Dr. Holger Meuss

Since April, 1st 2003 I'm working at ESO (European Southern Observatory) in Garching near Munich. My new mail address is hmeussATeso.org.
Office phone is +49 - 89 - 3200 6605.

Centrum für Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung, CIS, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich

Address

Research Interests

• Structured Documents
  • Complete Answer Aggregates: A novel datastructure for computing, representing, and browsing in answers to queries to structured documents
  • Ranking XML documents: Models for ranking XML documents with respect to structured queries
  • Index structures for XML documents: Architectures for efficiently locating information items in persistent XML document collections
  • Efficient XPath evaluation: Techniques for evaluation of XPath expressions on streaming XML documents
  • Ontologies: Ranking (XML) documents with respect to queries and background knowledge (ontologies) with a focus on visualization and interactivity
• Constraint Logic Programming

Rundgespäch "Semistrukturierte Daten"

The abstracts and slides of the talks can be found here.

Invited Talks

• Anfragen an semistrukturierte Daten at Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Prof. Schwentick, September 2002, Philipps-Universität Marburg.
• Querying semistructured data at the Database Group, Prof. Apers, University of Twente, May 2002, Enschede, The Netherlands.
• Index structures for semistructured data (slides in German, abstract in German) at "Rundgespräch Theorie und Anwendung semistrukturierter Daten", February 2002, Herrsching.
• Towards aggregated answers for semistructured data at Dagstuhl seminar "Foundations of semistructured data", Schloss Dagstuhl, September 2001.
• Querying and exploring structured document collections at the Group for Databases and Information Systems, Prof. Schweppe, FU Berlin, October 2000.
• Complete answer aggregates for answer mappings to sequence, tree and graph databases at the Verso Group, INRIA Rocquencourt, November 1999, Paris.
• Antwortaggregate für das Retrieval von strukturierten Dokumenten at juris GmbH Saarbrücken, September 1999.

Publications

Felix Weigel, Holger Meuss, Klaus Schulz, François Bry: Content and Structure in Indexing and Ranking XML, Int. Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2004).

Felix Weigel, Holger Meuss, Klaus Schulz, François Bry: Content-Aware DataGuides: Interleaving IR and DB Indexing Techniques for Efficient Retrieval of Textual XML Data (PDF, 900K), European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2004. (© Springer-Verlag)

Holger Meuss, Andreas Wicenec and Simon Farrow: Flexible Storage of Astronomical Data in the ALMA Archive, Int. Conf. on Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems, ADASS 2003.

Holger Meuss, Klaus Schulz, and François Bry: Visual Querying and Exploration of Large Answers in XML Databases with X²: A Demonstration (Abstract) (gzipped Postscript, 77K) (PDF, 78K), International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2003.

Klaus U. Schulz and Holger Meuss: Anfragen an strukturierte Dokumente in L. Lemnitzer und C. Lobin (eds.): Text Technologie. Perspektiven und Anwendungen. Stauffenberg-Verlag, to appear 2002.

Torsten Schlieder and Holger Meuss: Querying and Ranking XML Documents (gzipped Postscript, 164K) (PDF, 338K), Special Topic Issue of the Journal of the American Society for Informations Systems (JASIS) on XML and Information Retrieval, 53(6):489-503, April 2002. (© John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

Dan Olteanu, Holger Meuss, Tim Furche, and François Bry: XPath: Looking Forward (Abstract) (gzipped Postscript, 109K) (PDF, 280K), Workshop on XML-Based Data Management, XMLDM 2002. (© Springer-Verlag)

Johannes Ulbricht and Holger Meuss: Juristische Aspekte von Extended Links und Smart Tags, Computer und Recht 3/2002 (März 2002).

Holger Meuss and Klaus Schulz: Complete Answer Aggregates for Tree-like Databases: A Novel Approach to Combine Querying and Navigation (gzipped Postscript, 268K) (PDF, 647K), ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 19(2):161-215, April 2001. (© ACM)

Holger Meuss, Klaus Schulz, and François Bry: Towards Aggregated Answers for Semistructured Data (gzipped Postscript, 207K) (PDF, 252K), International Conference on Database Theory, ICDT 2001. (Full version)(© Springer-Verlag)

Torsten Schlieder and Holger Meuss: Result Ranking for Strcutured Queries Against XML Documents (gzipped Postscript, 63K). First DELOS Workshop on Information Seeking, Querying and Searching in Digital Libraries, 2000.

Holger Meuss: Logical Tree Matching with Complete Answer Aggregates for Retrieving Structured Documents (gzipped Postscript, 550K), PhD Thesis, 2000.

Christian Strohmaier and Holger Meuss: A Filter for Structured Document Retrieval, Technical Report, CIS Bericht 99-123, Abstract, Paper (gzipped Postscript, 105K).

Slim Abdennadher, Thom Frühwirth, and Holger Meuss: Confluence and Semantics of Constraint Simplification Rules, in Journal Constraints 4(2), May 1999, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Abstract (ASCII), Paper (gzipped Postscript, 111K).

Holger Meuss and Christian Strohmaier: Improving on Index Structures for Structured Document Retrieval, 21st Annual Colloquium on IR Research (IRSG'99), Abstract (ASCII) , Paper (gzipped Postscript, 80K).

Holger Meuss:Indexed Tree Matching with Complete Answer Representations, Workshop on Principles of Digital Document Processing (PODDP'98), Abstract (ASCII), Paper (gzipped Postscript, 76K). (© Springer-Verlag)

Slim Abdennadher, Thom Frühwirth, and Holger Meuss: On Confluence of Constraint Handling Rules, Second International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming( CP'96), also Technical Report PMS-FB-1996-8, Abstract (ASCII), Paper (gzipped Postscript, 69K),Slides (gzipped Postscript, 44K).

Slim Abdennadher, Thom Frühwirth, and Holger Meuss: Implementing Constraint Solvers: Theory and Practice, Forum de la Recherche en Informatique'96 (FRI'96), Abstract (ASCII), Paper (gzipped Postscript, 42K).

Teaching (in German):

XML und Dokumentkonvertierung (Sommersemester 2001)

BaumDB: Entwicklung eines Retrievalsystems für strukturierte Dokumente

Praktikum fortgeschrittene Prolog-Programmierung (WS97/98)