Associate Professor of e-Commerce Sebastian Link

Sebastian is Associate Professor of e-Commerce at SIM. Before joining VUW he was a member of the Department of Information Systems and the Information Science Research Center at Massey University. Sebastian's research is considered to be on the leading edge of international research in database theory. He was a recipient in the 2008 round of Marsden funding for his project Cardinality Constraints for XML: Challenging the Trade-off between Expressiveness and Tractability, 2009-2011.

Details on Sebastian's research projects, along with his current CV, can be found on his home page.

Administrative Responsibilities

• Coordinator for MMIM 520, ELCM 351 and ELCM 251

Current Research

• Electronic Commerce
• Database System
• Web-based Information Systems
• Information Systems Security
• Conceptual Modeling
• XML
• Semantic Web

Selected Publications

Biskup, J. & Link, S. (2008). Appropriate reasoning about data dependencies. In: Fifth International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (pp. 58-77). FoIKS 2008, Pisa, Italy, LNCS 4932.

Hartmann, S. & Link, S. (2008). An equivalence between dependencies in nested databases and a fragment of propositional logic. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 143, 73-85.

Hartmann, S., Köhler, H. & Link, S. (2007). Full hierarchical dependencies in fixed and undetermined universes. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 50(12), 195-226.

Hartmann, S. & Link, S. (2007). Collection types for entity relationship modelling. In: 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (pp.47-62). Auckland, New Zealand, LNCS 4801.

Hartmann, S. & Link, S. (2007). Numerical keys for XML. In: Fourteenth International Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (pp. 203-217). WoLLIC 2007 Barcelona, Spain, LNCS4576.

Hartmann, S. & Link, S. (2007). English sentence structures and EER modelling. In: Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling (APCCM 2007), Ballarat, Australia. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, 67, 27-35.

Hartmann, S. & Link, S. (2006). On a problem of Fagin concerning multivalued dependencies in relational databases. Theoretical Computer Science, 353(13), 53-62.

Link, S. (2006). On multivalued dependencies in fixed and undetermined universes. In: Fourth International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (pp. 257-276). FoIKS 2006, Budapest, Hungary, LNCS 3861.

Hartmann, S., Link, S. & Schewe, K. D. (2005). Functional dependencies over XML documents with DTDs. Acta Cybernetica, 17(1), 153-171.

Current Teaching

MMIM 520 – Managing e-Business (Trimester 3 2008)
This course deals with the management tasks in an e-business: planning, managing teams, outsourcing, external relationships, work flows, security, business processes. Business-to-consumer, business-to-business, supply chain-to-supply chain, and mobile e-commerce relationships.

ELCM 351 – Advanced Internet Design and Development (Trimester 1 2009)
The theory and technology of creating, managing and delivering integrated multimedia content for e-business applications, including animation, audio and video.

ELCM 251 – Introduction to Internet Design and Development (Trimester 2 2009)
An introduction to principles of good website design in e-business applications. This course gives students initial experience in developing practical end-to-end web-based information systems appropriate for supporting modern e-businesses applications.