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Tutorial 3 - Presenter Biographies
Semantic
Web Services Tutorial
Daniela
Berardi | Prof. Dr. Christoph Bussler
| Liliana Cabral
Emilia Cimpian | Dr. John
Domingue | Massimo Mecella | Matthew
Moran
Dumitru Roman | Michael
Stollberg | Prof. Katia Sycara
Daniela
Berardi
Daniela Berardi (Ph.D.
in Computer Engineering) is a Research Associate at Universita'
di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica,
where she recently dissented a Ph.D. thesis entitled "Automatic
Service Composition. Models, techniques and tools“ concerning
formal representation and automatic composition of Web Services.
In 2004 she has been a Visiting Scholar at Bell Labs, invited by
Rick Hull. She has also been invited to join the working group on
Semantic Web Service Language (SWSL), under the auspices of the
Semantic Web Service Initiative. Her research interests include
logics and logic of programs on course of European and Italian research
projects (INTEROP, MAIS). Since 2001, she is currently appointed
as a lecturer in courses for master thesis students in Computer
Engineering, at Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza".
Affiliation Information:
Universita' di Roma "La
Sapienza"
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy
email: daniela.berardi@dis.uniroma1.it
Prof.
Dr. Christoph Bussler
Prof. Dr. Christoph Bussler
is Executive Director and leader of the Semantic Web Services cluster
of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the National
University Ireland , Galway . He published a book in 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. Chris Bussler was keynote
speaker at many conferences and workshops; he serves as program
committee member and reviewer at many international conferences,
and is professionally active as member of several organizations
including the Semantic Web Services Initiative and Semantic Web
Science Association. Chris Bussler is founding member and chair
of the WSMO working group.
Affiliation Information:
DERI
Galway National University of Ireland
University Road
Galway, Ireland
email: chris.bussler@deri.org
Liliana
Cabral
Liliana Cabral 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.
Affiliation Information:
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes , MK6 7AA
email: l.s.cabral@open.ac.uk
Emilia
Cimpian
Emilia Cimpian is a Ph.D.
researcher with Digital Enterprise Research
Institute DERI. She is working in the area of Semantic Web Services,
her
main interest being Semantic Web Services interoperability, in particular
the reconciliation of behavioural mismatches. Emilia is involved
in several
EU- funded projects, and she is a member of WSMO and WSMX working
groups.
Affiliation Information:
DERI
Galway National University of Ireland
University Road
Galway, Ireland
email: emilia.cimpian@deri.org
Dr.
John Domingue
Dr. John Domingue is
the Deputy Director of the Knowledge Media Institute at The Open
University, UK. He has published over 80 refereed articles in the
areas of Artificial Intelligence and Human Computer Interaction;
he is involved in a number of projects and is currently a Co Principle
Investigator on the UK EPSRC funded Advanced Knowledge Technologies
(AKT) project, the Scientific Director of the EU funded Integrated
Project on Semantic Web Services DIP, and a chair of the WSMO working
group.
Affiliation Information:
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes , MK6 7AA
email: j.b.domingue@open.ac.uk
Massimo
Mecella
Massimo
Mecella (Ph.D. in Computer Engineering) is a Research Associate
at Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di
Informatica e Sistemistica, where he has conducted research in the
last 5 years in the fields of Software Architectures, Information
Systems, Distributed Systems, and of Service Oriented Computing.
He is author of more than 20 papers on Services, in the VLDB Journal,
in the specific VLDB Workshop on Technologies for e-Services (TES),
in the International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC)
and in the Workshop on Web Services, e-Business, and the Semantic
Web (WES). He is member of the program committee in several conferences
of the Service Oriented Computing area. He is currently involved
in European and Italian research projects (EU-PUBLI.com, VISPO,
MAIS), in the context of automatic service composition and distributed
service orchestration.
Affiliation Information:
Universita' di Roma "La
Sapienza"
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy
email: mecella@dis.uniroma1.it
Matthew
Moran
Matthew
Moran is a researcher with the Digital Enterprise Research Institute
DERI, working in development and system architecture for Semantic
Web Service systems. He has exhaustive professional experience in
soft development, and is involved in several national and international
projects. Matthew Moran is a founding member of the WSMO and WSMX
working group.
Affiliation Information:
DERI Galway
National University of Ireland
University Road
Galway , Ireland
email: matthew.moran@deri.org
Dumitru
Roman
Dumitru Roman is a Ph.D.
researcher with the Digital Enterprise Research Institute DERI,
working in the area of Semantic Web Services. He is the WSMO working
group coordinator and a component leader in the ASG project, involved
in several EU-funded projects, and founding member of WSMO and WSML
working groups.
Affiliation Information:
DERI Austria
University of Innsbruck
Technikerstr. 21a
A-6020 Innsbruck , Austria
email: dumitru.roman@deri.org
Michael
Stollberg
Michael
Stollberg is a researcher at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute
DERI, located at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is working
in national and international projects related to Semantic Web Services,
wherein his main research fields are architectures for Semantic
Web Services and mechanisms for discovery and contracting of Web
Services with special regards to B2B settings. He has published
around 12 scientific articles in the area of the Semantic Web and
Web Services. He is project manager of the Semantic Web Fred project,
involved in several EU-funded projects, a founding member of WSMO,
and a working member of the SWSI initiative.
Affiliation Information:
DERI Austria
University of Innsbruck
Technikerstr. 21a
A-6020 Innsbruck , Austria
email: michael.stollberg@deri.org
Prof.
Katia Sycara
Prof.
Katia Sycara is Research Professor in the School of Computer Science
at Carnegie Mellon University , and the Director of the Laboratory
for Semantic Web and Agents Technology. She has given numerous invited
talks, and has authored or co-authored more than 200 technical papers
dealing with Multiagent Systems, Software Agents, Agent Teams, Web
Services, the Semantic Web, Human-Agent Interaction, Negotiation,
Case-Based Reasoning and the application of these techniques to
e-commerce, crisis action planning, scheduling, manufacturing and
financial planning. In addition, Katia Sycara is one of the co-authors
of the OWL-S note Submitted at the W3C (see http://www.org/Submission/2004/07/).
In addition she is a co-author of the W3C Technical Note on “Web
Services Architecture” and a co-author of the UDDI v3 specifications
and of the forthcoming UDDI Semantic Search specifications.
Affiliation Information:
SoftAgents Lab
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes ave
Pittsburgh PA , 15213 , USA
email: katia@cs.cmu.edu
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