Homepage of Sebastian Bossung

Research Assistant
Hamburg University of Science and Technology
Software Systems Institute
Harburger Schlossstraße 20
Room 223
21071 Hamburg
Phone: 040 42878 4373
E-mail: sebastian.bossung (at) tu-harburg (dot) de

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Interests

Concept-oriented information systems.

Creating content-concept couplings
Abstracting content

Connections between conceptual data and medial representations of entities.
As base-technology: Databases (specifically XML ones)
Finding formal foundations to content modelling systems.

Projects

WEL-GKNS: (Geschichte der Kunstgeschichte im Nationalsozialismus). Project on the art history institutes of the universities of Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn, and München. Based on WEL technology by STS. I do the client software and web app.

Cocoma: Conceptual Content Management. Mainly Hans-Werner's project, I write some generators and advise students.

Own Publications

Reviewed

>> Most of these can also be found in the corresponding DBLP entry. <<

Sebastian Bossung, Hans-Werner Sehring, and Joachim W. Schmidt. "Content is Capricious: A Case for Dynamic Systems Generation". In Proceedings ADBIS 2006. LNCS, Springer Verlag. To Appear September 2006

Hans-Werner Sehring, Sebastian Bossung, and Joachim W. Schmidt. "Conceptual Content Management for Pattern-based Software Design: An E-Learning Experience". In Rimvydas Simutis, Virgilijus Sakalauskas, and Dalia Kriksciuniene: Baltic DB&IS 2006: Workshop Information Technologies for Business, pages 39-51. Vilnius University Publishing Office, July 2006

Sebastian Bossung, Hans-Werner Sehring, Patrick Hupe and Joachim W. Schmidt. "Open and Dynamic Schema Evolution in Content-intensive Web Applications". In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, Setubal, April 2006. Bibtex entry

Sebastian Bossung, Hans-Werner Sehring, Joachim W. Schmidt. "Conceptual Content Management for Enterprise Web Services". In Jacky Akoka, Stephen W. Liddle, Il-Yeol Songand Michela Bertolottoand Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, Willem-Jan vanden Heuvel, Manuel Kolp, Juan Trujillo, Christian Kop, and Heinrich C. Mayr, editors, Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2005 Workshops CAOIS, BP-UML, CoMoGIS, eCOMO, and QoIS, volume 3770 / 2005 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 343 - 353. Springer-Verlag, 2005. Bibtex entry

Sebastian Bossung, Hans-Werner Sehring, Michael Skusa, Joachim W. Schmidt. "Conceptual Content Management for Software Engineering Processes". In Johann Eder, Hele-Mai Haav, Ahto Kalja, and Jaan Penjam, editors, Advances in Databases and Information Systems: 9th East European Conference, ADBIS 2005, volume 3631 / 2005 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 309. Springer-Verlag, 2005. Bibtex entry

Hans-Werner Sehring, Sebastian Bossung, Joachim W. Schmidt. "Active Learning By Personalization - Lessons Learnt from Research in Conceptual Content Management". In proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, Miami, 2005.

Sebastian Bossung, Hermann Stoeckle, John Grundy, Robert Amor, John Hosking. "Automated Data Mapping Specification via Schema Heuristics and User Interaction", Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Linz, 2004.

Theses & Reports

Sebastian Bossung, "Generating Schema Information for Views over Semi-structured Data", Masters Thesis, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, 2004.

Sebastian Bossung. "Semi-automatic Discovery of Mapping Rules to Match XML Schemas". Project Report, The University of Auckland, 2003.

Sebastian Bossung. "Evaluation of Transformation Methods to Detect Structures in Fingerprints". Bachelors Thesis. Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, 2002.

Other

Sebastian Bossung. "Web Services: Übersicht und aktuelle Entwicklungen". In M. Kammer, B. Thalheim und J.W. Schmidt (Hrsgs.) Dataport Cocktail Series, Hamburg, 2005.

Non-random Links

Serious ones:

eXist: Opensource XML database
Openarchives Initiative: E-publication initialive specifying a protocal for metadata exchange (OAI-PMH).
GNU eprints: Software that allows creation and management of an OAI compliant archive.
Warburg Electronic Library
Common Errors in English: Colleciton of useful hints about usage of the English language
Comments are more important than code: An essay by Jef Raskin.

And not so serious ones:

How to write unmaintainable code in Java.
A PhD thesis topic generator