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Wolf-Tilo Balke

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Prof. Dr. Wolf-Tilo Balke


Institute Chair

Technische Universität Braunschweig
Institut für Informationssysteme
Mühlenpfordtstraße 23, 2.OG
D-38106 Braunschweig


Phone: +49 (531) 391 3271
Email: balke@ifis.cs.tu-bs.de
Room: 237

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Wolf-Tilo Balke holds the Chair for Information Systems at  TU Braunschweig since April 2008. Before that he was a the Associate Research Director at L3S Research Center in Hannover, Germany and a Research Fellow at University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA. For a short Curriculum Vitae see here.

Research Interests

-  Query Processing in Databases and Information Systems
-  User Preferences and Personalization
-  Cognitive User Modeling and Conceptualization
-  Peer-to-Peer Networks and Distributed Retrieval
-  Digital Libraries and Content Syndication
-  Multimedia Services, Web Services, and Mobile Computing

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Reviewer for several international journals including the VLDB Journal, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Elsevier Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE), Springer Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), Elsevier Information Processing Letters (IPL), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), Springer Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD), ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), Springer World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), Elsevier Journal of Web Semantics (JWS), Springer Journal on Data Semantics (JODS), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communication (JSAC), IEEE’s Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (T-IFS),  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE),  IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE Computer, and the Oxford University Press Computer Journal

PC member and/or session chair at several international conferences and workshops, recently e.g., ICDE 2006, EDBT 2006, WWW 2006, ISWC 2006, PREFERENCE 2006, CAMA 2006, SAMT 2006, BTW 2007, WWW 2007, P2P 2007, SAMT 2007, CAMA 2007, M-PREF 2007, PersDL 2007, EDBT 2008, ESWC 2008, WISE 2008, M-Pref 2008, ISWC 2008, PersDL 2008, P2P 2008, EDBT 2009, ICDE 2009, WWW 2009, WISE 2009, SAMT 2009, ICDE 2010, WWW 2010, SIGMOD 2010, M-PREF 2010

Reviewer of grant proposals for the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMWF), and the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong

 

Publikationen
2010
Lofi C., Güntzer U., Balke W., "Efficient Computation of Trade-Off Skylines", 13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Lausanne, Switzerland, 03/2010. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml
Selke J., Lofi C., Balke W., "Highly Scalable Multiprocessing Algorithms for Preference-Based Database Retrieval", 15th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), Tsukuba, Japan, 04/2010. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml
2009
Tönnies S., Köhncke B., Hennig P., Balke W., " A Service Oriented Architecture for Personalized Rich Media Delivery ", IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC 2009), Bangalore, India, 09/2009. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: scc09.pdf 275.26 KB
Tönnies S., Balke W., " Using Semantic Technologies in Digital Libraries - A Roadmap to Quality Evaluation ", 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009), Corfu, Greece, 09/2009. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: ecdl09.pdf 452.12 KB
Cho S., Balke W., "Building an Efficient Preference XML Query Processor", 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2009. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: acmsac09.pdf 148.56 KB
Tönnies S., Köhncke B., Koepler O., Balke W., "Building Chemical Information Systems - the ViFaChem II Project", 13. GI-Fachtagung Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web, Münster, Germany, 03/2009. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: btw09.pdf 428.21 KB
Alrifai M., Dolog P., Balke W., Nejdl W., "Distributed Management of Concurrent Web Service Transactions", IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, vol. 2, no. 4: IEEE Computer Society, 2009. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: tsc_journal_paper_finalversion_v6.pdf 596.34 KB
Lofi C., Balke W., Güntzer U., "Efficient Skyline Refinement using Trade-Offs", 3rd International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), Fès, Morocco, IEEE, 04/2009. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: rcis09_final.pdf 540.78 KB
Cho S., Balke W., "Efficient Evaluation of Preference Query Processes Using Twig Caches", 3rd International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), Fès, Morocco, IEEE, 2009. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: RCIS09-twig cache.pdf 559.04 KB
Lofi C., Balke W., Güntzer U., "Efficient Skyline Refinement using Trade-Offs Respecting Don't Care Attributes", International Journal of Computer Science & Applications (IJCSA), vol. 6, no. 5, 10/2009. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: 09ijcsa_final.pdf 831.91 KB
Afzal M., Maurer H., Balke W., Kulathuramaiyer N., "Improving Citation Mining", 1st International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies (NDT 2009) , Ostrava, Czech Republic, IEEE, 2009. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: NDT09.pdf 741.51 KB
Koepler O., Balke W., Köhncke B., Tönnies S., "Perzonalised Information Spaces: Improved Access to Chemical Digital Libraries", 5th German Conference on Chemoinformatics, Goslar, Germany, 11/2009. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: chemoinfo2009.pdf 7.43 KB
Cho S., Balke W., "Relaxing XML Preference Queries for Cooperative Retrieval", 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Milan, Italy, Springer LNBIP, 2009. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: iceis09.pdf 560.16 KB
Tönnies S., Balke W., "User-centered Content Provisioning over Large Collections of eBooks", 2nd Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Collections , Corfu, Greece, Springer, 2009. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: books-online09.pdf 408.06 KB
2008
Diederich J., Balke W., "Automatically Created Concept Graphs using Descriptive Keywords in the Medical Domain", Methods of Information in Medicine (METHODS), vol. 47, no. 3: Schattauer, 2008. TaggedBibTexxml Download: methods08.pdf 310.74 KB
Lofi C., Güntzer U., Balke W., "Consistency Check Algorithms for Multi-Dimensional Preference Trade-Offs", International Journal of Computer Science & Applications (IJCSA), vol. 5, no. 3b, pp. 165 - 185, 2008. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: 08ijcsa_final_fixed.pdf 888.54 KB
Lofi C., Balke W., Güntzer U., "Efficiently Performing Consistency Checks for Multi-Dimensional Preference Trade-Offs", 2nd International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), Marrakech, Morocco, IEEE, 05/2009, 2008. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: 08rcis_camred.pdf 555.38 KB
Balke W., Selke J., "Exploiting Conceptual Knowledge for Querying Information Systems", International Conference on Philosophy's Relevance in Information Science (PRIS), Paderborn, Germany, 2008. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: pris08.pdf 428.49 KB
Kärger P., Olmedilla D., Balke W., "Exploiting Preferences for Minimal Credential Disclosure in Policy-Driven Trust Negotiations", 5th International Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM), Auckland, New Zealand, 2008. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: sdm08.pdf 328.37 KB
Diederich J., Balke W., "FecetedDBLP - Navigational Access for Digital Libraries", Bulletin of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL), vol. 4, no. 1, 2008. TaggedBibTexxml Download: tcdl08.pdf 111.9 KB
Brunkhorst I., Tönnies S., Balke W., "Multimedia Content Provisioning using Service Oriented Architectures", IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Bejing, China, 10/2008. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: icws08.pdf 442.21 KB
Lee J., You G., Hwang S., Selke J., Balke W., "Optimal Preference Elicitation for Skyline Queries over Categorical Domains", 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Turin, Italy, 07/2008. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: DEXA08-camera-ready.pdf 538.87 KB
Cho S., Balke W., "Order-Preserving Optimization of Twig Queries with Structural Preferences", International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS) , Coimbra, Portugal, 2008. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: IDEAS08.pdf 559.96 KB
Tönnies S., Köhncke B., Koepler O., Balke W., "Personalised Information spaces for Chemical Digital Libraries", 4th German Conference on Chemoinformatics, Goslar, Germany, 2008. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: cheminfo08.pdf 81.12 KB
Hwang S., Balke W., "Preference Query Formulation and Processing: Ranking and Skyline Query Approaches (Tutorial)", 13th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), New Delhi, India, 2008. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: dasfaa08.pdf 8.64 KB
Balke W., "Skyline Queries for Preference-Based Information Systems (Keynote)", 20th GI Workshop on Foundations of Databases (GVDB), Apolda, Germany, 2008. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: gvdb08.pdf 168.1 KB
Zaka B., Kulathuramaiyer N., Balke W., Maurer H., "Topic-Centered Aggregation of Presentations for Learning Object Repurposing", World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education (E-Learn), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2008. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: elearn08.pdf 410.94 KB
2007
Güntzer U., Balke W., "Consistently Adding Amalgamations to Preference Orders", 3rd Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (M-Pref), Vienna, Austria, 2007. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: mpref07.pdf 154.24 KB
Diederich J., Balke W., Thaden U., "Demonstrating the Semantic GrowBag: Automatically Creating Topic Facets for FacetedDBLP", ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2007. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: jcdl07.pdf 90.78 KB
Papapetrou O., Siberski W., Balke W., Nejdl W., "DHTs over Peer Clusters for Distributed Information Retrieval", 21st IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Niagara Falls, Canada, 2007. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: aina07.pdf 348.04 KB
Balke W., Lofi C., Güntzer U., "Eliciting Matters - Controlling Skyline Sizes by Incremental Integration of User Preferences", 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), Bangkok, Thailand, 2007. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: dasfaa07-camRed.pdf 393.17 KB
Iofciu T., Diederich J., Dolog P., Balke W., "ExpertFOAF Recommends Experts", 1st ExpertFinder Workshop, Berlin, Germany, 2007. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: expert07.pdf 54.95 KB
Balke W., Güntzer U., Siberski W., "Getting Prime Cuts from Skylines over Partially Ordered Domains", 12th GI-Fachtagung für Datenbanksysteme in Business, Technologie und Web (BTW), Aachen, Germany, 2007. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: btw07.pdf 342.21 KB
Balke W., Lofi C., Güntzer U., "Incremental Trade-Off Management for Preference Based Queries", International Journal of Computer Science & Applications (IJCSA), vol. 4, 06/2007. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: ijcsa_tradeoffs_final.pdf 572.96 KB
Alrifai M., Balke W., Dolog P., Nejdl W., "Nonblocking Scheduling for Web Service Transactions", 5th IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS), Halle (Saale), Germany, 2007. Abstract TaggedBibTexxml Download: ecows07.pdf 372.41 KB