Vita/Bio
Brief Bio (English)
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Abraham Bernstein, Ph.D., is a Full Professor of Informatics at the University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland. He received a Diploma in Computer Science from ETH Zurich and a Ph.D. in Management with a concentration in Information Technologies from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
Mr. Bernstein is also a founding Director of the University of Zurich’s Digital Society Initiative (DSI) — a university-wide initiative with more than 180 faculty members from all disciplines investigating all aspects of the interplay between society and the digitalization and President of the Steering Committee of the Swiss National Science Foundation’s Research Priority Program 77 on the Digital Transformation. He was also a member of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on human rights dimensions of automated data processing and different forms of artificial intelligence (MSI-AUT).
Professor Bernstein’s research research focuses on various aspects of the AI/data mining/machine learning, semantic web, recommender systems, crowd computing, and collective intelligence. His work is based on both social science (organizational psychology/sociology/economics) and technical (computer science, artificial intelligence) foundations. His research in this area has been published in leading Computer Science, Management Science, and AI professional outlets. It has also been covered by the Swiss Press. Professor Bernstein has served on the editorial boards of a variety of top journals including as an Editor at the Journal of Web Semantics, Associate Editor at the ACM Transaction on Internet Technologies or ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems.
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Abraham Bernstein is a Full Professor of Informatics at the University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland. His current research focuses on various aspects of the semantic web, recommender systems, data mining/machine learning, crowd computing, and collective intelligence. His work is based on both social science (organizational psychology/sociology/economics) and technical (computer science, artificial intelligence) foundations.
Mr. Bernstein is also a founding Director of the University of Zurich’s Digital Society Initiative (DSI) — a university-wide initiative with more than 180 faculty members investigating all aspects of the interplay between society and the digitalization.
Prior to joining the University of Zurich, Mr. Bernstein was on the faculty at New York University and also worked in industry. Mr. Bernstein is a Ph.D. from MIT and holds a Diploma in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute in Zurich (ETH).
Short version
Abraham Bernstein is a Full Professor of Informatics as well as director of the Digital Society Initiative at the University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland. His current research focuses on various aspects of the semantic web, data mining/machine learning, and collective intelligence. His work is based on both social science (organizational psychology/sociology/economics) and technical (computer science, artificial intelligence) foundations. Prior to joining the University of Zurich Mr. Bernstein was on the faculty at New York University and also worked in industry. Mr. Bernstein is a Ph.D. from MIT and holds a Diploma in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute in Zurich (ETH).
Brief Bio (German)
Abraham Bernstein ist Ordentlicher Professor für Informatik an der der Universität Zürich (UZH), geschäftsführender Direktor der UZH Digital Society Initiative, der universitätsweiten Digitalisierungsinitiative mit Mitwirkung von mehr als 175 Professor*innen aus allen Disziplinen, sowie Präsident der Leitungsgruppe des Nationalen Forschungsschwerpunktes 77 des SNF zur Digitalen Transformation.
Er studierte an der ETH Zürich Informatik und promovierte am Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Seine Forschung basiert sowohl auf technischen wie auch sozialwissenschaftlichen Grundlagen und beinhaltet Themen wie die Künstliche Intelligenz, das Semantische Web, Maschinelles Lernen, heterogene Datenintegration, die digitale Demokratie/Medien sowie das Wechselspiel zwischen der Technologie und der Gesellschaft.
Kurzfassung
Abraham Bernstein, Ordentlicher Professor für Informatik, ist der Direktor der Digital Society Initiative der Universität Zürich (UZH). Er studierte an der ETH Zürich Informatik und promovierte an der Sloan School of Management des Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Von 2000 bis 2002 war er als Assistenzprofessor für Informationssysteme an der Stern School of Business der New York University tätig. Abraham Bernsteins Forschungsinteressen beinhalten das Semantische Web, Data-Mining, heterogene Datenintegration sowie das Wechselspiel zwischen sozialen und technischen Elementen der Informatik.
Publications
A mostly up-to-date list of my publications. A publication list of the whole research group can be found here.
A separate page with all publications can be found here.
We are, sadly, experiencing some problems with our traditional component listing publications (whichy ou can still find below, but I added the link to the UZH repository (ZORA), which is not 100% complete right here. For the time being, complete lists can be found at the links above.
ZORA Publication List
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Publications
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2014
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Conference or Workshop item
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SHAX: The Semantic Historical Archive eXplorer. In: The 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy, 19 October 2014 - 23 October 2014, s.n..
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“Semantics Inside!” But let’s not tell the Data Miners: Intelligent Support for Data Mining In: European Semantic Web Conference ESWC 2014, Crete, Greece, 25 May 2014 - 29 May 2014. Springer, 706-720.
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The CLOCK Data-Aware Eviction Approach: Towards Processing Linked Data Streams with Limited Resources In: The 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference, Crete, Greece, 25 May 2014 - 29 May 2014, Springer.
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Edited Scientific Work
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The Semantic Web – ISWC 2014: 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19-23, 2014. Proceedings, Part I Edited by: Mika, Peter; Tudorache, Tania; Bernstein, Abraham; Welty, Chris; Knoblock, Craig; Vrandečić, Denny; Groth, Paul; Noy, Natasha; Jacnowitz, K; Goble, Carole (2014). Heidelberg: Springer.
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Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2013 Edited by: Hölldobler, Steffen; Bernstein, Abraham; et al (2014). Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik.
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The Semantic Web – ISWC 2014: 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19-23, 2014. Proceedings, Part II Edited by: Mika, Peter; Tudorache, Tania; Bernstein, Abraham; Welty, Chris; Knoblock, Craig; Vrandečić, Denny; Groth, Paul; Noy, Natasha; Jacnowitz, K; Goble, Carole (2014). Heidelberg: Springer.
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2013
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A survey of intelligent assistants for data analysis ACM Computing Surveys, 45(3):1-35.
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Knowing what a user likes: A design science approach to interfaces that automatically adapt to culture MIS Quarterly, 37(2):427-453.
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TripleRush: a fast and scalable triple store In: 9th International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems, Sydney, Australia, 21 October 2013 - 22 October 2013, CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
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Scalable linked data stream processing via network-aware workload scheduling In: 9th International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems, Sydney, Australia, 21 October 2013.
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Eviction strategies for semantic flow processing In: SSWS 2013 - Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems 2013, Sydney, Australia, 21 October 2013. CEUR-WS, 66-80.
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Seven commandments for benchmarking semantic flow processing systems In: The Semantic Web: Semantics and Big Data, 10th International Conference, ESWC 2013, Montpellier, 26 May 2013 - 30 May 2013. Springer, 305-319.
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Doodle around the world: Online scheduling behavior reflects cultural differences in time perception and group decision-making In: 2013 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2013), San Antonio, Texas, 23 February 2013 - 27 February 2013. ACM, 45-54.
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Edited Scientific Work
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CrowdSem 2013: Crowdsourcing the Semantic Web Edited by: Acosta, Maribel; Aroyo, Lora; Bernstein, Abraham; Lehrmann, Jens; Noy, Natasha; Simperl, Elena (2013). Aachen, Germany: CEUR-WS.org.
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Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2012 Edited by: Hölldobler, Steffen; Bernstein, Abraham; et al (2013). Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik.
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2012
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An experimental study on real option strategies Quantitative Finance, 12(11):1753-1772.
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Time variance and defect prediction in software projects Empirical Software Engineering, 17(4-5):348-389.
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Programming the global brain Communications of the ACM, 55(5):41-43.
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CrowdLang: A Programming Language for the Systematic Exploration of Human Computation Systems In: Fourth International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2012), Lausanne, 5 December 2012 - 7 December 2012, Springer.
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The global brain semantic web : Interleaving human-machine knowledge and computation In: ISWC2012 Workshop on What will the Semantic Web Look Like 10 Years From Now?, Boston, MA, 11 November 2012 - 15 November 2012, 1-6.
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Designing KDD-Workflows via HTN-Planning In: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Systems Demos, Montpellier, France, 27 August 2012 - 31 August 2012. I O S Press, 1011-1012.
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Designing KDD-Workflows via HTN-Planning for Intelligent Discovery Assistance In: Planning to Learn 2012, Workshop at ECAI 2012, Montpellier, France, 28 August 2012.
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How to translate a book within an hour - Towards general purpose programmable human computers with CrowdLang In: Web Science 2012, Evanston, Illinois, USA., 22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012.
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CrowdManager - Combinatorial allocation and pricing of crowdsourcing tasks with time constraints In: Workshop on Social Computing and User Generated Content in conjunction with ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM-EC 2012), Valencia, Spain, 7 June 2012, 1-18.
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Evaluating semantic search systems to identify future directions of research In: Second International Workshop on Evaluation of Semantic Technologies, Heraklion, Greece, 28 May 2012, 25-36.
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Edited Scientific Work
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Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2011 Edited by: Hölldobler, Steffen; Bernstein, Abraham; et al (2012). Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik.
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Monograph
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Open Government Data Studie Schweiz Bern: Berner Fachhochschule.
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2011
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Guest editorial Preface International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 7(2):i-ii.
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SAWSDL-iMatcher: A customizable and effective Semantic Web Service matchmaker Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 9(4):402-417.
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Improving performance, perceived usability, and aesthetics with culturally adaptive user interfaces Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 18(2):8.
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Making close to suitable for web search: A comparison of two approaches In: Terra Cognita - Foundations, Technologies and Applications of the Geospatial Web, Bonn, Germany, 23 October 2011 - 27 October 2011.
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Social network aggregation using face-recognition In: ISWC 2011 Workshop: Social Data on the Web, Bonn, Germany, 23 October 2011, RWTH Aachen.
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Application and evaluation of inductive reasoning methods for the semantic web and software analysis In: Reasoning Web. Semantic Technologies for the Web of Data - 7th International Summer School 2011, Galway, Ireland, 23 August 2011 - 24 August 2011. Springer, 460-503.
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Rewriting queries for web searches that use local expressions In: 5th International Symposium on Rules (RuleML 2011), Barcelona, Spain, 19 July 2011 - 21 July 2011. Springer, 345-359.
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MOCCA - A system that learns and recommends visual preferences based on cultural similarity In: 16th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Palo Alto, 13 February 2011 - 16 February 2011. ACM, 453-454.
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CrowdLang - First steps towards programmable human computers for general computation In: 3rd Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP 2011), San Francisco, CA, USA, 1 January 2011. AAAI Publications, 103-108.
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The Semantic Web - ISWC 2011 - 10th International Semantic Web Conference, Bonn, Germany, October 23-27, 2011, Proceedings, Part I Edited by: Aroyo, Lora; Welty, Chris; Alani, Harith; Taylor, Jamie; Bernstein, Abraham; Kagal, Lalana; Noy, Natasha; Blomqvist, Eva (2011). Heidelberg: Springer.
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Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik WI 2.011 Volume 1 Edited by: Bernstein, Abraham; Schwabe, Gerhard (2011). Zurich: Lulu.
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Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik WI 2.011 Volume 2 Edited by: Bernstein, Abraham; Schwabe, Gerhard (2011). Zurich: Lulu.
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Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2010 Edited by: Hölldobler, Steffen; Bernstein, Abraham; et al (2011). Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik.
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The Semantic Web - ISWC 2011 - 10th International Semantic Web Conference, Bonn, Germany, October 23-27, 2011, Proceedings, Part II Edited by: Aroyo, Lora; Welty, Chris; Alani, Harith; Taylor, Jamie; Bernstein, Abraham; Kagal, Lalana; Noy, Natasha; Blomqvist, Eva (2011). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
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2010
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Semantic web enabled software analysis Journal of Web Semantics, 8(2-3):225-240.
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Evaluating the usability of natural language query languages and interfaces to semantic web knowledge bases Journal of Web Semantics, 8(4):377-393.
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Book Section
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Modeling a user's culture In: Blanchard, E G; Allard, D . Handbook of Research on Culturally-Aware Information Technology: Perspectives and Models. Hershey, PA: Information Science Pub, 242-264.
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Wiederverwendung multimedialer und online verfügbarer Selbstlernmodule in der Wirtschaftsinformatik - Lessons Learned In: Breitner, Michael H; Lehner, Franz; Staff, Jörg; Winand, Udo . E-Learning 2010: Aspekte der Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Informatik. Heidelberg: Springer, 151-164.
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LINKSTER: enabling efficient manual inspection and annotation of mined data In: ACM SIGSOFT / FSE '10: eighteenth International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Santa Fe, USA, 7 November 2010 - 11 November 2010, 369-370.
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Signal/Collect: graph algorithms for the (Semantic) Web In: ISWC 2010, Shanghai, China, 7 November 2010 - 11 November 2010, -764.
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Avalanche: putting the spirit of the web back into semantic web querying In: Proceedings Of The 6th International Workshop On Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS2010), Shanghai, China, 8 November 2010. CEUR-WS, 64-79.
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B+Hash Tree: optimizing query execution times for on-disk semantic web data structures In: Proceedings Of The 6th International Workshop On Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS2010), Shanghai, China, 8 November 2010, 96-111.
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Pagination
Important note about the Querix name
"Querix" is a registered trademark of Querix (UK) Ltd. (http://www.querix.com). The above mentioned tool/interface/publication named "Querix" was elaborated independent from Querix (UK) Ltd.