Annika M. Hinze

Annika Hinze is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, where she heads the research group on Information Systems and Databases. She received her Master's from the Technical University Berlin in the area of Technical Mathematics. Annika received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Freie Universität Berlin in 2003. In her PhD thesis, she proposed an adaptive event-based system. Annika's current research focuses on context-aware systems, eventbased systems, interaction design and mobility. She combines methods from Information Systems with Formal Methods and Human Computer Interaction. During 2009, while this book was prepared, Annika was a visiting Professor at the Humboldt University Berlin for the area of context-aware systems. Annika was a co-chair for ODBASE and APCCM, and served in various roles for the event community's central workshop/conference DEBS.