E-Mail:	bry [at] lmu [dot] de
Telefon:	+49-89-2180-9310 (office) +49-89-6938 1349 (home) +43-1-913 57 69 (home)
Fax:	+49-89-2180-9311
Adresse:	Lehr- und Forschungseinheit für Programmier- und Modellierungssprachen Institut für Informatik Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
	Oettingenstr.67 80538 München Germany
Room:	E104 (formerly D104)
Secretary:	Ingeborg von Troschke

Consultation Hours, Exam Appointments, Subjects for Diploma Theses, Letters of Reference, Visits to Foreign Universites, etc.

Place: Oettingenstraße 67, Room E104 (formerly D104)

Consultation hours:

• During the teaching time of the Winter term 2009/10 and of the Summer term 2010:
  • Thursday 9.00-10.00 (Please do not come at 10:00!)
    Warning: There will be no consultation hour on
    • Thursady 11 March 2010
    • Thursday 25 March 2010
    • Thursday 1 April 2010
    • Thursday 20 May
    • Thursday 24 June
    • Thursday 15 July 2010
  • By arrangement (ask for an appointment e.g. via email)
• Out of teaching terms: By arrangement.

Exam appointments:

Please register at least one month in advance.

• During the Winter term 2009/10 and during the Summer term 2010:
  • 19 April 2010, 15:00 – 17:00
  • 21 April 2010, 16:30 – 17:45 (no more free slots)
  • 11 May 2010, 16:00 – 18:00
  • 26 May 2010, 16:30 – 17:45
  • 16 June 2010, 16:30 – 18:00
  • 2 July, 11:00 – 11:30 (no more free time slot!)
    
  • 26 July 2010, 16:00 – 17:00
  • 7 September, 15:00 – 16:45
    
   

Letters of reference, visits to foreign universites, etc.:   Please do not ask at the last minute.

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Blog

Blog "Erlebt" on the every day life of a university scientist (in German): http://pms.ifi.lmu.de/erlebt

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Research

Research interests

Current research focus:

• Web and Semantic Web Query Languages and Search
• Complex Event Processing (CEP)
• Rule Languages, Web and Semantic Web Reasoning
• Social Media, Social Software, and Social Computing
• Indexing Methods for XML and RDF

Former Doctoral Students

• Slim Abdennadher (1998)
• Sunna Torge (1998)
• Holger Meuss (with Klaus U. Schulz, 2000)
• Michael Marte (2003)
• Sebastian Schaffert (2004)
• Dan Olteanu (2005)
• Paula-Lavinia Pătrânjan (2005)
• Stephanie Spranger (2005)
• Felix Weigel (with Klaus U. Schulz, 2006)
• Sacha Berger (2008)
• Tim Furche (2008)
• Michael Eckert (2008)
• Alex Kohn (2009)

Publications

Up till 1993, since 1994, at DBLP, at Google scholar.

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Participations and co-operations

• Member of the editorial board of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS)
• Member of the board of the International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR)
• Summer Schools Reasoning Web 2005, 2006 and 2007
• REASE, the EASE repository for learning objects in the Semantic Web area
• GI representative ("Vertrauendozent") at the University of Munich
• Humanwissenschaftliches Zentrum der Universität München
• Member in the following computer science associations: AFPC, ACM, ALP, EPTS, GI, GLP, SIG SEMIS.

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Courses taught

Introductory courses

• Introduction to computer science
• Introduction to algorithms and data structures
• Introduction to theoretical computer science

Advanced courses

• Web information systems
• Logic for computer science
• Knowledge representation and management
• Declarative languages
• Compilers and abstract machines
• Automated theorem proving

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Curriculum vitæ

Profiles on LinkedIn and Xing

Born 1956, married, three daugthers, French and German citizen.

Since 1994:

Research and teaching on data and knowledge modeling, query languages, search engines, rule-based programming, Web systems and social media with the Institute for Informatics, University of Munich, as a full professor and head of the Unit "Programming and Modelling Languages".

1985-1993:

Work on deductive databases, logic programming, and automated deduction at ECRC (European Computer-Industry Research Centre), Munich, first as a researcher latter as a project leader.

1983-1984:

Work on statistic databases at the research center IRT (now INRETS ), Paris, as a researcher.

1982-1983:

Military service with the French Air Forces at SIRPA Air as a PR officer.

1981-1982:

Work on a text processing system at Transac-Alcatel (now Alcatel), Paris, as a software engineer.

1979-1981:

PhD student in Mathematics (Graph Theory) at University Paris 6 (supervisors: Claude Berge and Michel Las Vergnas) and lecturer at ESIEA, a school of engineering, Paris.

1974-1978:

First, student in applied mathematics and economics, University Paris 9, then, student in mathematics, University Paris 6.

1974 and before:

French Baccalauréat while at École Alsacienne in Paris 6. Formerly, at Lycée Romain Rolland in Ivry-sur-Seine, École Jean Poulmarch in Paris 10, École in Vandœuvre lès Nancy, École Saint-Exupéry in Rabat, Marocco.

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