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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2010
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Unsupervised conflict-free ontology evolution without removing axioms In: 4th International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD 2010), Shanghai, China, 8 November 2010.
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Evaluating semantic search tools using the SEALS platform In: International Workshop on Evaluation of Semantic Technologies (IWEST 2010) Workshop, Shanghai, China, 8 November 2010.
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Default logics for plausible reasoning with controversial axioms In: 6th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW-2010), Shanghai, China, 7 November 2010.
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Data mining workflow templates for intelligent discovery assistance and auto-experimentation In: Proc of the ECML/PKDD'10 Workshop on Third Generation Data Mining: Towards Service-oriented Knowledge Discovery (SoKD'10), Barcelona, Spain, 20 September 2010 - 24 September 2010, 1-12.
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Data mining workflow templates for intelligent discovery assistance in RapidMiner In: Proc of RCOMM'10, Dortmund, Germany, 13 September 2010 - 16 September 2010, 19-26.
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An overview of intelligent data assistants for data analysis In: 3rd Planning to Learn Workshop (WS9) at ECAI'10, Lisbon, Portugal, 16 August 2010 - 20 August 2010, 7-14.
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eProPlan: a tool to model automatic generation of data mining workflows In: 3rd Planning to Learn Workshop (WS9) at ECAI'10, Lisbon, Portugal, 16 August 2010 - 20 August 2010, 15-17.
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Canopener: recycling old and new data In: 3rd Workshop on Mashups, Enterprise Mashups and Lightweight Composition on the Web (MEM 2010), Raleigh, USA, 26 April 2010.
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The Missing Links: Bugs and Bug-fix Commits In: ACM SIGSOFT / FSE '10: eighteenth International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, CHECK Santa Fe, USA, 2010, 97-106.
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When process data quality affects the number of bugs: correlations in software engineering datasets In: MSR '10: 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, Cape Town, South Africa, 2010, 62-71.
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An experimental study on real option strategies In: 37th Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2010, 1-36.
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Methodology and campaign design for the evaluation of semantic search tools In: Semantic Search 2010 Workshop (SemSearch 2010), Shanghai, China, 2010, 10pp.
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Structure preserving TBox repair using defaults In: 23rd International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2010), Waterloo, Canada, 2010, 384-395.
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Dissertation
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Automatic verification of small molecule structure with one dimensional proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum 2010, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics.
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Edited Scientific Work
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Proceedings of the 3rd Planning to Learn Workshop (WS9) at ECAI 2010 Edited by: Brazdil, Pavel; Bernstein, Abraham; Kietz, Jörg-Uwe (2010). Lisbon, Portugal: Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group.
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Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2009 Edited by: Hölldobler, Steffen; Bernstein, Abraham; et al (2010). Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik.
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2009
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Journal Article
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Simple point of care risk stratification in acute coronary syndromes: the AMIS model Heart, 95(8):662-668.
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Book Section
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Querying the semantic web with ginseng - A guided input natural language search Engine In: Clematide, S; Klenner, M; Volk, Martin . Searching answers : Festschrift in honour of Michael Hess on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Münster: MV-Wissenschaft (Monsenstein und Vannerdat), 1-10.
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Private Cross-page Movie Recommendations with the Firefox add-on OMORE In: 8th International Semantic Web Conference, Washington DC, USA, 25 October 2009 - 29 October 2009.
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Probabilistic partial user model similarity for collaborative filtering In: 1st International Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning on the Semantic Web (IRMLeS2009) at the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009), Heraklion, Greece, 1 June 2009.
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Towards cooperative planning of data mining workflows In: Proc of the ECML/PKDD09 Workshop on Third Generation Data Mining: Towards Service-oriented Knowledge Discovery (SoKD-09), Bled, Slovenia, September 2009.
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Software process data quality and characteristics - a historical view on open and closed source projects In: IWPSE-Evol'09: Proceedings of the joint international and annual ERCIM workshops on Principles of software evolution (IWPSE) and software evolution (Evol) workshops, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 2009, 119-128.
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Fair and balanced? Bias in bug-fix datasets In: ESEC/FSE '09: Proceedings of the 7th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering on European software engineering conference and foundations of software engineering, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 2009, 121-130.
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From active towards InterActive learning: using consideration information to improve labeling correctness In: Human Computation Workshop, Paris, France, June 2009, 40-43.
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Applied temporal RDF: efficient temporal querying of RDF data with SPARQL In: 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Crete, Greece, June 2009.
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On the evolution of ontologies using probabilistic description logics In: First ESWC Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning on the Semantic Web, Heraklion, Greece, June 2009.
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Tell me where you've lived, and I'll tell you what you like: adapting interfaces to cultural preferences In: User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP), Trento, Italy, June 2009.
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Tracking concept drift of software projects using defect prediction quality In: 6th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, Vancouver, Canada, May 2009.
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Edited Scientific Work
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Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2008 Edited by: Bernstein, Abraham; Hölldobler, Steffen; et al (2009). Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik.
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The Semantic Web - ISWC 2009 Edited by: Bernstein, A; Karger, D R; Heath, T; Feigenbaum, L; Maynard, D; Motta, E; Thirunarayan, K (2009). Berlin: Springer.
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2008
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Journal Article
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Suchmethoden im Netz: heute - morgen digma: Zeitschrift für Datenrecht und Informationssicherheit, 8(3):106-109.
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Den Transaktionen auf der Spur OecNews: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der Universität Zürich, 38(111):18-19.
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Book Section
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Foreign Exchange In: Geiger, Hans; Bretschger, Lucas . The Swiss Financial Center as a value added system 2007: Monitoring report. Zürich: Swiss Financial Center Watch (SFCW), 114-121.
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Conference or Workshop item
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To Make or to Buy? Sourcing Decisions at the Zurich Cantonal Bank In: International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Paris, France, 14 December 2008 - 17 December 2008.
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Enhancing semantic web services with inheritance In: 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008), Karlsruhe, Germany, 26 October 2008 - 30 October 2008. Springer, 162-177.
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SemTree: ontology-based decision tree algorithm for recommender systems In: International Semantic Web Conference, Karlsruhe, Germany, 26 October 2008 - 30 October 2008.
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Hexastore: Sextuple Indexing for Semantic Web Data Management In: 34th Intl Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Auckland, New Zealand, 23 August 2008 - 28 August 2008.
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Meta-learning with kernels and similarity functions for planning of data mining workflows In: ICML/COLT/UAI 2008, Planing to Learn Workshop (PlanLearn), Helsinki, Finnland, 9 July 2008, 23-28.
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Adding data mining support to SPARQL via statistical relational learning methods In: 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Tenerife, Spain, 1 June 2008 - 5 June 2008. Springer, 478-492.
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The creation and evaluation of iSPARQL strategies for matchmaking In: 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), Tenerife, Spain, 1 June 2008 - 5 June 2008. Springer, 463-477.
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SPARQL Basic Graph Pattern Optimization Using Selectivity Estimation In: 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Beijing, China, 21 April 2008 - 25 April 2008.
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Predicting User Interface Preferences of Culturally Ambiguous Users In: 26th Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Florence, Italy, 5 April 2008 - 10 April 2008.
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Flexible (Wieder-)Verwendung multimedialer und online verfügbarer Selbstlernmodule in der Wirtschaftsinformatik: Designprinzipien und Lessons Learned In: Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI 2008), Munic, Germany, 26 February 2008 - 28 February 2008.
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Dissertation
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Audio vs. Chat : Auswirkung der Medienwahl zwischen Audio und Chat auf die kooperative, verteilte Gruppenarbeit 2008, University of Zurich, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät.
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Edited Scientific Work
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Proceedings of the Second Planning to Learn Workshop (PlanLearn) at ICML/COLT/UAI 2008 Edited by: Brazdil, P; Bernstein, A; Hunter, L (2008). Helsinki, Finnland: Omnipress.
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Monograph
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Augezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2007 Bonn, Switzerland: Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).
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2007
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Conference or Workshop item
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Cultural user modeling with CUMO: an approach to overcome the personalization bootstrapping problem In: First International Workshop on Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), Busan, South Korea, 11 November 2007.
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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.