Michael Grossniklaus

Michael is a senior researcher at the Institute for Information Systems at ETH Zurich. He was born in Basel, Switzerland and graduated in Computer Science at ETH Zurich in 2001. In 2007, Michael completed his PhD entitled "An Object-Oriented Version Model for Context-Aware Data Management" under the supervision of Moira C. Norrie at ETH Zurich. In addition to research, Michael gained experience as a lecturer as well. Currently, he is teaching a course on object-oriented databases for advanced students. Michael also has a track record of working as a software developer and engineer at several Swiss companies in the pharmaceutical and software industry.

His research focuses on innovative database technologies to address the requirements of emerging applications by extending object-oriented databases with novel concepts. In response to context-aware applications, Michael has defined an object-oriented version model that supports context-dependent data management and query processing. To support the needs of today's web engineering where the need for context-awareness is particularly predominant, he has developed a content management system that can be used as an implementation platform for model-based approaches. This Extensible Content Management (XCM) system is built around the separation of content, structure, layout and view. Metadata about all four concepts is managed context-dependently leading to a very flexible and powerful system. At the moment XCM consists of a server component and a client graphical user interface. In 2005, XCM successfully served as the server back-end of EdFest mobile tourist information system at the annual Edinburgh festivals.

Michael has published his latest work in 2007 in the book Context-aware data management (ISBN-10: 3836429381).

Contribution to ODBMS.ORG

Michael has contributed an entire lecture series of ETH Zuerich, newly designed in 2007:

• Lecture 1: 035.01 Introduction
• Lecture 2: 035.02 Object Persistence
• Lecture 3: 035.03 db4o Part1
• Lecture 4: 035.04 db4o Part2
• Lecture 5: 035.05 ODMG Standard
• Lecture 6: 035.06 Objectstore Objectivity
• Lecture 7: 035.07 Storage and Indexing
• Lecture 8: 035.08 Version Models
• Lecture 9: 035.09 The OM Data Model
• Lecture 10: 035.10 Object Model Language: OML
• Lecture 11: 035.11 Avon Implementation
  (by Stefania Leone, Alexandre de Spindler and Andrei Vancea)
• Lecture 12: 035.12 Context Aware Data Management

Michael has contributed a chapter from his book on context-aware data management (ISBN-10: 3836429381):

• 035.13 Context-Aware Data Management
• 042.02 Semantic Data Management for db4o

Use of the material is unrestricted, but please acknowledge the author and ODBMS.ORG if you use or redistribute them.

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