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Jaroslav Pokorny
Jaroslav Pokorny
Charles University, Prague
Regular Member
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Short Biography
Prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Pokorny, CSc. received the Ph.D. degree in theoretical cybernetics from the Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1984. Currently he is a full professor of computer science the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University and the member of its Department of Software Engineering whose head he was from 1994 to 2006. As the Deputy-Dean and Vice-Dean for research and international affairs he works from 2008. He is also a visiting professor at Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University, Prague.

J. Pokorny has published more than 250 papers and books on data modelling, relational databases, query languages, file organization, and XML technology. His research interests include also information retrieval, semistructured data, and indexing methods. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics, Czech Society for Systems Integration.

He serves as a permanent reviewer in Zentralblatt  Mathematik and Computing Reviews. He is also a member of the editorial board of Computing and Informatics. Occasionally he works an expert in C.E.C. He has recently served as a member of program and organizing committees of a number of international conferences ISD, ADBIS, BIS, SOFSEM, DEXA, Euro-PDS, BALTIC DB&IS, ER conferences, and numerous other conferences. He organized 2000 ADBIS-DASFAA Symposium, DEXA'0R, Intern. Workshop ClustWeb in conjunction with EDBT in 2004, Web X.0 and Web Mining Workshop in conjunction with IEEE Int. Conf. ICDIM'07, ICADIWT 2008, etc.

He is a member of scientific board of Faculty of Applied Sciences (University of West Bohemia) and of Faculty of Informatics and Statistics (University of Economics, Prague). In 2004 he has become the representative of Czech Republic in IFIP.
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