[German Version]

Address:

• University of Giessen
  Institute for Computer Science
  Arndtstr. 2
  D-35392 Giessen
  GERMANY
• Office: Room 108.
• Email: sbrass@sis.pitt.edu
• Phone: +49-641-99-32150
• Office Hours: By Appointment.

Interests:

• Databases
• World Wide Web Query Languages and Search Agents
• Semistructured Data
• Logic Programming
• Knowledge Representation, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Negation as Failure

Lectures:

• Short Course on XML (Summer 2000)

• INFSCI 2710 - Database Management (Spring 2000)
• INFSCI 3967 - Doctoral Seminar (Spring 2000)
• INFSCI 2710 - Database Management (Spring 1999)
• INFSCI 0015 - Data Structures and Programming Techniques (Spring 1999)
• INFSCI 2710 - Database Management (Summer 1999)
• INFSCI 2711 - Database Analysis and Design (Fall 1999)

• Databases
• Foundations of the World Wide Web

Recent Papers:

• S. Brass: SLDMagic - The Real Magic (with Applications to Web Queries). In: First International Conference on Computational Logic (CL'2000/DOOD'2000), Springer LNAI, 2000.
           [Abstract]    [Postscript (80K)]    [Software]
   
• S. Brass, J. Dix, I. Niemelä, T. C. Przymusinski: On the Equivalence of the Static and Disjunctive Well-Founded Semantics and its Computation. Journal of Theoretical Computer Science, to appear (Vol. 251, 2001).
           [Postscript (108K)]
   
• S. Brass, J. Dix: Semantics of (Disjunctive) Logic Programs Based on Partial Evaluation. In: The Journal of Logic Programming 40:1 (1999), 1-46.
           [Postscript (194K)]
   
• S. Brass, J. Dix, B. Freitag, U. Zukowski: Transformation-Based Bottom-Up Computation of the Well-Founded Model. Accepted for Publication in: Theory and Practice of Logic Programming.
           [Postscript (149K)]
   
• S. Brass, J. Dix, T. C. Przymusinski: Computation of the Semantics of Autoepistemic Belief Theories. Journal of Artificial Intelligence , Volumne 112, No. 1-2, 1999.
           [Paper (ps, 118K, 21 pages)]    [Technical Report (ps, 263K, 63 pages)]    [Software]

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Biographical Information:

• In July 2000, I have started working as an Associate Professor in the Institute for Computer Science of the University of Giessen.
• From December 1998 to May 2000, I worked as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Information Science and Telecommunications of the University of Pittsburgh.
• 1996-1998: I was a visiting professor (substitute for the vacant full professorship for information systems) at the University of Hildesheim.
• 1997: I got the habilitation degree (postdoctoral teaching qualification including the "venia legendi" for computer science) from the University of Hannover.
• 1992-1996: I worked as `scientific assistant' (compares to assistant professor) in the insitute for computer science of the University of Hannover.
• 1992: I got the doctoral degree "with honors". My thesis was about `Defaults in Deductive Databases'.
• 1988-1992: I worked as a research assistant at the University of Dortmund and University of Hannover (supervised by Prof. Dr. Udo Lipeck).
• 1983-1988: I studied computer science at the Technical University of Braunschweig.
  My diploma thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. H.-D. Ehrich.

Complete CV

More Personal Information about me (e.g. Religion)

Stefan Brass (sbrass@sis.pitt.edu), August 25, 2000

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