Bernd Johann Krämer (born 22 July 1947, in

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) is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics.

Biography

Bernd Krämer studied electrical engineering and computer science at

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where he also obtained his doctorate in engineering. From 1975 to 1989 and again from 1990 to 1992 he was a scientist and project leader at the

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, the German National Research Center of Computer Science, which later became part of the

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. From 1989 to mid 1990 he was an adjunct professor in the Computer Science department at the

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in Monterey, California. In April 1992 he was appointed full professor at

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. He is a co-founder, past president, fellow, and Board Member of the Society for Design & Process Science (SDPS). From 2008 to 2013 he was a member of the first University Council of

. He has been a visiting professor at a number of prestigious international universities, including the

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, in Brisbane and

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in Melbourne, both in Australia,

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in Montreal, the

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and

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. He is a co-founder of two non-profit research associations, the Scientific Academy for Service Technology and edu-sharing.net. ServTech conducts EU-funded research projects in the areas of''Smart Manufacturing'', ''Product Customization,’’ and ''Smart Healthcare'' and is the main sponsor of the annual

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(ICSOC). Since mid-2009, the association edu-sharing.net has been developing one of the first distributed repositories for digital learning content, which was developed by the DFG-funded project CampusContent, under the new name

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. It forms the basis of several repositories for

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and has been rolled out in several German states as an infrastructure for networking schools to provide them with broad access to digital learning materials and codified methodological knowledge through a single portal and to enable the exchange and joint development of such content. Krämer co-founded the

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e-learning and education and was its first

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. He received the C. V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Scholar Award In 2003 and the Raymond T. Yeh Life Time Achievement Award in 2006, both from the SDPS.

Selected books

* ''Software Service and Application Engineering - Festschrift Dedicated to Bernd Krämer on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday'',

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*''Advances in Collective Intelligence'' (Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Vol. 113) by Jörn Altmann, Ulrike Baumöl, Bernd Krämer (2012) *''On Collective Intelligence'' (Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Vol. 76) by Theo J. Bastiaens, Ulrike Baumöl, Bernd Krämer (2011) *''Contributions to Ubiquitous Computing'' (Studies in Computational Intelligence, Volume 42) by Bernd Krämer, Wolfgang Halang (2007) *''Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2007'' (

, Vol. 4907) by Bernd Krämer, Kwei-Jay Lin, Priya Narasimhan (2007) *''Third International Symposium on Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems'' (IEEE Computer Society Press) by Mike P. Papazoglou, Makoto Takizawa, Bernd J. Krämer, Samuel Chanson (1998) *''Information Systems Interoperability'' (Research Studies Press) by Bernd J. Krämer, Mike P. Papazoglou, Heinz W. Schmidt (1998) *''Safety-Critical Real-Time Systems'' (Kluwer Academic Publishers) by Bernd J. Krämer, Norbert Völker (1997) *''2nd IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems'' (IEEE Computer Society Press) by Rick Hohendorf, Yoshiaki Kakuda, Bernd J. Krämer, Kelvin Nilsen, Kevin Ryan (1996) *''Environmental Engineering and Pollution Prevention: European Network of Excellence and Partnership'' (Kluwer Academic Publishers) by Joris Wotte, Wolfgang A. Halang, Bernd J. Krämer (1996) *''A Safety Licensable Computing Architecture'' (World Scientific Publishing) by Wolfgang A. Halang, S. K. Jung, Bernd J. Krämer, Johan J. Scheepstra (1993) *''Concepts, Syntax and Semantics of SEGRAS. A Specification Language for Distributed Systems''(Oldenbourg) by Bernd J. Krämer (1989)

Selected academic works

* 2018, Collaborative on-demand Product-Service Systems Customization Lifecycle * 2017, Knowledge Management through Ontology-Driven Integration of Disparate Knowledge Sources, Transactions of the SDPS * 2015, New ways of learning: Comparing the effectiveness of interactive online media in distance education with the European textbook tradition * 2010, From content to practice: Sharing educational practice in edu-sharing

External links

*Video abstract to a new paper in the British Journal of Educational Technology (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLF6PNmAYpY) *Video of the opening of SDPS 2012 in Berlin (http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/videostreaming/mathinf/dvt/SDPS2012_01.shtml ) *Presentation of the IEEE Computer Pioneer Award to the son of Carl Adam Petri at the occasion of the Carl Adam Petri Memorial Symposium, Feb. 2011 (http://www.computer.org/web/awards/pioneer-carl-petri) *University home page (https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/archive/mi/dvt/en/index.html) *Personal home page (https://web.archive.org/web/20180403065412/http://kraemer.edu-sharing.net/portal/) *List of publications from th
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Notes and references

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