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Dr. rer. pol. Dipl.-Inform.
Andreas Abecker
Head of Research & Innovation Management

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Semantic 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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

 


Projects at disy Informationssysteme GmbH (2010-)

  • WatERP (disy Project Contact)
    • Project name: Water Enhanced Resource Planning - Where Water Supply Meets Demand
    • Keywords: water resources management, water data integration, WaterML2.0
    • Funded by the EU within FP7-ICT under Objective , grant no. 318603
    • Project partners: Barcelona Digital (Coordinator, Spain), INCLAM SA (Spain), Agència Catalana delÀigua (Spain), Staffordshire University (UK), National Technical University of Athens (Greece), Hydrometeorological Innovative Solutions (Spain), TZW Technologiezentrum Wasser des DVGW e.V. (Germany), Stadtwerke Karlsruhe GmbH (Germany)
    • Duration: October 2012 – September 2015
  • PartSense (Project Coordinator)
    • Project name: Participatory Sensing für Firmen und die öffentliche Verwaltung
    • Keywords: Participatory Sensing, Citizen Science
    • Funded by the German Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF) within the KMU-innovativ programme, grant no. FKZ 01IS11029A
    • Project partner: FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik (Karlsruhe), FB Information Process Engineering
    • Duration: January 2012 - December 2013
  • IWRM-Südafrika-II / Mittlerer Olifants (disy Project Contact)
    • Project name: Integriertes Wasserressourcen-Management in Südafrika, Phase II
    • Keywords: IWRM, Spatial Data Warehouse, Water Data Warehouse
    • Funded by the German Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF) within the FONA programme
    • Duration: June 2012 - May 2015
  • HIPPOLYTOS (Project Coordinator)
    • Project name: Intelligenter Zugang zu Geo- und Umweltdaten durch semantische Technologien
    • Keywords: semantic search, environmental information portal
    • Funded by the German Ministry for Economics (BMWi) within the THESEUS SME-programme
    • Duration: 2009 - 2011
  • NatureSDIplus (disy Project Contact)
    • Project name: Best Practice Network for SDI in Nature Conservation
    • Keywords: metadata management, INSPIRE, data harmonization, nature conservation, Natura 2000
    • Funded by the EU within the eContentplus programme, grant no. ECP-2007-GEO-317007
    • Duration: October 2008 - March 2011
  • SPICOSA (disy Project Contact)
    • Project name: Science and Policy Integration for Coastal System Assessment
    • Keywords: Integrated Coastal Zone Management, metadata management
    • Funded by the EU FP6 ENVIRONMENT programme
    • Duration: 2007 - 2011

 


Projects at FZI (2003-2011)

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

 

·         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)

·         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.


Selected Projects at DFKI Kaiserslautern (1995-2003)

  • 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
  • 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 was 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) – now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT – 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 was 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 coordinated 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 far more than 120 refereed publications in Expert Systems, Knowledge Management, Semantic Technologies, Geographic Information Science and Environmental Informatics, 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 gave lectures on knowledge-based systems at the University of Karlsruhe, Duale Hochschule Mosbach and Duale Hochschule 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 Semantics for eGovernment (2006 - …). Further, he acted as FZI’s W3C representative (ACR), co-organized the Semantic Web Akademie Karlsruhe and represented FZI in the STI International Executive Board.

With a short transition time in 2010/11 when Andreas worked both for FZI and disy, he moved to disy Informationssysteme GmbH in Karlsruhe in order to fill the newly created position of the Head of Innovation Management. Besides corporate-internal knowledge and innovation management as well as strategic business development, his duties comprise acquisition and running of research projects.

Since he is six years old, Andreas practices as a dilettant :-) and with more or less success several kinds of sports (like apparatus gymnastics, jogging, squash, tennis and boule) and does some honorary work for the gymnastics club in the village he stems from, the Turnverein Bierbach 1905 e.V. In this club, he was and is regularly member of the organization team of national sports events in Orienteering, e.g., of the German National Championship in Short Distance Orienteering  (DKM-2002), the German National Championship in Orienteering Relay (DM Staffel 2009) including a World Ranking Event, or the upcoming German National Championship in Long Distance Orienteering ( DM Lang 2013).


Research Interests

  • Environmental Information Systems
  • Spatial Intelligence and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Ontology-Based Information Systems and Applications
  • Semantic Technologies for eGovernment, eScience, and eBusiness
  • Semantic Desktop and Personal Knowledge Management
  • Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services
  • Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management
  • Business-Process Oriented Knowledge Management
  • Weakly-Structured Business Processes
  • Knowledge Representation for Expert Systems and Organizational Memories
  • Machine Learning; Knowledge Discovery; Data, Text and Web Mining; Business Intelligence
  • Innovative Applications of AI Technology to Real-World Problems

 

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 is closely related (1995-97).
  • Configuration: Together with Holger Wache and Harald Meyer auf'm Hofe, we investigated the 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 RelGen invented 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

  • Mechanical Engineering: I was happy to give some starting help to the excellent work of Dirk Kollmar of Kaiserslautern University working group Fluid flow and fluid displacement machines about the use of Machine Learning tools for Early Failure Detection for pumps in the chemical industry.
  • Data Mining in Finance: Together with the University of Kaiserslautern, Working Group AI and Expert Systems, I performed a 3-month study about data mining and case-based reasoning for credit risk assessment at Swiss Bank Corporation (1994/95).
  • Hydrology: In an informal cooperation with the University of Kaiserslautern, Fachgebiet Wasserwirtschaft (Water Resource Management), we investigated the use of fuzzy-constraints and heuristic search for improving infiltration models (1996/97).
  • Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS): In cooperation with the University of Karlsruhe, Institut für Mikrorechner und Automation (IMA), we investigated the use of knowledge representation and knowledge evolution methods for ECBS (1995/96).

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