Scientific area Web and Semantic Web, context adaptation, XML and semistructured data, artificial intelligence, reasoning, programming languages, especially logic and functional languages.
Background / Expertise Sebastian Schafftert is working as senior researcher at the unit for knowledge based information systems at Salzburg Research since August 2005. Since October 2006 he is the scientific head of
Salzburg NewMediaLab.
Sebastian Schaffert, born 1976, studied Computer Science and Educational Sciences at the University of Munich, Germany. He graduated in 2001 as "Diplom-Informatiker" and in 2004 as "Doctor rerum naturalium" (Dr.rer.nat.) with a thesis entitled "Xcerpt: A Rule-Based Query and Transformation Language for the Web". From 1998 to 2000, he was working as system administrator at the University of Munich, and from 2001 to 2005, he was employed as a research and teaching assistant, also at the University of Munich.
Sebastian's research interests are in Web and Semantic Web research, (Semantic) Social Software, XML and semistructured data, as well as functional and logic programming. He has contributed to many scientific conferences as author and program committee member and has several publications on the rule-based XML query language Xcerpt and on the Semantic Wiki IkeWiki. Besides this, Sebastian is interested in Linux and Open Source software, likes sailing/windsurfing, biking, and mountaineering.
Sandra Schaffert, Julia Eder, Wolf Hilzensauer, Thomas Kurz, Mark Markus, Sebastian Schaffert, Rupert Westenthaler, Diana Wieden-Bischof (2009): (Meta-) Informationen von Communitys und Netzwerken. Entstehung und Nutzungsmöglichkeiten. Salzburg: Salzburg Research.
Sebastian Schaffert, Julia Eder, Szabolcs Grünwald, Thomas Kurz, Mihai Radulescu, Rolf Sint, and Stephanie Stroka (2009): KiWi - A Platform for Semantic Social Software. In: 4th Workshop on Semantic Wikis (SemWiki2009) at ESWC09, Heraklion, Greece, June 2009.
Sebastian Schaffert, Julia Eder, Szabolcs Grünwald, Thomas Kurz, and Mihai Radulescu (2009): KiWi - A Platform for Semantic Social Software (Demonstration). short version/demo description.In: 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC09) - Demonstrations Track, Heraklion, Greece, June 2009.
Thomas Kurz, Sebastian Schaffert (2009): KiWi and the Linking Open Data Cloud. (Poster)In: 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC09) - Posters Track, Heraklion, Greece, June 2009.
Sebastian Schaffert, François Bry, Joachim Baumeister, Malte Kiesel (2009): Semantische Wikis. In: Tassilo Pellegrini and Andreas Blumauer (eds): Social Semantic Web, 2009: 245-258.
Christoph Wieser, Sebastian Schaffert (2009): Die Zeitung der Zukunft. In: Tassilo Pellegrini and Andreas Blumauer (eds): Social Semantic Web 2009: 423-434.
Sebastian Schaffert, Joachim Baumeister, François Bry, and Malte Kiesel (2008): Semantic Wikis In: IEEE Software, July/August 2008; ISSN 0740-7459. [PDF]
Sandra Schaffert, Tobias Bürger, Wolf Hilzensauer, Sebastian Schaffert (2008): Underlying Concepts and Theories of Learning with the Semantic Web. In: Marco Kalz, Rob Koper, Veronika Hornung-Prähauser, Michaela Luckman (ed.). Proceedings of the Technology Support for Self-Organized Learners Workshop (TSSOL08) at the 4th EduMedia Conference in Salzburg, Austria, June 2008.
François Bry, Tim Furche, Liviu Badea, Christoph Koch, Sebastian Schaffert, Sacha Berger (2007): Querying the Web Reconsidered: Design Principles for Versatile Web Query LanguagesIn: Amit Seth, Miltiadis D. Lytras (eds.): Semantic Web-Based Information Systems---State-of-the-Art Applications. Idea Group Inc., December 2007
Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Schaffert, Denny Vrandecic (2007): Reasoning in Semantic Wikis In: Reasoning Web Summer School, Dresden, September 2007. Springer-Verlag, LNCS 4636
Sebastian Schaffert, Diana Bischof, Tobias Bürger, Andreas Gruber, Wolf Hilzensauer, Sandra Schaffert (2006): Learning with Semantic Wikis. In: First Workshop "SemWiki2006 - From Wiki to Semantics", co-located with the 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Budva, Montenegro, 11.-14.6.2006
Sebastian Schaffert, Rupert Westenthaler, Andreas Gruber (2006): IkeWiki: A User-Friendly Semantic Wiki. In: 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC06) - Demonstrations Track, Budva, Montenegro, June 2006
Sebastian Schaffert, F. Bry, P. Besnard, H. Decker, S. Decker, C. Enguix, A. Herzig (2005): Paraconsistent Reasoning for the Semantic Web (Position Paper)In: Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW05) at ISWC05, Galway, Ireland, November 2005
