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Annual Report for Academic Year 2008 – 2009
Informatik 5Information Systems
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Professors:
Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Matthias JarkeProf. Gerhard Lakemeyer, Ph.D.Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas BerlageProf. Wolfgang Prinz, Ph.D.Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Rose
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Secretaries:
Gabriele HoeppermannsDaniele Glöckner Tel: (0241) 80-21501Fax: (0241) 80-22321E-mail: sekris@dbis.rwth-aachen.deWWW: http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de
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Researchers:
Elisabeth Birk Sebastian BrandtYiwei CaoMohamed Amine ChattiSandra Geisler Sukeshini Grandhi (since 24.09.2009)Anna Hannemann (ne Glukhova)Matthias Häusler (since 04.05.2009)Jessica Huster (since 15.05.2009)David KenscheDr. Ralf KlammaDejan Kovachev (since 01.05.2009)Stefan Kreutter (since 01.01.2009)Xiang LiDominik Lübbers (since 02.06.2009)Zinayida PetrushynaManh Cuong PhamDr. Christoph QuixDr. Jürgen RappKhaled Rashed
 
Dominik Renzel (since 16.03.2009)Dominik Schmitz (since 01.05.200Dr. Satish Srirama (until 31.07.2009)Yao Wang (since 15.04.2009)Dietlind Zühlke (since 01.04.2009)
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Visiting Lecturers:
Dr. Wolfgang Broll, Fraunhofer FITStefan Hirschmeier, Fraunhofer FIT (until 31.03.2009)
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Technical Staff:
Tatiana LiberzonReinhard LindeDaniel Plötzer 
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Student Researchers:
Martin Bachwerk, Aleksandar Bojinovic, Xi Chen, NielsDrobek, Darko Dugosija, Martin Frericks, Adam Gasior,Marcus Gelderie, Ahmet Goer, Christian Haasler, GeorgHackenberg, Stephan Hackenbracht, Michael Hackstein,Andreas Hahne, Christian Hocken, Zille Huma, Holger Janßen,Christian Kalla, Florian Linke, Can Liu, Tim Niemüller, Tomas Novotny, Sebastian Rüsche, Patrick Selders, Leszek Seweryn,Patrick Schlebusch, Christoph Schwering, David Sosnitza,Quan Tran, Edwin Yaqub, Ming Zhang, Ziquan Zhu
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Cooperation Partners:
aiXtrusion GmbH, Daimler AG, Ericsson Eurolabs, EuropeanMicrosoft Innovation Center Aachen, European Schoolnet,Feuerwehr Düsseldorf, IBM Zurich Labs, IKV Aachen, InformGmbH, Microsoft Deutschland GmbH, European PhilipsResearch, SAP AG, T-Systems GEI Aachen, WZL Aachen
 
Overview
Today, the field of Information Systems includes not just structured databases, but at leastequally important the semi-structured and unstructured data in the World Wide Web. TheChair Informatik 5 addresses both domains, with the management of so-called metadata (dataabout data) in the kernel of its research interests. Current major themes include mobile webservices and applications, metadata model management, and technology enhanced learning.The academic year 2008-2009 has been extremely busy for us. After ten years of funding, theAachen-Bonn-Cologne SFB 427 “Media and Cultural Communication” was completedsuccessfully in December 2008. In 2009, Prof. Jarke was elected vice coordinator of theexcellence cluster UMIC (Ultra-High speed Mobile Information and Communication) inwhich we participate with two major projects and a postdoc. In addition to continuing theDFG-funded requirements engineering project CONTici jointly with four other NRWuniversities, two large European projects on technology enhanced learning began. Onefocuses on Responsive Open Learning Environments (ROLE), and the other supports theEuropean Schoolnet for Teachers’ Lifelong Learning Networks (TeLLNet), a cooperationnetwork of over 45.000 schools. The subgroup of Prof. Berlage secured the new ExPrimageBMBF project in medical informatics. Smaller projects were also started in cultural heritage(with Harokopio University, Greece), on model-based data integration (with Technion, Israel),and on model-based information integration in mechanical engineering (RWTH Pathfinder  project with WZL and PLT). Within the university-wide future concept “RWTH-2020:Meeting Global Challenges”, we continued with the strategic activity “InternationalRecruiting” and started a junior research group on “Natural Media” jointly with colleaguesfrom the Humanities and from Medicine within RWTH Aachen HumTec initiative. Withinthe Future Concept, we also coordinate the RWTH-wide strategic activities on InternationalRecruiting. Last but not least, the cooperation with Ericsson Eurolabs in the field of mobileweb services was complemented by a major data integration and analysis project within theGerman national CoCar initiative.Informatik 5 organized the 8
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International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL’09)in Aachen with over 150 participants. We also co-organized a Dagstuhl Perspective Seminar on High-Impact Requirements Engineering, the European Summer School on TechnologyEnhanced Learning in Slovakia, and the 11
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International Conference on Mobile Interaction(MobileHCI’09) in Bonn.In terms of teaching, two large undergraduate courses with a total of well over 400 studentswere taught in the summer semester 2009 alone, leading to heavy teaching load on top of thespecialist courses and seminars offered by the group. We also were among the first fiveuniversities in Europe to introduce a focused lecture program on the new field of WebScience. Another noteworthy teaching-related activity concerned the accreditation of theBachelor program in ICT for Business and Engineering at the German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech).Informatik 5 cooperates closely with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied InformationTechnology (FIT) of which Prof. Jarke is Executive Director and Deputy Chairman of theFraunhofer ICT group with 16 institutes and over 2000 researchers. Two FIT area managers,Prof. Wolfgang Prinz and Prof. Thomas Berlage, hold cross-appointments as AssociateProfessors in Informatik 5. Prof. Jarke is also one of the Founding Directors of the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT). Within B-IT, a third joint professorship has been established and filled with Prof. Thomas Rose. The new B-ITResearch School for doctoral training funded by the NRW State Government started its
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