Contact

Rudolf Mayer Vienna University of Technology Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems Information and Software Engineering Group Favoritenstrasse 9-11/188/2, Room HE 04 14 (new) A-1040 Wien AUSTRIA mayer@ifs.tuwien.ac.at phone: +43 1 58801 - 18863 fax: +43 1 58801 - 18899

Background

• October 1998 - February 2004: student of "Business Informatics" (Wirtschaftsinformatik) at Vienna University of Technology
  Graduated as Master of Science (german: Magister rer.soc.oec)
• Since March 2004: student of "Information and Knowledge Engineering" at Vienna University of Technology
• Since June 2005 Ph.d. student in Computer Science at Vienna University of Technology
• 2003: started to work in the area of Information Retrieval
• Since 2005: Project Assistant in TU Vienna's Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Information and Software Engineering Group doing research on Information Retrieval

Current Projects

Research on Information Retrieval, in particular on Text Machine Learning, specifically Self Organizing Maps (SOMs)
FoDok Austria - a research portal for all Austrian Research activities
Research activities within the DELOS EU network of excellence
Research activities within the MUSCLE EU network of excellence
Research activities within the PLANETS EU FP6 Integrated Project work on semantic meta-data extraction for Digital Preservation
Local organising committee of the ECDL 2005 conference
Local organising committee of the ISMIR 2007 conference

Teaching

Publications

• Rudolf Mayer, Jakob Frank, and Andreas Rauber.
  Analytic Comparison of Audio Feature Sets using Self-Organising Maps.
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Exploring Musical Information Spaces (in conjunction with European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL'09))), Corfu, Greece, October 02 2009.
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• Rudolf Mayer and Robert Neumayer.
  Multi-modal Analysis of Music: A large-scale Evaluation.
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Exploring Musical Information Spaces (in conjunction with European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL'09))), Corfu, Greece, October 02 2009.
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• Rudolf Mayer, Robert Neumayer, and Andreas Rauber.
  Data Recovery from Distributed Personal Repositories.
  In Proceedings of the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL'09), Corfu, Greece, September 27 - October 02 2009. Springer Verlag.
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• Cristian Bogdan and Rudolf Mayer.
  Makumba: the Role of Technology for the Sustainability of Amateur Programming Practice and Community.
  In Proceedings of the 4th Communities and Technologies Conference (C&T 2009), Penn State University, PA, USA, June 25 - 27 2009.
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• Rudolf Mayer and Andreas Rauber.
  Establishing Context of Digital Objects' Creation, Content and Usage.
  In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Innovation in Digital Preservation (InDP 2009) (in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'09)), Austin, TX, USA, June 19 2009.
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• Rudolf Mayer, Robert Neumayer, Doris Baum, and Andreas Rauber.
  Analytic Comparison of Self-Organising Maps.
  In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM'09), St. Augustine, FL, USA, June 8 - 10 2009. LNCS 5629, pp 182-190, Springer.
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• Rudolf Mayer, Robert Neumayer and Andreas Rauber.
  Interacting with (Semi-) Automatically Extracted Context of Digital Objects.
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Context, Information And Ontologies (CIAO 2009) (in conjunction with the European Semantic Web Conference), Heraklion, Greece, June 1 2009.
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• Rudolf Mayer, Robert Neumayer, and Andreas Rauber.
  Combination of Audio and Lyrics Features for Genre Classification in Digital Audio Collections.
  In Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia 2008.
  Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 27-31, 2008. ACM New York, NY, USA, pp. 159.168. ISBN: 978-1-60558-303-7, DOI: 10.1145/1459359.1459382
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• Rudolf Mayer, Robert Neumayer, and Andreas Rauber.
  Rhyme and Style Features for Musical Genre Classification by Song Lyrics.
  In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR'08).
  Philadelphia, PA USA, September 14-18 2008
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• Rudolf Mayer, Angela Roiger, and Andreas Rauber.
  Map-based Interfaces for Information Management in Large Text Collections.
  Journal of Digital Information Management, 6 (2008), 4, pp 294-302.
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• Derek Green, Pádraig Cunningham, and Rudolf Mayer.
  Unsupervised Learning and Clustering.
  In Matthieu Cord and Pádraig Cunningham (Editors): Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia.
  pp. 51 - 90, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008, ISBN: 978-3-540-75170-0.
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• Andreas Pesenhofer, Rudolf Mayer, and Andreas Rauber.
  Automating the Management of Scientif Conferences using Information Mining Techniques
  Journal of Digital Information Management, 6 (2008), 1, pp 3 - 11.
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• Rudolf Mayer, Angela Roiger, and Andreas Rauber.
  Supporting Information Management in Digital Libraries with Map-based Interfaces.
  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2007), Lyon, France, October 28-31 2007. IEEE Computer Society.
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• Khalid Latif and Rudolf Mayer.
  Sky-Metaphor Visualisation for Self-Organising Maps.
  In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-KNOW'07), Graz, Austria, September 5 - 7 2007.
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• Robert Neumayer, Rudolf Mayer, and Andreas Rauber.
  Component selection for the metro visualisation of the SOM.
  In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM'07), Bielefeld, Germany, September 3 - 6 2007.
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• Rudolf Mayer, Angela Roiger, and Andreas Rauber.
  Supporting Information Management in Digital Libraries with Map-based Interfaces.
  In Proceedings of the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL'07), Budapest, Hungary, September 16 - 21 2007. Springer Verlag.
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• Rudolf Mayer, Taha Abdel Aziz, and Andreas Rauber.
  Visualising Class Distribution on Self-Organising Maps.
  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN'07), Porto, Portugal, September 9 - 13 2007. Springer Verlag.
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• Robert Neumayer, Rudolf Mayer, Georg Pölzlbauer, and Andreas Rauber.
  The metro visualisation of component planes for self-organising maps.
  In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'07), Orlando, FL, USA, August 12 - 17 2007. IEEE Computer Society.
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• Andreas Pesenhofer, Rudolf Mayer, Andreas Rauber.
  Improving Scientific Conferences by Enhancing Conference Management Systems with Information Mining Capabilities.
  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2006), pp 359 - 366, Bangalore, India, December 6-8 2006. IEEE.
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• Rudolf Mayer, Andreas Rauber.
  Adding SOMLib capabilities to the Greenstone Digital Library System.
  In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, Kyoto, Japan, November 27-30, 2006. LNCS 4312, pp 468-489, Springer.
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• Rudolf Mayer, Thomas Lidy, Andreas Rauber.
  The Map of Mozart
  In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR'06), pp 351-352, Victoria, Canada, October 8-12, 2006.
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• Rudolf Mayer, Thomas Lidy, Andreas Rauber.
  Map of Mozart
  Journal of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG), 31:2, pp. 12-13, June 2006.
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• Andreas Rauber, Michael Dittenbach, Helmut Berger, Andreas Pesenhofer, Georg P\"olzlbauer, Natalya Sokolovska, Rudolf Mayer, Thomas Lidy and Robert Neumayer: Detecting and Exploring Semantic Concepts in Unstructured Data
  In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Semantic Systems in the Knowledge Society - Challenges & Opportunities, Vienna, Austria, November 23 - 25, 2005.
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• Rudolf Mayer, Dieter Merkl, Andreas Rauber.
  Mnemonic SOMs: Recognizable Shapes for Self-Organizing Maps
  In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop On Self-Organizing Maps Paris (WSOM 2005), pp. 131-138, September 5-8 2005, Paris, France.
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• Rudolf Mayer
  Recognisable Shapes for Self-Organizing Maps.
  In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Data Analysis (WDA2004), Sliezsky Dom, Tatranska Polianka, Slovak Republic, June 24-27 2004.
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• Rudolf Mayer
  Text Mining with Adaptive Neural Networks.
  Master Thesis (English), Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, February 2004.
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