Professor Erich J. Neuhold

Professor Erich J. Neuhold

Institution: GMD Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems (IPSI), Darmstadt

Position: Director of GMD-IPSI Professor at Technische Hochschule Darmstadt

Current Research Base:
Prof Neuhold's primary research and development interests are in heterogeneous interoperable database systems, object-oriented multimedia knowledge bases and intelligent information retrieval. He also guides research and development in user interfaces including virtual reality as well as integrated publication and information systems with special emphasize on the cooperative group work and the information mining in complex distributed systems. Further research takes place in the field of artificial intelligence, expert systems and natural language processing.

Experience in R&D:
Prof. Neuhold received his M.S. in Electronics and his Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Technology Vienna, Austria, in 1963 and 1967, respectively.
From 1963 to 1972 he was a research scientist at the IBM Corporation in Vienna and the USA. There he was working on program languages, translators, formal description techniques and operating systems. From 1972 to 1983 he was Professor of Computer Science, Chair of Application Software, at the University of Stuttgart, FRG. His research field included distributed databases and information systems, formal description systems for presentation of complex software products as well as software engineering.
In the years 1983 and 1984 he was Director of the Information Management Laboratory and later of the Systems Software Laboratory at Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, USA. There he also worked in the areas of distributed operation systems and communication systems.
From 1984 to 1986 he was Professor of Computer Science, University of Technology of Vienna, Institute for Applied Informatics and Systems Analysis. His work included distributed databases, knowledge-based systems and object-oriented approaches in these fields.
In 1986 he was appointed Director of the newly founded Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems of the Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (The German National Research Center for Computer Science) in Darmstadt, FRG.
Since 1989 he is Professor of Computer Science, Integrated Publication and Information Systems, at the Technical University of Darmstadt, FRG.

References:
[1] E.J. Neuhold, K. Aberer, and W. Klas.
Object-Oriented Modelling for Hypermedia Systems using the VODAK Modelling Language (VML). In A. Dogac, T. Ozsu, A. Biliris, and T. Sellis, editors, Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems . Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, NATO ASI Series, 1994.
[2] E.J. Neuhold, K. Aberer, W. Klas, A. Stein, and U. Thiel.
Search and Retrieval in Object-Oriented Information Systems. In H.C. Mayr, editor, Objektorientierte Methoden fuer Informationssysteme, Proceedings of GI-EMISA Fachtagung in Klagenfurt, 7.-9. Juni 1993 , pages 32--48. Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1993.
[3] E.J. Neuhold, R. Busse, and A. Mueller.
Information Handling - A Challenge for Databases and Expert Systems. In V. Marek, editor, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA '93), Prague, September 6 - 8, 1993, pages 1--23. Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1993.
[4] E.J. Neuhold and J. Gu.
A Data Model for Multimedia Information Retrieval. In The First International Conference on Multi-Media Modelling (MMM '93), Singapore, November 9-12, 1993, pages 113--127. World Scientific Singapore, 1993.


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