Fourth European Business Intelligence Summer School (eBISS 2014)

Directors of the School

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  Ralf-Detlef Kutsche

  Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

  Dr. Ralf-Detlef Kutsche, holds a position as Academic Director in the "Database and Information Management DIMA" group at TU Berlin. His hot topics in teaching and research are model building and modeling methodology, focusing on "model-based semantic integration of heterogeneous information systems". Dr. Kutsche has many publications in the foundations and applications of this area, as well as comprehensive experience in national and international project leadership. In the past years, he was (co-)chair of several international conferences/workshops, and invited speaker in conferences, international cooperations and with industry, with a special emphasis on model-based software and data integration. He studied Mathematics at FU Berlin, focusing on Numerical Mathematics, and Computer Science (as a minor at TU Berlin). After the diploma degree he has worked as scientist in Theoretical Computer Science at TU Berlin, and then in applications of formal methods to clinical information systems at German Heart Institute Berlin DHZB, concluding his Ph.D. in this area. As senior scientist from 1994 at TU chair 'Computation and Information Structures CIS', he estasblished the focus area 'Heterogeneous Distributed Information Systems'. At the same time he was scientific coordinator, project leader and member of the board of leaders with the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST. For an intermediate period of more than 30 months from 2005, Dr. Kutsche acted as provisional head of the CIS group. He is advisor of many diploma theses at TU Berlin and (co-)advisor of several Ph.D. dissertations within the Graduate School Distributed Information Systems, at TU Berlin, at Fraunhofer ISST, and at other universities. Presently, he is Science Chair of the BIZWARE initiative, after BIZYCLE a second large-scale project of TU Berlin and industry (SMEs) in the area of model based software and data integration in several business domains, funded by German BMBF. Beside his activities at TU Berlin, again he is engaged in coordination of 'Modeling' research at Fraunhofer FIRST, now Fraunhofer FOKUS institute.

  Email:   ralf-detlef.kutsche@tu-berlin.de
  Web:   http://www.dima.tu-berlin.de/menue/staff/ralf-detlef_kutsche/

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  Esteban Zimányi

  Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  Esteban Zimányi is a professor and the director of the Department of Computer & Decision Engineering (CoDE) at ULB. He is also the academic director of the Computer Science program at the Faculty of Applied Sciences. He started his studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Centro América, Costa Rica. He received a B.Sc. (1988) and a doctorate (1992) in computer science from the Faculty of Sciences at the ULB. During 1997, he was a visiting researcher at the Database Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. His current research interests include data warehouses, spatio-temporal databases, geographic information systems, semantic web and web services.

  Email:   ezimanyi@ulb.ac.be
  Web:   http://cs.ulb.ac.be/members/esteban