Sören Auer
Dr. rer. nat. Dipl.-Math.
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Database Group at University of Pennsylvania and Business Information Systems / University of Leipzig.
RDF SummaryContact
Database Group, Room GRW 258 Computer and Information Science Department University of Pennsylvania 3330 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 Phone: +1 (610) 804-5142 Fax: +1 (215) 898-0587 Email: auer@seas.upenn.edu |
Betriebliche Informationssysteme, Raum 5-52 Institut für Informatik (IfI) Universität Leipzig Augustusplatz 10-11 04109 Leipzig Phone: +49 (341) 97-32367 Fax: +49 (341) 97-32329 Email: auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de |
Research
Research Interests
- Knowledge Representation and Management, in particular agile, light-weight methodologies and social semantic collaboration
- Semantic Web, in particular the terminological Knowledge Representation standards RDF, RDF-Schema, OWL (W3C)
- Script languages and agile methodologies and tools (Wikis, eXtreme Programming): SemanticScripting.org
- Database and XML technologies
Conferences / Workshops
Some recent conferences / workshops in which I participate:- Conference on Social Semantic Web co-located with SABRE - Software, Agents and Services for Business, Research, and E-Sciences, Leipzig, 24.-28. September, 2007
- AST 2007 - Applications of Semantic Technologies
- I-Semantics 2007 Special Track Social Semantic Desktop
- 3rd Scripting for the Semantic Web at European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007)
- Workshop on Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge at 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007) Banff, Canada, May 8, 2007.
- Semantic Desktop and Social Semantic Collaboration Workshop at the International Semantic Web Conference, 5 November 2006, Athens, GA, USA
- 2nd Workshop on Semantic Wikis: WibKE2006: Wiki-based Knowledge Engineering at WikiSym 2006 - International Symposium on Wikis, August 21-23, 2006, Odense, Denmark
- SemWiki2006 - From Wiki to Semantics at European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006)
- 1st International Workshop on Semantic Technologies in Collaborative Applications STICA 06 at 15th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises
Projects
- dbpedia.org - community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web
- POWL - Platform for Semantic Web (Application) Development, Open-Source Software
- OntoWiki - a social, semantic collaboration plattform based on Powl
- XML2OWL - transforming XML documents into OWL using XSLT, Interactive demonstrator available at http://xml2owl.sf.net
- 3ba.se - Social Semantic Collaboration Portal
- Research projects:
- SoftWiki - End-user driven, distributed Requirements Engineering for agile, evolutionary Software Development
BmbF funded, starting 2006) - SHARQ (Sharing Heterogeneous, Autonomous Resources and Queries)
- SoftWiki - End-user driven, distributed Requirements Engineering for agile, evolutionary Software Development
Publications
2007
- Auer, S.; Lehmann, J.: What have Innsbruck and Leipzig in common? Extracting Semantics from Wiki Content. accepted at ESWC 2007
2006
- Decker, S.; Park, J.; Sauermann, L.; Auer, S.; Handschuh, S.:
Proceedings of the Semantic Desktop and Social Semantic Collaboration
Workshop (SemDesk 2006)
located at 5th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2005, 6th November 2006, Athens, GA, USA, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-202. - Ahtisham, A.; Herrmann, M.; Auer, S.; Golden, R.: Real-life SOA Experiences and an Approach Towards Semantic SOA.
Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on SOA and Web Services in conjunction with ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, October 22-26, Portland, Oregon, USA, ISBN 82-997428-0-3, pp. 72-81. - Auer, S.; Dietzold, S.; Riechert, T.: OntoWiki - A Tool for Social, Semantic Collaboration.
In I. Cruz et al. (Eds.): Proceedings of 5th International Semantic Web Conference, Nov 5th-9th, Athens, GA, USA, LNCS 4273, pp. 736.749, 2006. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006. - Auer, S.; Riechert, T.; Fährich, K.-P.: SoftWiki - Agiles Requirements-Engineering für Softwareprojekte mit einer großen Anzahl verteilter Stakeholder.
accepted at GeNeMe'06 - Gemeinschaft in neuen Medien, 29. Sep. 2006, Dresden, Germany. - Dietzold, S.; Auer, S.; Riechert, T.: Kolloborative Wissensarbeit mit OntoWiki
Workshop Bildung von Sozialen Netzwerken in Anwendungen der "Social Software", 6. 10. 2006, Dresden, Germany. - Kunze, J.; Riechert, T.; Auer, S.: Eine Schnittstelle für Arztpraxisdaten mittels einer Ontologie auf Basis von HL7 Version 3.
accepted at XML-Tage, Berlin, 25.-27. Sep. 2006. - Ahtisham, A.; Auer, S.; Shen, J.; Hermann, M.: Expressing Business Process Models as OWL-S Ontologies
Grid and Peer-to-Peer based Workflows (GPWW), September 4th 2006, Vienna, Austria. In J. Eder, S. Dustdar et al. (Eds.): BPM 2006 Workshops, LNCS 4103, 2006. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006. - Auer, S.; Fährich, K.-P.: SoftWiki - Agiles Requirements-Engineering für Softwareprojekte mit einer großen Anzahl verteilter Stakeholder.
Statuskonferenz Forschungsoffensive "Software Engineering 2006", 26.-28. Juni 2006, Leipzig. - Auer, S.; Herre, H.: A Versioning and Evolution Framework for RDF Knowledge Bases.
to appear in proceedings of Sixth International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference - Perspectives of System Informatics, 27-30 June 2006, Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, Russia. - Auer, S.: RapidOWL - an Agile Knowledge Engineering Methodology.
to appear in proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Semantic Technologies in Collaborative Applications (STICA 06) - Dietzold, S.; Auer, S.: Access Control on RDF Triple Stores from a Semantic Wiki Perspective.
Proc. of Scripting for the Semantic Web Workshop at the ESWC, Budva, Montenegro, June 12, 2006, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-181/paper1.pdf - Auer, S.; Bizer, C.; Miller; L. (eds.): Scripting for the Semantic Web 2006.
Proc. of ESWC'06 Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web (SFSW'05), Budva, Montenegro, June 12, 2006,
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-181/.
2005
- Aumueller, D.; Auer, S.: Towards a Semantic Wiki Experience - Desktop Integration and Interactivity in WikSAR.
Proc. of 1st Workshop on The Semantic Desktop - Next Generation Personal Information Management and Collaboration Infrastructure, Galway, Ireland, Nov. 6th, 2005. - Auer, S.; Bizer, C.; Miller; L. (eds.): Scripting for the Semantic Web 2005.
Proc. 1st Intl. Workshop Scripting for the Semantic Web (SFSW'05), Hersonissos, Greece, May 30, 2005,
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-135/. - Auer, S.: Powl - A Web Based Platform for Collaborative Semantic Web Development.
Proc. of 1st Workshop Workshop Scripting for the Semantic Web (SFSW'05), Hersonissos, Greece, May 30, 2005,
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-135/paper9.pdf. - Bohring, H.; Auer, S.: Mapping XML to OWL Ontologies.
To appear in Proceedings of 13. Leipziger Informatik-Tage (LIT 2005), Sep. 21-23, 2005, Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI). - Auer, S.; Pieterse, B.: "Vernetzte Kirche": Building a Semantic Web
To appear in Proceedings of ISWC Workshop Semantic Web Case Studies and Best Practices for eBusiness (SWCASE05), Galway, Ireland, 2005 Nov. 7th
2004
- Auer, S.; Burek, P.; Grawe, T.: Knowledge Engineering for IT-based Services
Proceedings of I-KNOW '04 - 4th International Conference on Knowledge Management. - Auer, S.; Böhm, K., Thrähnert, M.: Enhancing Software Engineering with Ontological Knowledge
in Fähnrich, K.-P.; Meiren, T. (Hrsg.): Computer Aided Engineering für IT-basierte Dienstleistungen; ISBN: 3-934178-39-1; 2004 - Beck, N.; Auer, S.: Semantic Web Content Management
in Fähnrich, K.-P. (Hrsg.): Von e-Learning bis e-Payment : Das Internet als sicherer Marktplatz; ISBN: 3-898380-57-2; 2004
2003
- Auer, S.; Fähnrich K.-P.: A Strategy for Formal Service Product Model Specification.
Human Computer Interaction, International Proceedings. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. - Auer, S.; Fähnrich K.-P.: Product Models in Service Engineering.
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Production Research. - Auer, S.; Pfretzschner, P.: Strategies for Modelling and Representing Knowledge about Variant Rich Service Products
in Fähnrich, K.-P.; Herre, H.: Content- und Wissensmanagement; ISBN: 3-934178-26-X; 2003
2001
- Auer, S.: Towards the Clone of a Pseudovariety.
Diploma thesis at Institut for Algebra, Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Dresden
Teaching
Seminar:- WS05/06: Semantic Wiki
- WS04/05: Wissensrepräsentation für das Semantic Web und Anwendungen
- Service Engineering
- E-Business
- XML
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Supervision of diploma thesis and internships.
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