Distributed Information Systems Laboratory LSIR

recent talks

Open Sensor Networks for Air Quality Monitoring, Keynote talk at the The Fourth International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing, IQ2S 2012, Lugano, Switzerland, March 19, 2012.
Emergent semantics: a socio-technical perspective, Keynote talk at the The Sixth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2012), , Delft, The Netherlands, March 15-16, 2012.

Talks - Keynotes and Invited

Open Sensor Networks for Air Quality Monitoring, Keynote talk at the The Fourth International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing, IQ2S 2012, Lugano, Switzerland, March 19, 2012.
Emergent semantics: a socio-technical perspective, Keynote talk at the The Sixth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2012), , Delft, The Netherlands, March 15-16, 2012.
OpenSense: Open sensor networks for air quality monitoring, Keynote talk at the ISSNIP 2011, Adelaide, Australia, November 2011.
Data Integration in a Networked World, Keynote talk at the BNCOD 2011, Manchester, UK, July 2011.
Catch me, if you can: The long path from reputation to trust, Keynote talk at the SocInfo 2010, Vienna, Austria, October 2010.
Swiss Experiment: “Infrastructures for a Smart Earth”, ASUT Seminar 2009, Bern, Switzerland, 2009.
Swiss Experiment: From Wireless Sensor Networks to E-Science, UMIC Distinguished Lecture, RWTH Aachen, January 2008 (similar keynotes I gave also at BDA 2008 and DMSN 2009).
Peer-to-peer Web Retrieval, Keynote talk at the P2P 2007, Galway, September 2007.
Smart Earth: From Pervasive Observation to Trusted Information , Keynote talk at the MDM 2007, Mannheim, May 2007 (similar keynotes I gave also at three national conferences, KiVS 2007, SEBD 2007, and ConTel 2007).
Structure and Dynamics of Emergent Semantics Systems, Keynote talk at the ICAC 2006, Dublin, June 2006 and GCC, Guilin, China, October2006.
Unleashing the Power of Wireless Networks through Information Sharing in the Sensor Internet, Keynote talk at the EWSN 2006, Zürich, February 2006.
On the Convergence of Structured Search, Information Retrieval and Trust Management in Distributed Systems , Invited talk at the MATES conference in Koblenz, Germany, September 2005.
Managing Trust in Distributed Environments, was given as a keynote talk at the ICPS 2005 conference in Santorini, Greece, July 2005, and the DBISP2P 2005 workshop in Trondheim, Norway, September 2005.
Dynamics of Self-Organized P2P Data Management Systems, was given as invited talk at Intel Research Labs, Berkeley, and DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Munich, 2005.
Emergent Semantics, Invited talk at the ICSWN 2004 conference in Paris.
Self-organization in Peer-2-Peer Data Management, Invited talk at the DELOS workshop 2004 in Sardinia, and as a keynote at the MMAPS workshop in Zürich, September 2004.
Self-organizing Distributed Data Access
I gave this talk initially at the NCCR project workshop on February 2003 in Zürich. Extended version were presented at the GI workshop "Qualität in Peer-to-Peer Netzen", September 2003, in Darmstadt, at the Technical University of Berlin, at the University of San Sebastian and the Torino Thematic Institute on Complex Systems in October 2003, and at the DAGSTUHL seminar on P2P systems in 2004.
Selforganizing Information Systems
This was my inaugural lecture at EPFL in July 2002. I gave this talk in 2002 subsequently also at CERN in Geneva, University of Karlsruhe, University of Hannover and as an invited talk at the AP2PC Workshop in Bologna, 2002.

Tutorials

Semantic Overlay Networks, tutorial at the VLDB 2005, Trondheim, Norway.
Tutorial - P2P Information Systems
This tutorial was presented at ICDE 2002 and in a shorter version at WDAS 2003 in Paris.