Felix Naumann

Contact information

• email: felix@hiqiq.de
• phone: +1 408 363 8395

Education

• 1990-1997 Mathematics and Economics at the University of Technology Berlin; Diploma thesis "Graph-based Algorithms for Query Optimization on Parallel Databases"

 
• 2000 Promotion (PhD.), Title of thesis: "Quality-driven Query Answering for Integrated Information Systems", see HiQIQ project pages 

Professional experience

• 1995-1998 Systhema and Navigo Verlag, electronic publishers, Munich; customer database development and product presentations

 
• 1997-2000 Dissertation at the Graduate School in "Distributed Information Systems", Humboldt-University Berlin

 
• 1999 Visiting scientist at the database group of Stanford University, California (three months)

 
• 2001 PostDoctoral scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center (since January); Clio project under Howard Ho

Awards

• "GI Dissertationspreis 2000", awarded annually by the Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (German association for computer sciences) for the best computer science PhD. thesis

Publications

• Felix Naumann, Johann Christoph Freytag, and Myra Spiliopoulou. Quality-driven source selection using Data Envelopment Analysis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Quality (IQ), pages 137-152, Cambridge, MA, 1998.

 
• Felix Naumann. Data fusion and data quality. In Proceedings of the New Techniques & Technologies for Statistics Seminar (NTTS), pages 147-154, Sorrento, Italy, 1998.

 
• Felix Naumann, Ulf Leser, and Johann Christoph Freytag. Quality-driven integration of heterogenous information systems. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), pages 447-458, Edinburgh, 1999.

 
• Felix Naumann and Ulf Leser. Density scores for cooperative query answering. In Proceedings of the Workshop Foederierte Datenbanken (FDBS), pages 103-116, Berlin, 1999.

 
• Felix Naumann and Claudia Rolker. Do metadata models meet IQ requirements? In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Quality (IQ), pages 99-114, Cambridge, MA, 1999.

 
• Ulf Leser and Felix Naumann. Query planning with information quality bounds. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS), Advances in Soft Computing, Warsaw, Poland, 2000. Springer.

 
• Felix Naumann and Ulf Leser. Cooperative query answering with density scores. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD), Pune, India, 2000.

 
• Felix Naumann and Claudia Rolker. Assessment methods for information quality criteria. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Quality (IQ), Boston, MA, 2000.

 
• Felix Naumann. From databases to information systems - information quality makes the difference. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Quality (IQ), Cambridge, MA, 2001.

 
• PhD Thesis: Quality-driven Query Answering for Integrated Information Systems. Lecture Notes on Computer Science 2261 (LNCS), Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2001.

 
• Felix Naumann, Ching-Tien Ho, Xuqing Tian, Laura Haas, and Nimrod Megiddo. Attribute classification using feature analysis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), San Jose, CA, 2002. Poster

 
• Lucian Popa, Mauricio Hernandez, Yannis Velegrakis, Renee Miller, Felix Naumann, Ching-Tien Ho. Mapping XML and Relational Schemas with Clio. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), San Jose, CA, 2002. Demonstration