Manuel Goertz

Manuel Goertz has studied Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUD). In 2000 Manuel received his Master (Diplom)from TUD. His thesis dealt with the use of RSVP as a signaling protocol for multimedia firewalls. Thereafter, Manuel joined the Multimedia Communications Lab at TUD headed by Prof. Ralf Steinmetz. He was actively contributing to the establishing of the research group for ubiquitous context-aware communication services.

In 2005 Manuel received his Ph.D. for his research work on Efficient Real-time Communication Services by Utilization of Contexts. Manuel has led and worked in a number of co-operations between industries and the university.

Effective 01.01.2006, Manuel Görtz joined SAP to work as a researcher at the SAP Research CEC Darmstadt. He is working in the area of knowledge management and human-computer-interaction and is active in the APOSDLE Project.

Short description of a lecture and workshop

Context Modelling and Automatic Identification of Context