Arnd Christian König

Data Management, Exploration and Mining Group
Microsoft Research
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
Tel: (425) 703-5064
Fax: (425) 936-7329
Email: chrisko@microsoft.com

I am currently working as a member of the Data Exploration research project and formerly worked in the  AutoAdmin project in the Data Management, Exploration and Mining Group at Microsoft Research. I am also a member of the BLEWS project.  

I am co-chairing the M3SN Workshop on Modeling, Managing, and Mining of Evolving Social Networks (in conjunction with ICDE'09) this year. Please check out our website.

Before joining Microsoft, I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of the Saarland, in the Database Research Group of Prof. Gerhard Weikum.

• Text Processing for large Corpora
• Text Classification and Information Extraction
• Social Networks
• Robust Query Optimization
• Database Monitoring 
• Physical Database Design
• Sentiment Analysis

• A Data Structure for Sponsored Search (Arnd Christian König, Kenneth Church and Martin Markov)
  24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Shanghai, 2009
• Entity Categorization over Large Document Collections (Venkatesh Ganti, Arnd Christian König and Rares Vernica)
  14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Philadelphia, USA, 2008 [paper]
• BLEWS: Using Blogs to Provide Context for News Articles (Michael Gamon, Sumit Basu, Dmitriy Belenko, Danyel Fisher, Matthew Hurst and Arnd Christian König)
  Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Seattle, Washington, 2008. [paper]
• Heavy-Tailed Distributions and Multi-Keyword Queries (Surajit Chaudhuri, Kenneth Church, Arnd Christian König and Liying Sui)
  30th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research & Developement on Information Retreival, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2007 [paper]
• Reducing the Human Overhead in Text Categorization (Arnd Christian König and Eric Brill)
  Twelfth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Philadelphia, USA, 2006 [paper]
• Scalable Exploration of Physical Database Design (Arnd Christian König and Shubha U. Nabar)
  22nd International Conference on Data Engineering, Atlanta, USA, 2006 [paper]
• SQLCM: A Continuous Monitoring Framework for Relational Database Engines  (Surajit Chaudhuri, Arnd Christian König and Vivek Narasayya)
  20th International Conference on Data Engineering, Boston, USA, March 2004 [paper]
• Automatic Tuning of Data Synopses  (Arnd Christian König and Gerhard Weikum)
  Special Issue of Information Systems (Vol 28/1-2) based on best papers from EDBT 2002 [link]
• A Framework for the Physical Design Problem for Data Synopses  (Arnd Christian König and Gerhard Weikum)
  EDBT 2002 - Advances in Database Technology, Prague, March 2002 [paper]
• Auto-Tuned Spline Synopses for Database Statistics Management (Arnd Christian König and Gerhard Weikum)
  10th International Conference on Management of Data, Pune, India, December 2000 [paper]
• Combining Histograms and Parametric Curve Fitting for Feedback-Driven Query Result-Size Estimation (Arnd Christian König and Gerhard Weikum)
  25th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1999 [paper]
• Managing Distributed Memory to Meet Multiclass Workload Response Time Goals (Markus Sinnwell and Arnd Christian König)
  15th International Conference on Data Engineering, Sydney, Australia, March 1999 [paper]
• Towards Self-Tuning Memory Management for Data Servers (Gerhard Weikum, Arnd Christian König, Achim Kraiss, Markus Sinnwell),
  Data Engineering Bulletin 22(2), 1999 [paper]

• 10th Conference on Database Systems for Business, Technology, and the Web (BTW 2003): Program Committee member
• ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2004): Proceedings Chair
• 21st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005): Program Committee member
• 11th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2006): Program Committee member
• 12th International Conference of the Management of Data (COMAD 2005): Industrial Program Committee member
• 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2007): Program Committee member
• 14th Conference on Database Systems for Business, Technology, and the Web (BTW 2007): Industrial Program Committee member  
• 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2007): Program Committee member
• 33rd International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2007): Program Committee member
• International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank 2007) to be held in conjunction with ICDE 2007: Program Committee member
• 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2007): Industrial Program Committee member
• 13th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2008): Program Committee member
• 11th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2008): Program Committee member
  
• 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2008): Program Committee member
  
• Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2008): Poster/Demo Committee member
  
• 15th International Conference of the Management of Data (COMAD 2008): Program Committee member
• Workshop: Modeling, Managing, and Mining of Evolving Social Networks (co-located with ICDE 2009): Co-Chair
• 16th Conference on Database Systems for Business, Technology, and the Web (BTW 2009): Industrial Program Committee member
• Third International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2009): Program Committee member
• NAACL Human Language Technology (HLT) Conference 2009: Program Committee Member