Emerging Technologies for Semantic Work Environments: Techniques, Methods, and Applications

Björn Decker is a solution engineer for semantically enabled knowledge management solutions at empolis GmbH, part of avarto, a Bertelsmann company. Before that occupation, he was a project manager and scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He received the B.S. (Vordiplom) and the M.S. (Diplom) in computer science from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. His research interests are experience management, in particular the collaborative maintenance of online repositories and usage of social software. He is a trainer concerning the usage of Wikis in software engineering companies and scientific writing. He organizes and is PC member of different workshops and conferences in the domain of software engineering, semantic Wikis and experience management.

Eric Ras is a senior scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He received the B.S. (Vordiplom) and the M.S. (Diplom) in computer science from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. His research interests are learning material production, vocational training methods, software patterns, and experience management. Eric Ras is scientific coordinator of the international distance learning program Software Engineering for Embedded Systems at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He organized and is PC member of different workshops and conferences in the domain of software engineering, e-learning, and knowledge management.