Homepage Peter Apers

address	Database Chair Department of Computer Science	Centre for Telematics and Information Technology
	University of Twente	University of Twente
	PO Box 217	PO Box 217
	NL 7500 AE Enschede	NL 7500 AE Enschede
	the Netherlands	the Netherlands
phone	+31-53 489 3690	+31-53 489 8031
fax	+31-53 489 2927
office	Zilverling-1060	Zilverling-1060
e-mail	p.m.g.apers@utwente.nl
URL	http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~apers/
Private	http://peter.apers.nl
biblio	extended curriculum vitae
publ	overview publications

Below you will find some of my current and past activities:

Editorial work for journals

Coordinating Editor-in-Chief of VLDB Journal: see Springer VLDB Journal (until August 2001)
Editor of Distributed and Parallel Databases: see Kluwer DAPD
Editor of Data & Knowledge Engineering: see Elsevier DKE

European PC Chair VLDB 1989, Amsterdam
PC chair of EDBT 1996
Vice-chair ICDE'97 PC for subcommittee: Parallel and Distributed Database Systems
Vice-chair ICDCS'98 PC for subcommittee: Interoperable Systems
European PC chair VLDB 2001, Rome

P.M.G. Apers and A.N. Wilschut, Understanding large scale parallelism for data management, Conf. PDIS'94, Austin, Texas, Sept. 29-30, 1994.
P.M.G. Apers, Database support for the Web, BDA'95, August '95, Nancy, pp. 405-410 .
P.M.G. Apers and A.N. Wilschut, Parallel evaluation of multi-join queries, Third Int. Conf. of the ACPC, Klagenfurt, Austria, Sept 23-25, 1996.
P.M.G. Apers and M.L. Kersten, Content-based retrieval in multimedia databases based on feature models, AMCP Conference, Japan, November 1998.
P.M.G. Apers, Database Technology and its Applications, ICEIS Conference, Lisbon, March 1999.
Peter M.G. Apers, Being Smart in Smart Surroundings, Diesrede 42-ste Dies Natalis, November 2003 [in Dutch].

P.M.G. Apers and A.N. Wilschut, Parallel Query Execution in DBMSs, Third Int. Conf. of the ACPC, Klagenfurt, Austria, Sept 23-25, 1996.
P.M.G. Apers, Web-based information systems, EDBT Summerschool 1997, September 8-12, 1997.
P.M.G. Apers, Web-based information systems, Autumn School of the Berlin-Brandenburg Graduate School on Distributed Information Systems, October 7, 1998.

Member of the Executive Board of EDBT
Member of the Endowment of VLDB; responsible for publications (VLDB Proceedings and VLDB Journal)

Scientific director of Center for Telematics and Information Technology (as of September 2002).
Chairman Board Technology Foundation STW
Member of Advisory Board ICT Authority
Member of Subcommittee ECOS Technical Sciences
Chairman Board Smart Surroundings
Member Governing Board of MultimediaN
Member of Steering Committee of Freeband
Member of MT of Bricks
Member of the Governing Board of Embedded Systems Institute

Dean of the Computer Science Department (until February 1, 2001)
Member of Executive Board of the University of Twente, responsible for research (until September 1, 2002).
Chairman of the Advisory Committee for Computer Science of NWO (until February 1, 2001)
Member of the board of SMC (see CWI; until 2002)
Member of the Board of Exact Sciences, NWO
Member of ICT Forum
Member of the Scientific Council of ITC
Member of Surf Platform ICT and Research
Chairman Board of VR Valley