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Karl Aberer Professor PhD (ETHZ, 1991) web site: http://lsirpeople.epfl.ch/aberer/ office(s): BC108 phone(s): [+41 21 69] 34679,38106,34318 BIOGRAPHY Karl Aberer received his PhD in mathematics in 1991 from the ETH Zürich. From 1991 to 1992 he was postdoctoral fellow at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1992, he joined the Integrated Publication and Information Systems institute (IPSI) of GMD in Germany, where he was leading the research division Open Adaptive Information Management Systems. In 2000 he joined EPFL as full professor. Since 2005 he is the director of the Swiss National Research Center for Mobile Information and Communication Systems (NCCR-MICS, www.mics.ch). He is member of the editorial boards of VLDB Journal, ACM Transaction on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems and World Wide Web Journal. He is also consulting for the Swiss government in research and science policy as a member of the Swiss Research and Technology Council (SWTR). MAIN PUBLICATIONS K. Aberer, P. Cudré-Mauroux, and M. Hauswirth. Start making sense: The Chatty Web approach for global semantic agreements. Journal of Web Semantics, 1(1):89-114, 2003. [ DOI | Details ] G. Skobeltsyn, T. Luu, I. Podnar Zarko, M. Rajman, and K. Aberer. Web Text Retrieval with a P2P Query-Driven Index. In The 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, pages 679-686, 2007. [ Details | Full Text | Link ] K. Aberer and Z. Despotovic. Managing Trust in a Peer-2-Peer Information System. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2001), 2001. [ Details | Full Text ] CURRENT WORK Peer-to-peer systems: work on theoretical foundations (www.evergrow.org), systems implementation (www.p-grid.org) peer-to-peer retrieval (www.alvis.info) and trust management. Semantic interoperability in loosely coupled information systems: work on theoretical foundations (Emergent Semantics), systems implementation (Grid-Vine) and applications such as the semantic social desktop (nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org) Sensor data management: work on systems implementation (Global Sensor Networks, gsn.sourceforge.net) and applications in environmental monitoring (www.swiss-experiment.ch) Karl Aberer's research is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the European Commission, Microsoft Research and NTT Docomo. MISSION Karl Aberer works on foundations, algorithms and infrastructures for distributed information management, including peer-to-peer overlay networks, semantic interoperability, trust management and applications to scientific and sensor data management. His particular interest is on decentralized system architectures, self-organization mechanisms and emergent structures in decentralized information systems.

Skills Data integration, Peer-to-peer systems, World Wide Web, Sensor data management Teaching Communication Systems Distributed information systems [en] (SSC SMTE SSIE SIN) Phd programs Computer, Communication and Information Sciences Phd Students Arion Petre Alexandru Bonvin Nicolas Catasta Michele Eberle Julien Guo Tian Hunkeler Urs Narendula Rammohan Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung Olteanu Alexandra Riahi Mehdi Sathe Saket Wijaya Tri Kurniawan Yerva Surender Reddy