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About <strong>the</strong> Authors<br />
Anton.Naumenko.is currently working as a researcher at <strong>the</strong> Agora Center, University<br />
<strong>of</strong> Jyväskylä (JYU), Finland. He has a Master <strong>of</strong> Science in IT from JYU<br />
and in computer science from Kharkov National University <strong>of</strong> Radioelectronics<br />
(KhNURE). He also earned a Bachelor <strong>of</strong> Economics from KhNURE. In 2004, he<br />
started postgraduate education with <strong>the</strong> JYU Faculty <strong>of</strong> <strong>Information</strong> Technology.<br />
Anton’s pr<strong>of</strong>essional career started in KhNURE with a position <strong>of</strong> technician (2000)<br />
and he is currently a leader <strong>of</strong> a s<strong>of</strong>tware development team and a researcher in<br />
SmartResource project. He recently participated in an adaptive services grid integrated<br />
project supported by <strong>the</strong> European Commission. His expertise and interests consist<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Semantic</strong> <strong>Web</strong>, agent technologies, object-oriented s<strong>of</strong>tware design, information<br />
management systems, system analysis, and access control models.<br />
Bijan.Parsia.is a research philosopher at <strong>the</strong> University <strong>of</strong> Maryland, USA, specializing<br />
in <strong>the</strong> <strong>Semantic</strong> <strong>Web</strong>, description logics, epistemology, oppression <strong>the</strong>ory, AI<br />
planning, and <strong>the</strong> philosophy <strong>of</strong> ma<strong>the</strong>matics and computer science.<br />
Cartic. Ramakrishnan. is a PhD student in computer science at <strong>the</strong> University<br />
<strong>of</strong> Georgia, USA. He graduated from <strong>the</strong> Univeristy <strong>of</strong> Pune, India, with a BE<br />
in computer engineering. He is currently working at <strong>the</strong> Large Scale Distributed<br />
<strong>Information</strong> <strong>Systems</strong> (LSDIS) Lab, University <strong>of</strong> Georgia. He leads <strong>the</strong> research<br />
efforts in ontology learning and semantic association discovery with o<strong>the</strong>r members<br />
at <strong>the</strong> LSDIS lab.<br />
A..F..Salam.is a faculty member in <strong>the</strong> <strong>Information</strong> <strong>Systems</strong> and Operations Management<br />
Department at The University <strong>of</strong> North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.<br />
He earned both his MBA and PhD degrees from <strong>the</strong> <strong>State</strong> University <strong>of</strong> New York<br />
at Buffalo. His research interests include e-business and emerging technologies,<br />
intelligent systems in e-business, and information technology management. His<br />
research has been published or accepted for publication in CACM, <strong>Information</strong> &<br />
Management, eService Journal, CAIS, <strong>Information</strong> <strong>Systems</strong> Journal, and Journal<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Information</strong> Technology Cases and Applications. He has served as co-guest editor<br />
<strong>of</strong> a special issue <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> JECR and a special section on Internet and marketing<br />
in <strong>the</strong> CACM.<br />
Sebastian.Schaffert.holds a PhD in computer science from <strong>the</strong> University <strong>of</strong> Munich,<br />
Germany (2004). He is currently employed as a teaching and research assistant at<br />
<strong>the</strong> Institute for Computer Science, University <strong>of</strong> Munich. His research interests<br />
are in XML and semistructured data, as well as functional and logic programming.<br />
He has several publications on <strong>the</strong> language Xcerpt and related topics. Besides this,<br />
Sebastian is interested in Linu and Open Source s<strong>of</strong>tware.<br />
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