Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Short Biography
Martin Hepp is Professor of Web Science and Digitalization at the Universität der Bundeswehr Munich and CEO and Chief Scientist of Hepp Research GmbH. His key research interest is in shared data structures at Web scale. As part of his work, he authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and developed the GoodRelations vocabulary for e-commerce, widely used by companies like Google, Yahoo, BestBuy, Kmart, Volkswagen, Renault, and tens of thousands of smaller businesses.
Long Biography
Martin Hepp is Professor of Web Science and Digitalization at the Universität der Bundeswehr Munich and CEO and Chief Scientist of Hepp Research GmbH. He holds a master's degree in business management and business information systems and a PhD in business information systems from the University of Würzburg (Germany). His key research interests are shared data structures at Web scale, for example Web ontology engineering, both at the technical, social, and economical levels, conceptual modeling in general, and data quality management. As part of his research, he developed the GoodRelations vocabulary, an OWL DL ontology for data interoperability for e-commerce at Web Scale. Since 11/2012, GoodRelations is the e-commerce core of schema.org, the official data markup standard of major search engines, namely Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Yandex. Prof. Hepp authored more than 60 academic publications and was the organizer of more than fifteen workshops and conference tracks on conceptual modeling, Semantic Web topics, and information systems, and a member of more than sixty conference and workshop program committees, including ECIS, EKAW, ESWC, IEEE CEC/EEE, ISWC, and WWW.
Education
| 2005 - 2008 |
Habilitation (venia legendi) for Information Systems, University of Würzburg (Germany) Habilitation Thesis: SWEEP - Semantic Web Environment for E-Procurement (cumulative thesis) Habilitation Committee: Prof. Dr. Rainer Thome, Prof. Dr. Ronald Bogaschewsky, Prof. Dr. Matthias Schumann |
| 2000 - 2003 |
PhD, Management Information Systems, University of Würzburg (Germany) Summa Cum Laude Thesis Title: Product Classification Systems as a Problem of Semantic Standardization (in German) Thesis Committee: Prof. Dr. Rainer Thome, Prof. Dr. Marcus Spies |
| 1997 - 1999 |
Diplom-Kaufmann (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, University of Würzburg Majors: Management Information Systems, Operations Research, Law Rank #6 of 94 / Top 10 % |
| 1994 - 1997 |
Vordiplom, Business Administration and Management, University of Würzburg |
Positions Held / Employment
| 4/2011 - 9/2012 | Visiting Scientist, Semantic Technology Institute Innsbruck (STI Innsbruck). |
| 4/2010 - present | CEO, Hepp Research GmbH. |
| 4/2008 - present | Professor of General Management and E-Businesss and head of the E-Business and Web Science Research Group, Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany |
| 5/2007 - 4/2009 |
Professor of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria Head of the Research Group Semantics in Business Information Systems (SEBIS) Semantic Technology Institute Innsbruck (formerly known as DERI Innsbruck) |
| 1/2005 - 4/2007 | Senior Researcher, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), University of Innsbruck, Austria |
| 8/2003 - 4/2006 |
Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems, Florida Gulf Coast University, Lutgert College of Business, Fort Myers, Florida, USA |
| 5/2004 - 7/2004 | Visiting Scientist, e-Business Solutions Group, IBM Research, Zurich Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 6/2002 | Visiting Scholar, Boston University, School of Management |
| 6/2000 - 7/2003 | Faculty Coordinator, EMBA Program Business Integration, University of Würzburg |
| 1/2000 - 7/2003 |
Research Assistant and Junior Lecturer at the Department of Management and Information Systems, University of Würzburg |
Awards and Honors
| 10/2009 | Linked Data-a-thon Award (4th prize), International Semantic Web Conference 2009 (ISWC 2009) on-site application development competition, for the prototype "iGoogr: Imagine Google was using the GoodRelations vocabulary for e-commerce". |
| 04/2009 | Appointed ACM Senior Member by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| 01/2007 |
2nd place, FIT-IT outstanding research proposal award for the project "myOntology - Open Ontology Environment for Semantic Web-based E-commerce" (Principal investigator: Martin Hepp, program line "Semantic Systems") Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) |
| 10/2004 | Dissertation Award of the Alcatel SEL Foundation for Communication Research |
| 05/2004 | Dissertation Award 2004 of the Unterfränkische Gedenkjahrstiftung |
| 08/2003 | University of Würzburg, School of Economics and Management: Summa cum laude |
Affiliations and Memberships
Editorial Board Memberships
| 2008 - 05/2011 | Associate Editor, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) |
| 2006 - 2008 | Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) |
| 2006 - 2009 | Member of the Review Board, International Journal of Interoperability in Business Information Systems (IBIS) |
Refereeing for Academic Journals
Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), Elsevier: 2007
Electronic Commerce Research (ECR), Kluwer: 2004, 2007
Electronic Markets, Taylor & Francis: 2007
IEEE Intelligent Systems (IEEE IS), IEEE: 2005 (2)
IEEE Internet Computing (IEEE IC), IEEE: 2007, 2008
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), IEEE: 2005
Information Systems (IS), Elsevier: 2008
International Journal of Interoperability in Business Information Systems: 2006, 2007
Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: 2006
Journal of Web Semantics (JoWS), Elsevier: 2009
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society: 2005
Journal on Data Semantics (JoDS), Springer: 2005
Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Springer: 2006
Conference and Workshop Organization and Chairing
| EC-Web 2014 | The 15th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, September 1-5, 2014, Munich, Germany (General Chair). |
| DQMST2012 | International Workshop on Data Quality Management and Semantic Technologies, in conjunction with the 6th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC) 2012, September 19-21, 2012, Palermo, Italy. |
| COMBEK'09 | Second International Workshop on Community-Based Evolution of Knowledge-Intensive Systems, November 1-6, 2009, Vilamoura, Portugal. |
| EC-Web 2009 | Track Electronic Commerce and Web 3.0, 10th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2009), August 31-September 4, 2009, Linz, Austria. |
| AMCIS 2009 | Mini-track Semantic Web and Information Systems, 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 6-9, 2009, San Francisco, California, USA (Co-Chair of the mini-track). |
| SBPM 2009 | 4th International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM 2009), June 1, 2009, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee). |
| DEECS 2009 | 4th International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce and Services (DEECS 2009), in conjunction with the 11th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC'09), July 20-23, 2009, Vienna, Austria (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee). |
| COMBEK'08 | International Workshop on Community-Based Evolution of Knowledge-Intensive Systems (COMBEK'08), in conjunction with the OnTheMove Federated Conferences 2008, November 9-14, 2008, Monterrey, Mexico (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee). |
| OBI2008 | First International Workshop on Ontology-supported Business Intelligence (OBI2008), in conjunction with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008) October 26 or 27, 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee). |
| semantics4ws 2008 | 3rd International Workshop on Advances in Semantics for Web Services, workshop theme BPM 2.0 - Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Meet BPM: Semantics in Business and Scientific Processes, in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2008), September 1-4, 2008, Milan, Italy (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee). |
| SBPM 2008 | 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management, in conjunction with the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), June 1-5, 2008, Tenerife, Spain (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee). |
| ECIS 2008 | Track "Semantic Web and Information Systems" at the 16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2008), June 09 - 11, 2008, Galway, Ireland (Co-chair of the track). |
| AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium | AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium AI Meets Business Rules and Process Management, March 24-26, 2008, Stanford University, California, USA. |
| MKWI 2008 | Track "Semantic Web Technology in Business Information Systems" at the Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2008 (MKWI 2008), February 26-28, 2008, Munich, Germany (Co-chair of the track). |
| Obergurgl 2008 | Ontology Engineering meets Web 2.0 Workshop, February 11-13, 2008, Obergurgl, Austria (Chair of the Organizing Committee). |
| DEECS 2007 | 3rd International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce and Services, in conjunction with the 8th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'07), June 12, 2007, San Diego, CA, USA (Program Co-chair). |
| SBPM 2007 | Workshop on Semantic Business Process and Product Lifecycle Management, in conjunction with the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007), June 3, 2007, Innsbruck, Austria (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee). |
| OIS 2006 | First International Workshop on Ontologizing Industrial Standards, in conjunction with the 25th International Conferences on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2006), November 6-9, 2006, Tucson, Arizona, USA (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee). |
| SEBIZ 2006 | First International Workshop on Applications and Business Aspects of the Semantic Web, in conjunction with the Fifth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006), November 6, 2006, Athens, Georgia, USA (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee). |
| AMCIS 2006 | "Semantic Web and Information Systems", 12th Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 4-6, 2006, Acapulco, México (Co-Chair of the track). |
| MEDIATE 2005 | 1st International Workshop on Mediation in Semantic Web Services, December 12, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee). |
| PRODIS 2005 | Workshop on Product-related Data in Information Systems, September 22, 2005, Bonn, Germany (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee). |
Program Committee Memberships for Conferences and Workshops
(Conferences are underlined)
2015
| ESWC 2015 | 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference, May 31 - June 4, 2015, Portoroz, Slovenia (PC Member) |
| BIS 2015 | 18th International Conference on Business Information Systems, June 24-26, 2015, Poznań, Poland (PC Member) |
2014
| EKAW 2014 | 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2014), November 24-28, 2014, Linköping, Sweden (PC Member) |
| ISWC 2014 | 13th International Semantic Web Conference, October 19-23, 2014, Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy (PC Member of the reseach and in-use tracks) |
| ESWC 2014 | 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference, May 25-29, 2014, Crete, Greece (PC Member of the research track) |
| BIS 2014 | 17th International Conference on Business Information Systems, May 22-23, 2014, Larnaca, Cyprus (PC Member) |
| WWW 2014 | 25th International World-Wide Web Conference, April 7-11, 2014, Seoul, Korea (PC Member of the research track) |
| WebPayments 2014 | First W3C Web Payments Workshop, March 24-25, 2014, Paris, France (PC Member) |
2013
| ISWC 2013 | 12th International Semantic Web Conference, October 21-25, Sydney, Australie (Senior PC Member of the research track and PC Member of the in-use track) |
| ICWE 2013 | 13th International Conference on Web Engineering, July 8-12, 2013, Aalborg, Denmark (PC Member) |
| ESWC 2013 | 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2013, May 26-30, 2013, Montpellier, France (PC Member of the Research Track). |
| WI 2013 | 11. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik 2013 (WI 2013), February 27 - March 1, 2013, Leipzig, Germany (PC Member of the Integration and Systems Architecture Track). |
2012
| ISWC 2012 | 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012), November 11-15, 2012, Boston, USA (PC Member of the Research Track). |
| EKAW 2012 | 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012), October 8-12, 2012, Galway, Irland (PC Member of the Research Track and the Doctoral Symposium). |
| i-Challenge 2012 | Linked Data Competition (i-Challenge 2012), in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Semantic Systems (i-Semantics), September 5-7, 2012, Graz, Austria. |
| ICWE 2012 | 12th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2012), July 23-27, 2012, Berlin, Germany. |
| ESWC 2012 | 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2012), May 27-31, 2012, Heraklion, Greece (PC Member of the "Semantic Web In-Use" track). |
| WWW 2012 | 21st World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012), April 16-20, 2012, Lyon, France (PC Member of the "Semantic Web" track). |
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
| MTEL2006 | Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning (MTEL), in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2006), December 11-13, 2006, San Diego, USA. |
| Semantics 2006 | Semantics 2006: From Visions to Applications - Semantics: The New Paradigm Shift in IT, November 28-30, 2006,Vienna, Austria. |
| CoopIS 2006 | 14th International Conference on Cooperative Information System, October 29 - November 3, Montpellier, France. |
| ICEBE 2006 | 2006 IEEE International Conference on E-Business Engineering, October, 24-26, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. |
| SOAIC-2006 | The Second IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented Applications, Integration and Collaboration, October 24, 2006, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. |
| WoMM 2006 | 2nd International Workshop on Meta-modelling and Ontologies, October 12-13, 2006, Karlsruhe, Germany. |
| ICWI2006 | IADIS International conference WWW/Internet 2006, October 5-8, 2006, Murcia, Spain. |
| mda4soa'06 | Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architecture Workshop, in conjunction with the 2006 IEEE International Conferences on Services Computing (SCC 2006) and Web Services (ICWS 2006), September 18, 2006, Chicago, USA. |
| SWAT 2006 | Semantic Web Applications and Tools Workshop, co-located with the 1st Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2006), September 3-7, 2006, Beijing, China. |
| WibKE2006 | 2nd Workshop on Semantic Wikis: WibKE2006: Wiki-based Knowledge Engineering, co-located with the 2nd International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym2006) and ACM HyperText 2006, August 21-23, 2006, Odense, Denmark. |
| STICA 06 | 1st International Workshop on Semantic Technologies in Collaborative Applications (STICA 06), in conjunction with the 15th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2006), The University of Manchester, June 26-28, 2006, Manchester, U.K. |
| DEECS 2006 | 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Data Engineering in E-Commerce and Services (DEECS 2006), in conjunction with CEC'06 and EEE'06, June 26, San Francisco, CA, USA. |
| ESWC 2006 | 3rd European Semantic Web Conference 2006, June 11-14, 2006, Budva, Montenegro. |
| SemWiki2006 | 1st Workshop 'SemWiki2006 - From Wiki to Semantics', in conjunction with the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), June 11, 2006, Budva, Montenegro. |
| MoSO'06 | Workshop on Mobile Services and Ontologies (MoSO'06), in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06), May 8-12, 2006, Nara, Japan. |
| SAC'06 | 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, April 23-27, 2006, Dijon. |
| PRIWEC 2006 | The First Pacific Rim International Workshop on Electronic Commerce, March 26 - 27, 2006, National Center of Sciences Building, Tokyo, Japan. |
| SWS Challenge | Semantic Web Services Challenge 2006: Challenge on Automating Web Services Mediation, Choreography and Discovery, Stanford University, March 13-14 (Phase I) and June 15-16 (Phase II, 2006, Stanford University, CA, USA. |
2005
| Semantics2005 | Semantics2005 Conference on Semantic Systems, November 23-25, 2005, Vienna. |
| SWCASE05 | ISWC Workshop Semantic Web Case Studies and Best Practices for eBusiness, November 7, 2005, Galway. |
| ICWI2005 | IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2005, October 19-22, 2005, Lisbon. |
| BPM2005 | 1st International Workshop on Web Service Choreography and Orchestration for Business Process Management, September 5, 2005, Nancy. |
| DEEC 2005 | IEEE International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce, April 9, 2005, Tokyo. |
