The Eleventh International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence:
Methodology, Systems, Applications
Tutorial: Web Service Modelling Ontology – WSMO
AIMSA 2004
Christoph Bussler (http://hometown.aol.com/chbussler) is Vice-Director of the
Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the National University
Ireland, Galway in Ireland. In addition to his role as Vice-Director of DERI,
Chris leads the Semantic Web Services research cluster at DERI.
Before taking this position he was Member of Oracle’s Integration Platform Architecture Group based in Redwood Shores, CA, USA. He was responsible for the architecture of Oracle’s next generation integration product providing EAI, B2B and ASP integration. Prior to joining Oracle he was at Jamcracker, Cupertino, CA, USA, responsible for defining Jamcracker’s ASP aggregation architecture, Netfish Technologies (acquired by IONA), Santa Clara, CA, USA, responsible for Netfish’s B2B integration server, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA, USA, leading Boeing’s workflow research and Digital Equipment (acquired by Compaq, acquired by Hewlett-Packard), Mountain View, CA, USA, defining the policy resolution component of Digital’s workflow product.
He has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Erlangen, Germany and a Master in computer science from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Chris published a new book titled 'B2B Integration', two books in workflow management, over 60 research papers in journals and academic conferences, gave tutorials on several topics including B2B integration and workflow management and was keynote speaker at many conferences and workshops.
His tutorials were accepted for presentation at CAiSE 2003, Net.ObjectDays 2002, at the federated conferences (CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE) 2002, SIGMOD ’02, International Semantic Web Conference 2002, the International Semantic Web Working Symposium 2001, SIGMOD ’01, IFIP Conference on Database Semantics 2001 (DS-9), ECSCW ’99, CAISE ’99, CSCW ’98 and EuroPDS ’98 conferences.
He serves as program committee member as well as reviewer at many international conferences. In addition, he is professionally active as member of many organizations including the Semantic Web Services Initiative and Semantic Web Science Association. He is frequently invited to present keynotes and serves as panel member.
Sinuhé Arroyo (http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~c703219) is a Ph.D. researcher in
the area of Semantic Web and Semantic Web enhanced Web Services. He is project
leader of the EU-funded project Esperonto (http://www.esperonto.net), which
will bridge the gap between the current web and the Semantic Web by creating
tools and services that enable the publishing of new and existing content on the
SW. Sinuhé is also member of the SWWS project (http://swws.semanticweb.org),
this project will provide a Semantic Web based Web Service platform which will
service as a basis for some case studies in different areas.
Sinuhé has been very active in EU-framework 6, participating on the elaboration of two IP accepted proposals: DIP which has the major mission of further developing Semantic Web and Web Services and especially, to enable their combination, and SEKT, with the task to develop and exploit the knowledge technologies which underlie Next Generation Knowledge Management.
Previous to his current position he was Project leader at iSOCO in Madrid, Spain, responsible for the architecture and development of various applications in the field of the B2B applying Semantic Web technology; earlier to this roll he was Software Engineer Senior at the same company, responsible for the design and implementation of various B2B applications also applying Semantic Web technology. While at Ermestel S.L in Madrid, Spain, he was responsible for the design and implementation of various database centric applications with the role of Software Engineer Junior.
He obtained his M. S. in Computer Science at Universidad de Malaga (UMA), Malaga, Spain in 2000. He also holds a B.S in Software Engineering obtained at University Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain in 1997. Sinuhé has been reviewer for several Semantic Web related conferences, and published some peer reviewed papers conference papers in international conferences. He has an extensive teaching experience, in the field of Software Engineering, Database Design, Computer Networks and Computer Architecture, gained as technical instructor for different technical schools and companies. Lately he has also taken part in a tutorial at the University of Innsbruck in the field of Semantic Web Technology.
Michael Stollberg (http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/homepage/c703/c703241), born in 1977 in
Bielefeld (Germany),
is a PhD-Student in Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck, Austria,
and a junior research member of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute DERI
lead by Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel.
Before Michael joined DERI in summer 2003, he obtained a master degree in Communication Science, Computer Science, and Economics at the Free University of Berlin, Germany with excellent grades. In his master thesis Michael Stollberg addressed the challenges on ontology technologies with regard to their usability as the semantic basis for the Semantic Web. During his studies, Michael worked for several software companies in Berlin engaged in mid- and large scale internet application development projects. His main work areas were design and development as well as project management assistance. He also gained experiences as in training and coaching.
Michael is involved in several research and IST-projects, namely DIP, h-TechSight and SWWS. He is project coordinator of the Semantic Web Fred project. In his research work he is concentrating on challenges of Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services technologies with special regards to the resulting impacts on information system architectures.
Matthew Moran (http://deri.ie/sws/members/matt/) is a research engineer with
the Semantic Web Services cluster of DERI, Galway. His main research activity
is in the development of execution environment software for Semantic Web
Services particularly in the context of P2P systems. He is a member of DIP, an
EU-framework 6 project (http://dip.semanticweb.org/). The major mission of DIP
is to further develop semantic web and web services, with the goal of enabling
their combination into one.
Professionally,
Matthew has ten years professional experience developing industrial-standard, component-based software in Germany, Australia and Ireland. The main focus of this experience has been in the design and development of database applications using various RDBM systems with C++, Visual Basic and Java.
Before joining DERI Matthew worked as a senior software engineer developing web-based Digital Asset and Content Management applications. He obtained a B.E. in Electronic Engineering at the National University of Ireland, Galway in 1993 and is currently studying for an M. Sc. Eng at DERI.
John Domingue (http://www.open.ac.uk/people/domingue) is the Deputy Director of
the Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University, UK. He has published over 70 refereed articles in the areas of semantic web, ontologies and
human computer interaction. Since the late 90s he has been investigating how
knowledge and internet technologies can support the creation and sharing of
knowledge and is currently a principle investigator or co-investigator on half
a dozen projects funded by the European Union and UK Science funding councils.
These include the 6 year EPSRC funded Advanced Knowledge Technologies Project
(AKT) and the EU funded DIP project on semantic web services.
In the late 90s John designed and implemented the WebOnto tool which supported both the synchronous and asynchronous distributed development of ontologies. More recently John has been a lead researcher on the IRS-II and Magpie projects. IRS-II is both a framework and implemented infrastructure for developing and using semantic web services (see http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/irs/). Magpie supports sense-making on the web through the real time ontological enrichment of web pages couple with semantic services (see http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/magpie/).
John serves on the programme committee for a significant number of conferences. In 2002 he was a Poster and Demo chair for the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces conference and last year he was the workshop chair for the ACM Knowledge Capture conference. He is currently serving as the workshop chair for the European Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Management (EKAW).
John has a research background in learning and has published journal articles on learning in an academic context and also within a work context. He served as an Open University tutor on an AI course for a decade and was an Open University AI course chair 2000-2002. Finally, he was a tutor on last year’s successful OntoWeb summer school on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web and will act as a tutor at this year’s summer school.
John Domingue graduated in Computer Science from the University of Warwick. He then completed a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence at The Open University. Since gaining his PhD he has been employed as a researcher at The Open University.
Michal Zaremba (http://www.mzaremba.prv.pl) is a post-doctoral
researcher in the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the National University Ireland, Galway in Ireland. Michal is currently working for the Semantic
Web Services cluster and he is also the Semantic Web Services Workpackage
leader of the European Union ICT project – Knowledge Web – in the Sixth
Framework Programme.
Michal has joined DERI after finalizing his work for the Computer Integrated Manufacturing Research Unit at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He I holds M.Sc. in Computer Science and Management from the Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland, where he graduated in 2000. In CIMRU Michal worked for a number of European Union projects, as well as writing his Ph.D. thesis. During his work in CIMRU he has worked closely with end-users, has been responsible for user requirements gathering, software development and systems testing.
Michal’s previous work experience includes open source implementation of the ebXML registry/repository, a project lead by Sun Microsystems. He has also been working at the IT department at the National University of Ireland as a Java language tutor. His main research interests include Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services,Electronic Business, Business Protocols for Electronic Business Information Exchange and XML and EDI based protocol standards and specifications. He is also a Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform.
Liliana Cabral (http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people) is a research fellow at the
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, where she has been employed
since September, 2002. Her main research focuses on the design and implementation
of IRS-II, a framework for Semantic Web Services. Previous projects include
MIAKT where knowledge technologies from the AKT project were combined with
medical imaging technology and GRID services to support the diagnosis of breast
cancer. She is currently a member of the EU-framework 6 project DIP.
Prior to joining the Open University, she has worked as software consultant and Java developer for companies in Brazil and UK in the area of distributed systems (CORBA, XML and Web Services). She has also worked as an associate Lecturer in several universities in Brasilia, Brazil. She has a Master of Science degree in Artificial Intelligence from Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California, U.S.A and is currently pursuing a PhD at KMI in the area of Semantic Web Services.