Kienreich, Wolfgang
Wolfgang Kienreich is a senior researcher and deputy division manager for the area of Knowledge Discovery at the Know-Center Graz. His work focusses on development and evaluation of visualization systems for large, complex knowledge spaces. Some samples of Wolfgang's work include the InfoSky visual browser, threedimensional navigation facilities integrated in the Brockhaus Encyclopedia , search result visualizations used by the Austrian Press Agency and the Planetarium module of the Brockhaus Multimedial lexicon.
Wolfgang's research agenda includes
As an avocation, Wolfgang has also been working on problems of game theory, namely the iterated prisoners dilemma. Together with Wolfgang Slany, he developed algorithms for this problem which won several tournaments under names like Mr. Nice Guy and the Cosa Nostra
Wolfgang works at the Know-Center in Graz. The Know-Center is Austria's competence center for knowledge management. Since its establishment in 2001, the Know-Center has worked on briding the gap between industry and science by transferring relevant scientific results to industry projects and incorporating lessons learned in the field into its research agenda.
External Links
- Know Center Graz
- Wolfgang Kienreich @ Semantic Web School - Center for Knowledge Transfer
- Personal pages, short portrait and list of publications
- Personal pages on amateur Astronomy