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Contact

address: Lehrstuhl Informatik 5
RWTH Aachen
Ahornstr. 55
52056 Aachen, Germany

email: quix@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
phone: +49 / 241 / 80 215 11
fax: +49 / 241 / 80 22321
room: 6234, 2nd floor, building: E2 (view out of my office)

Christoph Quix is an assistant professor in the Information Systems Group (Informatik 5) of RWTH Aachen University, Germany, where he also received his Ph.D. degree in computer science in 2003. His research focuses on metadata management, data integration, and semantic web technologies. He has about 40 publications in scientific journals and international conferences. In 2004, he visited the group of Phil Bernstein at Microsoft Research to work on model management and schema matching. He is also scientific manager of the Aachen Center for Software Concepts (ZfS Aachen), an initiative of Microsoft to support small and medium-sized companies in Germany.

Research Interests

bulletModel Management
bulletPeer-to-Peer Information Management (in the context of the cluster of excellence UMIC)
bulletMetadata Repositories (ConceptBase)
bulletSemantic Web Technologies (SEWASIE)
bulletData Warehousing (DWQ)
bulletElectronic Commerce (MEMO)
bulletWeb Applications: XML & Java and related stuff
bulletMy PhD thesis on Metadata Management for Quality-oriented Information Logistics in Data Warehouse Systems (in german)
bulletView Maintenance (my diploma thesis: View Maintenance and Change Notification for Application Programs in Deductive Object Bases) (in german)

Publications

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Conference Papers and Journal Articles

bulletSearch for papers in the publications database
bulletMy page at DBLP (mirror in Aachen)
 
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Books

I have also contributed to two books on Data Warehouses:

bulletM. Jarke, M. Lenzerini, Y. Vassiliou, P. Vassiliadis: 
Fundamentals of Data Warehouses 
Springer-Verlag, 1999. 
bulletChapter 1: Data Warehouse Practice: An Overview 
bulletChapter 7: Metadata and Data Warehouse Quality
bulletA. Bauer, H. Günzel (eds): 
Data Warehouse Systeme - Architektur, Entwicklung, Anwendung
dpunkt.verlag, 2000 (in german)
bulletChapter 2 and 3 on  Data Quality and Data Loading

Reviews

I have made reviews for the following journals, conferences, and workshops:

bulletConferences and Workshops:
bulletECIS 2007: 15th European Conference on Information Systems
bulletSWAE 2007: International Workshop on Semantic Web Architectures For Enterprises
bulletAIMSA 2004 & 2006: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications
bulletISWC 2003: 2nd International Semantic Web Conference
bulletI3E 2001: First IFIP conference on e-commerce, e-business, and e-government (E-Models Minitrack)
bullet14th Bled Electronic Commerce Conference e-Everything
bullet DMDW 2001: 3rd International Workshop on Design and Management of Data Warehouses (program committee member)
bulletICEIS 2001 and 2002: International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
bulletIRMA 2001: Information Resources Management Association International Conference
bulletWITS 97: Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems
bulletJournals:
bulletData & Knowledge Engineering
bulletInformation Systems: Special Issue on Data Extraction, Cleaning, and Reconciliation
bullet International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO)
bulletInternational Journal of Cooperative Information Systems: Special Issue on Design and Management of Data Warehouses
bulletInformation and Software Technology

Organisation

I contributed to the organisation of the following events:

bulletBTW 2007: 12. GI-Fachtagung für Datenbanksysteme in Business, Technologie und Web (German database conference, chair of organising committee)
bulletRSEEM 01: Eighth Research Symposium on Emerging Electronic Markets
bulletLAP 2001: The Sixth International Workshop on the Language-Action Perspective on Communication Modelling (organising committee)
bulletLAP 2000: The Fifth International Workshop on the Language-Action Perspective on Communication Modelling (organising committee)
bulletVLDB 1994: 20th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (assistant of program chair M. Jarke)
bulletEDBT 1994: 4th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (assistant of program chair M. Jarke)
bulletCoopIS 94: Second International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (assistant of program co-chair M. Jarke)

Teaching

Lectures

bulletAdvanced Data Models (SS 2008)
bulletEinführung in Datenbanken / Introduction to Database Systems (WS 2000/01, WS 2001/02, WS 2004/05, WS 2005/06, SS 2007)
bulletAlgorithmen und Datenstrukturen (SS 2005)
bulletImplementierung von Datenbanken/Implementation of Databases (SS 2004, WS 07/08)
bulletDokumentenmanagement (SS 2001 und SS 2002)
bulletInformatik für Naturwissenschaftler (WS 1998/99 und WS 1999/00)

Seminars

bulletModel Management  (WS 2006/07)
bulletData Integration in Life Science Informatics (WS 2005/06)
bulletAccenture Campus Challenge (SS 2005, SS 2006, SS 2007, SS 2008)
bullet Verteilte Datenbanken (SS 1999)

Lab Courses

bulletWeb-Basierte Software Entwicklung mit .NET (SS 2008)
bulletEinführung in die Personalwirtschaft mit SAP R/3 (April 2008)
bullet Development of Web Services with .NET Technologies (SS 2006)
bullet Entwicklung eines graphischen Editors für UML-Klassendiagramme in Java (WS 2005/06)
bulletModel Management (SS 2005)
bulletEntwurf und Implementierung eines elektronischen Marktplatzes / Design and Implementation of an Electronic Marketplace (SS 2002)
bullet Komponentenbasierte Entwicklung von Benutzerschnittstellen für Informationssysteme mit JAVA (SS 1998)
bullet Entwicklung von Benutzerschnittstellen für Informationssysteme mit JAVA (SS 1997)

Diploma Theses

I have supervised diploma and master theses in the areas of metadata management, data integration, semantic web, database technologies, and electronic commerce.

bulletRepresentation and Transformation of Mappings between Data Models (Yan Xu, 09/2007-03/2008)
bulletDevelopment of a Reference Database for Pilot Trials Regarding Innovative Medical Devices (Sandra Geisler, 06/2007-02/2008, in cooperation with Philips Research Labs in Aachen)
bulletA Framework for Personal Health Record Systems and Applications (Edwin Yaqub, 04-12/2007, in cooperation with Philips Research Labs in Aachen)
bulletModel Transformation using a Generic Meta Model (Huang Liang, 05-11/2007)
bulletComposition of Mappings for a Generic Meta Model (Yong Li, 07/2006-01/2007)
bulletSchema Management for Geographical Data (Linlin Cai, 06/2006-1/2007)
bulletGeneric Schema Merging based on Complex Mappings (Xiang Li, 06-12/2006)
bulletMatching Operators for Models represented in a Generic Meta Model (Hurshid Kadirov, 02-08/2006)
bulletLightweight Synchronization of Ontologies (Arun Sharma, 1-06/2006, in cooperation with Jérôme Euzenat from INRIA Rhône-Alpes in France)
bulletEntwurf und Implementierung einer semi-strukturierten Produkt- und Firmendatenbank für die Membrantechnik (Salah Benyassine, 12/2005-06/2006, in cooperation with Department of Chemical Engineering (IVT) of RWTH Aachen)
bulletEntwicklung und Bewertung einer serviceorientierten Architektur zur Integration von Geschäftsprozessen (Inna Filimonov, 12/2005-06/2006) in cooperation with Dr. Weigandt Software und Systeme GmbH)
bulletImproving Schema Matching by Exploiting Semantic Information (Tian Gan, 5-11/2005)
bulletOntologie-basierte Integration von semistrukturierten Daten (Octavian Müller, 3-9/2005)
bulletBestimmung relevanter Datenquellen mittels Ontologien im Semantic Web (Thorsten Ottmann, 7/2003-1/2004)
bulletKonzeption und Implementierung eines Werkzeugs zum Data Mining-basierten Datenqualitätsmanagement (Dominik Lübbers, 10/2001-5/2002, in cooperation with DaimlerChrysler Research)
bulletAn Electronic Business-to-Business Negotiation System (Huayao Yang, 10/2000-4/2001)
bulletInkrementelle Sichtenwartung von XML-Dokumenten in einem Metadatenbanksystem (Stefan Krückel, 3-9/2000)
bulletIntegration of External Object Services into a Deductive Object-Oriented Database (Unmesh Kulkarni, Master Thesis, 8/1999-2/2000)
bulletIntegration und Darstellung von externen Datenquellen in einem Metadatenbanksystem (Hua Wang, 2/1999-8/1999)
bulletAktualisierung von Datenbanken durch externe Sichten mit asynchronen Transaktionen (Guido Blees, 6-12/1998)
bulletEntwicklung eines CAD gesteuerten Informationssystems für raumbedeutsame Vorhaben (Bernd Cohnen, 12/1997-6/1998)
bulletSichtenwartung in einer Data Warehouse Umgebung (Dirk Lehmann, 5-11/1997)
bulletMeine eigene Diplomarbeit: Sichtenwartung und Änderungsnotifikation für Anwendungsprogramme in deduktiven Objektbanken (Christoph Quix, 1-7/1996)
Updated: 11.06.08
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