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 Dr. Mustafa Jarrar
Assistant Professor
Birzeit University

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Dr. Mustafa Jarrar has recently joint Birzeit University, as an assistant professor of Computer Science. He spent most of his academic career as a Senior Research Scientist in Belgium (STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel), where he also completed his Masters(2000) and PhD (early 2005). He left STARLab in Oct. 2007, as he had been granted the Experienced Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Cyprus (2007-2009). (More..)
Research Interest
Database: Graph Databases, Query Formulation, Conceptual Modeling (ORM, EER, UML).
Semantic Web: Linked-Data,Web 2.0, Data Web, Mashups, OWL, RDF, RDFa, SPARQL, .
Ontology: Engineering, Foundations, Lexical Semantics, (Regulatory\Business\HR\Arabic Ontology).
Logic: Description Logic, Rules, Reasoning, Debugging, Verbalization, Graphical Notations.
Areas: Search, Interoperability, Integration, eGovernment, HR, Digital Libraries, elearning, eCommerce.
Publications
              Articles New articles ,   Reports ,     Presentations
Projects
Ongoing:
  ArabicOntology: Building an ontology for all Arabic Concepts.
Past:
  SEARCHiN: (EU Marie Curie actions) SEARCHing In a Networked world.
   Knowledge Web: (EU funded) Supporting the transition of Ontology technology from Academia to Industry.
   Innovanet : (EU funded) Knowledge discovery lifecycle and knowledge innovation management.
   CCFORM: (EU funded) Consumer Complaints Resolution Mechanism.
   OntoWeb: (EU) Ontology-based Information Exchange for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce.
   Namic: (EU funded) Intelligent Services to News Agencies.
   IrisWeb: (DWTC funded) Ontology-supported ways to perform browsing in a (digital) library.
   POLARIS: (VUB funded) A prototype of a next generation Digital University Library system.
   DOGMA: (VUB funded) Developing Ontology-Guided Mediation of Applications. A framework for engineering and deploying formal ontologies.
Activities (Selected)

Conference Calendar
Organizer/Program Chair:
- WWWJ- Internet and Web Information Systems Journal, Special Issue on Querying the Data Web
- OnToContent'10- International Workshop on Ontology content and evaluation. ??, ??.
- OnToContent'09- International Workshop on Ontology content and evaluation. Albufeira, Portugal.
- OnToContent'08- International Workshop on Ontology content and evaluation. Monterrey, Mexico.
- OnToContent'07- International Workshop on Ontology content and evaluation. Albufeira, Portugal.
- OnToContent'06- International Workshop on Ontology content and evaluation. Montpellier, France.
- OOA-HR, Semantic challenges and opportunities in the Human Resources Domain. Oxford, UK.
- SWWS'06, The IFIP WG 2.12 and WG 12.4 Workshop on Web Semantics. Montpellier, France.
- WORM-05, The third International Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies. Larnaca, Cyprus.
- SWWS'05, The IFIP WG 2.12 and WG 12.4 Workshop on Web Semantics. Larnaca, Cyprus.
- WORM-04, The second International Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies. Larnaca, Cyprus.
- WORM-03, The first International Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies. Catania, Sicily, Italy.
- OMAC, Workshop on Ontology Modularization and context. Brussels, Belgium

Full Member:
- The Ontology Outreach Advisory, 2006. (Cofounder and the secretariat)
- IEEE, Learning Technology Standards Committee.
- the CEN/ISSS, ICT Skills and Curricula.
- IFIP Working Group 2.6 on Databases.
- IFIP Working Group 2.12 on Web Semantics.
- PEA, Palestine Engineers' Association.

Referee/PC member
- Springer book publishing proposals.
- Journal of Information Systems.
- Journal of Applied Ontology.
- Journal of Knowledge Engineering Review.
- Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal, DKE. (Regular Referee)
- Journal IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
- Journal Advances in Engineering Software, Special Issue on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules.
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, TIE.
- Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, IJAITS.
- Journal of Visual Languages and Computing,Special Issue on Perception and ontologies in visual, virtual and geographic spaces.
- Journal on Web Semantics.
- Journal of IEEE Software.
- Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems.
- Journal of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, special issue on Semantic Web Rules/Agents.
- Journal on Data Semantics.
- International Arab Journal of Information Technology (IAJIT).
- Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies.
-  International Journal of Patterns.

- ISWSA'10, Intelligent Semantic Web – Applications and Services.
- PICCIT'10, The 3rd Palestinian International Conference on Computer and Information Technology.
- KEOD'09, International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development.
- ISWC'09, International Semantic Web Conference (Demo and Posters Track).
- KEOD'09, International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development.
- ACIT'09, The International Arab Conference of Information Technology.
- PCI'09, the 13th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics.
- ORM'09, Workshop on Object-Role Modeling.
- VORTE'09, The 4th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise.
- LOAIT'09, International Workshop on Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques.
- KARE'09, The 2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Reuse and Evaluation .
- LOAIT'09, International Workshop on Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques.
- ESAS'09, 4th IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems.
- ICIS'08, International Conference on Information Systems.
- FLOW'08, International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic On the Web.
- CBMS'08, The 21 IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems.
- ORM'08,Workshop on Object-Role Modeling.
- ICDE'08, The 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (Demo track, Reviewer)
- WOMSDE'08, Workshop on Ontologies and Metamodeling in Software and Data Engineering .
- VORTE'08, EDOC International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise.
- SWAE'2008, The 1st International Workshop on Semantic Web Architectures For Enterprises.
- ESAS'08, The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems.
- ESWC'07, The 4th European Semantic Web Conference.
- ESAS'07, International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent.
- CBMS'07, The 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems.
- SWAE'2007, The 1st International Workshop on Semantic Web Architectures For Enterprises.
- BADE 2007, IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Applications for Digital Ecosystems.
- ORM'7, Workshop on Object-Role Modeling.
- VORTE'07, EDOC International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise.
- SWWS'07, IFIP WG 2.12 & WG 12.4 Workshop on Web Semantics.
- SAMI'07, the Third IEEE Workshop on Situation Management.
- LOAIT'07, International Workshop on Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques.
- ICDM'06, The IEEE Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics.
- CBMS'06, The 19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems.
- WOMSDE'06, The 1st Workshop on Ontologies and Metamodeling in Software and Data Engineering.
- ORM'6, Workshop on Object-Role Modeling.
- SWWS'06, IFIP WG 2.12 & WG 12.4 Workshop on Web Semantics.
- SWIG06, The Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium 2006.
- DMB'06, IEEE ICDM 2006 Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics.
- VORTE'06, EDOC International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise.
- ESAS'06, International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent.
- ESWC'06, Industry Forum.
- ODBase'05, International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of SEmantics.
- ORM'5, Workshop on Object-Role Modeling.
- SWWS'05, IFIP WG 2.12 & WG 12.4 Workshop on Web Semantics.
- VORTE'05, EDOC International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise.
- LOAIT'05, International Workshop on Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques.
- SWCASE'05 Semantic Web Case Studies and Best Practices for eBusiness.
- ESWC'05 Industry Forum.
- IKE, The 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering.
- SWEB 2004, International Workshop on Semantic Web Technologies in Electronic Business.
-  + others

Students Corner
  Lectures:
       - Tutorial on Web 2.0 (Slides), "Foundations of Internet Technologies" Course.
       - ORM and Description Logic (Slides), "Web Information Systems" Course.

  Thesis/Internship proposals:
      - Ontology/ORM-driven forms
      - Building an ontology of systematic innovation knowledge management
      - Business Rule Engine for ORM
      - Formalizing ontological commitments using Modal Logic
      - Incorporating upper level ontologies into Dogma
      - Mapping Lexical resources into Ontologies
      - Mapping ORM into OWL
      - Mapping OWL into ORM
      - Modeling Business rules in pseudo natural language
      - Reasoning about ORM schemes using Racer
      - Semantic validation of ORM schemes

 Current/Former Students:
  Rana Rashma Rami Khaleel
  Anton Deik Ala Hawash Bilal Farraj
  Samar Aish Hamam Samara Muath Al-Badawi
  Michael Georgiou Constantinos Savvides Andreas Manoli
  Mohamad Al-Damag Gert Gielen Yan Gu
  Hai Nguyen Hoang Ahmet Dogan UGUREL Murhaf Mustafa
  Andriy Lisovoy Mihaita Orzu Peter Segers
  Jan Demey Quoc Hung Wei Wang

Downloads
- DogmaModeler (an ontology modeling tool based on ORM)
- ORM Markup language 3 (an XML-based serialization for ORM diagrams)
- ORM verbalizor (Multilingual verbalization for ORM in 11 languages)
- CContology An ontology for Customer Complaint Management
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