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Prof. Dr. Ralf Hartmut Güting

Besucheradresse / Visitors' Address
Informatikzentrum, 2. Etage, Block H, Raum 09
Universitätsstr. 1
D-58097 Hagen
E-Mail: rhg@fernuni-hagen.de
Telefon: +49 (2331) 987 4279
Sekretariat: +49 (2331) 987 4277 (Frau Holland)
Fax: +49 (2331) 987 4278
Kontaktadresse / Postal Address
FernUniversität in Hagen
LG Datenbanksysteme für neue Anwendungen
Postfach 940
D-58084 Hagen
Germany

Short Biography

Ralf Hartmut Güting has been a full professor in Computer Science at the University of Hagen, Germany, since 1989. He received his Diploma and Dr. rer. nat. degrees from the University of Dortmund in 1980 and 1983, respectively, and became a professor at that university in 1987. From 1981 until 1984 his main research area was Computational Geometry. After a one-year stay at the IBM Almaden Research Center in 1985, extensible and spatial database systems became his major research interests; more recently, also spatio-temporal or moving objects databases. He has been an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Database Systems and an editor of the VLDB Journal and is on the Editorial Board of GeoInformatica. He has published two German text books on data structures and algorithms and on compilers, respectively, and an English text book on moving objects databases, as well as around eighty journal and conference articles. His group has built prototypes of extensible and spatio-temporal database systems, the Gral system and the SECONDO system.

Research Interests

Spatial databases
Extensible and modular database architecture
Graphs (networks) in spatial databases
Spatio-temporal and moving objects databases

Most Popular Papers

According to the study by E. Rahm and A. Thor, Citation Analysis of Database Publications, SIGMOD Record 34(4), Dec. 2005, 48-53, the following two papers are the most cited paper of ACM TODS and the second most cited paper of the VLDB Journal, respectively, that appeared in the period 1994 through 2003.
R.H. Güting, M.H. Böhlen, M. Erwig, C.S. Jensen, N.A. Lorentzos, M. Schneider, and M. Vazirgiannis, A Foundation for Representing and Querying Moving Objects. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 25:1 (2000), 1-42.	Abstract, Paper.
R.H. Güting, An Introduction to Spatial Database Systems. VLDB Journal 3 (1994), 357-399.	Abstract, Paper.

Activities

Journal Editor
Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Database Systems (2004 - 2010)	Editor of the VLDB Journal (1996 - 2003)	Editor of GeoInformatica	Editor of the ACM SIGMOD Anthology

Current Program Committees
W2GIS 2011	10th International Symposium on Web & Wireless Geographical Information Systems, Kyoto, Japan, March 2011.
MDM 2011	12th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Lulea, Sweden, June 2011.
IDAR 2011	SIGMOD/PODS PhD Workshop on Innovative Database Research, Athens, Greece, June 2011.
SSTD 2011	12th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, August 2011 (PC).
SSTD 2011	12th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, August 2011 (PC Vision/Challenge Track).
LBSN 2011	3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks, Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 2011.
ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011	19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 2011.
MDM 2012	13th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Bengaluru, India, July 2012.
Past program committees include VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, EDBT, SSTD, SSDBM, DASFAA, IDEAS, COSIT, ACM-GIS, and some others.
Special Issue Editor
VLDB Journal	Special Issue on Data Management for Mobile Services (CfP) Submission deadline extended to September 24, 2010.
Program Chair
ISA 2011	Third International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness, Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 2011.
Summer School
Summer School Ghent 2011	Summer School and Young Researchers Forum "Moving Objects and Knowledge Discovery", Ghent, Belgium, August 2011.