An image of Wolfgang Kienreich Wolfgang Kienreich
Graz, Austria, Europe
wolf@blit.at
 

About

I've been working at the Know-Center [link], Austria's Competence Center for Knowledge-Based applications and systems, since 2001. My research activities focus on Knowledge Discovery in large, highly structured knowledge spaces. I'm particulary interested in applying methods of Information and Knowledge Visualization to encyclopedia and news article repositories, please find a list of related publications below [link]. I've also been working on problems of game theory, like for example the Iterated Prisoners Dilemma [link]. In private, I'm fascinated by the field of Astronomy, visit my "nightsky" pages [link] for more information and some images.

 

At a glance

 
Brockhaus WebAtlas - Geospatial Visualization on the Web (2005)
Keith Jarrett - Endless source of inspiration
Brockhaus Planetarium - Astrospatial Visualization (2006)
 
ERacer Demo - Visual Basic does DirectX (2002)
Brockhaus Knowledge Space - 3D Visualization for Encyclopedia Data (2005)
Ascendancy Demo - Java OpenGL 3D Engine (2004)
InfoSky - Visual Exploration of large Document Repositories (2003)
Tango Argentino - Passion for Life
WebRat - Interactive Search Result Visualization (2003)

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Book Contributions

"Shaping Opinions: Visual Analysis of Public Discourse on Environmental Issues"
W.Kienreich
In: R. De Amicis, R. Stojanovic and G. Conti (Eds.): GeoSpatial Visual Analytics (ISBN 978-90-481-2897-6)
NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, Springer, 2009[link]

"Visualisation Techniques for Analysis and Exploration of Multimedia Data"
V.Sabol, W.Kienreich
In: M.Granitzer, M.Lux, M.Spaniol (Eds.): Multimedia Semantics - The Role of Metadata (ISBN 978-3-540-77472-3)
Studies in Computational Intelligence, Volume 1, Springer, 2008 [link]

"On some winning strategies for the iterated prisoner's dilemma"
W.Kienreich, W.Slany
In: Graham Kendall, Xin Yao, and Siang Yew Chong (Eds.): The Iterated Prisoners Dilemma: 20 Years On (ISBN 978-981-270-697-3)
Advances in Natural Computation, Volume 4, World Scientific, 2007 [link]

"Wissensmodellierung als Grundlage für die Anwendung semantischer Technologien"
W.Kienreich, M.Strohmaier
In: Tassilo Pellegrini and Andreas Blumauer (Eds.): Semantic Web - Wege zur vernetzten Wissensgesellschaft (ISBN 3-540-29324-8)
X.Media.Press, Springer, 2006 [link]

Journal Contributions

"A Generic Framework for Visualizing the News Article Domain and its Application to Real-World Data"
E.Lex, C.Seifert, W.Kienreich, M.Granitzer
In: Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM), Vol 6 (2008) (ISSN 0972-7272)
Digital Information Research Foundation, 2008 [link]

"Text mapping: Visualising Unstructured, Structured, and Time-Based Text Collections"
V.Sabol, K.Andrews, W.Kienreich, M.Granitzer
In: Intelligent Decision Technologies Vol 2, No. 2 (2008) pages 117-128 (ISSN 1872-4981 (Print) 1875-8843 (Online))
IOS Press, 2008 [link]

"Visualization Summit 2007: Ten Research Goals for 2010"
R.Burkhard, G.Andrienko, N.Andrienko, A.Blackwell, K.Boerner, D.Brodbeck, J.Dykes, M.Eppler, J-D.Fekete, A.Gruen, B.Herr, J.Huang, W.Kienreich, A.Koutamanis, S.Lang, M.Meagher, D.Perrin, R.Phaal, AV.Moere, W.Weber
In: Palgrave Journal on Information Visualization (ISSN 1473-8716)
London, England, 2008 [link]

"Information Visualization - An Oblique View"
W.Kienreich
In: MIA Journal on Informative Modelling (ISSN 1951-6363)
Marseille, France, 2006 [link]

"The InfoSky Visual Explorer: Exploiting Hierarchical Structure and Document Similarities"
K.Andrews, W.Kienreich, V.Sabol, J.Becker, G.Droschl, F.Kappe, M.Granitzer, P.Auer, K.Tochtermann
Palgrave Journal on Information Visualization (ISSN 1473-8716)
London, England, 2002 [link]

Conference Publications

"An Application of Edge Bundling Techniques to the Visualization of Media Analysis Results"
W.Kienreich, C.Seifert
Proceedings of IV'10 - 14th International Conference on Information Visualization
London, England, 2010 [link]

"Stress Maps: Analysing Local Phenomena in Dimensionality Reduction Based Visualizations"
C.Seifert, V.Sabol, W.Kienreich
Proceedings of EuroVAST'10 - 1st European Symposium Visual Analytics Science and Technology
Bordeaux, France, 2010 [link]

"Integrating Node-Link-Diagrams and Information Landscapes: A Path-Finding Approach"
V.Sabol, C.Seifert, W.Kienreich
Poster and Demo at EuroVis'10 - 11th Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization
Bordeaux, France, 2010 [link]

"Semantische Technologien: Stand der Forschung und Visionen"
M.Granitzer, W.Kienreich
Proceedings of IRIS'01, Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion, OCG
Salzburg, Austria, 2010 [link]

"Taxonomy Extraction from German Encyclopedic Texts"
M.Granitzer, A.Augustin, W.Kienreich, V.Sabol
Proceedings of the Malaysian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2009
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009 [link]

"Visual Knowledge Discovery in Dynamic Enterprise Text Repositories"
V.Sabol, W.Kienreich, M.Muhr, W.Klieber, M.Granitzer
Proceedings of IV'09 - 13th International Conference on Information Visualization
Barcelona, Spain, 2009 [link]

"Visualizing Temporal Changes in Information Landscapes"
V.Sabol, W.Kienreich
Poster Proceedings of EuroVis'09, 11th Eurographics/IEEE Symposium on Visualization
Berlin, Germany, 2009 [link]

"Comparative Evaluation of Two Systems for the Visual Navigation of Encyclopedia Knowledge Spaces"
W.Kienreich, P.Kraker
Proceedings of DS'08 - Eleventh International Conference on Discovery Science
Budapest, Hungary, 2008 [link]

"APA Labs: An Experimental Web-Based Platform for the Retrieval and Analysis of News Articles"
W.Kienreich, E.Lex, C.Seifert
Proceedings of ICADIWT'08 - First International Conference on the Application of Digital Information and Web Technologies
Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2008 [link]

"On the Beauty and Usability of Tag Clouds"
C.Seifert, B.Kump, W.Kienreich, G.Granitzer, M.Granitzer
Proceedings of IV'08 - 12th International Conference on Information Visualization
London, England, 2008 [link]

"Comprehensive Astronomical Visualization for a Multimedia Encyclopedia"
W.Kienreich, M.Zechner, V.Sabol
Proceedings of IV'07 - 11th International Conference on Information Visualization
Zurich, Switzerland, 2007 [link]

"Fused Exploration of Temporal Developments and Topical Relationships in Heterogeneous Data Sets"
V.Sabol, M.Granitzer, W.Kienreich
Proceedings of IV'07 - 11th International Conference on Information Visualization
Zurich, Switzerland, 2007 [link]

"A General Purpose Visual Formalism Based on Procedurally Generated Geometry"
E.Lex, W.Kienreich
Proceedings of ISGI'07 - 2nd International Symposium on Generalization of Information
Geneva, Switzerland, 2007 [link]

"Scalable Realtime Glyph Rendering on Consumer Level Graphics Hardware: A Hybrid Approach"
M.Zechner, W.Kienreich
Proceedings of VIIP'07 - 7th IASTED Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing
Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2007 [link]

"Geospatial Anchoring of Encyclopedia Articles"
W.Kienreich, M.Granitzer, M.Lux
Proceedings of IV'06 - 10th International Conference on Information Visualization
London, England, 2006 [link]

"Plagiarism Detection in Large Sets of Press Agency News Articles"
W.Kienreich, M.Granitzer, V.Sabol, W.Klieber
Proceedings of TAKMA'06 - 7th International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Knowledge Management
Krakow, Poland, 2006 [link]

"KnowMiner: Ein Service orientiertes Knowledge Discovery Framework"
W. Klieber, M. Granitzer, V.Sabol, W.Kienreich, R.Kern
Proceedings of Berliner XML-Tage
Berlin, Germany, 2006 [link]

"Visualising Knowledge Webs for Encyclopedia Articles"
W.Kienreich, M.Granitzer
Proceedings of IV'05, 9th International Conference on Information Visualization
London, England, 2005 [link]

"A Visual Query Interface for a Very Large Newspaper Article Repository"
W.Kienreich, V.Sabol, M.Granitzer, W.Klieber, M.Lux, W.Sarka
Proceedings of TAKMA'05 - 6th International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Knowledge Management
Copenhagen, Denmark, 2005 [link]

"Micropayment in the Context of Distributed Digital Libraries"
W.Kienreich, K.Tochtermann, E.Oswald
Proceedings of WSEAS CSCC 2005 - 9th International Conference on Computers
Athens, Greece, 2006 [link]

"Visual Analysis of Search Results Obtained from a Very Large Newspaper Article Repository"
W.Kienreich, M.Granitzer, V.Sabol, W.Klieber, M.Lux, W.Sarka
Proceedings of ISGI 2005, CODATA International Symposium on Generalization of Information
Berlin, Germany, 2005 [link]

"MagIR: Distributed Creation, Administration and Reutilization of Multimedia Presentation Content"
W.Kienreich, V.Sabol, T.Ley, S.Lindstaedt, P.Koronakis, G.Droschl
Proceedings of WM05 - Workshop IT Tools for Knowledge Management Systems
Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2005 [link]

"Cross Media Retrieval in Knowledge Discovery"
M.Lux, M.Granitzer, W.Kienreich, V.Sabol, W.Klieber, W.Sarka
Proceedings of PAKM'04 - 5th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management
Vienna, Austria, 2004 [link]

"Challenges in Knowledge Discovery: Structured Repositories and Multimedia Content"
W.Kienreich, V.Sabol, M.Granitzer, M.Lux, W.Klieber, W.Sarka
Proceedings of I-Know'04 - 4th International Conference on Knowledge Management
Graz, Austria, 2004 [link]

"Evaluating a System for Interactive Exploration of Large, Hierarchically Structured Document Repositories"
M.Granitzer, W.Kienreich, V.Sabol, K.Andrews, W.Klieber
Proceedings of InfoVis'04 - 10th IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
Austin, Texas, USA, 2004 [link]

"The Visualization of Large Hierarchical Document Spaces with InfoSky"
K.Andrews, W.Kienreich, V.Sabol, M.Granitzer
Proceedings of CoData'04 - Prague Workshop on Information Visualization, Presentation, and Design
Prague, Czeck Republic, 2004 [link]

"Visualising Large Hierarchically Structured Document Repositories with InfoSky - An Interactive Poster"
K.Andrews, W.Kienreich, V.Sabol, M.Granitzer
Proceedings of InfoVis'03 - 9th IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
Seattle, Washington, USA, 2003 [link]

"InfoSky: A System for Visual Exploration of Very Large, Hierarchically Structured Knowledge Spaces"
W.Kienreich, V.Sabol, M.Granitzer, F.Kappe, K.Andrews
Proceedings of FGWM'03 - Workshop Wissens- und Erfahrungsmanagement
Karlsruhe, Germany, 2003 [link]

"Supporting Agile Knowledge Retrieval through Dynamic, Incremental Clustering and Automatic Labelling of Web Search Result Sets"
M.Granitzer, W.Kienreich, V.Sabol, G.Dösinger
Proceedings of KMDAP'03, 1st IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Management for Distributed Agile Processes
Linz, Austria, 2003 [link]

"Themenkarten als Ergänzung zu hierarchiebasierter Navigation und Suche in Wissensmanagementsystemen"
W.Kienreich, V.Sabol, M.Granitzer, K.Tochtermann
Tagungsband 4. Oldenburger Forum Wissensmanagement
Oldenburg, Germany, 2003 [link]

"InfoSky: Visual Exploration of Large Hierarchical Document Repositories"
F.Kappe, G.Droschl, W.Kienreich, V.Sabol, J.Becker, K.Andrews, M.Granitzer, K.Tochtermann, P.Auer
Proceedings of HCII2003 - 10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction
Heraclion, Greece, 2003
[link]

"Topic Cascades: An interactive interface for exploration of clustered web search results based on the SVG standard"
M.Lux, M.Granitzer, V.Sabol, W.Kienreich, J.Becker
Proceedings of KES2003 - Seventh International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems
Oxford, England, 2003 [link]

"Enhancing Environmental Search Engines with Information Landscapes"
K.Tochtermann, V.Sabol, W.Kienreich, M.Granitzer, J.Becker
Proceedings of ISESS - 8th International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems
Vienna, Austria, 2003 [link]

"InfoSky: Eine neue Technologie zur Erforschung großer, hierarchischer Wissensräume"
F.Kappe, G.Droschl, W.Kienreich,V.Sabol, J.Becker, K.Andrews, M.Granitzer, K.Tochtermann, P.Auer
Tagungsband KnowTech 2002, 4. Konferenz zum Einsatz von Knowledge Management in Wirtschaft und Verwaltung
Munich, Germany, 2002 [link]

"Applications of a lLightweight, Webbased Retrieval, Clustering and Visualization Framework"
V.Sabol, W.Kienreich, M.Granitzer, J.Becker, K.Tochtermann, K.Andrews
Proceedings of PAKM02, 4th international conference on practical aspects of Knowledge Management
Vienna, Austria, 2002 [link]

"Intelligent Maps and Information Landscapes: Two new Approaches to support Search and Retrieval of Environmental Information Objects"
K.Tochtermann, V.Sabol, W.Kienreich, M.Granitzer, J.Becker
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Environmental Informatics
Vienna, Austria, 2002 [link]

Patents

European Patent Application #02 007 742.6: Data Processing System
With: Sabol, Vedran and Kappe, Frank. April, 2002

US Patent Application #20030231209: Data Processing System
With: Sabol, Vedran and Kappe, Frank. April, 2003

Media

"Mit offenen Augen durch den Blätterwald"
Wirtschaftsblatt, October 10th, 2008
Austria, October 2008 [link]

"Der Brockhaus Marathon"
Brockhaus Encyclopedia Documentation
Germany, October 2005 [link]

"Suchmaschine greift nach den Sternen"
Modern Times - Science TV Show
Austria, October 2004 [link]

"Sternenhimmel zeigt dem User, was er sich wünscht"
Nano - Science TV Show
Germany, October 2004 [link]

"Wissensvisualisierung und Wissensretrieval"
J.Becker, W.Kienreich, V.Sabol, M.Granitzer, M.Lux, W.Klieber
Telematik - Zeitschrift des Telematik-Ingenieursverbandes
Graz, Austria, 2002 [link]