Dr. Patrick Ziegler

Dr. Patrick Ziegler was a senior researcher (Oberassistent) in the Database Technology Research Group until February 2009.

Contact Information

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Projects

SIRUP: Semantic Integration Reflecting User-specific semantic Perspectives
SOQA: The SIRUP Ontology Query API
SST: The SOQA-SimPack Toolkit
E-Parking: User-Friendly e-Commerce to Optimise Parking Spaces
Javinja: Modular and extensible Java Virtual Machine written in Java

Publications

	Patrick Ziegler and Ela Hunt: Semantic Mashups with BioXMash (Demo, selected for oral presentation). In Data Integration in the Life Sciences 2008 (DILS 2008), Evry, France, 2008. [pdf] [BibTeX] [poster]
	Patrick Ziegler, Klaus R. Dittrich, and Ela Hunt: A Call for Personal Semantic Data Integration. In Workshop on Information Integration Methods, Architectures, and Systems (IIMAS 2008) (in conjunction with ICDE 2008), Cancun, Mexico, 2008. [pdf] [BibTeX]
	Christian M. Tilgner, Dietrich J. Christopeit, Klaus R. Dittrich, and Patrick Ziegler: Pylonix: A Database Module for Collaborative Document Management. In 12th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2008), Pori, Finland, 2008. [pdf] [BibTeX]
	Ionut Emanuel Subasu, Patrick Ziegler, Klaus R. Dittrich, and Harald Gall: Architectural Concerns for Flexible Data Management. In: Workshop on Software Engineering for Tailor-made Data Management (SETMDM 2008) (in conjunction with EDBT 2008). [pdf] [BibTeX]
	Christoph Sturm, Klaus R. Dittrich, and Patrick Ziegler: An Access Control Mechanism for P2P Collaborations. In: Workshop on Data Management in Peer-to-peer systems (DAMAP 2008) (in conjunction with EDBT 2008). [pdf] [BibTeX]
	Patrick Ziegler: The SIRUP Approach to Personal Semantic Data Integration, Doctoral Thesis, University of Zurich, 2007. [link1] [link2]
	Patrick Ziegler and Klaus R. Dittrich: Data Integration — Problems, Approaches, and Perspectives. In John Krogstie, Andreas L. Opdahl, and Sjaak Brinkkemper, editors, Conceptual Modelling in Information Systems Engineering, pages 39–58. Springer, Berlin, 2007. [pdf] [BibTeX]
	Ionut Emanuel Subasu, Patrick Ziegler, and Klaus R. Dittrich: Towards Service-Based Database Management Systems. In BTW Workshops 2007, pages 296-306 [pdf] [BibTeX]
	Patrick Ziegler: Evaluation of SIRUP with the SIRUP Classification of Data Integration Conflicts. Technical Report ifi-2007.07, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, 2007. [pdf] [BibTeX]
	Patrick Ziegler: Evaluation of SIRUP with the THALIA Benchmark for Data Integration Systems. Technical Report ifi-2007.08, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, 2007. [pdf] [BibTeX]
	Patrick Ziegler, Christoph Kiefer, Christoph Sturm, Klaus R. Dittrich, and Abraham Bernstein: Generic Similarity Detection in Ontologies with the SOQA-SimPack Toolkit. In 2006 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2006), pages 751-753, Chicago, USA, June 26-29. [pdf] [BibTeX] [poster]
	Patrick Ziegler, Christoph Kiefer, Christoph Sturm, Klaus R. Dittrich, and Abraham Bernstein: Detecting Similarities in Ontologies with the SOQA-SimPack Toolkit. In 10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2006), volume 3896 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 59-76, Munich, Germany, March 26-30. Springer. [pdf] [BibTeX] [doi:0.1007/11687238_7]
	Patrick Ziegler, Christoph Sturm, and Klaus R. Dittrich: The SIRUP Ontology Query API in Action. In 10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2006), volume 3896 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 1172-1175, Munich, Germany, March 26-30. [pdf] [BibTeX] [doi:10.1007/11687238_85]
	Patrick Ziegler und Klaus R. Dittrich. Universität Zürich ehrt den Pionier der Datenbank-Anfragesprachen. Datenbank-Spektrum 14: 58-59. [html] Also appeared in: Informatik-Spektrum, 28 (4). 355-357. [doi:10.1007/s00287-005-0504-3].
	Patrick Ziegler, Christoph Sturm, Klaus R. Dittrich: Unified Querying of Ontology Languages with the SIRUP Ontology Query API. In 11. GI-Fachtagung für Datenbanksysteme in Business, Technologie und Web (BTW 2005), volume P-65 of Lecture Notes in Informatics, pages 325-344, Karlsruhe, Germany, March 2-4, 2005. Gesellschaft für Informatik. [pdf] [BibTeX]
	Patrick Ziegler and Klaus R. Dittrich. Three Decades of Data Integration - All Problems Solved? In 18th IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC 2004), volume 12, Building the Information Society, pages 3-12, Toulouse, France, August 22-27, 2004. Kluwer. [pdf] [BibTeX]
	Patrick Ziegler and Klaus R. Dittrich. User-Specific Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Data: The SIRUP Approach. In First International IFIP Conference on Semantics of a Networked World (ICSNW 2004), volume 3226 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 44-64, Paris, France, June 17-19, 2004. Springer. [pdf] [BibTeX] [SpringerLink] [doi:10.1007/b102069]
	Patrick Ziegler. User-Specific Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Data: What Remains to be Done? Technical Report ifi-2004.01, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, 2004. [pdf] [BibTeX]
	Patrick Ziegler: Entwurf und Implementierung der Speicherverwaltung der Javinja Virtual Machine. Diploma Thesis. Zurich, 2000. [abstract] [pdf] Please refer to the Javinja Project Homepage for additional information on this project.

Here are my publications as listed by DBLP. My papers are also included in our department's publication database.

Courses

Courses taught as a senior assistant (im Lehrauftrag):

Nonstandard-Datenbanksysteme: HS 2008
Informatik für Ökonomen II (with Prof. Glinz and Prof. Stiller): HS 2007
Nonstandard-Datenbanksysteme: HS 2007

Courses supported as an assistant:

Datenbanksysteme (Dittrich): WS 2002/2003, WS 2003/2004, WS 2004/2005, SS 2006, SS 2007
Nonstandard-Datenbanksysteme (Dittrich): SS 2003, WS 2006/2007
Implementierung von Datenbanksystemen (Dittrich): SS 2003, SS 2004, SS 2005
Datenbanktechnik / Informationsmanagement I (Dittrich / Schwabe): WS 2002/2003, WS 2003/2004
KV Software Engineering (Glinz / Schauer): SS 2002
Seminar "Daten- und Prozessintegration": SS 2005

Semester and Diploma Theses

	Felix Wyrsch: Systematische Evaluation des DB2 Information Integrator anhand von Integrationskonflikten. Diplomarbeit, Universität Zürich, 2006. [abstract]
	Mathias Ruoss: Ermittlung charakteristischer Datensätze durch Data Mining. Diplomarbeit, Universität Zürich, 2006. [abstract] [pdf]
	Andrea Fischer: Systematische Übersicht zu aktuellen kommerziellen Softwareprodukten für Datenintegration. Diplomarbeit, Universität Zürich, 2005. [abstract] [pdf]
	Ivo Giger: Entwurf und Implementierung eines Werkzeugs zur Ermöglichung hochstrukturierter Datenzugriffe auf Webseiten. Diplomarbeit, Universität Zürich, 2005. [abstract] [pdf]
	Frédéric Bos: Evaluation von Methoden und Methodologien zur Entwicklung von Ontologien und Entwurf einer Ontologie für den Lehrveranstaltungsbereich. Diplomarbeit, Universität Zürich, 2005. [abstract] [pdf]
	Danar Barzanji: Implementierung eines SOQA-Wrappers für die Ontologiesprache PowerLoom. Semesterarbeit, Universität Zürich, 2005.
	Peter Strelecki: Entwurf und Implementierung einer universellen Wrapperschnittstelle zur Bereitstellung von Metadaten für heterogene Datenquellen. Semesterarbeit, Universität Zürich, 2004.