CV

• since 04/2012: Professor at the University of Passau
• since 01/2006: Researcher at the database group
• 01/2010-04/2011: Visiting researcher at University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
• 01/2003-12/2005: Postgraduate student at Graduiertenkolleg “Knowledge Representation”

• 06/2008: Dr. (equiv. to PhD) in Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Germany (advisor: Erhard Rahm)
• 12/2002: Diploma (equiv. to Master) in Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Germany

Contact

E-Mail: thor@informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Research

• Mashup-based Data Integration
• Object Matching / Entity Resolution
• Citation Analysis
• Web Usage Mining and Online Recommendations
• PhD thesis “Automatic Mapping Processing on Web Data” (in German) (defense talk 05/2008)

Teaching

Starting Spring 2012 I’m teaching at the University of Passau

Spring 2010 & Fall 2010/11: no teaching activities because of a research stay abroad

Miscellaneous

• Spring 2011: Guest Lecture Data-Intensive Information Processing Applications (Session “Web-Scale Databases”) at University of Maryland
• Fall 2009/10: Lecture”Web Engineerung and Web Application Systems” at Leipzig School of Media

Students

• Frank Sander: Automatic Matching of hotel datasets (working title)
• Elina Jundin: A comparison of mySQL and CouchDB, 2010
• Michael Fiedler: PubMed-to-Database: A hybrid approach for storing XML data in a relational database, 2010
• Lars Kolb: A framework for fair comparison of match approaches, 2009
• Sven Schilling: Practicability analysis for Master Data Management, 2009
• Xavier Azagra Boronat: Comparison of HTML-aware tools for web data extraction, 2008
• Michael Schwipps: Development of a application framework for iFuice, 2007
• Michael Scherf: Extraction of semi-structured date for iFuice, 2007
• Sarah Gebhardt: Extraction of local data for iFuice, 2007
• Nico Heller: Integration of bibliographic data with iFuice, 2007
• Sebastian Stoll: Website Matching with COMA++, 2005

Service

• PC Member ESWC 2012, DownScale 2012, ReD 2012
• External Reviewer SIGMOD 2012, ICDE 2012, VLDB 2011, ICDE 2008, VLDB 2007, SIGMOD 2006, BTW 2005
• Reviewer Data & Knowledge Engineering, IJSWIS Journal, Performance Evaluation, Czech Science Foundation
• Publicity Co-Chair WAIM 2008

Scholarships

• Post-doctoral scholarship from the Germany Research Foundation (2010-2011)
• CIDR graduate student scholarship (2007)
• Graduate student scholarship from the Germany Research Foundation (2003-2005)
• Undergraduate student scholarship from the German National Merit Foundation (2000-2002)

Publications

Benik, J.; Chang, C.; Raschid, L.; Vidal, M. E.; Palma, G.; Thor, A. Finding Cross Genome Patterns in Annotation Graphs DILS 2012 (accepted for publication) 2012-06

Anderson, P.; Thor, A.; Benik, J.; Raschid, L.; Vidal, M.-E. PAnG - Finding Patterns in Annotation Graphs SIGMOD 2012 (demo paper) 2012-05

Endrullis, S.; Thor, A.; Rahm, E. Entity Search Strategies for Mashup Applications ICDE 2012 2012-04

Groß, A.; Hartung, M.; Thor, A.; Rahm, E. How do Ontology Mappings Change in the Life Sciences? CoRR abs/1204.2731 2012-04

Kolb, L; Thor, A.; Rahm, E Load Balancing for MapReduce-based Entity Resolution ICDE 2012 2012-04

Köpcke, H.; Thor, A.; Thomas, S.; Rahm, E. Tailoring entity resolution for matching product offers Proc. 15th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2012-03

Kolb, L.; Thor, A.; Rahm, E. Multi-pass Sorted Neighborhood Blocking with MapReduce Computer Science - Research and Development 2012-02

Kolb, L.; Köpcke, H.; Thor, A.; Rahm, E. Learning-based Entity Resolution with MapReduce CloudDB 2011 2011-10

Kolb, L; Thor, A.; Rahm, E Block-based Load Balancing for Entity Resolution with MapReduce CIKM 2011 2011-10

Thor, A.; Anderson, P.; Raschid, L.; Navlakha, S.; Saha, B.; Khuller, S.; Zhang, X.-N. Link Prediction for Annotation Graphs using Graph Summarization International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2011 2011-10

Thor, A.; Rahm, E. CloudFuice: A flexible Cloud-based Data Integration System Proc. of 10th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) 2011-06

Kolb, L.; Thor, A.; Rahm, E. Parallel Sorted Neighborhood Blocking with MapReduce BTW 2011 2011-03

Thor, A.; Bornmann, L. The calculation of the single publication h index and related performances measures: A Web application based on Google Scholar Online Information Review 35(2) 2011-01

Köpcke, H.; Thor, A.; Rahm, E. Evaluation of entity resolution approaches on real-world match problems Proc. 36th Intl. Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB) / Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 3, No. 1 2010-09 [23 citations]

Thor, A. Toward an adaptive String Similarity Measure for Matching Product Offers GI-Workshop - Informationsintegration in Service-Architekturen 2010-09

Köpcke, H.; Thor, A.; Rahm, E. Learning-based approaches for matching web data entities IEEE Internet Computing 14(4) 2010-07 [7 citations]

Bornmann, L.; Marx, W.; Schier, H.; Thor, A.; Daniel, H.-D. From black box to white box at open access journals: Predictive validity of manuscript reviewing and editorial decisions … Research Evaluation 19(2) 2010-06

Endrullis, S.; Thor, A.; Rahm, E. Evaluation of Query Generators for Entity Search Engines Proc. of Intl. Workshop on Using Search Engine Technology for Information Management (USETIM) 2009-08 [6 citations]

Köpcke, H.; Thor, A.; Rahm, E. Comparative evaluation of entity resolution approaches with FEVER Proc. 35th Intl. Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Demo 2009-08 [10 citations]

Thor, A.; Hartung, M.; Groß, A.; Kirsten, T.; Rahm, E. An Evolution-based Approach for Assessing Ontology Mappings - A Case Study in the Life Sciences Proc. of 13. GI-Fachtagung für Datenbanksysteme in Business, Technologie und Web (BTW), 2009 2009-03

Bornmann, L.; Marx, W.; Schier, H.; Rahm, E.; Thor, A.; Daniel, H.-D. Convergent validity of bibliometric Google Scholar data in the field of chemistry Journal of Informetrics, Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 27-35 2009

Aumueller, D.; Thor, A. Mashup-Werkzeuge zur Ad-hoc-Datenintegration im Web Datenbank-Spektrum, 8. Jahrgang, Heft 26 2008-09

Thor, A. Automatische Mapping-Verarbeitung auf Webdaten Dissertation, Universität Leipzig 2008

Rahm, E.; Thor, A.; Aumueller, D. Dynamic Fusion of Web Data Proc. XSym07, Vienna, LNCS, Sep. 2007 2007-09 [11 citations]

Thor, Andreas; Aumueller, David; Rahm, Erhard Data Integration Support for Mashups Sixth International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web, IIWeb, 2007. Vancouver, Canada 2007-07 [26 citations]

Kirsten, T.; Thor, A.; Rahm, E. Instance-based matching of large life science ontologies Proc. DILS 2007, LNCS 2007-06 [22 citations]

Thor, A.; Kirsten, T.; Rahm, E. Instance-based matching of hierarchical ontologies Proc. of 12. GI-Fachtagung für Datenbanksysteme in Business, Technologie und Web 2007-03 [12 citations]

Thor, A.; Rahm, E. MOMA - A Mapping-based Object Matching System Proc. of the 3rd Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research 2007-01 [39 citations]

Rahm, E.; Thor, A. Citation analysis of database publications ACM Sigmod Record 2005-12 [48 citations]

Thor, A.; Golovin, N.; Rahm, E. Adaptive Website Recommendations with AWESOME VLDB Journal 14(4) 2005-11

Rahm, E.; Thor, A.; Aumueller, D.; Do, H.H.; Golovin, N.; Kirsten, T. iFuice - Information Fusion utilizing Instance Correspondences and Peer Mappings 8th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB) 2005-06 [20 citations]

Kirsch, C.; Thor, A. Extra groß iX - Magazin für professionelle Informationstechnik, 11/2004 2004-11

Thor, A.; Rahm, E. AWESOME - A Data Warehouse-based System for Adaptive Website Recommendations Proc. 30th Intl. Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB) 2004-08 [17 citations]

Thor, A.; Rahm, E. Data-Warehouse-basierte Architektur für adaptive Online-Recommendations Proc. Workshop “Content- und Wissensmanagement”, Leipziger Informatiktage (LIT), Leipzig, 2003 2003-09