We are a subdivision of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck.
Our passion lies in developing innovative methods for efficient data storage and analyses aiming to assist users and businesses to meet their information needs.
Günther Specht is a member of the best paper award committee of the BTW 2017. BTW has been the leading venue for the German-speaking database community in the last 30 years.
At the BTW conference in Stuttgart, Günther Specht has been re-elected as the leader of the working group ''Grundlagen von Informationssystemen" (GRUNDIS; foundations of information systems) of the German Informatics Society (GI). GRUNDIS is the oldest working group of the German Informatics Society and e.g., organizes the yearly workshop Grundlagen von Datenbanken (GvDB) (listed in DBLP).
The new semester is about to start and we wish all students a happy and successful summer term 2017 :)
The poster "Geolocating German on Twitter - Hitches and Glitches of Building and Exploring a Twitter Corpus" by Bettina Larl and Eva Zangerle has been accepted at the 9th International Corpus Linguistics Conference in Birmingham in July.
Eva will serve on the program committee of the 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) which will be held in Suzhou, China, October 23-28, 2017.
From January 4th to 7th, Benjamin presented his research on peer reaction analysis of hacked Twitter accounts on the 50th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences. Eva co-authored the paper, which was a follow-up of Benjamin's Master Thesis.
On December the 13th, Martin presented his analysis of more than 18,000 Spotify playlists containing 796.000 tracks at the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia in Silicon Valley. You can find the paper "Understanding Playlist Creation on Music Streaming Platforms" in our publications list and the analysis tool in our software list.
