Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf

Grants and Awards

• Best paper award: Resch, B.; Zipf, A.; Breuss-Schneeweis, P.; E. Beniat and Boher, M. (2012): Live Cities and Urban Services - A Multi-dimensional Stress Field between Technology, Innovation and Society. The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications and Services. GEOProcessing 2012. Valencia, Spain.
• Best paper award: Walenciak, G., Stollberg, B., Neubauer, S. and Zipf, A. (2009):  Extending Spatial Data Infrastructures 3D by Geoprocessing Functionality - 3D Simulations in Disaster Management and environmental Research. The International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Web Services (GEOWS 2009). Cancun. Mexico.
• First price of the VDV (Verband Deutscher Vermessungsingenieure, Association of German Surveyors) 2007 for the Diploma Thesis of Pascal Neis (Emergency Route Service based on the OpenLS Specifications)
•  Best Poster award at “AGILE 2003”. Zipf, A. and Merdes, M. (2003): Is Aspect-Oriented Programming a new paradigm for GIS development? - on the relationship of geoobjects, aspects and ontologies. Lyon. France. Association of Geograpic Information Laboratories in Europe.
• 3rd Price for Diploma Student Albrecht Weiser: „Förderpreis Geoinformatik 2006“ of „Runder Tisch GIS e.V.“ in Munich (March 2006).
• Grant by the European Science Foundation (ESF) for participating in the EURESCO conference on Geographical Domain and Geographical Information Systems - Modelling Wayfinding. Bad Herrenalb, Germany, 26 April - 1 May 2003.
• Grant by the European Science Foundation (ESF) for participating in the EURESCO Geovisualisation Conference 2002: EuroConference on Methods to Define Geovisualisation Contents for Users Needs. 09 - 14 March 2002 Albufeira, Portugal
• Grant by the European Science Foundation (ESF) for participating in the EURESCO conference on The Digital City - Socio-Economic Research and Geographic Information Systems - A Euroconference. Granada, Spain, 9 - 14 June 2001.
• Grant by ESRI for participating in the „First International Conference on Geographic Information Science“ - GIScience 2000, Savannah, Georgia, USA, October 28-31, 2000.
• Grant by the European Science Foundation (ESF) for participating in the EURESCO Conference on Ontology and Epistemology for Spatial Data Standards - Geographical Domain and Geographical Information Systems. La Londe-les-Maures, France, 22-27.09.2000
• ESRI-Grant for IEUC98, The International ESRI User Conference, San Diego, USA. 1998. (additional participation at SDH 98 - Spatial Data Handling 1998, Vancouver, Canada).
• Erasmus grant for studying at the University of Manchester, UK. WS 1993/1994.

Memberships

• Interdiziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (IWR) der Universität Heidelberg
• AGILE - Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe
• OGC - Open Geospatial Consortium
• Gesellschaft für Geoinformatik
• Kompetenzzentrum Raumbezogene Informationstechnik in den Geisteswissenschaften, FH Mainz, i3mainz.
• ISPRS Working Group WG IV/8 „Spatial Data Integration for Emergency Services“. International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
• Verband der Geographen an Deutschen Hochschulen (VGDH)
• Arbeitskreis GIS der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie (AK GIS, DGfG)
• Kommission Geoinformation und Visualisierung der ISPRS TC WG IV/5, Working group on „Web-based Geoinformation Services and Applications“
• GI Fachgruppe „Mobilität und Mobile Informationssysteme“, der Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).
• Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)
• Heidelberger Geographische Gesellschaft (HGG)

Workshop Organization / Program Committee

• Program Committee: 3D GeoInfo 2009 - 4th International Workshop on 3D Geo-Information. Ghent, Belgium.
• Scientific Comittee. ISPRS-workshop on “Quality, scale and analysis aspects of urban city models”. (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing). Lund, Sweden, 3-4.12.2009.
• ISCRAM 2009, 6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Track Geo-information support, Göteborg, Sweden.
• Deegree Day 2009. Bonn. Forchungszentrum Cesar. inkl. Workshop “OpenStreetMap im Rheinland”
• Programm Committee: 2009 International Workshop on Theory and Applications Frontier of Location Based Services in cooperation with the The 3rd International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE09) Qingdao, China.
• Programm Committee: 9th International Symposium on Web and Wireless GIS, W2GIS. Maynooth, Ireland.
• Lokale Organisation: 6. Fachgespräch Ortsbezogene Dienste. Universität Bonn. September 2009.
• Program Committee: Geoinformatik 2009, Osnabrück.
• Program Committee: LocWeb 2009 - Second International Workshop on Location and the Web in Conjunction with CHI 2009, Boston. USA.
• Programm Committee: 8th International Workshop on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS 2008). 11.-12.12.2008. Shanghai. China.
• Scientific Committee: joint Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Management 2008: 3rd International China Workshop on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM-CHINA) and the 4th International Symposium on Geo-Information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM). Harbin. China.
• Scientific Committee: 5th Symposium on Location Based Services & TeleCartography 2008. Salzburg, Austria 26-28. November 2008.
• Scientific Committee: First International Workshop on Trends in Pervasive and Ubiquitous Geotechnology and Geoinformation Workshop at the GIScience conference, September 2008, Park City, Utah, USA
• Programm Committee: IADIS Wireless Applications and Computing 2008 (WAC 2008) Conference. July 2008. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Scientific Committee: 3D Geoinfo 2007. The Second International Workshop on 3D Modelling. Delft, The Netherlands. 12-14 December, 2007
• Programm Committee:  W2GIS'07 - 7th International Workshop on Web and Wireless GIS. November 28-29, 2007 in Cardiff, UK (hosted by the University of Glamorgan).
• Programm Committee: GI-Forum. 2007. 2008. 2009. Salzburg. Austria 2009.
• Programm Committee: ISCRAM 2008 Session TECH-03 “Process- and Geo-aware Systems for Crisis Management”
• Programm Committee: UMICS '07,the 5th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems. co-located with CAiSE '07 in Trondheim, Norway, June 11-12, 2007.
• Programm Committee: WAC 2007. IADIS International Conference Wireless Applications and Computing 2007. Lisbon, Portugal.
• Programm Committee: MDSGEO'06 - 1st International Workshop on Modern Decision Support in Geographical Domains: Models, Methods, and Tools September, 2-3, 2006 - Thessaloniki, Greece. to be held in conjunction with the 10th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS'2006
• Programm Committee: UMICS '06, the 4th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Communication Systems, co-located with CAiSE in Luxembourg, June 5-6, 2006.
• Programm Committee: 6th International Workshop on Web and Wireless GIS (W2GIS'06). December 4-5, 2006. Hong Kong. China.
• Workshop Organizer: UbiGIS 2006 - Second International Workshop on Ubiquitous GI Services. In conjunction with GISCience - International Conference on Geographic Information Science - Münster, Germany. September 2006.
• Workshop Organizer: Mobile Maps 2005. 19. September 2005.
• Programm Committee: deegree day. 2006, 2007. 2008. Bonn. Germany. June 2006, 2007. 2008.
• Programm Committee: 1st International Workshop on Web Portal-based Solutions for Tourism - IWWPST05 Focus: Decision Support Systems. November 8 and 9, 2005 Tampere, Finland.
• International Review Committee: Spatial Cognition 2004 Frauenchiemsee Island, Bavaria, Germany from 11-13 October 2004. Organizer: The Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition.
• Scientific Review Committe: IADIS Cognitive Performance Support (CPS) Conference within the IADIS Virtual Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS) conference.
• Program Chair and Organizer: UbiGIS 2004. First International Workshop on Ubiquitous Geographic Information Services. (Topic: “The relationship of GIS and Ubiquitous Computing”). In conjunction with: Geoinformatics 2004 . 12th International Conference on Geoinformatics ; Geospatial Information Research: Bridging the Pacific and Atlantic. 7 -9 June 2004, Gvle, Sweden.
• Program Committe: AGIT, Salzburg, Austria; since 2003.
• Workshop Organizer: Alexander Zipf (FH Mainz) and Liqiu Meng (TU Munich): Design kartenbasierter mobiler Dienste. (Call for papers) Workshop auf der Konferenz. “Mensch und Computer” - Interaktion in Bewegung. Stuttgart. Germany. 2003.
• Program Committe: Geoinformatics 2004. 12th International Conference on Geoinformatics ; Geospatial Information Research: Bridging the Pacific and Atlantic. 7 -9 June 2004, Gvle, Sweden.
• Program Committe: Münsteraner GI-Tage 2004 Schwerpunkt: “GI & Mobilitt Von der Forschung zur praktischen Anwendung”
• Scientific Committee: IT Conference. 2007. Malaka. Malaysia.
• Program and Organizing Committee: GIS Day 2003. Heidelberg. 18. Nov. 2003.
• Program and Organizing Committe: AGIT 2002, Schwerpunktthema: “Geoinformation Mobil”, Salzburg, Austria, 3. - 5. 07.2002.
• Program Committe: AIMS 2002 - Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems, Lyon, France, July, 22 2002, in conjunction with: ECAI 2002 (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence).
• Program and Organizing Committee: GIS Day 2002. Heidelberg. 20. Nov. 2002.
• Virtual Worlds in Realistic Visualization. Deep Map Workshop, EML, Heidelberg. 09. December 1999. (Together with V. Coors, FhG IGD

Associations

• i3mainz - Institute for Spatial Information and Surveying Technology, Department for Geoinformatics and Surveying, FH Mainz, University of Applied Sciences