Re: Introductions

Principal, Attending F2F

(I serve as an invited expert now. University of Aberdeen will join in Jan 2006)


>  -- a bio summarizing experience you have that's relevant to the
>     work of this group

I am a lecturer in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen. My main research interests lie in knowledge representation, ontologies and the Web. I did my PhD in the University of Manchester with Prof Ian Horrocks on the topic "Description Logics: Reasoning Support for the Semantic Web". My thesis is available online [1]. Before moving to Aberdeen, I was a PostDoc researcher in the University of Manchester,  coordinating the "Semantic Web Language Extension" work package in the Knowledge Web project [2], in which we investigate various extensions of OWL DL, including datatypes, horn rules, fuzziness and metamodeling.

 I am a co-author of both RDFS(FA), a sub-language of RDF(S) with layered metamodeling architecture, and OWL-Eu, which extends OWL DL with user-defined datatypes. I was invited to review the  Semantic and Abstract Syntax [3] of the OWL Web ontology language. In the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group, I co-coordinate both the Software Engineering and the Multimedia Annotation Task Forces. I am a member of the RuleML steering committee and am co-chairing the Fuzzy RuleML Technical Group [4].


>  -- as much contact info as you care to share on this public list

Dr. Jeff Z. Pan (http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~jpan/)
jpan (at) csd.abdn.ac.uk
Department of Computing Science 
The University of Aberdeen 
Aberdeen AB24 3FX 
Tel: +44(0)1224 274 449 
Fax: +44(0)1224 273 422  


>  -- what you expect to get out of this WG

A useful rule language that is compatible with OWL.

 
>  -- what you hope/expect to contribute.

My experience of extending OWL with horn rules, datatypes and uncertainty.


[1] http://dl-web.man.ac.uk/~panz/Zhilin/thesis8.php  
[2] http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-semantics/
[4] http://image.ntua.gr/FuzzyRuleML/

Received on Monday, 5 December 2005 14:55:16 UTC