Curriculum Vitae

Name	Michael Sintek
Birthday	May 6th, 1967
Birthplace	Düsseldorf, Germany
Marital status	not married
Nationality	German
Private address	Pariser Str. 350 D-67663 Kaiserslautern Germany Phone: +49 631 91242
Office address	Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) GmbH Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße D-67663 Kaiserslautern Germany Phone: +49 631 205 3460 Fax: +49 631 205 3210 Email: Michael.Sintek@dfki.de Homepage: www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~sintek/

1. Education

1.1 University Career

17-May-1996

Diplom (Master's Degree) with a grade of 1

1988 - 1996

Study of Computer Science and Economics at the University of Kaiserslautern

1.2 Secondary Education and Military Service

1987 - 1988

Grundwehrdienst (basic military service)

1986

Abitur with a grade of 1.2

1977 - 1986

städt. Gymnasium Meerbusch-Strümp

1.3 Primary Education

1973 - 1977

städtische kath. Grundschule Meerbusch-Osterath

2. Scientific Career

November 2000 - February 2001

Visiting researcher at the Stanford Medical Informatics department

August - October 1999

Visiting researcher at the Stanford Medical Informatics department

1996 - today

Researcher at DFKI GmbH in the Knowledge Management department

1991 - 1996

Student worker at DFKI GmbH in the Intelligent Engineering Systems department

3. Teaching Experience

3.1 Tutorials

2001
Turorial on Knowledge Markup and Resource Semantics. IJCAI-01, Seattle, August 2001
2000
Tutorial on Knowledge Markup Techniques. ECAI 2000, Berlin, August 2000

3.2 Seminars

1999
"Intelligenz im Intranet: Informationstechnik für das Unternehmen von morgen"
(= "Intelligence on the intranet: information technology for the company of tomorrow")
1994
Industry seminar "Functional Programming" as part of  IWK 1994

3.3 Supervised Master Theses

2001
Reza-Oliver Karamati: "Design und Implementierung eines ontologiebasierten Dokumenten-Management-Systems auf der Basis des Wissensakquisitionstools Protégé-2000"
2000
Sven Schwarz: "Schwach strukturierte Workflows für das Wissensmanagement in Unternehmen"
1999
H. Ben Aicha: "Query Relaxation for Intelligent Information Retrieval"
1999
Karsten Schnittker: "Knowledge Discovery in Model-based Fault Logs"
1997
Holger Wirtz: "Entwurf und Implementierung einer Beschreibungssprache für Informationsobjekte zur Unterstützung des wissensbasierten Retrievals von Unternehmenswissen"

4. Research Activities

4.1 Research Topics

• XML/RDF, semantic web technologies
• agent-based systems
• knowledge representation
• information retrieval
• machine learning and data mining
• logic programming; building compilers, abstract machines, and interpreters for logic programming languages

4.2 Research Project Participation

1. FRODO - A Framework for Distributed Organizational Memories (project leader)
   basic research project funded by the German government, 2000-2002
2. KNOWNET - Knowledge Networking
   research project funded by the ESPRIT programme of the European Commission (within the 'IT for Learning and Training in Industry' Theme), the Swiss BBW, and five industrial partners including the Union Bank of Switzerland, 1998-2000
3. KnowMore - Knowledge Management for Learning Organizations
   basic research project funded by the German government, 1997-1999
4. VEGA - Knowledge Validation and Exploration by Global Analysis
   basic research project funded by the German government, 1995-1997
5. COLAB - A Hybrid Knowledge Compilation Laboratory
   basic research project funded by the German government, 1993-1995
6. ARCTEC - Acquisition, Representation and Compilation of Technical Knowledge
   basic research project funded by the German government, 1991-1993

4.3 Publications

Michael Sintek, Stefan Decker: TRIPLE---An RDF Query, Inference, and Transformation Language. Proceedings of DDLP'2001. Available as PS file.

Andreas Abecker, Ansgar Bernardi, Ludger van Elst, Andreas Lauer, Heiko Maus, Sven Schwarz, and Michael Sintek: FRODO: A Framework for Distributed Organizations - Milestone M1: Requirements Analysis and System Architecture. DFKI Document D-01-01, 2001. In preparation. Partially in German.

Michael Sintek, Markus Junker, Ludger van Elst, Andreas Abecker: Position Statement accepted for IJCAI'2001. Workshop on Ontology Learning, August 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA. PDF file.

Andreas Abecker, Ansgar Bernardi, Michael Sintek, Knut Hinkelmann. Enterprise Information Infrastructures for Active, Context-Sensitive Knowledge Delivery. In: Stuart Barnes (ed.) Knowledge Management Systems: Theory and Practice. International Thomson Business Press, 2001. In print.

Andreas Abecker, Ansgar Bernardi, Heiko Maus, Michael Sintek, and Claudia Wenzel: Information Supply for Business Processes - Coupling Workflow with Document Analysis and Information Retrieval. Accepted for: Knowledge-Based Systems Journal, Special Issue on AI in Knowledge Management, Elsevier, 2000.

Andreas Abecker, Ansgar Bernardi, and Michael Sintek. Proactive Knowledge Delivery for Enterprise Knowledge Management. In Guenther Ruhe and Frank Bomarius (eds.) Learning Software Organizations - Methodology and Applications. Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. In print. Available as gzipped postscript file.

Andreas Abecker, Ansgar Bernardi, Knut Hinkelmann, Otto Kühn, and Michael Sintek. Context-Aware, Proactive Delivery of Task-Specific Knowledge: The KnowMore Project. Int. Journal on Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Special Issue on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory, Kluwer, 2000.

Harold Boley, Stefan Decker, and Michael Sintek: Tutorial on Knowledge Markup Techniques. ECAI 2000, Berlin, 20-25 August 2000. Available as online presentation and PS & PDF file.

Michael Sintek, Bidjan Tschaitschian, Andreas Abecker, Ansgar Bernardi, and Heinz-Jürgen Müller: Using Ontologies for Advanced Information Access. In: John Domingue (ed.) PAKeM 2000, The Third International Conference and Exhibition on The Practical Application of Knowledge Management, Wednesday April 12 - Friday April 14, 2000, Manchester, UK.

Markus Junker, Michael Sintek, and Matthias Rinck: Learning for Text Categorization and  Information Extraction with ILP. Workshop on Learning Language in Logic, Bled, Slovenia, 1999. Availabe as PS file and PDF file.

Andreas Abecker, Ansgar Bernardi, and Michael Sintek. Proactive Knowledge Delivery for Enterprise Knowledge Management. In: KnowTechForum´99, International Knowledge Technology Forum, Potsdam, Germany, September 16-18, 1999.

Andreas Abecker, Ansgar Bernardi, and Michael Sintek: Developing a Knowledge Management Technology - An Encompassing View on KnowMore, Know-Net, and Enrich. Presented at: IEEE WET-ICE '99 Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking, Stanford, 16-18 June 1999.

Andreas Abecker, Ansgar Bernardi, and Michael Sintek. Enterprise Information Infrastructures for Active, Context-Sensitive Knowledge Delivery. In: ECIS'99 - The 7th European Conference on Information Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark. June 1999. Available as HTML file.

Andreas Abecker, Ansgar Bernardi, and Michael Sintek. Proactive Knowledge Delivery for Enterprise Knowledge Management. Accepted for publication in: SEKE'99 The Eleventh International Conference on Software and Knowledge Engineering. Kaiserslautern, Germany, June 17-19 1999.

Minghong Liao, Andreas Abecker, Ansgar Bernardi, Knut Hinkelmann, and Michael Sintek. Ontologies for Knowledge Retrieval in Organizational Memories. Accepted for publication in: Workshop on Learning Software Organizations (LSO) at SEKE'99, Kaiserslautern, Germany. June 16 1999. Available as gzipped PS file and gzipped PDF file.

Minghong Liao, Knut Hinkelmann, Andreas Abecker, and Michael Sintek. A Competence Knowledge Base System for the Organizational Memory. In: Frank Puppe (ed.) XPS-99 / 5. Deutsche Tagung Wissensbasierte Systeme, Würzburg, Springer Verlag, LNAI 1570, March 1999. Available as gzipped PS file and gzipped PDF file.

Andreas Abecker, Ansgar Bernardi, Knut Hinkelmann, Otto Kühn, and Michael Sintek. Towards a Technology for Organizational Memories. IEEE Intelligent Systems & Their Applications, Vol. 13, No. 3, May/June 1998. Available as gzipped PDF file.

Andreas Abecker, Michael Sintek, and Holger Wirtz. From Hypermedia Information Retrieval to Knowledge Management in Enterprises. In: First International Forum on Multimedia & Image Processing (IFMIP'98). Anchorage, Alaska, USA. May 1998.

Ansgar Bernardi, Michael Sintek, and Andreas Abecker. Combining Artificial Intelligence, Database Technology, and Hypermedia for Intelligent Fault Recording. In: Sixth International Symposium on Manufacturing with Applications (ISOMA'98). Anchorage, Alaska, USA. May 1998. This paper received the ISOMA-98 Best Paper Award.

Andreas Abecker, Ansgar Bernardi, Knut Hinkelmann, Otto Kühn and Michael Sintek. Techniques for Organizational Memory Information Systems. DFKI Document D-98-02, 1998. Available as gzipped PS file and gzipped PDF file.

Andreas Abecker and Ansgar Bernardi and Knut Hinkelmann and Otto Kühn and Michael Sintek. Towards a Well-Founded Technology For Organizational Memories. AAAI Spring Symposium Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Management, Stanford University, March 1997.

Harold Boley, Simone Andel, Klaus Elsbernd, Michael Herfert, Michael Sintek, Werner Stein. RELFUN Guide: Programming with Relations and Functions Made Easy. Document D-93-12, DFKI GmbH, July 1996. Second, Revised Edition.

Harold Boley, Klaus Elsbernd, Hans-Guenther Hein, Thomas Krause, Markus Perling, Michael Sintek, Werner Stein. RFM Manual: Compiling RELFUN into the Relational/Functional Machine. Document D-91-03, DFKI GmbH, July 1996. Third, Revised Edition.

Wolfgang Goerigk, Harold Boley, Ulrich Hoffmann, Markus Perling, Michael Sintek. Komplettkompilation von Lisp: Eine Studie zur Übersetzung von Lisp-Software für C-Umgebungen. KI, 2, Juni 1996.

Michael Sintek. FLIP: Functional-plus-Logic Programming on an Integrated Platform. Technical Memo TM-95-02, DFKI GmbH, May 1995.

Michael Sintek. FLIP: Functional-plus-Logic Programming on an Integrated Platform. 3rd Workshop on Functional Logic Programming, Schwarzenberg, Germany, January 1994.

M. Sintek, W. Stein, U. Buhrmann. Validation and Exploration of the Period System of the Elements: A RELFUN Knowledge Base. In Harold Boley, editor, A Sampler of Relational/Functional Definitions, TM-91-04. DFKI GmbH, March 1991. Second, Revised Edition July 1993.

Michael Sintek. Indexing PROLOG Procedures into DAGs by Heuristic Classification. DFKI Technical Memo TM-93-05, DFKI GmbH, 1993.

Werner Stein, Michael Sintek. A Generalized Intelligent Indexing Method. In Workshop "Sprachen für KI-Anwendungen, Konzepte - Methoden - Implementierungen" in Bad Honnef, 12/92-1. Institute of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Münster, May 1992.

Harold Boley, Philipp Hanschke, Martin Harm, Knut Hinkelmann, Thomas Labisch, Manfred Meyer, Jörg Müller, Thomas Oltzen, Michael Sintek, Werner Stein, Frank Steinle. muCAD2NC: A Declarative Lathe-Workplanning Model Transforming CADlike Geometries into Abstract NC Programs. DFKI Document D-91-15, DFKI GmbH, November 1991.

W. Stein, M. Sintek. RELFUN/X: An Experimental PROLOG Implementation of RELFUN. ARC-TEC Document 91-1, DFKI GmbH, March 1991.