Carsten Keßler^*

I am a PhD student and research associate at Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), University of Münster. My current position is in the SimCat project at Münster Semantic Interoperability Lab (musil).

Research Interests

• Context modeling
• Semantic similarity measurement
• Semantic Interoperability
• GIS for collaboration / public participation GIS

Publications

Most of my publications are available for download in PDF format – just click on the title. You can keep track of new papers via RSS. Note that the versions provided here may deviate slightly from the published versions.

Edited book:

• Florian Probst and Carsten Keßler (Eds.) (2007) GI-Days 2007 – Young Researchers Forum. Proceedings of the 5^th Geographic Information Days, 10.-12. September 2007, Münster, Germany. ISBN: 978-3-936616-48-4. Order directly from us or from Amazon.

Fully reviewed journal publications:

• Krzysztof Janowicz, Sven Schade, Arne Bröring, Carsten Keßler, Patrick Maué, and Christoph Stasch (accepted) Semantic Enablement for Spatial Data Infrastructures. Transactions in GIS.
• Claus Rinner, Carsten Keßler and Stephen Andrulis (2008) The Use of Web 2.0 Concepts to Support Deliberation in Spatial Decision-Making. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS) volume 32, issue 5, September 2008, pp. 386–395. [ScienceDirect]
• Krzysztof Janowicz and Carsten Keßler (2008) The Role of Ontology in Improving Gazetteer Interaction. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS) volume 22, issue 10, 2008, pp. 1129–1157. [InformaWorld]

Fully reviewed conference & workshop publications:

• Marius Austerschulte and Carsten Keßler (forthcoming 2010) Suggestive Geo-Tagging Assistance for Geo-Collaboration Tools. In: The European Information Society - Taking Geoinformation Science One Step Further (Proceedings of the 13th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, 11.–14. May 2010, Guimaraes, Portugal). Springer Lecture Notes on Geo-Information
• Carsten Keßler, Patrick Maué, Jan Torben Heuer and Thomas Bartoschek (2009) Bottom-Up Gazetteers: Learning from the Implicit Semantics of Geotags. In Krzysztof Janowicz, Martin Raubal, and Sergei Levashkin: Third International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics (GeoS 2009). December 3–4 2009, Mexico City. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5892: 83–102.
• Krzysztof Janowicz, Sven Schade, Arne Bröring, Carsten Keßler, Christoph Stasch, Patrick Maué and Thorsten Diekhof (2009): A Transparent Semantic Enablement Layer for the Geospatial Web. Terra Cognita 2009 Workshop In conjunction with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), October 26, 2009.
• Carsten Keßler, Krzysztof Janowicz, and Mohamed Bishr (2009) An Agenda for the Next Generation Gazetteer: Geographic Information Contribution and Retrieval. In 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL – International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009), Seattle, Washington, November 4–6, 2009. ACM: 91–100. ★ Best Student Paper Award
• Carsten Keßler, Martin Raubal, and Christoph Wosniok (2009) Semantic rules for context-aware geographical information retrieval. In: In Payam Barnaghi, Klaus Moessner, Mirko Presser, and Stefan Meissner (Ed.), Smart Sensing and Context, 4th European Conference, EuroSSC 2009, Guildford, UK, September 2009. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5741: 77–92.
• Krzysztof Janowicz, Carsten Keßler, Ilija Panov, Marc Wilkes, Martin Espeter, and Mirco Schwarz (2008) A Study on the Cognitive Plausibility of SIM-DL Similarity Rankings for Geographic Feature Types. In: Lars Bernard, Anders Friis-Christensen and Hardy Pundt (Eds.), The European Information Society - Taking Geoinformation Science One Step Further (Proceedings of the 11th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, 5.–8. May 2008, Girona, Spain). Springer Lecture Notes on Geo-Information: 115–134. [SpringerLink] ★ 2^nd Best Paper Award
• Carsten Keßler, Martin Raubal and Krzysztof Janowicz (2007) The Effect of Context on Semantic Similarity Measurement. Paper presented at the 3^rd International IFIP Workshop On Semantic Web & Web Semantics (SWWS '07). Meersman R, Tari Z, Herrero P, et al. (Eds.) On The Move – OTM 2007 Workshops, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4806. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg: 1274–1284. [SpringerLink]
• Krzysztof Janowicz, Carsten Keßler, Mirco Schwarz, Marc Wilkes, Ilija Panov, Martin Espeter, and Boris Bäumer (2007) Algorithm, Implementation and Application of the SIM-DL Similarity Server. In: Fonseca F, Rodriguez MA, (Eds.) Second International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics, GeoS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4853. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg: 128–145. [SpringerLink]
• Carsten Keßler (2007) Similarity Measurement in Context (Poster presentation). Kokinov, B., Richardson, D., Roth-Berghofer, Th., Vieu, L. (Eds.): Modeling and Using Context. 6^th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2007, Roskilde, Denmark, August 20-24, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4635, Springer, Berlin: 277–290. [SpringerLink]
• Carsten Keßler, Marion Wilde and Martin Raubal (2005) Using SDI-based Public Participation for Conflict Resolution. Proceedings of the 11th EC-GI & GIS Workshop (CD-ROM). Alghero, Sardinia.
• Carsten Keßler, Claus Rinner and Martin Raubal (2005) An Argumentation Map Prototype to Support Decision-Making in Spatial Planning, in: (AGILE), Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe [Edt.]: 8th AGILE Conference: 135–142.
• Carsten Keßler, Sven Schade, Alexander Starke, Sascha Tegtmeyer, Alexander Walkowski and Thorsten Wilmes (2003): ariadne – GI-Dienste für Notfall-Management-Systeme. Tagungsband GI-Tage 2003: Geodaten- und Geodienste-Infrastrukturen – von der Forschung zur praktischen Anwendung. ifgi-Prints Bd. 18. Münster.

Workshop papers & abstracts:

• Krzysztof Janowicz, Carsten Keßler, Arne Bröring, Christoph Stasch, and Sven Schade (2009) Towards Semantic Enablement for Spatial Data Infrastructures. 4th European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC 2009).
• Simon Scheider, Anusuriya Devaraju, Krzysztof Janowicz, Patrick Maue, Sven Schade, Carsten Keßler, Jens Ortmann, Mohamed Bishr, Tonio Fincke, Tobias Weigel and Werner Kuhn (2009) Grounding Geographic Information. The European Information Society – Taking Geoinformation Science One Step Further (Proceedings of the 12th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, June, Hannover, Germany).
• Carsten Keßler and Martin Raubal (2008) Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Context in Conceptual Spaces. Workshop on Spatial Language in Context – Computational and Theoretical Approaches to Situation Specific Meaning. Workshop at Spatial Cognition, 19. September 2008. Freiburg, Germany.
• Carsten Keßler (2007) It depends. Workshop on Semantic Similarity Measurement at the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2007), Melbourne, Australia, September 19, 2007.
• Johannes Schöning, Ilija Panov; Carsten Keßler (2007) No vertical limit – Conceptual LBS design for climbers. Poster presentation at the Workshop on Mobile Spatial Interaction, CHI 2007, San José, California.
• Carsten Keßler (2006) Conceptual Spaces for Data Descriptions. The Cognitive Approach to Modeling Environments (CAME), Workshop at GIScience 2006, Münster, Germany. SFB/TR 8 Report No. 009-08/2006: 29–35.

Invited publications:

• Florian Probst and Carsten Keßler (2008) A Forum for Lively Exchange and Constructive Discussions. Guest editorial for the IJSDIR special issue on GI-Days 2007, Münster – Young Researchers Forum.
• Johannes Schöning, Oliver Paczkowski; Ilija Panov; Carsten Keßler; Krzysztof Janowicz; Jörg Müller; Martin Raubal; Antonio Krüger (2007) Klettern im Jahr 2017. Alpine Magazine 03/07. (online version)

Diploma thesis:

• Carsten Keßler (2004) Design and Implementation of Argumentation Maps. Diploma thesis, Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster. December 2004.

Teaching

• Context-aware software development
  Seminar in summer semester 2009.
• Computing data translation in INSPIRE
  Study project in summer semester 2009, with Werner Kuhn and Sven Schade.
• There is more to context than location
  Seminar in summer semester 2008.

Supervised Diploma Theses

• Christoph Wosniok (2010) A Context-Aware Surf Spot Search Engine Based on Conceptual Spaces
• Marius Austerschulte (2009) Suggestive Geo-Tagging Assistance for Geo-Collaboration Tools
• Tonio Fincke (2008) Analysis of the usage of GIS for the evaluation of self-organizing maps
• Stefan Kaup (2008) WikiMap – Konzept und Implementierung eines geokollaborativen Systems zur Partizipation in der räumlichen Planung

Links

• musil.uni-muenster.de – our lab.
• sim-dl.sourceforge.net – our current research project.
• flashfonic.de – my blog on music and other personal stuff (in German).
• Socialize: Xing, LinkedIn, Facebook, CiteULike, Flickr.

Contact

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