Introduction: Evren Sirin

I realized I never sent my intro before so here is a short introduction 
(better late than never :)  I am a senior researcher at Clark & Parsia, 
LLC and I am an alternate for Mike Smith. I won't repeat what Mike said 
below about C&P and our interests but I just want to say that as an 
alternate member I plan to keep my participation mostly to email 
discussions.

Before joining C&P, I completed my thesis at the University of Maryland, 
College Park on combining Description Logic reasoning with AI planning 
techniques to solve Web service composition problems. During my graduate 
study, I have developed several Semantic Web tools, most importantly the 
OWL-DL reasoner Pellet which is now being commercially supported by C&P. 
I was also a member of the OWL-S coalition where I contributed to the 
development of OWL-S ontologies.

Regards,
Evren


On 10/17/07 9:09 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
> I am an engineer with Clark & Parsia LLC [1], focused on the development
> and support of Pellet [2] and related software (e.g., OwlSight [3]).
> C&P and I are interested in the application of OWL to large scale
> government and commercial problems, with a particular interest in
> solutions that leverage reasoning services.
>
> Some WG participants have worked with me in my previous role at BBN in
> Arlington, VA.
>
> I will be participating in the WG as an implementer and intend to keep
> Pellet and related software in alignment with WG documents.  As such, I
> have particular interest in a useful, complete test cases document and
> anticipate contributing to and/or editing that document. Further, as an
> implementer, I am interested in useful, well-defined fragments for which
> reasoning can be heavily optimized.
>
> I am unlikely to attend the first F2F, but will attempt to participate
> remotely.
>
> Regards,
>

Received on Wednesday, 5 December 2007 04:59:30 UTC