Distributed Information Systems Laboratory LSIR

recent activities

General co-Chair, The Fourth International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2012), 5-7 December 2012, Lausanne, Switzerland.,
General co-Chair, 13th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2012), July 23-26, 2012, Bengaluru, India.
Director of the Swiss National Centre for Mobile Information and Communication Systems NCCR MICS since 2005.

Steering Committees

Steering Committee Member of the Social Informations Conference.
Steering Committee Member of the P2P Conference.
Steering Committee Member of the ICDE Conference.
Steering Committee Member of the AP2PC and DBISP2P workshops.

Conference Chairs

General co-Chair, The Fourth International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2012), 5-7 December 2012, Lausanne, Switzerland.,
General co-Chair, 13th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2012), July 23-26, 2012, Bengaluru, India.
General co-Chair, IFIP 2.6 - 2.12 First International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA 2011), June 29 - July 1, 2011, Campione d'Italia, Italy.
General co-Chair of the 11th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2010), Hong Kong, China, December 12-14, 2010.
General co-Chair of the 6th International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2010), Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 9-12, 2010.
Co-organizer of the Datgstuhl Seminar on Semantic Challenges in Sensor Networks, Dagstuhl, Germany, January 24-29, 2010.
PC co-Chair of the Ninth International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P2009), Seattle, Washington, USA , September 8-11, 2009.
PC co-Chair of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), Bexco/Busan, Korea, 2007.
PC co-Chair of the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2007), Vienna, Austria, 2007.
PC co-Chair of the The 2007 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2007), Hiroshima, Japan, January 15-19, 2007.
Tutorial Chair of the 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007) , Istanbul, Turkey, April 17-20, 2007.
PC co-Chair of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'06), Wuhan, China, November, 2006.
PC-co-Chair (Europe) of the 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06). Nara, Japan, May 9-12, 2006.
Vice Chair of the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Lisboa, Portugal, July 4-7, 2006.
PC co-Chair of the CIKM workshop on " Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer-Networks (P2PIR)", Bremen, Germany, November 4, 2005
PC-co-Chair (Europe) of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005), Tokyo, Japan, 2005.
PC-Chair of the 6th Workshop on Distributed Data and Structures (WDAS), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2004.
Vice Chair of the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04), Beijing, China, 2004.
PC-co-Chair of the 2nd Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing at the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference, New York, 2004.
PC-co-Chair of the Third International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC), New York, 2004.
Tutorial chair IEEE Conference on Electronic Commerce (CEC) , 2004.
PC-co-Chair 1st Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing at the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 2003
PC-co-Chair of the International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing, Berlin ( DBISP2P 2003 ), September 8, 2003 (collocated with VLDB-2003).
PC-co-Chair of the International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics ( ODBASE 2002 ), University of California, Irvine, October 28 - November 1, 2002
PC-co-Chair of the Minitrack Peer-2-Peer Ecommerce Systems and Applications, Software Technology Track of HICSS-35 and 36, 2002 and 2003.
Tutorial Chair of the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ( CIKM 2001 ), Atlanta, Georgia, November 5-10, 2001.
PC-co-Chair of the 9th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database Semantics ( DS-9 ), "Semantic Issues in E-commerce Systems, Hong Kong, April 24 -28, 2001.
PC-co-Chair of the 11th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Document management for data intensive business and scientific applications ( RIDE-DM'2001 ), Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, Heidelberg, Germany, April 1-2, 2001 .
PC-co-Chair and Organizer of the Minitrack "Novel Information Systems for Business To Business eCommerce", Software Technology Track of HICSS-34, 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2001.
Vice-Chair Parallel and Distributed Databases: 15th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering ( ICDE'99 ), Sydney, Australien, March 23 - 26, 1999.

Editorial Activity

Editorial Board Member of the World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ).
Editorial Board Member of ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) .
Editorial Board Member of Web Intelligence and Agent Systems ( WIAS ).
Editorial Board Member of the VLDB Journal .
Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management ( IJBPIM ).
Editorial Board Member of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (JSWIS)
Associate Editor of SIGMOD RECORD, responsible for book review column (2000 - 2004).
Guest Editor of the special section on Advanced XML Data Processing, SIGMOD RECORD, Volume 30, Number 3, September 2001.
Guest Editor of the special section on P2P data management, SIGMOD RECORD, Volume 32, Number 3, September 2003.
Guest Editor of special issue of Journal on Data Semantics VI on "Emergent semantics", LNCS, Volume 4090, 2006.
Guest Editor of special issue of Journal on Data Semantics I on "Emergent semantics", LNCS, Volume 4090, 2006.

Edited Volumes

Administrative

Director of the Swiss National Centre for Mobile Information and Commuication Systems NCCR MICS since 2005.
Member of the Swiss Research and Technology Council 2004 - 2011 (consults the Swiss Government with respect to science, technology policy and education).
Vicepresident of APLE (an EPFL-based organization for interaction with local industry).
Board member of the Global Computing Centre at EPFL.