Prof. Dr. Birgitta König-Ries

Professional Activities

really outdated, will be updated when I am less busy (whenever that will be the case ….)

• PC-Co-Chair European Conference on Webservices (ECOWS), Halle, 2007
• Workshop Chair Intl. Conf on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Mannheim, 2007.
• Co-Chair  Conference “Mobilität und Mobile Informationssysteme“ 2006, 2007, 2009.
• Organisation of Dagstuhl Seminar „Uncertainty Management in Information Systems“, Oktober 2008 (with Volker Markl, Maurice van Keulen, Christoph Koch, Heinz Schweppe, Peter Lockemann)
• Organisation of Dagstuhl Seminar “Mobile Information Management”, Oktober 2004 (with Margaret Dunham, Evaggelia Pitoura, Peter Reiher, Can Türker)
• Organisation of GI Dagstuhl Research Seminar “Mobile Application Development” (with Susanne Boll and Daniela Nicklas), 2007
• Workshop Co-Chair RoSOC-M (part of MDM 08)
• Workshop Co-Chair “Workshop on Mobile Services and Ontologies“ (part of MDM 2006)
• Program Committee Co-Chair EDBT Workshop Pervasive Information Management, EDBT 2004 (with Can Türker) and 2006 (with Can Türker and Hagen Höpfner)
• Program Committee Co-Chair NSF Workshop on an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems, 15. Oktober 2001, Scottsdale, Arizona.
• Member of the Program Committee of (selection)
  • MDM 2009
  • International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology, 2009
  • PDP 2009
  • CollaborateCom 2007, 2008
  • AP2PC 07, 08 (part of  AAMAS),
  • APIS 08 (part of CAISE)
  • MobiDE 07
  • TWUC 07
  • VLDB PhD Workshop 2007
  • ICDE 2007
  • BTW 2007, 2009
  • WI 2007,2009
  • MCISE 2007
  • ECOWS 2005, 2006, 2008
  • Mobile Commerce Technologien und Anwendungen, Augsburg, 2005
  • Intl. Workshop on Theory Building and Formal Methods in Electronic/Mobile Commerce (TheFormEMC), 2004, 2006.
  • Intl. Conference on Mobile Multimedia (MoMM), 2004, 2006, 2008
  • IIT 2006
  • APUC 2006
  • Intl. Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing (IWUC 2004, 2008) (part of ICEIS)
  • Intl. Workshop on Wireless Information Systems (WIS 2003, 2004, 2005) (part of ICEIS)
  • all nine Workshops of the  GI Arbeitskreis Mobile Datenbanken und Informationssysteme

• Member of the Editorial Board Computer Science – Research and Development
• Guest Editor of special issues
  • International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS): Mobile Services and Ontologies (with Christoph Bussler, Dumitru Roman, Jari Veijalainen)
  • Computer Science – Research and Development: Web Services – Infrastructure and Architecture (with Claus Pahl, in preparation)
  • It&ti: Mobile Application Development (in preparation)
• Reviews for  numerous conferences  and Journals

• Chair of  GI Arbeitskreises „Mobile Datenbanken und Informationssysteme“ (2003-2005)
• Co-Chair of  GI Fachgruppe „Mobilität und Mobile Informationssysteme“ (Special Interest Group on Mobility and Mobile Information Systems of the German Computer Science Society)
• Head of the Institute of Computer Science at FSU Jena (04/06 – 03/08)
• Chair of the universitywide priority research area  „Analysis and Management of Complex Systems“ (since 02/08)
• Mentor at  Cybermentor (a program to foster interest in STEM in girls aged 11 to 18)
• Reviewer for Grace Hopper Celebration Travel Grants 2008
• Member of  GI and ACM