curriculum vitae

A. Eliëns
date of birth: 12/3/52

online version: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/cv


summary description

In my student years I explored the intellectual and aesthetic arena, including the visual arts, electronic computer music, and what in retrospect may be regarded as the foundations of Artificial Intelligence. At a certain stage, I took up an interest in theoretical computer science, which resulted in a Ph.D. degree on the design, semantics and implementation of a distributed logic programming language, about which I published a book, [ DLP]. During my employment at the VU, the focus shifted towards software engineering, and in particular object oriented programming, which resulted in a text book of which a second edition has appeared,  [ [OO2]]. Gradually, I developed an interest in hypermedia, multimedia user interfaces and the Web, which took shape in the DejaVU project. The DejaVU project has resulted in the hush library,  [ [HUSH]], that has been used in the Software Engineering Practicum, and extensions of hush such as the simulation library sim,  [ [SIM]], that has been used for BWI courses. The project also led to a series of publications concerning the Web, which appeared on a number of successive Int. WWW Conferences,  [ [Applications]][ [Music]][ [Jamming]][ [Markup]] as well as other conferences,  [ [Animate]][ [Simulate]]. In that time I also organized two consecutive workshops for the WWW5 and WWW6 conferences, entitled, respectively, Programming the Web and Logic Programming and the Web. The DejaVU project attracted many students of which a selection became research assistents, studying topics such as hypermedia, simulation and visualization, and task modeling and groupware. Recently, I got involved in multimedia retrieval research, in an exchange with the CWI, which resulted in an experimental musical feature detector for MIDI as well as an NWO proposal to extend this approach to virtual worlds and VRML. Today my interest in logic-based approaches is still strong, as testified by the software architecture developed for multimedia feature detection, and a study group at the VU focussed on the application of logic-based programming in software engineering applications. My current interests encompass, in brief, knowledge management, visualization and retrieval in 3D VRML-based virtual worlds.

Lately, I have been working at putting my research efforts, including papers, talks, and software documentation online. In addition, my educational material is becoming available in the form of online lectures. With the second edition, I have also developed online version of my book Principles of Object-Oriented Software Development, that allows for immediate presentation.
See: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/online

diplomas

employment

further information

prof dr J.C. van Vliet (VU), prof dr J. Treur (VU/CWI), prof dr M.L. Kersten (CWI/UvA), prof dr P. de Bra (TUE/CWI), prof dr. J.W. de Bakker (CWI/VU).

research activities

projects

workshops

program committees

educational activities

academic courses

student projects

In total I supervised well over 50 students, including 4 foreign students. See the online version for an overview.

promovendi

  • 10/4/2001: J.R. van Ossenbruggen -- Processing Structured Hypermedia -- A Matter of Style
  • 17/4/2001: M. van Welie -- Task-based User Interface Design
  • 8/5/2001: S.P.C. Schönhage -- DIVA: Architectural Perspectives on Information Visualisation

extra-academic courses

administrative activities

collected presentations

collected publications

An official publication list, as well as a selection of preferred publications can be found through my institute's personal information page:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/fb/generated/personal/Eliens.html

books

DLP
A. Eliëns, DLP - A language for distributed logic programming, Wiley (1992)
OO
A. Eliëns,, Principles of Object-Oriented Software Development,, Addison-Wesley (1995) ISBN 0-201-62444-3, 513 pgs
Guide
A. Eliëns,, Instructor's Guide to accompany Principles of Object-Oriented Software Development,, Addison-Wesley (1995) ISBN 0-201-42772-9, 436 pgs
Animate2
Anton Eliëns, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, and Bastiaan Schönhage, Animating the Web --- An SGML-based Approach , In: The Internet in 3D --- Information, Images and Interaction Academic Press, 1997 pp. 75-96
OO2
A. Eliëns,, Principles of Object-Oriented Software Development (2nd edn),, Addison-Wesley (2000) ISBN 0-201-62444-3, 513 pgs

refereed journals

Art
A. Eliëns, Computational Art, Leonardo, 1988
Eliens91
A. Eliëns, Distributed Logic Programming for Artificial Intelligence, AI Communications Vol. 4 No. 1, 1991, pp. 11-21
HUSH
A. Eliëns,, Hush -- a C++ API for Tcl/Tk, , The X Resource, Issue 14, April 1995, pp. 111-155

refereed conference proceedings

Eliens89
A. Eliëns, Extending Prolog to a Parallel Object Oriented Language, Proc. IFIP W.G. 10.3 Working Conference on Decentralized Systems (1989) Lyon
Eliens91c
A. Eliëns, Comparative semantics of a backtrackable rendez-vous, Proceedings CSN'91, SION Utrecht 1991, pp. 182-196
Eliens92c
A. Eliëns, An object oriented approach to distributed problem solving, in: Research and Development in Expert Systems IX, Proc. ES92, M. Bramer and R. Milne (eds), Cambridge University Press (1992), pp. 285-300
OssEl94
J. van Ossenbruggen en A. Eliëns,, Music in Time-based Hypermedia,, Proc. European Conference on Hypermedia Technology 1994, pp. 224-227
Applications
M. van Doorn en A. Eliëns, Integrating WWW and Applications,, Third Int. World Wide Web Conf. -- Technology, Tools and Applications, April 10-14, 1995, Darmstadt
Music
J.R. van Ossenbruggen and A. Eliëns, Bringing music to the Web, Proc. of the Fourth International World Wide Web Conference -- The Web Revolution, December 1995. World Wide Web Journal, O'Reilly and Associates, Inc., pp. 309-314
Animate
A. Eliëns, J.R. van Ossenbruggen, S.P.C. Schönhage,, Animating the Web -- an SGML-based approach, Proc. Int. Conf. on 3D and Multimedia on the Internet, WWW and Network, Bradford, 17-18 April 1996, British Computer Society
SGMLWEB
J.R. van Ossenbruggen, A. Eliëns and S.P.C. Sch\"onhage, Web applications and SGML, Proc EP'96, Special Issue Electronic Publishing Wiley, 1996, Proc EP'96, A. Brown, A Bruggemann-Klein, A. Feng (eds.), Electronic Publishing, Vol. 8 Issues 2,3, Wiley 1995, pp. 51-62
Simulate
A. Eliëns, F. Niessink, S.P.C. Schönhage, J.R. Vosse, P. Nash, Support for BPR -- simulation, hypermedia and the Web, Proceedings Euromedia'96, Euromedia, London 1996
Jamming
Anton Eliëns, Martijn van Welie, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, and Bastiaan Schönhage, Jamming (on) the Web, Proceedings of the 6th International World Wide Web Conference --- Everone, Everything Connected, O'Reilly and Associates, Inc., April 1997, pp. 419--426
Style
Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Lynda Hardman, Lloyd Rutledge, and Anton Eli\"ens, Style Sheet Support for Hypermedia Documents, Hypertext'97 --- The Eighth ACM Conference on Hypertext ACM Press, 1997, pp 216-217
Markup
J. van Ossenbruggen, A. Eliëns, L. Rutledge and L. Hardman, Requirements for Multimedia Markup and Style Sheets on the World Wide Web, Proceedings of the Seventh International World Wide Web Conference (WWW7), in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, volume 30,Elsevier Science B.V., April 1998, pp 694-696
DIVA
B. Schönhage, A. Eliëns, Multi-user visualization: a CORBA/Web-based approach, Int. Conf. on Digital Convergence: the future of the Internet and WWW, British Computer Society, Bradford, UK, 20-23 april 1998, 9 pgs
Euterpe
M. van Welie, G.C. van der Veer, and A. Eliëns, Euterpe - Tool support for analyzing cooperative environments, Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics , August 24-26, 1998, University of Limerick, Ireland, pp. 25-30
Users
B. Schönhage, P.P. Bakker, A. Eliëns, So many users, so many perspectives, IFIP 12.2 Working Conference on Designing Effective abd Uasable Multimedia Systems, Fraunhofer Institute. Stuttgart Germany, Sept. 8-10, 1998, Kluwer Academic, pp. 159-172
VRML
B. Schönhage and A. Eliëns, Dynamic and Mobile VRML Gadgets, In Proc. VRML99, 23 - 26 February 1999, Paderborn, Germany
Gadgets
S.P.C. Schönhage, A. van Ballegooij, A. Eliëns, 3D Gadgets for Business Process Visualization: a case study, VRML/Web 3D - 2000, Monterey CA, Febr 2000
IC2000
Cees Visser, Anton Eliëns, A High-Level Symbolic Language for Distributed Web Programming, Internet Computing 2000, June 26-29, Las Vegas
BizViz
Bastiaan Schönhage and Anton Eliëns, Management through Vision: a case study towards requirements of BizViz, International Conference on Information Visualization 2000 (IV 2000) London, England 19-21 July, 2000
NBQ
A. van Ballegooij and A. Eliëns, Navigation by Query in Virtual Worlds, Web3D 2001 Conference, Paderborn, Germany, 19-22 Feb 2001
Architecture
Zhisheng Huang, Anton Eliëns, and Paul De Bra, An Architecture for Web Agents, Proc. of EUROMEDIA 2001, 2001.
Community
Zhisheng Huang, Anton Eliëns, and Cees Visser, 3D Agent-based Virtual Communities, Proc. Web3D 2002 Conference, Tempe Arizona

workshop papers

EV91
A. Eliëns and E.P. de Vink, Asynchronous rendez-vous in the presence of backtracking, ISLP'91 Workshop on Asynchronous Communication, november 1991, San Diego
Eliens92b
A. Eliëns, Meta-programming in DLP, ECOOP Workshop on meta-programming and reflective architectures
Eliens92d
A. Eliëns, Distributed Logic Programming for Artificial Intelligence (abstract), Proc. Logic Programming in AI, Imperial College, Dept. of Computing, London
Eliens92e
A. Eliëns, Distributed Logic Programming for Artificial Intelligence (abstract), Proc. First Compulog-network workshop on programming languages in computational logic, Univerista di Pisa, A. Brogi, P. Mancarella and F. Turini (eds.), Pisa Italy
ElVink92
A. Eliëns and E.P. de Vink, Asynchronous rendez-vous in distributed logic programming, Proc. REX Semantics -- Foundations and Applications (1992)
DoornEl94
M. van Doorn en A. Eliëns,, Integrating WWW and Applications,, ERCIM W4G, Int. Workshop on WWW Design Issues '94, Amsterdam, Nov 29- Dec. 1
DoornEl95a
M. van Doorn en A. Eliëns, Information management, SGML and active documents, ERCIM W4G,, Int. Workshop on WWW Design Issues '95, Paris Feb. 8-10
VisserEl95
C. Visser en A. Eliëns,, A Language System Architecture for the Interoperability of Distributed Multi-Paradigm Objects,, European Research Seminar on Advances in Distributed Systems, L'Alpe d'Huez, April 3-7, 1995
Chatting
M. van Welie and A. Eliëns, Chatting on the Web, Proc. ERCIM W4G Workshop on CSCW and the Web, 7-9 febr 1996 GMD St Augustin, Germany, 1996
WASP
Anton Eliëns, Paul de Bra, Jan Treur, Francis Brazier, Hans van Vliet, Web Agent Support Program, Proceedings Workshop: Logic Programming and the Web - 6th Int WWW Conference, http://www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/WWW6 - 7 april 1997
Flexible
Bastiaan Schönhage and Anton Eliëns, A Flexible Architecture for User-adaptable Visualization, Proceedings of the Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation,4. Las Vegas, November 1997
SE
A. Eliëns, Hypermedia support for software engineering, Workshop: Hypertext functionaility and the WWW, at the 7th WWW Conference, Brisbane, Brisbane University, Brisbane, Australie, 14 april 1998
XML
J. van Ossenbruggen, A. Eliëns, and L. Rutledge, The Role of XML in Open Hypermedia Systems, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems,Technical Report CS-98-01 of Aalborg University, Denmark
Ontology
M. van Welie, G.C. van der Veer, A. Eliëns , An Ontology for Task World Models , 5th International Eurographics Workshop on Design Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems DSV-IS98, 3-5 june 1998, Abingdon, UK, Springer-Verlag, pp. 57-70
Styles
S.P.C. Schönhage, A. Eliëns, From Distributed Object Features to Architectural Styles, Engineering Distributed Objects (EDO '99), ICSE 99 Workshop, Los Angeles, May 17-18, 1999
Usability-I
M. van Welie, G.C. van der Veer, and A. Eliëns, Usability Properties in Dialog Models, In: 6th International Eurographics Workshop on Usability Properties in Dialog Models Design Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems DSV-IS99 ,pp. 238-253, 2-4 June 1999, Braga, Portugal.
Usability-II
M. van Welie, G.C. van der Veer, and A. Eliëns, Breaking down Usability, In: Proceedings of Interact 99 ,pp. 613-620, 30th August - 3rd September 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland.
NOSA
S.P.C. Schönhage, A. Eliëns, Four Ways to Architect your Distributed Objects, NOSA '99, Proceedings of the Second Nordic Workshop on Software Architecture, Edited by Jan Bosch
Derivatives
M. van der Meij, D. Schouten, A. Eliëns, Design Patterns in Derivatives Software, ICT Architecture in the BeNeLux 1999, November 18-19, 1999, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Taxonomy
Zhisheng Huang, Anton Eliëns, Alex van Ballegooij, Paul De Bra, A Taxonomy of Web Agents, IEEE Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Web Agent Systems and Applications (WASA '2000), 2000.
ConceptSpace
Bastiaan Schönhage and Anton Eliëns, Information Exchange in a Distributed Visualization Architecture: the Shared Concept Space, International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'00) Antwerp, Belgium 21-23 September 2000
GuiPatterns
M. van Welie, G.C. van der Veer, A. Eliëns, Patterns as Tools for User Interface Design, International Workshop on Tools for Working with Guidelines, pp. 313-324, 7-8 October 2000, Biarritz, France
Avatars
Alex van Ballegooij and Anton Eliëns, Avatars in RIF, FASE2FASE 2000 Symposium, Delft, the Netherlands
VirtualContext
Lloyd Rutledge, Alex van Ballegooij and Anton Eliëns, Virtual Context - relating paintings to their subject, Culture Track of WWW9 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Tuesday, May 16th, 2000
Avatars
Zhisheng Huang, Anton Eliëns, and Cees Visser, Programmability of Intelligent Agent Avatars, Proc. of the Agent'01 Workshop on Embodied Agents, June 2001, Montreal, Canada
Avatars-abstract
Zhisheng Huang, Anton Eliëns, and Cees Visser, Programmability of Intelligent Agent Avatars (extended abstract), In: Proceedings of the BNAIC2001, pp. 397-398

miscellaneous

Eliens91b
A. Eliëns, DLP - A language for Distributed Logic Programming, Ph. D. thesis, University of Amsterdam (1991)
Eliens91c
A. Eliëns, Distributed Logic Programming as a tool for the specification and implementation of Object Oriented System, Report VU IR-260, October 1991, 15 pgs.
ElVink92a
A. Eliëns and E.P. de Vink, Asynchronous rendez-vous in distributed logic programming, VU IR-291, juni 1992, 26 pgs
ElVink92b
A. Eliëns and E.P. de Vink, Asynchronous rendez-vous in distributed logic programming, VU IR-304, september 1992, 30 pgs
EV92
A. Eliëns and C. Visser, Active C++, active classes and communication by rendez-vous, Technical Report Vrije Universiteit IR-299
Eliens94c
A. Eliëns,, Hush -- a C++ API for Tcl/Tk,, IR-366, Vrije Universiteit (1994)
SIM
D. Bolier en A. Eliëns,, Sim -- a C++ simulation library,, IR-367, Vrije Universiteit (1994)
Chatting2
Martijn van Welie, Anton Eliëns, Chatting on the Web, ERCIM News nr 25 1996, pagina 11
Vitanyi
A. Eliëns, Abstraction and Complexity, Liber Amicorum Paul Vitányi, Nov 1996

popular press

OT1
A. Eliëns, Object-georienteerd en logisch programmeren in DLP (1), OT Magazine, Kluwer Bedrijfswetenschappen 1/94 1994, pp. 13,17
OT2
A. Eliëns, Object-georienteerd en logisch programmeren in DLP (2), OT Magazine, Kluwer Bedrijfswetenschappen 2/94 1994, pp. 13,14
OT3
A. Eliëns, Interview met Bertrand Meyer over Eiffel, OT Magazine, Kluwer Bedrijfswetenschappen 8/94 1994
OT4
A. Eliëns, Libraries and environments, OT Magazine, Kluwer Bedrijfswetenschappen 9-10 1995, pp. 16-19, 41
Agents
A. Eliëns, Agents -- technologie of metafoor?, Informatie, jaargang 40, april 1998, pp. 14-17
Java
A. Eliëns, Java -- een kwestie van vraag en aanbod, Informatie, februari 1999, pp. 6-8