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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Herwig Unger (*1966) received his PhD with a
work on Petri Net transformation in 1994 from the Technical University
of Ilmenau and his doctorate (habilitation) with a work on a fully decentralised
web operating systems from the University of Rostock in 2000. Since 2006,
he is a full professor at the FernUniversität in Hagen and the head of the
Department of Communication Networks. In 2019, he obtained a honorary
PhD in Information Technology from the King Mongkut's University of
Technology in North Bangkok (Thailand).
His research interests are in decentralised systems and self-organization,
natural language processing, Big Data as well as large scale simulations.
He has published more than 150 publications in refereed journals and
conferences, published or edited more than 30 books and gave over
35 invited talks and lectures in 12 countries.
Beside various industrial cooperations, e.g. with Airbus Industries, he has
been a guest researcher/professor at the ICSI Berkeley, University of Leipzig,
Universitè de Montreal (Canada), Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico) and
the King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok.
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