Peter Baumann (computer scientist)
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Peter Baumann (born 1960 in Rosenheim) is a German computer scientist and professor at Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany, where he is head of the Databases and Web Services group at the School of Engineering and Science.
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[edit] Academic Positions
Baumann is professor of Computer Science at Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany and founder and CEO of rasdaman GmbH.
He has authored and co-authored 65+ book chapters and papers on array (aka raster) databases and further fields, and has given tutorials on raster databases worldwide.
Baumann is active in many bodies concerned with scientific data access:
- member, Open Geospatial Consortium; functions:
- chair, Coverage Processing Service Working Group
- co-chair, Coverages Working Group
- co-chair, Web Coverage Service Revision Working Group (WCS.RWG)
- founding member and secretary, CODATA Germany
- member, advisory board, GDI-HB (geo data infrastructure for Bremen)
- member, Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information, a Commission of the International Union of Geological Sciences
- representative of Jacobs University Bremen in Kompetenzzentrum Geoinformatik Niedersachsen
- member, e-SDDC (Global Alliance for Enhancing Access to and Application of Scientific Data in Developing Countries) of UN-GAID
[edit] Academic Career
Baumann obtained a degree in Computer Science (1987) from Technical University of Munich, a doctorate (1993) in Computer Science at Darmstadt University of Technology while working with [Fraunhofer Institute]] for Computer Graphics. He has pursued post-doctoral activities in both industry and academia, working for Softlab Group in Munich (now Cirquent) and as Assistant Head of the Knowledge Bases Research Group of FORWISS (Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-based Systems) / Technical University of Munich where he was deputy to Prof. Rudolph Bayer, Ph.D. Among Dr. Peter Baumann's entrepreneurial acitivites was founding of the spin-off company rasdaman GmbH for commercialization of the world's first multi-dimensional array database system. In August 2004 he was appointed as Professor of Computer Science at Jacobs University Bremen (formerly: International University Bremen).
[edit] Awards and Patents
- European IT Prize 1998
- Jos Schepens Memorial Award 1998
- Innovation Prize of the Bavarian State Government 1998
- Founders Competition Multimedia 1998
Baumann holds international patents on array databases.
[edit] Research Interests
Baumann's current research interests include scalable database and Web service support for large, multi-dimensional arrays, including algebraic modeling, query language, query optimization, system architecture, and applications such as earth sciences and life sciences. As part of this research, standardization of geo raster services is being addressed. As such, it is related to Dimensional databases, however with a distinct focus on spatio-temporal, multi-dimensional raster graphics data, rather than business data.
Much of his concrete work is implemented and benchmarked in the framework of the rasdaman array DBMS.
[edit] Bibliography
See for a complete bibliography
- Peter Baumann Web Coverage Processing Service Implementation Specification version 1.0.0, OGC Best Practice Paper, doc no. 07-157.
- Peter Baumann Large-Scale Raster Services: A Case for Databases, Invited keynote, 3rd Intl Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Geographic Information Systems (CoMoGIS), Tucson, USA, 6 - 9 November 2006. In: John Roddick et al (eds): Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice, 2006, pp. 75 - 84.
- Peter Baumann A Database Array Algebra for Spatio-Temporal Data and Beyond, 4th International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems (NGITS '99), July 5-7, 1999, Zikhron Yaakov, Israel, Lecture Notes on Computer Science 1649, Springer Verlag, pp. 76 - 93.
- Peter Baumann On the Management of Multidimensional Discrete Data, VLDB Journal 4(3)1994, Special Issue on Spatial Database Systems, pp. 401-444.
