LWA 2015 is a joint conference of four special interest groups of the German Computer Science Society (GI), addressing research in the areas of knowledge discovery and machine learning, information retrieval, database systems, and knowledge management. The German acronym LWA stands for “Lernen, Wissen, Adaption” (Learning, Knowledge, Adaptation). Following the tradition of the last years, LWA 2015 provides a joint forum for experienced and young researchers, to bring insights to recent trends, technologies and applications and to promote interaction among the special interest groups. The following special interest groups participate at LWA 2015: • KDML (Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining and Machine Learning) • FGWM (Knowledge Management) • IR (Information Retrieval) • FGDB (Database Systems) The papers have been selected by independent program committees from the respective domains. The program consists of several joint sessions which include contributions of interest for all conference participants. In addition, there are parallel sessions for individual workshops focussing on more specific topics. A poster session gives all presenters the opportunity to discuss their work in a broader context. Recent trends in the corresponding research areas are highlighted by four distinguished keynote speakers: The accompanying social programme includes a guided city tour in the city centre of Trier followed by a conference dinner in the “Bitburger Wirtshaus”. The organizers would like to thank the workshop chairs and their programme committees for their excellent work as well as the keynote speakers for their contribution to the success of LWA 2015. Finally, we gratefully acknowledge the generous support of our sponsors, in particular EMPOLIS, IBM, and SER. We hope that LWA 2015 will be an inspiring event for all participants with lots of scientific exchange and discussions.
Organization LWA 2015 is hosted and organized by the research group “Business Information Systems II” at the University of Trier.
LWA 2015 General Organization Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier (General Chair) Maria Gindorf, University of Trier (Conference Secretary) Gilbert Müller, University of Trier Sebastian Görg, University of Trier KDML 2015 Workshop Organization FGWM 2015 Workshop Organization
Alexander Hinneburg Andreas Hotho Frederik Janssen Robert Jäschke Kristian Kersting Marius Kloft Ralf Krestel Florian Lemmerich Ulf Leser Eneldo Loza Mencía Hannes Mühleisen Emmanuel Müller Thomas Niebler Nico Piatkowski Achim Rettinger Elena Sapozhnikova Ansgar Scherp Ute Schmid Erich Schubert Robin Senge Arthur Zimek RWTH Aachen University Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg University of Würzburg TU Darmstadt Leibniz Universität Hannover TU Dortmund University TU Berlin Hasso Plattner Institute University of Würzburg Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin TU Darmstadt Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Hasso Plattner Institut University of Würzburg TU Dortmund University Karlsruhe Institute of Technology University of Konstanz Leibniz Information Center for Economics (ZBW) University of Bamberg Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München University of Marburg Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München FGWM 2015 Programme Committee
Kerstin Bach Joachim Baumeister Axel Benjamins Mareike Dornhöfer Susanne Durst Michael Fellmann Dimitris Karagiannis Andrea Kohlhase Michael Leyer Ronald Maier Alke Martens Mirjam Minor Miltos Petridis Ulrich Reimer Jochen Reutelshöfer Bodo Rieger Peter Rossbach Thomas Roth-Berghofer Kurt Sandkuhl DFKI / University of Hildesheim Norwegian University of Science and Technology denkbares GmbH Universität Osnabrück Universität Siegen University of Skövde University of Rostock University of Vienna University of Applied Sciences Neu-Ulm University of Rostock University of Innsbruck University of Rostock Goethe University Frankfurt Brighton University University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen denkbares GmbH Universität Osnabrück Frankfurt School of Finance & Management University of West London University of Rostock
Ingo Frommholz Joachim Griesbaum Andreas Henrich Daniel Hienert Frank Hopfgartner Claus-Peter Klas Udo Kruschwitz Johannes Leveling Thomas Mandl Philipp Mayr Peter Mutschke Henning Müller Ralf Schenkel Christian Wolff David Zellhoefer
Silke Eckstein Vera Kamp Alfons Kemper Richard Lenz Daniela Nicklas Thomas Ruf Knut Stolze FGDB 2015 Programme Committee Hochschule Darmstadt University of Bedfordshire University of Hildesheim University of Bamberg GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences University of Glasgow GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences University of Essex Elsevier University of Hildesheim GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences HES-SO University of Passau University of Regensburg Berlin State Library
TU Braunschweig PLATH GmbH TU München University of Erlangen University of Bamberg Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg IBM Germany