Re: Introductions

Dear all

 

Here is a brief introduction of myself:

 

 

- Contact Info

 

Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory

Institute of Communication and Computer Systems

National Technical University of Athens

Zographou Campus, 15780, Athens, Greece

Tel: +30-210-7723040  Fax: +30-210-7722492

e-mail: gstam@softlab.ntua.gr

www.image.ntua.gr/~gstam 

 

- Role

Principal

 

- Regrets to first f2f

(Vassilis Tzouvaras who is alternate will represent IVML-NTUA in the first
f2f)

 

- Short Bio

 

I studied electronic and computer engineering in National Technical
University of Athens (NTUA).

In 1998, I received my PhD in the area of reasoning under uncertainty and
neural learning. 

Now, I am a research assistant professor of NTUA, leading the Knowledge
Technologies Group

of Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory.

I am a member of the Steering Committee of RuleML, also co-chairing the
Fuzzy RuleML Technical Group.

I represent NTUA in W3C Advisory Committee, being also a member of the SWBPD
Working Group

and co-chairing the Multimedia Annotation on the Semantic Web Task Force.

Our group is participating in national and European projects (e.g. Knowledge
Web, aceMedia, MUSCLE, K-space, X-media)

in the area of knowledge representation, reasoning and its industrial
applications.

We have a strong interest in theoretical and practical results of the rule
standardisation process.

 

Concluding, maybe you remember me asking for the uncertainty extension
during the RIF charter preparation phase.

But I am not here only for this. We also have applications and work with
certain data.

 

- What I expect to get out of this WG:

 

A widely accepted, theoretically sound and ready for use in real
applications, rule language standard,

produced by a peaceful and co-operative work of most people that has
excellence in the area.

Sounds optimistic? :-)

 

- What I hope/expect to contribute:

 

I would like to actively contribute in both phases.

Concerning the first deliverable "Use Cases and Requirements", my main
interest is in

providing usecases, requirements and discussion on further extensions of the
core rule language,

but I also volunteer to help in other issues if it is needed.

 

 

Regards,

Giorgos