Torben Bach Pedersen
Welcome! I am a professor in the Database and Programming Technologies group at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Science, and Medicine, Aalborg University (AAU). Before joining AAU in 2000, I held positions as industrial research fellow and database administrator at KMD (now CSC Scandihealth) for more than six years.
Research
My research generally concerns aspects of business intelligence, i.e., topics such as multidimensional databases, data warehousing, on-line analytical processing (OLAP), data mining, data integration, etc., with a special focus on complex application areas (location-based services, web data, music, real-time integration, you name it...)
Current and recent projects: I am co-director of the Center for Data-Intensive Systems (daisy). In the Daisy Innovation project, we collaborate with local industry about data-intensive systems. In the MIRABEL project, we develop data management technologies for the next generation of smart energy grids, to enable more renewable energy production in the grid.
Past projects: In the Intelligent Sound project, we worked on the next generation of intelligent sound services. In the LandIT project, we developed technologies for data integration, data analysis, and data reduction for farming devices. In the Spatio-Temporal Data Mining for Location-Based Services project, we developed methods for discovering patterns in spatio-temporal data. In the AOBI project, we investigated the use of agile methods and open source tools for business intelligence. In the Data Management Support for Location-Based Services (LBS) project, we studied the data management foundations for ubiquitous computing, with a focus on the modeling and management of the geo-referenced aspects of reality. In the ContextIT project, we studied context-based information systems. In the Rethinking Business Intelligence for the Age of Pervasive Computing project, we developed technologies for performing real-time XML data integration and querying data streams. In the European Internet Accessibility Observatory (EIAO) project, we built an internet-scale system for monitoring and analyzing the accessibility of web pages.
Publications
List of publications in DBLP. List of publications in VBN (AAU database). My Google Scholar-based h-index (according to Harzing’s Publish or Perish) (and h14-index) is 26.
Teaching and Students
Recent courses: Data Warehousing and Machine Learning (Aalborg University, Spring 2006), Data Warehousing and Data Mining (Aalborg University, Fall 2006), Information Systems (Aarhus University, Fall 2009)
Ph.D. students: Igor Timko (Ph.D. 2005, first job assistant professor at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), Xuepeng Yin (Ph.D. 2007, first job at Accobat), Christian Thomsen (Ph.D. 2008, assistant professor at daisy), Gyozo Gidofalvi (Ph.D. 2008, assistant professor at KTH), Francois Deliege (Ph.D. 2009, entrepreneur), Morten Middelfart (Ph.D. 2010, CTO at TARGIT), Nadeem Iftikhar (Ph.D. 2011, first job lecturer at UCN), Xiufeng Liu (ongoing), Laurynas Siksnys (ongoing), Dalia Kaulakiene (ongoing), Saulius Samulevicius (ongoing), Tanvir Ahmed (ongoing)
Scientific Service
I serve on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining, Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, and LNCS Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems. In 2007, I served as PC Chair for DOLAP. In 2009, I served as General Chair for SSTD, PC Chair for DaWaK and Regional Chair (Europe) for DASFAA. In 2010, I served as PC Chair for DaWaK. In 2011, I served as Panels Chair for ER. In 2012, I serve as co-chair of EnDM and Cloud-I.
PC memberships: 2012: ADBIS, BEWEB, BIRTE, DaWaK, GeoDoc, ECDM, MDM (Ph.D. track) 2011: BEWEB, BIRTE, DaWaK KES, WMCD, DOLAP 2010: KES AKBS, BEWEB, ADBIS WOCD Track, ECDM, BIRTE, DOLAP 2009: ICDE, SIGMOD (demo PC), BIRTE, DOLAP 2008: BIRTE, DaWaK, DEXA, DOLAP, ECDM, JODS (special issue on semantic data warehouses), KES, MMD, WebS, XANTEC 2007: ICDE, ICISTM, DEXA, DaWaK, WebS; 2006: ADBIS, BIRTE, DaWaK, DOLAP, ECDM, ICSNW, QLQP, WebS; 2005: ADBIS, COMAD, DaWaK, DBA, ODBASE, ICDCIT, VLDB, WebS; 2004: ADBIS, ADVIS, DaWaK, DBA, DIWeb, SSDBM; 2003: DaWaK, ISE; 2002: DMDW, EDBT.
On top of this, I have performed external reviewing for more than 30 journals and conferences, including ACM TODS, VLDBJ, DKE, VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, ER and SSDBM.
I am a member of the SSTD Endowment. I am chairman of the Danish Bibliometric Committee for Computer Science.
Industrial Collaboration
I founded and continue to run the Business Intelligence Technology (BIT) knowledge exchange network. Since 2000, I have collaborated with more than 15 industrial partners. Current partners include TARGIT.
Contact:
Torben Bach Pedersen, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University,
Selma Lagerløfs Vej 300,
DK-9220 Aalborg Ø, Denmark, email: "tbp AT cs aau dk",
phone: +45 9940 9975, fax: +45 9940
9798
Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
12th International Conference, DaWaK 2010, Bilbao, Spain, August 30 - September 2, 2010, Proceedings
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6263
Subseries: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI
Mohania, Mukesh K.; Tjoa, A Min (Eds.)
1st Edition., 2010, X, 338 p., Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-642-15104-0
Advances in Spatial and
Temporal Databases
11th International Symposium, SSTD 2009 Aalborg, Denmark, July 8-10, 2009
Proceedings
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Subseries: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and
HCI , Vol. 5644
Mamoulis, N.; Seidl, Th.; Pedersen, T.B.; Torp,
K.; Assent, I. (Eds.)
2009, XII, 466 p., Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-642-02981-3
Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
11th
International Conference, DaWaK 2009 Linz, Austria,
August 31-September 2, 2009 Proceedings
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Subseries: Information Systems and
Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI , Vol. 5691
Pedersen,
Torben Bach; Mohania, Mukesh
K.; Tjoa, A Min (Eds.)
2009, XIV, 480 p., Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-642-03729-0