ICWE 2008 - Invited Speaker: Martin Gaedke

Martin Gaedke
Chairman of the International Society for Web Engineering
Professor at the Department of Informatics, Chemnitz University of Technology

Short Bio

Martin Gaedke is a full professor of Computer Science at Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany and owner of the professorship for Distributed and Self-organizing Computer Systems (VSR).
Prior to that position, he was a senior scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and managing and leading the IT-Management and Web Engineering research group at the Institute of Telematics at the University of Karlsruhe. He also managed Web projects and consulting activities with focus on Internet and WWW technologies at the Telecooperation Office, a third-party funded know-how transfer group.

Gaedke's research interests focus on Web engineering, software engineering, and systems engineering and is driven by evolution, federation, and reuse as principles for building distributed systems. His research agenda is reflected by the Mission and Vision statements of his group VSR

Prof. Gaedke is the chairman of the International Society for Web Engineering, Managing Editor of the Journal of Web Engineering (JWE), and member of the editorial boards of Journals on eLearning and Web Information Systems. He has published more than 90 scientific papers in international conferences, journals, and books. Gaedke was co-author of one of the first papers on Web Engineering (WWW6 conference in 1997).

Within his scientific activities, he was Program Co-Chair of the 5th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2005) and chaired the Web Engineering tracks at the WWW2002, WWW2003, WWW2004, and WWW2008 conferences. He has been serving on more than 100 program committees for national and international workshops and conferences.

Martin Gaedke obtained a Diploma's degree in computer science in 1997 and a doctoral degree in engineering, on the subject of "Component-based technology for development and evolution of applications in the WWW", in 2000, both from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

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