I am a computer scientist whose research is focused on macro- and micro-scale information architectures. This encompasses information systems, their users, and the data which is either managed for any particular application purpose or results from various forms of interactions.
I started my academic career pathway first as a Research Associate and then as a Lecturer at the Free University of Berlin (Germany, 2008-2013), from which I also hold a diploma (Dipl.-Inf.) and a
doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science. My teaching in Berlin covered Web-based information systems, Web data and interoperability as well as IT project management and entrepreneurship. Afterwards I worked as a Senior
Research Fellow on the prestigious EPSRC programme grant SOCIAM - The
Theory and Practice of Social Machines (http://sociam.org) at the
University of Southampton, Electronics and Computer Science (UK, 2013-2016). The SOCIAM project pioneered
methods of supporting purposeful human interaction on the World Wide
Web, of the kind exemplified by phenomena such as Wikipedia, the
Zooniverse citizen science initiative, and digital disaster response
using the Ushahidi platform. In this context I was working on the
analysis of online communities and citizen science platforms as well as
an information-centric theory of Social Machines. I also taught courses on professional development, the foundations of Data Science and Semantic Web to Computer Science undergraduates and postgraduates in Southampton. In July 2016 I picked up a permanent faculty position at Senior Lecturer level at the School of Information Management, Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington (NZ). In this role I am continuing my research agenda and teach various aspects of modern information systems including foundations of databases and data analytics.
My research has been published in internationally reputable journals, incuding IEEE Intelligent Systems, the Knowledge Engineering Review, the International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), and the D-Lib Magazine as well as top conferences, such as the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI), the International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW), the International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), the International Conference on Advances on Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), the International as well as the European Semantic Web Conference (ISWC & ESWC), the International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) and the International Conference on Web Science.
Research funding was awarded to me (as principle investigator or co-investigator) by the Economics and Social Research Council (UK, Co-I, 2015), the Web Science Institute (UK, 2xCo-I, 2015), and the Lloyd's Register Foundation (UK, PI, 2015).
I organised numerous scientific workshops at the WWW and ESWC conferences and acted as local chair for the ICWE conference in 2012 conference as well as the 4th Workshop on Complex Networks (http://complenet.org/) in 2013. To support the research community I regularly serve as a reviewer for journals and conferences including the ISWC, ESWC and Semantics conferences, as well as the Semantic Web Journal and Information Systems. I am on the editorial board of the transdisciplinary open access journal Human Computation. In 2014 I co-authored a technology foresight review titled "Big Data: Towards data-centric Engineering" for the Lloyd's Register Foundation and since 2016 I am on the board of reviewers for the International Consortium of Nanotechnologies (ICoN) assessing research proposals that fall into the Big Data and data management area.
At the heart of my most recent research are methods to capture hidden structures in information on the Web in order to understand the intelligence arising from the accumulated behaviour of not necessarily coordinated collectives [1,2,3,4].
[1] Luczak-Roesch, M., Tinati, R., O’Hara, K., & Shadbolt, N. (2015, February). Socio-technical computation. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing(pp. 139-142). ACM.
[2] Luczak-Roesch, M., Tinati, R., & Shadbolt, N. (2015, May). When resources collide: Towards a theory of coincidence in information spaces. InProceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion (pp. 1137-1142). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee.
[3] Luczak-Roesch, M., Tinati, R., Van Kleek, M., & Shadbolt, N. (2015, August). From coincidence to purposeful flow? properties of transcendental information cascades. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2015 (pp. 633-638). ACM.
[4] Luczak-Roesch, Markus, Tinati, Ramine, Aljaloud, Saud, Hall, Wendy and Shadbolt, Nigel (2016) A universal socio-technical computing machine. In, 16th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2016), Lugano, CH, 06 – 09 Jun 2016.
Amongst the information systems I am studying are online communities, peer-production systems [5,6,7] and, most significantly, citizen science platforms [8,9,10,11].
[5] Tinati, R., Luczak-Roesch, M., Shadbolt, N., & Hall, W. (2015, May). Using WikiProjects to Measure the Health of Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion (pp. 369-370). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee.
[6] Tinati, Ramine, Luczak-Roesch, Markus, Hall, Wendy and Shadbolt, Nigel (2016) More than an edit: using transcendental information cascades to capture hidden structure in Wikipedia. At 25th International World Wide Web Conference, Montreal, Canada, 11 – 15 Apr 2016. ACM (doi:10.1145/2872518.2889401).
[7] Müller-Birn, C., Karran, B., Lehmann, J., & Luczak-Rösch, M. (2015, August). Peer-production system or collaborative ontology engineering effort: What is Wikidata?. In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (p. 20). ACM.
[8] Luczak-Roesch, M., Tinati, R., Simperl, E., Van Kleek, M., Shadbolt, N., & Simpson, R. J. (2014, March). Why Won’t Aliens Talk to Us? Content and Community Dynamics in Online Citizen Science. In AAAI ICWSM 2014.
[9] Tinati, R., Van Kleek, M., Simperl, E., Luczak-Rösch, M., Simpson, R., & Shadbolt, N. (2015, April). Designing for Citizen Data Analysis: A Cross-Sectional Case Study of a Multi-Domain Citizen Science Platform. InProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 4069-4078). ACM.
[10] Tinati, Ramine, Luczak-Rösch, Markus, Simperl, E., Hall, Wendy and Shadbolt, Nigel (2015) `/Command’ and conquer: analysing discussion in a citizen science game. In, ACM Web Science 2015 , Oxford, GB, 28 Jun – 01 Jul 2015. 10pp.
[11] Tinati, Ramine, Luczak-Roesch, Markus, Simperl, Elena and Hall, Wendy (2016) “Because science is awesome”‘: studying participation in a citizen science game. In, ACM Web Science 2016, Hannover, DE, 21 – 25 May 2016.
I also developed a research profile on ontology and data life cycle management [12,13,14,15], semantic text annotation tools [16,17,18] as well as the future of tracking and analysing Web of data usage [19,20].
[12] Tempich, C., Simperl, E., Luczak, M., Studer, R., & Pinto, H. S. (2007). Argumentation-based ontology engineering. IEEE Intelligent Systems, (6), 52-59.
[13] Luczak-Rösch, M., & Heese, R. (2009). Managing ontology lifecycles in corporate settings. In Networked Knowledge-Networked Media (pp. 235-248). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
[14] Simperl, E., & Luczak-Rösch, M. (2014). Collaborative ontology engineering: a survey. The Knowledge Engineering Review, 29(01), 101-131.
[15] Luczak-Rösch, M., Simperl, E., Stadtmüller, S., & Käfer, T. (2014). The role of ontology engineering in linked data publishing and management: An empirical study. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 10(3), 74-91.
[16] Luczak-Rösch, M., & Heese, R. (2009, March). Linked Data Authoring for Non-Experts. In LDOW 2009.
[17] Hinze, A., Heese, R., Luczak-Rösch, M., & Paschke, A. (2012). Semantic enrichment by non-experts: usability of manual annotation tools. In The Semantic Web–ISWC 2012 (pp. 165-181). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
[18] Hinze, A., Heese, R., Schlegel, A., & Luczak-Rösch, M. (2012). User-defined semantic enrichment of full-text documents: Experiences and lessons learned. In Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (pp. 209-214). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
[19] Berendt, B., Hollink, L., Hollink, V., Luczak-Rösch, M., Möller, K., & Vallet, D. (2011, May). Usage analysis and the web of data. In ACM SIGIR Forum (Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 63-69). ACM.
[20] Luczak-Roesch, Markus, Hollink, Laura and Berendt, Bettina (2016) Current directions for usage analysis and the web of data: the diverse ecosystem of web of data access mechanisms. WWW2016 Companion Volume (doi:10.1145/2872518.2891068).
Supervised undergraduate and postgraduate students
- Benjamin Ellerby: "Interactive Visualisation of Transcendental Information Cascades", Computer Science BSc, June 2016
- Gefion Thuermer: "Differences in decision-making processes between web-native and non-web-native political parties", Web Science MSc, December 2015
- Markus Bischoff: "Key Concept Extraction for Multi-Ontologies - Comparison of two Methods", Computer Science MSc, Mai 2013
- Mateusz Khalil: "Sequential Pattern Mining on Linked Data Endpoint Usage Data to Learn Associations", Computer Science BSc, October 2011
- Markus Bischoff: "Visualization of Ontology Usage Data", Computer Science BSc, Mai 2011
- Marco Kranz: "Log File Analysis for SPARQL Endpoints", Computer Science diploma (MSc equiv.), October 2010
- Patrick Jungermann: "Implementation of a Semantic Web Annotation Recommendation Service", Computer Science BSc, July 2009