[ Prof. Dr. Matthias Renz | Research | Teaching | Publications | Services | Links ]

Current Services (Selection)

• Program Co-Chair of the 20th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2015.
• Program Co-Chair of the 23th ACM SIGSPATIAL Int. Conf. on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS) 2015.
• General Co-Chair of the 2nd International ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Managing and Mining Enriched Geo-Spatial Data.

• Program Committee Memberships: VLDB 2016, MDM 2015, KDD 2015 ...

Services (history)

• Conference and Workshop Organization:
  • General Co-Chair:
    • 2nd International ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Managing and Mining Enriched Geo-Spatial Data (GeoRich’15) collocated with the 2015 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2015.
    • 1st International ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Managing and Mining Enriched Geo-Spatial Data (GeoRich’14) collocated with the 2014 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference, Snowbird, USA, 2014.
    • 13th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD'13), Munich, Germany, 2013.
    • 3rd International Workshop on Querying and Mining Uncertain Spatio-Temporal Data (QUeST'12) collocated with the 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), Redondo Beach, USA, 2012.
    • 2nd International Workshop on Querying and Mining Uncertain Spatio-Temporal Data (QUeST'11) collocated with the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), Chicago, USA, 2011.
    • 1st International Workshop on Querying and Mining Uncertain Spatio-Temporal Data (QUeST'09) collocated with the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), Seattle, USA, 2009.
  • Proceedings Co-Chair:
    • 22th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2014).
    • 21th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2013).
    • 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012).
  • Workshop Co-Chair:
    • 30th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2014).
  • Program Committee Membership:
    • ACM SIGMOD 2013, VLDB 2010/2013/2014, KDD 2012/2013/2014, ICDE 2012/2013/2014, MDM 2013/2014, MoDA 2013, DATA 2013, SISAP 2013, HealthGIS 2012, SUM 2012, GEOProcessing 2011, ECML/PKDD, 2011, SSTD 2011, WISE 2010, MDM 2010 (workshop), ACM GIS (SIGSPATIAL) 2010/2011/2012, CIKM 2010, SSTD 2009.
  • Reviewer for International Journals:
    • IEEE TKDE, KAIS, The VLDB Journal, ACM ToDS, Information Systems (IS), Information Sciences (INS), Geoinformatica (GeoInf), Information Processing Letters (IPL).
  • Reviewer for Funding Agencies:
    • VolkswagenStiftung, Alexander v. Humboldt Stiftung.

Membership

• since 2012:
  • Associate partner of GeoCrowd (European International Training Network (ITN)).
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• since 2011:
  • Member of the ArchaeoBioCenter at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
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  • Member of ABBY-Net, a network between universities and research institutes of both provinces Bavaria, Gemany and Alberta, Canada. This network involves researchers from several disciplines including Geology, Computer Science, electro engineering and energy- and environmental science.

International Prices and Awards

• Best Paper Award: 11th Int. Conf. on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'06), Singapore, Singapore, 2006.
• In "Microsoft Academic Search Ranking" listed as one of the 1% top researchers worldwide for both research areas "Datenbases" and "Data Mining" in consideration of the work of the last five years (source: Microsoft Academic Search, December 2012).
• Listed as one of the Most Prolific DBLP Authors. DBLP is the largest bibliography server for computer science.

Tutorials and Invited Talks

• • 2014
    • Tutorial: Reynold Cheng, Tobias Emrich, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Nikos Mamoulis, Matthias Renz, Goce Trajcevski, Andreas Züfle: Managing uncertainty in spatial and spatio-temporal data. ICDE 2014: 1302-1305
  • 2013
    • Seminar: “Modeling and Querying Uncertain Spatio-Temporal Data”. EECS Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, November 2013.
    • Seminar: “Modeling and Querying Uncertain Spatio-Temporal Data”. Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Oktober 2013.
    • Guest Lecture: “Modeling and Querying Uncertain Spatio-Temporal Data”. Spezielle Aspekte der Datenverwaltung: Spatial Databases, Institut für Informatik Database and Information Systems, Freie Universität Berlin, Februar 2013.
  • 2012
    • Tutorial: Renz M. and Züfle A.: Principles of Similarity Search and Spatial Query Processing and Advanced Techniques for Searching in Uncertain Location Data. GEOCROWD Summer School, Chania, Crete, Greece, June/July 2012.
  • 2011
    • Keynote "Similarity Search in Uncertain Databases: Techniques and New Trends". 1st Workshop on New Trends in Similarity Search, NTSS 2011, 14th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'11), Uppsala, Schweden, 2011.
  • 2010
    • Seminar talk "Advanced Techniques for Searching in Complex-Structured Data" at Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, September 2010.
    • Seminar talk at the Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California, USA, März 2010.
    • Tutorial: Reynold Cheng, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Renz: Similarity Search and Mining in Uncertain Databases. Tutorial at 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'10), Singapore, 2010.
    • Tutorial: Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kröger, Matthias Renz: Techniques for efficiently searching in spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal, and multimedia databases. Tutorial at 26th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'10), Long Beach, California, USA, 2010.
  • 2009
    • Keynote "Querying and Mining Uncertain Data: Methods, Applications, and Challenges". 1st ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Uncertain Data (U'09), 5th ACM SIGKDD Conference On Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-09), Paris, France, 2009.
    • Seminar talk at the Dagstuhl-Seminar Uncertainty Management in Information Systems, Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany, 2009.
  • 2008
    • Seminar talk "Managing and Mining Traffic in Road Networks" at Computational Transportation Science IGERT, University of Illinois at Chicago, November 2008.
    • Tutorial: Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kröger, Matthias Renz: Searching in Spatial, Temporal, Spatio-Temporal and Multimedia Database. Tutorial at 11th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD'09), Aalborg, Denmark, 2009.
    • Tutorial: Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kröger, Matthias Renz: Efficient Techniques for Similarity Search in Spatial, Temporal, and Multimedia Databases. Tutorial at Int. Conf. on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'09), Brisbane, Australia, 2009.

Cooperations with

• Prof. Nikos Mamoulis, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, Research area: Similarity query processing, Uncertain data management.
• Prof. Reynold Cheng, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, Research area: Uncertain data management and mining.
• Prof. Cyrus Shahabi, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, USA
• Prof. Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Research area: Uncertain spatial and spatio-temporal data management.
• Prof. Mario Nascimiento, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Kanada, Research area: Query processing in sensor networks, Data management and mining in environmental sensor networks.
• Dr. Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, Research area: Modelling and managing uncertain spatio-temporal data.
• Prof. Ralf Ludwig, Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München, Research area: Data management and mining in environmental sensor networks.
• Prof. Michael Houle, National Institute of Informatics, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Sokendai, Japan, Research area: Similarity search in time series.