Re: Introductions

I am the principal for the MIND lab at the University of Maryland at 
College Park. I'll be at the F2F.

I've been at the MIND lab for 3 years or so and have conducted and 
directed research on various aspect of the Semantic Web and related 
technologies, especially OWL and Semantic Web Services. I'm a member of 
the WSDL and Data Access Working Groups, and have participated in the 
OWL-S Coalition and SWSL committee. I have led the development of the 
Swoop OWL editor and the Pellet OWL reasoner both of which have been 
extended with (preliminary) support for various sorts of rules 
(notably, an AL Log like combination). I care about services that make 
KR formalisms usable, such as axiom pinpointing for debugging, 
visualization, partitioning, and change management.

I will be leaving the MIND lab this spring/early summer to take up a 
lectureship at the University of Manchester, whereupon I'll be yielding 
principality of membership, but will likely continue on in support of 
Uli Sattler.

I don't know about expectations, but my hope is that the group can be 
very deflationary about our tasks and products.  Which an excitable 
chap, I aspire to cool sophistication.

Cheers,
Bijan.

Received on Thursday, 8 December 2005 08:24:01 UTC