| Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Johann Eder | ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
Johann Eder is full professor for Information and Communication Systems at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Since 2005 is he is vice president of the Austrian Science Funds (FWF), heading the department of natural sciences and technology.
The research interests of Prof. Eder are databases, information systems and knowledge engineering. He successfully directed several funded research projects on workflow management systems (leading to the creation of a spin-off company), on exception handling in workflow systems, time management in workflow systems, temporal data warehousing, application interoperability, information systems modelling, data management in biobanks, etc. He authored one book, edited 19 books/proceedings, special issues of journals and published more than 100 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He served in numerous program committees for international conferences (including CAiSE, ER, CoopIS, ICDE, BPM, IFIP WG8.1, DEXA, DAWAK, ADBIS) and as editor and referee for international journals and conferences (including ACM TODS, ACM TOIS, IEEE TKDE, Information Systems, DKE, Computer Journal, JCSE, JUCS).
Johann Eder received the degrees of Diplom-Ingenieur and Doctor of technical sciences from the University Linz, Austria. From 1985 till 1990 he was assistant professor at the University Klagenfurt. In 1990 he was visiting professor at the University of Hamburg. From 1990-1991 he was associate professor (tenured) at the University of Vienna. From 1991-2005 he held the position of a full professor for information and communication systems at University Klagenfurt and he chaired the Department of Informatics-Systems from 1994 till 2005. 2005-2007 he was full professor for informatics (workflow) at the University of Vienna. In 1998 he spent a sabbatical with AT&T Research Shannon Labs, USA.
Teaching:
Databases
Information Systems
Workflow & Webservice Composition
Interoperability
Research Topics:
Workflow Management Systems
Evolution of Databases and Information Systems
Temporal Data Warehouses
Data Management for Biobanks
Projects:
WS-Diamond
GATIB
BBMRI