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Curriculum Vitae

Elke Michlmayr was born in Linz, Austria, in 1976. In 2002, she received the MSc degree (with distinction) in Computer Science from Vienna University of Technology. From 2001 to 2003, she has been with Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), working as a researcher in project "UMTS Application Development". Since Summer 2003, she is a PhD student at the Women's Postgraduate College for Internet Technologies (WIT). She likes traveling, swimming, politics, eating and drinking, reading, and heating with wood. Click here for a complete CV.

Research Interests

I am interested in Web Engineering, Distributed Systems, and Algorithms. My master's thesis dealt with content delivery for location-based services. The title of my PhD thesis is "Ant Algorithms for Self-Organization in Social Networks". In my thesis I am applying ant algorithms for two tasks. One of them is content-based search in peer-to-peer networks. An abstract of this work can be found here. The second task is learning of adaptive user profiles from tagging data. More information can be found here.

Teaching

The courses I taught in the past can be found here.

Publications

Theses

• Elke Michlmayr: "Ant Algorithms for Self-Organization in Social Networks," Ph.D. Thesis, Vienna University of Technology, 2007. PDF
• Elke Michlmayr: "Flexible Content Management for the LoL@ UMTS Application," Masters Thesis, Vienna University of Technology, May 2002. PDF

Books

• Horst Eidenberger and Elke Michlmayr, Perl. Introduction to Programming (in German), d.punkt-Verlag, Heidelberg, 279 pp., June 2005. Link

Book Chapters

• Elke Michlmayr, "Self-Organization for Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks", Advances in Biologically Inspired Information Systems: Models, Methods, and Tools, Springer Studies in Computational Intelligence Volume 69, July 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-72692-0.

Journal Articles

• Elke Michlmayr, Arno Pany, Gerti Kappel: "Using Taxonomies for Content-based Routing with Ants," Journal of Computer Networks, Elsevier, 2007. Link
• Martina Umlauft, Günther Pospischil, Georg Niklfeld, and Elke Michlmayr, "LoL@, a mobile tourist guide for UMTS," Journal of Information Technology & Tourism, Congnizant, USA, 2003.
• Martina Umlauft, Elke Michlmayr, Hermann Anegg, Harald Kunczier, and Günther Pospischil: "LoL@: Ein Prototyp für einen UMTS-basierenden mobilen Stadtführer" (in German), Meuer and O. Spaniol (Ed.): Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation, K. G. Saur, München, Germany, September 2002.

Conferences and Workshops

• Elke Michlmayr, Steve Cayzer: "Learning User Profiles from Tagging Data and Leveraging them for Personal(ized) Information Access", Proceedings of the Workshop on Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization, 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 2007. Paper Bibtex entry
• Elke Michlmayr, Steve Cayzer, Paul Shabajee: "Add-A-Tag: Learning Adaptive User Profiles from Bookmark Collections", Poster paper, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'06), Boulder, Colorado, USA, March 2007. Paper Bibtex entry

• Elke Michlmayr: "Self-Organization for Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks: The Exploitation-Exploration Dilemma," Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Bio inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems (BIONETICS 2006), Cavalese, Italy, December 2006. Paper Bibtex entry
• Marion Murzek, Gerhard Kramler, Elke Michlmayr: "Structural Patterns for Business Process Models Transformation", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Models for Enterprise Computing (IWMEC 2006), 10th IEEE International Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC 2006), Hong Kong, October 2006.
• Elke Michlmayr, Arno Pany, Sabine Graf: "Applying Ant-based Multi-Agent Systems to Query Routing in Distributed Environments," Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Conference On Intelligent Systems (IEEE IS’06), London, UK, September 2006. Paper Bibtex entry
• Elke Michlmayr, Arno Pany, Gerti Kappel: "Using Taxonomies for Content-based Routing with Ants," Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Innovations in Web Infrastructure (IWI2), 15th International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW2006), Edinburgh, UK, May 2006. Paper Slides Bibtex entry
• Elke Michlmayr, "Ant Algorithms for Search in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks", Ph.D. Workshop, 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2006), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 2006. Paper Slides Bibtex entry
• Elke Michlmayr, "A Case Study on Emergent Semantics in Communities," Workshop on Semantic Network Analysis, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2005), Galway, Ireland, November 2005. Paper Slides Bibtex entry
• Elke Michlmayr, Sabine Graf, Wolf Siberski, Wolfgang Nejdl, "Query Routing with Ants," Workshop on Ontologies in P2P Communities, European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2005), Heraklion, Crete, May 2005. Paper Slides Bibtex entry
• Martin Bernauer, Gerti Kappel, Elke Michlmayr, "Traceable Document Flows," Proc. of the 2nd International Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS), 14th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Zaragoza, Spain, September 2004. PDF
• M. Ahmed, H.Hoang, M. Karim, S. Khusro, M. Lanzenberger, K. Latif, E. Michlmayr, K. Mustofa, H. Nguyen, A. Rauber, A. Schatten, M. Tho, A. Tjoa: 'SemanticLIFE' - A Framework for Managing Information of A Human Lifetime. Proc. of the International Conference on Information Integration, Web-Applications and Services (IIWAS2004), Jakarta, Indonesia, September 2004. PDF
• G. Kappel, E. Michlmayr, B. Pröll, S. Reich, W. Retschitzegger: "Web Engineering - Old wine in new bottles?," Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2004), Munich, Germany, July 2004. PDF
• H. Kunczier, E. Michlmayr, G. Pospischil, and H. Anegg, "A Prototype of a Network Independent Wireless Internet Service," Proc. of the 5th International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies, Boulder, Colorado USA, March 2003.
• G. Pospischil, M. Umlauft, and E. Michlmayr: "Designing LoL@, a Mobile Tourist Guide for UMTS," Proc. of 4th International Symposium on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices (Mobile HCI '02), Pisa, Italy, September 2002.

Technical reports

• Elke Michlmayr: "Specification of the SemAnt Algorithm", PDF, March 2006.

Misc (in German)

• Horst Eidenberger, Elke Michlmayr: Perl: Webseiten automatisiert verarbeiten mit WWW::Mechanize. iX Magazin für Professionelle Informationstechnik, Heise-Verlag, 07/2005
• Elke Michlmayr: Erfahrungsberichte Frauen in der Technik: Eine Zusammenfassung vieler Gespräche mit Technikstudentinnen und Absolventinnen. Über Erfahrungen, Beobachtungen, Probleme, Aha-Erlebnisse, Gemeinsamkeiten und Strategien. Progress Sonderausgabe 02/2004 (TU Wien)
• Elke Michlmayr, Christian Zech: Baukasten für alle. Freie Software ist hochwertige Technologie, die gemeinschaftlich im digitalen Raum entwickelt wird. Progress, 02/2003

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