Alejandro BuchmannAlejandro Buchmann is Professor in the Department of Computer Science of Technische Universität Darmstadt since 1991 and is responsible for the area of Databases and Distributed Systems. He studied chemical engineering at the Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mexico and received his PhD from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1980. He was an Assistant/Associate Professor from 1980 to 1986 at IIMAS/UNAM and held positions as a senior researcher at Computer Corporation of America, Cambridge Mass. (86-89) and GTE Laboratories, Waltham Mass. (89-91) before joining TUD. He was responsible for the graduate research program in enabling technologies for e-commerce at TUD (1998- 2007) and initiated a research program in Cooperative, Adaptive and Responsive Monitoring in Mixed Mode Environments (2006-). Alejandro’s current research interests are in the areas of event-based and reactive systems, heterogeneous distributed systems, middleware, performance evaluation, peer-to-peer systems and new paradigms for data management and information processing in Cyberphysical systems. Alejandro’s involvement with event based systems dates back to the late 1980’s in the HiPAC project on active databases. Subsequent work at TU Darmstadt included distributed event based systems, temporal uncertainty in distributed event systems, quality of service and transactional properties, content based publish/subscribe and concept based pub/sub for heterogeneous event systems, as well as performance modeling and benchmarking of event based systems. Alex has been involved as general and/or program chair in ICDE 01 and ICDE08, VLDB 96, SIGMOD 98, DEBS 08 and AmI 07, and is on the editorial board of several journals. He has held visiting positions at UT Austin, ICSI Berkeley, HP Labs Palo Alto, University of Virginia, Ecole Politechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL), IIT Bombay, and Caltech. Read More Read Less