Manfred Hauswirth is the Vice-Director of the Digital Enterprise
Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland and a professor at
the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). His current
research focus is on linked data streams, semantic sensor
networks, sensor networks middleware, large-scale semantics-
enabled distributed information systems and applications.
Manfred has also worked extensively in peer-to-peer systems,
Internet of things, self-organization and self-management,
service-oriented architectures and distributed systems security.
He has published over 160 papers in these domains, he has
co-authored a book on distributed software architectures and
several book chapters on data management and semantics. He
has served in over 180 program committees of international scientific
conferences and was program co-chair of the Seventh
IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (IEEE
P2P) in 2007, general chair of the Fifth European Semantic Web
Confere