Publications

2009

• SungRan Cho and Wolf-Tilo Balke
  Building an Efficient Preference XML Query Processor.
  In 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC), Honolulu, HI, USA, 2009.

2008

• Christoph Lofi, Wolf-Tilo Balke, and Ulrich Güntzer
  Consistency Check Algorithms for Multi-Dimensional Preference Trade-Offs.
  In International Journal of Computer Science & Applications (IJCSA), Vol. 5(3b), 2008.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke and Joachim Selke
  Exploiting Conceptual Knowledge for Querying Information Systems.
  In International Conference on Philosophy's Relevance in Information Science (PRIS), Paderborn, Germany, 2008.
• SungRan Cho and Wolf-Tilo Balke
  Order-Preserving Optimization of Twig Queries witth Structural Preferences.
  International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS), Coimbra, Portugal, 2008.
• Jongwuk Lee, Gae-won You, Seung-won Hwang, Joachim Selke, and Wolf-Tilo Balke
  Optimal Preference Elicitation for Skyline Queries over Categorical Domains.
  In 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Turin, Italy, 2008.
• Seung-won Hwang and Wolf-Tilo Balke
  Preference Query Formulation and Processing: Ranking and Skyline Query Approaches (Tutorial).
  In 13th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), New Delhi, India, 2008.
• Christoph Lofi, Wolf-Tilo Balke, and Ulrich Güntzer
  Efficiently Performing Consistency Checks for Multi-Dimensional Preference Trade-Offs.
  In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), Marrakech, Morocco, 2008.

2007

• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntzer, and Christoph Lofi
  User Interaction Support for Incremental Refinement of Preference-Based Queries.
  In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), Ouarzazate, Morocco, 2007.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntzer, and Christoph Lofi
  Incremental Trade-Off Management for Preference Based Queries.
  In International Journal of Computer Science & Applications (IJCSA), Vol. 4(1), 2007.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntzer, and Wolf Siberski
  Restricting Skyline Sizes using Weak Pareto Dominance.
  In Informatik - Forschung und Entwicklung (IFE), Vol. 21(3), Springer, 2007.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntzer, and Christoph Lofi
  Eliciting Matters - Controlling Skyline Sizes by Incremental Integration of User Preferences.
  In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), Bangkok, Thailand, 2007.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntzer, and Wolf Siberski
  Getting Prime Cuts from Skylines over Partially Ordered Domains.
  In Proceedings of the 12th GI-Fachtagung für Datenbanksysteme in Business, Technologie und Web (BTW), Aachen, Germany, 2007.

2006

• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntzer, and Wolf Siberski
  Exploiting Indifference for Customization of Partial Order Skylines.
  In Proceedings of the 10th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS), Delhi, India, 2006.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke
  Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Systems.
  Dagstuhl Seminar 06131: Peer-to-Peer-Systems and -Applications, Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany, 2006.

2005

• Wolf-Tilo Balke and Klaus Mainzer
  Knowledge Representation and the Embodied Mind: Towards a Philosophy and Technoogy of Personalized Informatics (extended version).
  In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Professional Knowledge Management (WM), LNAI 3782, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2005.
• Alexander Löser, Christoph Tempich, Bastian Quilitz, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Steffen Staab, and Wolfgang Nejdl
  Searching Dynamic Communities with Personal Indexes.
  In Proceedings of the 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Galway, Ireland, 2005.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, and Uwe Thaden
  DL meets P2P - Distributed Document Retrieval based on Classification and Content.
  In Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), Vienna, Austria, 2005. (best paper award)
• Wolf-Tilo Balke and Ulrich Güntzer
  Efficient Skyline Queries under Weak Pareto Dominance.
  In Proceedings of the IJCAI-05 Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (PREFERENCE), Edinburgh, UK, 2005.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uwe Thaden
  Caching for Improved Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks.
  In Proceedings of the GI/ITG-Workshop "Peer-to-Peer-Systeme und -Anwendungen", Kaiserslautern, Germany, Springer, 2005.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Jason Xin Zheng, Ulrich Güntzer
  Approaching the Efficient Frontier: Cooperative Database Retrieval Using High-Dimensional Skylines.
  In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), LNCS , Beijing, China, 2005.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Klaus Mainzer
  Knowledge Representation and the Embodied Mind: Towards a Philosophy and Technology of Personalized Informatics.
  In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics (WSPI), LNCS, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2005.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uwe Thaden
  Progressive Distributed Top-k Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks.
  In Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Tokyo, Japan, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2005.

2004

• Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uwe Thaden, Wolf-Tilo Balke.
  Top-k Query Evaluation for Schema-Based Peer-to-Peer Networks.
  In Proceedings of the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), LNCS 3298, Hiroshima, Japan, 2004.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke.
  Efficient Evaluation of Numerical Preferences: Top k Queries, Skylines and Multi-objective Retrieval.
  Dagstuhl Seminar 04271: Preferences: Specification, Inference, Applications, Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany, 2004.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntzer.
  Multi-objective Query Processing for Database Systems.
  In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Toronto, Canada, 2004.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntzer
  Supporting Skyline Queries on Categorical Data in Web Information Systems.
  In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA), Kauai, Hawaii, USA, 2004.
• Wolfgang Kellerer, Matthias Wagner, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Henning Schulzrinne
  Preference-based Session Management for IP-based Mobile Multimedia Signaling.
  In European Transactions on Telecommunications, Vol. 15(4), Wiley, 2004.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Matthias Wagner
  Through Different Eyes - Assessing Multiple Conceptual Views for Querying Web Services.
  In Proceedings of the 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), New York, USA, ACM, 2004.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntzer, Jason Xin Zheng
  Efficient Distributed Skylining for Web Information Systems.
  In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), LNCS 2992, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Springer, 2004.

2003

• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Atta Badii
  Assessing Web Services Quality for Call-by-Call Outsourcing.
  In Proceedings of the 1st Web Services Quality Workshop (WQW), Rome, Italy, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2003.
• Wolfgang Kellerer, Matthias Wagner, Wolf-Tilo Balke
  Preference-based Session Management for Personalized Services.
  In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MoMuC), Munich, Germany, 2003.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Atta Badii
  Service Provisioning in the Dynamic Enterprise Space.
  Invited talk at the Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on Global IT Outsourcing, Cambridge, UK, 2003.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Matthias Wagner
  Cooperative Discovery for User-centered Web Service Provisioning.
  In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Las Vegas, USA, 2003.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Matthias Wagner
  Towards Personalized Selection of Web Services.
  In Proceedings of the 12th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Budapest, Hungary, ACM, 2003.

2002

• Matthias Wagner, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Robert Hirschfeld and Wolfgang Kellerer.
  A Roadmap to Advanced Personalization of Mobile Services.
  In Industrial Program of the 10th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), Irvine, CA, USA, 2002.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntzer and Werner Kießling.
  On Real-time Top k Querying for Mobile Services.
  In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), LNCS 2519, Irvine, CA, USA, 2002.
• Wolf-Tilo Balke.
  A Roadmap to Personalized Information Systems by Cognitive Expansion of Queries.
  In Proceedings of the 12th EnCKompass Workshop on Content-Knowledge Management and Mass Personalization of E-Services (EnCKompass), Paris, France, 2002