TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT DRESDEN
The Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden; internationally also known as Dresden University of Technology) was founded in 1828 and ranks among Germany's oldest technical-academic institutions of education. 14 faculties cover a wide range of fields in science and engineering, the humanities, social sciences and medicine. With more than 30,000 students and approximately 4,000 permanent faculty members - including more than 400 professors - TU Dresden is the largest university in Saxony.
Emphasis has always been put on interdisciplinary research and close cooperation with local industries. Collaboration with the region's numerous science institutes and societies - including the Fraunhofer institutes, the Max Planck institutes and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz Society - create additional benefits for students and researchers alike. Important companies in and around Dresden, such as AMD, Infineon and Volkswagen, provide excellent opportunities to merge the classroom setting at TU Dresden with commercial business environments. Partnerships with more than 70 universities worldwide add to the international atmosphere at the university.
The Database Technology Group (DBTG), part of TU Dresden's nationally renowned computer science department, is the unit that is involved in the MIRABEL project. The group is headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Lehner and focuses its current research on technologies that enhance database systems' capabilities to support data-intensive applications. Research projects include the development of core database techniques for data mining applications, approximate query processing to cope with huge datasets, real-time processing of high-volume data, automatic tuning of databases, and knowledge discovery on data streams. The group has close ties with research labs of IBM (IBM Almaden, USA and IBM Böblingen, Germany) and Microsoft (Redmond), and Prof. Lehner is an active member of the international database community through his regular publications of research papers, books and articles in journals, and his editing work for several journals in the field.
TUD's Contributions
TU Dresden provides expertise in all data-related aspects of this proposal. They contribute to the development of the data and process models and to the development of the data warehouse architecture. Furthermore, they cooperate with AAU in the development of data aggregation and analysis methods. TU Dresden also leads the research activities in WP4 on forecasting methods.
Key Personnel
TU Dresden's team is led by Prof. Wolfgang Lehner, who has been involved in research projects, teaching activities, and industrial cooperation at TU Dresden since 2002.and who also served as a visiting scientist at Microsoft Research (SQL-Server Group of Paul Larson).
Prof. Lehner has published four text books and more than 70 reviewed research papers, and he regularly serves as editor or committee member for various international conferences and journals. His major research interests focus on the issue of modelling and efficiently analysing empirically collected mass data with the help of advanced database technology.