Re: Introductions

At 22:23 29.11.2005 -0500, Sandro Hawke wrote:

>This is a good time for people to start introducing themselves to the
>other members of working group.
>
>Because the working group is quite large (50 participants so far), we
>are asking that each organization select a "principal" participant,
>and let the others act as "alternates".  Alternates are welcome to
>attend meetings, but should in general let their principal speak on
>behalf of the organization.  This should give us an effective size
>of around 25.
>
>At the start of your introduction, please state "Principal" or
>"Alternate", and "Attending F2F" or "Regrets for F2F", to help people
>begin to form their picture of the group.
>
>After that, the topics one generally covers are:
>
>   -- a bio summarizing experience you have that's relevant to the
>      work of this group

"Alternate", and "Attending F2F"


In 1989, Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel earned both his Master in Social Science 
(Free University of Berlin) and his Master in Computer Science (Technical 
University of Berlin). In 1993, he was awarded his Doctoral degree in 
Economic Science, Dr. rer. pol., from the University of Karlsruhe. And in 
1998 he received his Habilitation in Applied Computer Science. Throughout 
his doctoral and post-doctoral career, Prof. Dr. Fensel has held positions 
at the University of Karlsruhe (AIFB), the University of Amsterdam (UvA), 
and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). In 2002, he took a chair at the 
Institute for Computer Science, Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck, 
Austria. In 2003, he became the Scientific Director of the Digital 
Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the National University of Ireland, 
Galway, receiving a large grant acquired from Science Foundation Ireland 
(SFI). His current research interests include ontologies, semantic web 
technologies, Semantic web services, knowledge management, enterprise 
application integration, and e-commerce.

He has published over 200 papers via scientific books and journals, 
conferences, and workshop contributions. He has co-organized over 200 
academic workshops and conferences. He is an Associated Editor of the 
following scientific journals/publications: "Foundations and Trends in Web 
Science"; "International Journal of Web Services Research"; "International 
Journal on Web and Grid Services"; "International Journal on Semantic Web 
and Information Systems"; "IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data 
Engineering (TKDE)"; "Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence 
(ETAI)"; "Elsevier's Journal on Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents 
on the World Wide Web"; "IEEE Intelligent Systems (IS)"; "Knowledge and 
Information Systems: An International Journal (KAIS)"; "Web Intelligence 
and Agent Systems (WIAS)"; and "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) - 
Sublime Semantics in Data Management".

He has been an executive member in the following international research 
projects: the IST projects ASG, Asia-Link Eastweb, COG, DIP, enIRaF, 
Esperonto, h-TechSight, IBROW, InfraWebs, Knowledge Web, Multiple, MUSING, 
Ontoknowledge, Ontoweb, SALERO, SEEMP, SEKT, SemanticGov, SUPER, SWAP, 
SWING, SWWS, TripCom, and Wonderweb, the SFI funded project DERI-Lion as 
well as the Austrian projects DSSE, Grisino, LBSCult, RW2, SemBiz, Sense, 
Semantic Web Fred, SemNetMan, and TSC.

His academic experience is not however restricted to graduate calibre, 
having taught over fifty courses at various levels of education, from 
professional academies and technical colleges to universities and 
scientific conferences. Topics include: Formal Specification Languages, 
Software Engineering, Data Warehouse, World Wide Web, Electronic Commerce, 
Agent-based Information Access, Semantic Web and Ontologies. He has 
supervised over 50 master theses and PhDs and is a recipient of the 
Carl-Adam-Petri-Award of the Faculty of Economic Sciences from the 
University of Karlsruhe (2000).

Dieter Fensel has co-authored the following books: Information Integration 
with Ontologies - Experiences from an Industrial Showcase (Wiley, 2005); 
Intelligent Information Integration in B2B Electronic Commerce (Kluwer, 
2002); Ontologies: Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic 
Commerce (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001); Problem-Solving Methods: 
Understanding, Development, Description, and Reuse - Lecture Notes on 
Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), no 1791 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000); 
and The Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Language KARL, (Kluwer 
Academic Publisher, Boston, 1995). He has co-edited several books, 
including, Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-Driven Knowledge Management 
(Wiley, 2002); and Spinning the Semantic Web (MIT Press, Boston, 2003).



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

www.deri.org

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

a web rule language that can be used on the web to express and reason over
meta data.

>   -- what you hope/expect to contribute.

experience on how such a language should look like


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Dieter Fensel, http://www.deri.org/
Tel.: +43-512-5076485/8

Received on Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:27:25 UTC