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About the Authors 0
Veli. Bicer. is an MS student at the Middle East Technical University (METU),
Computer Engineering Department, Turkey, and a senior researcher at SRDC. His
research interests include semantic interoperability, Web service technology, and
health care informatics.
François.Bry.is currently investigating methods and applications emphasizing XML,
semistructured data, document modelling, and query answering and reactivity on
the Web. Formerly, he worked on knowledge representation, deductive databases,
automated theorem proving, and logic programming. Since 1994, he has been full
professor at the Institute for Informatics, University of Munich, Germany. From
1984-1993, he was with the European Computer-Industry Research Centre (ECRC),
Munich. Before 1983, he worked in a few companies in Paris, among others on an
early word processor. In 1981, he received a PhD from the University of Paris. He
has been visiting at several universities and research centers. He has given invited
talks at many major research centers, universities, and scientific conferences. He has
contributed and contributes to scientific conferences as an author, program committee
member or chairman. He has been or is involved in research projects founded
by the European Commission (ESPRIT, FP6) and in doctoral schools founded by
the German Foundation for Research (DFG). He is the scientific coordinator of the
European Network of Excellence REWERSE (http://rewerse.net) launched by the
European Commission in 2004.
Artem.Chebotko.is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Wayne
State University, USA. His research interests include databases and the Semantic
Web. He is a student member of the IEEE.
Oscar.Corcho.has worked at iSOCO as a research manager since March 2004.
Previously, he belonged to the Ontological Engineering Group of the AI Department
of the Computer Science School, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). He
graduated in computer science from UPM in 2000 and received the third Spanish
award in computer science from the Spanish Government. He obtained an MSc in
software engineering from UPM (2001) and a PhD in artificial intelligence (2004).
His research activities include ontology languages and tools, the ontology translation
problem and the Semantic Web and grid. He has published the books Ontological
Engineering and A Layered Declarative Approach to Ontology Translation with
Knowledge Preservation. He has published more than 30 journal and conference/
workshop papers on ontology languages and tools in important forums for the ontology
community (ISWC, EKAW, KAW, KCAP, AI Magazine, IEEE Intelligent Systems),
and reviews papers in many conferences, workshops and journals. He chaired
the demo/industrial sessions at EKAW2002 and co-organised the ISWC2003 and
ISWC2004 Workshops on Evaluation of Ontology Tools (EON2003, EON2004).
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