Academic Services by Wolfgang May

International Projects

EU FP6 Network of Excellence "REWERSE" (Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics)

• deputy coordinator of Working Group I5: Evolution and Reactivity
• member of the Steering Committee of REWERSE
• internal reviewer for several Deliverables by WGs I4 and A3
• Lecturer at Summer School Reasoning Web 2005

Conference and Workshop Organisation

• Program Co-Chair of European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2007 (Innsbruck, 3.-6.6.2007)
• Co-organizer and Proceedings Chair of Workshop Principles and Practice of the Semantic Web (PPSWR) 2006 (10./11.6. 2006, colocated with ESWC 2006)
• Co-organizer of the EDBT 2006 Workshop "Reactivity on the Web" (31.3. 2006, Munich)
• Member of the Organization Committee of BTW 99 (the German Biannual Database Conference)

Conferences and Journals

• List of Conference Program Committee Memberships.
• Journal reviews for -among others-
  • Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge University Press,
  • Information Systems, Elsevier,
  • Information Sciences, Elsevier,
  • ACM SIGMOD Record,
  • Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier,
  • Data & Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier,
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE),
  • World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems Journal (WWW) (Springer),
  • Datenbank-Spektrum (GI FG Datenbanken)
• Book reviews for dpunkt-Verlag

Activities at Göttingen University

• examiner and membership in PhD Commissions in Computer Science and (as examiner in minor subject "Informatik/Databases") in other Departments (since 2003)
• co-initiator of the Modellprojekt Schülerstudierende (Highschool students attending introductory CS lectures; started WS2004/05)

Former Activities at Göttingen University (since 4.2003)

• member of the Studienkommission Informatik (4.2005-3.2007).
• member of the Prüfungsausschuss Informatik (4.2005-3.2007).
• member of the board of the Zentrum für Informatik (4.2004-3.2006).
• member of the board of the Institut für Informatik (4.2003-3.2005).
• member of the Zulassungskommission des Studienganges Angewandte Informatik/Master (4.2003-3.2005).
• member of the Studienkommission der mathematischen Fakultät (4.2003-3.2005).
• deputy member of the Prüfungsausschuss der mathematischen Fakultät, appointee for CS issues (4.2003-3.2005).
• Studienberatung "Angewandte Informatik" (4.2003-9.2004)
• co-editor of proposals for exam regulations etc (Zulassungs-, Studien- und Prüfungsordnungen) "Angewandte Informatik" (2003/04)
• coordinator of Studienrichtungen Geoinformatik und Informatik der Ökosysteme im Studiengang Angewandte Informatik (2003-2005).

Former Activities at Freiburg University (until 10.2002)

• Initiation of a W3C membership of the Inst. of Computer Science at Freiburg University; W3C Advisory Committee Member for the IIF.