Profile of Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Bernhard Thalheim

Associate Professor of Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
from summer term 1996 and ending with winter term 1997/98
Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Kuwait University
from summer term 1998 and ending with summer term 1990
Chair of Theoretical Computer Science at Rostock University
from winter term 1990/91 and ending with winter term 1992/93
Chair of Database and Information Systems at Cottbus Tech (BTU Cottbus)
from summer term 1993 and ending with summer term 2003
and now
Chair of the Information Systems Engineering at Kiel University
since winter term 2003/04
Activities of the chair
  1. Areas of competence
    1. Co-design of information systems structuring, functionality, distribution and interactivity
    2. Information-intensive web sites, including B2B, B2C, e-Learning, e-Community and Information sites
    3. Database and information systems theory
    4. Entity-relationship and other semantical database specification languages
    5. Tuning and performance improvement for large, complex database systems
    6. Information system integration
    7. Intelligent and adaptive content management systems
    8. Component-based database applications
    9. Methodologies of information systems development
  2. International activities
    1. Chair or Co-Chair of 15 international conferences (1987-2003)
    2. Editor of 17 international proceedings, mainly with Springer in the LNCS series
    3. Vice-Chair (1996-1998, 2002-) or Chair (1998-2000) of the Steering committee of the ER conferences
    4. Co-Founder and Steering Committee Co-Chair (1998-) of the FoIKS (Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems) conferences
    5. Co-Founder of the MFDBS (Mathematical Fundamentals of Database Systems) conferences (since 1992 part of the ICDT conference)
    6. Founder of the German Chapter of DAMA International
    7. Membership in program committees of more than 160 international conferences (1984-2003)
  3. Publications since 1993
    1. Each year at least one PhD at the chair
    2. First habilitation thesis of the BTU Cottbus
    3. One book on foundations of the entity-relationship model
    4. The team of the chair published between 1993 and 2003 227 reviewed papers in international conferences, journals and books
    5. 9 tutorials at international conferences
  4. Projects since 1993
    1. Since 1990 without interrupt a number of projects of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
    2. 39 projects (1993-2003) with industrial partners with an overall budget of more than 2mEuro
      project results have been presented at several fairs, e.g. CeBIT 1995, 1996, 1999, 2002
    3. More than 36 projects (1995-2003) aiming in development of large web sites in Germany and Austria
    4. Two BMBF projects (1993-1997, 2000-)
    5. Berlin-Brandenburg Graduate school "Distributed information systems" (1996-)
    6. Innovation college on Environmental sciences (1994-1999)
  5. Teaching activities since 1993
    1. Courses in databases technology within the CS study program at CAU Kiel:
      Information systems development
    2. Courses in databases technology within the CS and IMT study programs at BTU Cottbus:
      Introduction to database systems, Information systems development, Database programming, Database and information systems theory, Applications of information systems, Information services
    3. Courses in the undergraduate program of the CS and IMT study program at BTU Cottbus
    4. Courses and seminars in artificial intelligence within the CS and IMT study programs at BTU Cottbus:
      Artificial intelligence, Non-classical logics, Logic programming, Data mining, Information discovery and extraction
    5. Courses in web information technology within the CS and IMT study programs at BTU Cottbus and further at Klagenfurt, Tampere, Grenoble and other universities in Europe and America:
      Systematic development of web sites, Web site programming, Scripting languages, Middleware technology, Web databases, Interactive information systems
    6. Courses in other study programs at Cottbus Tech
    7. A humorous last term lecture has been given for university auditory at each term since 1990