Cottbus Tech Balance of Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Bernhard Thalheim

Chair of Database and Information Systems at Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus (BTU Cottbus)
(or in better English: Cottbus Tech)
during the terms beginning with summer term 1993 and ending with summer term 2003
Balance of the activities of the chair at Cottbus Tech
  1. International activities
    1. Chair or Co-Chair of 11 international conferences
    2. Editor of 13 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. Founder of the German Chapter of DAMA International
    6. Membership in program committees of more than 120 international conferences
  2. Publications
    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 during these 21 terms
      227 reviewed papers
      (1993: 13; 1994: 19; 1995: 17; 1996: 23; 1997: 26; 1998: 24; 1999: 26; 2000: 22; 2001: 13; 2002: 21; 2003: 23)
      in international conferences, journals and books
    5. 9 tutorials at international conferences
  3. Projects
    1. No term without projects of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
    2. 39 projects 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 aiming in development of large websites
    4. Two BMBF projects
    5. Berlin-Brandenburg Graduate school "Distributed information systems" (1996-)
    6. Innovation college on Environmental sciences (1994-1999)
  4. Teaching activities
    1. Courses in databases technology within the CS and IMT study programs:
      Introduction to database systems, Information systems development, Database programming, Database and information systems theory, Applications of information systems, Information services
    2. Courses in the undergraduate program of the CS and IMT study program
    3. Courses and seminars in artificial intelligence within the CS and IMT study programs:
      Artificial intelligence, Non-classical logics, Logic programming, Data mining, Information discovery and extraction
    4. Courses in web information technology within the CS and IMT study programs at BTU Cottbus and further at Klagenfurt, Tampere and other universities in Europe and America:
      Systematic development of websites, Website programming, Scripting languages, Middleware technology, Web databases, Interactive information systems
    5. Courses in other study programs at Cottbus Tech
    6. A humorous last term lecture has been given for university auditory at each term
  5. Activities in administration or Brandenburg or Germany
    1. Chair (2000-2002) or member (1994-2002) of the academic senate of BTU Cottbus
    2. Dean (1996-1999) of the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Science and Computer Science
    3. Head (1998-2001) of the Institute of Computer Science of BTU Cottbus
    4. Founder and head of the Cottbus chapter of the German Computer Science society
    5. Member of supervisory board of several German companies and of the Brandenburg Technology Foundation
    6. Member in German committees of several ministries of the German and Brandenburg government
  6. 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 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
Due to my change of affiliation you will find the actual information at Kiel