Torben Bach Pedersen

Hi there! I am a full 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.

Official web site

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 newly established Center for Data-Intensive Systems (daisy). In the recently started Daisy Innovation project, we collaborate with local industry about data-intensive systems. In the Intelligent Sound project, we build a framework for the next generation of intelligent sound services. In the LandIT project, we develop technologies for real-time data integration for farming devices. In the Spatio-Temporal Data Mining for Location-Based Services project, we develop novel methods for discovering patterns in spatio-temporal data. In the AOBI project, we investigate the use of agile methods and open source tools for business intelligence.

Past projects: 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 h11-index) is 21.

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, now at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), Xuepeng Yin (Ph.D. 2007, now at Accobat), Christian Thomsen (Ph.D. 2008, now post doc at daisy), Gyozo Gidofalvi (Ph.D. 2008, now post doc at UU), Francois Deliege (Ph.D. 2009), Morten Middelfart (ongoing), Nadeem Iftikhar (ongoing), Xiufeng Liu (ongoing)

Scientific Service

I serve on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining and Journal of Computing Science and Engineering. In 2007, I served as PC Chair for DOLAP. In 2009, I serve as General Schair for SSTD, PC Chair for DaWaK and Regional Chair (Europe) for DASFAA.

PC memberships: 2009: ICDE, SIGMOD (demo PC), 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.

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 Geomatic and TARGIT.

Contact:

Torben Bach Pedersen, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Selma Lagerlöfsvej 300, DK-9220 Aalborg Ø, Denmark, email: "tbp AT cs aau dk", phone: +45 9940 9975, fax: +45 9940 9798

New book!

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

New book!

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