Contact

O. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Laszlo Böszörmenyi (Head of the Institute of Information Technology and of the Research Group Distributed Multimedia Systems), full professor

Office: E.2.62 - Office Hours: Monday 15.00 - 16.00
Phone: ++43 (0)463 2700 3611, Fax: ++43 (0)463 2700 3699, E-mail:

Learn more about the Research Group => you can access the PDF document here.

Courses

• Distributed Multimedia Systems
• Computer Networking
• Distributed Systems
• Compiler Construcion
• Seminar on Distributed Systems
• PhD Seminar
• More...

Current research topics

• Self-organizing content delivery
• Video Calculus – formal framework for handling non-linear video delivery
• Video Exploration – interactive and immediate extraction of semantics from videos
• Non-linear video presentation
• Fast video analysis based on H.264 video encoding
• Social computing, metadata, semantics in multimedia
• Languages, compilers and frameworks for QoS aware applications

Publications

• Refereed and Invited Conference Papers
• Publications in Scientific Journals
• Editorial work and Contributions to Books
• Technical Reports and Others
• ALL Publications (pdf)

Master Thesis (Diplomarbeiten)  

• QoS Benchmarking
• Automatische compiler-basierte Parallelisierung in einem verteilten heterogenen Netzwerk
• CSCW Management for Model-Based Libraries
• Evaluation von straßenseitiger Sensorik und Aktorik auf Autobahnen und Schnellstrassen gemäß dem „TLS-Standard“
• Zipf’s law for online multimedia content & change of popularity over time

Projects

• SOMA: Self Organizing Multimedia Architecture
• LOOK: A Platform for Traffic Content with Broad Access
• Georeferenced Multimedia Touristguide (GeoMT)
• HUBUSKA
• Translational Research (CAMUS)
• SIEMENS SMART "Scene based Video Adaptation"
• ANET Tourguide
• Carinthian Networked Multimedia (CNM)
• Proxy-to-Proxy (X2X) Video Distribution and Streaming
• Semantic and Network-Level Affinity serving for Video Distribution
• Adaptation based on Advanced Video Coding
• 4D User Interfaces
• Programming Languages and Compilers for Multimedia Application
• Quality Adaptive Video-Caching and -Transmission
• Adaptive Multimedia Server based on Mobile Agents
• People behind Informatics
• Virtual Exhibition in memory of Dahl, Disjkstra and Nygaard

Detaild information can be found at the Research documentation at the Klagenfurt University.

Activities/Functions

Academic Functions (Selection):

• Member of the Editorial Review Board of the International "Journal of Multimedia Processing and Technologies (JMPT)"
• Member of the Review board of the special issue on "Multimedia-Metadata and Semantic Management" in IEEE Multimedia Journal
• ACM Senior Member since June 2009.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the "International Journal On Advances in Networks and Services" (ISSN 1942-2644)
• Scientific Advisory Body of M3-Systems, Klagenfurt
• Consultant for the advisory board of BUILD! - The Graduate Centre for Entrepreneurship in Carinthia
• Member of Editorial board of "Computer Science and Information Systems"
• Referee of project proporsals for "The National Office for Research and Technology, Hungary"
• Vice President of the Austrian Society for History of Computing Sicence (June 2004 - June 2007)
• Referee of project proposals for "The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)" (2005)
• Deputy member of the Steering Committee of Minema (ESF Scientific Programme) - (2004 - 2005)
• Consultant of the appointment committee "Control and Measurement Systems" at Klagenfurt University (2007)
• Consultant of the appointment committee "Angewandte Musikwissenschaft" at Klagenfurt University (2006)
• Consultant of the appointment committees "Media Engineering" and "Pervasive Computing" at Klagenfurt University (2005)
• Consultant of the appointment committees "Mobile Systems" and "Computer Science in Transportation" at Klagenfurt University (2004)

Functions at conferences/Program Committees (Selection):

2009/2010/2011

• Member of Program Committee of "The Third International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2011)", April 17-22, 2011, Budapest, Hungary
• Member of Program Committee of the 12th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community (SMDT 2010)", Saarbrücken, Germany - December 1-3, 2010.
  
• Member of the Panel "Tendencies and Challenges in MultiMedia" at the Second International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMedia 2010), Athens, Greece, June 13-19, 2010
• Member of International Program Committee (IPC) for the IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2011), Innsbruck, Austria, Feb 15-17, 2011.
• Member of Program Committee of "The Eight International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM 2010)", Paris, France, Nov 08-10, 2010.
• Member of Program Committee of "The 11th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community (WISMA 2010)", Barcelona, Spain, May 19-20, 2010.
• Reviewer for IEEE Communications Letters and member of the scientific community, December 2009 - February 2010
• Member of Technical Program Committee and Proceedings Chair of the ACM Multimedia 2010 Conference, Firenze, Italy, October 25-29, 2010
• Member of Program Committee of "The Third International Symposium on Multimedia – Applications and Processing (MMAP 2010)", Wisla, Poland, October 18-20, 2010
• Advisory Chair (IARIA International Academy, Research and Industry Association) of "The Second International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia (MMedia 2010)", Athens, Greece, June 13-19, 2010
• Member of Program Committee of "The 11th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2010)", London, UK, June 09-11, 2010
• Member of Program Committee of "The Second International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2010)", Athens, Greece, June 13-19, 2010;
• Member of Program Committee for the Special Session "Advanced Peer-to-Peer Protocols and Applications" at "IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2010)", August 2009 - February 2010
• Member of Program Committee of the "10th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies (SeMuDaTe 2009), December 2009, Graz, Austria
• Session chair for session MMedia 7 at the "First International Conference on Advances in Multimedia" (MMedia 2009), July 2009, Colmar, France
• Panelist at the MMEDIA Expert Panel "Thinking at a Picture and Find it; Evolving MMedia Computer Interface" within The First International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMedia 2009) - July 2009, Colmar, France
• Keynote Speaker at the The First International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMedia 2009) - July 2009, Colmar, France
• Invited talk "Multimedia Everywhere - A Dream or a Nightmare?" at the University of Passau, June 2009, Passau, Germany
• Session chair for session MMedia 7 at the "Second International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service" (NexComm 2009), July 2009
• Member of the International Program Committee (IPC) for the "IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2010)", April 2009 - February 2010
• Member of Program Committee of "The 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM 2009)", March - December 2009
• Member of Editorial Board of the International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications (IJMcMc), February 2009
  
• Member of Technical Program Committee of the "High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS 2009)", January - June 2009
• Member of Review Board of the Special Issue on "Multimedia-Metadata and Semantics Management in IEEE Multimedia Journal, January - March 2009
• Member of Program Committee of "Knowledge Engineering: Principles and Techniques Conference 2009 (KEPT)", January - July 2009
• Reviewer for "ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP)", January - March 2009
• Member of Technical Program Committee of the "Systems & Networking" tracks at ACM MM 2009, December - October 2009
• Member of Review Board of a special issue on "Multimedia-Metadata and Semantic Management" in IEEE Multimedia Journal, October - December 2009
• Member of Program Committee of "9th Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community (WMM´09)", Toulouse, France, March 2009
• Member of Program Committee of "The First International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2009)", Colmar, France, July 19-24, 2009

2008

• Member of Review Board of a special issue on "Multimedia-Metadata and Semantic Management" in IEEE Multimedia Journal, October - December 2009
• Member of Program Committee of "9th Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community (WMM´09)", Toulouse, France, March 2009
• Member of Program Committee of "The First International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2009)", Colmar, France, July 19-24, 2009
• Guest Editor of special issue of "International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting" - Vol. 2008, Sept. 2008
• Member of Program Committee of International Conference on New Media Technology (I-Media 2008), Graz, September 3-5, 2008
• Member of the International Program Committee for the IASTED Internatinal Conference on Distributed and Intelligent Multimdedia Systems (DIMS 2008), Orlando, USA, November 16-18, 2008.
• Member of Program Committee of Workshop on Global Computing Models and Technologies, Timisoara, Romania, September 27-28, 2008
• Reviewer for Journal of Multimedia/Special Issue on Multimodal Information Retrieval, March 2008
• Keynote Speaker at the IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (EuroIMSA 2008) - March 2008, Innsbruck, Austria
• Keynote Speaker at UNISCON 2008 (Pools international conferences addressing Information Systems from different perspectives) - April 2008, Klagenfurt, Austria
• Member of Program Committee of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM 2008)- November 2008, Linz, Austria
• Member of Program Committee of the 3rd International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS 2008)- September 2008, Vienna, Austria
• Member of Program Committee of the 3rd International Conference ISSEP - Informatics in Secondary Schools (ISSEP 2008) - July 2008, Torun, Poland
• Member of Program Committee of the 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008) - May 2008, Innsbruck, Austria
• Member of Program Committee of the ACM Multimedia Conference 2008 - October/November 2008, Vancouver, Canada

2007

• Chair and Organizer of "Methodic and Didactic Challenges of the History of Informatics Workshop (MEDICHI 2007)" - April 2007, Klagenfurt, Austria
• Chair and Organizer of "Wolfgang von Kempelen Prize for Computing Science History 2007"
• Member of Program Committee of "The 6th International Conference on Information Systems Technology and its Applications (ISTA 2007)" - May 2007, Kharkiv, Ukraine
• Member of Program Committee of "The 5th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM 2007)" - December 2007, Jakarta, Indonesia
• Member of Program Committee of 10th International Confernce on Business Information Systems (BIS 2007) - April 2007, Poznan, Poland
• Member of Program Committee of "International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (ENTER 2007)" - January 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Member of Program Committee of "High Performance Computing Symposium (HPCS 2007)" - May 2007, Saskatoon, Canada
• Member of Program Committee of "Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2007)" - February 2007, Innsbruck, Austria

2006

• General Chair of the 77th MPEG and 20th JVT ISO/IEC meeting, July 17-21, 2006, Klagenfurt, Austria
• Member of Program Committee of "6th International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-KNOW 2006)" - September 2006, Graz, Austria
• Member of Program Committee of "Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems (DAPSYS 2006)" - September 2006, Innsbruck, Austria
• Member of Program Committee of "The International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet–Based Systems (SITIS'2006)" - December 2006, Hammamet, Tunisia
• Member of Program Committee of "International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM 2006)" - December 2006, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
• Member of Program Committee of "Informatics in Secondary Schools: Evolution and Perspectives (ISSEP 2006)" - November 2006, Vilnius, Lithuania
• Member of Program Committee of "Multimedia Metadata Community Workshop 2006" - September 2006, Graz, Austria
• Member of Program and Steering Committee of "Joint Modular Languages Conference 2006 (JMLC)", September 2006, Oxford, United Kingdom
• Member of Program Committee of "The 10th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2006)", July 2006, Orlando/Florida, USA
• Member of Program Committee of "The Second IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Systems and Networking (WMSN 2006)", April 2006, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
• Member of Program Committee of "The 14th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network based Processing (PDP 2006)", February 2006, Montbéliard, France
• Member of Program Committee of "Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2006)" , February 2006, Innsbruck, Austria
• Member of Program Committee of "International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (ENTER 2006)", January 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland

2005

• Member of Program Committee and Reviewer of "The Third International Conference on Advances in Mobile Multimedia (MoMM 2005)", September 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Global Chair and Reviewer of Distributed and High-Performance Multimedia at EuroPar 2005, August/September 2005, Lisbon, Portugal
• General Chair of the Minema Summer School on wireless networking issues, ad-hoc networking, security in wireless networks, mobile environments, middleware for mobile computing, multimedia in heterogeneous networks etc., July 2005, Klagenfurt, Austria
• Member of Program Committee and Reviewer of "Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2005)", February 2005, Innsbruck, Austria
• Member of Program Committee and Reviewer of "The 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2005)", July 2005, Orlando/Florida, USA
• Member of Program Committee and Reviewer of "The First IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Systems and Networking (WMSN 2005)", April 2005, Phoenix/Arizona, USA
Member of Program Committee and Reviewer of "Informatics in Secondary Schools (ISSEP 2005)", March 2005, Klagenfurt, Austria

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Brief Curriculum Vitae

• Current position: Full professor of Computer Science at Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
  Born: January 11, 1949 in Budapest, Hungary
  Family status: Married with Judit Revesz, cellist, three children (Anna, Janos, Andras)
  Citizenships: Austrian and Hungarian
  Languages: Proficiency in German, English and Hungarian
  
  Professional praxis:
• Since 1992 - Alpen Adria Universiät Klagenfurt, Austria, Dept. of Information Technology
• 1998 - Visiting Professor - State University of New York at Stony Book, NY, USA 
• February 1992 - Visiting researcher - Systems Research Center of DEC (COMPAQ), Palo Alto, California, USA
• 1977/78, 1984/85 & 1990/91: Visiting researcher and lecturer; Participating on research in compiler technology and interactive graphical systems at  ETH Zurich, Switzerland 
• 1980-92: Head of Scientific Group, later Head of Scientific Department, Research and Development in the field of computer networking, operating systems, concurrent systems and software technology at  Computer & Automation Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary 
• 1972 - 1980: Research and Development in the field of computer networking and software technology at Computer Center, Research Institute for Electrical Energy, Budapest, Hungary

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• Reflections (in hu, de, en)
• Some books of Georg Kuehlewind in Hungarian (proteced, ask me for passsword)

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