Dirk Ahlers

Senior Researcher

Department of Architecture and Planning Faculty of Architecture and Design

dirk.ahlers@ntnu.no

Sentralbygg 1, 549 (Lighthouse Office), Gløshaugen, Alfred Getz vei 3

Dr. Dirk Ahlers is a senior researcher and research manager with the Smart Sustainable Cities group of the Department of Architecture and Planning. He is also the project manager of +CityxChange. He has a background in Computer Science.

He has been an ERCIM Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Data and Information Management group and a research scientist in the Information Systems group of the Department of Computer Science, working on Urban Intelligence, knowledge management, mobility and geospatial analysis, Smart Cities, and emission monitoring systems.

His research interests are Urban Intelligence, Smart Cities, Climate Mitigation, Sustainability, Climate Neutral Cities, Open Innovation, Urban Systems Modeling, Geospatial Retrieval, Information Retrieval, Web Mining, Search Engines, Information Access, Mobile, and Everything Geo.

You can find him at Geo: N 63.417002 E 10.404215

He is organizing the CS3CS — Workshop on City Strategies for Smart Sustainable Climate Solutions in Trondheim and is the co-chair of the LocWeb - Location and the Web workshop series.

The latest LocWeb2019 Workshop - Location and the Web @ WWW2019 is accepting submissions.

He is a member of the Smart Sustainable Cities research group and of OADE - Open Autonomous Digital Ecosystems.

Some selected projects:

+CityxChange
UBIMOB — Ubiquitous Data-Driven Urban Mobility
SCIL — Smart City Infrastructure Lab
FME-ZEN — Center of Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities
NTNU Smart Sustainable Cities
CTT — Carbon Track & Trace
Campus Mobility Analysis

See the full list of publications here or here

Scientific, academic and artistic work

A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database

2021

Baer, Daniela; Loewen, Bradley; Cheng, Caroline Y; Thomsen, Judith; Wyckmans, Annemie; Temeljotov Salaj, Alenka; Ahlers, Dirk. (2021) Approaches to Social Innovation in Positive Energy Districts (PEDs)—A Comparison of Norwegian Projects. Sustainability. vol. 13 (13).
Bokolo, Anthony Junior; Petersen, Sobah Abbas; Helfert, Markus; Ahlers, Dirk; Krogstie, John. (2021) Modelling pervasive platforms and digital services for smart urban transformation using an enterprise architecture framework. Information Technology and People. vol. 34 (4).

2020

Ahlers, Dirk. (2020) Making Sense of the Urban Future: Recommendation Systems in Smart Cities. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
Ahlers, Dirk; Wilde, Erik; Schifanella, Rossano; Alowibdi, Jalal S.. (2020) Report on the Tenth International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2020) - Workshop held at The Web Conference, WWW2020. SIGIR Forum. vol. 54 (1).
Bokolo, Anthony Junior; Petersen, Sobah Abbas; Ahlers, Dirk; Krogstie, John. (2020) Big data driven multi-tier architecture for electric mobility as a service in smart cities: A design science approach. International Journal of Energy Sector Management. vol. 14 (5).
Gohari, Savis; Ahlers, Dirk; Nielsen, Brita Fladvad; Junker, Eivind. (2020) The Governance Approach of Smart City Initiatives. Evidence from Trondheim, Bergen, and Bodø. Infrastructures. vol. 5 (4).
Nesse, Per Jonny; Wyckmans, Annemie; Lønsethagen, Håkon; Ahlers, Dirk. (2020) Co-creation of smart sustainable cities : The 5G SOLUTIONS project. Eurescom Message.

2019

Ahlers, Dirk; Driscoll, Patrick Arthur; Wibe, Håvard; Wyckmans, Annemie. (2019) Co-Creation of Positive Energy Blocks. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (EES). vol. 352 (1).
Bokolo, Anthony Junior; Petersen, Sobah Abbas; Ahlers, Dirk; Krogstie, John. (2019) API deployment for big data management towards sustainable energy prosumption in smart cities-a layered architecture perspective. International Journal of Sustainable Energy. vol. 39 (3).
Bokolo, Anthony Junior; Petersen, Sobah Abbas; Ahlers, Dirk; Krogstie, John; Livik, Klaus. (2019) Big data-oriented energy prosumption service in smart community districts: a multi-case study perspective. Energy Informatics. vol. 2 (1).
Sinaeepourfard, Amir; Petersen, Sobah Abbas; Ahlers, Dirk. (2019) D2C-SM: Designing a Distributed-to-Centralized Software Management Architecture for Smart Cities. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). vol. 11701 LNCS.

2018

Ahlers, Dirk; Akerkar, Rajendra Arvind; Krogstie, John; Opdahl, Andreas Lothe; Tessem, Bjørnar; Zhang, Weiqing. (2018) Harnessing Mobility Data in Cities: A Case Study from the Bergen Region. NOKOBIT - Norsk konferanse for organisasjoners bruk av informasjonsteknologi. vol. 26 (1).
Ahlers, Dirk; Wilde, Erik; Schifanella, Rossano; Alowibdi, Jalal S.. (2018) Report on the Eighth International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2018). SIGIR Forum. vol. 52 (2).

2017

Ahlers, Dirk; Krogstie, John; Driscoll, Patrick Arthur; Lundli, Hans Einar; Loveland, Simon-James; Rothballer, Carsten; Wyckmans, Annemie. (2017) Supporting Municipal Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emission Inventories Using Business Process Modeling: A Case Study of Trondheim Municipality. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. vol. 281.
Ahlers, Dirk; Wilde, Erik. (2017) Report on the Seventh International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2017). SIGIR Forum. vol. 51 (1).
Mehrpoor, Mahsa; Ahlers, Dirk; Gulla, Jon Atle; Kristensen, Kjetil; Sivertsen, Ole Ivar. (2017) Investigating contextual ontologies and document corpus characteristics for information access in engineering settings. Journal of IT Cases and Applications. vol. 19 (1).

2016

Ahlers, Dirk; Aulie, Kristoffer; Eriksen, Jeppe; Krogstie, John. (2016) Visualizing a city within a city – Mapping mobility within a university campus. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. vol. 166.
Ahlers, Dirk; Driscoll, Patric Arthur; Kraemer, Frank Alexander; Anthonisen, Fredrik Valde; Krogstie, John. (2016) A Measurement-Driven Approach to Understand Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Nordic Cities. NIKT: Norsk IKT-konferanse for forskning og utdanning.
Ahlers, Dirk; Mehrpoor, Mahsa. (2016) Training on the Job: Learning While Searching in an Engineering Workplace. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 1647.
Ahlers, Dirk; Wilde, Erik. (2016) Report on the Sixth International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2016). SIGIR Forum. vol. 50 (2).

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