studie der DFKI GmbH Kaiserslautern im Auftrag der Multimedia Software GmbH Dresden. 1999.
  • Michael M. Richter, Knut Hinkelmann, Andreas Abecker, Ralph Bergmann, Wolfgang Wilke: Einsatz von Data Mining für die Insolvenzprognose beim Schweizerischen Bankverein. Studie von DFKI und Universität Kaiserslautern im Auftrag der SBV AG, Basel. 1995.

Short CV

Andreas Abecker studied computer science and economics at the University of Kaiserslautern (Germany), and received the Diploma (master's degree, Dipl.-Inform.) in 1994. As a freelancer, he did a study on data mining techniques for credit risk evaluation at Swiss Bank Corporation, Basel.

In February 1995, he started to work with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH ) in Kaiserslautern. In the DFKI Intelligent Engineering Systems department, he worked on knowledge representation (description logics, constraints) and knowledge evolution (theory revision, data mining) issues in the areas of technical configuration, production planning, and knowledge-based scheduling.

Since 1996, he was a member of the DFKI Knowledge Management department . As a researcher in the KnowMore project (Knowledge Management for Learning Organizations) and as project leader of the DFKI part of the European (ESPRIT) KNOWNET project (Knowledge Management with Intranet technologies), he investigated organizational, methodological, and technological issues for building Organizational Memories. Special emphasis is laid upon the integration of collaboration and coordination technologies (groupware, workflow), document management, and formal knowledge processing (ontologies and metadata for conceptual information retrieval). Since July 2000, he was the Project Director of the European R&D project DECOR (Delivery of Context-Sensitive Organizational Knowledge).

In Spring 2003, Andreas Abecker moved to the Research Center for Information Technologies (Forschungszentrum Informatik - FZI) at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in order to take over the position of the leader of the FZI Knowledge Management team (WIM - Wissensmanagement) which is part of the FZI Information Process Engineering (IPE) department. WIM is a part of a group of institutions (FZI WIM, Ontoprise GmbH, and the AIFB KM group at Karlsruhe University) led by Prof. Rudi Studer doing world-wide renowned research in the area of Semantic Web and ontology-enabled applications. Within FZI, he also coordinates the Competence Center Business Software (Kompetenzzentrum Unternehmenssoftware am FZI), a virtual organization constituted from the six FZI teams working on Business Processes (BPEM), Databases (DBS), Production Data and Process Management in Engineering (PDE), Program Structures (PROST), Software Technology (SWT), and Knowledge Management (WIM).

In 2004, he received a doctor’s degree in Applied Informatics (Dr. rer. pol., summa cum laude) from the University of Karlsruhe (TH), with a thesis about Business-Process Oriented Knowledge Management.

Andreas Abecker wrote and co-authored more than 100 refereed publications in Expert Systems and Knowledge Management, he initiated a workshop series on AI and Organizational Memories ( KI-97 , ECAI-98 , IJCAI-99 , ECAI-00 , IJCAI-01 ), serves as a reviewer for several journals such as IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Elsevier's Knowledge-Based Systems Journal, or Springer's Knowledge and Information Systems Journal, and gives/gave lectures on knowledge-based systems at the University of Karlsruhe, Berufsakademie Mosbach and Berufsakademie Karlsruhe, as well as the Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld. In Germany as well as internationally, he pushed the development of the topics and respective research communities in Business-Process oriented Knowledge Management (2001 - …), Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management (2004 - …) and, recently, Semantics for eGovernment (2006 - …). Further, he currently acts as FZI’s W3C representative (ACR) and co-organizes the Semantic Web Akademie Karlsruhe.

Since he is six years old, he practices as a dilettant :-) with more or less success several kinds of sports (like apparatus gymnastics, jogging, squash, and tennis) and does some honorary work for the gymnastic club in the village he stems from, the Turnverein Bierbach 1905 e.V. In 2002, he was a member of the organization team of the German National Championships in Short Distance Orienteering  ( DKM-2002 ).


 

Research Interests


Knowledge Representation for Expert Systems and Corporate Memories

  • Maintenance of Declarative Knowledge: My main work in the DFKI project VEGA was to investigate formally well-founded methods for the evolution of declarative knowledge bases. This can be seen as a cooperation of KB exploration and KB validation algorithms. The field of Theory Refinement seems to be closely related. (1995-97).
  • Configuration: Together with Holger Wache and Harald Meyer auf'm Hofe, we investigate use of logic-based knowledge-representation and inference to tackle the AI problem class configuration. There remains a lot of work until we have well-founded and efficient methods for real real-world conditions (1996-98).
  • Constraints: I initiated and co-organized the 1. DFKI Workshop on Constraint-Based Problem Solving (1996). More about the topic can be found under the address of Harald Meyer auf'm Hofe
  • Description Logics: As a student, I worked on tailoring logic-based knowledge representation approaches to real-world technical domains (DFKI projects ARC-TEC and TOOCON). This resulted in the hybrid knowledge compilation laboratory COLAB. Especially, I implemented parts of the TAXON terminological logic system (1990-94).

Machine Learning and Data Mining

  • Data Mining Algorithms: I supervised a student work (Karsten Schnittker) investigating improvements of the relational learning algorithm RelGeninvented by Michael Sintek (1996/97).
  • Inductive Logic Programming: Together with Dr. Knut Hinkelmann I supervised a diploma thesis (Elisabeth Daub) on performance improvements for Inductive Logic Programming (1995/96).
  • Genetic Algorithms: I did some work on the GA-based Nearest-Neighbor-Classifier GIGA which was invented and implemented by Matthias Fuchs from the University of Kaiserslautern (1995/96).
  • Document Analysis: in cooperation with the DFKI Department for Document Analysis and Office Automation (Markus Junker) I investigated the use of machine learning algorithms for text classification (1995-2000).

Innovative Applications of AI Technology to Real-World Problems


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