Tutorial 1 - Presenter Biographies

"MDA Standards for Ontology Development"

Dragan Gasevic | Dragan Djuric | Vladan Devedzic    

 Dragan Gasevic

Dragan Gaševic received the B.S., M.S. and PhD degrees in informatics and computer engineering from the Department of Computer Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, in 2000, 2002, and 2004 respectively. He is a researcher at the GOOD OLD AI research group, FON - School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. He is also a lecturer of computer science at the Department of Informatics and Computer Engineering, Military Academy, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. His current research interests are in the area of ontology development, Semantic Web, XML-based interoperability, integration between software engineering and knowledge engineering techniques, learning technologies and Petri nets. So far, he has authored/co-authored more than 70 research papers, several book chapters, and one book. He has been a referee and PC member for several international conferences. Dr. Gaševic is a member of the ACM and ACM SIGSOFT. He can be reached at http://afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.yu/~gasevic.

 Dragan Djuric

Dragan Djuric received the B.S., M.S. degree in computer engineering from the FON - School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He is a PhD student at the FON - School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade, and also a researcher at GOOD OLD AI research group. His interests mostly include Model Driven Architecture, Enterprise software architecture, Object-Oriented development, Java platform and Intelligent Information Systems. He has authored/co-authored many research papers; several book chapters, and one book in Model Driven Development.

 Vladan Devedzic

Vladan Devedžic is an associate professor of computer science at the Department of Information Systems, FON - School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. He has received all of his degrees from The School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro (BS, 1982; MS, 1988; PhD, 1993). His main research interests include intelligent systems, knowledge representation, ontologies, Semantic Web, intelligent reasoning, software engineering, and applications of artificial intelligence techniques to education and medicine. So far, he has authored/co-authored more than 200 research papers published in international and national journals and conferences. His major long-term professional goal is a continuous effort to bring close together the ideas from the broad fields of intelligent systems and software engineering. He has developed several practical intelligent systems and tools, and actively participates to several ongoing projects in industry and in academia. He can be reached at http://fon.fon.bg.ac.yu/~devedzic