• Former Activities

    Former Scientific Activities


    • Program committee member of ACM SAC 2024, SE-  Track, Avila, Spain.

    • Program committee member of ICSOFT 2024, Dijon, France.

    • Program committee member of HLPP 2024, Pisa, Italy.

    • Steering committee member of the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Managed Programming Languages & Runtimes (MPLR).

    • Steering committee member of the International Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications (HLPP).

    • Managing Director of the Institute for Applied Informatics at the of University of Münster.

    • Director of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS).

    • Editor of the Open Journal of Web Technologies

    • Member of the union of Informatics Institutes at the University of Münster

    • Program committee member of WLP 2023, Berlin, Germany.

    • Technical committee member of 4th European Syposium on Software Engineering (ESSE) 2023, Napoli, Italy.

    • Program committee member of  HLPP 2023, Cluj, Romania.

    • Program committee member of ScalCom 2023, Portsmouth, UK.

    • Program committee member of ICSOFT 2023, Rome, Italy.

    • Program committee member of ACM SAC 2023, SE track, Tallinn, Estonia.

    • Program committee member of ACM SAC 2022, SE track, Brno, Czech Republic.

    • Scientific committee member of DSAI 2022, Lisbon, Portugal.

    • Program committee member of 28th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2022), Glasgow, UK.

    • Program committee member of the 15th International Symposium on High-level Parallel Programming and Applications (HLPP 2022), Porto, Portugal.

    • Program committee member of 17th International Conference on Software Technologies (ICSOFT 2022),  Lisbon, Prtugal.

    • Program committee member of SACLA 2022, Cape Town, South Africa.

    • General Chair of 18th International Conference on Managed Programming Languages & Runtimes (MPLR 2021), Münster, Germany.

    • Programme committee member of LA-CCI 2021, Temuco, Chile.

    • Programme committee member of the  2nd European Symposium on Software Engineering (ESSE 2021), Larissa, Greece.

    • Programme committee member of HLPP 2021, online event.

    • Programme committee member of 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2021), Software Engineering Track, Gwangju, Korea.

    • Programme committee member of Software Engineering 2021, Workshop Software Engineering for E-Learning Systems (SEELS),

      Braunschweig, Germany.

    • Programme committee  member of 16th International Conference on Software Technologies (ICSOFT 2021), Lieusaint-Paris, France. 

    • Programme committee  member of  20th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications ( ScalCom 2020 )

    • Programme committee member of Workshop on Software Engineering for E-Learning Systems, online event.

    • Programme committee  member of HLPP 2020, Porto, Portugal.

    • Programme committee  member of WFLP 2020, Bologna, Italy.

    • Programme committee member of SOFTENG 2020, Lisbon, Portugal.

    • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of IMDEA-Software (Research Institute on Technologies for Software Development), Spain, 2007 - 2019.

    • Programme committee chair of WFLP 2019, Cottbus, Germany.

    • Programme committee member of LOPSTR 2019, Porto, Portugal.

    • Programme committee member of LA-CCI 2019,  Guayaquil, Ecuador.

    • Programme committee  member of HLPP 2019, Linköping, Sweden.

    • Programme committee member of ParCo 2019, Prague, Czech Republic.

    • Programme committee member of 6th  International Symposium on Formal Approaches to Parallel and Distributed Systems (4PAD) 2019, Dublin, Ireland. 

    • Programme committee member of VALID 2019, Valencia, Spain.

    • Programme committee member of ScalCom 2019, Leicester, UK.

    • Programme committee member of HLPGPU 2019 at HiPEAC, Valencia, Spain.

    • Programme committee member of INFOCOMP 2019, Nice, France.

    • Programme committee member of SBD 2019 (at ACM SIGMOD), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

    • Programme committee member of SOFTENG 2019, Valencia, Spain.

    • Programme committee  member of WFLP 2018, Frankfurt a.M., Germany.

    • Programme committee member of ScalCom 2018, Guangzhou, China.

    • Programme committee member of HLPGPU 2018, Manchester, UK.

    • Programme committee member of HLPP 2018, Orléans, France.

    • Programme committee member of SACLA 2018, Cape Town, South Africa.

    • Programme committee member of SAC 2018, Track SE, Pau, France.

    • Programme committee member of SAC 2018, Track PAPP, Pau, France.

    • Programme committee member of INFOCOMP 2018, Barcelona, Spain.

    • Programme committee member of VALID 2018, Nice, France.

    • Programme committee member of SOFTENG 2018, Athens, Greece.

    • Programme committee member of SBD 2018, Houston, Texas, USA.

    • Guest editor of International Journal of Parallel Computation, Special Issue on High-Level Parallel Programming with Algorithmic Skeletons, 2018.

    • Guest editor of Parallel Processing Letters 27(1), 2017.

    • Programme committee member of LA-CCI 2017, Arequipa, Peru.

    • Programme committee member of WFLP 2017, Kiel, Germany.

    • Programme committee member of HLPP 2017, Valladolid, Spain.

    • Programme committee member of ParCo 2017, Bologna, Italy.

    • Programme committee member of PASCO 2017, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

    • Programme committee member of INFOCOMP 2017, Venice, Italy.

    • Programme committee member of HLPGPU 2017, Stockholm, Sweden.

    • Programme committee member of SBD 2017, Raleigh, USA.

    • Programme committee member of SOFTENG 2017, Venice, Italy.

    • Programme committee member of SACLA 2017, Magaliesburg, South Africa.

    • Organizer and programme committee co-chair of HLPP 2016, Münster, Germany.

    • Programme committee member of QRS 2016, Vienna, Austria.

    • Programme committee member of ACM SAC 2016, Track SE, Pisa, Italy.

    • Programme committee member of SBD 2016, San Francisco, USA.

    • Programme committee member of SACLA 2016, Pretoria, South Africa.

    • Programme committee member of HLPGPU 2016, Prague, Czech Republic, ,2016.

    • Programme committee member of SOFTENG 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016.

    • Track PC member of ACM SAC track on Practical Aspects of High-Level Parallel Programming (PAPP) 2016, Pisa, Italy.

    • Programme committee member of GEOProcessing 2016, 7th International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services, Venice, 2016.

    • Track committee member of HICSS 2016, Track on Modern Trends in Parallel Computing, Kauai, 2016.

    • Programme committee member of SaW 2015, Porto, Portugal.

    • Co-chair of ECIS 2015 track on Information System Development

    • Programme committee member of QRS 2015, Vancouver, Canada.

    • Programme committee member of HLPP 2015, Pisa, Italy.

    • Programme committee member of SOFTENG 2015, Barcelona, Spain.

    • Programme committee member of KPS 2015, Pörtschach, Austria.

    • Programme committee member of ACM SAC 2015, SE track, Salamanca, Spain.

    • Programme committee member of INFOCOMP 2015, Brussels, Belgium.

    • Programme committe member of ParCo 2015, Edinburgh, Scotland.

    • Programme committee member of GEOProcessing 2015, 7th International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services, Lisbon, 2015.

    • Programme committee  member of HLPP 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

    • Programme committee member of WFLP 2014, Wittenberg, Germany, 2014

    • Programme committee member of 11th International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java platform (PPPJ 2014), Cracow, Poland.

    • Programme committee member of  8th IEEE International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE 2014), San Francisco, USA.

    • Programme committee member of 7th Working Conference on Programming Languages (Arbeitstagung Programmiersprachen, ATPS 2014), Kiel, Germany.

    • Programme committee member of 29th Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), Gyeongju, Korea, 2014.

    • Programme committee member of GEOProcessing 2014, The Sixth International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services, Barcelona, 2014

    • Programme committee member of 6th Working Conference on Programming Languages (Arbeitstagung Programmiersprachen, ATPS 2013), Aachen, Germany.

    • Programme committee member of the 6th International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE/SSIRI 2012), Washington, D.C., USA.

    • Programme committee member of the 10th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ 2012), Grahamstown, South Africa.

    • Programme committee member of the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation (INFOCOMP 2012), Venice, Italy.

    • Member of the jury of the IT innovation award of the German initiative for medium-sized businesses (Initiative Mittelstand) 2012 under the patronage of Fraunhofer.

    • Guest editor of the Journal of Telecommunication Sytems, Special Issue on Middleware, Operating Systems and Applications, Springer Verlag.

    • Programme committee member of the 21th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP 2012), Nagoya, Japan.

    • Programme committee member of Arbeitstagung Programmiersprachen (ATPS 2012), a satellite event of the conference Software Engineering 2012, Berlin, Germany.

    • Keynote speaker at the International Conference DigitalWorld 2012, Valencia, Spain.

    • Programme committee member of 26th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2011), Riva del Garda, Italy, Software Engineering Track.

    • Programme committee member of the 9th International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ 2011), Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.

    • Organizer of the Workshop KPS'11 , Schloss Raesfeld, Germany.

    • Programme committee member of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Secure System Integration and Reliability Improvement (SSIRI 2011), Jeju Island, Korea.

    • Programme committee member of the International Conference on Parallel Computing (ParCo 2011), Ghent, Belgium.

    • Member of the jury of the IT innovation award of the German initiative for medium-sized businesses (Initiative Mittelstand) 2011 under the patronage of Fraunhofer.

    • Programme chair of 20th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP 2011), Odense, Denmark.

    • Programme committee member of 26th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2011), TaiChung, Taiwan, Software Engineering Track.

    • Vice-chairman of Working Group ``Programming Languages and Computing Concepts'' of the German Computer Science Organization GI, 1995-2010.

    • Programme committee member of the 4th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications (HLPP 2010), Baltimore, Maryland.

    • Programme committee member of Parallel Symbolic Computation 2010 (PASCO 2010), Grenoble, France.

    • Programme committee member of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Secure System Integration and Reliability Improvement (SSIRI 2010), Singapore.

    • Programme committee member of 19th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP 2010), Madrid, Spain.

    • Member of the jury of the IT innovation award of the German initiative for medium-sized businesses (Initiative Mittelstand) 2010 under the patronage of Fraunhofer.

    • Programme committee member of 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2010), Lausanne, Switzerland, Software Engineering Track

    • Steering committee member of the International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming (FLOPS), 2001 - 2010

    • Programme committee member of Parallel Computing (ParCo 2009), Lyon, France.

    • Programme committee member of ATPS 2009, Lübeck, Germany.

    • Programme committee member of the 7th IEEE International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ 2009), Calgary, Canada.

    • Programme committee member of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Secure System Integration and Reliability Improvement (SSIRI 2009), Shanghai, China.

    • Programme committee member of the 23nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2009), Honolulu, USA, Software Engineering Track

    • Member of the board of the Münsterland section of the GI (GI-Regionalgruppe Münsterland)

    • Programme committee member of the 10th International ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP 2008), Valencia, Spain.

    • Programme committee member of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Secure System Integration and Reliability Improvement (SSIRI 2008), Yokohama, Japan.

    • Programme committee member of the International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming (FLOPS 2008), Ise, Japan.

    • Programme committee member of the 23nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008), Fortaleza, Brazil, Software Engineering Track

    • Co-organizer and programme committee member of the Workshop on Multi-paradigm Programming in Object-Oriented Languages (MPOOL) at ECOOP 2008, Paphos, Cyprus.

    • Programme committee member of the 17th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP 2008), Siena, Italy.

    • Programme committee member of the ACM Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming in Java (PPPJ 2007)

    • Programme committee member of the 16th International Workshop on Functional and Logic Programming (WFLP'07), Paris, June, 2007

    • Programme committee member of Parallel Computing (ParCo 2007), Jülich/Aachen, Germany

    • Programme committee member of the 4th International Workshop on High-Level and Parallel Programming and Applications (HLPP 2007), Tokyo, Japan

    • Programme committee member of MPOOL 2007 at ECOOP 2007, Berlin, Germany.

    • Programme committee member of the 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2007), Seoul, Korea, Software Engineering Track

    • Programme committee member of the 15th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP'06), Madrid, November, 2006

    • Guest editor of the special issue on Algorithmic Skeletons, Parallel Computing 32 (7+8), Elsevier, 2006.

    • Member of the Board of the European Association for Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS) from 2001 to 2006

    • Programme committee member of the ACM Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming in Java (PPPJ 2006)

    • Programme committee member of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2006

    • Programme committee member of the 5th International Workshop on Constructive Methods for Parallel Programming (CMPP 2006)

    • Programme comittee member of the 4th German Working Conference on Programming Languages (Arbeitstagung Programmiersprachen), a satellite event of the Annual Conference of the German Computer Science Organisation GI (GI-Jahrestagung), Dresden 2006.

    • Organizer of the Colloquium on Parallelism 2006 at the University of Münster

    • Programme committee member of MPOOL 2005 at OOPSLA 2005

    • Programme committee member of ParCo 2005

    • Programme committee member of WCFLP 2005

    • Program chair of WFLP 2004

    • Programme comittee member of the 3rd German Working Conference on Programming Languages (Arbeitstagung Programmiersprachen), a satellite event of the Annual Conference of the German Computer Science Organisation GI (GI-Jahrestagung), Ulm 2004.

    • Programme committee member of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2004, Special Track on Software Engineering: Applications, Practices, and Tools

    • Steering committee member of the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP) (and its predecessor PLILP) from 1997 to 2003

    • Programme committee member of MPOOL'03

    • Programme committee member of ParCo'03

    • Programme committee member of WFLP'03

    • Programme committee member of RULE'03

    • Programme committee member of Second International Workshop on High-level Parallel Programming and Applications (HLPP 2003)

    • Programme committee member of DP-COOL'03

    • Programme committee member of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2003, Special Track on Software Engineering: Applications, Practices, and Tools)

    • Programme committee member of International Workshop on Multiparadigm Constraint Programming Languages (MultiCPL'02), Ithaca, NY, USA.

    • Programme committee member of WFLP'02

    • Programme committee member of RULE'02

    • Programme committee member of CMPP 2002

    • Programme committee co-chair of the 5th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming (FLOPS'2001), Japan

    • Programme committee member of the International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming which comprises the 10th International Workshop on Functional and Logic Programming and the 16th Workshop on Logic Programming

    • Programme committee member of the International Workshop on High-level Parallel Programming and Applications (HLPP'2001), Orleans, 2001.

    • Programme committee member of the 11th International Workshop on the Implementation of Functional Languages (IFL'99), Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

    • Programme committee member of the 4th Fuji International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming, Tsukuba, Japan

    • Programme committee member of the Working Conference on Programming Languages (Arbeitstagung Programmiersprachen), Paderborn, Germany, 1999; organized in cooperation with the Annual Conference of the German Computer Science Organization (GI-Jahrestagung)

    • Organizer of the Workshop on Functional Logic Programming, Bad Honnef, April, 1998.

    • Program committee member of IFL'97

    • Program committee chair of ``Arbeitstagung Programmiersprachen'' (Working Conference on Programming Languages, in German)

    • Program committee member of the Annual Conference of the German Computer Science Organization (GI-Jahrestagung)

    • Program committee co-chair of the 9th International Symposium on Programming Languages, Implementations, Logics and Programs (PLILP'97)

    • Program committee member of the 2nd International Symposium on Parallel Symbolic Computation (PASCO '97)

    • Local coordinator of the ERASMUS project Declarative Systems''

    • Program committee co-chair of the 8th International Symposium on Programming Languages, Implementations, Logics and Programs (PLILP'96)

    • Organization of ALP/PLILP/SAS'96, Aachen, September, 1996

    • Program committee member of IFL'96

    • Organization of JICSLP'96 Post-Conference Workshop "What can Logic Programmers Learn from Functional Programmer?", Bonn, 1996

    • Program committee member of the Symposium on Functional Programming Languages in Education (FPLE'95), Nijmegen, 1995, Proceedings in LNCS 1022, Springer Verlag.

    • Program committee member of the 7th International Symposium on Programming Languages, Implementations, Logics and Programs (PLILP'95), Arnhem, 1995, Proceedings in LNCS 982, Springer Verlag.

    • Program committee member of the 1st International Symposium on Parallel Symbolic Computation (PASCO'94), Linz, 1994, Proceedings in Lecture Notes Series in Computing, Vol. 5, World Scientic Publishers.

    • Program committee member of the 6th International Symposium on Programming Language Implementation and Logic Programming (PLILP'94), Madrid, 1994, Proceedings in LNCS 844, Springer Verlag.

    • Organizer of the 4th International Workshop on the Parallel Implementation of Functional Languages, Aachen, 1992.

    • Editor of the Journal of Functional and Logic Programming