- Semantic Pipes with SPARQL, query distribution, optimization, and Caching
- MashQL a Query-by-Diagram Language toping SPARQL.
- Entity Identification, Resolution, and Portability.
- Philosophical and Logical foundations of ontology engineering.
- Ontology Multilingualism and lexical semantics.
- Methodology and Tools, Reasoning, Modularization, Context, Gloss ...
- Regulatory/legal Ontologies; Business Ontologies; Innovation Ontologies.
- Extending conceptual modeling languages to allow focusing on the factual meaning and intrinsic properties.
- Logical Reasoning, mapping conceptual modeling languages into Description Logics.
- Schema Engineering: modularization, composition, verbalization, and business rules.
SEARCHiN: (EU Marie Curie actions) SEARCHing In a Networked world.
Past:
Knowledge Web: (EU funded) Supporting the transition process 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.
Conference Calendar
Organizer/Program Chair:
- 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 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.
- 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.
- ICIS'08, International Conference on Information Systems.
- FLOW'08, International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic On the Web.
- CBMS'08, The 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems.
- ORM'08,
Workshop on Object-Role Modeling.
- 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.
- 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
- 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:
| Gert Gielen | Yan Gu | ||
| Ahmet Dogan UGUREL | Mohamad Al-Damag | ||
| Hai Nguyen Hoang | Murhaf Mustafa | ||
| Jan Demey | Andriy Lisovoy | ||
| Mihaita Orzu | Peter Segers | ||
| Quoc Hung | Wei Wang |
- 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