E3A

European Commission

Asia-Link Programme

Fourth Call for Proposals

(2005)

Grant Application Form

Budget line 19.1002

Name of applicant: University of Trento

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I. THE ACTION

1. Description

1.1 Title

Project Title:

EASTWEB: building an integrated leading Euro-Asian higher education and research community in the field of the SemanTic WEB.

1.2 Location(s)

Country(ies), region(s), town(s)

Italy, Trentino Province, TrentoAustria, Tyrol Province, InnsbruckIreland, Galway Province, GalwayPoland, Wielkopolska, PoznanChina, Jilin Province, Chang ChunIndia, Maharashtra, BombayThailand, Pathum Thani Province, Klong LuangChina, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong

1.3 Amount requested from the European Commission

Total eligible cost of the action Amount requested fromthe European Commission

% of total cost of action

1.039.087,70 € Euros 750.000 Euros 72 %

1.4 Summary

The goal of this project is to build an integrated leading Euro-Asian high education and research community in the field of the Semantic Web, the next generation of the Web. Direct target groups are: graduate students, faculty staff and enterprises management personnel. Indirect target groups are: European and Asian students, researchers and enterprises personnel at large. We plan to operate on the following four main actions: (1) Human resources development: joint teaching and supervision of master and doctorate students; integration and collaboration among senior and young faculty; training the next generation of IT educators as well as of IT enterprises management. (2) Distance Learning and Knowledge Management platform: to support current and future activities also after the end of the project (3) Networking: we will foster the interaction among universities and companies in Europe and Asia in the field of Semantic Web. The European partners (Italy, Austria, Ireland, Poland) are leading institutes in the Semantic Web. The Asian partners (India, Thailand, China, and the associate partner Hong Kong) are among the best performance institutions in Asia .The duration of the project is 36 months.

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1.5 Objectives

Information Technology (IT) continues to evolve at an impressive rate. This happening in, and it is closely coupled to, a strongly interrelated and globalized network of institutions (nations, enterprises, markets, people etc..). These two simple observations have important implications:

1. Human Resources Development: new paradigms need to be explored. These models should assist societies and people in using IT and allow them to improve the quality of services (societies) and the quality of life (people). Furthermore, a particular attention should be put in supporting the need of the emerging societies, as well as in capturing all possible cross-fertilization aspects derived from diverse cultures and approaches.

2. Educational platforms: there is a need of new channels and supporting tools which allow the promotion of knowledge and understanding of recent developments in IT within and outside the computer science community.

3. Networking: new models need to be identified in order to assist efficiently the creation, evolution and sustainability of global networks of academic institutions and enterprises. These networks must be capable to transfer the most recent and promising developments in IT to markets, society and people in the large.

Deriving from these considerations, the overall objective of this project is to foster and promote the cooperation between European and Asian Institutions involved in IT education and research. The specific objective is to build an integrated leading Euro-Asian high education and research community in the field of the Semantic Web . The choice of Semantic Web as the core topic is motivated by the fact that it is (1) currently one of the most promising research fields in Computer Science worldwide and (2) European researchers are in this area the leading experts worldwide. The core idea of the Semantic Web is to make the meaning of the vast amount of data on the World Wide Web available to machine processing and thus intelligent queries and really helpful Internet agents. In a nutshell, the Semantic Web has the potential to be the next generation of the Web and to significantly change our daily life by lowering the barriers for accessing services and large volumes of information.

The project builds on two important assets: the first is the leading position of Europe and, in particular, of the four European Nodes involved in this proposal, in the Semantic Web; the second is that the involved three Asian Nodes are leading IT institutions with strong expertise in areas related or overlapping with the Semantic Web. To carry out the overall project objective, the three main objectives identified above can be instantiated as follows:

1. Human Resources Development: EASTWEB will explore and implement new graduate curriculao establishing an interleaved (“sandwich”) international master program on the Semantic

Web. o establishing an international doctorate program on the Semantic Web o establishing senior and young faculty exchange programs Our target group, here, are top level Asian and European students, with the aim of improving their skills but also of cross-fertilizing their culture by including specific cultural courses (language, history and social aspects) in the graduate training programs. The exchange of senior and young faculty will further strengthen the creation of a common research community as well as prepare the new generation of future IT educators.

2. Distance Learning and Knowledge Management platform development: EASTWEB will explore and implement innovative educational platforms:

o establishing a distance learning platform and framework o evolving the distance learning platform into a Knowledge Portal for Semantic Web

research and applications (EASTWEB Portal)We will collect all materials developed in the Human Resource Development activity and we will further enrich it with the material produced by related projects. We will provide a coherent, re-usable and evolving body of knowledge to all involved target groups (direct and indirect). The Knowledge Portal will be the basis for European and Asian collaboration activities after the end of the project.

3. Networking. EASTWEB will: o support the creation and growth of the Asian research and high education community

focused on the Semantic Web by organizing Summer Schools in Asia and by starting the Asian Semantic Web conference (ASWC). Although a lot of relevant experience exist, this community still does not exist in Asia

o create a cluster of global (European and Asian) enterprises, whose main goal will be to harvest the highly specialized human resources trained within EASTWEB and the research results. These companies will be kept constantly informed of the activities in EASTWEB. Among others,

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our goal is to make sure that students will be hired by those companies which can make the best use of the student’s technological and multicultural skills developed in EASTWEB.

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1.6 Justification

(a) relevance of the action to the objectives of the programme

The main objective of the Asia-Link program is to foster regional and multilateral networking between high education institutions in Europe and in Asia.

EASTWEB implements this objective by setting up an integrated leading Euro-Asian high education and research community in the field of the Semantic Web (the next generation of the Web) with the purpose to provide practical solutions (models, methods, tools, patterns) to education, research, social and business issues in this specific and promising IT area. It will do so, by strengthening the Semantic Web network among leading institutions in Italy, Austria, Ireland and Poland and some of the best performance institutions in Asia covering India, Thailand and China (plus Hong Kong).

In summary, our proposal has the following features reflecting the general goals of the program:

Geographical coverage and socio-economic relevance of involved countries.Our consortium consists of four EU universities and one EU research institution (as associate partner) leading in IT education and research and in the specific domain area (Semantic Web), three high quality Asian outreaching units, and one university in Hong Kong, as an associate partner. The three participating institutes in Asia cover South East Asia (India and Thailand) and China (mainland China and Hong Kong). India has a strong and fast development in software engineering and software industry. China is now one of the fast growing countries in the world. Thailand has already active research on Semantic Web and they are ready to extend their collaboration with leading Semantic Web institutions in Europe. Given the fact of the important geographical location and economic leading position of Hong Kong in Asia, our collaborating partner there, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, will act as a important dissemination center in Asia, as well as an attractive multi-culture international research and educating center.

Support co-operation, mutual cross-fertilization including cultural integration, between institutions of higher education in a perspective of mutual interest: the EASTWEB consortium has already started a preliminary stage of co-operation between some of the partners (exchange students schema, initial common research activities). The involved consortium institutions are interested in expanding these existing collaborations to a complete and mutual collaboration schema that will support short, medium and long term objectives in the three main target areas, as identified in section 1.5

(b) relevance of the action to the priorities of the programme

EASTWEB addresses mainly the Asia-Link priority on Human Resources Development. To reach specific objectives in this priority, we propose to use and extend distance education tools and platforms. Therefore, EASTWEB will also partially impact on the Curriculum Development priority.

For what concerns the Human Resource Development, EASTWEB will enact this Asia-Link priority in the following activities:

1. Explore and implement new higher educational human resources development programme between Europe and Asia in the field of the Semantic Web . In particular EASTWEB will:o establish an interleaved (“sandwich”) international master program on the Semantic Web. o establishing an international doctorate program on the Semantic Web o establishing senior and young faculty exchange programs

Both programs (Master and PhD) will be integrated with and built on top of the existing programs in the participating academic institutions and will contains joint-teaching on fundamental courses, joint researching activities, and joint supervision on Theses. The instruction language will be English. The EASTWEB project will provide support for longer term mobility for European and Asian students and for shorter term mobility of the senior and young faculty. The programs will make extensive use of a distance learning platform, tools and methodologies. Moreover, internship projects in both European and/or Asian enterprises will be an integral part of the Master

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and PhD programs and will be coupled to the networking activity (more in the specific activity below). In the PhD program, the focus will be the joint supervision of doctorate students.The short-term goal of this activity will be the establishment of an interleaved (“sandwich”) international master and PhD program. The medium term goal, to be achieved within the scope of the present project, is the organization of double degree programs between the participating institutions, wherever feasible. The long term goal will be the creation of a sustainable long-term exchanging and training program by bridging EASTWEB educational activities with active European projects, such as the Erasmus Mundus Master of Informatics(EuMi), and institutions, such as the Virtual Institute for Semantic Web Education (VISWE). Moreover, EASTWEB aims to train the next generation of future IT educators and IT enterprises management.

2. Enhance the teaching and learning experience both in a virtual and actual community of students and teaching staff. EASTWEB will enact this activity by: o establishing a distance learning platform and framework o evolving the distance learning platform into a Knowledge Portal for Semantic Web

research and application (EASTWEB Portal)

To support the previous Human Resources Development activities, EASTWEB will explore, develop and extensively use new channels and supporting tools for knowledge sharing, in particular distance learning and knowledge management platforms.The initial platform will consist of an extension of the existing eLearning platforms used within the European institutions. Such platform will be enriched with new education and research material produced by the partners along the project. It will include course material used in the master and doctorate programs but also further material such as presentations, papers, theses, prototypes developed within the partner institutions and links to other on-going initiatives in Europe and Asia. In particular, the eLearning portal will exploit the results for Semantic Web higher education and training built by the EU Knowledge Web Network of Excellence. The portal will integrate different tools, like systems for tele- and video- conferencing, and software supporting collaborative work. In the second phase of the project, on top of the collected and produced material as well as on top of the gathered practical experience, EASTWEB will evolve the eLearning platform into a Knowledge Portal for Semantic Web activities within and outside the consortium.We want to provide a coherent, usable, sustainable and evolving body of knowledge to all involved target groups (direct and indirect). This will be the basis for European and Asian collaboration activities (both academic and industrial) after the end of the project.

The short-term goal is to use and validate the platform supporting both the Master and PhD programs. The medium term goal is to establish a Knowledge Portal Semantic Web activities within and outside the consortium. The long term goal of these actions is to provide a coherent, sustainable and evolving body of knowledge to all direct and indirect target groups.

3. Explore models and execute actions to assist European and Asian enterprises, societies and people in using and exploiting Semantic Web results and products to improve business (enterprises), quality of services (societies) and quality of life (people).

EASTWEB will enact this activity by: o disseminate internationally educational and research activities. The activities will include

participation and involvement in existing international educational activities, such as the Summer School on the Semantic Web (http://babage.dia.fi.upm.es/summerschool/, organized by the European Network of Excellence Knowledge Web), periodic scholar exchanges, training of young researchers and faculty, co-sponsoring and co-organization of international workshops and conferences on Semantic Web issues and application.

o disseminate and exploit the cooperation results, leveraging from the visibility provided by Asian Semantic Web Conference and the EASTWEB Knowledge Portal. The goal is to support the creation of a cluster of global (European and Asian) enterprises: the question we want to address in this activity is how we can effectively make use of the highly specialized human resources trained within the project (Master students, PhD students, young researchers and young faculty) as well as the results of the research carried out by Master, PhD students and young researchers.

In all these activities, we will exploit the EASTWEB Knowledge portal as an environment to integrate high education and research efforts in the topic of Semantic Web in Europe and Asia within and outside the consortium.

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As a short term goal, EASTWEB will support the creation of an Asian research and education community on Semantic Web by starting the annual series of the Asian Semantic Web conference (ASWC), building on the successful experience of the organization of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), and of the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), The first editions will be organized by the Asian partners of the project. This will also allow them to strengthen their position both in the Asia region and to enlarge their visibility at the international level. The medium term goal of this action is to gather and exploit all the technology, infrastructure, programs, results already existing in Europe and in Asia, in order to consolidate and strengthen the international leadership of all participating Institutions. The long term goal is to support and coordinate the training of the next generation of middle and top research management in both European and Asian networked enterprises.

(c) identification of perceived needs and constraints in the target countries or regions

The next generation web, the Semantic Web, aims to enable improved information access and use, based on machine-processable data semantics and thus enabling intelligent queries and really helpful Internet agents. Current search on the Internet is limited to keywords, but cannot use the true meaning of published content (as a simple example, it is not possible to search for a car manufactured by Jaguar without also getting Web pages that refer to the animal “Jaguar”). The idea of Semantic Web has met a growing enthusiasm of researchers and developers world-wide, both in academia and in industry. These efforts are aimed at capturing the semantics of digital content of all sorts and origins, and at devising ways of acting sensibly upon the formal knowledge representations thus gained. The Semantic Web has the potential to significantly change our daily life by lowering the barriers for accessing services and improve the exploitation of the large volumes of information that nowadays people and companies have access to, but most of the time are not able to use entirely.

Semantic Web as the emerged multidisciplinary field in computer science, information science, web technology, and social science has recently also become an active area. Education and research in the Semantic Web have been taken place in various European and American universities, institutes and industries (including large companies and SMEs). European research has already demonstrated its global leadership in this field within large-scale EU-funded projects, like OntoWeb, dip, SEKT, and KnowledgeWeb, numerous publications, and work (e.g. the OIL language) that directly shaped core W3C standards (e.g. the Web Ontology Language OWL). In Asia instead, Semantic Web is relatively new to most people. Many universities in Asia offer some courses in Semantic Web. However the overall research and education activities in Asia are still significantly below the international level. A well established, internationally recognized community working on the Semantic Web still does not exist in Asia. On the other hand, Asia is a big potential market for Internet and Web related application due to the fast development of the economy and to the number of potential end users. A joint collaboration between Europe and Asia on Semantic Web is strategic to the development of successful real world applications.

In EAST-WEB, the target groups are located in two continents – Europe and Asia, and they are from 8 regions and countries, namely: Trento in Italy, Innsbruck in Austria, Galway in Ireland, Poznanin Poland, Bombay in India, Bangkok in Thailand, Changchun in China, and HongKong.

In our proposal, there are three targeted countries in Asia with the following characteristics and relevant needs: India is one of well known countries providing the best software engineers. They are providing a

great contribution to the software industry not only in India, but also world wide. The Semantic Web, as the next generation web, will need to be an integral part of India Information Technologies strategic plan. Moreover, the Semantic Web developments will definitely need Indian expertise in tool support, theory and application development. The Indian partner, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) holds an excellent track in the graduate education and research in Computer Science.

China is one of the fast growing countries in the world. The huge amount of potential internet users existing in this country has stimulated the boom in internet related education and industry. The Semantic Web, being the next generation Web, will have a major impact in the country and the surrounding regions. Moreover, it will provide a major test-bed of potential semantic applications as well as relevant issues related to the extension of state-of-the-art semantic models and tools in a different culture. The Chinese partner, Jilin University, is one of the largest Universities in China, and is located in one of China’s under-developed areas. In order to internationalize the education

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programs, it needs to network with world-leading Universities and academic activities and involve its large number of qualified young researchers (graduate students) in an international educational and research network.Given the fact of the important geographical location and economic leading position of Hong Kong in Asia, our collaborating partner there, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, will act as a important dissemination center in Asia, as well as an attractive multi-culture international research and educating center.

In Thailand, the Asian Institute of Technology is one of the few groups leading Semantic Web research in Asia. They already have PhD students graduating in the Semantic Web area. Their need is to be involved structurally in the latest developments of the Semantic Web. On the other hand they can become an important dissemination center in Asia

By participating to this project, the involved European countries (Italy, Austria, Ireland and Poland) intend to: enhance knowledge and expertise exchange between Europe and Asia to further strengthen the

social and cultural connection between the two regions. foster future industrial collaboration between two regions. Asia is an important and critical market.

This project aims to combine specialized and top level knowledge in the specific research area with competitive and highly trained human resources. Moreover, the students involved in EASTWEB training activities, who will undertake a professional career, will bring a detailed knowledge of European-Asian cultural issues and will be able to draw on this knowledge and on the contacts they have made.

contribute to European/Asian cooperation in general. EASTWEB will help building personal lasting relations between academic staff, future middle and top management, intellectual and policy leaders on both sides. This will be achieved also through promoting cultural courses (language, history and social aspects) in the training programs offered to the trained human resources (Master students, PhD students and young researchers/faculty).

The main foreseeable constraints to the projects are: The presence of different education systems will require the development of a common pattern

of reference. At present Asian countries and educational systems are more USA oriented. The multifaceted situation in Europe education could become a challenge in this respect, both for Asian and European institutions. On the other hand, the same multifaceted situation could provide a more appropriate framework to the Asian cultural diversity at large. Moreover, the different education systems will need to be adjusted in order to promote mobility, comparison of curricula and to allow an easier credit transfer and recognition.

Although the working language will be English, the different native languages and related sociological and economical cultures, will be addressed in order to achieve the project. Students will have to take awareness on local languages and culture.

High cost of life in Europe. The high living expense in Europe will limit the number of Asian students and young researcher/faculty involved in the project. The EASTWEB consortium will explore additional financial support from universities, local enterprises and local administrations to support both living and travel costs involved in the mobility scheme.

(d) list of target groups and estimated number of direct and indirect beneficiaries

EASTWEB envisaged the following target groups and direct beneficiaries:

1. Master students: totally about 24 Master students from Asian Universities will take courses and participate to supervised research activities in Europe and Asia. In the early phase of the project the students will participate in supervised programs, while at a later stage they will participate in specific double degree programs.

2. PhD students: totally about 47 PhD students will be trained under a joint research supervision schema, with the support of specific mobility schema and distance learning platform tools. About 19 PhD students will take part in Summer schools.

3. Young and Senior faculties: about 24 young faculties will be trained abroad, both on teaching and on research; about 60 scholars will visit the consortium Universities: they will be involved in teaching activities as well as the networking activities to disseminate and exploit the cooperation results

4. Technical staff: about 7 technical staffs (one from each partner University) will be trained in using and maintain the distance learning platform.

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5. Middle and top management of enterprises: a group of middle and top managers will be selected and involved in the monitoring of research results through participation to EASTWEB events, starting from the ASWC conference and a few specific workshops to be identified.

The indirect beneficiaries are:1. Asian and European Master and PhD students in the large that will get access to the EASTWEB

eLearning portal and later to the Knowledge Semantic Web portal2. Asian and European researchers in the large that will benefit from the content provided by the

Knowledge Portal and from the events organized by the consortium3. Asian and European enterprise managers in the large that will be get informed and involved in the

activities of a network of trans Asian and trans European enterprises in emerging IT technologies (the Semantic Web being a specific and very promising case).

(e) reasons for the selection of the target groups and activities

The main reasons for the selection of the target groups are:1. Master and PhD students: this target group will be the next generation of academic and IT

enterprise management. Asian Master students will have the opportunity to study abroad not only by attending classes in European Universities but also by joining the research activities of the groups. European and Asian PhD students will be involved in research activities on the forefront of international research on Semantic Web.

2. Young and senior faculties: this target group will be responsible of broadening and integrating high education and research efforts in the area of Semantic Web in Europe and Asia. Seminars or workshops aimed at this group will be given by the leading international Semantic Web experts. The activities supported for this target group will enlarge the size of audiences and also attract the industrial interests.

3. Technical staff: this target group will be responsible for maintaining and disseminating the distance learning platform and framework. The skills acquired in this project can and will be re-used in other educational and research areas.

4. Middle and top management of enterprises: academic and industrial collaboration is the long term target in the consortium. Involving future and present management of European and Asian IT enterprises is critical for building the industrial community on Semantic Web.

The EASTWEB consortium will realize the proposed plan by building on the experience of top level European and Asian academic institution, by linking with the on-going projects on Semantic Web, Knowledge Management and eLearning, and by leveraging on the on-going previous (mainly pair-wise) collaborations between members in the consortium.

(f) relevance of the action to the target groups

EASTWEB aims to improve the current situation of the target groups and can further strengthen the collaboration between Europe and Asia, namely:

By exchanging students in the level of Master and PhD, it will increase the quality of the students in the target groups. Although most of the target groups in the consortium already have good reputation in education and research in Computer Science locally, the exchange program can further strengthen their leading positions in the local regions.

By training young researchers in Europe and Asia, it will increase the teaching and research quality of the target groups. The program of training young teaching and research staff from the target groups includes joining the European teaching activities, face to face discussion and training with the European teaching staff, participation to the research program of the leading European groups (including the internal and EU funded projects), taking leadership in some research or teaching initiatives, joining the supervision activities for Master student level and so on. The enhanced experience will further strengthen the leading positions of the target groups locally.

By hosting or organizing Asian Semantic Web Conference Series, it will make the general public aware to the target groups. For instance, many industrial players want to disseminate their products in the related conferences. Furthermore, they will treat the EASTWEB consortium and related target groups as the center for information related to Semantic Web in Asia. More and more Asian and European students will become aware of EASTWEB universities and institutions and will want to study Semantic Web technologies in these universities. The public image of the target groups will improve their visibility in the local region.

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By disseminating the activities and the joint research and education results, it can bring the industrial attention to the academic target groups. These activities not only disseminate research and education results to broader audience, but make also industries aware of the groups. With the fast development of the Semantic Web and the increasing economic and marketing demands for such technologies, the chance for potential industrial collaboration with the target groups is high.

By setting up the long-term collaboration after the end of the funding, it can strengthen the leading position of the target groups in Asia. If the proposal is accepted, the EU funding will last only for 3 years. EASTWEB will create the momentum necessary to sustain new activities. This will be done by exploiting the infrastructure (e.g. the EASTWEB Portal) and human relations developed during the project, but also by making this objective a very high priority in the project applications that the partners will make to their reference funding agencies.

1.7 Detailed description of activities

The Joint Program of Activities (JPA) is organized in four groups of activities: the Human Resources Development Activity (HRD), the Distance Learning and Knowledge Management Activity (DL-KM), the Networking Activity (NET) and the Management Activity (MA). The objective of Human Resources Development Activity is to define and coordinate actions to

support top level Asian and European students, with the aim of both improving the skills of students in the specific research area, and cross-fertilize culture, knowledge and technologies. The exchange of senior and young faculty within the participating institutions will further strengthen the development of an interconnected research community.

The objective of the Distance Learning and Knowledge Management platform is to provide a coherent, re-usable and evolving body of knowledge to all involved target groups (direct and indirect). The Knowledge Portal will be the basis for European and Asian collaboration activities after the end of the project, both within and outside the consortium. This activity is central to the project, in the sense that it will provide support to the previous activity (HRD). However it will also help in collecting the knowledge produced and in using it in the subsequent Networking Activity.

The objective of the Networking Activity is to spread know-how beyond the EASTWEB network members. It aims at disseminating knowledge and research results to the wider Asian and European educational, research and industrial community.

EASTWEB will be characterized by a decisive and responsive management that will establish flexible and adaptive management structures, capable to deal with the project’s international dimension. The management will exploit emerging opportunities for undertaking collaborative research and for attracting further investment.

The main activities of the JPA are strongly focused on the direct targeted groups: Master and PhD students, young and senior faculties, technical staff, middle and top management of selected enterprises. Moreover, they address the requirements of the sustainability dimension of EASTWEB by reaching out to the indirect beneficiaries of the project: the Asian and European graduate students, researchers and the enterprise Semantic Web community in the large.

The precise work-plan to deploy these activities is specified by a running 12 month-horizon plan (more details are presented in section 1.9) that focuses on Activities and sub-activities with detailed targets and deliverables. Each sub-activity comprises a set of well defined tasks.

Table 1.7.1 illustrates the structure of the JPA together with the partner responsible for each main activity. The JPA is shown to include three sub-activities in Human Resources Development Activity , three sub-activities in the Distance Learning and Knowledge Management Activity, two sub-activities in the Networking Activity and three sub-activities in the Management Activity. These are detailed in the forthcoming subsections.

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Table 1.7.1 Detailed Plan : Activities and sub-activities

HRD Coordinator: UNITN, ItalyHRD 1.1 Master student mobility and double degree master programme Action Leader: UNITN, Italy

1.1.1 Master Students mobilityHuman 1.1.2 Definition of a Master Curriculum on the Semantic WebResources 1.1.3 Implementation of the Graduate Curriculum on Semantic WebDevelopment 1.1.4 Double Degree Master on Semantic WebActivity 1.2 PhD Student mobility and joint PhD programme Action Leader: Galway, Ireland

1.2.1 PhD students mobility1.2.2 Joint PhD Training Activities1.2.3 Joint PhD program1.3 Faculty staff mobility Action Leader: Poznam, Poland

1.3.1 Technical staff training1.3.2 Senior faculties visiting program1.3.3 Young researcher visiting program

DL-KM Coordinator: DERI, AustriaDL-KM 2.1 eLearning Portal Action Leader: UNITN, ItalyDistance 2.1.1 Remote Frontal Teaching Education 2.1.2 Remote Cooperation and KM 2.1.3 Remote Assessment platform 2.1.4 Supporting environments for educational management Activity 2.2 Knowledge Management Portal Action Leader: GALWAY, Ireland

2.2.1 Knowledge Map of Semantic Web activities 2.2.2 Content and knowledge management tools development2.2.3 EASTWEB Knowledge Portal

NET Coordinator: TIFR, IndiaNET 3.1 EASTWEB Research Network Action Leader: DERI, AustriaNetworking 3.1.1 Summer School on Semantic Web (SSSW)Activity 3.1.2 Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC)

3.1.3 EASTWEB Research events3.2 EASTWEB Enterprise Network Action Leader: AIT, Thailand

3.2.1 EASTWEB Technology Transfer Network 3.2.2 International EASTWEB Industrial Exhibitions

MA Coordinator: UNITN, ItalyMA 4.1 Financial and Strategic managementManagement 4.2 Educational and Scientific managementActivities 4.3 Networking management

Activity 1: Human Resource Development in Semantic Web (Graduate Students).

This activity covers several cooperative actions on Master and PhD programs, including student and staff mobility and creation of joint curricula and study programs.

1.1. Master student mobility and double degree master programs(Sub-Activity Leader: University of Trento, Italy )

The aim of this activity is to support training activities and knowledge acquisition and sharing among students of the EASTWEB consortium. This activity will establish and run a student mobility plan and a dedicated Master programme. It will employ advanced eLearning technology and provide teaching contents for the portal described in Activity 2.

1.1.1. Master Students mobility This activity will support Asian master students mobility. Each student will visit an European consortium University in the central or final part of the master program. In the European university the student will also take courses on the language and culture of the host country. The research and thesis work will be carried out on a topic jointly selected by the participating universities. The EASTWEB consortium Universities shall offer a wide and complete range of support and welcome services to the Asian students undertaking the mobility.

Objective: To support student exchanges for internship or thesis work.Who: Asian consortium Universities (as student providers) and European consortium Universities (as host institutions)When: months 1 – 36

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Input (means): · Selected master students from Asia will go to an European consortium University for a period of

6-10 months. · The students will be supported with EASTWEB grants covering travel expenses and living

expenses.· The European (host) University will assist in the accommodation organization and will arrange

the study, research, and thesis activities for the visiting students.· The studying and researching activities of the students undertaking mobility will be supervised by

the joint Academic Instructing Committee among the involved universities.Output (deliverables):· Totally 24 Asian master students will undertake an internship or thesis work in an European

University.

1.1.2. Definition of a Master Curriculum on the Semantic WebThis activity will define a reference curriculum for a Master program in Semantic Web. The curriculum shall include basic courses in Computer Science, dedicated courses on Semantic Web related topics, and requirements for specialization courses focusing on ongoing research activities within the consortium.

Objective: To define a reference curriculum for a two-year Master program specializing in the Semantic Web. Who: All EASTWEB Universities When: months 1 – 12Input (means): · Review of existing curricula, courses, material, and teaching experiences of the EASTWEB

Universities. Review of existing material on the Semantic Web. Analysis of the demands of the labor market.

· Definition and preparation of teaching and examination materials.· Setup of courses and material within the eLearning portal.Output (deliverables):· Specification of a reference Master program, including basic courses in Computer Science and

specialization courses on Semantic Web. · Definition of the required contents and minimal learning outcomes for Master programs to be

considered compatible with the reference curriculum (“EASTWEB Master Program Blueprint”).· Teaching and examination materials for frontal and distance teaching in the key courses of the

curriculum.

1.1.3. Implementation of the Graduate Curriculum on Semantic WebThis activity implements the Master program defined in activity 1.1.2 on top of the courses offered by the EASTWEB universities and of distance learning courses. The goal is to define different mobility and e-learning schemes that will allow students to fulfill the requirements of the “EASTWEB Master Program Blueprint” (see activity 1.1.2).

Objective: To implement the curriculum defined in 1.1.2 on the top of the courses offered by EASTWEB universities and of distance learning courses.Who: All EASTWEB UniversitiesWhen: months 13 – 36 Input (means): · Definition of mobility and distance learning schemes for the Master program on Semantic Web.· Implementation of course recognition criteria such that the home university will recognize the

courses a student undertakes abroad or with distance learning.Output (deliverables):· First version (month 24) and final version (month 36) of mobility and distance learning schemes.· Starting from month 25, students shall be able to fulfill the requirements of the “EASTWEB

Master Program Blueprint”. This shall apply in particular to students undertaking the mobility described in activity 1.1.1.

1.1.4. Double Degree Master on Semantic Web All interested EASTWEB Universities will start formal procedures to develop pair-wise Double Master Degree programs. These programs will allow (Asian and European) students to undertake a Master program visiting two Universities of the EASTWEB consortium, e.g., undertaking the first year in an Asian university and the second year in an European university, or visiting the second university in the

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central part of the Master program. At the end of the studies the students will receive a Double Degree from the two universities.

Objective: To establish pair-wise Double-Degree Master programs on Semantic Web.Who: Interested EASTWEB Universities When: months 25 – 36Input (means): · Double Degrees already active or in preparation by the EASTWEB universities:o The University of Trento, together with the Aachen University (Germany) and the University of

Edinburgh (Scotland), is offering a a two-year joint international Master program, named “European Master in Informatics” (EuMI, http://www.eumi-school.org/). Students visit two universities of the consortium during the two years, and are awarded of a double degree by the visited Universities at the end of the studies. This Master program is sponsored by the European Commission “Erasmus Mundus” programme.

o Currently the University of Trento and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in India are in the processing of a Double Master Degree program on computer science.

o The University of Trento, the National University of Ireland, Galway, and the University of Innsbruck are defining an European Double Master Degree on Computer Science with a specialization on the Semantic Web.

o The National University of Ireland, Galway, the University of Innsbruck, the Asian Institute of Technology, and the Jilin University are also in the process of developing a Double Master Degree program with other Universities.

· The rules of the “Erasmus Mundus” program will be used as reference in the set-up of the programs and in the definition of admission criteria for students.

· Courses will be structured according to the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS, http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/socrates/ects_en.html) and will be taught in English.

Output (deliverables):· Pair-wise Double Master Degree programs will be set up during the third year of the project.· Students will take part in these Double Master Degree programs starting from the year following

the conclusion of the project.

1.2. PhD Student mobility and joint PhD programme (Sub-Activity Leader: GALWAY, Ireland)All EASTWEB universities host or participate to PhD programs covering the field of Semantic Web. The goal is to exploit PhD student mobility and to implement joint PhD programs to achieve a better integration among these PhD programs.

1.2.1. PhD student mobilityThis activity will support visits of PhD students of the EASTWEB universities to other universities, in order to undertake joint study or research activities between the two universities.

Objective: To cover the travel expenses of students those visit another university. Who: All EASTWEB Universities When: months 1 – 36 Input (means): · Every year, a number (1-3) of PhD student from each University (both Asian and European) will

be selected for a visit to another University for about 6 months.· The host University will assist in the accommodation organization and will arrange the study,

research, and thesis activities for the visiting students.· Before the visit, the student should submit a study and research proposal to the EASTWEB

Governing Board. After the visit, the student should submit a final research report. · The studying and researching activities of the students will be supervised by the joint Academic

Instructing Committee among the involved universities.Output (deliverables):· ca. 47 PhD students will undertake a visit to a partner university during the 3 years of the project.

1.2.2. Joint PhD Training ActivitiesThis activity supports the establishment of a jointly supervised international PhD training program among the EASTWEB universities. Each student participating to this program shall be supervised by two professors from two different universities (the university where the student undertakes the PhD

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program and a foreign university). The joint supervision includes visits of students to the foreign universities and of foreign supervisors to the students' universities.

Objective: To establish a jointly supervised international PhD training program.Who: All EASTWEB Universities When: months 1 – 36Input (means): · Each student undertaking this program will be assigned a Supervisor Team by the Execution

Committee. The Supervisor Team will be composed by one Professor from the original University of the student, and one Professor from the foreign University. The two professors will decide the research topic and will supervise the learning and research activities of the student.

· Co-supervised PhD students will visit the foreign university and work with the foreign supervisor for at most 6 months before the graduation.

· The foreign supervisor will visit the university of the student at least once during the PhD programme of the supervised student.

· The research activities will also be included in the EASTWEB Knowledge Portal.

Output (deliverables):· During the first year of the project, a joint PhD training program will be established. This training

program will be further refined and extended during the second year. Visiting PhD students in the first year of activities will be involved only in existing teaching and research activities.

· During the second and third years of the project, about 30 students will be trained in this joint program. Their mobility will be supported within action 1.2.1.

· During the second and third years of the project, about 40 professors will participate to this action as foreign supervisors. Their mobility will be supported within action 1.3.2.

1.2.3. Joint PhD programAll interested EASTWEB Universities will start formal procedures to develop double (or multiple) joint PhD programs. These joint programs will further promote the integration of the research activities, and the strengthening of the community network through a tighter integration of the PhD curricula. In particular, these joint PhD programs will define joint admission procedures, joint supervision, and joint degrees for the participating students.

Objective: To establish joint PhD programs.Who: Interested EASTWEB Universities When: months 13 – 36Input (means): · Joint PhD agreements will be defined among two or more EASTWEB universities. These

agreements will define common admission criteria and shared selection procedures for the students participating to the joint PhD programs. All selected students of the joint PhD programs will participate to a co-supervision project according to the guidelines of action 1.2.2. At the end of their PhD programs, qualified students will receive a double degree from their origin and foreign universities.

Output (deliverables):· Several Joint PhD programs will be established during the second year and during third year the

of the project. · Students will be selected to participate to the Joint PhD programs during from the third year of

the project. They will participate to a co-supervision project according to action 1.2.2.

1.3. Faculty staff mobility (Sub-Activity Leader: Poznan University, Poland )The aim of this activity is to support the previous activities:· by training local technical staff in the new educational platforms, tools and environments · by involving and training young faculties in the use of these new educational environments as

well as in the emerging Semantic Web topics· by bringing in and exploiting the experience of the senior researchers

This activity will thus enact a faculty staff mobility plan.

1.3.1. Technical staff training

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A small group of technical staff (one person from each institution) will be trained for maintaining and managing the distance learning platform and knowledge management. The skills acquired in this project can and will be re-used in other educational and research area, thus becoming enabling skills for further educational projects. The training will be delivered locally under the supervision of the local faculty staff that will acquire competences on the specific eLearning platform during their visit to European universities.

Objective: technical staffs (one from each partner University, apart the University of Trento) will be trained in using and maintain the devices of remote teaching and videoconference.Who : One selected technical staff in each participating UniversityWhen: month 12 - 13Input (means): A short (7 days) intensive training course will be provided at each site by local teaching staff to

train in the use, maintenance and management of the eLearning platform Subsequent training courses on the evolution of the platform and on the Knowledge Management

portal will be prepared and provided using the distance learning platform.Output (deliverables): Certification for the involved technical staff eLearning modules on the evolution of the distance education platform and on the use,

maintenance and management of the EASTWEB Knowledge Management portal

1.3.2. Senior faculties visiting programReciprocal visiting between scholars of each participant University will be established to enhance the understanding and collaboration among the partners, as well as to involve visiting scholars in the joint teaching and research activities both in the Master and PhD programs. During their visit, the scholars will support the EASTWEB networking activities (Activity 3) to disseminate and exploit the cooperation results (i.e. organization of academic and industrial events, definition of agreements, preparation of project proposals,..).

Objective: to cooperate in common activities in teaching, student’s thesis supervision, and academic

research to share educational and research experiences to enhance the understanding and collaboration among the partners;

Who : All partnersWhen: month 6 - 36Input (means): Visiting Lectureship: the will intensively teach some courses to the graduate student of the local

partner’s University Visiting PhD Supervision: the senior faculty supervisor will meet the PhD students and the local

supervisor in order to better coordinate student’s research activities. Visiting Seminar: visiting scholars will present their research works in Seminars a the host

UniversityOutput (deliverables): Delivery of Lectureship, PhD Supervision, and Seminar in the participating institutions Educational materials to be used in the distance education platform Documented support to the project networking activities

1.3.3. Young researcher visiting programShort-term (1 month) visiting program will be offered to young researchers in the involved institutions.

Objective: enhance the skills in education and research of young researchers benefit from the experience of international collaborations for future projects

Who: All partnersWhen: month 6 - 36Input (means): Every year one young staff researcher from each consortium University will be supported to visit

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The young researcher will stay in the host University for 1-2 months. He will be supervised by a senior researcher, and take part in the research and education activities in the host University;

By the end of the visit, an educational and scientific report as well as the evaluation from the tutor will be submitted to the EASTWEB Governing Board

The visiting young researchers will also be involved in the use and production of educational material for the distance education platform

Output (deliverables): Organization and management of a short-term visiting program for at least 10 young researchers Educational materials to be used in the distance education platform Research material to be included in the EASTWEB knowledge portal

Activity Area 2: Distance Education and Knowledge Management platform (Coordinator: DERI, Austria )

Education is based on frontal activities (courses, seminars), tutor guidance and feedback, individual activity (self study, problem solving), group activities. Quality control must be performed: assessment of the gained knowledge must take place both in a formal way (exams) and in an informal way (self assessment, intermediate milestone reaching). Besides the assessments on single exams, students performance and advancement must be monitored.

In a distributed environment, like the one envisaged in EASTWEB, actions must be taken to create conditions similar to the ones existing in a traditional setting where all activities take place in a central place. The different kinds of activities can be classified as: · Remote frontal teaching - Mostly unidirectional flow (frontal lectures, seminars)· Remote cooperation - Bidirectional informal (e.g. peer cooperation, group work, interaction with

tutors)· Remote assessment - Bidirectional formal (e.g. exams, where identity and environment must be

rigorously checked)· Supporting environments for educational management (e.g. statistics, management of joint study

plans, students’ careers, quality monitoring, certificates, ect.).

As the education and research material produced within the project, as well as collected from related project, growths, issues relating to content and knowledge management arise. In the second phase of the project, we will address such issues, evolving the eLearning platform into a Knowledge Portal for Semantic Web activities within and outside the consortium. In this way we want to provide a coherent, usable, sustainable and evolving body of knowledge to all involved target groups (direct and indirect), which will be the basis for European and Asian collaboration activities (both academic and industrial) after the end of the project.

2.1. eLearning Portal (Sub-Activity Leader: University of Trento, Italy )

2.1.1. Remote Frontal Teaching University of Trento has more than two year experience in helping remote students (mostly working students) to take lectures breaking temporal and spatial barriers, with or without the needed bandwidth to support videostreaming. Live lecture webcasting takes place using regular web browsers. The format of webcasting poses the emphasis on the most important cognitive elements: the audio is crystal clear, for power-point based lectures the slide gets a privileged presentation, while for blackboard based lectures the video gets more importance. However most working students cannot assist at the lectures in real time, due to their jobs (such situation is similar to the one created by different time zones in the present project). To address this problem, the video of the lecture is also recorded for asynchronous on-line fruition over the Internet. Students not having enough bandwidth for video streaming in their home can either download the lectures from the net, or get CDs/DVDs where the lectures are saved (up to 6-7 hours per CD, up to a 50 hour course on a single DVD).

We propose a similar setting for the present project.

Objective: Enhance the experience of remote students: take lectures as if they were present.When: month 4 - 36Where: Internet Who: All partnersInput (means):

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Purchase of equipment. 4th-6th month Preparation on the courses Delivery of distance learning courses

o 1-2 courses in the first yearo 4-6 courses in the second yearo 8-10 courses in the third year

Output (deliverables): Installation of a interoperable distance learning equipment in each partner Universities Delivery of distance learning courses Once tested, distance learning material will be made available for other universities

2.1.2. Remote Cooperation Technological instruments for allowing remote cooperation will be put in place. They will include standardized synchronous and asynchronous communication tools that can be scaled accordingly to the available bandwidth. Synchronous tools include multi-user textual chat, multi-user audio chat, video conference, remote application/desktop sharing. Asynchronous tools include moderated mailing lists, forums, bulletin boards.

Objective: Enable remote students to interact with remote peers, with remote teachers and with remote

tutors.When: month 4 - 36Where: Internet Who: All partnersInput (means): Purchase and deployment of equipment: 4th-6th month Installation of the software Monitoring/guidance of the interaction processesOutput (deliverables): Enable the remote interaction among students, teachers and tutors Collect and analyze usage statistics as well as usage methodologies for the various tools

2.1.3. Remote Assessment Tools mentioned in the section 2.1.2 – remote cooperation - are enablers for the delicate activity of remote assessment. However, additional constraints must be applied to make sure that the remote environment is correctly set. Remote assessment can be both written and oral. For the written ones a suitable software/environment must be available (for instance for multiple choice or fill-in the blanks test etc.). Oral examinations can be based on the remote cooperation tools. It is however necessary to define the correct procedures for the verification of the identity and environment, so as to avoid cheating possibilities.

Objective: Enable teachers to perform students’ assessment remotelyWhen: month 6 - 36Where: Internet Who: All partnersInput (means): Purchase of software: 4th-6th month Definition of the procedures for formal remote assessment Training of faculties in the remote assessment proceduresOutput (deliverables): Environment supporting remote assessment

2.1.4. Supporting environments for educational management It is necessary to keep track of the students careers in a distributed environment. Each participating institution has its own Information system, and they’re most likely not interoperable. For this reason a light-weight, but efficient, information system is needed for keeping track of the offering, of the exams, and of the students progression.

Objective: Support the overall organization of the joined activitiesWhen: month 6 - 36Where: Internet Who: All partnersInput (means):

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Definition of the data Development of the supporting educational management Information SystemOutput (deliverables): Track of the teaching activities, of the exams, of teachers’ and students’ data

2.2. Knowledge Management Portal (Action Leader: Galway, Ireland)This activity aims at mapping and structuring the EASWEB consortium knowledge as a basis for the integration of

European and Asian research resources in the field. developing and deploying appropriate content and knowledge management tool to support the

knowledge gathering and navigation activities.

The activity will start gathering the educational material and practical experience produced in the previous action and it will evolve the eLearning platform into a Knowledge Portal for Semantic Web activities both within and outside the consortium. The final aim of this action is to provide a coherent, usable, sustainable and evolving body of knowledge to all involved target groups (direct and indirect), which will be the basis for European and Asian collaboration activities (both academic and industrial) after the end of the project.

2.2.1. Knowledge Map of Semantic Web activities The overall goals of this integration activity is that of (1) harvesting, first, internal and than external knowledge in the field of Semantic Web, (2) identifying knowledge gaps in the field (3) structuring such knowledge with appropriate knowledge management tools

Objective: Harvesting and analyzing educational and research material on Semantic Web activities both within and outside the consortium and define a first map of re-usable knowledgeWhen: month 12 - 36Who: All partnersInput (means): eLearning Portal developed and tested in Activity 2.1Output (deliverables): Report on State of the art in Semantic Web Knowledge map and gap analysis of Semantic Web research (first version: end of 18th month) Knowledge map and gap analysis of Semantic Web research (revised version: end of 36 month)

2.2.2. Content and knowledge management tools developmentThe overall goals of this activity is that of providing appropriate tool to the processes of gathering, querying and navigating knowledge. Tools to be used include: semantic queries, context via ontology, matching of natural language queries into ontological concepts, semantic navigation, guidance via ontology, support to individual views to knowledge and dynamic views to knowledge, visualization of hierarchies, tools to capture users needs and integrates them into application assembly, ontology-based profiling.

These tools are strongly related to the domain area of the network, namely Semantic Web. Therefore, we will use internal skills, research results and human resources to enact this activity and produce an integrated platform to support a virtual community of knowledge sharing on Semantic Web.

Objective: produce an integrated platform to support a virtual community of knowledge sharing on Semantic Web.

When: month 12 - 36Who: DERI Innsbruck, University of Trento, Innsbruck, University of GalwayInput (means): Knowledge map and gap analysis of Semantic Web research (from previous action) Access to methodologies and tools already available in the consortium participants.Output (deliverables): Analysis of state-of-the art of content and knowledge management tools Integrated platform to support EASTWEB Knowledge Portal

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2.2.3. EASTWEB Knowledge PortalBased on the platform defined and develop in the activity 2.2.2, we will set up a Knowledge Portal for the EASTWEB project, capable to support in order to publish information and share resource. The portal will integrate the eLearning portal developed in activity 2.1 and the evolving structuring of Semantic Web knowledge harvest in activity 2.2.1.

Objective: deploy and test an integrated platform to support the international virtual community of knowledge sharing on Semantic Web.

Who: DERI Innsbruck, University of Trento, Innsbruck, University of Galway When: month 18 - 36Input (means): eLearning platform (activity 2.1) Content and knowledge management tools (activity 2.2.2) Evolving knowledge map and gap analysis of Semantic Web research (activity 2.2.1)Output (deliverables): EASTEB Knowledge Portal. It will contain:

Access to all EASTWEB eLearning material Updated knowledge map and gap analysis of Semantic Web research and applications Digital periodical reports, results, and reviews of Semantic Web research and applications.

Activity Area 3: Networking (Coordinator: TIFR, India)

The aim of this activity is to disseminate knowledge of the educational and research activities conducted within the EASTWEB consortium. This activity aims to explore proper exploitation models to support on a first level, the use of EASTWEB human resource development activities and research results, and on a general level, the establishment of a network of trans Asian and trans European enterprises in emerging IT technologies (the Semantic Web being a specific case).

EASTWEB will enact this activity by: · Sub-Activity 3.1: disseminate internationally through specific educational and research activities

like Summer School, international workshops and conferences on Semantic Web issues and application.

· Sub-Activity 3.2: support the creation of a cluster of global (trans European and trans Asia) enterprises.

Throughout this activity we will exploit the EASTWEB Knowledge portal to broaden and integrate high education and research efforts in the topic of Semantic Web in Europe and Asia.

3.1 EASTWEB Research Network (Action Leader: DERI, Austria)

3.1.1. Summer School on Semantic Web (SSSW)Every year the Execution Committee will recommend and support 9-10 young researchers and PhD students to take part in the international Summer School on Semantics Web (SSSW, http://babage.dia.fi.upm.es/summerschool/ ). EASTWEB consortium will actively participate in the organization of the international Summer School on Semantics Web (SSSW, http://babage.dia.fi.upm.es/summerschool/ ). Moreover, we will explore the possibility to organize the SSSW in Asia, seeking additional financial support.

Objective: To involved the Asian Semantic Web community in the organization and management of SSSW; To learn the state of the art of the topics in the field of semantics web; To contact with the top researchers as well as other young researchers and PhD students; Ideas and information exchange with the other young researchers and PhD students. Who: Young researchers and PhD students in all member Universities.When: every year of the project, during SummerInput (means): Involvement of EASTWEB consortium in the organization of the international Summer School on

Semantics Web (SSSW, http://babage.dia.fi.upm.es/summerschool/ ). Activities to seek for additional financial support to fund extra scholarships for participation Output (deliverables): Participation of ca. 50% of EASTWEB PhD students and young researcher to the yearly SSSW in

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3.1.2. Launching the Asian Semantic Web Conference Organize and manage the Asian Semantic Web Conference series, starting from 2006. ASWC’06 will be held in India, ASWC’07 in Thailand and ASWC’08 in China.

Objective: To present the results in the Semantic web research in Asia; To promote the research and application activities in the topic of semantic Web in Asia; To absorb concentration and grants from industry in Asia; To disseminate the achievement of EASTWEB; To advertise the Asia-link program activitiesWho: All partnersWhen: every year of the project, in the winter periodInput (means): The EASTWEB Governing Board will support Asian Universities to organize the first three editions

of the Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC). This initiative will be strongly linked to the successful initiatives of the creation of the International

Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) and the European Semantic Web Symposium (ESWS). This conference series will be organized by the EASTWEB consortium, but aims to attract the

attention of all Asian academic and enterprise IT community. Output (deliverables): Proceeding of ASWC conferences; Organization of research and industrial workshops;

3.1.3. EASTWEB Research eventsA series of thematic workshops will be organized.

Objective: The objective is to give the opportunity to both Asian and European researchers coming from academia, industry,

and interested application communities to communicate problems, requirements and solutions within different areas; to exchange working experiences.

to give the possibility to the different communities to learn about the latest research developments in this field. It will provide the opportunity to disseminate the results to the larger Semantic Web community in the form of edited books.

to allow students and researchers from the partner Universities to present their work to an academic and industrial audience

Who: All partnersWhen: month 12 - 36 Input (means): Support to student and young researcher mobility Distance delivery of content platform (activity 2.1)Output (deliverables): Workshop Proceedings; Material (presentations, documents, video, demos) to be included in the EASTWEB portal

3.2 EASTWEB Enterprise Network (Action Leader: AIT, Thailand)EASTWEB aims to explore models and to execute actions to assist European and Asian enterprises, societies and people in using and exploiting Semantic Web results and products. Studies on economic potential impact and business opportunities will be led. Take-up actions will also result from this activity.

3.2.1. EASTWEB Technology Transfer Network

Objectives: Establishment of the working group with the core scientific and industrial partners. Set up of communication and information tools with dedicated management staff Definition and deployment of the EASTWEB Technology Transfer Network Collection of industrial best practice and Semantic Web application guidelines Who: All partnersWhen: month 12 - 36 Input (means): Identify key companies in Asia and Europe to involve in the EASTWEB core group

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Output (deliverables): Establishment of a EASTWEB Technology Transfer Network, whose goal is to provide appropriate

technology transfer mechanisms to industry, academic and businesses interested into Semantic Web technologies

Collect best practice and guidelines of top applications evaluating technical merit and novelty and using empirical evidence given by the industrial partners who serve in the Technology Transfer Network

3.2.2. International EASTWEB Industrial ExhibitionsEASTWEB will organize promotional events that aim at promoting the Semantic Web achievements to public institutions and private organizations outside the consortium. These events will take the form of international Forums, within the research dissemination events promoted in Activity 3.1, where speakers from both industry and academia will be invited to present their view on the topics addressed by EASTWEB. We plan to organize at least three Forums in each of the ASWC conferences.

Objectives: organize international Forums where academic and industrial institution can discuss an define

appropriate business cases Who: All partnersWhen: month 12 - 36 Input (means): Identify companies (outside the consortium) in Asia and Europe to involve in EASTWEB forumsOutput (deliverables): Forum Proceedings; Delivery of business requirements for selected pilot business cases Testing and benchmarking of Semantic Web applications in selected pilot business cases

Activity Area 4: Project management (Coordinator: University of Trento, Italy)

EASTWEB will have a management and corporate governance structure to ensure optimal returns on the commission investment in the consortium. The overall management: will provide considerable flexibility in organizing and deploying the resources of EASTWEB. will ensure a dynamic and collective governance of the consortium and the financial management

will oversee all activities related to the Commission funding will act as the unique interface with the European Commission, specially with respect to

communication and co-ordination of report delivery (annual report, update of JPA, technical reporting and audits, etc.).

The management governance will be enacted by the following Consortium Management structure: A Project coordinator and supporting administrative staff A Governing Board (one representative from each partner institution) A team of activity and sub-activities coordinators (Executive Board) An External Advisory Board

The consortium management will oversee: The Financial and Strategic management The Educational and Scientific management The Networking management

4.1 Financial and Strategic managementThe role of the strategic management is to ensure the overall coordination of the consortium so that activities run effectively and so that objectives are achieved within the specified time and budgeted constraints, and to report and communicate the EASTWEB network progress and status to the European Commission. The EASTWEB coordinator, supported by the Governing Board, will:• organize, commission and monitor the audit activities• report and communicate to the EC and co-ordinate reporting (yearly activity report)• resolve all conflicts that impact strategic or medium-long term objectives.

The role of the financial management is to manage all the financial activities and the communication with the European Commission. The EASTWEB coordinator, with the assistance of the Governing Board will:

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• receive and transfer all payments by the Commission to the parties• keep advance payments to joint funds in a well identified account• prepare the provisional budget (according to the Governing Board)• prepare the financial agreement among partners• prepare the reporting costs to be reported to the Commission• follow the execution of the provisional budget• report differences to the Governing Board

Objective: The objectives of the activity are to:• set up the organizational and management structures of the network• define and implement the necessary guidelines and procedures• define and review procedures to ensure that activities occur within the specified time and budget

constraints• maintain a unique and efficient communication’s channel with the European Commission• co-ordinate collateral material, perform tracking and oversight of the master schedule and budget• set up the financial guidelines• manage the financial issues within the network and the financial communication and operation

with the European Commission.

When: month 1 - 36Where: Trento, ItalyWho: All partnersInput (means): Every member Institution recommends one representative (and a vice-representative) to build up

a Governing Board; The Governing Board recommends one representative (and a vice-representative) for each main

activity to build up the Executive Board; An External Advisory Board will be appointed and will be composed of 3 members from outside of

the project. Two member of the Board will be from Industry, and one from another University or Institute.

Documents of agreement will be signed.Output (deliverables): The Consortium Management structure will be articulated in:

o Governing Board Membership: 8 representatives, one from each participating institutions: the

University of Trento will chair the Board. Function: To design activities, make decisions, coordinate and supervise all

project activities, propose and organize meetings among the partners, and disseminate results.

o Executive Board Membership: one representative from each institution coordinating a main activity;

the University of Trento will chair the Board. Function: To enact activities, coordinate and supervise each partner in the

executions of activities

o External Advisory Board Membership: It is composed by 3 members from outside of the project. Function: To monitor and review activities, evaluate results, and advertise this

project to public.

Information about the three Boards will be published on the EASTWEB Portal.

4.2 Educational and Scientific managementThe main aim of this management activity is to ensure the efficient and effective operation of the EASTWEB activities in consultation with the education and scientific working group leaders. This activity includes actions as the following: Advocating resources and programs that will ensure EASTWEB remains a competitive and cutting

edge educational and scientific consortium. Developing and articulating a vision for the future of the Semantic Web, acting to maintain

EASTWEB at the frontier of international research and proposing initiatives to build upon Semantic Web results.

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Objective: objectives of the activity are: To oversee the overall educational and scientific productivity of EASTWEB consortium; To supervised graduate students and young researchers activities To keep EASTWEB consortium at the forefront in Semantic Web activities; To set and monitor the progress of the research focus of EASTWEB;When: month 1 - 36Where: Trento, ItalyWho: All partnersInput (means): Output (deliverables): Annual Reports on the Educational and Scientific activities of EASTWEB

4.3 Networking managementThe overall responsibility for dissemination and exploitation of results from the project will be embodied in a Networking Task force, within the Execution Board. A Networking Manager will oversee the planning of the general, network-wide exploitation plan, which will focus on the results of the Human Resources Development Activities and of the Distance Education and Knowledge Management Activities. This manager will oversee the deployment of all networking activities.

Objective: The following important objectives of EASTWEB are addressed in particular by this management activity: to coordinate and align the Networing activities with the Human Resources Development Activities

and with the Distance Education and Knowledge Management Activities to coordinate and support activities needed to increase awareness on the Semantic Web

technology in Europe and Asia to define a common consortium strategy for the dissemination and evaluation of the results of the

joint education and research program to identify suitable partners and market opportunities and outline paths to commercialisation to define and monitor the EASTWEB dissemination and exploitation plan to supervise intellectual property policies

When: month 6 - 36Where: Trento, ItalyWho: All member UniversitiesInput (means): A Networking Taskforce, will be established among representative of the participating institutions.

The Taskforce will act in support of HRD, DL&KM and NET coordinators Output (deliverables): Annual Reports on the Educational and Scientific activities of EASTWEB Establishing the Taskforce on dissemination and exploitation Report on EASTWEB dissemination and exploitation plans: educational, research and industrial Intellectual property right consortium agreement Assessment of dissemination and exploitation plans Report on network spin-off activities (related Centres and start-up initiatives) Intellectual property management beyond the EASTWEB duration

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1.8 Methodology

(a) methods of implementation

The final aim of project is to build an integrated Euro-Asian higher education and research community in the field of the Semantic Web. It will be achieved by building a MOBILITY FRAMEWORK for academic exchanges at different level (graduate students, technical staff, young researchers and senior scholars). Such framework will be supported by a structured academic background in order to enhance the reciprocal knowledge and improve academic qualifications and professional experience through a period of study abroad. Asian and European students will have the opportunity to gain GREATER KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING of recent developments in Semantic Web and to deepen their knowledge and understanding of the counterpart teaching and research activities, working style and cultural environment. The project will be implemented appropriately so that it will achieve the expected output effectively. In particular it will focus: To create the ASIAN EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL COMMUNITY ON SEMANTIC WEB To promote original, HIGH QUALITY RESEARCH by graduate students and faculty staff by emphasizing

the intellectual importance of cross-fertilization from transnational, interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies

To enhance the teaching and learning experience of students both in a VIRTUAL AND ACTUAL COMMUNITY of students and staff of each institution. These will include SANDWICH graduate studies programs with research components, ON-SITE VISITS of key research, corporate and policy actors to interact with EU-Asian actors, SUMMER SCHOOLS, SEMINAR AND WORKSHOP activities and will include government and private sector participation.

To develop research linkages between participating institutions in the selected research domain SEMANTIC WEB. By establishing a NETWORK OF COLLABORATIONS, EASTWEB will also touch on cross cultural issues like multilingualism, comparative international and regional integration, international political economics and ethics, cultural development and gender and race issues;

To create a virtual community among the students / teachers / researchers in the exchange programs. A devoted KNOWLEDGE PORTAL will be established to organize and facilitate information and knowledge exchanges among the participating institutions. An extensive Knowledge Management Portal will be incorporated as a purpose-built innovative component of the project

To STRENGTHEN ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE RELATIONSHIPS among participating institutions and build a framework for the expansion of this collaboration to a wider range of EU and ASIAN institutions. To this end EASTWEB will provide support to the EXCHANGE OF YOUNG AND SENIOR FACULTY STAFF AND TECHNICAL/ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF;

To create a CLUSTER OF ACADEMIC AND IT ENTERPRISES active on Semantic Web applications and capable to promote collaboration among current Asian and European corporate and political elites;

To create a structure for EVALUATION that provides for effective monitoring of the project and for the on going adjustment of tools and proceedings. To this end an External Advisory Board will be established. It will be composed by members from Industry and Academia to the project

To define a FORMAL SETTING OF PROCEEDINGS for a reciprocal recognition and certification of the experience. The project will test the common transfer system developed for student exchange and speed up the organizational frame by means of staff exchanges between these organizations.

During the first year of the project: An effective ORGANISATIONAL FRAMEWORK (see Activity 4) will be defined to integrate

administrative and academic components of the project; the coordination of mobility schemes, communication protocols and dissemination activities. The leading institution and consortium partners have committed to provide suitable administrative support for the three years of the project. The administrative framework of bilateral agreements required to support the student exchange will be finalized. In some cases, agreements already exist due to prior cooperation among the institutions. A steering board (the EASTWEB Governing Board) will closely involve academic project coordinators and administrative staff to harmonize academic schedules and mobility procedures.o Administrative responsibilities and functions will be allocated; the terms will be stated in formal

reports. o Specific administrative and decision-taking rules established, with a shared budget management

and document collecting system,o Administrative responsibilities and functions will be allocated; the terms will be stated in formal

reports.

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o Specific administrative and decision-taking rules established, with a shared budget management and document collecting system,

o Fees and tuition waivers for the study abroad students will have been endorsed prior to project funding application. Specific arrangements will be formalized during the first year of the project in bilateral or consortium Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) also detailing the kind of possible services such as accommodation, library, internet access etc, to be provided to exchange students.

o Common standards will be set for the provision of library services, computing support, tutoring, health services, and disability support, if required. At each institution, academic and logistical arrangements for incoming exchange students are supervised by the local project coordinator in cooperation with the international mobility office and other administrative units.

o Certification standards will be tuned with common tools. o Mobility grants will be available on a competitive basis. A public written call, describing the

different program activities and application procedures, will be diffused to promote students recruitment. Further possibilities of funding (if any) will also be diffused with the same procedure.

o Student language and cultural preparation: programs in local culture and language will be implemented in order to provide the appropriate cultural background and guidance with regard to academic, language and everyday basics.

HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES will begin for a selected number of graduate students, young and senior researchers and technical staff. The details of study abroad courses offer in terms of COMPLEMENTARITY OF CURRICULA and related credits transfer and student mobility arrangements will be finalized. The project will negotiate and test an international COMMON TRANSFER SYSTEM developed specifically for the student exchange and speed up the organizational frame by means of an extensive communication and networking between these organizations. Special meetings and visits will be finalized to arrange the formal setting of proceedings for a reciprocal recognition and certification of the experience.

INDUSTRIES INVOLVEMENT. EASTWEB will begin to explore models and execute actions to assist European and Asian enterprises, societies and people in using and exploiting Semantic Web results and products. We will begin the creation of a cluster of global (European and Asian) enterprises active in the field or interested to start related new activities.

The EASTWEB ELEARNING PORTAL will be deployed with all evolving materials developed in the Human Development activity. The aim of the Portal is to provide a coherent, re-usable and evolving body of knowledge to all involved target groups (direct and indirect).

Organization of NETWORKING ACTIVITIES: the first Asian Semantic Web Conference in India and the participation to the international Summer School on Semantics Web will be the main activities in the first year of the project.

EVALUATION PLAN: the terms of a comprehensive evaluation plan will be jointly developed by the participating institutions and locally administered. This process will include the definition of a pattern as analysis tool to compare different experiences, the development of questionnaires and the design of other qualitative approaches to gathering input from students, academic corporate and administrative staff involved.

During the second year of the project IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECT ACTIVITIES: teachings, mobility, training and distance education will

take place in full with the administrative, logistical, academic and scientific support of all partners. This will include:o the establishment of an interleaved (“sandwich”) international master and PhD programs

within the EASTWEB consortiumo the organization of double degree programs between the participating institutionso the creation of a sustainable long-term exchanging and training program beyond the

contractual periodo the use and validation of EASTWEB distance education platform supporting both the

Master and PhD programs EASTWEB KNOWLEDGE PORTAL: the eLearning portal will be enriched with results of related

projects, report of activities and student researches, events and products. Both faculty staff and graduate students will be involved in this activity. The Portal will be the basis for European and Asian collaboration activities after the end of the project.

INTERIM REPORT AND ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES: organizational/management pattern effectiveness is tested out.

ASSESSMENT OF THE PROJECT PERFORMANCES and fine tuning of technical means on the basis of actual practices are implemented.

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ASSESSMENT OF UNIVERSITY-ENTERPRISES INTERACTION and effectiveness trends - internship satisfaction rates

IMPLEMENTATION OF NETWORKING ACTIVITIES: organization of the Asian Semantic Web Conference series, active participation to the international summer school, organization of EASTWEB Technology Transfer Network.

During the third year of the project Enhancement of academic and organisational/management framework: adoption and progressive

adjustments of the model. STANDARDISATION of mobility, internship procedures and graduate courses

VALIDATION AND DIFFUSION of ther eference Master and PhD programs. the opening of the EASTWEB KNOWLEDGE PORTAL for Semantic Web to the academic and

industrial community at large. It will provide a coherent, sustainable and evolving body of knowledge to all direct and indirect target groups (graduate students, young and senior researcher, middle and top IT enterprises management)

ASSESSMENT of the activities of the Asian education, research and industrial community in the Semantic Web

ASSESSMENT of the activities of the cluster of academic and It enterprises active in Semantic Web applications

FINAL REPORT and administrative effectiveness assessment. Organization of INTERNATIONAL EASTWEB INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITIONS Overall ASSESSMENT of the project and goals achievement.

(b) reasons for the proposed methodology

By building an integrated Euro-Asian higher education and research community in the field of the Semantic Web, this proposed project is aimed to promote multilateral networking between higher education institutions in both Europe and developing Asian countries. The proposed methodology is appropriate to realize the target objective effectively, by focusing and providing: A STRUCTURED FRAMEWORK FOR MOBILITY and strong collaborative transnational relationships will

emerge throughout the project. While initially focusing on graduate students’ mobility, faculty and administrative personnel, this network will provide and test a structured frame for the expansion of collaborative and systematic relationships in research, teaching and training among the respective institutions.

A STRUCTURED FRAMEWORK FOR ACADEMIC CREDIT RECOGNITION: participating students will have recognized at the home institution the academic transcripts of credits obtained abroad.

A STRUCTURED FRAMEWORK TO ENHANCE THE TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCE both in a virtual and actual community of students and teaching staff. EASTWEB will enact this goal by: establishing a distance learning platform and framework and by evolving the distance learning platform into a Knowledge Portal for Semantic Web research and application (EASTWEB Portal)

A STRUCTURED FRAMEWORK TO ASSIST EUROPEAN AND ASIAN ENTERPRISES, SOCIETIES AND PEOPLE IN USING AND EXPLOITING SEMANTIC WEB results and products to improve business (enterprises), quality of services (societies) and quality of life (people).

At the same time the PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT and the direct experience will support an increasing ability of understanding and interacting in a international and multicultural environment enabling the effective comparison of tools and work-styles and a RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL GROWTH

(c) how the action is intended to build on a previous actions (where applicable)

Former cooperation running between the University of Trento and the other Universities.1. The University of Trento in Italy, the University of Innsbruck in Austria, and the National

University of Ireland, Galway in Ireland are participant in the EC project, Knowledge Web (http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org);

2. The University of Trento in Italy and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in India are in the process of signing an agreement on developing a Double Degree Master Program;

3. The University of Trento, the National University of Ireland, Galway, and the University of Innsbruck are defining an European Double Master Degree on Computer Science with a specialization on the Semantic Web.

4. The University of Trento, together with the Aachen University (Germany) and the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), is offering a a two-year joint international Master program, named “European Master in Informatics” (EuMI, http://www.eumi-school.org/). Students visit two universities of the consortium during the two years, and are awarded of a double degree by the

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visited Universities at the end of the studies. This Master program is sponsored by the European Commission “Erasmus Mundus” programme.

5. The University of Trento and the ITC-irst have established a stable cooperation on both research and education;

Existing network 1. The Department of Information and Communication Technology in the University of Trento has

built up partner relationship with local research institutions, such as the GraphiTech Foundation (http://www.graphitech.it/ ), the CreateNet (http://www.create-net.it/ ), FIAT Research Center (CRF), Trento site (http://www.crf.it/news/Trento.htm), Laboratory for Applied Ontology (http://www.loa-cnr.it/ ), etc. They will also be involved in providing trainings to graduate students.

2. Local industrial partners of the Department of Information and Communication Technology in the iversity of Trento include: Neuricam / Eurotech (http://www.neuricam.it/), DThink (http://www.dthink.biz/), Informatica Trentina (http://www.infotn.it/), DeltaDator (http://www.delta.it/), 3TEC, ETH lab in Italy, etc. They are potential financial supporters for future cooperation works beyond this project life.

3. The University of Innsbruck started with the collaboration with the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand from 2001 focusing on Semantic Web related researches. The two institutions have worked together in Ontoweb (Thematic Network of Semantic Web funded by EU under 5th FP). Further collaborations between AIT and University of Innsbruck are been carried out to establish formal procedures for joint collaborations.

4. The University of Innsbruck has a long term experience of joint collaboration with University of Trento. They are working together jointly in several key EU funded projects, in particular Knowledge Web (Network of Excellence on Semantic Web funded by EU under 6th FP). The Bozen-Innsbruck-Trento (BIT) School project between University of Innsbruck, University of Trento and University of Bozen was established in 2002. Joint seminars and guest lectures organized by the BIT School have been running for more than 2 years.

5. The National University of Ireland, Galway, the University of Innsbruck, the Asian Institute of Technology, and the Jilin University are also in the process of developing a Double Master Degree program.

(d) procedures for internal evaluation

Partners will jointly define the pattern, indicators and tools to assess the project and mobility effectiveness. Further joint evaluation will be done during the meetings of the consortium in order to define a structured cooperation lasting beyond the project life and to adjust the project on the basis of emerging requirements/needs.

The evaluation plan will comprise: Structured evaluations - Periodical evaluation will be done by the partners AT THE END OF EACH

YEAR to check timeliness and coherence with the working plan, also in order to assess and solve problems and criticisms so far registered.

Ongoing informal evaluation of the balanced contribution of each participating institution; The formal, structured evaluation on specific project objectives, steps and expected outcomes.

Quality and quantity indicators and proceedings will be defined and evaluate with the support of external/internal experts. Qualitative data will regard: Monitoring questionnaire delivered to students to collect information on mobility experience and

perceived academic benefits and outcomes. It will also include: teachings and academic content, videoconferencing and distance learning tools, administrative arrangements, welcome and services, cultural aspects, etc;

A survey on academic staff involved will regard the perceived level of cooperation with project colleagues, the effectiveness of teachers mobility and academic exchanges, registered benefits/problems with participating students, programme management, and benefits and opportunities of multilateral cooperation in teaching and research;

Administrative staff involved will provide data on the programme management, the perceived smooth running of the project and level of collaboration with administrators at the other institutions. Tools and working methodologies to be adopted to tune administrative procedures.

Company evaluations on the project, training effectiveness and results.

Quantitative data will include: Academic performances Number of visiting professors, seminars and workshops;

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Number of students/ people involved Number of thesis, reports and project outputs Student total mobility and completion rates No. of inquiries / application forms, Outputs of teaching and research collaborations. budgetary allocations, outcomes and extra/external funding available to the project.

(e) level of involvement and activity of other organizations (partners or others) in the action

All of the participants will actively participate in the project activities as well in the local and international management of the project by means of their representative member in the board (Governing Board, Activity 4). All decisions will be made by this Committee. The University of Trento (UNITN),, applicant of the project proposal, will be the chair of the Governing Board. It will act as a main organizer and coordinator in all meetings and academic activities.

The Human Resource Development Activities will be coordinated by the University of Trento (UNITN), Italy. All partners have expressed their interest to exchange students within the consortium and will support this activity. In total, it will involve ca. 70 graduate students, 80 faculty staff and a limited number of technical staff. Moreover administrative staff and appropriate offices of each institution will be involved to provide the necessary administrative and logistical support.

The Distance Education and Knowledge Management platform Development Activity will be coordinated by the University of Innsbruck, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Austria. Building on previous experience and established on-going distance learning local projects, the distance education courses will be initially organized and delivered by the European Universities. Courses, seminars or workshops given by the leading Semantic Web experts, via the EASTWEB eLearning platform, will offer the opportunity for Asian audiences (both within and outside the consortium) to receive high quality and updated teaching material in the Semantic Web area. Young researchers and educators will be exposed to innovative educational methodologies, platforms and tools. Thus, this activity will train a new generation of future IT educators, capable to use new educational methodologies and tools in different domains. This activity will also disseminate results and attract the local industrial interest.

The EASTWEB Networking Activity will be coordinated by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR),India. The TIFR will act as the main EASTWEB contact point in Asia and as the coordinator of the Asian academic network. The Asian partners will strengthen their teaching and research capability and join top-class Universities in the field of Semantic Web. They will organize and lead the first three editions of Asian Conference of Semantic Web as well as organizing promotional events that aim at promoting the Semantic Web achievements to Asian public institutions and private organizations outside the consortium. The European partners will participate to this activity bringing their specific skills and competences: they will provide international contacts and links to on-going activities; they will enhance knowledge and expertise exchange between Europe and Asia to further strengthen the social and cultural connection between the two regions.

(f) reasons for the role of each partner

Participants in this project will be:1. Applicant/Partner 1: University of Trento, (Trento, Italy); 2. Partner 2: University of Innsbruck, (Innsbruck, Austria);3. Partner 3: National University of Ireland, Galway, (Galway, Ireland);4. Partner 4: The Poznan University of Economics (Poznan, Poland)5. Partner 5: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, (Bombay, India);6. Partner 6: Asian Institute of Technology, (Bangkok, Thailand);7. Partner 7: Jilin University, (Changchun, China);8. Associate Partner 1: ITC-IRST, (Trento, Italy);9. Associate Partner 2: Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, (Hong Kong, China);

All institutions will fully participate in the activities of the project. They will also actively participate in the local and international management of the project by means of their representative member in the Governing Board. Since this project will involve 9 institutions from 7 countries and regions, and the education systems and cultures in each countries and regions are different from the others, this kind of democratic management of the project will guarantee considerations from every partners and avoid misleading actions.

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The particular participation of each partner will also be rooted on their specific features: University of Trento will coordinate the partners activities and working groups. Its strong

international dimension and experience of internationalized education guarantees its central administrative role in this proposed project. The University of Trento will also coordinate the central Human Development Activity and will lead the development, use and deployment of the eLearning platform, based on its on-going experiences in several national and European distance education projects.

The group headed by Prof. Fensel in University of Innsbruck is one of the leading groups in Semantic Web. It will also provide its expertise in international project management: in fact it has coordinated many large EU funded projects related to Semantic Web, especially the 6 th

Framework EU funded Network of Excellence on Semantic Web (Knowledge Web http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org ) and will further bring meaningful ties with the Asia-Europe Semantic Web Link. The University of Innsbruck will coordinate the Distance Education and Knowledge Management platform Development Activity and will lead the EASTWEB Research Network sub-activity.

National University of Ireland, Galway is the only one in this partnership which has a mother-language of English. The group leaded by Prof. Bussler is very active in academic research in the Semantic Web field and is the director of a world-leading institute in Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services research, is cooperation between Hewlett Packard Galway. The National University of Ireland will lead the PhD Student mobility and joint PhD program sub-activity as well as the Knowledge Management Portal sub-activity.

The Poznan University of Economics (PUE) in Poland is focusing in the education of economists and managers for all lines of business and public administration. They run four international MBA programmes. The University also offers English programs, specially prepared for foreign students. In terms of its scientific and academic potential and enrolment, PUE ranks the second best business school in Poland and one of the largest economics universities in Europe. PUE will lead Faculty and Technical staff mobility and training Activity and will bring in the necessary skills and competences of Economics and Management.

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in India holds a excellent track in the graduate education and research in Computer Science. It will contribute to the project with the competences developed within the School of Technology and Computer Science to develop world-class environment for research in the areas of Technology & Computer Science and exploring theoretical foundations, applications and long-range speculative research. TIFR will be coordinator of the EASTWEB Networking Activity and will act as the main EASTWEB contact point in Asia.

The group headed by Prof. Wuwongse in Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand is one of few Asian groups already working actively in Semantic Web area. They will provide their expertise and train PhD students at local master and doctoral programs related to the Semantic Web. Their participation will expand their collaboration with leading Semantic Web institutions in Europe. AIT will lead the EASTWEB Enterprise Network sub-activity in close contact wit h the other Asian institutions.

Jilin University is one of the largest Universities in China, located in one of the under-developed areas of the country. It has an extensive track records of research and teaching in Semantic Web related topics, namely Artificial Intelligence. In EASTWEB they seek to cooperate with top class Universities to enhance academic activities and networking opportunities as well as open its education programs.

Associate Partners The European associate partner, ITC-IRST, is not a qualified HEIs. However, its wide experiences

in training international graduate students and its close ties to all European Universities, in particular with the University of Trento, as well as with the TIFR institute, will be beneficial in hosting and funding Asian students in EASTWEB activities.

The associated partner Hong Kong University of Science and Technology will act as optimal dissemination channel, and also as an attractive multi-cultural international research and education center.

(g) team proposed for implementation of the action (by function: there is no need to include the names of individuals here)

We plan the following organizational and executing structure:Governing Board: one representative from each partner institution. The University of Trento will appoint the project coordinator to chair the Board

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External Advisory Board: composed by 3 members from outside of the project, to monitor and review activities, evaluate results, and advertise this project to publicExecutive Board: composed by all coordinators of main activities and leaders of sub-activities. This board will make extensive use of video-conferencing and distance collaboration tools in order to minimize related mobility costs. The Board will be composed by the following institutions, including roles:

HRD Coordinator: UNITN, ItalyHRD 1.1 Master student mobility and double degree master programme Action Leader: UNITN, ItalyHuman 1.2 PhD Student mobility and joint PhD programme Action Leader: Galway, IrelandResources 1.3 Faculty and Technical staff mobility and training Action Leader: Poznam, PolandDevelopmentActivity

DL-KM Coordinator: DERI, AustriaDL-KM 2.1 eLearning Portal Action Leader: UNITN, ItalyDistance 2.2 Knowledge Management Portal Action Leader: Galway, IrelandEducationand KMActivity

NET Coordinator: TIFR, IndiaNET 3.1 EASTWEB Research Network Action Leader: DERI, AustriaNetworking 3.2 EASTWEB Enterprise Network Action Leader: AIT, ThailandActivity

MA Coordinator: UNITNMA 4.1 Financial and Strategic managementManagement 4.2 Scientific and Technical managementActivities 4.3 Dissemination and Exploitation management

1.9 Duration and action plan

The duration of the action will be 36 months.

In the following Action Plan, we will indicate the participants in this as follows:

Applicant/Partner 1

University of Trento, (Trento, Italy);

Partner 2 University of Innsbruck, (Innsbruck, Austria);Partner 3 National University of Ireland, Galway, (Galway, Ireland);Partner 4 The Poznan University of Economics (Poznan, Poland)Partner 5 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, (Bombay, India);Partner 6 Asian Institute of Technology, (Bangkok, Thailand);Partner 7 Jilin University, (Changchun, China);Associate Partner 1

ITC-IRST, (Trento, Italy);

Associate Partner 2

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, (HongKong, China);

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Year 1Semester 1 Semester 2

Activity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

11 12 Implementing body

Preparation Activity 1.1.1 Master Students mobility

partner 1 partner 3partner 5partner 6partner 7

Execution Activity 1.1.1 Master Students mobility

partner 1 partner 3partner 5partner 6partner 7

Preparation Activity 1.1.2 Definition of Master Curriculum on Semantic Web

partner 1 partner 2 partner 3 partner 4

Execution Activity 1.1.2 Definition of Master Curriculum on Semantic Web

partner 1 partner 2 partner 3 partner 4

Preparation & ExecutionActivity 1.1.3 Implementation of the Graduate Curriculum on Semantic WebPreparation & ExecutionActivity 1.1.4 Double Degree Master on Semantic WebPreparation Activity 1.2.1 PhD students mobility

All partners

Execution Activity 1.2.1 PhD students mobility

All partners

Preparation Activity 1.2.2 Joint PhD Training Activities

All partners

Execution Activity 1.2.2 Joint PhD Training Activities

All partners

Preparation & ExecutionActivity 1.2.3 Joint PhD program

All partners

Preparation & ExecutionActivity 1.3.1 Technical staff training

All partners

Preparation Activity 1.3.2 Senior faculties visiting program

All partners

Execution Activity 1.3.2 Senior faculties visiting program

All partners

Preparation Activity 1.3.3 Young researcher visiting program

All partners

Execution Activity 1.3.3 Young researcher visiting program

All partners

Preparation Activity 2.1.1 Remote Frontal Teaching

partner 1 partner 2 partner 3 partner 4

Execution Activity 2.1.1 Remote Frontal Teaching

All partners

Preparation Activity 2.1.2 Remote Cooperation

All partners

Execution Activity 2.1.2 Remote Cooperation

All partners

Preparation Activity 2.1.3 Remote Assessment

All partners

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Execution Activity 2.1.3 Remote Assessment

All partners

Preparation Activity 2.1.4 Supporting environments for educational management

All partners

Execution Activity 2.1.4 Supporting environments for educational management

All partners

Preparation& ExecutionActivity 2.2.1 Knowledge Map of Semantic Web activities

All partners

Preparation & ExecutionActivity 2.2.2 Content and knowledge management tools development

All partners

Preparation & ExecutionActivity 2.2.3 EASTWEB Knowledge Portal

All partners

Preparation Activity 3.1.1 Summer School (SSSW)

Partner 2

Execution Activity 3.1.1 Summer School (SSSW)

Partner 2

Preparation Activity 3.1.2 Asian Semantic Web Conference

Partner 5

Execution Activity 3.1.2 Asian Semantic Web Conference

Partner 5

Preparation & ExecutionActivity 3.1.3 EASTWEB Research events

Partner 1Partner 2Partner 3Partner 4

Preparation & ExecutionActivity 3.2.1 EASTWEB Technology Transfer Network

All partners

Preparation & ExecutionActivity 3.2.2 International EASTWEB Industrial Exhibitions

All partners

Preparation Activity 4.1 Financial and Strategic management

Partner 1

Execution Activity 4.1 Financial and Strategic management

Partner 1

Preparation Activity 4.2 Educational and Scientific management

Partner 1

Execution Activity 4.2 Educational and Scientific management

Partner 1

Preparation Activity 4.3 Networking management

Partner 1

Execution Activity 4.3 Networking management

Partner 1

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For the following years: Semester

Activity 3 4 5 6 Implementing body

Execution Activity 1.1.1 Master Students mobility

partner 1 partner 3

Execution Activity 1.1.2 Definition of Master Curriculum on Semantic Web

Execution Activity 1.1.3 Implementation of the Graduate Curriculum on Semantic Web

All partners

Execution Activity 1.1.4 Double Degree Master on Semantic Web

All partners

Execution Activity 1.2.1 PhD students mobility

All partners

Execution Activity 1.2.2 Joint PhD Training Activities

All partners

Execution Activity 1.2.3 Joint PhD program

All partners

Execution Activity 1.3.1 Technical staff training

All partners

Execution Activity 1.3.2 Senior faculties visiting program

All partners

Execution Activity 1.3.3 Young researcher visiting program

All partners

Execution Activity 2.1.1 Remote Frontal Teaching

All partners

Execution Activity 2.1.2 Remote Cooperation

All partners

Execution Activity 2.1.3 Remote Assessment

All partners

Execution Activity 2.1.4 Supporting environments for educational management

All partners

Execution Activity 2.2.1 Knowledge Map of Semantic Web activities

partner 1

Execution Activity 2.2.2 Content and knowledge management tools development

All partners

Execution Activity 2.2.3 EASTWEB Knowledge Portal

All partners

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Execution Activity 3.1.1 Summer School (SSSW)

Partner 2

Execution Activity 3.1.2 Asian Semantic Web Conference

Partner 6Partner 7

Execution Activity 3.1.3 EASTWEB Research events

All partners

Execution Activity 3.2.1 EASTWEB Technology Transfer Network

All partners

Execution Activity 3.2.2 International EASTWEB Industrial Exhibitions

All partners

Execution Activity 4.1 Financial and Strategic management

All partners

Execution Activity 4.2 Educational and Scientific management

All partners

Execution Activity 4.3 Networking management

All partners

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2. Expected results2.1 Expected impact on target groups

(a) the situation of target groups

By supporting student exchanges at the graduate level (Master and PhD), EASTWEB will increase the quality of the students in the target groups. Although most of the target groups in the consortium already have good reputation in education and research in Computer Science locally, the exchange program can further strengthen their leading positions in the local regions. Therefore, more highly qualified students will apply for the chance to study both locally and in the consortium Universities. Moreover, the exchanged students will bring both the knowledge and technology and the multi-cultural aspects back to their countries. One of EASTWEB goals is to effectively introduce in the future network society the highly specialized human resources trained within the project, by making sure that the involved graduate students will be hired by those companies which can make the best use of the student’s technological and multicultural skills. Our long term goal is to support and coordinate the training of the next generation of middle and top research management in both European and Asian networked enterprises.

By training young researchers in Europe and Asia, EASTWEB will further strengthen the creation of a common research community as well as prepare the new generation of future IT educators. The program of training young teaching and research staff from the target groups includes joining the European teaching activities, face to face discussion and training with the European teaching staff, participation to the research program of the leading European groups (including the internal and EU funded projects), taking leadership in some research or teaching initiatives, joining the supervision activities for Master student level and so on. The enhanced experience of staff can fortify the leading positions of the target groups locally.

By establishing and enacting a faculty staff mobility activity, we will expose young educators to innovative educational methodologies, platforms and tools. These exchange will further strengthen the training of a new generation of future IT educators, capable to use the new methodologies and tools in different domains.

By setting up and experiment with a distance education platform and knowledge management portal, EASTWEB will be able to provide a coherent, sustainable and evolving body of knowledge on Semantic Web applications to all direct and, subsequently, indirect target groups.

By disseminating activities and joint research and education results, EASTWEB can bring the industrial attention to the academic target groups and will roach out to the indirect target groups in Asia and Europe. These activities not only disseminate research and education results to broader audience, but also make industries aware of the groups. With the fast development of the Semantic Web and the increasing economic and marketing demands for such technologies, the chance for potential industrial collaboration with the target groups will be highly amplified.

By hosting or organizing Asian Semantic Web Conference Series, EASTWEB will make the general public aware to the target groups. For instance, many industrial players want to disseminate their products in the related conferences. Furthermore, they will treat the EASTWEB consortium and related target groups as the center for information related to Semantic Web in Asia. More and more Asian and European students will become aware of EASTWEB universities and institutions and will want to study Semantic Web technologies in these universities. The public image of the target groups will improve their visibility in the local regions.

By setting up the long-term collaboration after the end of the funding, EASTWEB will further strengthen the leading position of the target groups in Asia. If the proposal is accepted, the EU funding will last only for 3 years. EASTWEB will create the momentum necessary to sustain new activities. This will be done by exploiting the infrastructure (e.g. the EASTWEB Portal, Research and Industrial Network) and human relations developed during the project, but also by making this objective a very high priority in the project applications that the partners will make to their reference funding agencies.

In summary, this project will improve the current situation of the direct target groups

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provide a sustainable way to reach indirect beneficiaries (Asian and European graduate students, young and senior researcher and enterprises in the large)

strengthen the joint collaboration between Europe and Asia.

(b) the technical and management capacities of target groups or partners (where applicable)

In our proposal, we are targeting only marginally the exchange and training of technical staff. We do so only in a specific sub-activity (1.3.1 Technical staff training) aimed at a small group of technical staff (one person from each institution) that will be trained for maintaining and managing the distance learning platform and knowledge management portal. However, the skills acquired in this project can and will be re-used in other educational and research area, thus becoming enabling skills for further educational projects

2.2 Publications and other outputs

During the projects, we are aiming to achieve the following results:· Exchanging 22 master students from Asia to Europe· Exchanging 22 PhD students between Asia to Europe· Exchanging 15 young faculties between Asia to Europe· Exchanging of 40 scholars (senior researchers)· Publishing more than 30 journal, conference, workshop papers· Organizing three summer school· Organizing three Asian Semantic Web Conferences· Supporting the attendance of Asian students to more than 10 international conferences,

workshops and seminars· Organizing at least 3 seminars in Asia· Organizing at least 3 international Forums in Asia

Target journals:· IEEE Computer· IEEE Intelligent System· IEEE Internet Computing· Artificial Intelligence· Data and Knowledge Engineering· IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering· The Knowledge Engineering Review· Information Processing and Management· Journal of the American Society on Information Sciences· Journal of Automated Software Engineering· International Journal of Human-Computer Studies· International Journal of Expert System

Target conferences, workshops· International World Wide Web Conference· International Semantic Web Conference· International Conference on Very-Large Database· European Semantic Web Conference· European Conference on Artificial Intelligence· International Joint Conference on AI· International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering· International Web Services Conference· International Workshop on Description Logics· International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management· International Conference in Information Retrieval (SIGIR annual conference)

2.3 Multiplier effects

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EASTWEB will document our exchange and training programs in appropriate documents (such as Reference Curriculum, Master Program Blueprint, PhD program Blueprint, etc..) Other interested universities can take this as the guidelines to duplicate similar programs or activities. Since we are covering a quite broader area of Asia (India, Thailand and China), our documented guidelines will help similar universities or institutions in these Asian regions to look for the potential European collaboration partners for exchanging students and training staff.

In the long term plan:

we will support and coordinate the training of the next generation of middle and top research management in both European and Asian networked enterprises. Moreover, by establishing and enacting a faculty staff mobility activity, we will expose young educators to innovative educational methodologies, platforms and tools. These exchanges will further strengthen the training of a new generation of future IT educators, capable to use the new methodologies and tools in different domains.

we will provide a coherent and extensive distance learning courseware based on the exchanged

master and PhD programs. Therefore our documented results will be accessible by a broader audience. Based on the project, we will gain more experience with working with Asian students and Asian staff. Our courseware can be specially tailored to the culture of the Asian regions which can be better understood by Asian students and staff.

we will organize the Asian Semantic Web summer school, where more Asian students and young industrial players will have chance to get educated by the leading international Semantic Web experts. Therefore our efforts and outcomes will be proposed to a broader audience. The continuous organization of the Asian Semantic Web Conference will increase the chances for the potential industrial collaboration. The outcomes of the project can be disseminated via this channel so that more people will be aware of our efforts and results. The possibility to replicate our outcomes is highly increasing.

we will establish agreements between European universities and Asian universities for the double or joint master and PhD programs, which can make the program run longer than the funding period.

we will set up the EASTWEB Portal, which will continue to live after the project ends. We will exploit the EASTWEB Knowledge portal to sustain and integrate high education and research efforts in the topic of Semantic Web in Europe and Asia after the project ends.

we will create a cluster of global (European and Asian) enterprises, whose main goal will be to harvest the highly specialized human resources trained within EASTWEB and the research results. These companies will be kept constantly informed of the activities in EASTWEB. Among others, our goal is to make sure that students will be hired by those companies which can make the best use of the student’s technological and multicultural skills developed in EASTWEB.

During the duration of the project, we will start to look for the future funding, which include the national funding in Asia and Europe, EU funding, Asia region funding, university level funding, industrial sponsoring and so on.

2.4 Short- and long-term impact

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(a) The financial aspect (how will activities be financed when the grant ends?)

As we stated before, we will seek for future funding when the grant ends. EASTWEB will create the momentum necessary to sustain new activities. This will be done: by exploiting both the infrastructure created (e.g. the EASTWEB Portal, Research and Industrial

Network) as well as the human relations developed during the project. The EASTWEB consortium will make this objective a very high priority in the project applications that the partners will make to their reference funding agencies. As an example, in China alone, there exists 863 funding which encourages the international collaboration between China and Europe and USA. The consortium will explore this as well as other similar channels to extend the educational activities created during the project.

by align ourselves to related academic and industrial on-going project, like – Knowledge Web, VIKEF, and others. In particular, we will join the education cluster of the Knowledge Web, where Virtual Institute for Semantic Web Education (VISWE) – an non-profit organization will be established to focus on various educational activities in Semantic Web area. We will also join the industrial cluster in Knowledge Web where the Ontology Outreach Authority (OOA) – an non-profit organization will be established to outreach Semantic Web technology to industry. By join these two non-profit organizations, our efforts will continue to run when the grant ends.

by executing EASTWEB networking activities we will try to attract industrial sponsored projects. More specifically, we will try to link our graduate programs to meet local industrial needs, to provide local industry with the best quality graduate students for onsite working for joint projects. Involving future and present management of European and Asian IT enterprises will be critical for building an international industrial community on Semantic Web applications. The academic and industrial collaboration is in fact one long term target of the consortium.

(b) Institutional level (Will structures allowing the activities to continue be in place at the end of the action? Will there be local "ownership" of action outcomes?)

At the end of the project the following agreements will be established between Asian and European universities and running with their strength:

o Double Degree Master programs on the Semantic Web o Joint PhD programs on the Semantic Web o Asian Semantic Web Conference serieso Summer School on Semantic Webo EASTWEB Research Networko EASTWEB Enterprise Network

The interest to cooperate will be formalized in structured bilateral or multilateral cooperation agreements that will cover a wider period beyond the project life.

While academic costs will be directly covered by participating institutions, further possibilities of funding (and awarding grants for student mobility) will be investigated at local, national and international level and diffused within the partnership to support student exchanges and traineeships. In particular we will link to on-going mobility projects (like the Erasmus Mundus European Master in Informatics) and explore the feasibility to invest in a specific Erasmus Mundus proposal for a Master course in Semantic Web.

The participating Asian and European institutions are at present encouraging the European collaboration in teaching and researching. For instance, the collaboration between the University of Trento and the Tata Institute of Fundamental research India has been established before this proposal. Their good and trust collaboration has been already for several years. The collaboration of the University of Innsbruck with the Asia Institute of Technology Thailand has started in 2001. So the participated institutions support our activities. This support will be continued after the project.

An important agreement is being refined between Italy and India for the establishment of a Joint Research Center in Trento. The signature of the agreement will take place in Delhi on February 14, 2005 and will be signed by the Ministry of Education of both countries. The future institutional

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activities of this Joint research Center will be beneficial both for the training and research activities and also for possible scholarships for Indian students.

(c) Policy level (What structural impact will the action have - e.g. will it lead to improved legislation, codes of conduct, methods, etc?)

During the execution of the project, the involved universities will need to define a schema for mutual internationally recognition of academic credentials. Moreover, it will be necessary to define legislation or codes of conduct for carrying out common academic and research activities. Other interested universities can take these body of knowledge as guidelines to duplicate similar programs or activities. Since we are covering a quite broader area of Asia (India, Thailand and China), our documented guidelines will help similar universities or institutions in these Asian regions.

Within the project, we will define a reference curriculum for Graduate (Master and PhD) program in Semantic Web. We will review existing curricula, courses, material, and teaching experiences in Europe and Asia as well as analyze the demands and trends of the labor market. On this base we will arrive at the definition of mutual agreements for double or Joint degree recognition

By sustaining the increase of student exchanges at the graduate level (Master and PhD) EASTWEB aims to support and coordinate the training of the next generation of middle and top research management in both European and Asian networked enterprises. The graduate students involved in the project will be hired by those Asian and European companies which can make the best use of both the student’s technological and multicultural skills

By providing a coherent and extensive distance learning courseware, based on the exchanged master and PhD programs we will foster the use of distance education platforms and tools Our documented results will be accessible by a broader audience. Moreover, we will gain more experience with working with Asian students and Asian staff. Our courseware can be specially tailored to the culture of the Asian regions which can be better understood by participating Asian students and staff.

By creating a Semantic Web Asian community, we will contribute to the development of successful real application in this domain. Asia is a big potential market for Internet and Web related application due to the fast development of the economy and to the number of potential end users, Through this project, Asia will play a major role in the development of the next generation Internet, the Semantic Web.

By supporting the creation of a cluster of global (European and Asian) enterprises we will increase the number of integrated industrial activities in the Semantic Web application domain

3. Budget for the action

Please find in the following sections:

Annex B.1 Project budgetAnnex B.2 Budget Justification DocumentAnnex B.3 Expected sources of funding

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Annex B.1

Budget

Fill in Annex B (worksheet 1) for the total duration of the action and for its first 12 months.

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Annex B.2

Budget Justification Document

A separate budget justification document should be added to justify the number of units and the unit rate applied. It should also explain salary rates, number of per diem days, number or flights or other travel items, purchase of equipment, etc

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Annex B.3

Expected sources of fundingFill in Annex B (worksheet 2) to provide information on the expected sources of funding for the action.

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II. THE APPLICANT

1. Identity

Full legal name (business name):

Università degli studi di Trento

Acronym(where applicable)

UNITN - University of Trento

Legal status1 Public University

VAT registration number(where applicable):

00340520220

Official address2 Via Belenzani 12 - 38100 Trento (Italy)

Postal address Via Verdi, 6 - 38100 Trento (Italy)

Contact person Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia (Scientific Coord) Ms. Marcella Orrù (Administrative Coord)

Telephone number +39-0461-883234/6

Fax number +39-0461.88.2917

E-mail fausto.giunchiglia@unitn.it marcella.orru@unitn.it

Internet site www.unitn.it

2. Bank detailsThe bank must be located in the country where the applicant is registered.

Account name Università degli studi di Trento

Account number 001635

Sort code BATBIT2T

IBAN code (optional) IT39T 03240 01801 00001 0001635

Bank name BTB Banca di Trento e Bolzano

Address of bank Via Mantova 19 -38100 Trento

Name of signatory/ies Davide Bassi

Position of signatory/ies Rector

NB: Before the grant contract is signed, the applicants selected will have to supply a financial identification form using the model in Annex V to the contract, certified by the bank named above.

1 e.g. state whether the applicant is a for-profit or not-for-profit organisation.2

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Correspondent bank (where relevant)

Account name

Account number

Sort code

IBAN code (optional)

Bank name

Address of bank

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3. Description of applicant (one page maximum)

3.1 When was your organisation founded and when did it start its activities?

In 1962 the Istituto Universitario Superiore di Scienze Sociali (Social Sciences University) was founded in Trento by Bruno Kessler, president of the Provincial Council at the time, as part of a process of modernisation of a rather traditional society. The original courses offered by the Istituto Universitario Superiore di Scienze Sociali (Social Sciences University) were increased in 1972 by the creation of the Sciences Faculty (which included the first two years of the Engineering course) and then again in 1973 when the faculty of Economics was opened. 1984 saw the opening of two new faculties, Arts and Law, while the faculty of Engineering was opened in 1985 and the seventh Faculty of Cognitive sciences started in 2004.In 1982 under the Italian Governmental laws (Constitutive Act Law of 14 August 1982, n. 590) the free University became a public University. At present around 16.000 students are enrolled at the University which employes around 500 teaching staff and 600 administrative staff. The educational and research activities and related services of the University cover an annual budget of about 110.000 K Euro.

3.2. What are the main activities of your organisation at present?

In the last three years in the ranking of Italian Universities made out by the Italian Ministry of Education and the National Statistics Bureau (CENSIS), Trento got one of first three places for its international activities, as well as for the quality of teaching some of the Faculties (Economics, Sociology, Engineering and Law), and sixth place for the Faculty of Science. Both teaching and research activities are performed.The offer of post graduate courses, to be added to the "standard" offer of Master and Doctoral studies in Economics, Engineering, Law, Literature and Arts, Science and Sociology covers:

- Course on environment management and control (Faculty of Engineering) - Advanced course in European and trans-national law (Faculty of Law)- Master in e-Commerce law (Faculty of Law) - Master’s degree in Development of the Balkans (Faculties of Economics, Law and Sociology for Balkans executives and Officers training.)- 1st level Master’s degree in nonprofit organisations and social co-operatives management ( ISSAN)- School of International Studies of Trento (enrolment by February 15th)- Specialisation school for the legal professions (Faculty of Law)- SSIS – Teacher Training School for High school teaching (Rovereto)- Master of Art and Culture Management (Trento School of management)- Master of Tourism Management (Trento School of management)

The University held the only Italian doctorate school in Information and Communication Technologies with 30 or more PhD students per year where half of the student are not Italian nationals and come from non-EU countries. A chair on International Peace is assigned to the Dalai Lama.The University of Trento is member of the national project Campus one and is involved as member or as coordinator in the following networks: Asea Uninet (International Coordinator in the years 2002 -2003), AT&Q (founder and coordinator), GE4 (member of the Board), Italia – Indonesia (Coordinator), Leonet (Member), Vietnet (Coordinator), and member of Alpe Adria, Time, CRE – Fiume, Italian-French University.

A field of excellence regards the award of double degrees with European partner Universities in: Economics (Bremen, Dresden, Freiberg, Madrid, Strasbourg), Sociology (Dresden, Eichstätt, Granada), Physics (Tübingen), Engineering (Freiberg and Innsbruck), and Humanities (Dresden) and inter univeity cooperation supported by bilateral agreements with about fifty universities in fifteen different Countries.

A strong network activity is held under Leonardo da Vinci programme with around 300 partners both companies and Universities to promote students, graduates and staff mobility as well as pilot projects.

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3.3. List of the management board / committee of your organisation

The board is renewed each 4 years the members with the * served also in the former board.

Name Profession Sex Position Years on the board

prof. Davide Bassi professor M University Rector 2004-2008

dott. Innocenzo Cipolletta *

Enterpreneur, former chairman of Confidustria (Italian Industry Association)

M

Chairman

2004-2008

prof. Mario Fedrizzi Professor M University Vice Rector 2004-2008dott. Marco Tomasi * Manager M Chief executive 2004-2008prof. Aronne Armanini Professor M Representing the professors 2004-2008prof. Maurizio Manzin * Professor M Representing the professors 2004-2008prof. Corrado Priami Professor M Representing the professors 2004-2008prof. Maurizio Giangiulio Professor M Representing the professors 2004-2008prof. Franco Molinari Professor M Representing the professors 2004-2008prof. Sergio Fabbrini Professor M Representing the professors 2004-2008prof. Bruno Firmani Professor M Representing the professors 2004-2008prof. Paola Giacomoni * Associate Professor F Representing the associated professors 2004-2008prof. Francesca Castellani Associate Professor F Representing the associated professors 2004-2008prof. Giovanni Straffelini Associate Professor M Representing the associated professors 2004-2008prof. Lorenzo Battisti Associate Professor M Representing the associated professors 2004-2008prof. Michele Fedrizzi Associate Professor M Representing the associated professors 2004-2008prof. Barbara Marchetti Associate Professor F Representing the associated professors 2004-2008prof. Paola Venuti Associate Professor F Representing the associated professors 2004-2008dott. Flavio Bazzana Researcher M Representing the researchers 2004-2008dott. Sergio Bonini Researcher M Representing the researchers 2004-2008dott. Luca Lutterotti Researcher M Representing the researchers 2004-2008dott. Roberto Pignatelli Researcher M Representing the researchers 2004-2008dott. Fabrizio Granelli Researcher M Representing the researchers 2004-2008dott. Emanuela Renzetti Researcher F Representing the researchers 2004-2008Matteo Fadini Univ. Student M Representing the students 2004-2008Antonella Costanzo Univ. Student F Representing the students 2004-2008Lorenzo Fellin Univ. Student M Representing the students 2004-2008Francesco Planchenstainer Univ. Student M Representing the students 2004-2008dott. Giulia Boato Univ.PHd Student F Representing the PHD students 2004-2008dott. Nicola Polito Univ.PHd Student M Representing the PhD students 2004-2008Tiziano Forchini Univ. Officer M Representing the administrative staff 2004-2008dott. Vanessa Ravagni Univ. Officer F Representing the administrative staff 2004-2008dott. Maria Cristina Osele Lawyer F Representing the administrative staff 2004-2008

dott. Innocenzo Cipolletta PAT Representative M Representing the Provincia Autonoma di Trento (PAT)

2004-2008

prof. Livio Caffieri* PAT Representative M Representing the Provincia Autonoma di Trento (PAT)

2004-2008

ing. Rino Tarolli EngineerPAT Representative

M Representing the Provincia Autonoma di Trento (PAT)

2004-2008

avv. Cesare Geat Lawyer M Representing the Regione T.A.A. 2004-2008dott. Alberto Pacher* Mayor of Trento M Representing the Municipality of Trento 2004-2008

dott.ssa Donata Loss* Deputy Mayor of the Town of Rovereto

F Representing the Municipality of Rovereto 2004-2008

prof. Claudio Eccher M Representing the Italian Government 2004-2008dott. Ettore Zampiccoli M Representing the Italian Government 2004-2008

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dott.ssa Ilaria Vescovi Member of CCIAA F Representing the Chamber of Commerce 2004-2008prof. Vincenzo Bonmassar Workers Union M n. 1 rappresentante dei Lavoratori 2004-2008

Paolo Mondini Enterpreneur M Representing the local entrepreneurs association

2004-2008

dott. Andrea Zanotti Director of ITC M Representing the Istituto Trentino di Cultura (I.T.C).Research Institute

2004-2008

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4. Capacity to manage and implement actions4.1. Experience of similar actions

General Activity of the CoordinatorThe University of Trento has a consolidated experience in submission and management of research and cooperation projects. In the past few years has presented almost a hundred project proposal for the "Fifth EU Framework Programme For RTD", with a 50% rate of accepted and funded projects and is now active in the 6FP. All these projects involved a wide range of European partners and allowed international mobility and training.

Moreover since the early nineties the International relation office has promoted a number of international projects and successful bilateral co-operations.In the field of exchanges and mobility we take part in Leonardo da Vinci programme (since 95, with more than 250 partners yearly, more than 800 mobility grants, and an annual budget ranging around 400.000 Euros), Erasmus Socrates (since 88-89. Yearly 200 IN+300 outgoing mobilities)...., UNITN has been for 5 years (1998-2003) National coordinator of the EU-China Junior managers training programme and participates in the EU-Canada Project “Cultural production in an international environment” (2000-2004) and in the EU Australia Project “EAAPN An European Australian Asia Pacific nexus”. Former participations in Alfa, Tempus projects and forthcoming Asia Link cooperations are envisaged. Annual summer schools are promoted in different specialistic fields.The University hosts the Graduate Research Center on Europe of the American University (Washinghton) and promote the Multicultural University a special project aimed at facilitating the access to the advanced training to students coming from the developing countries, to children of Trentino’s emigrants and young people studying at Italian schools abroad; it also aims to increase scientific cooperation with the countries of the former Soviet Union, and those of Asia and Eastern Europe.The cooperation with Asian countries started in 1982 under the form of bilateral coooperation with Chinese universities. At present MOUs are active with Beijing University; Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai; Tongij University, Tongij; Zhejiang University, Hangzhou; Zhejiang School of Management, Hangzhou promoting both Joung and Senior faculty mobility.Further cooperation with Jistec (Japan) and Vietnam has enhanced mobitity towards / from these countries.Cooperations with about 50 Asian universities (of which 6 are Indonesian, 5 Vietnamese, 6 Indian and 16 Thailandese) are active under different schemes.

In the meantime in 1997 has been established within the University of Trento the Martino Martini Centre, an association entitled to a Jesuit (Trento1614- Hangzou1661) that in those times promoted the knowledge of Chinese culture in Europe. The Centre supports bilateral cultural promotion and understanding with China, and promotes joint seminars, exchange of experts, on site visits and relevant historical and scientific publications also acting as a consultant for economic and cultural operators in Europe and China.

Networks The University of Trento is member of several networks which facilitate and

implement the international impact of its actions. Since 99 is in Asea Uninet, an international network of over 60 Universities in Europe and SE Asia: Unitn got the international Chaimanship in 2002-2003 organizing a Plenary meeting with 82 participants: Rectors,representatives of the Embassies of related Countries and of partnered Universities.

Two more networks with Indonesia and Vietnam also co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs have promoted further cooperation and research activities in the areas of Engineering, Economics and Medicine.

The participation in networks such as GE4 (www.ge4.org) where UNITN is the only Italian University among more than 100 Universities in the world and in Asia as well, facilitate the mobility providing a standard frame for quality and services commonly shared by participating institutions. One of the main issues is to promote transparency and recognition of qualifications for engineers ad enterpreneurs in an international context by providind periods of study and /or interships at a partnered University. Such activities have provided a number of tools to cope with practical and cultural problems arising by the different ways these issues are dealt, helping us to understand and manage the assets springing from diversity.

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As regards the management of International projects and International networks we can mention the following projects. It is to be stressed that Leonardo mobility (students graduates and staff) moves an annual budget of more than 400.000 Euros

YearProgramme or

Action ID Contractor Title of the project Ref. body

2000 L. da Vinci 2 120255 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Students Isfol CEC –NA

2000 L. da Vinci 2 120261 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Graduate

Isfol CEC – NA

2001 L. da Vinci 2 120334 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Graduate

Isfol CEC – NA

2001 L. da Vinci 2 120343 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Students

Isfol CEC – NA

2002 L. da Vinci 2 120127 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Students

Isfol CEC – NA

2002 L. da Vinci 2 120136 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and QualityGraduate

Isfol CEC – NA

2003 L. da Vinci 2 154309 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Students

Isfol CEC – NA

2003 L. da Vinci 2 154310 University of Trento Staff X-changes Isfol CEC – NA

2003 L. da Vinci 2 154311 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Graduates

Isfol CEC – NA

2004 L. da Vinci 2 154430 University of Trento Staff X-changes 04 Isfol CEC – NA

2004 L. da Vinci 2 154444 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Students

Isfol CEC – NA

2004 L. da Vinci 2 154445 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Graduates

Isfol CEC – NA

98 Jean Monnet 98/0328 University of Trento Jean Monnet Chair EU Commission

99 Jean Monnet 99/0352 University of Trento

Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence EU Commission

2003 Jean Monnet 2003-3219/001-002 University of Trento

Jean Monnet Module EU Commission

2003 Jean Monnet 2003-3767/001-001 Cen Cenre

University of Trento

Jean Monnet Summer school 03 EU Commission

2004 Jean Monnet 2004-2097/001-001 Cen Cenre

University of Trento

Jean Monnet summer school 04 EU Commission

97-98 ALFA 501146 University of Trento

The integration process in dispersed regions and their planning EU Commission

2004 Alfa University of Piraeus

Wee Net web engineering network of excellence

EU Commission

2003 Tempus JEP 24217-2003Universitaet

Koblenz Landau

System modernisation of the University management

EU Commission

2003 Tempus JEP 24214-2003 University of Magdeburg

Transformation des Lehrprozesses an der BSU Minsk auf der basis von ECTS

kompatiblen Technologien

EU Commission

2003 EU Australia 2003 S12 3673 62 Sciences PO EAAPN An European Australian Asia Pacific nexus

EU Commission

2001 EU Canada 2001-1213/001-001 HUMAK (Fin) Cultural producation in an internationa environment EU Commission

99-2000

Socrates Erasmus

29348-IC-3-98-1-IT-Erasmus-EPS-1

University of Trento

Programma Socrates – Contratto istituzionale Erasmus EU Commission

2000-01

Socrates Erasmus

29348-IC-4-99-1-IT-Erasmus-EPS-1

University of Trento

Programma Socrates – Contratto istituzionale Erasmus EU Commission

2001-02

Socrates Erasmus

29348-IC-5-2000-1-IT-Erasmus-EPS-1

University of Trento

Programma Socrates – Contratto istituzionale Erasmus EU Commission

2002-03

Socrates Erasmus

29348-IC-6-2001-1-IT-Erasmus-EPS-1

University of Trento

Programma Socrates – Contratto istituzionale Erasmus EU Commission

2003-04

Socrates Erasmus

29348-IC-7-2002-1-IT-Erasmus-Euc-1

University of Trento

Programma Socrates – Contratto istituzionale Erasmus EU Commission

2004 Erasmus Mundus 2004-0009/001 University of

Trento EUMI-European Master in Informatics Eu Commission

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Maximum 1 page per action. Please provide a detailed description of actions managed by your organisation over the past five years in the fields covered by this programme, taking care to identify for each action:

INDIA-TRENTO PROGRAM FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH (ITPAR)Started in March 2002 as a bilateral cooperation between the Italian and the Indian Governments (5th session of the Italo-Indian Joint Committee for Scientific and Technologic Cooperatio held in Rome on 11-12 March 2002)Research Projects undertaken regardoMicrosystems“Development of Micromachined Inertial Accelerometers and Flow Sensors for Environmental and Bio-medical Applications”Italian Coordinator: Mario Zen ITC-irstIndian Coordinator: Santiram Kal IIT Kharagpur oComputer Science“Automated Knowledge Level Software Engineering”Italian Coordinator: Fausto Giunchiglia Università degli Studi di TrentoIndian Coordinator: R.K. Shyamasundar TIFR, MumbayoPhysics and Material Science“Research & Development of Active Bulk and Planar Waveguides based on Nanostructured Glassy Systems”Italian Coordinator: Giuseppe Dalba Università degli Studi di TrentoIndian Coordinator: D. Narayana Rao, University of HyderabadoTelecommunications“Advanced Techniques for Remote Sensing Image Processing and Recognition”Italian Coordinator: Lorenzo Bruzzone, Università degli Studi di TrentoIndian Coordinator: Subhasis Chaudhuri, IIT Mumbay

(a) the object and location of the action : The actions take place in Italy and In India (b) the results of the action The action aims at creating a promoting technical and scientific

cooperation enhancing the mobility of researcher and the organisation of thematic workshops (c) Training of Human resources by means of grants for long term mobility targeted to post doc

students and researchers (Bose-Romagnosi Fellowships), And short term mobility for senior faculty;

(d) Start-up or improvement of research laboratories and structures aimed at a more effective share of research activities.

(e) The project moves more than 60 fellows from India to Italy and a number of mobilities from Italy to India.

(f) your organisation's role (lead manager or partner) and its degree of involvement in the action The University of Trento is the General coordinator and manager of the project.

(g) the cost of the action Euros 200.000xYx3

(h) donors to the action (name, address and e-mail, telephone number, amount contributed)are Italian Ministry of Foreign affairs, University of Trento , ITC , Autonomous Province of Trento.

This information will be used to assess whether you have sufficient experience of managing actions in the same sector of a comparable scale to the one for which you are requesting a grant.

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Maximum 1 page per action. Please provide a detailed description of actions managed by your organisation over the past five years in the fields covered by this programme, taking care to identify for each action:

KNOWLEDGE WEB

(i) the object and location of the action

Knowledge Web is a FP6 Network of Excellence that aims to support the transition of Ontology technology from Academia to Industry. This main goal translates into three main objectives given the nature of such a transformation:(1) Industry requires immediate support in taking up this complex and new technology. Languages and interfaces need to be standardized to reduce the effort and provide scalability to solutions. Methods and use cases need to be provided to convince and to provide guidelines for how to work with this technology(2) Important support to industry is provided by developing high-class education in the area of semantic web, web services, and Ontologies(3) Research on Ontologies and the semantic web has not yet reached its goals. New areas such as the combination of semantic web with web services realizing intelligent web services require serious new research efforts.

In a nutshell, the mission of Knowledge Web is to strengthen the European software industry in one of the most important areas of current computer technology: Semantic web enabled eWork and eCommerce. Naturally, this includes education and research efforts to ensure the durability of impact and support of industry.

The current consortium is integrated by 18 participants including leading partners in Semantic Web, Multimedia, Human Language Technology, Workflow and Agents.

(j) the results of the actionExpected results:- Ontology language, tool, and method set that cover all the major tasks in working with ontologies;- Standards to solve the interoperability problem;- Creation of an Ontology Outreach Authority (OOA);- Establish a Virtual Institute for Semantic Web Education (VISWE);- Provide up to date learning materials, curricula and, ultimately, new degree programmes;- Dissemination of research results throughpublications and norms;- Lectures;- Industry seminars and tutorials;- KnowledgeWeb semantic portal

(k) your organisation's role (lead manager or partner) and its degree of involvement in the action

Partner

(l) the cost of the action

€ 6.700.000,00 in three years (m) donors to the action (name, address and e-mail, telephone number, amount contributed)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION € 6.700.000,00

This information will be used to assess whether you have sufficient experience of managing actions in the same sector of a comparable scale to the one for which you are requesting a grant.

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Maximum 1 page per action. Please provide a detailed description of actions managed by your organisation over the past five years in the fields covered by this programme, taking care to identify for each action:

(n) the object and location of the actionErasmus MundusThe University of Trento (Italy), as the coordinator, the RWTH Aachen University (Germany), and the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) are offering a two-years Joint Master Programme, named European Master in Informatics (EuMI). The objective is to educate professionals who will understand advanced techniques, tools, and methodologies in the field of Computer Science, and who will be able to put this knowledge to practice in key application domains. In particular, EuMI offers three areas of specialization in Net-Centric Informatics, Life-Science Informatics, and Embedded Systems Informatics. These are application domains that, being emergent, rapidly evolving, and of growing impact on the society, require specialized competencies not covered by more traditional degree programmes. For each area of specialization, a Joint Curriculum is defined which involves two Universities. The student undertaking the Curriculum will visit both Universities, taking courses focusing on advanced topics in Theoretical and Practical Computer Science and on the selected area of specialization. Courses are taught in English and are structured according to the ECTS (European Credit Transfer System). Students will undertake courses on the culture and language of the visited European countries. At the end of the Programme, a Master Thesis will be prepared on a research topic jointly selected with the two visited Universities. At the successful completion of EuMI, students will be awarded a Master of Informatics and will receive a degree from each of the Universities where they spent a part of their study: a "Laurea Specialistica in Informatica" ("Specialist Degree in Computer Science") by the University of Trento, a "Master of Science in Computer Science" by the RWTH Aachen University, a "Master of Science in Informatics" by the University of Edinburgh.

(o) the results of the actionAfter completing the EuMI programme the student will possess the competencies necessary for the design and implementation of complex software systems, including their embedding in technical and socio-technical systems. The design of the programme takes full advantage of the environment offered within the consortium, involving leading Universities in Europe.The student will achieve knowledge in both theoretical and applied Computer Science, which will allow him/her to adapt quickly to the changes in this constantly evolving field. This knowledge will cover the general foundations of Computer Science, as well as the specific aspects related to the area of specialization of the student. The student will also attain expertise in putting his/her knowledge into practice, by participating to projects in laboratories or to stages in local companies. Moreover, the student will attain the practical competencies on project management which are necessary for an effective application of the knowledge acquired.

(p) your organization's role (lead manager or partner) and its degree of involvement in the action

Coordinator

(q) the cost of the action

€ 474.00,00 FOR THE FIRST TWO YEARS

(r) donors to the action (name, address and e-mail, telephone number, amount contributed)EUROPEAN COMMISSION € 474.00,00

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Maximum 1 page per action. Please provide a detailed description of actions managed by your organisation over the past five years in the fields covered by this programme, taking care to identify for each action:

VIKEF: VIRTUAL INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE ENVIRONMENT FRAMEWORK

(a) the object and location of the action

Effective acquisition, organization, processing, sharing, and use of the knowledge embedded in textual and multimedia content as well as in information- and knowledge-based work processes supporting Knowledge Value Chain (KVC) processes play a major role for competitiveness in the modern information society and for the emerging knowledge economy. However, this wealth of knowledge implicitly conveyed in the vast amount of available digital content is nowadays only accessible, if considerable manual effort has been invested into its interpretation and semantic annotation, which is possible only for a small fraction of the available content.

VIKEF bridges the gap between the partly implicit knowledge and information conveyed in scientific and business content resources (e.g. text, speech, images) and the explicit representation of knowledge required for a targeted and effective access, dissemination, sharing, use, and annotation of ICK resources by scientific and business communities and their information- and knowledge-based work processes. R&D within VIKEF builds on and significantly extends the current Semantic Web efforts by addressing crucial operationalisation and application challenges in building up real-world semantically enriched virtual information and knowledge environments.VIKEF tackles challenges like:• How to (semi-)automatically build up the tailored ontologies required for semantic annotation from textual and multimedia application content• How to efficiently link vast amounts of ICK resources to these ontologies• How to reuse this semantic information to gain added value within KVC applications• How to consistently handle content-, community, and domain-driven evolution in such environments

The current consortium is integrated by 14 participants

(b) the results of the actionVIKEF performs challenging R&D in the following areas: Supporting the Acquisition of scientific and business ICK resources (including multimedia

resources and live presentations) from a wide variety of sources. Supporting the Annotation of ICK resources with semantic information gained by semi-automatic

opening up of linguistic resources (text, speech, etc.) based on ontology-based domain models.. Supporting the Semantic Annotation of Image, Video, and Multimedia documents by semi-

automatic analysis and semantic extraction taking into account the specific characteristics of different media types and context knowledge focusing the extraction process.

Supporting Semantic Representation as well as Interoperability and Integration of heterogeneous semantic annotations and knowledge objects liketaxonomies, ontologies etc.

Supporting the Collaborative Processing and Reuse of semantic annotations and knowledge about users and user groups for context-aware interpretation, dissemination and visualization of ICK resources

(c) your organisation's role (lead manager or partner) and its degree of involvement in the actionPartner

(d) the cost of the action

€ 5.560.000,00 in three years

(e) donors to the action (name, address and e-mail, telephone number, amount contributed)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION € 5.560.000,00

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Maximum 1 page per action. Please provide a detailed description of actions managed by your organisation over the past five years in the fields covered by this programme, taking care to identify for each action:

SMTPP: SOFTWARE METHODOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY FOR PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEMS

(a) the object and location of the action

The explosive growth of application areas such as electronic commerce, enterprise resource planningand mobile computing has profoundly and irreversibly changed our views of Software and Information Technology. Software must now be based on open architectures that continuously change and evolve to accommodate new components and meet new requirements. In order to meet these new requirements, research areas such as Software Engineering, Databases and Information Systems need to develop new concepts, tools and techniques for engineering and managing software.

In this project we propose to advance the state of the art in these areas with a focus on Peer-to-Peer systems. In particular, we propose to develop methodologies and technologies for building and using them. Peer-to-peer systems consist of a totally decentralized, open-ended and continuously evolving network of peers. Each peer owns data sources and services which it can make available to other peers it is acquainted with.Peers can look for other peers who offer particular services, compose services to meet their own objectives, and execute them. Peers may be human, looking for services from other peers (as with Gnutella), or software agents, or some combination thereof (a human peer assisted by a software agent).

(b) the results of the actionThe project will span three different levels: methodological, technological, and domain. At the methodological level, we will develop an Agent-Oriented Software Engineering methodology

for building peer-to-peer systems using results from Multi-Agent Systems and Requirements Engineering.

At the technological level, we will focus on technologies and tools for building and evolving peer-to-peer software systems. In particular, we propose to use peer-to-peer architectures for developing open, dynamic, distributed systems for data management and knowledge management.

At the domain level, we plan to apply the methodologies developed by the other two levels to selected application domains of strategicimportance to Trentino, namely: eGovernment, Home care services for the elderly, Medical informatics, and Enterprise integration.

(c) your organisation's role (lead manager or partner) and its degree of involvement in the action

Partner

(d) the cost of the action

€ 1.625.000,00 in three years

(e) donors to the action (name, address and e-mail, telephone number, amount contributed)PROVINCIA AUTONOMA DI TRENTO Piazza Dante, 15 - 38100 Trento (Italy),tel. +39 0461 495111provinciatn@provincia.tn.it

€ 1.625.000,00

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4.2 Resources

Maximum 3 pages. Please provide a detailed description of the various resources which your organisation has access to, and in particular, of the following:

annual income over the last three years, mentioning where applicable for each year, the names of the main financial backers and the proportion of annual income each has contributed

The University of Trento budget has been stable with a fairly moderate increase of around 10% yearly, mostly due to special projects. Its total Income for 2003 is at 101.222.499 of Euro with a positive result toward the general fund of the University for 184.584 Euro. Its financial turnaround for 2003 has been a financial income of 110.122.377 Euro. As a public University, it is subject to the annual audit of the Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of Finances.

UTrento draws its budget from the following main sources:- The Ministry of Education and Research, the annual co-funding to the budget of the University has

been essentially stable if not slightly increasing the last three years. The percentage of co-funding to the University budget is calculated on the basis of the number of students enrolled their proficiency and effectiveness in graduating. The Ministry of Finances provides extra funding to the budget with a special agreement, due to the autonomous nature of the province of Trento. (total 55.963KEuro in 2003 vs 55.423KEuro in 2002)

- The students fees (mostly undergraduate students) whose amount has been slightly increasing in the last four years to stabilize in the most recent years (total 8.972KEuro in 2003 vs 7.632KEuro in 2002).

- The Autonomous Province of Trento, (the local county administration) with a four years agreement, regularly renewed, grants a stable support to the construction and development of buildings for the University and special grants for the development of special areas such as ICT research and networking (total 11.287KEuro in 2003 vs 8.810Keuro in 2002). It also provides by means of a special Agency the “Opera Universitaria”, further support to students with low family income, disabled students and services like lodging, cafeterias and other general services .

- European Union, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Science Foundations, Italian Space Agency, European Space Agency and private contractors provide extra funds on the basis of projects submission (total 5.319K in 2003 vs 5.454K in 2002). This activity is subjected to minor fluctuations due to different success rates and call openings by funders and contractors. On the basis of a principle of financial prudence funds related to this activity are accounted as income when the projects have been successfully completed (and reported to the funder). Therefore the actual financial income reported in the financial statement is usually larger than the value reported in the income statement.

the number of full-time and part-time staff by category (e.g. number of project managers, accountants, etc), indicating their place of employment

The University of Trento has 489 administrative and technical staff members with a permanent employment contract and 128 with a temporary employment contract. It has also a large number of consultancies and short term contract of one year or less. Out of those administrative and technical staff 177 are classified as administrative managers and assistants and 162 are classified as administrative and budget managers and assistants. The other staff is attributed to the library services (45) and to technical support (eg ICT, or Department Labs).The Faculty of Sciences where Department of Information and Communication Technology is located has 9 dedicated member of staff in charge of managing accounts, finances and reporting. This excludes project-linked projects managers which are directly employed by the project on an individual basis. The International relations office of the University has 20 full time staff members (7 of them are permanent staff) that coordinates the various activities such as EU programmes, Bilateral, and multilateral agreements and international cooperation of the University. Over 40 personnel are employed at the Department of Accountancy, Budgeting and Planning

equipment and offices

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The university has 7 main sites corresponding to the faculties (Economics, Engineering, Law, Litera-ture and Fine Arts, Psychology, Sciences, Sociology), of which 6 are in Trento and one in Rovereto, plus a number of other additional buildings for the Administrations (Rettorato and Adminitration), the Univ. Library, the American Univ. other smaller sites for Departments when not already attached to a Faculty.

other relevant resources (e.g. volunteers, associated organisations, networks that might

also contribute to implementation). The university hosts cultural and students associations, other association like the CUS (the

sports centre ) and Engineers without frontiers; has special venues for conferences and meetings, a Jean Monnet Pole and four Centres of excellence.

the University of Trento is member of several networks which facilitate and implement the

international impact of its actions. Since 99 is in Asea Uninet, an international network of over 60 Universities in Europe and SE Asia, Unitn got the international Chaimanship in 2002-2003

Two more networks with Indonesia and Vietnam also co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs have promoted further cooperation and research activities in the related areas.

The participation in networks such as GE4 facilitate the mobility providing a standard frame and quality of services shared by participating institutions. Such activities have provided a number of tools to cope with problems arising from the wide geographical coverage of its activities.

Other Last week has been signed in Prague a MOU between the Ministries of Innovation (Lucio

Stanca), Ministry of Eduaction and Research (Letizia Moratti), Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and founder, the Counsellor for Resarch and Innovation of the Provincia Autonoma di Trento (Gianluca Salvatori) and The Fector of the University of Trento (Davide Bassi) to start in Trento a Microsoft Research – University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology.

A relevant number of PhD students (2/3 of them are awarded with a grant) support research activities.

enrolEnvironmental engineering 20 14Materials Engineering (+ Biomaterials) 22 19Electronic Devices 3 3Modelling, Preservation and Control of Materials and Structures 25 18

Physics 42 31Chemical Technologies 8 4Mathematics 21 17

Information and communication Technologies 63 57

Environmental Economy (+ Regional Geography) 7 5

Sociology and Social Research 14 10

Information systems and organisations 16 12

Methodology and Epistemology 7 5Narrative and Comparative Literature 11 5Classical Philology 8 5Music Studies 12 6Private Comparative Law 17 10Fundamental Freedoms in Constitutional and Administrative Law 15 8Criminal Law 8 3Historical Studies 17 10Criminology 22 13

grant

360 257Total

PhD programmesResearch

Mechanics of materials and structures 2 2

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5. Other applications made to European Institutions, the European Development Fund (EDF) and EU Member States

5.1 Grants, contracts and loans obtained over the last three years from European Institutions, the EDF and EU Member States

Action title and reference number EC budget line, EDF or other source

Amount (EUR) Date obtained

Cultura 20002004-1487/001-001 CLT CA22 Cultura 2000 89000 01/09/2004

Energy, environment and sustainable developmentEVG1-CT-2001-20003 FP 5 32846 01/02/2002

Environment and Sustainable developmentEVK3-2000-22059 FP 5 98600 01/02/2002

Hyppocrates 2001Developing a methodology for measuring organised crime in the EU: part one. A pilot study in Belgium, Italy, Sweden, and the European Union.

Hyppocrates 2001 11300 01/01/2002

Improving human potentialHPSE-CT-2002-00135 FP 5 137128 01/11/2002

Improving Human PotentialHPSE-CT-2002-00114 FP 5 181200 01/02/2003

Information Society TechnologyIST-2001-34001 FP 5 63008 01/03/2002

Innovative measures under Article 6 of the ESF Regulation:"Innovative approaches to the management of change"'VP/2003/021AWARE

Budget heading B2-1630

Interreg III B Alpine SpaceAlpNap

Interreg III B Alpine Space

Interreg III B Alpine SpaceForAlps

Interreg III B Alpine Space

IST - FETIST-2001-32072 IST - FET -FP 5 317820 01/01/2002

Marie Curie ChairsMEXC-CT-2003-2807 Marie Curie FP 6 679986 01/04/2004

Marie Curie Incoming International FellowshipMCIIF-CT-2004-002998 Marie Curie FP 6 145816 14/06/2004

Marie Curie Outgoing International FellowshipsMOIF-CT-2004-002884 Marie Curie FP 6 103681 06/07/2004

Marie Curie Research Training NetworkMRTN-CT-2003-506861 Marie Curie FP 6 184524 01/12/2004

Marie Curie Transfer of KnowledgeMTKD-CT-204-510136 Marie Curie FP 6 214595 01/12/2004 

P.1 Life sciences, genomics and biotechnology for healthLSHB-CT-2004-503243

FP 6 185000 01/03/2004

P.2 Information Society Technologies507482 FP 6 318233 18/12/2003

P.2 Information Society Technologies506869 FP 6 01/01/2004

P.2 Information Society Technologies507075 FP 6 129064 01/02/2004

P.2 Information Society Technologies507173 FP 6 364647 16/03/2004

P.2 Information Society Technology507838 FP 6 23994 01/01/2004

P.3 Nanotechnologies and nano-sciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new production processes and devicesNMP4-CT-2003-505634

FP 6 100000 01/03/2004

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P.3 Nanotechnologies and nano-sciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new production processes and devicesEXPERTISSUES

FP 6  

P.3 Nanotechnologies and nano-sciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new production processes and devices505285-1

FP 6 146968  

P.6 Sustainable development, global change and ecosystems505428

FP 6 01/06/2004

P.7 Citizens and Governance in a knowledge based societyCIT1-CT-2004-506392

FP 6 41900 01/09/2004

P.7 Citizens and Governance in a knowledge based societyCIT1-CT-2004-506392

FP 6 41900 01/09/2004

P.7 Citizens and Governance in a knowledge based society513330

FP 6

P.7 Citizens and Governance in a knowledge based society513420

FP 6

P.7 Citizens and Governance in a knowledge based societyESTER

FP 6 92601  01/06/2004

P.8 Policy oriented research502395 FP 6 25850  01/06/2004

P.8 Policy oriented research501634 FP 6 39750  01/05/2004

Programme "RFCS" – Coal and Steel proposalsRFS-CR-03034

Programme "RFCS" Coal and Steel proposals

115227 01/09/2003

Quality of lifeQLRT - 2001 - 02343 FP 5 150360 01/12/2002

Research Infrastructures001637 FP 6  

Research Training NetworksHPRN-CT-2002-00306 FP 5 197500 01/09/2002

Support of European Integration Activities organised by the Academic World - TWEG2001- 1635 / 001-001 CEN-CENRE

budget heading A-3022 20000 01/02/2002

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YearProgramme

or Action ID Contractor Title of the project Ref. body

2000 L. da Vinci 2 120255 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Students Isfol CEC –NA

2000 L. da Vinci 2 120261 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Graduate

Isfol CEC – NA

2001 L. da Vinci 2 120334 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Graduate

Isfol CEC – NA

2001 L. da Vinci 2 120343 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Students

Isfol CEC – NA

2002 L. da Vinci 2 120127 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Students

Isfol CEC – NA

2002 L. da Vinci 2 120136 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and QualityGraduate

Isfol CEC – NA

2003 L. da Vinci 2 154309 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Students

Isfol CEC – NA

2003 L. da Vinci 2 154310 University of Trento Staff X-changes Isfol CEC – NA

2003 L. da Vinci 2 154311 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Graduates

Isfol CEC – NA

2004 L. da Vinci 2 154430 University of Trento Staff X-changes 04 Isfol CEC – NA

2004 L. da Vinci 2 154444 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Students

Isfol CEC – NA

2004 L. da Vinci 2 154445 University of Trento

Advanced technologies and Quality Graduates

Isfol CEC – NA

98 Jean Monnet 98/0328 University of Trento Jean Monnet Chair EU Commission

99 Jean Monnet 99/0352 University of Trento

Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence EU Commission

2003 Jean Monnet 2003-3219/001-002 University of Trento

Jean Monnet Module EU Commission

2003 Jean Monnet 2003-3767/001-001 Cen Cenre

University of Trento

Jean Monnet Summer school 03 EU Commission

2004 Jean Monnet 2004-2097/001-001 Cen Cenre

University of Trento

Jean Monnet summer school 04 EU Commission

97-98 ALFA 501146 University of Trento

The integration process in dispersed regions and their planning EU Commission

2004 Alfa University of Piraeus

Wee Net web engineering network of excellence

EU Commission

2003 Tempus JEP 24217-2003Universitaet

Koblenz Landau

System modernisation of the University management

EU Commission

2003 Tempus JEP 24214-2003 University of Magdeburg

Transformation des Lehrprozesses an der BSU Minsk auf der basis von ECTS

kompatiblen Technologien

EU Commission

2003 EU Australia 2003 S12 3673 62 Sciences PO EAAPN An European Australian Asia Pacific nexus

EU Commission

2001 EU Canada 2001-1213/001-001 HUMAK (Fin) Cultural producation in an internationa environment EU Commission

99-2000 Socrates Erasmus

29348-IC-3-98-1-IT-Erasmus-EPS-1

University of Trento

Programma Socrates – Contratto istituzionale Erasmus EU Commission

2000-01 Socrates Erasmus

29348-IC-4-99-1-IT-Erasmus-EPS-1

University of Trento

Programma Socrates – Contratto istituzionale Erasmus EU Commission

2001-02 Socrates Erasmus

29348-IC-5-2000-1-IT-Erasmus-EPS-1

University of Trento

Programma Socrates – Contratto istituzionale Erasmus EU Commission

2002-03 Socrates Erasmus

29348-IC-6-2001-1-IT-Erasmus-EPS-1

University of Trento

Programma Socrates – Contratto istituzionale Erasmus EU Commission

2003-04 Socrates Erasmus

29348-IC-7-2002-1-IT-Erasmus-Euc-1

University of Trento

Programma Socrates – Contratto istituzionale Erasmus EU Commission

2004 Erasmus Mundus 2004-0009/001 University of

Trento EUMI-European Master in Informatics Eu Commission

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Grant applications submitted (or about to be submitted) to European Institutions, the EDF and EU Member States in the current year:

Action title and reference number EC budget line, EDF or other source Amount (EUR)

Marie Curie Research Training Network506861 FP 6 184.524

P.3 Nanotechnologies and nano-sciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new production processes and devices505285-1

FP 6 146.968

P.3 Nanotechnologies and nano-sciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new production processes and devices517036

FP 6 not available

Advanced Technologies and Quality Students Mobility

Leonardo da Vinci 270.000

Advanced Technologies and Quality Graduates Mobility

Leonardo da Vinci 210.000

Staff X-changes Leonardo da Vinci 20.000

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III. PARTNER(S) OF THE APPLICANT PARTICIPATING IN THE ACTION

1. Description of the partner(s)This section must be completed for each partner organisation within the meaning of section 2.1.2 of the Guidelines for Applicants. Any associates as defined in the same section need not be mentioned. You must make as many copies of this table as necessary to create entries for more partners.

Partner 1 Partner 2

Full legal name (business name)

University of Innsbruck National University of Ireland, Galway

Nationality Austria Ireland

Legal status GOV (University) GOV (University)

Official address University of Innsbruck

Institut fur Informatik

Technikerstrasse 21a,

A-6020 Innsbruck - Austria

National University of Ireland, Galway,

Galway

Ireland

Contact person Prof. Dieter Fensel Prof. Christoph Bussler

Telephone number +43 512 507-6485 + 353 (0) 91 492973

Fax number +43 512 507-9872 + 353 (0) 91 495541

E-mail address dieter.fensel@deri.org chris.bussler@deri.org

Number of employees 2500 2000+

Other relevant resources Founding member of the ASEA Uninet, the Asian-European Academic University Network, and participates in joint study and student exchange agreements with 186 European and 21 non-EU universities

http://www.nuigalway.ie

http://www.deri.ie

Experience of similar actions, in relation to role in the implementation of the proposed action

Currently involved in many EU projects related to the Semantic Web: project co-ordinator of SWWS (swws.semanticweb.org), Esperonto (esperonto.semanticweb.org), COG (www.cogproject.org), Techsight (prise-serv.cpe.surrey.ac.uk/techsight). Coordinators of OntoWeb (www.ontoweb.org) Thematic Network on Semantic Web, the group plays an important role in leading large projects funded under EU 6th FP, such as co-ordinator of DIP (the Integrated Project on Semantic Web Services, website: dip.semanticweb.org), SEKT (the Integrated Project on Semantic Knowledge Management, website: sekt.semanticweb.org) and co-ordinator of Knowledge Web (the Network of Excellence on Semantic Web, website: knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org).

Cooperation with many partners from around the world on similar projects.

Conferences and workshops organisation

Existing working groups established by a partner: ontology management, semantic web portal project, e-tourism working group, web service modeling ontology, web service modeling language, web service execution environment

Organisation of workshops, conferences, video conferences and presentation

History of cooperation with the applicant

Bilateral agreement of cooperationDouble degree in engineeringBoth Members of Asea UninetJoint organisation of the Jean Monnet summer school

1. Joint project proposals for Knowledge Web project

2. Joint working groups: web service

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modeling ontology, web service modeling language

Role and involvement in preparing the proposed action

Leading contributor Establishing Semantic Web Portal Project, which mission is to create a portal demonstrating the maturity of Semantic Web technology in real application. Establishing Semantic Digital Libraries working group, which going to build a bibliographic ontology, this will be implemented in the digital library.

Role and involvement in implementing the proposed action

Distance Education and Knowledge Management Activity Coordinator, Action Leader EASTWEB Research Network

Create a satisfying ontology management environment needed for Semantic Web enabled community portals, make extensive usage of Semantic Web technologies for enhanced information processing facilities and to create means for the Semantic inter-operation between different communities and even different Semantic Web portals.

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Partner 3 Partner 4

Full legal name (business name)

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)

Nationality India International

Legal status University Cum R & D Institution Graduate Institute, no-profit, non-commercial

Official address Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400005, India

Km. 42 Paholyothin Highway, Klong luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand

Contact person Prof. R.K. Shyamasundar Prof. Vilas Wuwongse, CSIM FoS

Telephone number +91 22 22804545 +66-2- 524 5704

Fax number +91 22 22804610 +66-2-524 5721

E-mail address shyam@tifr.res.in vw@cs.ait.ac.th

Number of employees 2000 200 faculty and international staff

Other relevant resources TIFR ishaving agreements with Govt Of India (Dept of IT) on the Development of Cyber Security and Education

Experience of similar actions, in relation to role in the implementation of the proposed action

Research Cooperations earlier in the development of Training and Continuing education in India

Organization of training courses and workshops on Semantic Web, ontologies and metadata.

History of cooperation with the applicant

Cooperation with UNITN in the framework of ITPAR, CWI Amsterdam, IIST, Macau (UN Univ) Indo-french (INRIA, IRISA, ENSMP, Verimag, Indo US

-Exchange of visit-Member of Ontoweb-Contribution of the applicant as invited speaker at INTELLCOMM2004

Role and involvement in preparing the proposed action

Examining the fields of common interest and exploring effective and complementaty ways of interaction and sharing the contacts among cooperating Asain partners

Review and provision of comments and suggestions

Role and involvement in implementing the proposed action

Joint cooperation in organisational and research activities, support to HR training, exchange of PhD/Master students, faculty, organisation of conferences/workshops/seminards for spreading among a broader community during and after the contractual periods

- Formation of appropriate curricula - Implementation of training and supervision

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Partner 5 Partner 6

Full legal name (business name)

Jilin University The Poznan University of Economics

Nationality China Poland

Legal status GOV (University) GOV (University)

Official address No.10 Qianwei Road,

Chaoyang District,

Changchun City, Jilin Province

China

Department of Management Information systems

Al. Niepodleglosci 10

PL-60-967 Poznan

Contact person Prof. Dayou Liu Prof. Witold Abramowicz

Telephone number ++86 431 8969575 +48 61 8569333

Fax number ++86 431 5166063 +48 61 8569334

E-mail address liudy@jlu.edu.cn W.Abramowicz@kie.ae.poznan.pl

Number of employees 5000+ 1000

Other relevant resources http://www.jlu.edu.cn

Experience of similar actions, in relation to role in the implementation of the proposed action

1. Joint teaching and training of graduate students with Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

2. Collaboration with Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

3. Collaboration with University of Essex, UK

4. Collaboration with University of Technology, Sydney

5. Collaboration with University of Ulster, UK

The coordinator of the EU finded Marie Curie Host Fellowship for the Transfer of Knowledge, “Enhanced Information Retrieval and Filtering for Analytical Systems – ENIRAF”, IST-509766.

History of cooperation with the applicant

Research cooperation and exchange of students

Tentative project SOCNet

Role and involvement in preparing the proposed action

Joint consultation, review and provision of comments and suggestions

Joint consultation, review and provision of comments and suggestions

Role and involvement in implementing the proposed action

Local and International management of the project, cooperation in research Formation of appropriate curricula - Implementation of training and supervision

Local and International management of the project, cooperation in research Formation of appropriate curricula - Implementation of training and supervision

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Associate Associate

Full legal name (business name)

Istituto Trentino di Cultura Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Nationality Italy China

Legal status Public Body GOV (University)

Official address Via S. Croce, 77 – 38100 Trento -Italy

Clear Water Bay Road

Kowloon, Hong Kong

China

Contact person Dr. Paolo Traverso Prof. Fangzhen Lin

Telephone number ++39-0461-314 327 ++852 2358 6975 

Fax number ++39 0461 302 040 ++852 2358 1477

E-mail address traverso@itc.it flin@cs.ust.hk

Number of employees 266 500+

Other relevant resources http://www.itc.it http://www.ust.hk

http://www.cs.ust.hk

Experience of similar actions, in relation to role in the implementation of the proposed action

· Several EC funded projects under the VI Framework Programme, such as DataGrids (IST-2000-25185), Esacs (European Fifth Project G4RD-CT-2000-00361), Calculemus (HPRN-CT-2000-00102), Prosyd (European Project in the 6th Framework), ISAAC (European Project in the 6th Framework)

· Agreement for Advance Research Programme between India and Trento (ITPAR)

The contact person had a joint project with Jerome Lang of IRIT, Toulouse, France.

History of cooperation with the applicant

Some cooperative projects, like

· Astro – Automated Composition of Distributed Business Processes for Web Services.

· Edamok – Enabling the Distributed and Autonomous Management of Knowledge .

· Doves – Development of Autonomous and Verified Software .

· Innovanet – RoadMap for Mechanising Innovation and Scientific Discovery, European

Dr. Yuting Zhao was the contact person’s PhD student

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IST Project 2001-38422

Role and involvement in preparing the proposed action

Role and involvement in implementing the proposed action

its wide experiences in training international graduate students and its close ties to all European Universities, in particular with the University of Trento, as well as with the TIFR institute, will be beneficial in hosting and funding Asian students in EASTWEB activities.

The associated partner Hong Kong University of Science and Technology will act as optimal dissemination channel, and also as an attractive multi-cultural international research and education center

Important: This application form must be accompanied by a signed and dated partnership statement from the main applicant and from every partner, in accordance with the model provided on the next page.

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2. Partnership statement3

A partnership is a relationship of substance between two or more organisations involving shared responsibilities in undertaking the action funded by the European Commission. To ensure that the action runs smoothly, the European Commission requires all partners (including the lead applicant that signs the contract) to acknowledge this by agreeing to the principles of good partnership practice set out below.

Principles of Good Partnership Practice

1. All partners must have read the application form and understood what their role in the action will be before the application is submitted to the European Commission.

2. All partners must have read the standard grant contract and understood what their respective obligations under the contract will be if the grant is awarded. They authorise the lead applicant to sign the contract with the European Commission and represent them in all dealings with the European Commission in the context of the action's implementation.

3. The applicant must consult with its partners regularly and keep them fully informed of the progress of the action.

4. All partners must receive copies of the reports - narrative and financial - made to the European Commission.

5. Proposals for substantial changes to the action (e.g. activities, partners, etc.) should be agreed by the partners before being submitted to the European Commission. Where no such agreement can be reached, the applicant must indicate this when submitting changes for approval to the European Commission.

6. Before the end of the action, the partners must agree on an equitable distribution of equipment, vehicles and supplies for the action purchased with the EU grant among local partners situated in the target countries. Copies of the transfer titles must be attached to the final report.

Statement of partnership

We have read and approved the contents of the proposal submitted to the European Commission. We undertake to comply with the principles of good partnership practice.

Name: Carla Locatelli

Organisation: UNITN - University of Trento

Position: Prorector for International Relations

Signature:

Date and place: Trento 26.01.05

3 To be provided by the applicant and each partner in all cases where there is a partner in addition to the applicant.

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Principles of Good Partnership Practice

1. All partners must have read the application form and understood what their role in the action will be before the application is submitted to the European Commission.

2. All partners must have read the standard grant contract and understood what their respective obligations under the contract will be if the grant is awarded. They authorise the lead applicant to sign the contract with the European Commission and represent them in all dealings with the European Commission in the context of the action's implementation.

3. The applicant must consult with its partners regularly and keep them fully informed of the progress of the action.

4. All partners must receive copies of the reports - narrative and financial - made to the European Commission.

5. Proposals for substantial changes to the action (e.g. activities, partners, etc.) should be agreed by the partners before being submitted to the European Commission. Where no such agreement can be reached, the applicant must indicate this when submitting changes for approval to the European Commission.

6. Before the end of the action, the partners must agree on an equitable distribution of equipment, vehicles and supplies for the action purchased with the EU grant among local partners situated in the target countries. Copies of the transfer titles must be attached to the final report.

Statement of partnership

We have read and approved the contents of the proposal submitted to the European Commission. We undertake to comply with the principles of good partnership practice.

Name:

Organisation: University of Innsbruck

Position:

Signature:

Date and place:

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Principles of Good Partnership Practice

1. All partners must have read the application form and understood what their role in the action will be before the application is submitted to the European Commission.

2. All partners must have read the standard grant contract and understood what their respective obligations under the contract will be if the grant is awarded. They authorise the lead applicant to sign the contract with the European Commission and represent them in all dealings with the European Commission in the context of the action's implementation.

3. The applicant must consult with its partners regularly and keep them fully informed of the progress of the action.

4. All partners must receive copies of the reports - narrative and financial - made to the European Commission.

5. Proposals for substantial changes to the action (e.g. activities, partners, etc.) should be agreed by the partners before being submitted to the European Commission. Where no such agreement can be reached, the applicant must indicate this when submitting changes for approval to the European Commission.

6. Before the end of the action, the partners must agree on an equitable distribution of equipment, vehicles and supplies for the action purchased with the EU grant among local partners situated in the target countries. Copies of the transfer titles must be attached to the final report.

Statement of partnership

We have read and approved the contents of the proposal submitted to the European Commission. We undertake to comply with the principles of good partnership practice.

Name:

Organisation: National University of Ireland, Galway

Position:

Signature:

Date and place:

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Principles of Good Partnership Practice

1. All partners must have read the application form and understood what their role in the action will be before the application is submitted to the European Commission.

2. All partners must have read the standard grant contract and understood what their respective obligations under the contract will be if the grant is awarded. They authorise the lead applicant to sign the contract with the European Commission and represent them in all dealings with the European Commission in the context of the action's implementation.

3. The applicant must consult with its partners regularly and keep them fully informed of the progress of the action.

4. All partners must receive copies of the reports - narrative and financial - made to the European Commission.

5. Proposals for substantial changes to the action (e.g. activities, partners, etc.) should be agreed by the partners before being submitted to the European Commission. Where no such agreement can be reached, the applicant must indicate this when submitting changes for approval to the European Commission.

6. Before the end of the action, the partners must agree on an equitable distribution of equipment, vehicles and supplies for the action purchased with the EU grant among local partners situated in the target countries. Copies of the transfer titles must be attached to the final report.

Statement of partnership

We have read and approved the contents of the proposal submitted to the European Commission. We undertake to comply with the principles of good partnership practice.

Name:

Organisation: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Position:

Signature:

Date and place:

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Principles of Good Partnership Practice

1. All partners must have read the application form and understood what their role in the action will be before the application is submitted to the European Commission.

2. All partners must have read the standard grant contract and understood what their respective obligations under the contract will be if the grant is awarded. They authorise the lead applicant to sign the contract with the European Commission and represent them in all dealings with the European Commission in the context of the action's implementation.

3. The applicant must consult with its partners regularly and keep them fully informed of the progress of the action.

4. All partners must receive copies of the reports - narrative and financial - made to the European Commission.

5. Proposals for substantial changes to the action (e.g. activities, partners, etc.) should be agreed by the partners before being submitted to the European Commission. Where no such agreement can be reached, the applicant must indicate this when submitting changes for approval to the European Commission.

6. Before the end of the action, the partners must agree on an equitable distribution of equipment, vehicles and supplies for the action purchased with the EU grant among local partners situated in the target countries. Copies of the transfer titles must be attached to the final report.

Statement of partnership

We have read and approved the contents of the proposal submitted to the European Commission. We undertake to comply with the principles of good partnership practice.

Name:

Organisation: Asian Institute of Technology

Position:

Signature:

Date and place:

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Principles of Good Partnership Practice

1. All partners must have read the application form and understood what their role in the action will be before the application is submitted to the European Commission.

2. All partners must have read the standard grant contract and understood what their respective obligations under the contract will be if the grant is awarded. They authorise the lead applicant to sign the contract with the European Commission and represent them in all dealings with the European Commission in the context of the action's implementation.

3. The applicant must consult with its partners regularly and keep them fully informed of the progress of the action.

4. All partners must receive copies of the reports - narrative and financial - made to the European Commission.

5. Proposals for substantial changes to the action (e.g. activities, partners, etc.) should be agreed by the partners before being submitted to the European Commission. Where no such agreement can be reached, the applicant must indicate this when submitting changes for approval to the European Commission.

6. Before the end of the action, the partners must agree on an equitable distribution of equipment, vehicles and supplies for the action purchased with the EU grant among local partners situated in the target countries. Copies of the transfer titles must be attached to the final report.

Statement of partnership

We have read and approved the contents of the proposal submitted to the European Commission. We undertake to comply with the principles of good partnership practice.

Name:

Organisation: Jilin University

Position:

Signature:

Date and place:

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IV. SWORN STATEMENT BY THE APPLICANT

I, the undersigned, being the person responsible in the applicant organisation for the action, certify that:

(i) the information given in this application is correct; and

(ii) the applicant and its partners (where applicable) do not fall into any of the following categories (a) to (f) [listed in section 2.1.1(2) of the Guidelines for Applicants]:

they are bankrupt or being wound up, are having their affairs administered by the courts, have entered into an arrangement with creditors, have suspended business activities, are the subject of proceedings concerning those matters, or are in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure provided for in national legislation or regulations;

they have been convicted of an offence concerning professional conduct by a judgement which has the force of res judicata (i.e., against which no appeal is possible);

they are guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contracting authority can justify;

they have not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions or the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which they are established or with those of the country of the contracting authority or those of the country where the action is to take place;

they have been the subject of a judgement which has the force of res judicata for fraud, corruption, involvement in a criminal organisation or any other illegal activity detrimental to the Communities' financial interests;

they have been declared to be in serious breach of contract for failure to comply with their contractual obligations in connection with a procurement procedure or other grant award procedure financed by the Community budget.

and

(iii) the applicant has the sources of financing and professional competence and qualifications specified in section 2.3 (3) of the Guidelines for Applicants.

I am fully aware that any false declaration will lead to the exclusion of the proposal or the termination of the contract.

Name: Prof. Carla Locatelli

Position: Prorector for International Relations

Signature:

Date and place: Trento 26.01.05

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ANNEXES

The remaining annexes to the Guidelines for Applicants are as follows:

Annex B - Budget (to be filled in)

Note: This document is in Microsoft Excel format and is contained in a separate file.

http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/tender/gestion/pg/e03_en.htm

Annex C - Logical framework (to be filled in)Note: This document is in Microsoft Excel format and is contained in a separate file.

http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/tender/gestion/pg/e03_en.htm

Annex D - Daily allowance rates - per diems (for information)Notes: Per diems include all costs: hotels, food and transport within the city. The latest per diem can be found on:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/perdiem/index_en.htm

Annex E - Standard contract (for information)

http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/tender/gestion/pg/e03_en.htm

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Annex F

Relevant CVs

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Applicant ItalyFausto Giunchiglia

Curriculum Vitae

Proposed Position in the Project: Project Coordinator

1 Family Name: Giunchiglia

2 First Name: Fausto

3 Date of Birth: February 13, 1958

4 Nationality: Italian

5 Civil Status: 6 Education / Professional Studies:1987 Doctorate in Computer Engineering, University of Genoa, Faculty of Engineering1983: Specialization Degree in Computer Engineering, University of Genoa, Faculty of

Engineering1981: Laurea in Electronic Engineering (specialization in Computer Engineering),

University of Genoa, Faculty of Engineering

7 Language Skills: (Mark from 1 (notions) to 5 (excellent) for competence)(*=mother tongue)

Language SpeakingReading Writing

English 5 5 5 Italian Mother tongue

8 Membership of Professional Bodies: 2005-2007: President of the Board of Trustees of IJCAI;2002-2004: President of KR. Inc;2001-2011: Member of the Board of Trustees of IJCAI;2002- pres: Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI); 9 Other Skills: 10 Present Position within the organisation: Head of the Department of Information and Communication Technology

12 Years with the organisation:2002-2005: Head of the Department of Information and Communication Technology2001-2004: Vice-Rector of the University of Trento, Italy;1999-present: Full Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Trento, Italy;

13 Key Qualifications: (relevant to the project):

2002: Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI);1992: Winner of the first ever edition of the "Artificial Intelligence" prize sponsored by the

Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), as best Italian research scientist.

13 Experience in specific Asian / EU countries :Country : IndiaDate : from 2001 to present

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Details: He is one of the two coordinators of a project, funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) of the Indian Ministry of Foreign affairs and by the Province of Trento, as part of the 2003 the India Trento Program for Advanced Research (ITPAR). This project has also been recognized by the Indo-Italian Joint Committee on Scientific and Technological Co-operation, which included it in the PoC 2002-2004, as the “Arrangement for S&T co-operation between Trentino Province Institutions and Indian Scientific Institutions”. This collaboration has implied intense travelling and a visit program between Italy and India.

He has worked in Edinburgh from 1987 to 1988 as a Research Fellow. He has participated to many European and US projects.

14 Professional Experience Record (relevant to the project):

2005-2007: President of the Board of Trustees of IJCAI;2002-2004: President of KR. Inc;2002-pres: President of the Graphitech Foundation;2001-pres: Vice-Rector of the University of Trento, Italy;1998-99: Head of the Automated Reasoning Systems division, ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy;2003-pres: Member of the BoD of the Agency of Development of Trentino (in charge of

technology driven Innovation in Trentino);2001-2003: Member of the BoD of TecnoFin Trentino (in charge of technology driven

Innovation in Trentino). Journal Boards

2002-present: Member Editorial Board of the book series Frontiers in AI and its applications, IOS press;

Member Scientific Committee of the journal Networks – a journal in philosophy or artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences;

Member Advisory Board of the QPQ (“QED Pro Quo”) online journal of peer-reviewed source code for deductive software components;

2002: Co-editor Special Issue of the Artificial Intelligence Journal on “Reformulation” (provisional title), Springer Verlag,;

2001-present: Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Applied non Classical Logics, Hermes-Science Publication;.

2000-present: Editorial Board Member of the Int. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems;

Editorial Board Member of AICOM - AI Communications, IOS Press;1997-present: Editorial Board Member of the Int. Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT) (Springer);1997-2000: Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR);

15 Publications:

BOOKS[1] P. Blackburn, C. Ghidini, R.M. Turner, F. Giunchiglia (editor), Proceedings CONTEXT

2003, 4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, Stanford, CA, USA, LNAI 2680, 2003.

[2] F. Giunchiglia et al. (editors), proceedings IJCAI-03, Workshop on ontologies and Distributed Systems, Vol. 71, CEUR-WS, 2003.

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[3] F. Giunchiglia, J. Odell, G. Weiβ (editors), Proceedings AOSE 2002, 3rd Intermation Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering III, Bologna, Italy, LNCS 2585, Springer-Verlag, 2003.

[4] F. Giunchiglia, et al. (editors), Proceedings KR2002, 8th International Conference on Principles of Knowldege Representation and Reasoning. Toulouse, France, Morgan Kaufmann, 2002.

[5] C. Batini, F. Giunchiglia, P. Giorgini, M. Mecella (editors), Proceedings CoopIS'01, 9th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems. LNCS 2172, Springer-Verlag, 2001.

[6] A.G. Cohn, F. Giunchiglia, B. Selman (editors), Proceedings KR2000, 7th International Conference on Principles of Knowldege Representation and Reasoning. Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.

[7] F. Giunchiglia (editor), Proceedings AIMSA-98, 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications. LNAI 1480, Springer-Verlag, 1998.

[8] D. Basin, F. Giunchiglia, M. Kaufmann (editors), Proceedings CADE-12 Workshop on Correctness and Metatheoretic Extensibility of Automated Reasoning Systems. Nancy, France, 1994. Also ITC-IRST technical report series # 9405-10, Trento, Italy.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS[1] Giunchiglia F., Shvaiko P., “Semantic Matching”. The Knowledge Engineering Review Journal,

2004, Vol. 18, n. 3, pp. 265-280.

[2] Giunchiglia F., Bresciani P., Giorgini P., Mylopoulos J., Perini A., "TROPOS: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology". In pubblicazione in Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2004, Vol. 8, n. 3, pp. 203-236.

[3] Bouquet P., Ghidini C., Giunchiglia F., Blanzieri E., “Theories and Uses of Context in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning“. In pubblicazione in Journal of Pragmatics - Special Issue on Context, Elsevier Science Publishers, 2003, Vol. 35, n. 3, pp. 455-484.

[4] Serafini L., Giunchiglia F., Mylopoulos J., Bernstein P., “ Local Relational Model: A Logical Formalization of Database Coordination”. LNAI, Springer, 2003, Vol. 2680, pp. 286-299.

[5] Giunchiglia F., Mylopoulos J., Perini A., “The Tropos Software Development Methodology: Processes, Models and Diagrams”. LNCS, Springer, 2003, Vol. 2585, pp. 162-173.

[6] Giunchiglia E., Giunchiglia F., Tacchella A., “SAT-Based Decision Procedures for Classical Modal Logics”. Journal of Automated Reasoning, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, Vol. 28, pp. 143-171.

[7] Giunchiglia F., Serafini L., "ML Systems: A Proof Theory for Contexts". Journal of Logic, Language and Information, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, Vol. 11, pp. 471-518.

[8] Criscuolo G., Giunchiglia F., Serafini L., “A Foundation for Metareasoning Part I: The Proof Theory”. Journal of Logic and Computation, Oxford University Press, 2002, Vol. 12, n. 1, pp. 167-208.

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[9] Criscuolo G., Giunchiglia F., Serafini L., “A Foundation for Metareasoning Part II: The Model Theory”. Journal of Logic and Computation, Oxford University Press, 2002, Vol. 12, n. 3, pp. 345-370.

[10] Ghidini C., Giunchiglia F., “Local Models Semantics, or Contextual Reasoning = Locality + Compatibility”. Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier Science Publishers, 2001, Vol. 127, pp. 221-259.

[11] Giunchiglia F., Pecchiari P., Talcott C., “Reasoning Theories: Towards an Architecture for Open Mechanized Reasoning Systems”. Journal of Automated Reasoning, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, Vol. 26, pp. 291-331.

[12] Giunchiglia E., Giunchiglia F., "Ideal and Real Belief about Belief". Journal of Logic and Computation, Oxford University Press, 2001, Vol. 11, n. 1, pp. 157-192.

[13] Giunchiglia E., Giunchiglia F., Sebastiani R., Tacchella A., "SAT vs. Translation Based Decision Procedures for Modal Logics: A Comparative Evaluation". Journal of applied Non-Classical Logics, Hermes Science Publishing, 2000, Vol. 10, n. 2, pp. 145-172.

[14] Hartonas-Garmhausen V., Campos S., Cimatti A., Clarke E., Giunchiglia F., “Verification of a Safety-Critical Railway Interlocking System with Real-time Constraints”. Science of Computer Programming. Special Issue on Formal Methods in Industry, Elsevier Science Publishers, 2000, Vol. 36, n. 1 pp. 53-64.

[15] Giunchiglia F., Sebastiani R., "Building Decision Procedures for Modal Logics from Propositional Decision Procedures: The Case Study of Modal K(m)". Information and computation, Academic Press, 2000, Vol. 162, n. 1/2, pp. 158-178.

[16] Giunchiglia F., Traverso P., “Theorem Proving in Technology Transfer: The User's Point of View”. In F. Giunchiglia and P. Traverso (editors): Software Tools for Technology Transfer, Special Issue on Mechanized Theorem Proving for Technology Transfer, Springer-Verlag, 2000, Vol. 3, n.1, pp. 1-12.

[17] Cimatti A., Clarke E., Giunchiglia F., Roveri M., "NuSMV: A New Symbolic Model Checker". International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer, Springer-Verlag, 2000, Vol. 2, n. 4, pp. 410-425.

[18] Giunchiglia F., Spalazzi L., “Intelligent Planning: A Decomposition and Abstraction Based Approach to Classical Planning". Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1999, Vol. 111, pp. 239-338.

[19] Armando A., Coglio A., Giunchiglia F., “The Control Component of Open Mechanized Reasoning Systems”. In Armando A. and Jebelean T. (editors): Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier Science Publishers,Vol. 23, n. 3, pp 1-18. Also published in: Atti del convegno “CALCULEMUS 99 Workshop at FLoC’99”, Trento, Italy, 1999.

[20] Giunchiglia F., "Using Abstrips Abstractions -- Where do we stand?". Artificial Intelligence Review, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, Vol. 13, n. 3, pp. 201-213.

[21] Bertoli P., Calmet J., Giunchiglia F., Homann K., "Specification and Integration of Theorem Provers and Computer Algebra Systems". Fundamenta Informaticae, IOS Press, 1999, Vol. 39, n. 1/2. pp. 39-57.

[22] Cimatti, F. Giunchiglia, G. Mongardi, D. Romano, F. Torielli, P. Traverso, “Formal Verification of a Railway Interlocking System using Model Checking”. Formal Aspects of Computing, Springer, 1998, Vol. 10, n.4, pp. 361-380.

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[23] F. Giunchiglia, P. Bertoli, A. Coglio, “The OMRS project: State of the Art”. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 1998, Vol. 15.

[24] A: Cimatti, F. Giunchiglia. R.W. Weyhrauch, “A Many-Sorted Natural Deduction”. Com-putational Intelligence, Blackwell, 1998, Vol. 14, n. 1, pp. 134-149.

[25] M. Benerecetti, F. Giunchiglia, L. Serafini, “Model Checking Multiagent Systems”. Journal of Logic and Computation. Special Issue: Computational and Logical Aspects of Multiagent Systems, Oxford University Press, 1998, Vol. 8, n. 3, pp. 401-423.

[26] Bundy, F. Giunchiglia, A. Villafiorita, T. Walsh, “Abstract Proof Checking: An Example Motivated by an Incompleteness Theorem”. Journal of Automated Reasoning, 1997, Vol. 19, pp. 319-346.

[27] F. Giunchiglia, A. Villafiorita. T. Walsh, “Theories of Abstraction”. AI Communications, IOS Press, 1997, Vol 10, n.3/4, pp. 167-176.

[28] F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso, “Program Tactics and Logic Tactics”. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 1996, Vol. 17, pp. 235-259.

[29] F. Giunchiglia, E. Giunchiglia, Tom Costello, Paolo Bouquet, “Dealing with Expected and Unexpected Obstacles”. Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, 1996, Vol. 8, pp. 173-190.

[30] P. Bouquet, E. Giunchiglia, F. Giunchiglia, “Contexts, Locality and Generality”. Mathware & Soft Computing, 1996, Vol. 3, n. 1/2, pp. 47-57.

[31] F. Giunchiglia, P. Pecchiari, A. Armando, “Towards Provably Correct System Synthesis and Extension”. Future Generation Computing Systems, 1996, Vol. 12, pp. 123-137.

[32] F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso, “A Metatheory of a Mechanized Object Theory”. Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1996, Vol. 80, pp.197-241.

[33] Bundy, F. Giunchiglia, R. Sebastiani, T. Walsh, “ Calculating Criticalities”. Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1996, Vol. 88, pp. 39-67.

[34] P. Bouquet, F. Giunchiglia, “Reasoning About Theory Adequacy. A New Solution to the Qualification Problem”. In Don Perlis (editor): Fundamenta Informaticae, 1995, Vol. 2/3/4, pp. 247-262.

[35] F. Giunchiglia, L. Serafini, “Multilanguage Hierarchical Logics (or: How we can do without Modal Logics)”. Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1994, Vol. 65, pp. 29-70.

[36] F. Giunchiglia, T. Walsh, “The Inevitability of Inconsistent Abstract Spaces”. Journal of Automated Reasoning, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993, Vol. 11, pp. 23-41.

[37] F. Giunchiglia, C. Ferrari, P. Traverso, E. Trucco, “Understanding Scene Descriptions by Integrating Different Sources of Knowledge”. International Journal of Man Machine Studies, Academic Press, 1992, Vol. 37, pp. 47-81.

[38] F. Giunchiglia, T. Walsh, “A Theory of Abstraction”. Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1992, Vol. 56, n. 2/3, pp. 323-390.

[39] F. Giunchiglia, T. Walsh, “Abstraction in AI”. AISB Quarterly, Summer 1990, Vol. 73, pp. 22-26.

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[40] M. DiManzo, E. Trucco, F. Giunchiglia, F. Ricci, “FUR: Understanding FUnctional Reasoning”. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 1989, Vol. 4, pp. 431-457.

[41] Giordano, F. Giunchiglia, M. Maresca, T. Vernazza, “Evaluation of a Multiprocessor Structure for Machine Vision”. Microprocessing and Microprogramming. The Euromicro Journal, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1987, Vol. 19, n. 1, pp. 5-18.

[42] M. DiManzo, F. Giunchiglia, “A First Order Theory of Common Sense Object Positioning”, Journal of Computers in Industry, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1986, Vol. 7, pp. 257-262.

[43] M. DiManzo, G. Adorni, F. Giunchiglia, “ Reasoning about Scene Descriptions”. IEEE Atti del convegno - Special Issue on Natural Language, 1986, Vol. 74, n. 7, pp. 1013-1025.

NATIONAL JOURNALS

[1] M. Benerecetti, F. Giunchiglia, L. Serafini, “Model Checking Multiagent Systems: A Preliminary Report”. AI*IA Notizie, 1998, Vol. 3, pp. 38-44.

[2] F. Giunchiglia, “Logica, Scienze Cognitive e Intelligenza Artificiale”. Lettera Matematica PRISTEM, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, 1995, pp. 18-21.

[3] F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso, A. Cimatti, L. Spalazzi, S. Dalbosco, L. Serafini, E. Giunchiglia, A. Armando, P. Pecchiari, “MRG: Un Nucleo di Ragionamento per un Sistema Integrato Multi-funzionale”. Sistemi Intelligenti, , Il Mulino, 1993, Vol. 3, pp. 435-460.

[4] F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso, A. Cimatti, L. Spalazzi, S. Dalbosco, L. Serafini, E. Giunchiglia, A. Armando, P. Pecchiari, “ MRG: Sistema di Ragionamento”. Automazione e Strumentazione, ANIPLA, September 1993, Vol. 9.

[5] F. Giunchiglia, “ Contextual reasoning”. Epistemologia, edizione speciale su “I Linguaggi e le Macchine”, Tilgher, Genova, 1993, Vol. 16, pp. 345-364.

[6] F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso, L. Serafini, “ La Deduzione Automatica”. Sistemi Intelligenti, , Il Mulino, 1991, Vol. 1, pp. 37-66.

[7] F. Giunchiglia, D. Tezza, E. Giunchiglia, “ Ragionamento non Monotono: Metodologie e Prospettive di Ricerca”. AI*IA Notizie, 1989, Vol. 2, pp. 9-26.

[8] C. Ferrari, F. Giunchiglia, M. Pilotto, “NALIG: Un Sistema per la Generazione di Scene Tridimensionali”. Sistemi ed Automazione, 1988, pp. 37-46.

CONFERENCES

[1] Giunchiglia F., Shvaiko P., Yatskevish M., “Semantic Matching” Atti del convegno First Semantic Web Symposium ESWS 2004, Heraklion, Greece, 2004, pp. 61-75, 2004.

[2] Bouquet P., Giunchiglia F., Van Harmelen F., Serafini L., Stuckenschmidt H., “C-OWL: Contextualizing Ontologies” Atti del convegno Second International Semantic Web Conference, Sanibel Island, USA, 2003, pp. 164-479, LNCS 2870, Springer-Verlag, 2003.

[3] Giunchiglia F., Shvaiko P., “Semantic Matching”. Atti del convegno IJCAI-03, Workshop on Ontologies and Distributed Systems, Acapulco, Mexico, 2003, Vol. 71, CEUR-WS, 2003

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[4] Giunchiglia F., Mylopoulos J., Perini A., "The Tropos Software Development Methodology: Processes, Models and Diagrams". Atti del convegno Third International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering III,, Bologna, Italy, 2002, pp162-173, LNCS 2585, Springer-Verlag, 2003.

[5] Bernstein P., Giunchiglia F., Kementsietsidis A., Mylopoulos J., Serafini L., Zaihrayeu I., “Data Management for Peer-to-Peer Computing: A Vision”. Atti del convegno 5th WebDB Workshop, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, pp. 89-94, 2002

[6] Giunchiglia F., Bresciani P., Giorgini P., Mylopoulos J., Perini A., "TROPOS: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology". Atti del convegno Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems AAMAS 2002, Bologna, Italy, 2002.

[7] Giunchiglia F., Cimatti A., Giunchiglia E., Pistore M., Roveri M., Sebastiani R., Tacchella A., "Integrating BDD-based and SAT-based Symbolic Model Checking". Atti del convegno Frontiers of Combining Systems - FROCOS '02' Santa Margherita, Italy, pp. 49-56, Vol. LNAI 2309, Springer-Verlag, 2002.

[8] Giunchiglia F., Zaihrayeu I., "Making Peer Databases Interact – A Vision for an Architecture Supporting Data Coordination". Atti del convegno 6th International Workshop, Conference on Information Agents - CIA 2002, Madrid, Spain, pp. 18-35, LNAI 2446, Springer-Verlag, 2002.

[9] Giunchiglia F., Cimatti A., Clarke E., Giunchiglia E., Giunchiglia F., Pistore M., Roveri M., Sebastiani R., Tacchella A., "NuSMV2: An Open Source Tool for Symbolic Model Checking". Atti del convegno CAV'02, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 359-364, LNCS 2404, Springer-Verlag, 2002.

[10] Giunchiglia F., Perini A., Sannicolo' F., "Knowledge Level Software Engineering". Atti del convegno 8th International Workshop - ATAL 2001, Seattle, WA, USA, 2001. pp. 6-20, LNAI 2333, Springer-Verlag, 2002.

[11] Bresciani P., Perini A., Giorgini P., Giunchiglia F., Mylopoulos J., “Modeling Early Requirements in Tropos: A Transformation Based Approach”. Atti del convegno Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, - AOSE-2001, Montreal, Canada, 2001. pp. 151-168, LNCS 2222, Springer-Verlag, 2002.

[12] Cimatti A., Clarke E., Giunchiglia E., Giunchiglia F., Pistore M., Roveri M., Sebastiani R., Tacchella A., "NuSMV Version 2: BDD-based + SAT-based Symbolic Model Checking". Atti del convegno IJCAR Workshop Issues in the Design and Experimental Evaluation of Systems for Modal and Temporal Logics, Siena, Italy, 2001. Held in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning – IJCAR 2000, Siena, Italy, 2001.

[13] Perini A., Giunchiglia F., Mylopoulos J., Bresciani P., Giorgini P., “A Knowledge Level Software Engineering Methodology for Agent Oriented Programming”. Atti del convegno 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Montreal, Canada, pp. 648-655, ACM, 2001.

[14] Tomasi A., Giunchiglia F., Sebastiani R., “Model Checking Sillabi and Student Careers”. Atti del convegno 7th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems - TACAS2001, Genova, Italy, pp. 128-142, LNCS 2031, Springer-Verlag, 2001.

[15] Giorgini P., Perini A., Mylopoulos J., Giunchiglia F., Bresciani P., “Agent-Oriented Software Development: A Case Study”. Atti del convegno 13th International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering – SEKE’01, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2001.

[16] Benerecetti M., Giunchiglia F., "Model Checking Security Protocols Using a Logic of Belief". Atti del convegno TACAS2000 - 6th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the

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Construction and Analysis of Systems, Berlin, Germany, pp. 519-534, LNCS 1785, Springer-Verlag, 2000.

[17] Coglio A., Giunchiglia F., Meseguer J., Talcott C., "Composing and Controlling Search in Reasoning Theories Using Mappings". Atti del convegno FroCos'2000 - Third International Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems, Nancy, France, pp. 200-216, LNAI 1794, Springer-Verlag, 2000.

[18] Giunchiglia F., Ghidini C., “A Local Models Semantics for Information Integration”. In Bonzon P., Cavalcanti M. and Nossum R. (editors): “Formal Aspects of Context, Applied Logic Series”, pp. 161-174, Vol. 20, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

[19] Benerecetti M., Giunchiglia F., Panti M., Spalazzi L., "A Logic of Belief and a Model Checking Algorithm for Security Protocols". Atti del convegno FORTE/PSTV 2000 - Formal Methods for Distributed System Development, Pisa, Italy, 2000. A cura di Bolognesi T., Latella D., pp. 393-408, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

[20] Blanzieri E., Giorgini P., Giunchiglia F., “Implicit Culture and Multi-agent Systems”. Atti del convegno SSGRR 2000 - International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education on the Internet, IEEE, L’Aquila, Italy, 2000.

[21] Giunchiglia F., Traverso P., “ Planning as Model Checking”. Atti del convegno 5th European Conference on Planning - ECP-99, Durham, UK, pp. 1-20, LNAI 1809, Springer-Verlag, 2000.

[22] Giunchiglia E., Giunchiglia F., Tacchella A., “The SAT-based Approach for Classical Modal Logics”. Atti del convegno AI*IA 99 – Sesto Congresso dell’Associazione Italiana per l’Intelligenza Artificiale, Bologna, Italy, pp. 393-402, Pitagora Editrice Bologna, 1999.

[23] Giunchiglia E., Giunchiglia F., Tacchella A., “The SAT-based Approach for Classical Modal Logics”. Atti del Convegno AI*IA 99: Advances in Artificial Intelligence – 6th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Bologna, Italy, pp. 95-106, LNAI 1792, Springer-Verlag, 1999.

[24] Daniele M., Giunchiglia F., Vardi M., "Improved Automata Generation for Linear Temporal Logic". Atti del convegno CAV'99 - 11th International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification, Trento, Italy, pp. 249-260, LNCS 1633, Springer-Verlag, 1999.

[25] Cimatti A., Clarke E., Giunchiglia F., Roveri M., "NuSMV: a New Symbolic Model Verifier". Atti del convegno CAV'99 - 11th International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification , Trento, Italy, pp. 495-499, LNCS 1633, Springer-Verlag, 1999.

[26] Cimatti A., Giunchiglia F., Traverso P., Villafiorita A., “Run-Time Result Formal Verification of Safety Critical Software: An Industrial Study”. Atti del convegno FLoC'99 -Workshop on Run-Time Result Verification, Trento, Italy, 1999.

[25] E. Giunchiglia, F. Giunchiglia, A. Tacchella, “*SAT, KSATc, DLP and TA: A Comparative Analysis”. Atti del convegno 1999 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'99), pp. 110-114, Linkoping, Sweden, 1999.

[26] Cimatti, F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso, A. Villafiorita, “Run-Time Result Formal Verification of Safety Critical Software: An Industrial Study”. In A. Pnueli and P. Traverso (editors), Atti del convegno FLoC'99 Workshop on Run-Time Results Verifications, Trento, Italy, 1999.

[27] P. Bouquet, F. Giunchiglia, “A contextual framework for distributed representations”. Atti del convegno 9th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS'98), pp. 273-278, Dublin, 1998.

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[28] M. Benerecetti, F. Giunchiglia, L. Serafini, “A Model Checking Algorithm for Multiagent Systems”. Atti del convegno ATAL-98 - Intelligent Agents V, LNAI 1555, pp. 163-176, Springer-Verlag, 1999.

[29] F. Giunchiglia, P. Bouquet, “A Context-Based Framework for Mental Representation”. In M.A. Gernsbacher and S.J. Derry (editors), Atti del convegno 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 392-397, Madison, 1998.

[30] Cimatti, F. Giunchiglia, G. Mongardi, D. Romano, F. Torielli, P. Traverso, “Model Checking Safety Critical Software with SPIN: An Application to a Railway Interlocking System”. In W. Ehrenberger (editor), Atti del convegno 17th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP'98), pp. 284-295, LNCS 1516, Springer-Verlag, 1998. Also in: Atti del convegno of the Third SPIN Workshop, University of Twente, The Netherlands, 1997.

[31] P. Bertoli, A. Cimatti, F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso, “A Structured Approach to the Formal Certification of Safety of Computer Aided Development Tools”. In W. Ehrenberger (editor), Atti del convegno 17th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP'98), pp. 221-230, LNCS 1516, Springer-Verlag, 1998.

[32] Cimatti, E. Clarke, F. Giunchiglia, M. Roveri, “NuSMV: A Reimplementation of SMV”. In T. Margaria and B. Steffen (editors), Atti del convegno of the International Workshop on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT'98), pp. 25-31, 1998.

[33] Cimatti, F. Giunchiglia, M. Roveri, “Abstraction in Planning via Model Checking”. Atti del convegno Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation (SARA-98), pp. 37-41, 1998.

[34] E. Giunchiglia, F. Giunchiglia, R. Sebastiani, A. Tacchella, “More evaluation of decision procedures for modal logics”. In A.G. Cohn, L. Schubert and S.C. Shapiro (editors), Atti del convegno KR'98, 6th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, pp. 626-635, 1998.

[35] F. Giunchiglia, P. Bouquet, “Verso una scienza epistemologica del senso comune. Il progetto scientifico di John McCarthy”. In F. Castellani e L. Montecucco (editors), Normatività Logica e Ragionamento di Senso Comune, pages 323-342, Società Editrice Il Mulino, 1998.

[36] F. Giunchiglia, C. Ghidini, “Local Models Semantics, or Contextual Reasoning = Locality + Compatibility”. In A.G. Cohn, L. Schubert and S.C. Shapiro (editors), Atti del convegno KR'98, 6th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, pp. 282-289, 1998. Also in: Atti del convegno AAAI-97 Fall Symposium on Context in Knowledge Representation and Natural Language, pp. 58-64, 1997.

[37] P. Bertoli, J. Calmet, F. Giunchiglia, K. Homann, “Specification and integration of theorem provers and computer algebra systems”. In J. Calmet and J. Plaza (editors), Atti del convegno Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation, pp. 94-106, LNAI 1476, Springer, 1998.

[38] V. Hartonas-Garmhausen, S. Campos, A. Cimatti, E. Clarke, F. Giunchiglia, “Verification of a Safety-Critical Railway Interlocking System with Real-time Constraints”. Atti del convegno FTCS-28, 28th Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, pp. 458-463, 1998.

[39] F. Giunchiglia, P. Bouquet, “Introduction to Contextual Reasoning, an Artificial Intelligence Perspective”. In B. Kokinov (editor), Perspectives on Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University, pp. 138-159, 1997.

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[40] F. Giunchiglia, M. Roveri, R. Sebastiani, “A New Method for Testing Decision Procedures in Modal Logics”. In W. McCune (editor), Atti del convegno CADE-14, 14th International Conference on Automated Deduction, pp. 264-267, Springer, 1997.

[41] F. Giunchiglia, C. Ghidini, “A Local Models Semantics for Propositional Attitudes”. Atti del convegno CONTEXT-97, International Conference on Modeling and Using Context, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1997. Also in: P. Bonzon, M. Cavalcanti and R. Nossum (editors), Formal Aspects of Context, pp. 161-174, Kluwer, 2000.

[42] Cimatti, F. Giunchiglia, G. Mongardi, B. Pietra, D. Romano, F. Torielli, P. Traverso, “Formal Validation & Verification of Software for Railway Control and Protection Systems: Experimental Applications in Ansaldo”. Atti del convegno WCRR'97, World Congress on Railway Research, pp. 467-473, Florence, Italy, 1997.

[43] Cimatti, F. Giunchiglia, P. Pecchiari, B. Pietra, J. Profeta, D. Romano, P. Traverso, B. Yu, “A Provably Correct Embedded Verifier for the Certification of Safety Critical Software”. In O. Grumberg (editor), Atti del convegno CAV'97, 9th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, pp. 202-213, Springer, 1997.

[44] F. Giunchiglia, R. Sebastiani, A. Villafiorita, T. Walsh, “A general purpose reasoner for abstraction”. In G. McCalla (editor), Atti del convegno 11th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (AI'96), LNAI 1081, Springer, 1996.

[45] F. Giunchiglia, A. Villafiorita, “ABSFOL: a proof checker with abstraction”. Atti del convegno 13th Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-13), LNAI 1104, Springer, 1996.

[46] F. Giunchiglia, E. Giunchiglia, “Ideal and Real Belief about Belief: some intuitions”. In W. Van de Velde and J.W. Perram (editors), Atti del convegno 7th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World (MAAMAW'96), LNAI 1038, Springer, 1996.

[47] R. Sebastiani, A. Villafiorita, F. Giunchiglia, “Proving theorems by using abstraction interactively”. In R. Albrecht and H. Herre (editors), Trends in Theoretical Informatics, pp. 83-94, 1996.

[48] Villafiorita, F. Giunchiglia, “Inductive Theorem Proving via Abstraction”. Atti del convegno 4th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics (AI-MATH-96), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1996.

[49] E. Giunchiglia, F. Giunchiglia, L. Serafini, “Belief as Context Based Reasoning”, Atti del convegno COMMON SENSE '96, 3rd Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, Stanford University, 1996.

[50] F. Giunchiglia, M. Roveri, R. Sebastiani, “A new method for testing decision procedures in modal and terminological logics”. Atti del convegno International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'96), pp. 119-123, AAAI Press, 1996.

[51] F. Giunchiglia, R. Sebastiani, "A SAT-based decision procedures for ALC”. In L. Carlucci Aiello, J. Doyle and S. Shapiro (editors), Atti del convegno 5th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'96), pp. 304-314, 1996.

[52] Bundy, F. Giunchiglia, R. Sebastiani, T. Walsh, “Computing Abstraction Hierarchies by Numerical Simulation”. Atti del convegno 13th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96), Portland, Oregon, pp. 523-529, 1996.

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[53] M. Benerecetti, A. Cimatti, E. Giunchiglia, F. Giunchiglia, L. Serafini, “Formal Specification of Beliefs in Multi-Agent Systems”. In J.P. Mueller, M.J. Wooldridge and N.R. Jennings (editors), Atti del convegno ATAL-96, Intelligent Agents III Workshop, pp. 117-130, Springer, 1996.

[54] F. Giunchiglia, P. Pecchiari, C. Talcott, “Reasoning Theories - Towards an Architecture for Open Mechanized Reasoning Systems”. In F. Baader and K.U. Schulz (editors), Atti del convegno of Frontiers of Combining Systems, pp. 157-174, 1996.

[55] E. Giunchiglia, F. Giunchiglia, “Ideal and real belief about belief”. Atti del convegno International Conference on Formal and Applied Practical reasoning (FAPR-96), LNAI 1085, Springer, 1996.

[56] F. Giunchiglia, R. Sebastiani, “Building decision procedures for modal logics from propositional decision procedures - the case study of modal K”. Atti del convegno 13th Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-13), LNAI 1104, Springer, 1996.

[57] P. Bouquet, F. Giunchiglia, “Reasoning about theory formulation and reformulation. A new solution to the qualification problem”. In M. DeGlas and Z. Pawlak (editors), Atti del convegno 2nd World Conference on the Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (WOCFAI-95), pp. 39-50, 1995.

[58] E. Giunchiglia, F. Giunchiglia, L. Serafini, “Agents as Reasoners, Observers or Believers”. In M. Gori and G. Soda (editors), Topics in Artificial Intelligence, Atti del convegno AI*IA'95, LNAI 992, pp. 414-425, Springer, 1995.

[59] R. Sebastiani, A. Villafiorita, F. Giunchiglia, “Proving Theorems by Using Abstraction Interactively”. Abstract Intelligent Agent, Atti del convegno AIA 94, ENEA, Rome, Italy, pp. 37-48, 1995.

[60] Cimatti, F. Giunchiglia, R.W. Weyhrauch, “A many sorted natural deduction”. Atti del convegno ECAI-94 Workshop “From Theorem Provers to Mathematical Assistants”, 1994.

[61] F. Giunchiglia, A. Armando, A. Cimatti, P. Traverso, “First Steps Towards Correct System Synthesis of System Code”. Atti del convegno CADE-12 Workshop on Correctness and Metatheoretic Extensibility of Automated Reasoning Systems, Nancy, France, 1994.

[62] F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso, “Program Tactics and Logic Tactics”. Atti del convegno LPAR'94, 5th International Conference on Logic Programming and Automated Reasoning, Kiev, Ukraine, 1994.

[63] F. Giunchiglia, L. Spalazzi, P. Traverso, “Programs with Failure”. Atti del convegno AIPS'94, 2nd International Conference on AI Planning Systems, Chicago, 1994.

[64] F. Giunchiglia, “Logica, Scienze Cognitive e Intelligenza Artificiale - Alcune considerazioni”. Atti Congresso Logica e filosofia della scienza: problemi e prospettive, pp. 777-785, Edizioni ETS, 1994.

[65] F. Giunchiglia, E. Giunchiglia, T. Costello, P. Bouquet, “Dealing with Expected and Unexpected Obstacles”. Atti del convegno 2nd AAAI Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, pp. 63-73, Austin, Texas, 1993.

[66] F. Giunchiglia, A. Cimatti, “Introspective Metatheoretic Reasoning”. Atti del convegno Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), Poster session, University of Birmingham, UK, 1993.

[67] F. Giunchiglia, “Contextual Reasoning”. Atti del convegno IJCAI'93 Workshop on Using Knowledge in its Context, Chambery, Francia, 1993.

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[68] F. Giunchiglia, L. Serafini, E. Giunchiglia, M. Frixione, “Non-Omniscient Belief as Context-Based Reasoning”. Atti del convegno of the 13th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 1993. Abstract also published in Atti del convegno 3rd Bar-Ilan Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (BISFAI), Ramat-Gan, Israele, 1993.

[69] F. Giunchiglia, L. Serafini, “Multilanguage hierarchical logics (or: how we can do without modal logics)” (extended abstract). In G. Comyn, M. Jarke and S.M. Sripada (editors), Atti del convegno CNKBS'92, First Compulog Net Meeting on Knowledge Bases, 1992.

[70] F. Giunchiglia, E. Giunchiglia, “Contextual Reasoning” (extended abstract). Atti del convegno Logic Programming in AI - First Compulog-Net Workshop, Imperial College, London, UK, 1992.

[71] [F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso, A. Cimatti, L. Spalazzi, “Tactics: extending the notion of plan”. Atti del convegno ECAI-92 workshop on “Beyond Sequential Planning”, Wien, 1992.

[72] E. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso, F. Giunchiglia, “Multi-Context Systems as a Specification Framework for Complex Reasoning Systems”. Atti del convegno ECAI-92 Workshop on “Formal Specification Methods for Complex Reasoning Systems”, Wien, 1992, pp. 43-68. Also published in J. Treur e T. Wetter (eds.), Formal Specification of Complex Reasoning Systems, Ellis Horwood, 1993.

[73] F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso, A. Cimatti, P. Pecchiari, “A System for Multi-Level Reasoning”. In A. Yonezawa and B.C. Smith (editors), Atti del convegno IMSA'92 International Workshop on Reflection and Meta-level Architecture, Tokyo, pp. 190-195, 1992.

[74] F. Giunchiglia, T. Walsh, “Theories of Abstraction: an Historical Perspective”. Atti del convegno AAAI Workshop on Approximation and Abstraction of Computational Theories, pp. 85-89, 1992.

[75] F. Giunchiglia, L. Serafini, A. Simpson, “Hierarchical meta-logics: intuitions, proof theory and semantics”. Atti del convegno 3rd Workshop on Meta-programming in Logic (META-92), Uppsala, Sweden. LNCS 649, Springer, pp. 235-249, 1992.

[76] F. Giunchiglia, L. Serafini, “Hierarchical Meta-Logics for Beliefs and Provability: how we can do without Modal Logics”. Atti del convegno Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'92), Vancouver, Canada, 1992, pp. 198-205.

[77] F. Giunchiglia, T. Walsh, “An Abstract Proof Checker”. Atti del convegno International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1992.

[78] F. Giunchiglia and T. Walsh, “Tree subsumption: reasoning with outlines”. Atti del convegno 9th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-92), Wien, pp. 77-81, 1992.

[79] F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso, A. Cimatti, L. Spalazzi, S. Dalbosco, L. Serafini, E. Giunchiglia, A. Armando, P. Pecchiari, “MRG: un nucleo di ragionamento per un sistema integrato multi-funzionale”. Atti del convegno AUTOMAZIONE 1992, 36th ANIPLA Conference, Genova, Italy, pages 620-633, 1992.

[80] F. Giunchiglia, A. Cimatti, S. Dalbosco, P. Traverso, L. Spalazzi, “MRG: un sistema di ragionamento distribuito per applicazioni complesse”. Atti seconda giornata di lavoro del gruppo Intelligenza Artificiale Distribuita (DAI) dell'AI*IA, Rome, Italy, May , pp. 37-40, 1992.

[81] F. Giunchiglia, L. Serafini, “Multilanguage hierarchical logics”. Atti del convegno 2nd Bar-Ilan Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (BISFAI'91), Ramat Gan, Israel, 1991.

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[82] F. Giunchiglia, “Multilanguage Systems”. Atti del convegno of AAAI 1991 Spring Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, pp. 70-79, 1991.

[83] F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso, “Reflective reasoning with and between a declarative metatheory and the implementation code”. Atti del convegno of the International Joint Conference in Artificial Intelligenge (IJCAI'91), pp. 111-117, 1991.

[84] F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso, “A System for Multi-Level Mathematical Reasoning”. Atti del convegno International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Mathematics, pp. 93-108, Oxford University Press, 1991.

[85] F. Giunchiglia, L. Serafini, “Multilanguage first order theories of propositional attitudes”. Atti del convegno 3rd Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Roskilde University, Denmark, IOS Press, pp. 228-240, 1991.

[86] D. Basin, F. Giunchiglia, Paolo Traverso, “Automating metatheory creation and system extension”. Atti del convegno AI*IA 91, pages 48-57, LNAI, Springer Verlag, 1991.

[87] F. Giunchiglia, T. Walsh, “Using Abstraction”. Atti del convegno Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB'91), Leeds, UK, pp. 225-234, 1991.

[88] Bundy, F. Giunchiglia, T. Walsh, “Building Abstractions”. Atti del convegno AAAI Workshop on Automatic Generation of Approximations and Abstractions, pp. 221-232, 1990.

[89] F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso, “Plan Formation and Execution in an Uniform Architecture of Metatheories”. In M. Bruynooghe (editor), Atti del convegno 2nd Workshop on Meta-Programming in Logic (META-90)", pp. 306-322, 1990.

[90] F. Giunchiglia, T. Walsh, “The Use of Abstraction in Automatic }nference”. Atti del convegno UK Conference on Information Technology, pp. 365-370, 1990.

[91] F. Giunchiglia, T. Walsh, “Abstract Theorem Proving”. Atti del convegno of the 11th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'89), pp. 372-377, 1989.

[92] F. Giunchiglia, T. Walsh, “Abstracting into Inconsistent Spaces (or the False Proof Problem)”. Atti del convegno AI*IA 89, pp. 233-239, Trento, Italy, 1989.

[93] F. Giunchiglia, T. Walsh, “Theorem Proving with Definitions”. Atti del convegno Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB'89), pp. 175-184, Pitman Publishing, 1989.

[94] F. Giunchiglia, A. Smaill, “Reflection in Constructive and Non-Constructive Automated Reasoning”. Atti del convegno International Conference on Computer Logic, Tallin, Estonia, December 1988.

[95] Ferrari, F. Giunchiglia, M. Pilotto, “Dall'analisi della descrizione alla generazione delle immagini. Atti del convegno Congresso AICA, September 1986. Also in: Il Progettista Elettronico under the title “Immagini su terminale grafico”, pp. 179-186, 1988.

[96] F. Giunchiglia, E. Giunchiglia, “Building complex derived inference rules: a decider for the class of prenex universal-existential formulas”. Atti del convegno 7th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'88), pp. 607-609, Pitman Publishing, 1988.

[97] F. Giunchiglia, A. Smaill, “Reflection in Constructive and Non-Constructive Automated Reasoning”. In J. Lloyd (editor), Atti del convegno 1st Workshop on Meta-Programming in Logic Programming (META), pp. 95-108, MIT Press, Series in Logic Programming, 1988.

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[98] F. Giunchiglia, R.W. Weyhrauch, “A multi-context monotonic axiomatization of inessential non-monotonicity”. In D. Nardi and P. Maes (editors), Meta-level Architectures and Reflection, pp. 271-285, North Holland, 1988.

[99] Bundy, D. Sannella, F. Giunchiglia, F. Van Harmelen, J. Hesketh, P. Madden, A. Smaill, A. Stevens, L. Wallen, “Proving Properties of Logic Programs: A Progress Report”. Atti del convegno 1988 Alvey Conference on Information Technology (UK IT '88), pp. 131-133, 1988.

[100] Giordano, F. Giunchiglia, M. Maresca, D. Tezza, “A Debugging Tool in a Multiprocessor Environment”. Atti del convegno IASTED International Symposium on Modeling, Identification and Control, Grindelwald, Switzerland, pp. 450-452, February 1987.

[101] M. DiManzo, F. Giunchiglia, E. Lucchelli, E. Trucco, “Strings manipulation using qualitative reasoning”. Atti del convegno Artificial Intelligence in Engineering: Tools and Techniques, pp. 307-319, August 1987.

[102] M. DiManzo, E. Trucco, F. Giunchiglia, F. Ricci, “THE FUR PROJECT - Understanding functional reasoning”. Image Analysis and Processing II, Plenum Press, pp. 129-135, September 1987.

[103] F. Giunchiglia, M. Pilotto, C. Ferrari, “OBJMAKE: Un modellatore geometrico e funzionale per grafia interattiva”. Atti del convegno Convencion Informatica Latina (CIL), pp. 606-623, Barcelona, 1987.

[104] F. Giunchiglia, “Kyoto Common Lisp: a high level language implementation of common lisp on general purpose machines”. Atti del convegno IEEE COMPCON SPRING 87, pp. 124-127, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1987.

[105] M. DiManzo, G. Adorni, F. Giunchiglia, F. Ricci, “Building Functional Descriptions”. Atti del convegno 5th International Conference on Robot Vision and Sensory Controls (ROVISEC), pp. 403-412, Amsterdam, October 1985.

[106] M. DiManzo, F. Giunchiglia, “A Representation of Space for Knowledge-Based Scene Generation”. Atti del convegno COGNITIVA 85, Paris, pp. 177-182, June 1985.

[107] M. DiManzo, F. Giunchiglia, “Space as a Linguistic Variable”. Atti del convegno 1st IFSA Congress (International Fuzzy Sets Association), Palma De Majorca, Spain, July 1985.

[108] F. Giunchiglia, M. Pilotto, A. Viacava, “Un sistema per la generazione automatica di scenografie”. Atti del convegno Congresso AICOGRAPHICS, pp. 24.1-24.12, November 1985.

[109] F. Giunchiglia, M. Pilotto, P. Traverso, “Un Sistema a Produzioni per l'Analisi di Descrizioni di Scene”. Atti del convegno Congresso AICA, October 1985.

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Marco Pistore

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

1999: PhD. in Computer Science, University of Pisa1996: “Diploma” in Computer Science, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa1994: Laurea degree in Computer Science, University of Pisa

CAREER RECORD:

Jan. 03 – present, responsible of the “Software Engineering” research programme – University of Trento – Italy.Oct.. 02 – present, Associate Professor, University of Trento – ItalyJan. 99 – Sep. 02, Researcher – ITC-IRST – Trento – Italy

Marco Pistore has published more than 40 scientific papers on international journals and conferences. He has participated to several research and technology transfer projects funded by EC, MIUR, ASI, local government of Trentino, and private companies. He is currently responsible of a technology transfer project with one of the main IT companies of Trentino, aiming to the application of research techniques for supporting development and execution of distributed applications in the E-Government field.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Marco Pistore’s research interests concern the usage of automated reasoning systems and of formal methods for the specification and the verification of autonomous systems. In particular, he is interested in techniques based on finite-state models and in the development of tools for the verification of distributed systems and of embedded systems. He is also interested in the application of automated planning techniques to the synthesis from the requirements of the control software for highly autonomous systems (embedded systems, distributed systems, Web services...). Finally, he is interested in the definition of methodologies that allow for an effective integration of the verification and planning techniques inside the software development process.

RECENT MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

FERRARI G.; GNESI S.; MONTANARI U.; PISTORE M. A model checking verification environment for mobile processes ACM TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND METHODOLOGY (TOSEM). To appear.

MONTANARI U.; PISTORE M. Structured Coalgebras and Minimal HD-Automata for the pi-Calculus THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE. To appear.

CIMATTI A.; PISTORE M.; ROVERI M.; TRAVERSO P. Weak, strong, and strong cyclic planning via symbolic model checking ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE JOURNAL. Vol. 147(1-2) pp. 35-84, 2003.

PAPAZOGLOU M.; AIELLO M.; PISTORE M.; YANG J. Planning for Requests against Web Services IEEE DATA ENGINEERING BULETIN. Vol. 25(4) pp. 41-46, 2002.

DAL LAGO U.; PISTORE M.; TRAVERSO P. Planning with a Language for Extended Goals AAAI/IAAI 2002. pp. 447-454 5, 2002

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PISTORE M.; SANGIORGI D. (2001). A partition refinement algorithm for the pi-calculus INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION. Vol. 164 pp. 263-321, 2001.

PISTORE M.; TRAVERSO P. Planning as Model Checking for Extended Goals in Non-deterministic Domains Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence 2001. pp. 479-486, 2001.

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Maurizio Marchese

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:Dottore in Fisica: graduated with full honor in 1984 , University of Trento.

CAREER RECORD:present : Assistant Professor at Department of Information and Communication

Technology, Facoltà di Scienze, Università degli Studi di Trento1994 -2001 : Researcher at Department of Computer and Management Sciences,

Facoltà di Scienze, Università degli Studi di Trento; 1989 - 1994: Contract Researcher at Laboratorio Tecnologico e Prodotti Speciali,

Università degli Studi di Trento; 1988- 1989 Visiting Researcher at the Institute für Computeranwendungen,

Universität Stuttgart,Germany 1985-1988 Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Material Research

Laboratory, University of Urbana-Champaign, USA 1984 Visiting Researcher at the National Research Council of Canada,

Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Ottawa, Canada

INDUSTRIAL/COMMERCIAL LINKS AND EXPERIENCE:Project coordinator of the following EU projects:"FABERCOAT: Modeling and characterisation of plasma sprayed thermal barrier coatings" BREU-0418. Focus Fundamental Research"MODELCOAT: Finite element modeling of ceramics TBCs to extend the operative range of heat engine components" BREU-0535 Industrial Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS:• development and deploymentof effective architectures for web services• introduction of Information Systems innovation in Public Administration• introduction of Information Systems innovation in private enterprises,

specifically local Small Medium Enterprises• integration of computer-based tools in Geographical Information Systems(GIS)

environments • analysis, development and integration of software tools for Decision Support

Systems (DSS)

RECENT MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:Marchese M., "Service oriented architectures for supporting environments in eGovernment applications". Proceedings of "SAINT 2003", Orlando, Florida, USA, 27-31 January, 2003. Los Alamitos, California: IEEE Computer Society, 2003. p. 106-110Marchese M., Jacucci G., "Sustaining the introduction of innovation in digital enterprises". Proceedings of "PROLAMAT 2001 Digital Enterprise Challanges", edited by Kovacs G., Bertok P., Haidegger G., Kluwert Academic Publishers, 2001, pp. 230-241. M. Marchese, C. Cattani , V. D’Andrea and G. Jacucci, “Training Students to Intervene in Information Systems Inherently Involves Organizational and Technology Skill Acquisition”, in Proceedings of 8th European Conference on Information Systems – ECIS 2000, July 3-5, 2000, Wien, Austria.M. Marchese and G. Jacucci ,”Guided Inquiry for Professional Training Using DSS Technologies”, in Proceedings of the 7th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education, 1998, Torino, Italy.

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M.Foy, M.Marchese and G. Jacucci, “Engineering Plasma Spray Films by Knowledge Based Simulations”, in “Cooperative Knowledge Processing for Engineering Design” edited by A. B. Baskin, G. Kovacs and G. Jacucci, Kluwer Academic Publisher, Netherlands, 1999.I.St. Doltsinis, J. Harding and M. Marchese, " Modelling the production and performance of plasma-sprayed ceramic thermal barrier coatings", in Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, vol.5, n.2, 1998

AUSTRIAUIBK - University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

The University of Innsbruck's history goes back to the year 1562, when a Jesuit secondary school was founded in Innsbruck. Building on that, Emperor Leopold I founded a university on October 15, 1669, ensuring its continued funding by imposing a special tax on salt mined in Hall, known as the "Hall Salt Surcharge." Eight years later, in 1677, the official charter was signed and four faculties of higher learning were established. The next 150 years saw turmoil and change. Twice the University was dissolved and then reopened. The year 1826 saw the final reopening of the Faculty of Philosophy and the Faculty of Law by Emperor Franz I. Step by step, the other faculties were also re-opened.

Scientists welcome the intellectual challenges offered at the University of Innsbruck and enjoy developing mind, body and soul simultaneously. Four professors from the University have received the Nobel Prize in this century: Fritz Pregl for developing techniques in microanalysis of organic compounds, Adolf Windaus for discovering the composition of sterols and their relation to vitamins, HansFischer for synthesizing hemin, and Victor Franz Hess for discovering cosmic radiation.

At the University of Innsbruck science not only enjoys a past, but also a future. Two special areas of research, both of which are increasingly gaining international attention, are currently being pursued: "biological communication systems," an essential aspect of many questions surrounding gene research, and the highly innovative field of "quantum optics," one of the foundations of the "second computer revolution."

Innsbruck has always been a crossroads of European culture and trade. Because of its geography, the city on the River Inn has served as a bridge between northern and southern Europe. A vital cultural and economic factor is the University of Innsbruck, which has been attracting academics, both teachers and students, since its founding in 1669. The University of Innsbruck is one of Austria's oldest universities.

Today, with almost 2,500 staff and 30,000 students, it is a place of learning that unifies tradition with future, progress and the joy of discovery. The University of Innsbruck is western Austria's largest institution of higher education and research and serves as the home university for Tyrol, Vorarlberg, South Tyrol and Liechtenstein. The University of Innsbruck has seven faculties and 120 departments and clinics, enjoys an excellent teacher-to-student ratio and successfully melds culture, nature and science, all of which provide students and instructors alike with a friendly environment in which to learn, teach and conduct research.

Over the past two decades, the University of Innsbruck has been able to take advantage of Austria's changing laws and is now well on its way to becoming a modern, service-oriented institution of higher learning. The University is not rooted in a particular time but, rather, is committed to permanence and the future.

The University of Innsbruck has twelve partner universities throughout the world. It was a founding member of the ASEAN, the European Academic University Partnership Network,

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and participates in all major international programs that promote research and education. Additionally, there are joint study and student exchange agreements with 186 European and 21 non-European universities.

The Institute of Computer Science is part of the Natural Sciences Faculty and was found in 2001 and has eight faculty positions at the Full Professor level in Computer Science. The Country of Tyrol strongly supports various initiatives in the IT domain. In addition, it has been found a Center of Information and Communication Technology as a forum for tight interactions between the University of Innsbruck, the Faculty of Applied Sciences, and industrial partners. The Next Generation Web Group is headed by renowned Semantic Web Expert - Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel. The major objective of our scientific work is to bring current Web technology to its full potential by combining and improving recent trends around the Web. We are focusing on Ontology, Semantic Web, and Web Service Technology.

We are currently involved in many EU projects related to the Semantic Web such as: project co-ordinator of SWWS (swws.semanticweb.org), Esperonto (esperonto.semanticweb.org), COG (www.cogproject.org), hTechsight (prise-serv.cpe.surrey.ac.uk/techsight). We are also co-ordinating the Thematic Network on Semantic Web called OntoWeb (www.ontoweb.org). Our group plays an important role in leading large projects funded under EU 6 th FP, such as co-ordinator of DIP (the Integrated Project on Semantic Web Services, website: dip.semanticweb.org), SEKT (the Integrated Project on Semantic Knowledge Management, website: sekt.semanticweb.org) and co-ordinator of Knowledge Web (the Network of Excellence on Semantic Web, website: knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org).

As we have the proved recorded on extensive experiences of leading and participating various large EU projects and the well known research track in Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services, we have close collaboration with W3C on influencing the Standards for the Web. We have established joint exchange program with Stanford University (USA) and with the team of Tim Berners Lee in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA). We have the close working relation with DAML project funded by DAPAR (USA) and Irish National Science Foundation. We also work together with Digital Enterprise Research Institute in National University of Ireland Galway. Together we form a leading virtual group in Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services.

As a leading group in Europe, we also have broad international collaboration with many countries outside of Europe, such as United States (Stanford University, MIT), Japan, South Korea, Australia, Thailand, and Singapore.

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Appendix 3. CV of key personsCurriculum Vitae

Proposed Position in the Project:

1 Family Name: Fensel

2 First Name: Dieter A.

3 Date of Birth: 10th of October 1960

4 Nationality: German

5 Civil Status: Single

6 Education / Professional Studies: Univ. Prof. Dr.

EDUCATIONDecember 1998 Habilitation in Applied Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe, Faculty of Economic Science.The Habilitation received the Carl-Adam-Petri-Award of the Faculty of Economic Science Karlsruhe in December 2000.July 1993 Dr. rer. pol. at the University of Karlsruhe, Faculty of Economic Science.

7 Language Skills: (Mark from 1 (notions) to 5 (excellent) for competence)(*=mother tongue)

Language SpeakingReading WritingEnglish 5 5 5 German 5 5 5

8 Membership of Professional Bodies: Co-chair of the Semantic Web Service Initiative (SWSI) since August 2002. Member of the Technical Committee (TC) of the Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), since June 2002. Member of Web-Ontology (WebOnt) Working Group of the World Wide Web Committee (W3C), 2001 - 2003. Co-chair of the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) since July 2001. Member of the Advisory Board of the Joint EU/US ad hoc Agent Markup Language Committee, together with Jim Hendler, Tim-Berners Lee, and Hans Georg Storck from November 2000 till October 2001. Chair of the Working Group on Agent-Based Mediation Among Information Systems, Data, and Knowledge Management of the SIG on Intelligent Information Agents of the AgentLink Network of Excellence, between April 1999 and August 2000. Member of the Advisory board of the European Knowledge Acquisition Community since 1997. Member of the Fachgruppenleitung Knowledge Engineering of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) since between 1997 and 2000. Representative of the Karlsruher nodes of the European Network of Excellence in Machine Learning (MLnet), October 1993 - February 1996. Member in the EB of the International Journal on Web and Grid Services, 2004-2006. Member in the EB of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems.

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9 Other Skills: Research Projects and Cooperation with Industry

1. The Semantic Web Fred project is based on the FRED system, which is a software platform to integrate agent technology, ontologies, Semantic Web Service technologies, and dynamic process technologies, developed by Net Dynamcis. It is a project in the Co-Operate Program for Research of Vienna for developing a Semantic Web Fred platform together with Net Dynamics, Vienna, (2004-2005).

2. The LBSCult Project founded and designed to construct a network of competency for the development of an electronic culture guide for Vienna. The project is based on the concept of an open platform (LBSCult Service) which connects multiple culture data bases and GIS-systems using Semantic Web technologies. Project Partners are NIWA-WEB Solutions (NIWA), Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ONB), Universität Innsbruck, Next Web Generation Group (IFI), Magistratsabteilung 14 (MA14), Magistratsabteilung 19 (MA19), Tiscali Österreich GmbH (Tiscali), Technische Universität Wien, Institut für Informationssysteme (DBAI), Austria, Kaya-Fill, Hilbrand, De Vlieghere OEG (Wanderman), 2004-2005.

3. Integrated Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programe for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 6th Framework Programme: ASG. The goal of Adaptive Services Grid (ASG) is to develop a proof-of-concept prototype of an open development platform for adaptive services discovery, creation, composition, and enactment. Project Partners are University of Potsdam, University of Leipzig, LFUI, Fraunhofer IESE, DaimlerChrysler Research, HPI at University Potsdam, National University of Galway, Swinburne University, Transit Germany, NIWA Austria, Telenor Communications II AS Norway, Siemens AG, Rodan Systems Poland, University Jyväskylä Finland, Telekomunikacja Polska, Marketplanet Poland, University of Karlsruhe, ASTEC Poland, The Poznan University of Economics, FH Furtwangen, Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (2004-2006).

4. Specific targeted research project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programe for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 6th Framework Programme: Infrawebs, Intelligent Framework for Generating Open (Adaptable) Development Platforms for Web-Service Enabled Applications Using Semantic Web Technologies, Distributed Decision Support Units and Multi-Agent-Systems. The primary project objective is to develop an ICT framework, which enables software and service providers to generate and establish open and extensible development platforms for WEB-Service applications. Paroject Partners are University of Applied Science Bochum, LFUI, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems Athens, Institute of Information Technology, Bulgarian Academy of Science Sofia, Department of Distributed Systems, Hungarian Academy of Science Budapest, Profium Finland, OntoText Sirma, FUTUREtec-GmbH, STREAM Spain, HP Italy, big7.net Gmb & Aspasia Knowledge Systems Germany (2004-2007).

5. Integrated Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programe for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 6th Framework Programme: Data, Information, and Process Integration with Semantic Web Services (dip). Project partners are the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), Ireland (co-ordinator); British Telecommunications plc (BT), UK; EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland; HP Galway, Ireland; IBM Germany; University of Innsbruck, Institut für Informatik (IFI), Austria; ILOG, France; SAP AG, Germany; Tiscali Austria GmbH, Austria; Bankinter Spain; Berlecon Research, Germany; ERIN S.A., Luxembourg; Essex County Council, UK; FZI, Germany; Inubit, Germany; Netdynamics, Austria; Sirma AI Ltd. (Ontotext), Bulgaria; The Open University (OU), UK; Unicorn Solutions Ltd, Israel; Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Starlab, Belgium. 2004-2007.

6. Integrated Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 6th Framework Programme: Semantically-Enabled Knowledge Technologies (SEKT). Project partners are British Telecommunications Plc., UK (co-ordinator); Empolis GmbH, Germany; Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia; University of Karlsruhe, Germany; University of Sheffield, UK; Institut für Informatik der Universität Innsbruck, Austria; Intelligent Software Components S. A., Spain; Kea-pro GmbH, Germany; Ontoprise GmbH, Germany; Quintelligence, Germany; Sirma AI Ltd, Bulgaria; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. 2004-2007.

7. Network of Excellence in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 6th Framework Programme: Realizing the Semantic Web (Knowledge Web). Project partners are around twenty leading Universities in Europe and France Telecom to co-ordinate the industrial outreach. The project co-ordinator is the Institut für Informatik der Universität Innsbruck, Austria. 2004 - 2009.

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8. The National University of Ireland, Galway has been awarded 12 million Euros over the next five years from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) to fund a new Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI). The Institute which is being co-funded by HP’s European software centre will be at the forefront of research into the second generation of web technology – the Semantic Web. Dieter Fensel is the scientific director of this institute, 2003 – 2008.

9. Vice President of Technology of Netdynamics since June 2003. Netdynamics is an innovative, dynamic software technology company located in Austria and was founded in June 2000 as a spin off of a successful software company. See www.netdynamics-tech.com

10. Project funded under the Forschungsförderungsfonds für die gewerbliche Wirtschaft (FFF) Programme of the Austrian Government for developing a domain-specific search engine in co-operation with Journal Medien. 2003-2004.

11. Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 5th Framework Programme: Corporate Ontology Grid under Framework V of the IST program of the European commission. Project partners are the Unicorn Solutions, Ltd., Israel, University of Innsbruck, Austria, FIAT Research Centre (CRF), Italy, and LogicDIS, Greece. (2002-2004), Key action III.

12. Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 5th Framework Programme: SWWS - Semantic Web Enabled Web Services under Framework V of the IST program of the European commission. Project partners are the University of Innsbruck, Austria, (co-ordinator), the FZI - Forschungszentrum Informatik, National University of Galway, Ireland, Intelligent Software Components, S.A., Sirma: OntoText, and Hewlett-Packard (HP). (2002-2005), Key action III.

13. Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 5th Framework Programme: Esperonto: Application Service Provision of Semantic Annotation, Aggregation, Indexing and Routing of Textual, Multimedia, and Multilingual Web Content. Project partner are Intelligent Software Components, S.A, Spain; University of Innsbruck, Austria; University of Madrid, Spain; Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH, Germany; LivUni – The University of Liverpool, UK; Biovista, Greece; and Residencia de Estudiantes, Spain. (2002-2004). Key action III.

14. Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Program for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 5th Framework Program: SWAP: Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer. Project partner are University of Karlsruhe, Germany; VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands; META4, Spain; Empolis, UK; Empolis, Polska; AIdministrator, The Netherlands; Interbiz, Spain; Dresdner Bank, Germany (2002-2004). Key action III.

15. Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Program for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 5th Framework Program: Multiple: Multimedia Project and Technology Watch, Innovation and Exploitation. Project partner are ERIN S. A. Luxembourg, INBIS Group Ltd, UK, and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL, (2001-2003). Key action III.

16. NAS Partnership Extension of a Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Program for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 5th Framework Program: On-To-Knowledge: Content-driven Knowledge-Management Tools through Evolving Ontologies. The new partner is OntoText Lab., Sophia, Bulgaria (2001-2002).

17. Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Program for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 5th Framework Program: H-TECHSIGHT: A knowledge management platform with Intelligence & Insight capabilities for Technology Intensive Industries. Project partner are the University of Surrey, UK, (co-ordinator), University of Rovira I Virgili, Spain, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL, SemanticEdge, Germany, Athens Technology Center, Greece, Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK, Bayer AG, Germany, Gerolymatos, Greece, Mamidoil, Greece (2001-2003). Key action II.

18. Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Program for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 5th Framework Program: OBELIX: Ontology-Based Electronic Integration of compleX products and value chains. Project partner are LABEIN, Spain, (coordinator), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL, SENA, NL, Ontoprise GmbH, Germany, SINTEF, Norway, PTSS, Spain, and Melhus Energy, Norway (2001-2004). Key action II.

19. Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Program for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 5th Framework Program: WonderWeb: Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. Project partner are the University of Manchester (coordinator), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, LADSEB-CNR, University of Karlsruhe, Stanford University, and Semantic Edge (2001-2004).

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20. Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Program for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 5th Framework Program: OntoWeb: Ontology-based information exchange for knowledge management and electronic commerce. The project is a thematic network. Project coordinator is the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). Members of the network are more than 90 partners from Academia and Industry (2001-2004). www.ontoweb.org. Key action III.

21. Project together with Hubwoo on the use of ontologies in B2B electronic commerce (2001 - 2002). Hubwoo, Paris, France, is one of the leading B2B market places for MRO goods.

22. Project together with Content Europe, Genval, Belgium, on the use of ontologies in B2B electronic commerce (2000-2001).

23. Project together with DaimlerChrysler Berlin, Germany, on the use of Ontologies in Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce in cooperation with iSOCO, Intelligent Software Components, S.A., Madrid, Spain and AKMC Knowledge Management BV, Koedijk, The Netherlands (2000-2001).

24. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of SemanticEdge, Berlin, Germany (2000-2002). SemanticEdge uses Ontologies to facilitate intelligent information access in Electronic commerce.

25. KIRMIT: Knowledge-based Indexing and Retrieval of Multimedia Information. The research question addressed in this project is: what methods, techniques and tools can be developed for the description and indexing of multimedia information, such that efficient and effective retrieval of information can be achieved in a distributed, multilingual and multipurpose environment. It is a joint NWO project of SWI, University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (1999-2002).

26. Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Program for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 5th Framework Program: On-To-Knowledge: Content-driven Knowledge-Management Tools through Evolving Ontologies. Project partner are the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) (coordinator); the Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe; Administrator, the Netherlands; British Telecom Laboratories, UK; Swiss Life, Switzerland; CognIT, Norway; and Enersearch, Sweden (1999-2002). www.ontoknowledge.com. IST-1999-10132, key action V.

27. Joint Project with the University of Madrid for developing tools to develop and maintain ontologies (1999-2000), funded via DAAD.

28. Project with DaimlerChrysler Gaggenau for developing an intranet solution for the Quality Management Department (1999).

29. The Knowledge Annotation Initiative of the Knowledge Acquisition Community (KA)2 is an initiative officially launched at EKAW-97 to develop an ontology that models the knowledge acquisition community (its researchers, topics, products, etc.). This ontology will form the basis for annotating WWW documents of the knowledge acquisition community in order to enable intelligent access to these documents (1997-1999). See www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/broker/KA2.html

30. Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Program for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 4th and 5th Framework Program: IBROW: An Intelligent Brokering Service for Knowledge-Component Reuse on the World-Wide Web. Project partners are the University of Amsterdam (coordinator); the Open University, Milton Keynes, England; the Spanish Council of Scientific Research (IIIA) in Barcelona, the Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Stanford University, iSOCO, Intelligent Software Components S. A., and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1998-2002). IST-1999-19005, open domain. www.swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/ibrow/home.html

31. The WORKS Forschungsprojekt Methodik der arbeitsorientierten Gestaltung von Wissenssystemen was funded by the German ministry for Education and Science (BMBF) and extended the CommonKADS methodology with ergonomic aspects (1996 to 1998). Project partners were the Institute AIFB, of the University of Karlsruhe; the Ingenieur- und Beratungsgesellschaft für Organisation und Technik mbH; the University of Art and Design in Halle and the Werkstatt für Design & Informatik GmbH.

32. Grants from the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg for a PhD student working on inductive logic programming at the Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (1994-1997).

33. Grants from the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for two years as a guest researcher at the University of Amsterdam (1994-1996). Subject: Problem-solving methods for knowledge-based system.

10 Present Position within the organisation: Since September 2003

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Secientific director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute Ireland (DERI) at the National University of Ireland, Galway based on a part-time professorship in Galway.

Since September 2002 Full professor at the Institut of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

September 1999 - September 2002 Associate professor at the Faculteit der Exacte Wetenschappen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU).

11 Years with the organisation: 2.514 Key Qualifications: (relevant to the project): World leading experts on Semantic Web and

Semantic Web ServicesCurrently computers are changing from single isolated devices to entry points in a world wide network of information exchange and business transactions. Therefore, support in data, information, and knowledge exchange becomes the key issue in current computer technology. The major objective of my scientific work is to bring current Web technology to its full potential by combining and improving recent trends around the Web.Semantic Web Technology - Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, referred to the future of the current WWW as the "Semantic Web" - an extended Web of machine-readable information and automated services that extend far beyond current capabilities. The explicit representation of the semantics underlying data, programs, pages, and other Web resources, will enable a knowledge-based Web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. Automated services will improve in their capacity to assist humans in achieving their goals by "understanding" more of the content on the Web, and thus providing more accurate filtering, categorization, and searches of information sources. This process will ultimately lead to an extremely knowledgeable system that features various specialized reasoning services. These services will support us in nearly all aspects of our daily life - making access to information as pervasive, and necessary, as access to electricity is today.Web Service Technology - The current Web is mainly a collection of information but does not yet provide support in processing this information, i.e., in using the computer as a computational device. Recent efforts around UDDI, WSDL, and SOAP try to lift the Web to a new level of service. Software applications can be accessed and executed via the Web based on the idea of Web services. Web services can significantly increase the Web architecture's potential, by providing a way of automated program communication, discovery of services, etc. Therefore, they are the focus of much interest from various software development companies. Web Services connect computers and devices with each other using the Internet to exchange data and combine data in new ways. The key to Web Services is on-the-fly software composition through the use of loosely coupled, reusable software components. This has fundamental implications in both technical and business terms. Software can be delivered and paid for as fluid streams of services as opposed to packaged products. It is possible to achieve automatic, ad hoc interoperability between systems to accomplish organizational tasks. Examples include business application, such as automated procurement and supply chain management, but also non-commercial applications as well as military applications. Web services can be completely decentralized and distributed over the Internet and accessed by a wide variety of communications devices. Organizations can be released from the burden of complex, slow and expensive software integration and focus instead on the value of their offerings and mission critical tasks. The dynamic enterprise and dynamic value chains would become achievable and may be even mandatory for competitive advantage.Intelligent Web Services - Still, more work needs to be done before the Web service infrastructure can make this vision come true. Current web service technology provide limited support in mechanizing service recognition, service configuration and combination (i.e., realizing complex workflows and business logics with Web services), service comparison and automated negotiation. In a business environment, the vision of flexible and autonomous Web service translates into automatic cooperation between enterprise services. Any enterprise requiring a business interaction with another enterprise can automatically discover and select the appropriate optimal Web services relying on selection policies. Services can be invoked automatically and payment processes can be initiated. Any necessary mediation would be applied based on data and process ontologies and the automatic translation and semantic interoperation. An example would be supply chain relationships where an enterprise manufacturing short-lived goods must frequently seek suppliers as well as buyers dynamically. Instead of employees constantly searching for suppliers and buyers, the Web service infrastructure does it automatically within the defined constraints. Other applications areas for this technology are Enterprise-Application Integration (EAI), eWork, and Knowledge Management.

13 Experience in specific Asian / EU countries :

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Penalist on the Semantic Web during the 10th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2001), Hong Kong, May 2001.

6th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2003), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, June 4-6, 2003.Keynote Speaker of the 9th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-9), Hong Kong, April 2001.

Country: Thailand, Asian Institute of TechnologyDate: May 2001Details: Invited scholar guest

Country: China, People University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, ChinaDate: April 2001Details: Invited Talk and invited scholar guest

Country: South Korea, Won Kwang UniversityDate: Nov 2004Details: Invited talk and distinguished guest consultant for country’s IT strategy

Country: ThailandDate: Nov 2004Details: Invited speaker at the international conference. Joint collboartion between University of

Innsbruck and Asian Institute of Technology

14 Professional Experience Record (relevant to the project):Since September 2003

Secientific director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute Ireland (DERI) at the National University of Ireland, Galway based on a part-time professorship in Galway.

Since September 2002 Full professor at the Institut of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

September 1999 - September 2002 Associate professor at the Faculteit der Exacte Wetenschappen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU).

15 Publications (selected important publications):Books

· C. Bussler, and D. Fensel (eds.): Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, 11th International Conference, AIMSA 2004, Varna, Bulgaria, September 2-4. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2004

· D. Fensel, J. Davies, C. Bussler, and R. Studer (eds.): The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. First European Semantic Web Symposium, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 10-12, 2004. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2004

· D. Fensel, K. Sycara, and J. Mylopoulos (eds.): The Semantic Web - ISWC 2003. Second International Semantic Web Conference, Sanibel Island, FL, USA, October 20-23, 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (LNCS 2870), Springer-Verlag, May 2003

· D. Fensel, J. Hendler, H. Lieberman, and W. Wahlster (eds.): Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to its Full Potential, MIT Press, Boston, 2003.

· J. Davis, D. Fensel, and F. van Harmelen (eds.): Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-Driven Knowledge Management, Wiley, 2002.

· D. Fensel, F. Giunchiglia, D. McGuinness, and M.-A. Williams (eds.): Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, May 2002.

· D. Fensel, B. Omelayenko, Y. Ding, E. Schulten, G. Botquin, M. Brown, and A. Flett: Intelligent Information Integration in B2B Electronic Commerce, Kluwer Publishing, 2002.

· D. Fensel: Ontologies: Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001. 2nd Edition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2003

· D. Fensel: Problem-Solving Methods: Understanding, Development, Description, and Reuse, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence, no 1791, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000.

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· D. Fensel and R. Studer (eds.): Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling, and Management, Proceedings of the European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (EKAW-99), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 1621, Springer-Verlag, May 1999.

· D. Fensel: The Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Language KARL, Kluwer Academic Publisher, Boston, 1995.

Journal Articles· J. de Bruijn, R. Lara, S. Arroyo, J. M. Gomez, S.-K. Han, D. Fensel: A Unified Semantic Web

Services Architecture based on WSMF and UPML in The International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET), 2005

· R. Lara, A. Polleres, H. Lausen, D. Roman, J. de Bruijn, D. Fensel: A comparison of WSMO and OWL-S in World Wide Web Journal, Special issue on Web Services: Theory and Practice, 2004

· M. Stollberg, A. V. Zhadanova, and D. Fensel: h-TechSight – A Next Generation Knowledge Management Platform in Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM) the official publication of the Information and Knowledge Management Society (iKMS), 3(1): March 2004.

· N. J. Davis, D. Fensel, and M. Richarson: The future of Web Services in BT Technology Journal, 22(1):118-130, January 2004

· D. Fensel, E. Motta, F. van Harmelen, V. R. Benjamins, M. Crubezy, S. Decker, M. Gaspari, R. Groenboom, W. Grosso, M. Musen, E. Plaza, G. Schreiber, R. Studer, and B. Wielinga: The Unified Problem-solving Method Development Language UPML, Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS): An International Journal, 5(1):83-131, 2003.

· C. Bussler, D. Fensel, and A. Maedche: A Conceptual Architecture for Semantic Web Enabled Web Services, SIGMOD Record, 2002.

· D. Fensel: On-To-Knowledge: Semantic Web Enabled Knowledge Management, IEEE Computer, 35(11), 2002.

· D. Fensel, C. Bussler, Y. Ding, and B. Omelayenko: The Web Service Modeling Framework WSMF, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 1(2), 2002.

· Y. Ding, D. Fensel, M. Klein, and B. Omelayenko: ”The Semantic Web: Yet Another Hip?”, Data and Knowledge Engineering, 41(3), p. 205-227, 2002.

· J. Broekstra, M. Klein, S. Decker, D. Fensel, F. van Harmelen, and I. Horrocks: Enabling knowledge representation on the Web by extending RDF Schema, Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI), Linköping Electronic Articles in Computer and Information Science, 6(10), 2001.

· M. Klein, D. Fensel, F. van Harmelen, and I. Horrocks: The relation between ontologies and XML schemas, Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI), Linköping Electronic Articles in Computer and Information Science, 6(4), 2001.

· D. Fensel and E. Motta: Structured Development of Problem Solving Methods, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 13(6):9131-932, 2001.

· D. Fensel, Y. Ding, E. Schulten, B. Omelayenko, G. Botquin, M. Brown, and A. Flett: Product Data Integration in B2B E-commerce, IEEE Intelligent System, 16(4), 2001.

· P. van Eck, J. Engelfriet, D. Fensel, F. van Harmelen, Y. Venema, and M. Willems: A Survey of Languages for Specifying Dynamics: a Knowledge Engineering Perspective, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 13(3):462-496, 2001.

· D. Fensel, I. Horrocks, F. van Harmelen, D. McGuinness, and P. F. Patel-Schneider: OIL: Ontology Infrastructure to Enable the Semantic Web, IEEE Intelligent System, 16(2), 2001.

· D. Fensel, J. Angele, S. Decker, M. Erdmann, H.-P. Schnurr, R. Studer, and A. Witt: Lessons Learned from Applying AI to the Web, Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 9(4), 2000.

· S. Decker, F. van Harmelen, J. Broekstra, M. Erdmann, D. Fensel, I. Horrocks , M. Klein, and S. Melnik: The Semantic Web - on the respective Roles of XML and RDF, IEEE Internet Computing, September/October 2000.

· D. Fensel and R. Groenboom: An Architecture for Knowledge-Based Systems, The Knowledge Engineering Review (KER), 14(3), 1999.

· R. Benjamins, D. Fensel, S. Decker, and A. Gomez Perez: (KA)2: building ontologies for the internet: a mid-term report, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), 51(3):687-712, 1999.

· D. Fensel, F. van Harmelen, W. Reif, and A. ten Teije: Formal Support for Development of Knowledge-Based Systems, Information Technology Management: An International Journal, 2(4):173-182, 1998.

· J. Angele, D. Fensel, and R. Studer: Developing Knowledge-Based Systems with MIKE, Journal of Automated Software Engineering, 5(4):389-418, 1998.

· D. Fensel and A. Schönegge: Inverse Verification of Problem-Solving Methods, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), 49(4):339-362, 1998.

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· D. Fensel, J. Angele, and R. Studer: The Knowledge Acquisition And Representation Language KARL, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 10(4):527-550, 1998.

· D. Fensel and V. R. Benjamins: The Role of Assumptions in Knowledge Engineering, International Journal of Intelligent Systems (IJIS), 13(8):715-748, 1998.

· D. Fensel, R. Groenboom, and G. R. Renardel de Lavalette: MCL: Specifying the Reasoning of Knowledge-based Systems, Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), 26(3):243-269, 1998.

· D. Fensel and R. Straatman: The Essence of Problem-Solving Methods: Making Assumptions to Gain Efficiency, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), 48(2):181-215, 1998.

· R. Studer, V. R. Benjamins, and D. Fensel: Knowledge Engineering: Principles and Methods, Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), 25(1-2):161-197, 1998.

· D. Fensel, H. Eriksson, M. A. Musen, and R. Studer: Conceptual and Formal Specifications of Problem-Solving Methods, International Journal of Expert Systems, 9(4):507-532, 1996.

· K. Poeck, D. Fensel, D. Landes, and J. Angele: Combining KARL And CRLM For Designing Vertical Transportation Systems, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), 44(3-4):435-467, 1996.

· D. Fensel: Formal Specification Languages in Knowledge and Software Engineering, The Knowledge Engineering Review (KER), 10(4):361-404, 1995.

· F. van Harmelen and D. Fensel: Formal Methods in Knowledge Engineering, The Knowledge Engineering Review (KER), 10(4), 1995.

· D. Fensel and F. van Harmelen: A Comparison Of Languages Which Operationalize And Formalize KADS Models of Expertise, The Knowledge Engineering Review (KER), 9(2):105-146, 1994.

Conference Proceedings· M. Stollberg, D. Roman, I. Toma, U. Keller, R. Herzog, P. Zugmann, D. Fensel: Semantic Web

Fred - Automated Goal Resolution on the Semantic Web, Accepted for the 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, Hawaii, Januar 3-6, 2005.

· C. Bussler and D. Fensel: Artificial Intelligence Methodology, Systems, And Applications, 11th International Conference, Aimsa 2004, Varna, Bulgaria, September 2-4, 2004, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

· U. Keller, M. Stollberg, D. Fensel: WOOGLE meets Semantic Web Fred, Proceedings of the Workshop on WSMO Implementations (WIW 2004), Frankfurt, Germany, September 29-30, 2004, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.

· Y. Ding, D. Fensel, R. Lara, H. Lausen, M. Stollberg, S.-K. Han (ed.): Proceedings of the ECAI 2004 Workshop on Application of Semantic Web Technologies to Web Communities, CEUR, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol-107, Valencia, Spain, August 23-27, 2004.

· R. Lara, S.-K. Han, H. Lausen, M. Stollberg, Y. Ding, and D. Fensel: An Evaluation of Semantic Web Portals, International Conference in Applied computing (IADIS04), Lisabon, Portugal, March 23-26, 2004.

· S. Arroyo, Y. Ding. R. Lara, M. Stollberg, and D. Fensel: Semantic Web Languages – Strenghts and Weakness, International Conference in Applied computing (IADIS04), Lisabon, Portugal, March 23-26, 2004.

· Y. Ding, M. Korotkiy, B. Omelayenko, V. Kartseva, V. Zykov, M. Klein, E. Schulten, and D. Fensel: GoldenBullet: Automated Classification of Product Data in E-commerce. In Proceedings of Business Information Systems Conference (BIS 2002), Poznan, Poland, April 2002.

· Y. Ding, M. Korotkiy, B. Omelayenko, V. Kartseva, V. Zykov, M. Klein, E. Schulten, and D. Fensel: GoldenBullet in a Nutshell. In Proceedings of the 15th Internation FLAIRS Conference, Pensacola, Florida, May 2002.

· B. Omelayenko, D. Fensel, and C. Bussler: Applying Semantic Mapping Technology to Enterprise Integration. In Proceedings of the 15th Internation FLAIRS Conference, Pensacola, Florida, May 2002.

· B. Omelayenko and D. Fensel: A Two-Layered Integration Approach for Product Information in B2B E-commerce. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-WEB 2001), Munich, Germany, September 2001.

· J. Broekstra, M. Klein, S. Decker, D. Fensel, F. van Harmelen, and I. Horrocks: Enabling knowledge representation on the Web by Extending RDF Schema. In Proceedings of the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW10), Hong Kong, May 2001.

· B. Omelayenko and D. Fensel: An Analysis of Integration Problems of XML-Based Catalogues for B2B E-commerce. In Proceedings of the 9th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database (DS-9), Semantic Issues in e-commerce Systems, Hong Kong, April 2001.

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· D. Fensel, F. van Harmelen, H. Akkermans, M. Klein, J. Broekstra, C. Fluyt, J. van der Meer, H.-P. Schnurr, R. Studer, J. Davies, J. Hughes, U. Krohn, R. Engels, B. Bremdahl, F. Ygge, U. Reimer, and I. Horrocks: OnToKnowledge: Ontology-based Tools for Knowledge Management. In Proceedings of the eBusiness and eWork 2000 (EMMSEC 2000) Conference, Madrid, Spain, October 2000.

· D. Fensel: The role of Ontologies in Information Interchange. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific and Practical Conference on Programming UkrPROG'2000, Ukraine, Kiev, May 2000.

· D. Fensel: Adding Semantics to the Web. In Proceedings of the VIII Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial, Muncia, Spain, November 1999.

· D. Fensel, J. Angele, S. Decker, M. Erdmann, H.-P. Schnurr, S. Staab, R. Studer, and A. Witt: On2broker: Semantic-Based Access to Information Sources at the WWW. In Proceedings of the World Conference on the WWW and Internet (WebNet 99), Honolulu, Hawai, USA, October 25-30, 1999.

· D. Fensel, V. R. Benjamins, E. Motta, and B. Wielinga: UPML: A Framework for knowledge system reuse. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI-99), Stockholm, Sweden, July 31 - August 5, 1999.

· E. Motta, D. Fensel, M. Gaspari, and V. R. Benjamins: Specifications of Knowledge Component Reuse. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE-99), Kaiserslautern, Germany, June 17-19, 1999.

· D. Fensel, A. Witt, S. Decker, M. Erdmann, H.-P. Schnurr, S. Staab, and R. Studer: On2broker in a Nutshell (short paper). In Proceedings of the 8th World Wide Web Conference (WWW8), Toronto, May 11-14, 1999.

· R. Benjamins, D. Fensel, and A. Gomez Perez: Knowledge Management Through Ontologies. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management (PAKM'98), Basel, Switzerland, October 1998.

· D. Fensel and V. R. Benjamins: Key Issues for Problem-Solving Methods Reuse. In Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-98), Brighton, UK, August 1998, 63-67.

· D. Fensel, S. Decker, M. Erdmann, and R. Studer: Ontobroker: The Very High Idea. In Proceedings of the 11th International Flairs Conference (FLAIRS-98), Sanibal Island, Florida, USA, 131-135, May 1998.

· D. Fensel and A. Schönegge: Using KIV to Specify and Verify Architectures of Knowledge-Based Systems. In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASEC-97), Incline Village, Nevada, USA, 71-80, November 1997

· R. Benjamins, D. Fensel, C. Pierret-Golbreich, E. Motta, R. Studer, and B. Wielinga: Making Knowledge Engineering Technology Work. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE-97), Madrid, Spain, 56-61, June 1997.

· D. Fensel and R. Groenboom: Specifying Knowledge-Based Systems with Reusable Components. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE-97), Madrid, Spain, 349-357, June 1997.

· R. Benjamins, D. Fensel, and R. Straatman: Assumptions of Problem-Solving Methods and Their Role in Knowledge Engineering. In Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-96), Budapest, Hungaria, 408-412, August 1996.

· D. Fensel and R. Groenboom: MLPM: Defining a Semantics and Axiomatization for Specifying the Reasoning Process of Knowledge-based Systems. In Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-96), Budapest, Hungaria, 423-427, August 1996.

· D. Fensel: Graphical And Formal Knowledge Specification With KARL. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Expert Systems for Development, Bangkok, Thailand, 198-203, March 1994.

· J. Angele, D. Fensel, and R. Studer: The Model Of Expertise In KARL. In Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Expert Systems, Lisbon/Estoril, Portugal, January 1994.

· D. Fensel, J. Klein, and U. Neubronner: RJ: A System For Learning From Example. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on AI, Expert Systems, Natural Language (Avignon´93), Avignon, France, 331-340, May 1993.

· D. Fensel and J. Klein: A New Approach To Rule Induction And Pruning (short paper). In Proceedings of the International Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence ICTAI´91, San Jose, Californien, USA, November 1991.

· D. Fensel, J. Angele, and D. Landes: The Knowledge Acquisition And Representation Language (KARL). In Proceedings of The 11th International Conference Expert Systems And

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Their Applications, Vol. 1, General Conference Tools, Techniques and Methods, Avignon, France, 513-528, May 1991.

Chapters in Books· M. Stollberg, H. Lausen, R. Lara, Y. Ding, S.-K. Han, D. Fensel: Towards Semantic Web

Portals. In C. Bussler, S. Decker, D. Schwabe, O. Pastor (eds): Application Design, Development and Implementation Issues in the Semantic Web 2004, Proceedings of the WWW2004 Workshop on Application Design, Development and Implementation Issues in the Semantic Web, New York, NY, USA, May 18, 2004, CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

· S. Arroyo, R. Lara, J. Gómez, D. Berka, Y. Ding, and D. Fensel: Semantic Aspects of Web Services. In M. P. Singh (ed.), Practical Handbook of Internet Computing. Chapman & Hall and CRC Press, Baton Rouge, 2004.

· Y. Ding, D. Fensel, M. Klein, B. Omelayenko, and E. Schulten: The Role of Ontologies in eCommerce. In S. Staab and R. Studer (eds.) Handbook on Ontologies, Springer 2003.

· Y. Sure, H. Akkermans, J. Broekstra, J. Davies, Y. Ding, A. Duke, R. Engels, D. Fensel, I. Horrocks, V. Iosif, A. Kampman, A. Kiryakov, M. Klein, T. Lau, D. Ognyanov, U. Reimer, K. Simov, R. Studer, J. van der Meer, and F. van Harmelen: On-To-Knowledge: Semantic Web Enabled Knowledge. In. N. Zhong, J. Liu, and Y. Yao (eds.): Web Intelligence, Springer, 2003, pages 277-300.

· D. Fensel: Language standardization for the Semantic Web: The long way from OIL to OWL. In J. Plaice et al. (eds.), Distributed Communities on the Web, 4th International Workshop (DWC2003), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 2468), Springer 2003.

· R. Studer, S. Decker, D. Fensel, and S. Staab: Situation and Perspective of Knowledge Engineering. In: J. Cuena, Y. Demazeau, A. Garcia, J. Treur (eds.). Knowledge Engineering and Agent Technology. IOS Series on Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume 52. IOS Press, 2003.

· D. Fensel, F. van Harmelen, and I. Horrocks: OIL & DAML+OIL: Ontology languages for the Semantic Web. In J. Davis et al. (eds.), Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-Driven Knowledge Mangement, Wiley, 2002.

· D. Fensel, S. Staab, R. Studer, and F. van Harmelen: Peer-2-Peer enabled Semantic Web for Knowledge Management. In J. Davis et al. (eds.), Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-Driven Knowledge Mangement, Wiley, 2002.

· M. Klein, Y. Ding, D. Fensel, and B. Omelayenko: Ontology management - Storing, aligning and maintaining ontologies. In J. Davis et al. (eds.), Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-Driven Knowledge Mangement, Wiley, 2002.

· P. F. Patel-Schneider and D. Fensel: Layering the Semantic Web: Problems and Directions. In Proceedings of the 1st International Semantic Web Conference, Sardinia, Italy, June 2002, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 2342), 2002.

· M. Klein, A. Kiryakov, and D. Fensel: Finding and characterizing changes in Ontologies. In S. Spaccapietra et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER-2002), Tampere, Finaland, October 2002, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 2002.

· M. Klein , J. Broekstra, D. Fensel , F. van Harmelen, and I. Horrocks: Ontologies and schema languages on the Web. In D. Fensel et al. (eds.), Spinning the Semantic Web, MIT Press, Boston, 2002.

· B. Omelayenko, M. Crubézy, D. Fensel, R. Benjamins, B. Wielinga, E. Motta, M. Musen, and Y. Ding: UPML: The Language and Tool Support for Making the Semantic Web Alife. In D. Fensel et al. (eds.), Spinning the Semantic Web, MIT Press, Boston, 2002.

· B. Omelayenko and D. Fensel: An Analysis of B2B Catalogue Integration Problems: Content and Document Integration, In: Filipe, J., Sharp, B., Miranda, P. (eds.), Enterprise Information Systems III, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, p. 270-277, 2002.

· D. Fensel, I. Horrocks, F. Van Harmelen, S. Decker, M. Erdmann, and M. Klein: OIL in a nutshell. In Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling, and Management, Proceedings of the European Knowledge Acquisition Conference (EKAW-2000), R. Dieng et al. (eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 1937, Springer-Verlag, October 2000.

· D. Fensel: Relating Ontology Languages and Web Standards. In J. Ebert et al. (eds.), Modelle und Modellierungssprachen in Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik, Modellierung 2000, St. Goar, April 5-7, 2000, Fölbach Verlag, Koblenz, 2000.

· V. Richard Benjamins, Bob Wielinga, Jan Wielemaker, and Dieter Fensel: Brokering Problem-Solving Knowledge at the Internet. In Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling, and Management, Proceedings of the European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (EKAW-99), D. Fensel et al. (eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 1621, Springer-Verlag, May 1999.

· R. Studer, D. Fensel, S. Decker, and V. R. Benjamins: Knowledge Engineering: Survey and Future Directions. In F. Puppe et al. (eds.), XPS:99 Knowledge-Based Systems, Survey and

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Future Directions, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 1570, Springer-Verlag, March 1999.

· S. Decker, M. Erdmann, D. Fensel, and R. Studer: Ontobroker: Ontology based Access to Distributed and Semi-Structured Information. In R. Meersman et al. (eds.), Database Semantics, Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems, Kluwer Academic Publisher, Boston, 351-369,1999.

· D. Fensel, S. Decker, M. Erdmann, and R. Studer: Ontobroker in a Nutshell (short paper). In C. Nikolaou et al. (eds.), Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Lecture Notes in Computer Scienc, LNCS 1513, Springer-Verlag Berlin, 1998.

· P. van Eck, J. Engelfriet, D. Fensel, F. van Harmelen, Y. Venema, and M. Willems: Specification of Dynamics for Knowledge-Based Systems. In B. Freitag et al. (eds.), Transactions and Change in Logic Databases, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 1472, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 37-68, 1998.

· J. Angele, D. Fensel, and R. Studer: Vorgehensmodelle für die Entwicklung wissensbasierter Systeme. In R. Kneuper et al. (eds.), Vorgehensmodelle für die betriebliche Anwendung, B. G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, 168-188, 1998.

· V. R. Benjamins and D. Fensel: The Ontological Engineering Initiative (KA)2. In N. Guarino (eds.), Formal Ontologies in Information Systems, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS-Press, Amsterdam, 287-301, 1998.

· D. Fensel, E. Motta ,S. Decker, and Z. Zdrahal: Using Ontologies For Defining Tasks, Problem-Solving Methods, and Their Mappings. In E. Plaza u. a. (eds.), Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling, and Management, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 1319, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 113-128, 1997.

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Curriculum Vitae

Proposed Position in the Project:

1 Family Name: Hepp2 First Name: Martin3 Date of Birth: July 11, 1971

4 Nationality: German5 Civil Status: single6 Education / Professional Studies:

Institution: University of Würzburg (Germany)Date From/To: 1/2000 – 7/2003Degree/Diploma: PhD, Management Information Systems, Summa Cum Laude

(Thesis Title: “Product Classification Systems as a Problem of Semantic Standardization” (in German), Thesis Committee: Prof. Dr. Rainer Thome, Prof. Dr. Marcus Spies)

Institution: University of Würzburg (Germany)Date From/To: 10/1994 – 5/1999Degree/Diploma: Diplom-Kaufmann (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, Rank #6 of 94 / Top 10 %

(Majors: Management Information Systems, Operations Research, and Law;)

7 Language Skills: (Mark from 1 (notions) to 5 (excellent) for competence)(*=mother tongue)

Language Speaking Reading Writing

English 5 5 5French 3 3 3German* 5 5 5Spanish 1 1 1etc…

8 Membership of Professional Bodies: ACM, AIS, IEEE Computer Society, Gesellschaft fuer Klassifikation e.V., GI, WSMO Working Group, Ontology Management Working Group (Chair)9 Other Skills: Management experience

10 Present Position within the organisation: Senior researcher11 Years with the organisation: N/A 15 Key Qualifications: (relevant to the project): Background in Business Information

Systems, experience in Ontology Engineering and Ontology Versioning, excellent communication skills in English (extensive teaching experience at US State University).

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13 Experience in specific Asian / EU countries :Country: TaiwanDate: 1989 - 1994Details: Initiated and managed manufacturing of SCSI controller card and other mass-

storage products at Taiwan contractors, both on the technical and management level.

Country: United KingdomDate: 1995Details: Created eCommerce authorization study for Midland Bank / HSBC

14 Professional Experience Record (relevant to the project):1/2005 - ongoing Senior Researcher, DERI Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

8/2003 - 12/2004 Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems,Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL, USA

5/2004 - 7/2004 Visiting Scientist, e-Business Solutions Group, IBM Research, Zurich Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland

6/2002 Visiting Scholar, Boston University, School of Management, Boston, Mass., USA

6/2000 - 7/2003 Faculty Coordinator, EMBA Program Business Integration,University of Würzburg

1/2000 - 7/2003 Research Assistant and Junior Lecturer at the Department of Management and Information Systems,University of Würzburg

15 Publications:

20. A Methodology for Deriving OWL Ontologies from Products and Services Categorization Standards, 11/2004. (under review) 19. (With Joerg Leukel and Volker Schmitz): Content Metrics for Products and Services Categorization Standards, 10/2004. Accepted paper for the IEEE EEE 2005. 18. Product Representation in the Semantic Web, Working Paper, April 2004. 17. OntoMeter: Metrics for Ontologies. Poster presented at the 1st European Semantic Web Symposium (ESWS2004), Heraklion, Greece, May 10 - May 12, 2004. 16. Measuring the Quality of Descriptive Languages for Products and Services, Proceedings of the track "E-Business - Standardisierung und Integration" at the Multi-Konferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2004, Essen/Germany, March 9 - 11, 2004. 15. Güterklassifikation als semantisches Standardisierungsproblem, Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden 2003. 14. Product Reasoning Services: Economic Relevance and Architectural Approaches, Proceedings of the 5. Paderborner Frühjahrstagung "Innovationen im E-Business", Paderborn/Germany, April 10, 2003. 13. XML-Spezifikationen und Standards für den Datenaustausch (with Rainer Thome), wisu 4/2003. 12. Katalogdatenintegration auf Basis von Güterklassen (with Michael Dörflein). In: Deutsche EC/EDI-Gesellschaft: eBusiness aktuell 2002, Berlin 2002. 11. Datenschutz. In: Horváth, P. / Reichmann, T.: Vahlens Großes Controllinglexikon, 2nd ed., Vahlen, München 2002. 10. Datensicherheit. In: Horváth, P. / Reichmann, T.: Vahlens Großes

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Controllinglexikon, 2nd ed., Vahlen, München 2002. 9. Elektronische Unterschrift. In: Horváth, P. / Reichmann, T.: Vahlens Großes Controllinglexikon, 2nd ed., Vahlen, München 2002. 8. Modellierung der Pflege von Standards mit Hilfe höherer Petri-Netze (with Claus Böhnlein), Paper presented at the 8th Symposium "Simulation als betriebliche Entscheidungshilfe", Göttingen/Germany, March 11, 2002. 7. Interoperabilität, Metamarktplätze und agentenbasierte Arbitrageure, Paper presented at the 4. Paderborner Frühjahrstagung "Modelle im E-Business", Paderborn/Germany, April 11, 2002. 6. Dateiorganisation (with Rainer Thome), wisu 4/2002. 5. Datenmodellierung (with Rainer Thome), wisu 7/2001. 4. Electronic Procurement. In: Mertens, P. et al.: Lexikon der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 4th ed., Springer, Berlin etc. 2001. 3. Datensicherheit. In: Mertens, P. et al.: Lexikon der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 4th ed., Springer, Berlin etc. 2001. 2. Computervirus. In: Mertens, P. et al.: Lexikon der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 4th ed., Springer, Berlin etc. 2001. 1. B2B-Marktplätze (with Heiko Schinzer), wisu 11/2000.

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Proposed Position in the Project:

1 Family Name: Ding2 First Name: Ying3 Date of Birth: July 14, 19714 Nationality: Chinese5 Civil Status: Single6 Education / Professional Studies:

Institution: Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeDate From/To: April 1997 -2001 JuneDegree/Diploma: Ph.D.

Institution: Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Date From/To: 1993.9-1996.3Degree/Diploma: M. Sc

Institution: Beijing Normal UniversityDate From/To: 1989.9-1993.8Degree/Diploma: B. Engineering

7 Language Skills: (Mark from 1 (notions) to 5 (excellent) for competence)(*=mother tongue)

Language Speaking Reading Writing

English 5 5 5Chinese* 5 5 5German 2 1 1

8 Membership of Professional Bodies:Member of Ontoweb (EU-funded Thematic Network on Semantic Web) Executive Project Management Board (EPMB)Member of Ontoweb foundation - Management BoardMember of Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA)Member of COG (EU-funded) Project Management BoardMember of Esperonto (EU-funded) Project Management BoardResearch director of NetDynamics, Austria.Advisory board member, International Graduate School in Information and Communication Technology of Trento, Italy.

9 Other Skills: 10 Present Position within the organisation: Senior Researcher11 Years with the organisation: 2.5

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12 Key Qualifications: (relevant to the project):Broad experience on managing large scale EU funded projects. Domain expert in Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, Knowledge management, eCommerce, Information Retrieval. Teaching experiences in Free University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and University of Innsbruck (Austria).

13 Experience in specific Asian / EU countries :Country: Thailand, Asian Institute of TechnologyDate: May 2001Details: scholar visiting

Country: China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Graduate SchoolDate: Dec 2002Details: Invited Talk and scholar visiting

Country: China, QingHua UniversityDate: Dec 2003Details: Invited talk and scholar visiting

14 Professional Experience Record (relevant to the project):2/2003 ~ to date: Assistant Professor

Digital Enterprise Research Institute (www.deri.org) - InnsbruckInstitute of Computer SciencesUniversity of Innsbruck, Austria

Knowledge Web (6th FW EU-funded Project with 7M€): knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org

Project Focus: Network of Excellence in Semantic Web areaResponsibility: (1) Project proposal preparation, writing and contract

preparation(2) Scientific Project Management on Semantic Web and Knowledge Management(3) In charge of the cross network collaboration, such as Rewerse, AgentLinkIII, AceMedia and other large EU funded NoEs.

DIP (EU-funded Project with 6M€): dip.semanticweb.orgProject Focus: Integrated Project in Semantic Web ServicesResponsibility: (1) Ontology Management Systems: a kind of content

management system based on Semantic Web technologies(2) earlier involvement in Semantic Web Services.

SEKT (EU-funded Project with 4M€): sekt.semanticweb.orgProject Focus: Integrated Project in Semantic Web and Knowledge

ManagementResponsibility: (1) Project proposal preparation, writing and submission

(2) Scientific Project Management on ontology mediation, knowledge management based on Semantic Web technologies.

EU-6th proposal writing

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Responsibility: (1) Writing STREP proposal on knowledge management, agent, semantic web services and natural language processing, continuing as FET-O proposal for open call soon.(2) Involving in proposal writing for SEKT, Knowledge Web, DIP, StarMates, ITC, ITSNet, Knowledge Angels, KDNet, eServices, Infraweb, PH, BrainGrid

OntoWeb (EU-funded Project with 2M€): www.ontoweb.orgProject Focus: Thematic Network in Semantic Web area (with 120 members):

to provide the platform where academia and industry can meet together to discuss on how to apply Semantic Web for Knowledge Management, Industrial Application, tools and reasoners support.

Responsibility: (1) Project proposal preparation, submission, contract preparation, negotiation with EU, etc.(2) Project co-ordination and management(3) Workshop and conference organization(4) Project Deliverables(5) Setting up the OntoWeb foundation

SWWS (EU-funded Project): swws.semanticweb.orgProject Focus: Semantic web enabled Web ServicesResponsibility: (1) Project Management

(2) Scientific contribution of IFI on web services

Esperonto (EU-funded Project):Project Focus: Multilingual ontology and ontology-based annotation for lifting

the current Web to Semantic Web in order to achieve better knowledge management and information retrieval.

Responsibility: (1) Project Management(2) Scientific contribution of IFI on ontology language and case studies

COG (EU-funded Project): www.cogproject.orgProject Focus: Data integration powered by Semantic Web.Responsibility: ((1) Project Management

(2) Scientific contribution of IFI on mapping ontologies and querying

Consultancy: B2B, E-commerceResponsibility: (1) Natural language processing technological consultancy for

DSSE (http://business.kitz.net/osttiroljournal/)(2) Business consultancy for collaboration between IFI and NetDynamics

(3) Marketing report for analyzing KIM product for OntoText(4) Part-time consultancy job for Electronic Web Services GmbH

4/2000 ~ 2/2003: Senior ResearcherBusiness Informatis Group

Department of Mathematics & Computer ScienceFree University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Multiple (EU-funded Project): www.ktweb.orgProject Focus: EU IST project dissemination and industrial orientation

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Responsibility: (1) Project proposal preparation, submission, etc.(2) Project Management(3) Consultancy(4) Scientific contribution of IFI

H-Techsight (EU-funded Project): http://prise-serv.cpe.surrey.ac.uk/htechsight/Project Focus: Knowledge management in Chemical Industry and focusing on

semantic web powered knowledge management portal.Responsibility: (1) Project Management

(2) Scientific contribution of IFI on knowledge portal powered by semantic web technologies.

OntoKnowledge (EU-funded Project): www.ontoknowledge.orgProject Focus: Ontology-based knowledge managementResponsibility: (1) Workpackage deliverables: ontology management, ontology

language (OIL), project management, OIL case study(2) Joint collaboration for knowledge management case studies with British Telecom, Swiss Life, Enersearch(3) International collaboration with DAML (DARPA USA): DAML+OIL

IBROW (EU-funded Project): www.swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/ibrow/home.htmlProject Focus: Agent and information brokeringResponsibility: (1) UPML: define it in RDF and OIL

Ontology learning (generating, mapping and maintaining) by using text mining, information retrieval techniques

Responsibility: (1) Survey state-of-art techniques(2) Some pilot studies(3) Methodology and system design(4) Case studies with some companies

Consultancy: B2B, E-commerceResponsibility: (1) Product cataloguing: the software environment for content

management solutions(2) ProCat: the automatic product cataloguing system (automatic cataloguing product description according to UNSPSC and providing mapping between different product standards (e.g., UNSPSC and ecl@ss) (2) Knowledge management: search facility for Intranet knowledge management system (such as thesaurus generating semi-automatically)(3) Text Classification (such as generating classification schema or re-organizing text based on the similarity)(4) Business intelligence

(5) Clients: ContentEurope (Belgium), Humboo (France) andSemanticEdge (Germany).

4/1997~ 4/2000: Research Scholar (Ph.D.)School of Computing Engineering

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Automatic thesaurus generation

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Responsibility: Creating automatic thesaurus based on term co-occurrence techniques to assist users to formulate and expand their queries and to enhance the search facility of the knowledge management environment

Online web search engine design and evaluationResponsibility: Designing online web search engine by applying data mining

and information visualization techniques to help users articulate their information needs, refine their queries and find more relevant information from the Internet, Library and online databases.

Knowledge extraction on digital documentsResponsibility: Extracting citation information from digital documents and

proposing approaches for automatically building up universal citation database: standardized template mining and universal web authoring tool based on metadata and markup language.

Performance evaluation by using data mining, data warehousing and statistical techniquesResponsibility: comprehensively evaluating research performance

in information retrieval area for recent 11 years   

User's information needs evaluationResponsibility: Analyzing and evaluating user's information needs for interface

design and knowledge management

Business IntelligenceResponsibility: (1) Part-time working for GlobalSources

(www.globalsources.com)(2) Business Intelligence group for web-logging reports, business transactions from the Web(3) Providing analytical reports to senior managers for decision-making.

4/1996 ~ 3/1997: Project EngineerDatabase Department, Documentation and Information Center

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China

Database designResponsibilities: (1) Designing Chinese Science Citation Index Database (CSCI)

sponsored by National Science Foundation of China.                          (2) Evaluating and maintaining the quality of data in CSCI

Technical writingResponsibility: Writing technical reports for policy-maker based on CSCI data

analysis

Marketing services and user trainingResponsibility: Promoting and advertising CSCI products (CD-ROM and print

version)

15 Publications:

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1. Ying Ding, Dieter Fensel, Rubén Lara, Holger Lausen, Michael Stollberg, Sung-Kook Han (ed.): Proceedings of the ECAI 2004 Workshop on Application of Semantic Web Technologies to Web Communities, CEUR, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol-107, 2004

2. Stollberg, M.; Lausen, H.; Lara, R.; Ding, Y.; Sung-Kook, H.; Fensel. D (2004): Towards Semantic Web Portals. In C. Bussler, S. Decker, D. Schwabe, O. Pastor (eds): Application Design, Development and Implementation Issues in the Semantic Web 2004, Proceedings of the WWW2004 Workshop on Application Design, Development and Implementation Issues in the Semantic Web, New York, NY, USA, May 18, 2004. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.

3. S. Arroyo, Y. Ding, M. Stollberg and D. Fensel (2004): Semantic Web Languages. Strengths and Weakness. International Conference in Applied computing (IADIS04), Lisbon (Portugal), 23-26 March 2004.

4. R. Lara, S. Han, H. Lausen, M. Stollberg, Y. Ding, D. Fensel (2004). An Evaluation of Semantic Web Portals. In Proceedings of the IADIS Applied Computing International Conference 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, March 23-26, 2004.

5. S. Arroyo, R. Lara, J. Gomez, D. Berka, Y. Ding & D. Fensel (2004): Semantic aspects of web services (book chapter). Munindar P.Singh (ed.) Practical Handbook of Internet Computing. Chapman Hall and CRC Press, Baton Rouge. 2004.

20036. H. Lausen, M. Stollberg, R. Lara, Y. Ding, S. Han and D. Fensel (2003): Semantic

Web Portals – State of the Art Survey. Technical Report, DERI-Innsbruck.7. Y. Sure, H. Akkermans, J. Broekstra, J. Davies, Y. Ding, A. Duke, R. Engels, D.

Fensel, I. Horrocks, V. Iosif, A. Kampman, A. Kiryakov, M. Klein, T. Lau, D. Ognyanov, U. Reimer, K. Simov, R. Studer, J. van der Meer, and F. van Harmelen (2003): On-To-Knowledge: Semantic Web Enabled Knowledge (book chapter), N. Zhong, J. Liu and Y. Yao (eds.), Web Intelligence. Springer, 2003, pages 277-300.

8. D. Fensel, F. van Harmelen, Y. Ding, M. Klein, H. Akkermans, J. Broekstra, A. Kampman, J. van der Meer, Y. Sure, R. Studer, U. Krohn, J. Davies, R. Engels, V. Iosif, A. Kiryakov, T. Lau, and U. Reimer (2003): On-To-Knowledge: Semantic Web Enabled Knowledge Management, IEEE Computer.

9. D. Fensel, F. van Harmelen, Y. Ding, et al (2003). On-To-Knowledge in a Nutshell. Special Issue of IEEE Computer on Web Intelligence (WI)

10. Y. Ding, D. Fensel and Hans-Georg Stork (2003). The Semantic Web: from Concept to Percept. Austrian Artificial Intelligence Journal, 21 (4).

11. Y. Ding, D. Fensel (2003). Semantic Web: The Next Generation Web – Guest Editor Introduction. Austrian Artificial Intelligence Journal, 21 (4).

12. Y. Ding, D. Fensel and Hans-Georg Stork (2003). Semantic web enabled web services – Guest Editor Introduction. Austrian Artificial Intelligence Journal, 21 (5).

13. Y. Ding, D. Fensel, M. Klein, B. Omelayenko and E. Schulten (2003): The role of ontologies in eCommerce (book chapter). S.Stab & R. Studer (eds.) Handbook on Ontologies, Springer.

200214. D. Fensel, C. Bussler, Y. Ding, and B. Omelayenko: The Web Service Modeling

Framework WSMF, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 1(2), 2002.15. M. Klein, Y. Ding, D. Fensel and B. Omelayenko (2002). Ontology

management: Storing, aligning and maintaining ontologies (book chapter). In J. Davis, D. Fensel and F. van Harmelen (eds.) Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-driven knowledge management, John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

16. D. Fensel, C. Bussler, Y. Ding, V. Kartseva, M. Klein, M. Korotkiy, B. Omelayenko, and R. Siebes: Semantic Web Application Areas. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, Stockholm - Sweden, June 27-28, 2002.

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17. Y. Ding, D. Fensel, M. Klein, and B. Omelayenko: The Semantic Web: Yet Another Hip? Data and Knowledge Engineering, 41(3), p. 205-227, 2002.

18. D. Fensel, B. Omelayenko, Y. Ding, E. Schulten, G. Botquin, M. Brown, and A. Flett (2002): Intelligent Information Integration in B2B Electronic Commerce (Book).

19. Ying Ding & Schubert Foo (2002). Ontology Research and Development: Part 1 – A Review of Ontology Generation. Journal of Information Science, 28(2).

20. B. Omelayenko, M. Crubézy, D. Fensel, R. Benjamins, B. Wielinga, E. Motta, M. Musen, and Y. Ding: UPML: The Language and Tool Support for Making the Semantic Web Alive. In D. Fensel et al. (eds.), Spinning the Semantic Web, MIT Press, Boston, to appear 2002 (book chapter).

21. Ying Ding & Schubert Foo (2002): Ontology Research and Development: Part 2 – A Review of Ontology mapping and evolving. Journal of Information Science, 28(4).

22. Y. Ding, M. Korotkiy, B. Omelayenko, V. Kartseva, V. Zykov, M. Klein, E. Schulten, and D. Fensel: GoldenBullet: Automated Classification of Product Data in E-commerce, BIS-2002: 5th International Conference on Business Information Systems, Pozna, Poland, April 24-25, 2002.

23. Y. Ding, M. Korotkiy, B. Omelayenko, V. Kartseva, V. Zykov, M. Klein, E. Schulten, and D. Fensel: GoldenBullet in a Nutshell, FLAIRS-2002: The 15th International FLAIRS Conference, Beachside Resort and Conference Center, Pensacola Beach, Florida, May 14-16, 2002.

200124. Ying Ding (2001). A review of ontologies with the Semantic Web in view . Journal of

Information Science, 27(6) 377-384(8)25. Ying Ding & Dieter Fensel (2001). OntoWeb: The Thematic Network for Semantic

Web. AgentLink Newsletter 8.11-13.26. Ying Ding (2001). IR and AI: The role of ontology. In Proc. 4th International

Conference of Asian Digital Libraries, Dec 10-12, Bangalore, India.27. Y. Ding and D. Fensel (2001). Ontology Library Systems: The key for successful

Ontology Reuse. The first Semantic web working symposium, Stanford, USA, July 29th-August 1st, 2001

28. Y. Ding and R. Engels (2001). IR and AI: Using co-occurrence theory to generate lightweight ontologies. Workshop on Digital Libraries (Dlib2001), 12th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA2001), Munich, Germany, Sep 3-7, 2001.

29. Y. Ding, G. Chowdhury, S. Foo (2001). Bibliometric cartography of information retrieval research by using co-word analysis. Information Processing & Management, 37(6), 817-842.

30. Dieter Fensel , Ying Ding, Ellen Schulten, Borys Omelayenko, Guy Botquin, Mike Brown, and Alan Flett (2001): Product Data Integration in B2B E-commerce. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 16(4): 54-59.

200031. Y. Ding, Gobinda G. Chowdhury, Schubert Foo, Weizhong Qian (2000). Bibliometric

Information Retrieval System (BIRS): A Web search interface utilizing bibliometric research results. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(13), 1190-1204.

32. Y. Ding, G. Chowdhury, S. Foo (2000). Incorporating the results of co-word analyses to increase search variety for information retrieval. Journal of Information Science, 26(6), 429-452.

33. Y. Ding, G. Chowdhury, S. Foo (2000). Organizing Keywords in a Web Search Environment: A Methodology based on Co-word analysis. Sixth International Conference of the International Society of Knowledge Organization, July 10-13, Canada, 2000. (Detail info: Ying Ding, Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo. Organising keywords in a web search environment: a methodology based on co-word analysis. In: Beghtol, C., Howarth, L.C. and Williamson, N., eds. Dynamism and stability in knowledge organization -- Proceedings of the Sixth International ISKO

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Conference, 10-13 July, 2000. Toronto, Canada. Germany: Ergon Verlag, 2000. pp. 28--34)

34. Ying Ding, Gobinda Chowdhury, Schubert Foo (2000). Journal as markers of intellectual space: Journal co-citation analysis of Information Retrieval area, 1987-1997. Scientometrics, 47(1).

1999 35. Ying Ding, Gobinda Chowdhury, Schubert Foo (1999). Mapping Intellectual Structure

of Information Retrieval: An Author Cocitation Analysis, 1987-1997. Journal of Information Science, 25(1), 67-78.

36. Ying Ding, Gobinda Chowdhury, Schubert Foo (1999). Mapping the development in Information Retrieval specialty: A bibliometric analysis via journals. In. Macias-Chapula, C.A. (Ed). Seventh Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics-Proceedings 1999, 139-149, Mexio, July 5-9, 1999.

37. Ying Ding, Gobinda Chowdhury, Schubert Foo (1999). Template mining for the extraction of citation from digital documents. Proc. Second Asian Digital Library Conference (Taiwan) 47-62, Nov 8-9, 1999.

1998 38. Ying Ding (1998). Visualization of Intellectual Structure in Information Retrieval:

Author Cocitation Analysis. International Forum on Information and Documentation, 23(1), 25-36.

39. Ying Ding (1998). Scholarly communication and bibliometrics: I. Scholarly communication model - Literature Review. International Forum on Information and Documentation, 23(2), 20-29.

40. Ying Ding (1998). Scholarly communication and bibliometrics: II. Scholarly communication process (Literature Review). International Forum on Information and Documentation, 23(3), 3-19.

41. Ying Ding, Schubert Foo, Gobinda Chowdhury (1998). A Bibliometric Analysis of Collaboration in the Field of Information Retrieval. International Information & Library Review, 30(4), 367-376.

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Proposed Position in the Project:

1 Family Name: Polleres

2 First Name: Axel Florian

3 Date of Birth: 24/03/1974

4 Nationality: Austria

5 Civil Status: unmarried

6 Education / Professional Studies:Institution: Vienna University of TechnologyDate From/To: 10/1992 - 03/2001Degree/Diploma: Dipl.-Ing. (MSc)

Institution: Vienna University of TechnologyDate From/To: 03/2001 - 09/2003Degree/Diploma: Dr. techn (PhD)

7 Language Skills: (Mark from 1 (notions) to 5 (excellent) for competence)(*=mother tongue)

Language Speaking Reading Writing

German* 5 5 5English 5 5 5Spanish 3 2 2

8 Membership of Professional Bodies:- SWSL Committee member http://www.daml.org/services/swsl/

- Active member of the WSMO and WSML working groups of the SDK Cluster http://www.wsmo.org

- Member of the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (ÖGAI) http://www.oegai.at

- Member of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) http://www.ocg.at

9 Other Skills:- Responsible for teaching and Education in DERI Innsbruck

- "OCG-Förderpreis", award for outstanding master theses in the Field of Computer Science by the Austrian Computer Society – 2002

- Teaching experience in several university courses, lectures, seminars and tutorials.

10 Present Position within the organisation: Research and Teaching Assistant

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11 Years with the organisation:1 year

12 Key Qualifications: (relevant to the project):Several years of research and Teaching experience in Theoretical Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in general, Logic Programming and AI Planning in particular. Reserch and Teaching experience Experience in the areas of Semantic Web and Web Services.

13 Experience in specific Asian / EU countries :Country : IrelandDate : July 2004 – September 2004Details: Research Exchange with National University

14 Professional Experience Record (relevant to the project):

Date: October 2003 – until nowLocation: InnsbruckOrganisation: University of Innsbruck, Institute of Computer SciencePosition: Research and teaching assistantResponsibilities: Management of teaching activities for the department and

involvement in European Research Projects.

Date: June 2001 – September 2003Location: Vienna Organisation: University of Technology, Institute of Information SystemsPosition: Research assistantResponsibilities: Research assistant in the project P14781-INF "A Declarative

Planning System Based On Logic Programming", supported by FWF (Austrian Science Funds)

Date: January 1999 – April 2000Location: Vienna Organisation: University of Technology, Institute of Information SystemsPosition: Student fellowResponsibilities: Project implementation, in the project P11580-MAT "Design and

Implementation of a Query System for Disjunctive Deductive Databases", supported by FWF (Austrian Science Funds)

15 Publications:[KLP+04]

Michael Kifer, Ruben Lara, Axel Polleres, Chang Zhao, Uwe Keller, Holger Lausen, and Dieter Fensel. A Logical Framework for Web Service Discovery. In ISWC 2004 Workshop on Semantic Web Services: Preparing to Meet the World of Business Applications, 2004.

[ABK+04]Sinuhe Arroyo, Christoph Bussler, Jacek Kopecky, Ruben Lara, Axel Polleres, and Michal Zaremba. Web Service Capabilities and Constraints in WSMO. In W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services, 2004.

[LRP+04]Ruben Lara, Dumitru Roman, Axel Polleres, and Dieter Fensel. A Conceptual Comparison of WSMO and OWL-S. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2004), 2004.

[OLP+04]

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Daniel Olmedilla, Ruben Lara, Axel Polleres, and Holger Lausen. Trust negotiation for semantic web services. In Workshop on Semantic Web Services, 2004.

[EFP+04]Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, Gerald Pfeifer, and Axel Polleres. Declarative Planning and Knowledge Representation in an Action Language. Book chapter, in href="http://www.idea-group.com/books/details.asp?id=4496">Intelligent Techniques for for Planning (Ioannis Vlahavas , Dimitris Vrakas (eds.)), 2004. IDEA Group Publishing.

[EP04]Thomas Eiter and Axel Polleres. Towards automated integration of guess and check programs in answer set programming. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR-7), number 2923 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 100-113, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, January 2004.

[Pol03]Axel Polleres. Advances in Answer Set Planning. PhD thesis, Institut für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, Wien, Österreich, September 2003.

[EP03]Thomas Eiter and Axel Polleres. Transforming coNP checks to answer set computation by meta-interpretation. In Proceedings of the 2003 Joint Conference on Declarative Programming APPIA-GULP-PRODE 2003, Reggio Calabria, Italy, September 2003.

[DEF+03]Jürgen Dix, Thomas Eiter, Michael Fink, Axel Polleres, and Yingqian Zhang. Monitoring agents using planning. To appear in Proc. of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI2003), 2003.

[EFL+03a]Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, Nicola Leone, Gerald Pfeifer, and Axel Polleres. A Logic Programming Approach to Knowledge-State Planning, II: the DLV K System. Artificial Intelligence, 144(1-2):157-211, March 2003.

[EFL+03b]Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, Nicola Leone, Gerald Pfeifer, and Axel Polleres. A Logic Programming Approach to Knowledge-State Planning: Semantics and Complexity. To appear in ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, 2003.

[EFL+03c]Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, Nicola Leone, Gerald Pfeifer, and Axel Polleres. Answer Set Planning under Action Costs. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 19:25-71, 2003.

[EP03]Thomas Eiter and Axel Polleres. Transforming coNP checks to answer set computation by meta-interpretation. In Proceedings of the 2003 Joint Conference on Declarative Programming APPIA-GULP-PRODE 2003, Reggio Calabria, Italy, September 2003.

[Pol03]Axel Polleres. The declarative planning system DLVK: Progress and extensions. In Jeremy Frank and Susanne Biundo, editors, Printed Notes of the ICAPS-03 Doctoral Consortium, pages 94-98, June 2003.

[EFL+02a]Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, Nicola Leone, Gerald Pfeifer, and Axel Polleres. Answer Set Planning under Action Costs. In Sergio Flesca, Sergio Greco, Giovambattista Ianni, and Nicola Leone, editors, Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (JELIA), number 2424 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 186-197, Cosenza, Italy, September 2002.

[EFL+02b]Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, Nicola Leone, Gerald Pfeifer, and Axel Polleres. Answer Set Planning under Action Costs. Technical Report INFSYS RR-1843-02-13, Institut für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, October 2002. Accepted for publication in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. (PostScript)

[EFL+02d]Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, Nicola Leone, Gerald Pfeifer, and Axel Polleres. The DLV K

Planning System: Progress Report. In Sergio Flesca, Sergio Greco, Giovambattista Ianni, and Nicola Leone, editors, Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (JELIA), number 2424 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 541-544, Cosenza, Italy, September 2002. (System Description).

[LPF+02]Nicola Leone, Gerald Pfeifer, Wolfgang Faber, Francesco Calimeri, Tina Dell'Armi, Thomas Eiter, Georg Gottlob, Giovambattista Ianni, Giuseppe Ielpa, Christoph Koch, Simona Perri,

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and Axel Polleres. The DLV System. In Sergio Flesca, Sergio Greco, Giovambattista Ianni, and Nicola Leone, editors, Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (JELIA), number 2424 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 537-540, Cosenza, Italy, September 2002. (System Description).

[Pol02a]Axel Polleres. Answer Set Planning with DLVK. The PLANET Newsletter, 5:36-37, 2002.

[Pol02b]Axel Polleres. Answer Set Planning with DLVK: Planning with Action Costs, September 2002. Poster presented at the PLANET'02 International Summer School on AI Planning 2002.

[Pol02c]Axel Polleres. JELIA 2002. COMPUTER kommunikativ, 5/2002:28-29, 2002. Conference report.

[Pol02d]Axel Polleres. JELIA 2002. ÖGAI Journal, 21(4):23-25, 2002. Conference report.

[Pol02e]Axel Polleres. Planen in der AI. COMPUTER kommunikativ, 5/2002:30-31, 2002. Conference report.

[Pol02f]Axel Polleres. PLANET International Summer School on AI Planning 2002, Chalkidiki, Griechenland. ÖGAI Journal, 21(4):26-29, 2002. Conference report.

[EFL+01a]Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, Nicola Leone, Gerald Pfeifer, and Axel Polleres. A Logic Programming Approach to Knowledge-State Planning, II: the DLV K System. Technical Report INFSYS RR-1843-01-12, Institut für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, December 2001. To appear in Artificial Intelligence.

[EFL+01b]Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, Nicola Leone, Gerald Pfeifer, and Axel Polleres. A Logic Programming Approach to Knowledge-State Planning: Semantics and Complexity. Technical Report INFSYS RR-1843-01-11, Institut für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, December 2001. To appear in ACM Transactions on Computational Logic.

[EFL+01c]Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, Nicola Leone, Gerald Pfeifer, and Axel Polleres. System Description: The DLV K Planning System. In Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, and Miroslaw Truszczynski, editors, Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning --- 6th International Conference, LPNMR'01, Vienna, Austria, September 2001, Proceedings, number 2173 in Lecture Notes in AI (LNAI), pages 413-416. Springer Verlag, September 2001.

[EFL+01d] Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, Nicola Leone, Gerald Pfeifer, and Axel Polleres. The DLV K

Planning System. In Alessandro Cimatti, Héctor Geffner, Enrico Giunchiglia, and Jussi Rintanen, editors, IJCAI-01 Workshop on Planning under Uncertainty and Incomplete Information, pages 76-81, August 2001.

[Pol01]Axel Polleres. The DLV K System for Planning with Incomplete Knowledge. Master's thesis, Institut für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, Wien, Österreich, 2001.

[EFL+00a]Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, Nicola Leone, Gerald Pfeifer, and Axel Polleres. Planning under Incomplete Knowledge. In John Lloyd, Veronica Dahl, Ulrich Furbach, Manfred Kerber, Kung-Kiu Lau, Catuscia Palamidessi, Luís Moniz Pereira, Yehoshua Sagiv, and Peter J. Stuckey, editors, Computational Logic - CL 2000, First International Conference, Proceedings, number 1861 in Lecture Notes in AI (LNAI), pages 807-821, London, UK, July 2000. Springer Verlag.

[EFL+00b]Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, Nicola Leone, Gerald Pfeifer, and Axel Polleres. Using the dlv System for Planning and Diagnostic Reasoning. In François Bry, Ulrich Geske, and Dietmar Seipel, editors, Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Logic Programming (WLP'99), pages 125-134. GMD -- Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH, Berlin, January 2000. ISSN 1435-2702.

[UET99]Axel Polleres Uwe Egly, Michael Fink and Hans Tompits. A web-based tutoring tool for calculating default logic extensions. In Proceedings of the World Conference on the WWW and Internet (WEBNET´99). AACE, 1999.

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Curriculum Vitae – Christoph Bussler - NUIG

Proposed Position in the Project:

1 Family Name: Bussler2 First Name: Christoph3 Date of Birth: 11 December 19644 Nationality: German5 Civil Status: Married6 Education / Professional Studies:

Institution: Computer Science, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, GermanyDate From/To: 1997Degree/Diploma: Ph.D.

Institution: Computer Science, University of Munich, Munich, GermanyDate From/To: 1990Degree/Diploma: M.S.

Institution: Computer Science, University of Munich, Munich, GermanyDate From/To: 1987Degree/Diploma: B.A.

7 Language Skills: (Mark from 1 (notions) to 5 (excellent) for competence)(*=mother tongue)

Language Speaking Reading Writing

English 5 5 5German * * *

8 Membership of Professional Bodies:Chair of Semantic Web Services Initiative (SWSI)

Board Member of Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA)

Board of Directors of Association for Information Systems. Special Interest Group on Process Automation and Management (SIGPAM)

Advisory Board of LogOn Web Days on Web Services, Java™ and XML in Europe

Member of Agent-Based Approaches to Business-to-Business (B2B) Electronic Commerce.

Member of Association for Computing Machinery.

Member of IEEE Computer Society

9 Other Skills: Christoph Bussler current research interests include Semantic Web Services, eBusiness and Enterprise Application Integration as well as business process management. He has published two books, more than 50 conference and journal papers, given presentations and tutorials at academic conferences and is actively involved in professional activities.

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10 Present Position within the organisation: Science Foundation Ireland Professor and Executive Director, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

11 Years with the organisation: Christoph Bussler has been appointed as director of DERI on June 2003

12 Key Qualifications: (relevant to the project):Current research interests include Semantic Web Services and Semantic Web.

13 Experience in specific Asian / EU countries :Country : IrelandDate : June 2003 – presentDetails: Science Foundation Ireland Professor and Executive Director, Digital

Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Country : GermanyDate : April 1995 - April 1997Details: Research Staff at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, Germany

Country : GermanyDate : July 1994 - April 1995Details: Research Staff at the University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Country : Germany (USA)Date : January 1991 - June 1994Details: Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation (aquired by Hewlett-Packard),

Karlsruhe, Germany and Palo Alto, CA, USA

Country : Germany (USA)Date : March 1988 - March 1990Details: Software Engineering internship at software design & management gmbh,

Munich, Germany

14 Professional Experience Record (relevant to the project):Date: September 2000 - June 2003Location: Redwood Shores, CA, U. S. A.Organisation: Oracle Corporation Position: Principal Memeber of Technical StaffResponsibilities: Integration Platform Architecture Group

Date: September June 2000 - September 2000Location: Cupertino, CA, U. S. A.Organisation: Jamcracker, Inc.Position: ArchitectResponsibilities:

Date: November 1999 - June 2000Location: Santa Clara, CA, U. S. A.Organisation: Netfish Technologies, Inc. (acquired by IONA),Position: Advanced Computing TechnologistResponsibilities: Applied Research and Technology

Date: April 1997 - October 1999Location: Seattle, WA, U. S. A.Organisation: The Boeing Company, Seattle

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Position: Advanced Computing TechnologistResponsibilities: Applied Research and Technology

15 Publications:Books and books chapters

1. B2B Integration. Springer-Verlag, June 2003

2. Organisationsverwaltung in Workflow-Management-Systemen. Deutscher Universitaets Verlag, 1998

3. Workflow Management - Modeling Concepts, Architecture and Implementation. International Thomson Computer Press, September 1996 (S. Jablonski, C. Bussler)

4. Application Service Provider Aggregation Architecture. In: A. Dahanayake, W. Gerhard (eds) Web-Enabled Systems Integration: Practice and Challenges, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, London, Melbourne, Singapore, Beijing, 2002

5. Workflow-Meta-Schema-Modelle. In: S. Jablonski, M. Boehm, W. Schulze (Hrsg.) Workflow-Management: Entwicklung von Anwendungen und Systemen - Facetten einer neuen Technologie, dpunkt Verlag, April 1997 (C. Bussler, K. Stein) (in German)

6. Workflow-Spezifikation in MOBILE. In: S. Jablonski, M. Boehm, W. Schulze (Hrsg.) Workflow-Management: Entwicklung von Anwendungen und Systemen - Facetten einer neuen Technologie, dpunkt Verlag, April 1997 (C. Bussler, K. Stein) (in German)

7. Die Architektur des modularen Workflow-Management-Systems MOBILE. In: G. Vossen, J. Becker (Hrsg.) Geschaeftsprozessmodellierung und Workflows, International Thomson Publisher, ITP, Bonn 1995 (C. Bussler, S. Jablonski) (in German)

Journal and conference papers1. Web Services: Quo Vadis? In: IEEE Intelligent Systems, Trends and Controversies:

Web Services: Been There, Done That? Vol. 18, No. 1, January/February 2003 (C. Bussler, A. Maedche, D. Fensel

2. A Conceptual Architecture for Semantic Web Enabled Web Services. In: SIGMOD Record, Vol. 31, No. 4, December 2002 (C. Bussler, D. Fensel, A. Maedche)

3. The Web Service Modeling Framework WSMF. In: Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Vol. 1, Issue 2, Elsevier Science B.V., Summer 2002 (D. Fensel, C.Bussler)

4. The Application of Workflow Technology in Semantic B2B Integration. Distributed and Parallel Databases. An International Journal. Kluwer International Publishers. September - November 2002, Volume 12, Issue 2-3

5. The Role of B2B Engines in B2B Integration Architectures. ACM SIGMOD Record, Special Issue on Data Management Issues in E-Commerce, Vol. 31, No. 1, March 2002

6. B2B Protocol Standards and their Role in Semantic B2B Integration Engines. Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering. March 2001, Vol. 24, No. 1, IEEE Computer Society

7. Enterprise-wide Workflow Management. IEEE Concurrency, 1999

8. Standardizing on Workflow Management - The OMG Workflow Management Facility. In: ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin, Volume 19, No.3, April 1998 (W. Schulze, C. Bussler, K. Meyer-Wegener)

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9. Specifying Enterprise Processes with Workflow Modeling Languages. In: Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications. Special Issue: Application of Enterprise Modelling Languages for Concurrent Engineering. Vol. 4, Nr. 3, September 1996

10. Reliable Interaction Mechanisms for Distributed Cooperative Information Systems. In: S. Jablonski (Hrsg.) Database Support for Open Workflow Management Systems. Arbeitsberichte des Instituts fuer Mathematische Maschinen und Datenverarbeitung (Informatik), Band 29, Nr. 5, May 1996 (H. Schuster, S. Jablonski, C. Bussler)

11. Datenbankunterstuetzung fuer Workflow Management. In: S. Jablonski (Hrsg.) Database Support for Open Workflow Management Systems. Arbeitsberichte des Instituts fuer Mathematische Maschinen und Datenverarbeitung (Informatik), Band 29, Nr. 5, May 1996 (C. Bussler, S. Jablonski) (in German)

12. A New Generation of Workflow-Management-Systems: beyond Taylorism with MOBILE. In: ACM SIGOIS Bulletin, Vol. 17, No. 1, April, 1996 (C. Bussler, S. Jablonski, H. Schuster)

13. Architektur von unternehmensweit einsetzbaren Workflow-Management-Systemen. Beitrag zur Fachtagung der Fachgruppe 5.2.1 Modellierung betrieblicher Informationssysteme (MobIS). In: Rundbrief des Fachausschuss 5.2 "Informationssystem-Architekturen", 1996 (C. Bussler, P. Heinl, S. Jablonski, H. Schuster, K. Stein) (in German)

14. Public Process Inheritance for Business-to-Business Integration. In: A. P. Buchmann, F. Casati, L. Fiege, M.-C. Hsu, M.-C. Shan (eds.): Technologies for E-Services, Third International Workshop, TES 2002, Hong Kong, China, August 2002, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2444 Springer-Verlag 2002

15. Semantic Web Enabled Web Services. In: I. Horrocks, J. A. Hendler (eds.) The Semantic Web - ISWC 2002, First International Semantic Web Conference, Sardinia, Italy, June 2002, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2342 Springer-Verlag 2002 (D. Fensel, C. Bussler, A. Maedche)

16. Semantic Web Application Areas. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2002), Stockholm - Sweden, June 27-28, 2002 (D. Fensel, C. Bussler, Y. Ding, V. Kartseva, M. Klein, M. Korotkiy, B. Omelayenko, and R. Siebes)

17. Software as a service: ASP and ASP aggregation. In: Proceedings of SIGMOD 2002, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, June 2002

18. B2B Integration Technology Architecture. Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2002). Newport Beach, CA, USA, June 2002

19. Semantic Web Application Areas. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems. Stockholm, Sweden, June 2002 (D. Fensel, C. Bussler, Y. Ding, V. Kartseva, M. Klein, M. Korotkiy, B. Omelayenko, and R. Siebes)

20. Semantic Web Enabled Web Services. Proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC-2002, Sardinia, June 2002 (D. Fensel, C. Bussler, A. Maedche)

21. Process Inheritance. Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2002), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 2002

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22. Mapping Technology for Enterprise Integration. Proceedings of Special Track on Semantic Web at The 15th International FLAIRS Conference. Pensacola, FL, USA, May 2002 (B. Omelayenko, D. Fensel, C. Bussler)

23. Modeling and Executing Semantic B2B Integration. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Engineering E-Commerce / E-Business Systems (RIDE-2EC'2002) (In conjunction with ICDE-2002), IEEE CS Press, San Jose, USA, February 2002

24. P2P in B2BI. In: Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-35), Waikoloa Village, Big Island, Hawaii, USA, January 2002

25. Behavior Abstraction in Semantic B2B Integration. In: Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling Approaches for e-Business (in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'2001). Yokohama, Japan, November 2001

26. The Role of Workflow Management Systems in B2B Integration. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Electronic Commerce Research (ICECR-4). Dallas, TX, USA, November 2001

27. Business-to-Business Integration needs a Meta Business Enterprise Ontology. In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Open Enterprise Solutions: Systems, Experiences, and Organizations (OES-SEO2001). Rome, Italy, September 2001

28. The Role of B2B Protocols in Inter-enterprise Process Execution. In: Proceedings of Workshop on Technologies for E-Services (TES 2001) (in cooperation with VLDB2001). Rome, Italy, September 2001

29. Semantic B2B Integration Server Technology as Infrastructure for Electronic Hubs. In: Proceedings of First International Workshop on Electronic Business Hubs: XML, Metadata, Ontologies, and Business Knowledge on the Web (WEBH2001). Munich, Germany, September 2001

30. On Structured Workflow Modeling. In: Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAISE). Stockholm, Sweden, June 2000 (B. Kiepuszewski, A. ter Hofstede, C. Bussler)

31. A Systematic Approach for Informal Communication During Workflow Execution. In: Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2000), Konstanz, Germany, March 2000

32. Has Workflow lost Sight of Dataflow? In: Proceedings of the High Performance Transaction System Workshop (HPTS). Asilomar, CA, USA, September 1999

33. Extension Architecture for Workflow Management. In: Proceedings of the International Process Technology Workshop (IPTW), Grenoble, France, September 1999

34. Workflow Class Inheritance and Dynamic Workflow Class Binding. In: Proceedings of the Workshop Software Architectures for Business Process Management at the 11th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering CAiSE*99, Heidelberg, Germany, June 1999

35. Cross-Organisational Workflow Management and Co-ordination – WACC ’99 Workshop Report; ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1999 (H. Ludwig, C. Bussler, M. Shan, P. Grefen)

36. Workflow Instance Scheduling with Project Management Tools. In: Proceedings of the Workflow Management Workshop (WFM '98) in conjunction with the 9th

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International DEXA Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA '98), Vienna, Austria, August 1998

37. Workflow Interoperability Classification and its Implication to Workflow Management Systems Architectures. In: Proceedings of the EDBT Workshop on Workflow Management Systems, March 1998. In conjunction with the VI International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT '98), Valencia, Spain, March 1998

38. Adaptation in Workflow Management. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Software Process (ICSP5). Computer Supported Organizational Work. Lisle, Illinois, USA, June 1998

39. Towards Workflow Type Inheritance. In: Proceedings of the OOPSLA '98 Workshop on Implementation and Application of Object Oriented Workflow Systems. Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 1998

40. A Taxonomy of Adaptive Workflow Management. At: Towards Adaptive Workflow Systems. Workshop of the ACM 1998 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Seattle, WA, USA, November 1998 (A. Shet, Y. Han, C. Bussler)

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Curriculum Vitae – Michal Zaremba - NUIG

Proposed Position in the Project:

1 Family Name: Zaremba2 First Name: Michal 3 Date of Birth: 27 December 19764 Nationality: Polish5 Civil Status: Married6 Education / Professional Studies:

Institution: National University of Ireland, Galway, IrelandDate From/To: 2000-2003Degree/Diploma: Ph.D.

Institution: Wroclaw University of Technology, PolandDate From/To: 1995-2000Degree/Diploma: M.Sc.

7 Language Skills: (Mark from 1 (notions) to 5 (excellent) for competence)(*=mother tongue)

Language Speaking Reading Writing

English 5 5 5Polish * * *German 1 1 1

8 Membership of Professional Bodies:Member of Semantic Web Services Interest Group and Semantic Web Services Architecture (SWSA) Committee

Member of Association for Computing Machinery.

9 Other Skills: Michal Zaremba current research interests include, Semantic Web Services, Semantic Web, Electronic Business, Business Protocols for Electronic Business Information Exchange and XML and EDI based protocol standards and specifications.

10 Present Position within the organisation: Post-doc researcher, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

11 Years with the organisation: Michal Zaremba has been appointed as post-doc researcher on September 2003

12 Key Qualifications: (relevant to the project):Current research interests include Semantic Web Services and Semantic Web.

13 Experience in specific Asian / EU countries :Country :Date :Details

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14 Professional Experience Record (relevant to the project):Date: 2003-2004Location: IrelandOrganisation: Digital Enterprise Research InstitutePosition: Post-doc researcherResponsibilities: Michal is involved in several national and international projects, he is

a founding member of the Web Services Modelling Ontology and Web Services Modelling Execution working group, and member of the Semantic Web Services Interest Group and the Semantic Web Services Architecture Committee.

Date: 2003-2004Location: IrelandOrganisation: Digital Enterprise Research InstitutePosition: DeveloperResponsibilities: Michal Zaremba is the major contributors, responsible for defining the

conceptual model of the system, designing execution semantics and proposing the architecture for the platform. He is the chief architect and a lead developer of an open source implementation of the WSMX system, leading and controlling international group of researchers and developers across Europe to continue progress on platform development.

Date: 2001-2002Location: IrelandOrganisation: Computer Integrated Manufacturing Research Unit, Sun Microsystems,

OASIS and NISTPosition: DeveloperResponsibilities: Michal Zaremba contributed to design and implementation of the first

ebXML registry/repository (ebxmlrr). This open source work carried together with Sun Microsystems, OASIS and National Institute of Standards and Technology became a base for writing his doctoral thesis.

15 Publications:Books and books chapters

1. Michal Zaremba, Matthew Moran; Enabling execution of Semantic Web Services – WSMX core platform, WSMO Implementation Workshop 2004 – WIW2004, Frankfurt, Germany, September 2004

2. E. Oren, A. Wahler, B. Schreder, A. Balaban, M. Zaremba; Demonstrating WSMX – Least Cost Supply Management – WSMO Implementation Workshop 2004, WIW2004, Frankfurt, Germany, September 2004

3. Laurentiu Vasiliu, Michal Zaremba, Matthew Moran, Christoph Bussler ; Web-Service Semantic Enabled Implementation of Machine vs. Machine Business Negotiation,; 2004 IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC 2004), San Diego, USA

4. Adrian Mocan, Michal Zaremba; Mediation in Web Service Modeling Execution Environment (WSMX), Information Integration on the Web Workshop (iiWeb2004), Conference on Very Large Data Bases VLDB2004, August 2004

5. Sinuhé Arroyo, Christoph Bussler, Jacek Kopecký, Rubén Lara, Axel Polleres, Michal Zaremba Web Service Capabilities and Constraints in WSMO; W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services

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6. Hui Shen, Brian Wall, Michal Zaremba, Yuliu Chen, Jim Browne; Integration of business modelling methods for enterprise information system analysis and user requirements gathering; Computers in Industry

7. Michal Zaremba, Szymon Zaleski, Brian Wall, Jimmie Browne; Integrated Supply Chain between SMEs over Internet; 11th European Conference on Information Systems, 19th - 21st June, 2003, Naples, Italy

8. Michal Zaremba, Brian Wall, Jimmie Browne; ebXML Registry/Repository Implementation In The Agri-Food Industry; eBRF2002 e-Business Research Forum 2002, November 2002, Tampere, Finland

9. Hui Shen, Brian Wall, Michal Zaremba, Yuliu Chen, Jimmie Browne; Legacy Migration Strategy and Target System Design for an e-Business Project; ICEB2002 - International Conference on e-Business, 23-26 May 2002, Beijing, China

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China

ANNEX FCV MODEL

Curriculum Vitae

Proposed Position in the Project:

1 Family Name: Dayou

2 First Name: Liu

3 Date of Birth: 1 June 1942

4 Nationality: China

5 Civil Status: Married

6 Education / Professional Studies:Institution: Computer Science, Jilin University, Changchun, ChinaDate From/To: 1981Degree/Diploma: M.S.

Institution: Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, ChinaDate From/To: 1966Degree/Diploma: B.A.

7 Language Skills: (Mark from 1 (notions) to 5 (excellent) for competence)(*=mother tongue)

Language Speaking Reading Writing

English 5 5 5Chinese * * *

8 Membership of Professional Bodies:Director of Academy of Computer Science of Jilin Province

Vice Director of Committee of Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition, Academy of Computer Science of China

Vice Director of Committee of the Knowledge Engineering, Academy of the Artificial Intelligence of China

Member of Subject Appraisement Group of the Committee of the Degree of the National State Department

Vice Director of Division of Artificial Intelligence, Association of Software Industry of China

Member of Informatics Division, Technology Department of Ministry of Education of China

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Member of Instructive Group of the Computer Software Education in High-education Institutions, Ministry of Education of China

Member of Subject Appraisement Group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China

Syndic of Academy of Computer Science of China

Member of Academic Committee of the Key Laboratory of Computer Interface Technology and System, China

Member of Academic Committee of the National Research Centre of the Multi-media Software Engineering, China

Member of Academic Committee of the National Open Laboratory of the Multi-Media Software Computer Interface Technology and System, China

9 Other Skills: Dayou Liu current research interests include Knowledge Engineering and Expert System, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Agents and Mobile Agents, Spatial Reasoning and Geographic Information System, Data Structure and Algorithm, Rough Set and Data Mining, Intelligent Computer Assistant Education, Product Data Management, and Intelligent Software. He has completed about 40 National or Provincial/Departmental Projects and has published more than 200 conference and journal articles, 2 books, and 4 textbooks.

10 Present Position within the organisation: Dayou Liu was qualified as a PhD Tutor by the Degree-Assignment Committee of the National State Department of China. Now he is the Dean of the College of Computer Science and Technology (CCST), and the Dean of the College of National Demonstration Software in Jilin University.

11 Years with the organisation:Dayou Liu has been appointed as dean of CCST on May 2001

12 Key Qualifications: (relevant to the project):Current research interests include Spatio-temporal Ontology and Semantic Web.

13 Experience in specific Asian / EU countries :Country : Date :Details :

14 Professional Experience Record (relevant to the project):Date: September 1993 – presentLocation: Changchun, ChinaOrganisation: Jilin UniversityPosition: PhD TutorResponsibilities: Teaching and researching

Date: May 1998 – June 2004Location: Changchun, ChinaOrganisation: Jilin UniversityPosition: Head of the Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation & Knowledge

Engineering, Ministry of Education of ChinaResponsibilities: Manage and research

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Date: December 1990 – presentLocation: Changchun, ChinaOrganisation: Jilin UniversityPosition: ProfessorResponsibilities: Teaching and researching

Date: September 1985 – December 1990Location: Changchun, ChinaOrganisation: Jilin UniversityPosition: Associate ProfessorResponsibilities: Teaching and researching

15 Publications:Books and books chapters1. Data structure. Higher Education Press. 2001.2. Method of uncertainty and fuzziness in knowledge systems. Jilin University Press. 2001. 3. Principle of Data structure. Jilin University Press. 1994.4. Data structure. Higher Education Press. 1985.

Journal and conference papers1. Liu DY, Hu H, Wang SS, Xie Q. Research progress in spatio-temporal reasoning. Journal

of Software, 2004, 15(8): 1141~1149.2. Wang Fei, Liu Dayou, Xue Wanxin, Lu Yinan. Research on Learning Bayesian Network

Structure With Hidden Variables Based on Genetic Algorithms. Chinese Journal of Electronics, 2002, 11(3): 297~302.

3. Yu Qiangyuan, Liu Dayou, Liu Yabin. An Extended Egg-Yolk Model between Indeterminate Regions. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2003, 32(4): 610~615.

4. Liu DaYou, Wang ShengSheng, Yu QiangYuan, Hu He. Multi-level spatial association rules mining algorithm based on qualitative spatial reasoning. Computer Research and Development, 2004, 41(4): 565~570.

5. Wang ShengSheng, Liu DaYou, Yang Bo. Multi-dimensional qualitative spatial query language MQS-SQL. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2002, 30(12A): 1995~1999.

6. J.W. Guan, D.Y. Liu, D.A. Bell. Discovering Motifs in DNA Sequences. Fundamenta Informaticae, 2004, 59(2-3): 119~134.

7. Sheng-sheng WANG, Da-you LIU. Spatial Query Preprocessing in Distributed GIS，GCC 2004, LNCS 3251, 737~744.

8. Sheng-sheng WANG, Da-you LIU. Spatio-temporal Database with Multi-granularities ，ADVANCES IN WEB-AGE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (WAIM 2004): PROCEEDINGS LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 3129, 137~146, 2004.

9. Sheng-sheng WANG, Da-you LIU, Zhe WANG. Spatio-temporal Reasoning Based Spatio-temporal Information Management Middleware. J.X. Yu etc. Eds. The Sixth Asia Pacific Web Conference. (APWeb2004 LNCS 3007), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, P436~441.

10. Sheng-sheng WANG, Da-you LIU. Representation and Reasoning for Multi-dimensional Spatial Occlusion Relation. Chinese Journal of Electronic, 2003 (31) 12A : 2175~2178.

11. Sheng-sheng WANG, Da-you LIU. Overview of Advanced Spatio-temporal Reasoning Researches. Computer Science, 2004, 31(9): 16~19.

12. JING HUANG,DA-YOU LIU,BO YANG. ONLINE AUTONOMOUS AUCTION MODEL BASED ON AGENT. Proceedings of 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2004,vol 1, 89~94.

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13. Qi XIE, Dayou LIU, Qiangyuan YU and Haibo YU. Integrating Orientation, Distance and Time for Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Reasoning. Proceedings of 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, vol 4, 2262-2268, 2004.

14. BO YANG, DA-YOU LIU, KUN YANG, WAN-JUN YU. SECURITY EXETENSION TO GRASSHOPPER FOR NETWORK MANAGEMENT BASED POLICY. Proceedings of 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics,2004. vol 1, pp 10-15.

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THAILAND

THE ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYPATHUMTHANI, THAILAND

The Institute originated in 1959 to help meet the growing need for advanced engineering education in Asia. In November 1967, under its present name of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), the Institute became an autonomous international institution empowered to award degrees and diplomas.

The Institute's mission is the following:

AIT will take a leadership role in the promotion of technological change and its management for sustainable development in the Asia and Pacific Region, through high-level education, research an outreach activities which integrate technology, planning and management. The focus of the Institute’s activities is in technology, with special emphasis on the interdisciplinary interface among the above three fields, and will include attention to environmental and socio-economic considerations.

The Institute offers:

· academic programs leading to the award of master or doctoral degrees, the diploma or certificates;

· research work by students, faculty, and professional staff;

· outreach activities in partnership with private and public sector institutions; and

· special programs, conferences, seminars, and short courses.

Completion of the doctoral degree program normally takes ten or eleven terms (three years or so), the master degree five terms, and the diploma two or three terms. A certificate program normally lasts one term.

The Institute's 160-hectare campus is located 42 kilometers north of, Bangkok. Here, well over one thousand students, mostly from Asia, and 200 faculty and international staff, foster advanced technological learning to meet the need for more and better trained personnel for key positions in private and public sectors throughout the region. More than 10,000 AIT alumni already hold such positions.

The Institute is supported by donor governments, international agencies, foundations, business organizations and individuals, Asian and non-Asian. This support acknowledges AIT's successful academic endeavor, an endeavor recognized in several international awards, including, in its thirtieth anniversary year, 1989, the Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding, and in 1995, the Asian Institute of Management Award for Development Management.

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CV of key personsCurriculum Vitae

Proposed Position in the Project:

1 Family Name: Wuwongse

2 First Name: Vilas

3 Date of Birth: 21 February 1953

4 Nationality: Thai

5 Civil Status: Married

6 Education / Professional Studies: Institution: Department of Control Engineering, Tokyo Institute of TechnologyDate From/To: 1972-1977Degree/Diploma: B. Eng.

Institution: Department of Control Engineering, Tokyo Institute of TechnologyDate From/To: 1977-1979Degree/Diploma: M. Eng.

Institution: Department of Control Engineering, Tokyo Institute of TechnologyDate From/To: 1979-1982Degree/Diploma: D. Eng.

7 Language Skills: (Mark from 1 (notions) to 5 (excellent) for competence)(*=mother tongue)

Language Speaking Reading Writing

English 4 4 4Thai* 5 5 5Japanese 4 4 4

8 Membership of Professional Bodies: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)IEEE Computer SocietyThe Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE)Information Processing Society of JapanJapanese Society of Artificial Intelligence

9 Other Skills: 10 Present Position within the organisation: Professor

11 Years with the organisation: 22 years

16 Key Qualifications: (relevant to the project): Records of research and involvement in Semantic Web, metadata representation and digital libraries

13 Experience in specific Asian / EU countries :Country :ThailandDate: 1982-presentDetails: Professor in Computer Science and Information Management Fields of study

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Country :United KingdomDate: October 1987- May 1988Details: Visiting Fellow, Department of Computer Science, University College, London

14 Professional Experience Record (relevant to the project):

Date: April 1982- presentLocation: ThailandOrganisation: Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)Position: ProfessorResponsibilities: Teaching and research

Date: Sept. 1990- Aug. 1992Location: ThailandOrganisation: Division of Computer Science, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)Position: ChairmanResponsibilities: Head of Division

Date: 1988- 1997Location: ThailandOrganisation: Artificial Intelligence Committee, National Electronics and Computer

Technology Center, Thai Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment

Position: ChairmanResponsibilities: Artificial Intelligence Committee

15 Publications:

JOURNAL PAPERS

1. Wuwongse, V., Kobayashi, S. and Ichikawa, A., 1981, Interactive Solutions to Discrete Multiple Criteria Problems by Pairwise Comparison, Trans. of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp. 728-734, (in Japanese).

2. Wuwongse, V., Kobayashi, S. and Ichikawa, A., 1983, An Interactive System for Supporting Multiobjective Decision Making, Automatica, Vol. 19, No. 16, pp. 697-702.

3. Wuwongse, V., Kobayashi, S., Iwai, A. and Ichikawa, A., 1983, Optimal Design of Linear Control Systems by An Interactive Optimization Method, Computers in Industry, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 381-394.

4. Wuwongse, V. and Nagraj, M.N., 1985, CAD of Truss Structures by the Interactive Simplex Method, in Tou (ed.), Computer-Based Automation, Plenum, pp. 139-151.

5. Wuwongse, V. and Mukyangkoon, S., 1986, Microcomputer-Based Interactive Goal Programming for Production Planning, Int. J. Microcomputer Applications, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-5.

6. Wuwongse, V. and Paulo, R., 1986, A Microcomputer Based DSS for Scholarship Allocation, J. Microcomputer Applications, Vol. 10, pp. 199-210.

7. Rusyadi, R. and Wuwongse, V., 1987, Processing of Simple Queries in a Distributed Deductive Database, Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 505-522.

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8. Ninh, T.T. and Wuwongse, V., 1987, Some Properties of Fuzzy Hypergraphs, Trans. of IEICE, Vol. 70E, No. 8, pp. 755-760.

9. Wuwongse, V. and Lee, H.L., 1990, Automatic Query Formulation and Termination for Document Retrieval Based on Fuzzy Set Theory, Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 345-356.

10. Wuwongse, V. and Rusyadi, R., 1992, Implementation of a Distributed Deductive Database, Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 253-267.

11. Tabucanon, M.T., Wuwongse, V. and Juneja, N., 1992, Default Logic: A Practical Approach to Expert Systems, Computers in Industry, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 153-161.

12. Wuwongse, V. and Nantajeewarawat, E., 1993, SOPS: Structured OPS5-based Production System, Asean J. on Science and Technology for Development, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 115-134.

13. Wuwongse, V., 1995, Software Engineering in Thailand, J. Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 67-70.

14. Wuwongse, V. and Pornprasertsakul, A., 1995, A Thai Syntactic Analyser, Computer Processing of Chinese and Oriental Languages, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 127-142.

15. Ghosh, B.C. and Wuwongse, V., 1995, Conceptual Graph Programs and Their Declarative Semantics, IEICE Trans. Information and Systems, Vol. E78-D, No. 9, pp. 1208-1217.

16. Wuwongse, V. and Nantajeewarawat, E., 1996, Order-Sorted Universes of Structured Objects, IEICE Trans. Information and Systems, Vol. E79-D, No. 2, pp. 143-149.

17. Jiracheewee, N., Oron, G., Murty, V.V.N. and Wuwongse, V., 1996, Computerized Database for Optimal Management of Community Irrigation Systems in Thailand, Agricultural Water Management, Vol. 31, pp.237-251.

18. Wuwongse, V., 1997, A Deductive Object-Oriented Approach to CIM Integration, Int. J. Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 10, No. 1- 4, pp. 61-73.

19. Wuwongse, V. and Veluppillai, S., 1997, Fuzzy Modeling with Genetic Algorithms, Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 16, No.3, pp. 275-289.

20. Nantajeewarawat, E. and Wuwongse, V., 2001. Defeasible Inheritance Through Specialization, Computational Intelligence, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 62-86.

21. Kitcharoensakkul, S. and Wuwongse, V., 2001. Towards a Unified Version Model using the Resource Description Framework (RDF), Int. J. Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Vol.11, No. 6, pp.675-701.

22. Kitcharoensakkul, S. and Wuwongse, V., 2001. Unified Versioning using Resource Description Framework, Annals of Software Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.259-297.

23. Wuwongse, V., Anutariya, C., Akama, K. and Nantajeewarawat, E., 2001. XML Declarative Description: A Language for the Semantic Web, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 16, No. 3, May/June 2001, pp. 54-65.

24. Anutariya, C., Wuwongse, V., Akama, K. and Nantajeewarawat, E., 2001. RDF Declarative Description (RDD): A Language for Metadata, J. Digital Information, Vol. 2, Issue 2 [http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Anutariya/]

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25. Wuwongse, V. and Nantajeewarawat, E., 2002, Declarative Programs with Implicit Implication, IEEE Trans. Knowledge and Data Engineering Vol. 14, No. 4, July/August 2002, pp. 836-849.

26. Wuwongse, V., Akama, K. and Nantajeewarawat, E., 2003, A Data Model for XML Databases, J. Intelligent Information Systems, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 63-80.

27. Nantajeewarawat, E., Wuwongse, V., Anutariya, C., Akama, K. and Thiemjarus, S., 2004, Towards Reasoning with UML Diagrams Based-on XML Declarative Description Theory, Int. J. Intelligent Systems, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp.89-98.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Wuwongse, V. and Ma, J., 1991, An Object-Oriented Approach to Model Management, in Anderson, Bubenko and Solvberg (eds.), Proc. Int. Conf. Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Lecture Notes in Computer Science #498, Springer-Verlag, pp. 525-539.

2. Wuwongse, V. and Singkoraboom, S., 1991, An Object-Oriented Data Model for Hypermedia Databases in Van Assche, Moulin and Rolland (eds.), Proc. IFIP Int. Conf. Object-Oriented Approach in Information Systems, North-Holland, pp. 403-418.

3. Ghosh, B.C. and Wuwongse, V., 1992, Conceptual Graphs as a Framework for Deductive Object-Oriented Databases,in Loucopoulos (ed.), Proc. Int. Conf. Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Lecture Notes in Computer Science #593, Springer-Verlag, pp. 147-163.

4. Wuwongse, V. and Manzano, M., 1993, Fuzzy Conceptual Graphs, in Mineau, Moulin and Sowa (eds.), Conceptual Graphs for Knowledge Representation, Proc. 1st Int. Conf. Conceptual Structures, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence #699, Springer-Verlag, pp. 430-449.

5. Wuwongse, V. and Ghosh, B.C., 1993, Towards Deductive Object-Oriented Databases Based-on Conceptual Graphs, in Pfeiffer and Nagle (eds.), Conceptual Structures: Theory and Implementation, Proc. 7th Workshop Conceptual Graphs, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence #754, Springer-Verlag, pp. 188-205.

6. Ghosh, B.C. and Wuwongse, V., 1994, Inference System for Conceptual Graph Programs, in Tepfenhart, Dick and Sowa (eds.), Conceptual Structures: Current Practices, Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. Conceptual Structures, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence #835, Springer-Verlag, pp. 214-229.

7. Ghosh, B.C. and Wuwongse, V., 1995, A Direct Proof Procedure for Definite Conceptual Graph Programs, in Ellis, Levinson, Rich and Sowa (eds.), Conceptual Structures: Applications, Implementation and Theory, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence # 954, Springer-Verlag, pp. 158-172.

8. Wuwongse, V. and Nantajeewarawat, E., 1996, Declarative Program Theory with Implicit Implication, in Foo and Goebel (eds), PRICAI’96 Topics in Artificial intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence #1114, Springer-Verlag, pp. 97-108.

9. Wuwongse, V. and Tru, C.H., 1996, Towards Fuzzy Conceptual Graph Programs, in Eklund, Ellis and Mann (eds.), Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Representation as Interlingua, Proc. 4th Int. Conf. Conceptual Structures, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence #1115, Springer-Verlag , pp. 263-276.

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10. Ghosh, B.C. and Wuwongse, V., 1996, Computational Situation Theory in the Conceptual Graph Language (CGL), in Eklund, Ellis and Mann (eds.), Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Representation as Interlingua, Proc. 4th Int. Conf. Conceptual Structures, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence #1115, Springer-Verlag, pp. 188-202.

11. Tru, C.H., Creasy, P.N. and Wuwongse, V., 1997, Fuzzy Unification and Resolution Proof Procedure for Fuzzy Conceptual Graph Programs, in Lukose, Delugach, Keeler, Searle and Sowa (eds.), Conceptual Structures: Fulfilling Peirce’s Dream, Proc. 5th Int. Conf. Conceptual Structures, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence #1257, Springer-Verlag, pp. 386-400.

12. Nantajeewarawat, E. and Wuwongse, V., 1997, Nonmonotonic Inheritance Through Specialization, in Bry, Raghu and Ramamohanarao (eds.), Proc. 5th Int. Conf. Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases (DOOD;97), Lecture Notes in Computer Science #1341, Springer-Verlag, pp. 423-424.

13. Lian J. and Wuwongse V., 1999, Relationship between SDL Processes and Message Sequence Charts, in Yongchareon, Aagesen and Wuwongse (eds.), Intelligence in Networks, Kluwer Academic Publisher, pp. 237-250.

14. Aagesen, F. A., Helvik, B.E., Wuwongse, V., Meling, H., Braek R. and Johansen U., 1999, Towards a Plug and Play Architecture for Telecommunications, in Yongchareon, Aagesen and Wuwongse (eds.), Intelligence in Networks, Kluwer Academic Publisher, pp. 321-334.

15. Nantajeewarawat, E. and Wuwongse, V., 1999, An Argumentation Approach to Semantics of Declarative Programs with Defeasible Inheritance, in Thiagarajan and Yap (eds.) Advances in Computing Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science #1742, Springer-Verlag, pp. 239-250.

16. Anutariya, C., Wuwongse, V., Nantajeewarawat, E. and Akama, K., 2000. Towards a Foundation for XML Document Databases, in Bauknecht, Madria and Pernul (eds.), Proc. Int. Conf. Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, Lecture Notes in Computer Science #1875, Springer-Verlag, pp.324-333.

17. Wuwongse, V., Akama, K., Anutariya, C. and Nantajeewarawat, E., 2001. A Data Model for XML Databases, in Zhong, N., Yao, Y., Liu, J. and Ohsuga, S. (eds.), Proc. 2001 Int. Conf. Web Intelligence (WI-01), Maebashi, Japan, October 2001, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence #2198, Springer-Verlag, pp. 237-246.

18. Anutariya, C., Wuwongse, V., Akama K. and Wattanapailin, V., 2002, Semantic Web Modeling and Programming with XDD, in Cruz, Decker, Euzenat and McGuinness (eds.), The Emerging Semantic Web, IOS Press, pp. 79-97.

19. Akama K., Anutariya, C., Wuwongse, V. and Nantajeewarawat, E., 2002, Query Formulation and Evaluation of XML Databases, in Cellary and Iyengar (eds.), Proc. IFIP TC6/WG6.4 Workshop Internet Technologies, Applications and Social Impact, Kluwer Academic Publisher, pp. 273-288.

20. Chotmanee, A., Wuwongse, V. and Anutariya, C., 2002, A Schema Language for MPEG-7, in Lim et. al. (eds.), Proc. Int. Conf. Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2555, Springer-Verlag, pp.153-164.

21. Suwanapong, S., Anutariya, C. and Wuwongse, V., 2002, An Intelligent Web Service System, in Rolland, Brinkkemper and Saeki (eds.), Engineering Information Systems in the Internet Context, Kluwer Acedemic Publisher, pp. 177-201.

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22. Chippimolchai, P., Wuwongse, V. and Anutariya, C., 2002, Semantic Query Formulation and Evaluation for XML Databases, in Ling, Dayal, Bertino, Ng and Goh (eds.), Proc. 3rd Int. conf. Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2002), Singapore, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 205-214, December 2002.

23. Doung, D. D. and Wuwongse, V., 2003, XML Database Schema Integration using XDD, in Dong, Tang and Wang (eds.), Proc. 4th Int. Conf. Advances in Web-Age Information Management, Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2762, Springer-Verlag, pp. 92-103.

24. Anutariya, C., Chatvichienchai, S., Iwaihara M., Wuwongse, V. and Kambayashi Y., 2003, A Rule-Based XML Access Control Model, in Schroeder and Wagners (eds.) Proc. 2nd Int. Workshop Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web, Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2876, Springer-Verlag, pp. 35-48.

25. Pattanasri, N., Wuwongse, V. and Akama, K., 2004, XET as a Rule Language for Consistency Maintenace in UML. Proc. Of the Third International Workshop, RuleML2004, Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic, Lecture Notes in Computer Science #3323, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, pp. 200-204, Hiroshima, Japan, Nov. 8, 2004.

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CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP PAPERS

1. Kobayashi, S., Wuwongse, V. and Ichikawa, A., 1977, An Interactive Algorithm for Multiple Criteria Problems by Pairwise Comparisons of Pareto Optimal Solutions, Proc. of the 3rd System Symposium, pp. 43-48, Tokyo. (in Japanese)

2. Kobayashi, S., Shima, S., Wuwongse, V. and Ichikawa, A., 1978, Estimating Preference Region in Multiobjective Optimization Problems, Proc. of the 4th Sytem Symposium, pp. 201-206, Kyoto. (in Japanese)

3. Kobayashi, S., Wuwongse, V., Kawakita, K. and Ichikawa, A., 1978, A Solution Method for Multiobjective Group Decision Making, Proc. of the 4th System Symposium, pp. 207-212, Kyoto. (in Japanese)

4. Wuwongse, V., Kobayashi, A. and Ichikawa, A., 1979, An Interactive Multiobjective Optimization Method Using the Ideal Point Concept, Proc. of the 5th System Symposium, pp. 93-98, Tokyo. (in Japanese)

5. Kobayashi, S., Iwai, S., Wuwongse, V. and Ichikawa, A., 1981, Supporting Control System Design by an Interactive Search Method, Prof. of the 20th SICE Scientific Conf., pp. 505-506, Sendai. (in Japanese)

6. Iwai, S., Wuwongse, V., Kobayashi, S. and Ichikawa, A., 1981, Applications of an Interactive Optimization Method to Designing Linear Control Systems, Proc. of the 7th System Symposium, Tokyo. (in Japanese)

7. Kobayashi, S., Wuwongse, V., Kawakita, K. and Ichikawa, A., 1981, An Interactive System for Supporting Group Decision Making Process Under Multiple Criteria, Proc. Hawaii Int. Conf. Systems Science, Hawaii.

8. Wuwongse, V., 1983, Microprocessor Applications in Developing Countries, UNESCO/LIN-LIPI Workshop on Instrumentation and Control, Jakarta.

9 Wuwongse, V. and Fuh, H.R., 1986, Microcomputer-Aided-Design of Control Sysems, Proc. Int. Conf. Hardware and Software Applications of Microcomputers, Los Angeles, pp. 162-165.

10. Ninh, T.T. and Wuwongse, V., 1986, Some Properties of Fuzzy Hypergraphs, Proc. the 1986 Int. Computer Symposium, Tainan.

11. Wuwongse, V., 1987, Some Properties of Combining Functions in Expert Systems, Proc. Regional Symposium on Computer Science and Its Applications, Bangkok.

12. Wuwongse, V. and Trinidad, G.S., 1986, A Knowledge Representation Scheme and an Inference Strategy for Engineering Design, Proc. the 8th Int. Workshop on Expert Systems & Their Applications, Avigon.

13. Wuwongse, V., 1989, Unified Knowledge Representation Based on Many-Sorted Algebra, Proc. All Indian Workshop on AI and NLP, Roorkee.

14. Wuwongse, V., 1989, Two-level Knowledge-Based Control, Proc. SICE'89, Matsuyama.

15. Pornprasertsakul, A. and Wuwongse, V., 1989, The Suitability of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar to Describe Thai Syntax, Proc. Regional Workshop Computer Processing of Asian Languages, Bangkok.

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16. Wuwongse, V. and Yusof, K., 1989, Experiences in the Development of a Medical Expert Systm, Proc. MEDINFO'89, North-Holland, Beijing.

17. Pornprasertsakul, A. and Wuwongse, V., 1990, A Thai Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar and Its Passer, Proc. Int. Conf. Computer Processing of Chinese and Oriental Languages, Hunan.

18. Wuwongse, V., 1990, Artificial Intelligence Research in Thailand, Proc. 1st PRICAI, Nagoya.

19. Wuwongse, V. and Niyomthai, S., 1991, Conceptual Graphs as a Framework for Case-Based Reasoning, Proc. 6th Workshop on Conceptual Graphs, Binghamton, New York.

20. Wuwongse, V. and Boonjing, V., 1991, Fuzzy Multivalued Dependencies in Fuzzy Relational Databases. Proc. 4th AMSE Symposium on Fuzzy Systems & Signals, Warsaw.

21. Pornprasertsakul, A., Wuwongse, V. and Chansaenwilai, K., 1991, Disambiguation in Thai Syntactic Analysis Using Features Subcategorization, Proc. Int. Conf. Computer Processing of Chinese and Oriental Languages, Taipei.

22. Pornprasertsakul, A. and Wuwongse, V., 1991, Thai Sentence Analysis Using Least Exceptional Logic. Proc. Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium, Singapore.

23. Wuwongse, V. and de Guzman, S.O., 1991, A Knowledge System for Shrimp Pond Ecosystem Dynamics Using Qualitative Reasoning, Proc. 1st World Congress on Expert Systems, Florida.

24. Wuwongse, V. and Nantajeewarawat, E., 1991, An Object-Oriented Production System. Proc. the National Electronics and Computer Technology Annual Conference, Bangkok.

25. Wuwongse, V., 1992, Sentence Analysis as Abduction Using Conceptual Graphs, Proc. Int. Symposia on Information Sciences, Kyushu, Japan.

26. Wuwongse, V. and Nantajeewarawat, E., 1992, SOPS: Structrured OPS5-based Production System, Proc. 2nd PRICAI, Souel.

27. Wuwongse, V. and Promphanich, W., 1992, An Object-Oriented Approach to Geographic Information Sysems, Proc. 13th Asean Conference on Remote Sensing, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

28. Wuwongse, V. and Zhang, W., 1993, Concurrency Control in Distributed Object-Oirented Databases, Proc. Asia-Pacific Symposium on Information and Telecommunication Technology, Bangkok.

29. Ghosh, B.C. and Wuwongse, V., 1993, Declarative Semantics of Conceptual Graph Programs, Proc. 2nd PEIRCE Workshop, ICCS'93, Quebec City, Canada, August.

30. Wuwongse, V., Triwittayapoom, S. and Dejdumrong, N., 1994, Query Processing in Object-Oriented Databases, Int. Computer Symposium 1994, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

31. Wuwongse, V. and Klumklai, S., 1995, A Model Retrieval Algorithm, Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. Decision Support Systems, Hong Kong.

32. Wuwongse, V. and Klumklai, S., 1995, A Deductive Object-Oriented Approach to Model Management, Proc. Pan Pacific Conf. Information Systems, Singapore.

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33. Wuwongse, V. and Chin, C.K., 1997, Quality of Service Specification for Multimedia Presentation, Proc. Asia-Pacific Symp. Information and Telecommunication Technologies, Hanoi.

34. Arunwatanamongkol, P. and Wuwongse, V., 1997, Virtual Path based ATM Networks Design using Genetic Algorithms, Proc. Asia-Pacific Symp. Information and Telecommunication Technologies, Hanoi.

35. Wuwongse, V. and Nhan, T.N., 1997, A Conceptual Graph Based Specification Language for the Open Distributed Reference Model (ODP-RM), Proc. 3rd Int. Workshop Academic Information Networks and Systems, Bangkok.

36. Wuwongse, V. 1997, Library Automation in Thailand, Digital Libraries, No.9, Tsukuba.

37. Tru, C.H., Creasy, P.N. and Wuwongse, V., 1997, Fuzzy Types and their Lattices, Proc. 6th IEEE Int. Conf. Fuzzy Systems, Barcelona.

Akama, K. and Wuwongse, V., 1998, Declarative Programs and Computation by Equivalent Transformation, Proc. 4th Int. Workshop on Academic Information Networks and Systems, Karuizawa, pp. 41-46.

Wuwongse, V., Anutariya, C. and Nantajeewarawat, E., 1998, Reasoning about RDF Elements, Proc. Int. Joint Workshop on Digital Libraries, AIT, pp. 82-93.

Wuwongse, V. and Anutariya, C., 1998, Querying Structured Documents, Proc. 5th Int. Workshop on Academic Information Networks and Systems, AIT, pp. 55-72.

Wuwongse, V., 1999, Applications Using Multilinguality: Information Retrieval, Summarization and Generation, Proc. MT Summit VII, Singapore, pp. 155-156.

Anutariya, C., Wuwongse, V., Nantajeewarawat, E. and Akama, K., 1999, Towards Computation with RDF Elements, Proc. Int. Symp. Digital Libraries, Tsukuba, pp. 112-119.

Nantajeewarawat, E., Wuwongse, V., Anutariya, C., Akama, K. and Thiemjarus, S., 2000, Towards Reasoning with UML Diagrams Based-on XML Declarative Description Theory, in Kreinovich, V. and Daengdej, J. (eds.), Proc. Int. Conf. on Intelligent Technologies (InTech'2000), Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 341-350, December 2000.

Kitcharoensakkul S., and Wuwongse, V., 2001, Software Composing based on Unified SCM System, Proc. 13th Int. Conf. Sotware Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Buenos Aires.

Teswanich, W., Anutariya, C. and Wuwongse, V., 2002, Unified Representation for E-Government Knowledge Management, Proc. Int. Workshop on Knowledge Management in E-Government, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2002.

Anutariya, C., Wuwongse, V. and Wattanapailin., V., 2002, An Equivalent-Transformation-Based XML Rule Language, Proc. Int. Workshop on Rule Markup Languages for Business Rules in the Semantic Web, Sardinia, Italy, pp. 140-154, June 2002.

Anutariya, C., Wuwongse, V. and Akama, K., 2003, XML Declarative Description with Negative Constraints, in Takeda, Collier and Mizoguchi (eds.), Proc. Int. Workshop Semantic Web Foundations and Application Technologies, Nara, Japan, pp.59-66, March 2003.

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Thuy, L. T. T. and Wuwongse, V., 2003, Query Processing of Integrated XML Databases, Proc. 5th Int. Conf. Information and Web-based Applications & Services, Jakarta, Indonesia, September 2003.

Anutariya, C., Wuwongse, V. and Akama K., 2003, XML Declarative Description with First-order Logical Constraints, Proc. Workshop Knowledge Grid and Grid Intelligence, Halifax, Cananda, October 2003.

Bhammanee, T. and Wuwongse, V., 2003, Requirements of Data Models for Modelbases, in Yao and Lingras (eds.), Proc. Workshop Applications, products and Services of Web-based Support Systems, Halifax, Canada, pp. 77-82, October 2003.

Bhrammanee, T. and Wuwongse, V., 2003, Towards a Representation Framework for Modelbases, in Yao and Ligras (eds.) Proc. Workshop Applications, Products and Services of Web-based Support Systems, Halifax, Canada, pp. 171-176, October 2003.

BOOKS

Wuwongse, V. et. al., 1988, Microcomputer-Based Practice in Mechanical Engineering, Ohmsha Publishing Company, 250 p. (in Japanese)

Yongchareon, T., Aagesen, F. A. and Wuwongse, V. (eds.), 1999, Intelligence in Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 462 p.

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CV of key personsCurriculum Vitae

Proposed Position in the Project:

1 Family Name: Anutariya

2 First Name: Chutiporn

3 Date of Birth: 18 October 1976

4 Nationality: Thai

5 Civil Status: Married

6 Education / Professional Studies:Institution: Asian Institute of TechnologyDate From/To: January 1999 / December 2001Degree/Diploma: Doctor of Technical Science (Computer)

Institution: Asian Institute of TechnologyDate From/To: May 1996 / August 1998Degree/Diploma: Master of Science (Computer)

7 Language Skills: (Mark from 1 (notions) to 5 (excellent) for competence)(*=mother tongue)

Language Speaking Reading Writing

English 5 5 5

Frenchetc…

8 Membership of Professional Bodies: ACM

9 Other Skills: 10 Present Position within the organisation:

Lecturer, Shinawatra University, Thailand

11 Years with the organisation: 1.5 years

17 Key Qualifications: (relevant to the project):

Strong knowledge in Semantic Web and Semantic Web services technologies in both theoretical and practical aspects.

13 Experience in specific Asian / EU countries :Country : NorwayDate : April 2002 – March 2003Details : Postdoctoral Fellow

14 Professional Experience Record (relevant to the project):Date: May 2003 – present Location: Bangkok, ThailandOrganisation: Shinawatra UniversityPosition: LecturerResponsibilities: Lecturing and supervising students’ projects/theses related to

Semantic Web and Semantic Web services technologies

Date: January 1999 – present Location: Bangkok, Thailand

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Organisation: Knowledge Representation Laboratory, Asian Institute of Technology

Position: MemberResponsibilities: Development of XET programming language and compiler

Date: April 2002 – March 2003Location: Trondheim, NorwayOrganisation: Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyPosition: Postdoctoral FellowResponsibilities: Development of a capability model and implementation of a capability

reasoning module in the plug-and-play for networks and teleservices research project

15 Publications:International Journals Ekawit Nantajeewarawat, Vilas Wuwongse, Chutiporn Anutariya, Kiyoshi Akama, and Surapa

Thiemjarus: Towards Reasoning with UML Diagrams Based-on XML Declarative Description Theory. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 19, Issue 1-2, Wiley Publishers, pp. 89 – 98 (2004).

Vilas Wuwongse, Kiyoshi Akama, Chutiporn Anutariya and Ekawit Nantajeewarawat: A Data Model for XML Databases, Journal of Intelligent Information System (JIIS), Vol. 20, Issue 1, pp. 63 – 80 (2003).

Chutiporn Anutariya, Vilas Wuwongse, Kiyoshi Akama and Vichit Wattanapailin: Semantic Web Modeling and Programming with XDD, The Emerging Semantic Web, series: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (2002) Vol. 75.

Vilas Wuwongse, Chutiporn Anutariya, Kiyoshi Akama, and Ekawit Nantajeewarawat: XML Declarative Description: A Language for the Semantic Web, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 16, No. 3, May/June 2001, pp. 54-65 (2001).

Chutiporn Anutariya, Vilas Wuwongse, Kiyoshi Akama and Ekawit Nantajeewarawat: RDF Declarative Description (RDD): A Language for Metadata, Journal of Digital Information (JoDI), Vol. 2, Issue 2 (2001). http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Anutariya/

International Conference/Workshop Proceedings Somchai Chatvichienchai, Chutiporn Anutariya, Mizuho Iwaihara, Vilas Wuwongse, Yahiko

Kambayashi: . Towards Integration of XML Document Access and Version Control. In Galindo, Takizawa, Traunmuller (eds.) Proc. 15th Int’l Conf. Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA’04), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3180, Springer Verlag (September 2004).

Finn Arve Aagesen, Chutiporn Anutariya, Mazen Malek Shiaa, Bjarne E. Helvik and Paramai Supadulchai. A Dynamic Configuration Architecture. In Boutaba and Kim (eds) Proc. IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2004), Seoul, South Korea, pp. 893-894. (April 2004)

Chutiporn Anutariya, Vilas Wuwongse, Kiyoshi Akama: XML Declarative Description with First-Order Logical Constraints. Proc. Knowledge Grid and Grid Intelligence Workshop, Halifax, Canada (October 2003).

Chutiporn Anutariya, Somchai Chatvichienchai, Mizuho Iwaihara, Vilas Wuwongse, Yahiko Kambayashi: A Rule-Based XML Access Control Model. In Schroeder and Wagners (eds.) Proc. Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web Workshop (RuleML’03), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2762, Springer Verlag, pp. 92-103 (October 2003).

Pagaporn Pengsart, Vilas Wuwongse and Chutiporn Anutariya: A Framework for Network Management, Proc. 3rd International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT 2003), Songkhla, Thailand, pp. 943-947 (September 2003)

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Finn Arve Aagesen, Bjarne E. Helvik, Chutiporn Anutariya, Mazen Malek Shiaa: On Adaptable Networking, Proc. 2003 Int’l Conference on Information and Communication Technologies, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 109-118 (April 2003).

Chutiporn Anutariya, Vilas Wuwongse and Kiyoshi Akama: XML Declarative Description with Negative Constraints, Proc. Int’l Semantic Web Foundations and Application Technology (SWFAT) Workshop, Nara, Japan, pp. 59-66 (March 2003).

Finn Arve Aagesen, Bjarne E. Helvik and Chutiporn Anutariya: Towards Dynamic Composition of Adaptive Services, Proc. EuroWeb 2002 Conference -- The Web and the Grid: From E-science to E-business, Oxford, UK, pp. 183-184 (December 2002).

Pongtawat Chippimolchai, Vlias Wuwongse and Chutiporn Anutariya: Semantic Query Formulation and Evaluation for XML Databases, Proc. 3rd Int’l Conf. Web Information System Engineering (WISE'02), Singapore, pp. 205–214 (December 2002).

Ano Chotmanee, Vilas Wuwongse, Chutiporn Anutariya: A Schema Language for MPEG-7, Proc. 5th Int’l Conf. Asian Digital Library (ICADL 2002), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2555, Springer Verlag, pp. 153–164 (December 2002).

Kiyoshi Akama, Chutiporn Anutariya, Vilas Wuwongse and Ekawit Nantajeewarawat: Query Formulation and Evaluation for XML Databases, Proc. 1st IFIP Workshop on Internet Technologies, Applications, and Societal Impact (WITASI’02), Wroclaw, Poland, Kluwer Academic Publisher, pp. 273–288 (October 2002).

Suwanee Suwanapong, Chutiporn Anutariya and Vilas Wuwongse: An Intelligent Web Service System, Proc. IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on Engineering Information Systems in the Internet Context (EISIC), Kanazawa, Japan, Kluwer Academic Publisher, pp. 177–201 (September 2002).

Chutiporn Anutariya: The Semantic Web, Proc. IFIP WG6.7 Workshop and EUNICE Summer School on Adaptable Networks and Teleservices, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 201–202 (September 2002) [Invited Paper].

Finn Arve Aagesen, Chutiporn Anutariya, Mazen Malek Shiaa, Bjarne E. Helvik: Support Specification and Selection in TAPAS, Proc. IFIP WG6.7 Workshop and EUNICE Summer School on Adaptable Networks and Teleservices, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 109–116 (September 2002).

Chutiporn Anutariya, Vilas Wuwongse and Vichit Wattanapailin: An Equivalent-Transformation-Based XML Rule Language. In Schroeder and Wagner (eds.) Proc. International Workshop on Rule Markup Languages for Business Rules in the Semantic Web, Sardinia, Italy, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 60 (June 2002).

Wajee Teswanich, Chutiporn Anutariya and Vilas Wuwongse: Unified Representation For E-Government Knowledge Management, Proc. International Workshop on Knowledge Management in E-Government, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 199–209 (May 2002).

Ekawit Nantajeewarawat, Vilas Wuwongse, Surapa Thiemjarus, Kiyoshi Akama and Chutiporn Anutariya: Generating Relational Database Schemas from UML Diagrams Through XML Declarative Descriptions, Proc. 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (InTech’2001), Bangkok, Thailand (November 2001).

Chutiporn Anutariya, Vilas Wuwongse, Kiyoshi Akama and Ekawit Nantajeewarawat: RDF Declarative Description (RDD): A Language for Metadata, Proc. Dublin Core 2001, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 1-8 (October 2001).

Vilas Wuwongse, Kiyoshi Akama, Chutiporn Anutariya and Ekawit Nantajeewarawat: A Data Model for XML Databases, Proc. 1st International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2001), Maebashi, Japan, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2198, Springer Verlag, pp. 237-246 (October 2001). [First Runner-up: Best Paper Award]

Chutiporn Anutariya, Vilas Wuwongse, Kiyoshi Akama, and Vichit Wattanapailin: Semantic Web Modeling and Programming with XDD, Proc. Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS-1), Stanford University, CA, pp. 161-180 (July 2001).

Chutiporn Anutariya, Vilas Wuwongse, Ekawit Nantajeewarawat and Kiyoshi Akama: Towards a Foundation for XML Document Databases, Proc. 1st Int’l Conf. E-Commerce

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and Web Technologies 2000 (EC-WEB’2000), University of Greenwich, London, UK, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1875, Springer Verlag, pp. 324-333 (2000).

Ekawit Nantajeewarawat, Vilas Wuwongse, Chutiporn Anutariya, Kiyoshi Akama and Surapa Thiemjarus: Towards Reasoning with UML Diagrams Based-on XML Declarative Description Theory, Proc. Int’l Conf. Intelligent Technologies (InTech’2000), Bangkok, Thailand (2000).

Chutiporn Anutariya, Vilas Wuwongse, Ekawit Nantajeewarawat and Kiyoshi Akama: Towards Computation with RDF Elements, Proc. Int’l Symposium on Digital Libraries 1999 (ISDL1999), University of Library and Information Science, Japan, pp. 112–119 (1999).

Chutiporn Anutariya: Reasoning about Resource Description Framework (RDF) Elements, Proc. 2nd Advanced Technologies Symposium, AIT, Thailand, pp. 16–17 (1998).

Vilas Wuwongse, Chutiporn Anutariya and Ekawit Nantajeewarawat: Reasoning about RDF Elements, Proc. Int’l Joint Workshop on Digital Libraries 1998 (IJWDL’98), AIT, Thailand, pp. 83–94 (1998).

Vilas Wuwongse and Chutiporn Anutariya: Retrieval of Structured Documents, Proc. 5th Int’l Workshop on Academic Information Networks and Systems (WAINS5), AIT, Thailand (1998).

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ASSOCIATED PARTNER: Hong Kong

Curriculum Vitae

Proposed Position in the Project: Associate Partner

1 Family Name: Lin

2 First Name: Fangzhen

3 Date of Birth: 18/2/1963

4 Nationality: Canada

5 Civil Status:6 Education / Professional Studies:

Institution: Stanford UniversityDate From/To: July 1988 – Novemver 1991Degree/Diploma:

7 Language Skills: (Mark from 1 (notions) to 5 (excellent) for competence)(*=mother tongue)

Language Speaking Reading Writing

English 5 5 5FrenchChinese * * *

8 Membership of Professional Bodies: AAAI9 Other Skills: 10 Present Position within the organisation: Associate Professor11 Years with the organisation: 818 Key Qualifications: (relevant to the project):

13 Experience in specific Asian / EU countries :Country :Date :Details

14 Professional Experience Record (relevant to the project):Date: August 1996 - presentLocation: Hong KongOrganisation: Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyPosition: Assistant Professor (1996-2001) Associate Professor (2001 –

present)Responsibilities: Teaching, research

15 Publications: Refereed journal articles Fangzhen Lin, Yuting Zhao: ASSAT: computing answer sets of a logic program by SAT solvers. Artif. Intell. 157(1-2): 115-137 (2004)

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Fangzhen Lin: Compiling Causal Theories to Successor State Axioms and STRIPS-Like Systems. J. Artif. Intell. Res. (JAIR) 19: 279-314 (2003) Fangzhen Lin and Jia-Huai You. Abduction in Logic Programming: A New Definition and an Abductive Procedure Based on Rewriting. Artificial Intelligence 140(1/2): 175-205 (2002) Fangzhen Lin. On strongest necessary and weakest sufficient conditions. Artificial Intelligence 128(1-2): 143-159 (2001). Fangzhen Lin. Applications of the situation calculus to formalizing control and strategic information: the Prolog cut operator. Artificial Intelligence 103 (1998) 273-294. Fangzhen Lin and Hector Levesque. What robots can do: Robot programs and effective achievability. Artificial Intelligence 101 (1998) 201-226. Fangzhen Lin and Raymond Reiter. How to progress a database, Artificial Intelligence (92)1-2, 1997, pp.131-167. Fangzhen Lin. An ordering on goals for planning. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 21 (1997) 321-342. Special issue in honor of Professor Michael Gelfond. Fangzhen Lin and Raymond Reiter. Rules as Actions - a situation calculus semantics for logic programs. J. of Logic Programming 31:299-330, 1997. Hector Levesque, Raymond Reiter, Yves Lesperance, Fangzhen Lin, and Richard Scherl. GOLOG: A logic programming language for dynamic domains. J. of Logic Programming 31:59-84, 1997. Fangzhen Lin and Yoav Shoham. Provably correct theories of action. J. of ACM 42(2):293-320, 1995. Fangzhen Lin and Raymond Reiter. State Constraints Revisited. Journal of Logic and Computation, 4(5):655-678, Special Issue on Action and Processes, 1994. Fangzhen Lin. An argument-based approach to nonmonotonic reasoning. Computational Intelligence 9 (1993) 224--267. Fangzhen Lin and Yoav Shoham. A logic of knowledge and justified assumptions. Artificial Intelligence 57 (1992) pp. 271--289. Refereed conference articles Joohyung Lee, Fangzhen Lin: Loop Formulas for Circumscription. AAAI 2004: 281-286 Fangzhen Lin, Xishun Zhao: On Odd and Even Cycles in Normal Logic Programs. AAAI 2004: 80-85 Fangzhen Lin: Discovering State Invariants. KR 2004: 536-544 Yuting Zhao, Fangzhen Lin: Answer Set Programming Phase Transition: A Study on Randomly Generated Programs. ICLP 2003: 239-253 Jérôme Lang, Fangzhen Lin, Pierre Marquis: Causal Theories of Action: A Computational Core. IJCAI 2003: 1073-1078 Fangzhen Lin, Jicheng Zhao: On Tight Logic Programs and Yet Another Translation from Normal Logic Programs to Propositional Logic. IJCAI 2003: 853-858 Fangzhen Lin, Jia-Huai You: Recycling Computed Answers in Rewrite Systems for Abduction. IJCAI 2003: 879-886 Fangzhen Lin, Yuting Zhao: ASSAT: Computing Answer Sets of a Logic Program by SAT Solvers. AAAI/IAAI 2002: 112-118. Fangzhen Lin. Reducing the strong equivalence of logic programs to entailment in classical propositional logic. In Proceedings of KR'2002. pp. 170-176. Fangzhen Lin and Jia-Huai You. Abduction in Logic Programming: A New Definition and an Abductive Procedure Based on Rewriting. In {\em Proceedings

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of IJCAI'2001, pp. 655-666. Fangzhen Lin. From causal theories to successor state axioms: bridging the gap between nonmonotonic action theories and STRIPS-like formalisms, In Proceedings of AAAI'2000, pp. 786-791, Austin, TX, 2000. Kewen Wang, Lizhu Zhou, Fangzhen Lin. Alternating fixpoint theory for logic programs with priority. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Logic (LNCS 1861), pp. 164-178, London, 2000. Fangzhen Lin. On strongest necessary and weakest sufficient conditions. In Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2000), pp. 167-165, Breckenridge, CO, April 2000. Fangzhen Lin and Kewen Wang. From causal theories to logic programs (sometimes). In {\em Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LNCS 1730), pp. 117-131, El Paso, Texas, Dec 1999. Fangzhen Lin. On measuring plan quality (a preliminary report). In Proc. of the Sixth Int. Conf. on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'98), pp. 224-233, Trento, Italy, June 1998. Fangzhen Lin. Applications of the situation calculus to formalizing control and strategic information: the Prolog cut operator. in Proc. of IJCAI'97, pp.1412-1418, Nagoya, Japan. Fangzhen Lin. Embracing causality in specifying the effects of indeterminate actions. In proceedings of AAAI'96, pp. 670-676. Yves Lesperance, Hector Levesque, Fangzhen Lin, Daniel Marcu, Raymond Reiter, and Richard Scherl. Foundations of a Logical Approach to Agent Programming. In Intelligent Agents II. Eds by Michael Wooldridge, Joerg P. Mueller, and Milind Tambe. pp. 331-346. Springer-Verlag, 1996. Fangzhen Lin. Embracing causality in specifying the indirect effects of actions. in Proc. of the Fourteenth Int. Joint Conf. on AI (IJCAI'95), pp. 1985--1993, 1995. Fangzhen Lin and Raymond Reiter. How to progress a database II: The STRIPS connection. in Proc. of the Fourteenth Int. Joint Conf. on AI (IJCAI'95), pp 2001--2007, 1995. Daniel Marcu, Yves Lesperance, Hector Levesque, Fangzhen Lin, Raymond Reiter, and Richard Scherl. Distributed Software Agents and Communication in the Situation Calculus. In Proc. of Intelligent Computer Communication Conf., Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 1995. Fangzhen Lin and Raymond Reiter. How to progress a database (and why) I: Formal foundations. In Proc. of the Fourth Int. Conf. on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'94), pp. 425-436, Bonn, Germany, 1994. Fangzhen Lin and Yoav Shoham. On non-forgetting and minimal learning. Proc. of the 1993 Int. Coll. on Cognitive Science, N. Asher, K. Korta, and J. Ezquerro, editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers. Fangzhen Lin and Yoav Shoham. Concurrent actions in the situation calculus. In Proc. of the Tenth National Conf. on AI (AAAI'92), pp. 590--595, 1992. Fangzhen Lin. Default reasoning as negation-as-failure. In Proc. of the 2nd Pacific Rim Int. Conf. on AI, pp. 728--731, September 1992. Fangzhen Lin and Yoav Shoham. Provably correct theories of action. In Proc. of the Ninth National Conf. on AI (AAAI'91), pp. 349--354, 1991. Fangzhen Lin and Yoav Shoham. Epistemic semantics for fixed-point nonmonotonic logics. In Proc. of the Third Conf. on Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about

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Knowledge, pp. 111--120, Asilomar, CA, March 1990. Fangzhen Lin and Yoav Shoham. Argument systems: a uniform basis for nonmonotonic reasoning. In Proc. of the First Int. Conf. on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, pp. 245--255, 1989. Fangzhen Lin. Circumscription in a modal logic. In Proc. of the Second Conf. on Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge, pp. 113--128, Asilomar, CA, March 1988. Fangzhen Lin. Reasoning in the presence of inconsistency. In Proc. of the Sixth National Conf. on AI (AAAI'87), pp. 139--143, Seattle, WA, 1987. Invited contributions Fangzhen Lin. A planner called R. AI Magazine Fall 2001 pp. 73-76. Fangzhen Lin and Raymond Reiter. A new semantics for logic programs. In John-Jules Ch. Meyer and Jan Treur, editors, Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems Volume 6: Dynamics and Management of Reasoning Processes, pp. 217-248. 2001. Fangzhen Lin. Search algorithms in the situation calculus. In H.J. Levesque and F. Pirri, editors, Logical Foundations for Cognitive Agents: Contributions in Honor of Ray Reiter, pp. 213-233, Springer, Berlin, 1999.

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ASSOCIATED PARTNER: ITC-IRST

Curriculum Vitae

Proposed Position in the Project: Associated Partner

1 Family Name: Traverso

2 First Name: Paolo

3 Date of Birth: 08 June 1960

4 Nationality: Italian

5 Civil Status: married6 Education / Professional Studies:

Institution: University of Genova (Italy)Date From/To: 01/1985Degree/Diploma: “Laurea” in Electronic Engineering

7 Language Skills: (Mark from 1 (notions) to 5 (excellent) for competence)(*=mother tongue)

Language Speaking Reading Writing

English 5 5 5Italian * * *

8 Membership of Professional Bodies:

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR);

Member of the Executive Council of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)

Member of the editorial committee of the planning and scheduling area of the Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI)

Member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Research and Telecommunication Experimentation for Networked Communities (CREATE-NET)

Member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA).

9 Other Skills:

His main current research interests are in automated planning, automated verification and synthesis, web services and knowledge and process management. He has contributed to research on formal and mechanized meta-theories, logical and computational reflection, formal representation and reasoning, runtime result verification, model checking, logics for planning/acting/sensing, and to a novel approach to planning, called "Planning as Model Checking", that has been shown be capable of dealing with problems of planning under uncertainty in a practical way. He was a Professor at the University of Genova (course on Artificial Intelligence).

He has been the project leader of industrial and experimental projects, for instance for the development of Rail Traffic Management Systems, the design of tools for Automatic Train Protection, and the synthesis of industrial controllers. He is the project leader of Edamok (Enabling the Distributed and Autonomous Management of Knowledge), Astro

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(Automated Composition of Distributed Processes, FIRB-MIUR National Basic Research Project “Knowledge Level Automated Software Engineering”), and Doves (Development of Verified Software for Autonomy in Space Applications).

Paolo Traverso also served as: General Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC’2004), Program Co-Chair of the 6th International Conference on AI Planning & Scheduling (AIPS'2002); Area Chair for "Planning, Scheduling and Control" of the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'02); Co-Editor of special issues of the Int. Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer, and Co-Editor of proceedings of international conferences on formal methods. He was the General Chair of the workshop on Service Oriented Computing at SAINT’03 (the International Conference of Applications for the Internet), co-organizer of of the ICAPS 2004 Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Web and Grid Services, of the ICAPS 2003 Workshop on Planning for Web Services, and of the AIPS'2000 workshop on "Model Theoretic Approaches to Planning". He was co-chair of the FLoC’99 workshop on Run Time Result Verification (RTRV’99), member of the Steering Committee of the 1999 Federated Logic Conference (FLoC’99), the organizer of the Conference on Computer Automated Deduction in 1999

10 Present Position within the organisation:

Head of the Automated Reasoning Systems Division at ITC-IRST11 Years with the organisation:

16 (from 1989)

19 Key Qualifications: (relevant to the project):

13 Experience in specific Asian / EU countries :

Country : ItalyDate : 1989 - presentDetails research scientist at ITC-irst (from 1999 head of research division)

Country : ItalyDate : 1985 - 1989Details Andersen Consulting, Artificial Intelligence group

14 Professional Experience Record (relevant to the project):Date: 1995-1998Location: Trento, ItalyOrganisation: ITC-irstPosition: research scientistResponsibilities: head of various industrial projects, focussed on formal and planning

methods, safety critical applications for railways systems

Date: 1998-1999Location: Trento, ItalyOrganisation: ITC-irstPosition: research scientist Responsibilities: head of research line “Advanced Technologies for Software

Development and Validation”

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Date: 1999-presentLocation: Trento, ItalyOrganisation: ITC-irstPosition: research scientist Responsibilities: head of research division “Automated Reasoning Systems”

15 Publications:· M. Ghallab, D. Nau, P. Traverso. Automated Planning: Theory and Practice. Morgan

Kaufmann. ISBN 1-55860-856-7· P. Bertoli, A. Cimatti, P. Traverso. Interleaving execution and planning in nondeterministic

partially observable domains. The 6th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI’06), Valencia, Spain, August, 2004

· A. Cimatti, M. Pistore, M. Roveri, P. Traverso. Weak, Strong, and Strong Cyclic Planning via Symbolic Model Checking , Artificial Intelligence , 147 (1-2):35-84, 2003. Elsevier Science publisher

· P. Bertoli, A. Cimatti, M. Pistore., P. Traverso. A Framework for Planning with Extended Goals under Partial Observability. In Proceedings of the Thirteen International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS’03) , AAAI Press, June 2003.

· P. Traverso. The Problem of Planning with Three Sources of Uncertainty. Planning Based on Decision Theory. Vol 472, 2003. Springer Verlag.

· U. Dal Lago, M. Pistore, P. Traverso. Planning with a Language for Extended Goals. In Proceedings of. AAAI'02, AAAI Press, August 2002.

· M. Pistore, P. Traverso. Planning as Model Checking for Extended Goals in Non- Deterministic Domains. In Proc. IJCAI'01 ,AAAI Press, August 2001.

· P. Bertoli, A. Cimatti, M. Roveri., P. Traverso. Planning in Nondeterministic Domains under Partial Observability via Symbolic Model Checking. In Proc. IJCAI'01 , AAAI Press, August 2001.

· P. Bertoli, A. Cimatti, M. Pistore, M. Roveri. P. Traverso. MBP: a Model Based Planner. , IJCAI'01 Workshop on Planning under Uncertainty. August 2001.

· M. Pistore, R. Bettin, P. Traverso. Symbolic Techniques for Planning with Extended Goals in Non-Deterministic Domains. In Proc. of the Sixth European Conference on Planning (ECP'01) , September 2001, LNAI, Springer-Verlag.

· P. Traverso, M. Veloso, F. Giunchiglia. Model-Theoretic Approaches to Planning , Workshop of the Fifth International Conference of AI Planning and Scheduling (AIPS'00), April 2000, AAAI press.

· F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso. Planning as Model Checking. In Proceeding of the Fifth European Conference on Planning (ECP'99) . LNAI, Springer-Verlag.

· M. Daniele, P. Traverso, M. Y. Vardi. Strong Cyclic Planning Revisited. In Proceeding of the Fifth European Conference on Planning (ECP'99) . LNAI, Springer-Verlag.

· A. Cimatti, M. Roveri, P. Traverso. Automatic OBDD-based Generation of Universal Plans in Non-Deterministic Domains. In Proc. of AAAI'98 . AAAI Press, August 1998.

· A. Cimatti, M. Roveri, P. Traverso. Strong Planning in Non-Deterministic Domains via Model Checking. In Proc. of the International Conference on AI Planning ans Scheduling (AIPS'98) . AAAI press. April 1998.

· A. Cimatti, E. Giunchiglia, F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso. P lanning via Model Checking: A Decision Procedure for AR. In Proc. of the European Conference on Planning (ECP97)

· L. Spalazzi, P. Traverso. A Dynamic Logic for Acting, Sensing and Planning. Journal of Logic and Computation, 10(6):787-821, 2000. Oxford University Press

· P. Traverso, L. Spalazzi. A logic for Acting Sensing and Planning. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 95), pp 1941-1949, Montreal, Canada, August 1995. Morgan Kaufmann

· F. Giunchiglia, L. Spalazzi, P. Traverso. Planning with Failure. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on AI Planning Systems (AIPS 94), pages 74-79, Chicago, USA, June 1994, AAAI-Press.

· P. Traverso, A.Cimatti, L. Spalazzi. Beyond the Single Planning Paradigm: Introspective Planning. In Proceedings of the 10th European Conference inn Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 92), pp 643-647, Vienna, Austria, August 1992. Wiley.

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· L. Spalazzi, A. Cimatti, P. Traverso. Implementino Planning as Tactical Reasoning. In Proceedings of the International Conference on AI Simulation and Planning in High Autonomy Sysstems (AIS 92), pp 80-85, Perth, Australia, 1992. IEEE Computer Society Press.

· A. Fuxman, L. Liu, J. Mylopolous, M. Pistore, M. Roveri, P. Traverso. Specifying and Analyzing Early Requirements in Tropos, Requirements Engineering Journal, Springer-Verlag, to appear

· A. Fuxman, M. Pistore, J. Mylopolous, P. Traverso. Model Checking Early Requirements Specifications in Tropos. In Proceeding of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE01), pp. 174-181, Toronto, Canada, August 2001. IEEE Computer Society Press.

· P. Traverso, P. Bertoli. Mechanized Result Verification: and Industrial application. International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT), 3(1):78-92, 2000, Springer

· F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso. Theorem Proving for Technology Transfer: the User’s Point of View. International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT), 3(1):1-12, 2000, Springer

· A. Cimatti, P. Pieraccini, R. Sebastiani, P. Traverso, A. Villafiorita. Formal Specification and Validation of a Vital Communication Protocol. In Proceedings pf teh World Congress on Formal Methods in the Development of Computing Systems (FM’99), vol 1709 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pp 1584-1604, Toulouse, France, September 1999. Springer Verlag.

· A. Chiappini, A. Cimatti, C. Porzia, G. Rotondo, R. Sebastiani, P. Traverso, A. Villafiorita. Formal Specification and Development of a Safety-Critical Train Management System. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP99), vol. 1698 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pp 410-419m Tolouse, France, Sptember 1999. Springer Verlag.

· A. Cimatti, F. Giunchiglia, G. Mongardi, D. Romano, F. Torielli, P. Traverso. Formal Verification of a Railway Interlocking System using Model Checking. Journal on Formal Aspects of Computing, 10(4):361-380, 1998. Springer.

· P. Bertoli, A. Cimatti, F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso. A Structured Approach to the Formal Certification of Safety of Computer Aided Development Tools. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP98), vol. 1516 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pp 221—230, Heidelberg, Germany, 1998. Springer Verlag.

· A. Cimatti, F. Giunchiglia, G. Mongardi, D. Romano, F. Torielli, P. Traverso. Model Checking Safety Critical Software with SPIN: an Appication to a Railway Interlocking System. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP98), vol. 1516 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pp 284—295, Heidelberg, Germany, 1998. Springer Verlag.

· A. Cimatti, F. Giunchiglia, P. Pecchiari, B. Pietra, J. Profeta, D. Romano, P. Traverso. A Provably Correct Embedded Verifier for the Certification of Safety Critical Software. In Prooceedings of the 9th International Confernce on Computer Aided Verification (CAV’97), v. 1254 of LNCS, Haifa, Israel.

· F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso. Program Tactics and Logic Tactics, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 9:1-25, 1996. Baltzer Science Publisher.

· A. Cimatti, P. Traverso. Computational Reflection via Mechanized Logical Deduction. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 11(5):279-293, 1996, Wiley.

· F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso. A Metatheory of a Mechanized Object Theory, Artificial Intelligence, 80(2):197-241, 1996, Elsevier.

· D. Basin, F. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso. Automating Meta-Theory Creation and System Extension. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, v 549 of LNAI, Palermo, October, 1991, Springer.

· F. Giunchilia, P. Traverso. Reflective reasoning with and between a declarative metatheory of the implementation code. The 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 95), pp. 111-117, Sydney, Australia, August 1991. Morgan Kaufmann.

· P. Traverso, M. Pistore. Automated Composition of Semantic Web Services into Executable Processes. Third International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004), November 9-11, 2004, Hiroshima, Japan.

· M. Pistore, F. Barbon, P. Bertoli, D. Shaparau, P. Traverso. Planning and Monitoring Web Service Composition. The 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence,

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Methodologies, Systems, and Applications (AIMSA’04). Also presented at the ICAPS’04 Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Web and Grid Services, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, June 3-7 2004.

· M. Carman, L. Serafini, P. Traverso. Web Service Composition as Planning. In the ICAPS’03 Workshop on Planning for Web Services, Trento. June 2003.

· M. Aiello, M. Papazoglou, J. Yang, M. Barman, M. Pistore, L. Serafini, P. Traverso. A Request Language for Web_services based on Planning and Constraint Satisfaction. In Proceedings of Technologies for E-Services (TES02), vol. 2444 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pp 76—85, Hong Kong, China, August 2002. Springer.

· M. Bonifacio, P. Bouquet, P. Traverso. Enabling Distributed Knowledge Management: Managerial and Technological Implications. Novatica and Informatik/Informatique, III(1), February 2002. .

· P. Traverso. Formalizing Complex Reasoning. Encyclopedia of Micro-Computers, pp 171-188, 1997. Marcel Dekker, Inc – New York.

· E. Giunchiglia, P. Traverso. A Multi-Context Architecture for Formalizing Complex Reasoning. International Journal of Intelligent Systems. 10(5), 1995. Wiley.

· F. Giunchiglia, C. Ferrari, P. Traverso. E. Trucco. Understanding Scene Descriptions by Integrating Different Sources of Knowledge. International Journal f Man-Machine Studies. 37:47—81, 1992. Academic Press.

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Curriculum Vitae

1 Family Name: Serafini

2 First Name: Luciano

3 Date of Birth: 23 may 1964

4 Nationality: Italian

5 Civil Status:6 Education / Professional Studies:

Institution:Date From/To:Degree/Diploma:

7 Language Skills: (Mark from 1 (notions) to 5 (excellent) for competence)(*=mother tongue)

Language Speaking Reading Writing

English 5 5 5Italian * * *etc…

8 Membership of Professional Bodies:

9 Other Skills:

His research interests contains: Agent Oriented Software Engineering, Contextual reasoning, Formal specification of Multi Agent Systems, Information Integration, Multi Agent Model Checking.

He also worked as: Quantum programming. With Stefano Bettelli. We developed a new language for quantum programming called "Q". Cleck here to download Stefano's Phd Thesis describing "Q" and here for a review or our research on the "Science and technology" section of "the Economist".

· Program Committee member of the First International Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice, and Applications (C&O), Pittsburg, July 9-10, at AAAI-05

· Co-organizer of the First International Workshop on Formal Models of Resource Bounded Agentsto be held in conjunction with the Fourth International Joint Conference onAutonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'05).

· Co-organizer of the CONTEXT-05 workshop on Context Representation and Reasoning (Paris, France, July 5, 2005)

· Co-organizer of the ISWC-04 workshop on Meaning Coordination and Negotiation (Hiroshima, Japan, November 8, 2004)

· Program Commitee member of the International Workshop on Description Logics - DL2005 (Collocated with IJCAI2005, Edinburgh, United Kingdom July 26-28, 2005)

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· Program Committee member of the the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agents Systems (AAMAS05)

· Program Committee member of the the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agents Systems (AAMAS04)

· Program Committee member of the P2P Computing and Databases workshop. In conjunction with EDBT04 9th International Conference on Extending Database Technology

· Program Committee member of the Workshop on Ontologies and Distributed Systems - 18th IJCAI

· Program Committee member of the Third International Workshop on Agent based Cluster and Grid Computing" " associated with CCGrid 2003

· From January 2003, Member of the FoLLI's Standing Committee for the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information

· Local (co)chair of the 14th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information

10 Present Position within the organisation: Senior researcher in ITC-IRST

11 Years with the organisation: 16

20 Key Qualifications: (relevant to the project):

13 Experience in specific Asian / EU countries :Country : ItalianDate : 1989Details researcher in ITC-IRST in Italy

14 Professional Experience Record (relevant to the project):Date: 1988-2003Location: Trento ITALYOrganisation: ITC-IRSTPosition: Junion Researcher Responsibilities: Reserach, group coordination, project responsable

Date: 1988-2003Location: Trento ITALYOrganisation: ITC-IRSTPosition: Senior Researcher Responsibilities: Reserach, group coordination, project responsable

15 Publications:· Serafini L and Roelofsen F. Satisfiability for Propositional Contexts} In

Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR' 04), pages 369--376. Morgan Kaufmann, 2004.

· Serafini L and Roelofsen F. Complexity of contextual reasoning. In Proceeding the 19th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04). Morgan Kaufmann, 2004. Accepted for publication.

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· F. Roelofsen, L. Serafini, and A.Cimatti. Symbolic contextual reasoning. In Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2004. Accepted for publication.

· Giunchiglia F., Serafini L. Multilanguage Hierarchical Logics (or: How we can do without modal logics), Artificial Intelligence, vol. 65, pp. 29-70, 1994.

· G. Criscuolo, F. Giunchiglia, and L. Serafini, A Foundation for Metareasoning Part I: The Proof Theory. Journal of Logic and Computation, vol 12, No 1, pp 167-208, 2002

· G. Criscuolo, F. Giunchiglia, and L. Serafini, A Foundation for Metareasoning Part II: The Model Theory. Journal of Logic and Computation, vol 12, No 3, pp 345-370, 2002

· L. Serafini, F. Giunchiglia, ML systems: A Proof Theory for Contexts. Journal of Logic, Language and Information Spring 2002, Volume 11, Issue 4 pp. 471-518 ITC-IRST Technical Report 0006-01.

· Ghidini C., Serafini L. Distributed First Order Logics. In D.M. Gabbay and M. De Rijke, editors, Frontiers of Combining Systems 2, Studies in Logic and Computation, No. 7, Research Studies Press Ltd. Baldock, Hertfordshire, England, UK, 2000, pp. 121-139.

· P. Bouquet, L. Serafini, Two formalisms for context: a comparison. ITC-IRST Technical Report 0102-02. Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modelling and Using Context, Context-01, Dundee, Scotland, August 2001.

· P.Bouquet and L. Serafini. On the difference between bridge rules and lifting axioms. In P. Blackburn, C. Ghidini, R.M. Turner, and F. Giunchiglia, editors, Proceedings of the 4th International and Interdisciplinary COnference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT-03), volume 2680 of LNAI, pages 80--93. Springer Verlag, 2003.

· L. Serafini and P. Bouquet Comparing Formal Theories of Context in AI Artificial Intelligence Journal 155:41--67, 2004. ITC-IRST Technical Report 0201-02

· Giunchiglia F., Serafini L., Simpson A., Hierarchical meta-logics: intuitions, proof theory and semantics, In "Proceedings. META-92, 3rd Intnl. Workshop on Metaprogramming in Logic", Uppsala, Sweden, pp. 235-249, Springer Verlag, 1992.

· P. Bouquet, L. Serafini, and S. Zanobini. Semantic coordination in systems of autonomous agents: the approache and an implementation May 2003. Proceedings of the workshop dagli Oggetti agli Agenti Sistemi Intelligenti e Computazione Pervasiva WOA 2003.

· M. Benerecetti, F. Giunchiglia, and L. Serafini MultiAgent Model Checking August 1997. Computational & Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems, special Issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation.

· M. Benerecetti, E. Giunchiglia, L. Serafini, A. Villafiorita: Formal specification of beliefs in multi-agent systems. In International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 14:1021-1040, October 1999. Ronald R. Yager, Editor.

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· Giunchiglia F., Serafini L., Giunchiglia E., Frixione M., Non-omniscient belief as context-based reasoning June 1992. In Proceedings "IJCAI-93, 13th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence", Chambery, France, 1993.

· Cimatti A., Serafini L., "Multi-Agent Reasoning with Belief Contexts: the Approach and a Case Study", In M. Wooldridge and N. Jennings (eds.), "Proceedings ECAI-94 workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages", LNCS series, Springer Verlag, 1994.

· Cimatti A., Serafini L. "Multiagent Reasoning with Belief Contexts II: Elaboration Tolerance" .In Proc. 1st Int. Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-95), pages 57-64, 1996.

· Cimatti A., Serafini L., "Multi-Agent Reasoning with Belief Contexts III: Towards the Mechanization". In P. Brezillon and S. Abu-Hakima, editors, Proceedings. of the IJCAI-95 Workshop on "Modelling Context in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning", pp. 35-45, 1995.

· L. Serafini and A. Tamilin. DRAGO: Distributed reasoning architecture for the semantic web. Technical Report T04-12-05, ITC-irst, December 2004.

· L. Serafini and A. Tamilin. Local tableaux for reasoning in distributed description logics In V. Haarslev and R.Moeller, editors, Proceedings of the 2004 Intl. Workshop on Description Logics (DL2004), pages 100--109. CEUR-WS, 2004

· E. Franconi, G. Kuper, A. Lopatenko, and L. Serafini. A robust logical and computational characterisation of peer-to-peer database systems. In International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2003.

· A. Borgida and L. serafini Distributed Description Logics: Assimilating Information from Peer Sources. Journal of Data Semantics, 1:153-184, 2003. Editor in Chief S. Spaccapietra. LNCS 2800, Springer Verlag.

· A. Borgida and L. Serafini Distributed Description Logics: Directed Domain Correspondences in Federated Information Sources. In R. Meersman and Z. Tari, editors, On The Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2002: CoopIS, Doa, and ODBase, volume 2519 of LNCS, pages 36--53. Springer Verlag, 2002

· Philip A. Bernstein, Fausto Giunchiglia, Anastasios Kementsietsidis, John Mylopoulos, Luciano Serafini, and Ilya Zaihrayeu Data Management for Peer-to-Peer Computing: A Vision. WebDB 2002: Fifth International Workshop on the Web and Databases.ITC-IRST Technical Report 0204-15

· Luciano Serafini, Fausto Giunchiglia, John Mylopoulos, and Philip A Bernstein The Local Relational Model: Model and Proof Theory. IRST Technical Report 0112-23, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, December 2001.

· Luciano Serafini, Fausto Giunchiglia, John Mylopoulos, and Philip A Bernstein Local Relational Model: a logical formalization of database coordination in P. Blackburn, C. Ghidini, R.M. Turner, F. Giunchiglia (Eds.): Modeling and Using Context 4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2003,

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Stanford, CA, USA, June 23-25, 2003 LNAI 2680, page 286-299, Springer Verlag, 2003.

· A. Borgida and L. Serafini Distributed Description Logics - Preliminary investigations. Proceedings of DL-2002, KR workshop on Description Logics 2002", Edited by Ian Horrocks and Sergio Tessaris, University of Manchester, UK. ITC-IRST Technical Report 0204-14

· Serafini L., Ghidini C. Using wrapper agents to answer queries in distributed information Systems. Proceedings of the First Biennial International Conference on Advances in Information Systems (ADVIS-2000) 25-27 October 2000 Izmir, TURKEY.

· Chiara Ghidini and Luciano Serafini, Information Integration for Electronic Commerce. In C. Sierra and P. Noriega, editors, Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Trading (AMET'98), volume 1571 of LNAI, pages 189-206, Minneapolis, USA, May, 10 1998. Springer Verlag.

· Dragoni A.F., Giorgini P., Serafini L. Mental State Recognition from Communication Journal of Logic and Computation, Vol. 12, N. 1, pp. 119-136. ITC-IRST Technical Report 0007-03.

· Dragoni A.F., Giorgini P., Serafini L. Updating Mental States from Communication To appear in the proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL-2000) Boston, USA

· A. Dona' and L. Serafini Updating Contexts. Proceedings of KR-2002. ITC-IRST Technical Report 0111-23

Nossum R., Serafini L., Multicontext logic for semigroups of contexts, In proceedings of AISC 2002 Conference. Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation. Theory, Implementations and Applications. In conjunction with Calculemus 2002. LNAI 2385, p. 90-102. ITC-irst, Technical report #0202-03

· H. Stuckenschmidt, F. van Harmelen, L. Serafini, P. Bouquet, and F.~Giunchiglia. Using {C-OWL} for the alignment and merging of medical ontologies In First International Workshop on Formal Biomedical Knowledge Representation. Collocated with KR 2004, February 2004

· P. Bouquet, F. Giunchiglia, F. van Harmelen, L. Serafini, and H. Stuckenschmidt. {C-OWL}: Contextualizing ontologies. In Sencond Internatinal Semantic Web Conference, volume 2870 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 164-179. Springer Verlag, 2003.

· B. Magnini, L. Serafini, and M. Speranza. Making explicit the semantics hidden in schema models, Technical Report 0306-07, ITC-IRST, June 2003. Presented at the Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services, Workshop at ISWC 2003 International Semantic Web Conference.

· P. Bouquet, L. Serafini, and S. Zanobini. Semantic coordination: a new approach and an application, In Sencond Internatinal Semantic Web Conference, volume 2870 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 130--145. Springer Verlag, September 2003.

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· P. Bouquet, L. Serafini, and S. Zanobini, and M. Benerecetti. An algorithm for semantic coordination. Technical Report ????-??, IRST, 2003. Presented at the Semantic Integration workshop at ISWC-03 (International Semantic Web Conference) 2003.

· M. Bonifacio, A. Dona', A. Molani, and L. Serafini Context Matching for Electronic Marketplaces - a case study. The Knowledge Engineering Review 18:4 pag. 317-328, 2004.

· Bernardo Magnini, Luciano Serafini, and Manuela Speranza Making explicit the hidden semantics of hierarchical classification. In Atti dell'Ottavo Congresso Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale, LNCS. Springer Verlag, 2003.

· Bernardo Magnini, Luciano Serafini and Manuela Speranza Using NLP Techniques for Meaning Negotiation VIII Convegno AI*IA, Siena, 11-13 September 2002. Workshop on NLP e Web: la sfida della multimodalita` tra approcci simboloci e approcci statistici.

· Bernardo Magnini, Luciano Serafini and Manuela Speranza Linguistic Based Matching of Local Ontologies AAAI-02 Workshop on Meaning Negotiation (MeaN-02) July 28, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

· Paolo Bouquet, Antonia. Dona', Luciano Serafini and Stefano Zanobini Contextualized local ontologies specification via CTXML AAAI-02 Workshop on Meaning Negotiation (MeaN-02) July 28, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

· P. Bouquet, B. Magnini, L. Serafini, and S. Zanobini. A SAT-based algorithm for context matching. In P. Blackburn, C. Ghidini, R.M. Turner, and F. Giunchiglia, editors, Proceedings of the 4th International and Interdisciplinary COnference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT-03), volume 2680 of LNAI, pages 66--79. Springer Verlag, 2003.

· S. Bettelli, T. Calarco and L. Serafini Toward an architecture for quantum programming The European Physical Journal D 25, 181-200 (2003)

· P. Busetta, L. Serafini, D. Singh and F. Zini Extending multi-agent cooperation by overhearing. To appear in Proc. the Sixth International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2001). ITC-IRST Technical Report 0101-01

· M. Aiello, P. Busetta, A. Dona' and L. Serafini. Ontological Overhearing. To appear in Proc. of 8th International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL-2001), Seattle, USA, August 2001. ITC-IRST Technical Report 0104-15.

· D.G. Cameron, R. Carvajal-Schiaffino, C. Nicholson, K. Stockinger, F. Zini, A.P. Millar, and L. Serafini. Analysis of an agent-based grid optimisation strategy. In Omer Rana, editor, {\em Software Agents and Grid Computing}. IOS Press, 2004. To appear.

· L. Serafini, K. Stockinger, H. Stockinger, and F. Zini Agent-Based Query Optimization in a Grid Environment In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Applied Informatics (AI 2001), Innsbruck, Austria,

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February 2001. IRST Technical Report 0011-42, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, November 2000.

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