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Lecturers
Index
Uwe Aßmann, DresdenFrançois Bry, Munich
Jean Charlet, Paris
Thomas Eiter, Vienna
Tim Furche, Munich
François Goasdoué, Paris
Georg Gottlob, Vienna
Johannes Heinecke, France Télécom
Jakob Henriksson, Dresden
Paola Hobson, Motorola Labs
Giovambattista Ianni, Calabria
Jendrik Johannes, Dresden
Ludwig Krippahl, Lisbon
Patrick Lambrix, Linköping
Alain Léger, France Télécom
Benedikt Linse, Munich
Lyndon Nixon, Berlin
Bijan Parsia, Maryland
Dimitris Plexousakis, Heraklion
Axel Polleres, Madrid
Alan Rector, Manchester
Riccardo Rosati, Rome
Ilie Savga, Dresden
Roman Schindlauer, Vienna
Michael Schroeder, Dresden
Pavel Shvaiko, Trento
Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT
Hans Tompits, Vienna
Uwe Aßmann
Professor for Software Technology at the Institute for Software and Multimedia Technology, Technical University Dresden, Germany.
Research interests
Software composition, second-generation component systems, software architecture, aspect-oriented programming, Semantic Web and ontology engineering, workflow systems, interdisciplinary artefact design, programming languages and compilers, optimizer generation, program analysis, graph rewrite systems.
François Bry
Full professor and head of the unit Programming and Modelling Languages, Institute for Informatics, University of Munich, Germany.
Research interests
- Methods and languages for reasoning on the Web
- Query languages for XML and semistructured data (rule-based approaches, streamed evaluation, type systems)
- Applications of XML (especially Molecular Biology databases, eBooks, adaptive Web)
- Indexing methods for XML and semistructured data
Jean Charlet
Prof Jean Charlet works with Assistance Publique - Paris Hospitals, is a member of the National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm) Unit 729, and is Associate Professor at the École Centrale Paris, France, where he teaches Information and Knowledge Engineering applied to medical domain.
Research interests
- Knowledge engineering
- Ontologies building
- Knowledge representation
- Semantic Web
- Computer supported cooperative work applied to medical domain
- Electronic Health Record
- Documentary engineering
Thomas Eiter
Professor of Computer Science, head of the Knowledge Based Systems Group, head of the Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
Research interests
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Computational logic
- Algorithms and complexity in AI
- Declarative problem solving
- Nonmonotonic logic programming and databases
- Reasoning about actions and change
- Intelligent agents
- Logic in computer science
Tim Furche
Researcher at the Institute for Informatics of the University of Munich, Germany. Assistant coordinator of the REWERSE working group on "Reasoning-aware Querying".
Research interests
- XML and semistructured data
- Query evaluation and optimization
- Advanced Web systems
François Goasdoué
Assistant professor in the IASI (Artificial Intelligence & Inference Systems) group at LRI (Computer Science Laboratory) of Université Paris-Sud 11, and researcher in the GEMO (Integration of Data and Knowledge Distributed over the Web) group of INRIA Futurs, Orsay, France.
Research interests
- Database theory
- Information integration
- Knowledge Representation & Reasoning
Georg Gottlob
Professor of Computer Science, head of Database and AI Group, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
Research interests
- Web data extraction
- Constraint satisfaction
- Computational logic
- Data bases and data base theory
- Query languages
- Complexity theory
Johannes Heinecke
Dr., Computational linguist, Natural Language Research Group, France Télécom, Div. R&D/TECH/EASY, France.
Research interests
- computational linguistics
- semantics
- ontologies
- exploiting ontological knowledge in natural language processing
- multi-linguism
- typological linguistics
Jakob Henriksson
Researcher at the Institute for Software Technology at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. Assistant of the REWERSE working group on Composition and Typing (I3).
Research interests
- Integration of rules and ontologies
- Composition for Semantic Web languages
Paola Hobson
PhD, Manager of Personalisation and Knowledge Technologies, Motorola Labs, UK.
Research interests
- Semantic multimedia analysis
- personalisation of content services
- mobile multimedia applications
- mobile Semantic Web
Giovambattista Ianni
Assistant professor of Computer Science at Department of Mathematics, University of Calabria, Italy.
Research interests
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Logic Programming
- Ontology Languages
- Semantic Web
Jendrik Johannes
Master student under supervision of Prof. Uwe Assmann at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. Programmer for one of the tools for composition part of the REWERSE working group on Composition and Typing (I3).
Ludwig Krippahl
Assistant Professor, Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
Research interests
- Bioinformatics (Protein Structure and Protein Interaction)
- Constraint Programming
Patrick Lambrix
Associate Professor in Computer Science, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköpings universitet, Sweden.
Research interests
- Semantic Web
- Ontologies
- Databases
- Bioinformatics
Alain Léger
Director of Scientific Program at France Télécom R&D, France.
Benedikt Linse
Researcher at the Institute for Informatics of the University of Munich, Germany. member of the REWERSE working group on "Reasoning-aware Querying".
Research interests
- RDF and semistructured data
- Query evaluation and chaining
- Advanced Web systems
Lyndon Nixon
Researcher in the Networked Information Systems Working Group, Free University of Berlin, Germany. Leader of Industrial Applications Workpackage, EU Network of Excellence KnowledgeWeb.
Research interests
- Industrial Application of Semantic Web
- Semantic Web Services
- Coordination Models and Languages
- Multimedia semantics
- Multimedia presentation generation
Bijan Parsia
Researcher at the University of Maryland at College Park, Maryland, USA.
Research interests
- Semantic Web Services
- Web Service composition
- Socio-Political Aspects of the Semantic Web
Dimitris Plexousakis
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete and Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece.
Research interests
- Semantic Web
- Web Services
- Foundations of Rule-based systems
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Belief Revision
- Semantic Integration
- Web-based Information Systems
Axel Polleres
Postdoctoral researcher at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
Research interests
- Logic Programming
- Ontology Languages
- Ontological Reasoning
- Semantic Web
- Semantic Web Services
Alan Rector
Professor of Medical Informatics in the Department of Computer Science at University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Research interests
- Clinical decision support
- Intelligent medical records
- Medical terminology and ontologies
- User oriented ontology development environments
Riccardo Rosati
Associate professor at the Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy.
Research interests
- Knowledge representation
- Nonmonotonic reasoning
- Modal and description logics
- Planning and reasoning about actions
- Computational complexity
- Logic programming and deductive databases
- Data Warehousing and Information Integration
Ilie Savga
Researcher at the Institute for Software Technology at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. Project coordinator of the B2-PDE project in cooperation with Comarch, Poland.
Research interests
- Component-based system development
- Framework evolution and adaptation
Roman Schindlauer
PhD Student, Knowledge-Based Systems Group, Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
Research interests
- Logic Programming
- Nonmonotonic Reasoning
- Semantic Web
- Ontology Languages
Michael Schroeder
Professor in Bioinformatics, Biotec and Department of Computing, Technical University Dresden, Germany.
Research interests
- Bioinformatics
- Ontologies for text mining
- Systems integration for bioinformatics
- Protein interactions
Pavel Shvaiko
Fourth-year PhD student in Information and Communication Technologies, University of Trento, Italy.
Research interests
- Ontology matching
- Semantic integration
- Knowledge processing
- Contexts and Ontologies
Silvie Spreeuwenberg
Co-founder and director of LibRT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Involvement in the business rules work group of the OMG working on standardization of business rules.
Research interests
- Business rules modeling and representation
- Business rules verification, validation, simulation and execution
Hans Tompits
Associate professor, Knowledge-Based Systems Group, Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
Research interests
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Logic programming
- Logics in AI
- Preference handling
- Semantic Web
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