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Dr. Sven Schwarz
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) GmbH
Forschungsbereich Wissensmanagement
Trippstadter Str. 122
D-67663 Kaiserslautern

Email: sven.schwarz@dfki.de
Phone: +49 631 205 75 1120

About me

I am a researcher aiming at applying artificial intelligence to support personal or organizational knowledge management. As a senior researcher at DFKI, my focus here is on transferring the research in these fields to the industry and to make them ready for daily practice.

Being a semantic desktop evangelist, I push semantic desktop technology into daily business. I develop, maintain and extend a 24/7 running semantic desktop ecosystem fostering the knowledge management in our group.

In private, I play badminton, I like science fiction, and I love board games and computer games. In the past I applied semantic technologies to semantically categorize and compare board games and recommend similar games.

Interests

My career started with research on context awareness in the knowledge work domain. I applied user observation techniques to automatically elicit user contexts and predict context changes. My work encompassed a lot of user interface studies with a lot of conceptual GUI design experiments, aiming at balancing proactive support with unobtrusive work flow. Eventually, my PhD was about Context-Awareness and Context-Sensitive Interfaces for Knowledge Work Support and my interest in this topic still resides.

I am an evangelist of the semantic desktop paradigm and believe that this has the potential to make knowledge management better and easier - for professionals in their offices, as well as, for everyday people at home. My recent activity was mainly technically oriented and focused on realizing such a system for our group, ensure high performance and easy maintenance. As a result we actually have a semantic desktop system, running 24/7, integrated and being used in our daily work routine. The dream come true!

My recent activity is in the field of digital forgetting and preservation of knowledge. Working for the ForgetIT project, we collaborated with psychologists and realized a forgetting component for the semantic desktop allowing to hide or delete irrelevant stuff and enable a better focus for the user. We also realized an active preservation system that goes beyond mere backuping of data and aims at detecting important material and preserve it in a live archive.

Publications

2016

Tran Tuan, Sven Schwarz, Claudia Niederée, Heiko Maus, and Nattiya Kanhabua. The forgotten needle in my collections: task-aware ranking of documents in semantic information space. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR). ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) (CHIIR-16), March 13-17, Chapel Hill,, North Carolina, USA. ACM, ACM Press, 4 2016. URL: https://pimo.opendfki.de/wp9-pilot/.
Heiko Maus, Sven Schwarz, Christian Jilek, Maria Wolters, Stephen Rhodes, Andrea Ceroni, and Gürkan Gür. Forgetit deliverable d9.5: personal preservation report. Deliverable, ForgetIT Consortium, 1 2016. URL: http://www.forgetit-project.eu/fileadmin/fm-dam/deliverables/ForgetIT_WP9_D9.5New.pdf https://pimo.opendfki.de/wp9-pilot/.

2015

Heiko Maus, Sven Schwarz, Bahaa Beih Elsayed Eldesouky, Christian Jilek, Maria Wolters, and Berker Loğoğlu. Forgetit deliverable d9.3: use cases & mock-up development. Deliverable, ForgetIT consortium, 2 2015. URL: http://www.forgetit-project.eu/fileadmin/fm-dam/deliverables/ForgetIT_WP9_D9.3.pdf https://pimo.opendfki.de/wp9-pilot/.
Christian Jilek, Heiko Maus, Sven Schwarz, and Andreas Dengel. Diary generation from personal information models to support contextual remembering and reminiscence. In Workshop on Human Memory-Inspired Multimedia Organization and Preservation (HMMP). IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME-2015), June 29 - July 3, Torino, Italy, 1–6. IEEE, 7 2015. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICMEW.2015.7169753.
Bahaa Eldesouky, Heiko Maus, Sven Schwarz, and Andreas Dengel. Seed, a natural language interface to knowledge bases. In Sakae Yamamoto: Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge Design, volume 9172, pages 280–290. Springer International Publishing, 2015. URL: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-20612-7_27.
Heiko Maus, Sven Schwarz, Christian Jilek, and Francesco Gallo. Forgetit deliverable d9.4: personal preservation pilot ii: concise preserving mobile information assistant. Deliverable, ForgetIT Consortium, 12 2015. URL: http://www.dfki.de/web/forschung/publikationen/renameFileForDownload?filename=D9.4.pdf&file_id=uploads_2805 https://pimo.opendfki.de/wp9-pilot/.

2014

Heiko Maus and Sven Schwarz. Forgetit deliverable d9.2: use cases & mock-up development. Deliverable, ForgetIT consortium, 2 2014. URL: http://www.forgetit-project.eu/fileadmin/fm-dam/deliverables/ForgetIT_WP9_D9.2.pdf http://www.forgetit-project.eu/fileadmin/fm-dam/deliverables/ForgetIT_WP9_D9_2_Annex_Mockups.pdf.

2013

Heiko Maus, Sven Schwarz, and Andreas Dengel. Weaving personal knowledge spaces into office applications. In Madjid Fathi, editor, Integration of Practice-Oriented Knowledge Technology: Trends and Prospectives, pages 71–82. Springer, Berlin - Heidelberg, 2 2013. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34471-8_6.

2011

Heiko Maus, Sven Schwarz, Jan Haas, and Andreas Dengel. Contask: context-sensitive task assistance in the semantic desktop. In Joaquim Filipe and José Cordeiro, editors, Enterprise Information Systems, volume 73 of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, LNBIP, pages 177–192. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 3 2011. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19802-1_13.
Benjamin Adrian and Sven Schwarz. Using suffix arrays for efficiently recognition of named entities in large scale. In Andreas König, Andreas Dengel, Knut Hinkelmann, Koichi Kise, Robert J. Howlett, and Lakhmi C. Jain, editors, Knowlege-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES-2011), 15th, September 12 - August 14, Kaiserslautern, Germany, volume 6882 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 420–429. Springer, 2011. URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/481l141312632lj7/.
Sven Schwarz, Frank Marmann, and Heiko Maus. Extracting personal concepts from users' emails to initialize their personal information models. In Andreas König, Andreas Dengel, Knut Hinkelmann, Koichi Kise, Robert J. Howlett, and Lakhmi C. Jain, editors, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems. International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES-11), 15th, September 12-14, Kaiserslautern, Germany, volume 6882 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS, 430–439. Springer, 2011. URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/m6353312gx849532/.

2010

Ralf Biedert, Georg Buscher, Sven Schwarz, Manuel Möller, Andreas Dengel, and Thomas Lottermann. The text 2.0 framework. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction. International Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction, located at IUI, February 7-10, Hong Kong, China. o.A., 2 2010.
Jan Haas, Heiko Maus, Sven Schwarz, and Andreas Dengel. Contask - using context-sensitive assistance to improve task-oriented knowledge work. In 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS-2010), June 8-12, Funchal,, Madeira, Portugal. INSTICC, INSTICC, 6 2010.
Sven Schwarz. Context-Awareness and Context-Sensitive Interfaces for Knowledge Work. PhD thesis, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Fachbereich Informatik, 2010. URL: http://www.dr.hut-verlag.de/978-3-86853-388-0.html.
Ralf Biedert, Georg Buscher, Sven Schwarz, Jörn Hees, and Andreas Dengel. Text 2.0. In Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Don Schoner, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Scott E. Hudson, W. Keith Edwards, and Tom Rodden, editors, Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2010, Extended Abstracts Volume, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 10-15, 2010. International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA-2010), 4003–4008. ACM, 2010. URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753846.1754093 http://www.dfki.de/web/forschung/publikationen/renameFileForDownload?filename=Biedert et al. - 2010 - Text 2.0.pdf&file_id=uploads_2667.

2009

Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, Benjamin Adrian, Sven Schwarz, Heiko Maus, Kinga Schumacher, and Leo Sauermann. Semantic desktop for the end-user. i-com, 3:25–32, 2009. i-com, Special Issue "Nutzerinteraktion im Social Semantic Web". URL: http://www.atypon-link.com/OLD/doi/abs/10.1524/icom.2009.0033.

2008

Ralf Biedert, Sven Schwarz, and Thomas Roth-Berghofer. Designing a context-sensitive dashbord for an apaptive knowledge worker assistant. In Anders Kofod-Petersen, Jörg Cassens, David Leake, and Marielba Zacarias, editors, HCP-2008 Proceedings, Part II, MRC 2008 – Fifth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context. Fifth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context (HCP-2008), located at (MRC-2008), June 8-12, Delft, Netherlands, 51–62. TELECOM Bretagne, 2008.
Sven Schwarz, Malte Kiesel, and Ludger van Elst. Adapting the multi-desktop paradigm towards a multi-context interface. In Anders Kofod-Petersen, Jörg Cassens, David Leake, and Marielba Zacarias, editors, HCP-2008 Proceedings, Part II, MRC 2008 - Fifth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context., 63–74. TELECOM Bretagne, 6 2008.
Malte Kiesel, Sven Schwarz, Ludger van Elst, and Georg Buscher. Using attention and context information for annotations in a semantic wiki. In C. Lange, S. Schaffert, H. Skaf-Molli, and M. Völkel, editors, 3rd Semantic Wiki Workshop co-located with ESWC 2008. The Wiki Way of Semantics. 3rd Semantic Wiki Workshop (SemWiki-2008), located at ESWC-2008, June 2, Tenerife, Spain, volume 160 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings Online. CEUR, 6 2008.
Malte Kiesel, Sven Schwarz, Ludger van Elst, and Georg Buscher. Mymory: enhancing a semantic wiki with context annotations. In S. Bechhofer, M. Hauswirth, J. Hoffmann, and M. Koubarakis, editors, Proc. of 5th European Semantic Web Conference. The Semantic Web: Research and Applications (ESWC-2008), 5th Conference, June 1-5, Tenerife, Spain, volume Vol. 5021/2008 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS, 817–821. Springer, 6 2008. Demo Paper.
Ludger van Elst, Malte Kiesel, Sven Schwarz, Georg Buscher, Andreas Lauer, and Andreas Dengel. Contextualized knowledge acquisition in a personal semantic wiki. In A. Gangemini and J. Euzenat, editors, Knowledge Engineering: Practice and Patterns. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference, EKAW 2008, Acitrezza, Italy, September 29 - October 2, 2008. Knowledge Engineering: Practice and Patterns: 16th International Conference (EKAW-2008), September 29 - October 2, Acitrezza,, Sicily, Italy, volume 5268 of LNAI, 172–187. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, 2008. URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/9435427ppuu86857.
Malte Kiesel and Sven Schwarz. Skipforward - a lightweight ontology-based peer-to-peer recommendation system. In Proceedings of the Poster and Demo Session held at the 7 th International Semantic Web Conference. ISWC-08, October 26-30, Karlsruhe, Germany. -, 10 2008. Demonstration.

2006

Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, Sven Schwarz, and Leo Sauermann. Rdfhomepage or finally, a use for your foaf file. In Proceedings of Semantic Web Scripting Workshop at ESWC06. 2006. URL: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~grimnes/papers/rdfhomepage.pdf.
Leo Sauermann, Andreas Dengel, Ludger van Elst, Andreas Lauer, Heiko Maus, and Sven Schwarz. Personalization in the epos project. In Proceedings of the Semantic Web Personalization Workshop at the ESWC 2006 Conference., 42–52. 2006. URL: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~sauermann/papers/Sauermann+2006a.pdf.

2005

Frank Osterfeld, Malte Kiesel, and Sven Schwarz. Nabu – a semantic archive for xmpp instant messaging. In Stefan Decker, Jack Park, Dennis Quan, and Leo Sauermann, editors, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on The Semantic Desktop in conjunction with the 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005). International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Galway. Galway, Ireland, 11 2005. -. URL: http://www.semanticdesktop.org/SemanticDesktopWS2005/final/40_kiesel_nabu_final.pdf.
Sven Schwarz. A context model for personal knowledge management. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop of Modelling and Retrieval of Context (MRC 2005) in conjunction with IJCAII 2005. Edinburgh, 39–50. Edinburgh, 7 2005. URL: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~schwarz/docs/Schwarz2005.pdf.
Roza Shkundina and Sven Schwarz. A similarity measure for task contexts. In Proceedings of the Workshop Similarities - Processes - Workflows in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR 2005). Chicago, 261–270. Chicago, 8 2005. URL: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~schwarz/docs/ShkundinaSchwarz2005.pdf.
Leo Sauermann and Sven Schwarz. Gnowsis adapter framework: treating structured data sources as virtual. In Yolanda Gil, Enrico Motta, V. Richard Benjamins, and Mark A. Musen, editors, Proceedings of the 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005). Galway, number 3729 in LNCS, 1016. Galway, Ireland, 11 2005. Springer. URL: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~sauermann/papers/Sauermann+2005c.pdf http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org/CFS_Industrial_Full.html#5a http://www.dfki.de/web/forschung/publikationen/renameFileForDownload?filename=Sauermann+2005c.pdf&file_id=uploads_60.

2004

Ansgar Bernardi, Andreas Dengel, Ludger van Elst, Andreas Lauer, Heiko Maus, and Sven Schwarz. Frodo: ein agentenframework für verteile unternehmensgedächtnisse. KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, pages 59–61, 2004. URL: http://www.kuenstliche-intelligenz.de/Artikel/FRODOEinAgentenframeworkfuerverteilteUnt.htm.
Jan-Thies Bähr, Ludger van Elst, Andreas Lauer, Heiko Maus, Leo Sauermann, and Sven Schwarz. Epos - guiding example. internal report, DFKI, 2004.
Ludger van Elst, Andreas Abecker, Ansgar Bernardi, Andreas Lauer, Heiko Maus, and Sven Schwarz. An agent-based framework for distributed organizational memories. In M. Bichler, C. Holtmann, S. Kirn, Jörg P. Müller, and C. Weinhardt, editors, Coordination and Agent Technology in Value Networks, Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI 2004), 9.-11.3.2004, Essen., 181–196. GITO-Verlag, Berlin, 2004. URL: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~elst/papers/frodo_mkwi2004.pdf.
Leo Sauermann and Sven Schwarz. Introducing the gnowsis semantic desktop. In Poster at the International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2004. 2004. URL: http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/posters/PID-QLIOYDYE-1090244935.pdf.
Jan-Thies Bähr, Peter Dannenmann, Ludger van Elst, Armin Hust, Andreas Lauer, Heiko Maus, and Sven Schwarz. Epos evolving personal to organizational knowledge spaces. Technical Report, DFKI, 2004.

2003

Sven Schwarz. Task-konzepte: struktur und semantik für work-flows. In Wissensmanagement. 4 2003. URL: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~schwarz/docs/Schwarz2003.pdf.
Jan-Thies Bähr, Peter Dannenmann, Ludger van Elst, Armin Hust, Andreas Lauer, Heiko Maus, and Sven Schwarz. Epos - milestone 1. Document, DFKI, 2003. URL: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/dfkidok/publications/D/04/01/abstract.html.
Ludger van Elst, Felix-Robinson Aschoff, Ansgar Bernardi, Heiko Maus, and Sven Schwarz. Weakly-structured workflows for knowledge-intensive tasks: an experimental evaluation. In Proceedings of the Workshop Knowledge Management for Distributed Agile Processes: Models, Techniques, and Infrastructure (KMDAP2003) at 12th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infr., 340–345. IEEE Press, 2003. URL: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~elst/papers/kmdap_frodo_eval_submitted.pdf.
Sven Schwarz and Thomas Roth-Berghofer. Towards goal elicitation by user observation. In Andreas Hotho and Gerd Stumme, editors, Proceedings of the LLWA 2003. Karlsruhe, 224–228. Karlsruhe, 10 2003. AIFB Karlsruhe, GI. URL: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~schwarz/docs/SchwarzRoth-Berghofer2003.pdf.

2002

Andreas Dengel, Andreas Abecker, Ansgar Bernardi, Ludger van Elst, Heiko Maus, Sven Schwarz, and Michael Sintek. Konzepte zur gestaltung von unternehmensgedächtnissen. KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, pages 5–11, 2002. URL: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~elst/papers/KI-Heft_OM-Prinzipien-draft.pdf.
Andreas Dengel, Andreas Abecker, Jan-Thies Bähr, Ansgar Bernardi, Peter Dannenmann, Ludger van Elst, Stefan Klink, Heiko Maus, Sven Schwarz, and Michael Sintek. Epos – evolving personal to organizational knowledge spaces. Project Proposal, DFKI GmbH Kaiserslautern, 2002.

2001

Sven Schwarz, Andreas Abecker, Heiko Maus, and Michael Sintek. Anforderungen an die workflow-unterstützung für wissensintensive geschäftsprozesse. In Workshop "Geschäftsprozessorientiertes Wissensmanagement". Workshop "Geschäftsprozessorientiertes Wissensmanagement - Von der Strategie zum Content", located at WM 2001, March 14-16, Baden-Baden, Germany, volume 01-02 of DFKI Documents, D. -, 2001. URL: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~schwarz/docs/SchwarzAbeckerMausSintek2001.pdf.
Andreas Abecker, Ansgar Bernardi, Ludger van Elst, Andreas Lauer, Heiko Maus, Sven Schwarz, and Michael Sintek. Frodo: a framework for distributed organizational memories. milestone m1: requirements analysis and system architecture. Technical Report, DFKI, 2001. URL: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/dfkidok/publications/D/01/01/abstract.html.

2000

Sven Schwarz. Schwach strukturierte workflows für das wissensmanagement in unternehmen. Master's thesis, University of Kaiserslautern, 8 2000. URL: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~schwarz/docs/Schwarz2000.pdf.