2019W

• Bachelor Thesis for Informatics and Business Informatics / PR / 188.944
• E-Marketing / PR / 194.040
• Research Seminar for Ph.D. Students / SE / 188.423
• Social Media / VU / 188.956

• The Virtual 3D Social Experience Museum
  2009 – 2013 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

2019

• Data-Driven Maps of Art History / D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies (IJACDT), 8 (2019), 1; 1 - 15

2018

• Visualizing Art Historical Developments using the Getty ULAN, Wikipedia and Wikidata / D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / Talk: International Conference on Information Visualization, Salerno, Italy; 2018-07-10 - 2018-07-12; in: "2018 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)", IEEE, (2018), ISBN: 978-1-5386-7202-0; 459 - 466

2016

• Bilder der Kunstgeschichte in der Getty ULAN und in Wikipedia / D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / Talk: EVA Berlin 2016 Conference, Berlin; 2016-11-09 - 2016-11-11; in: "EVA Berlin 2016", (2016)

2014

• Collectivizing the Barr Model / D. Goldfarb, M. Arends, J. Froschauer, M. Weingartner, W. Merkl / Leonardo, 47 (2014), 3

2013

• Comparing Art Historical Networks / D. Goldfarb, M. Arends, J. Froschauer, W. Merkl / Leonardo, 46 (2013), 3; 279
• Art History Concepts at Play with ThIATRO / J. Froschauer, W. Merkl, M. Arends, D. Goldfarb / ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 6 (2013), 2; 1 - 15

2012

• Netzwerkanalyse von kunsthistorischen Attributen anhand von Social Tags / M. Arends, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / Talk: Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts - EVA 2012 Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 2012-11-07 - 2012-11-09; in: "EVA 2012 Berlin Elektronische Medien & Kunst, Kultur, Historie", (2012), ISBN: 978-3-942709-05-7; 138 - 144
• Analysing User Motivation in an Art Folksonomy / M. Arends, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl, M. Weingartner / Talk: 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, Graz, Austria; 2012-09-05 - 2012-09-07; in: "Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies", ACM, New York, NY (2012), ISBN: 978-1-4503-1242-4; 13:1 - 13:8
• Learning about Art History by Exploratory Search, Contextual View and Social Tags / M. Arends, M. Weingartner, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / Talk: 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Rome, Italy; 2012-07-04 - 2012-07-06; in: "12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies", (2012), ISBN: 978-0-7695-4702-2; 395 - 399
• Art History on Wikipedia, a Macroscopic Observation / D. Goldfarb, M. Arends, J. Froschauer, W. Merkl / Talk: ACM Web Science 2012, Evanston, Illinois, USA; 2012-06-22 - 2012-06-24; in: "Proceedings of the ACM WebSci'12", ACM, (2012), ISBN: 978-1-4503-1228-8; 163 - 168
• ARTournament: A Mobile Casual Game to Explore Art History / J. Froschauer, J. Zweng, W. Merkl, M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, M. Weingartner / Talk: 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Rom, Italien; 2012-07-04 - 2012-07-06; in: "12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies", (2012), ISBN: 978-0-7695-4702-2; 80 - 84
• A Serious Heritage Game for Art History: Design and Evaluation of ThIATRO / J. Froschauer, M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / Talk: 18th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM), 2012, Mailand, Italien; 2012-09-02 - 2012-09-05; in: "18th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM)", IEEE, (2012), ISBN: 978-1-4673-2565-3; 283 - 290

2011

• Museums on the Web: Interaction with Visitors / M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl, M. Weingartner / in: "Handbook of Research on Technologies and Cultural Heritage: Applications and Environments", issued by: University of Ioannina, Greece; IGI Global, Hershey, PA, 2011, ISBN: 978-1-60960-044-0, 142 - 165
• Designing Serious Games in a Socio-Cultural Context / J. Froschauer, M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, M. Weingartner, W. Merkl / Poster: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2011, Portugal, Lissabon; 2011-06-27 - 2011-07-01; in: "World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2011", T. Bastiaens, M. Ebner (ed.); EdITLib Digital Library for Education & Information Technology, (2011), 2190 - 2196
• Revisiting 3D information landscapes for the display of art historical web content / D. Goldfarb, M. Arends, J. Froschauer, W. Merkl / Talk: 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Lissabon, Portugal; 2011-11-08 - 2011-11-11; in: "ACE '11 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology", ACM, (2011), ISBN: 978-1-4503-0827-4; Paper ID 46, 8 pages
• Exploring Art History Content by Presenting Artworks in Context / M. Arends, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl, M. Weingartner / Talk: Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts - EVA 2011 Berlin, Berlin; 2011-11-09 - 2011-11-11; in: "Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts - EVA 2011 Berlin", (2011), ISBN: 978-3-942709-01-9; 154 - 160
• Analysing User Generated Content Related to Art History / M. Arends, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / Talk: 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, Graz; 2011-09-07 - 2011-09-09; in: "Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies", ACM, (2011), ISBN: 978-1-4503-0732-1
• Combining Cultural Heritage Related Web Resources in 3D Information Landscapes / D. Goldfarb, M. Arends, J. Froschauer, W. Merkl, M. Weingartner / Talk: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011), London, UK; 2011-07-06 - 2011-07-08; in: "Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011)", BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, (2011), ISBN: 978-1-906124-88-5; 73 - 80
• Tag Analysis of an Art Folksonomy / M. Weingartner, M. Arends, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / Talk: Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts - EVA 2011 Berlin, Berlin; 2011-11-09 - 2011-11-11; in: "Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts - EVA 2011 Berlin", A. Bienert, F. Weckend, J. Hemsley, V. Cappellini (ed.); Berlin (2011), ISBN: 978-3-942709-01-9; 138 - 144
• Designing Socio-Cultural Learning Games: Challenges and Lessons Learned / J. Froschauer, M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, M. Weingartner, W. Merkl / Talk: International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011), London, UK; 2011-06-27 - 2011-06-29; in: "International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011)", IEEE CS Press, (2011), ISBN: 978-0-9564263-8-3; 56 - 61
• Towards an Online Multiplayer Serious Game Providing a Joyful Experience in Learning Art History / J. Froschauer, M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / Talk: 2011 Third International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications VS-Games 2011, Athen, Griechenland; 2011-05-04 - 2011-05-06; in: "2011 Third International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications VS-Games 2011", F. Liarokapis, A. Doulamis, V. Vescoukis (ed.); IEEE CS Press, (2011), ISBN: 978-0-7695-4419-9; 160 - 163

2010

• Interaktion mit musealen Inhalten in Web3D / M. Arends, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl, M. Weingartner / Talk: EVA 2010 Berlin - Elektronische Medien & Kunst, Kultur, Historie, Berlin, Deutschland; 2010-11-10 - 2010-11-12; in: "Konferenzband EVA 2010 Berlin - Elektronische Medien & Kunst, Kultur, Historie", Gesellschaft zur Förderung angewandter Informatik e.V., (2010), ISBN: 9783981215885; 161 - 167
• Design and Evaluation of a Serious Game for Immersive Cultural Training / J. Froschauer, I. Seidel, M. Gärtner, H. Berger, W. Merkl / Talk: International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, Seoul, Korea; 2010-10-20 - 2010-10-23; in: "International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia", IEEE CS Press, (2010), ISBN: 9781424490257; 253 - 260

2009

• Mobile Devices in a Museum Environment / M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl, M. Weingartner / Talk: The Second International Workshop on Information Technology and Tourism and Open Mobile Networks San Sebastian, Spain, San Sebastian (invited); 2009-11-19 - 2009-11-20
• Itchy Feet: A 3D e-Tourism Environment / I. Seidel, M. Gärtner, M. Pöttler, H. Berger, M. Dittenbach, W. Merkl / in: "Tourism Informatics: Visual Travel Recommender Systems, Social Communities, and User Interface Design", N. Sharda (ed.); IGI Global, Hershey, PA 17033, USA, 2009, ISBN: 978-1605668185, 209 - 242
• E-Learn 2009: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education / J. Froschauer, I. Seidel, M. Gärtner, H. Berger, W. Merkl / Talk: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, Vancouver, Canada; 2009-10-26 - 2009-10-30; in: "Proceedings of the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education", (2009), 8 pages
• An agent-based centralized e-marketplace in a virtual environment / I. Seidel, M. Gärtner, J. Froschauer, H. Berger, W. Merkl / Talk: 21st International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Boston, MA; 2009-07-01 - 2009-07-03; in: "Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering", Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School, (2009), ISBN: 1-891706-24-1; 218 - 221
• Interaction With Art Museums On The Web / M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl, M. Weingartner / Talk: IADIS Int'l Conference WWW/Internet 2009, Rom; 2009-11-19 - 2009-11-22; in: "Proceedings of the IADIS Int'l Conference WWW/Internet 2009", P. Isaias, B. White, M.B. Nunes (ed.); IADIS Press, (2009), ISBN: 978-972-8924-93-5; 117 - 124

2008

• A Synthetic 3D Multimedia Environment / R. Genswaider, H. Berger, M. Dittenbach, A. Pesenhofer, W. Merkl, A. Rauber, T. Lidy / in: "Computational Intelligence in Multimedia Processing: Recent Advances", Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, 2008, ISBN: 978-3-540-76826-5, 79 - 98
• Tourist type profiling in Web 3d: A Second Life experience / W. Merkl, H. Berger, M. Dittenbach, A. Pesenhofer / in: "Proceedingsw of the IADIS Int'l Conference on Information Systems 2008", issued by: IADIS - Int'l Organization for the Development of the Information Society; Proceedings of the IADIS Int'l Conference on Information Systems, IADIS Press, 2008, ISBN: 978-972-8924-57-7, 29 - 36

2007

• Opening new dimensions for e-tourism / H. Berger, M. Dittenbach, W. Merkl, A. Bogdanovych, S. Simoff, C. Sierra / Virtual Reality, 11 (2007), 2-3; 75 - 87
• Shaping 3D Multimedia Environments: The Media Square / M. Dittenbach, H. Berger, R. Genswaider, A. Pesenhofer, A. Rauber, T. Lidy, W. Merkl / Talk: International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2007-07-09 - 2007-07-11; in: "Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval", (2007), ISBN: 978-1-59593-733-9; 4 pages
• Photo-Based User Profiling for Tourism Recommender Systems / H. Berger, M. Denk, M. Dittenbach, A. Pesenhofer, W. Merkl / Talk: EC-Web, Regensburg, Germany; 2007-09-03 - 2007-09-07; in: "E-Commerce and Web Technologies", G. Psaila, R. Wagner (ed.); Springer, LNCS 4655 (2007), ISBN: 3-540-74562-9; 46 - 55
• Quo Vadis Homo Turisticus? Towards a Picture-Based Tourist Profiler / H. Berger, M. Denk, M. Dittenbach, W. Merkl, A. Pesenhofer / Talk: ENTER Conference 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia; 2007-02; in: "Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism", M. Sigala (ed.); (2007), ISBN: 978-3-211-69564-7; 87 - 96

2003

• Text Mining in the SOMLib Digital Library System: The Representation of Topics and Genres / A. Rauber, W. Merkl / Applied Intelligence, 18 (2003), 3; 271 - 293
• The SOM-enhanced JukeBox: Organization and Visualization of Music Collections based on Perceptual Models / A. Rauber, E. Pampalk, W. Merkl / Journal of New Music Research, 32 (2003), 2; 193 - 210
• A natural language query interface for tourism information / M. Dittenbach, W. Merkl, H. Berger / Talk: Int. Conf. on Infomation and Communication Technologies in Tourism ENTER 2002, Helsinki, Finland; 2003-01-29 - 2003-01-31; in: "Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism (ENTER'03)", Springer-Verlag, (2003), ISBN: 3-211-83910-0; 152 - 162

2002

• Organizing and Exploring High-Dimensional Data with the Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map / M. Dittenbach, W. Merkl, A. Rauber / in: "Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD02)", Nanyang Technical University Singapore, Singapore, 2002, ISBN: 9810475365
• Using Psycho-Acoustic Models and Self-Organizing Maps to Create a Hierarchical Structuring of Music by Musical Styles / A. Rauber, E. Pampalk, W. Merkl / in: "Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2002)", IRCAM, 2002, ISBN: 2844261663, 13 - 17
• Content-based Music Indexing and Organization / A. Rauber, E. Pampalk, W. Merkl / in: "Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2002)", ACM, 2002, ISBN: 1581135610, 409 - 410
• Content-based Organization and Visualization of Music Archives / E. Pampalk, A. Rauber, W. Merkl / in: "Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference (ACM MM02)", ACM, 2002, ISBN: 158113620x, 570 - 579
• Using Smoothed Data Histograms for Cluster Visualization in Self-Organizing Maps / E. Pampalk, A. Rauber, W. Merkl / in: "Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2002)", Springer, 2002, ISBN: 3540440747, 871 - 876
• Uncovering Hierarchical Structure in Data Using the Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map / M. Dittenbach, A. Rauber, W. Merkl / Neurocomputing, 48 (2002), 1-4; 199 - 216
• The Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map: Exploratory Data Analysis of High-Dimensional Data / A. Rauber, W. Merkl, M. Dittenbach / IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 13 (2002), 6; 1331 - 1341
• Free Speech for Tourists / M. Dittenbach, W. Merkl, H. Berger / in: "Proceedings of the 13th Australasian Conference on Information Systems", issued by: A. Wenn, M. McGrath, F. Burstein; Australian Computer Society, Melbourne, Australia, 2002, ISBN: 1862726159, 1145 - 1154

• Sentiment analysis of public information to predict stock market movements / Master Thesis by J. Brom / Supervisor: W. Merkl; Institut für Information Systems Engineering, 2018
• Ontology-based software development : semantically enhanced information management and software component reuse in the air traffic management industry / PhD Thesis by E. Gringinger / Supervisor, Reviewer: W. Merkl, G. Futschek, M. Stumptner; Institut für Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme, 2017
• Testing Perceptual Preference. Development and Evaluation of Computer Based Methods for Testing Perceptual Preference / PhD Thesis by G. Salamon / Supervisor, Reviewer: W. Merkl, B. Berendt, G. Futschek; 188, 2017; oral examination: 2017-11-29
• Comparison of Wikipedia articles in different languages / Master Thesis by N. Rajcic / Supervisor: W. Merkl; Institut für Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme, 2017
• Analysis of the social network amongst artists on Wikipedia / Master Thesis by T. C. Solich / Supervisor: W. Merkl; Institut für Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme, 2016
• Context-aware sentiment analysis : a lexicon-based machine learning approach / Master Thesis by S. Gindl / Supervisor: W. Merkl; Institut für Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme, 2015
• Twitter usage in Austria : a behavioral analysis about the Twitter usage in Austria and the surrounding border / Master Thesis by A. Müllner / Supervisor: W. Merkl; Institut für Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme, 2015
• Establishment and Integration of Best Practices for Project Management in Virtual Teams within the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3) / PhD Thesis by M. Pazderka / Supervisor, Reviewer: T. Grechenig, W. Merkl; 183/1, 2009; oral examination: 2009-03-03
• Persuasive Technology: Ambient information systems for residential energy awareness / PhD Thesis by K. Kappel / Supervisor, Reviewer: T. Grechenig, W. Merkl; 183/1, 2009
• Design Criteria for an e-Health Infrastructure Network in Emerging Countries - A Case Study in the Middle East / PhD Thesis by B. Tappeiner / Supervisor, Reviewer: T. Grechenig, W. Merkl; 183/1, 2009
• Advanced data exploration methods based on Self-Organizing Maps / PhD Thesis by G. Pölzlbauer / Supervisor, Reviewer: A. Rauber, W. Merkl; Institut für Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme, 2008; oral examination: 2008-12-18
• Analyse, Struktur, Managemenet und Kernrisiken von State of Art ID Projekten mit gesamtstaalichern Charakter / PhD Thesis by M. Kind / Supervisor, Reviewer: W. Merkl, T. Grechenig; Institut für Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme, 2007; oral examination: 2007-10-09