Prof. Friedemann Mattern
professor
computer science
Institute of Theoretical Computer Science
Switzerland
Biography
Prof. Mattern was born on July 28, 1955 in Freiburg, Germany. He studied computer science at the University of Bonn and became a Faculty Research Assistant at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Kaiserslautern in 1983. There he worked at the "Collaborative Research Center for VLSI Design and Parallelism". He obtained his Ph.D. in 1989 with a thesis on distributed algorithms. From 1991-1994 he was Professor of practical computer science at Saarland University, Saarbrucken, and from 1994-1999 Professor of practical computer science and distributed systems at Darmstadt University of Technology. There he founded the graduate program "Enabling Technologies for Electronic Commerce"
Research Interest
His research interests encompass models and concepts for distributed computations, Ubiquitous Computing, programming of parallel and distributed systems, and infrastructures for the "Internet of Things".
Publications
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Predicting household occupancy for smart heating control: A comparative performance analysis of state-of-the-art approaches.
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Fine-Grained Product Class Recognition for Assisted Shopping
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Smart Configuration of Smart Environments.
