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Address:

• Address in Germany:
  University of Giessen
  Institute for Computer Science ("Informatik")
  Arndtstr. 2
  D-35392 Giessen, GERMANY
• Address in Pittsburgh:
  University of Pittsburgh
  School of Information Sciences / Dept. of Inf. Sci. and Telecommunications (DIST)
  135 N. Bellefield Ave.
  Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
• Office: -
• Email: sbrass@sis.pitt.edu
• Phone: -

Interests:

• Databases
• World Wide Web Query Languages and Search Agents
• Semistructured Data
• Logic Programming
• Knowledge Representation, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Negation as Failure

Lectures:

• INFSCI 2711 - Database Analysis and Design (Summer 2000)

• INFSCI 2710 - Database Management (Spring 2000)
• INFSCI 3967 - Doctoral Seminar (Spring 2000)
• INFSCI 2710 - Database Management (Spring 1999)
• INFSCI 0015 - Data Structures and Programming Techniques (Spring 1999)
• INFSCI 2710 - Database Management (Summer 1999)
• INFSCI 2711 - Database Analysis and Design (Fall 1999)

Recent Papers:

• S. Brass: SLDMagic - An Improved Magic Set Technique. In: B. Novikov, J. W. Schmidt (eds.): Advances in Databases and Information Systems - ADBIS'96, MEPhI Publishing, Moscow, 1996, 75-83. Also published in Springer Workshops in Computing (1997).
           Abstract or Paper (ps, 59K) or Software or Springer EWiC
   
• U. Zukowski, S. Brass, B. Freitag: Improving the Alternating Fixpoint: The Transformation Approach. To appear in: A. Nerode (ed.), 4th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR'97), Springer, LNAI, 1997.
           Paper (ps, 94K)
   
• S. Brass, J. Dix, T. C. Przymusinski: Characterizations and Implementation of Static Semantics of Disjunctive Programs. Technical report, Universität Hannover, Institut für Informatik, 1997. (Extended version of a paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.)
           Abstract or Paper (ps, 191K) or Software
   
• S. Brass, J. Dix: Semantics of (Disjunctive) Logic Programs Based on Partial Evaluation. To appear in: The Journal of Logic Programming, 50 pages. [Paper-ID: JLP 98/R14]
           Paper (ps, 194K)

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Biographical Information:

• In December 1998, I have started working as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Information Science and Telecommunications of the University of Pittsburgh.
• 1996-1998: I was a visiting professor (substitute for the vacant full professorship for information systems) at the University of Hildesheim.
• 1997: I got the habilitation degree (postdoctoral teaching qualification including the "venia legendi" for computer science) from the University of Hannover.
• 1992-1996: I worked as `scientific assistant' (compares to assistant professor) in the insitute for computer science of the University of Hannover.
• 1992: I got the doctoral degree "with honors". My thesis was about `Defaults in Deductive Databases'.
• 1988-1992: I worked as a research assistant at the University of Dortmund and University of Hannover (supervised by Prof. Dr. Udo Lipeck).
• 1983-1988: I studied computer science at the Technical University of Braunschweig.
  My diploma thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. H.-D. Ehrich.

Complete CV

More Personal Information about me (e.g. Religion)

Stefan Brass (sbrass@sis.pitt.edu), May 28, 1999

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