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           Research Topics


·        application of ontology technologies in mobile communications area

·        Semantic Web community environments

·        collaborative ontology construction

·        ontology alignment and versioning

·        tool and application support for Semantic Web

·        social networking

·        personalization and human-computer interaction within the Semantic Web


Professional Activities


1 Invited Talks and Interviews in Press

1.    " SESAME Project", Serbian national TV (eTV), Serbia, December 2009.

2.    " Software-Baukasten fürs Handy", national newspaper "Der Standard", Austria, in printed edition: 12 August 2009.

3.    A presentation at Perspectives Workshop: Semantic Web Reflections and Future Directions, Dagstuhl seminar, Wadern, Germany, 28 June - 3 July 2009.

4.    "Semantic Technologies for Mobile Communications: User-generated Policies and Services" at Generalization of spatial information, Dagstuhl seminar, Wadern, Germany, 13-17 April 2009.

5.    " Policy Aware Web: Mehr Sicherheit in Facebook & Co.", Radio Ö1 - Program "Matrix", Austria, on air: 22:30 CET, 15 March 2009.

6.    "Context-management for user-generated micro-services on mobile devices" at Personalization and context-dependent service enablers, ftw.'s member tutorial panel, Vienna, Austria, 2 July 2008.

7.    "Application of Semantic and Ontology Technologies to Mobile Services", Austrian-Russian ICT Cooperation Day, Vienna, Austria, 12 November 2007.

8.     "Mobile Ontology: Semantic Technologies for Telecommunications", University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, 21 December 2006.

9.  "Mobile Ontology: Semantic Technologies for Telecommunications", a workshop on semantics and ontologies at Alcatel-Lucent, Paris, France, 13 December 2006.

10.    "Mobile Ontology: Semantic Technologies for Telecommunications", Telecommunications forum, Vienna, Austria, 11 December 2006.

11.     "Ongoing Projects at Digital Enterprise Research Institute", Internal Workshop on Ontology Learning and Question Answering Tools at DaimlerChrysler, Ulm, Germany, 5 December 2003.


2 Referee of International Journals

1.      Journal of Network and Systems Management (JONS), Springer US, 2009.

2.      Information Sciences, Elsevier, Netherlands, 2008.

3.      IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part C: Applications and Reviews, US, 2008.

4.      Data & Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier, Netherlands, 2008, 2009.

5.      International Journal of Computer Systems Science & Engineering, CRL Publishing Ltd., UK, 2008, 2009, 2010.

6.      Mobile Networks and Applications, Springer US, 2008.

7.      IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2007.

8.      Journal of Information Science, Creatifica House, UK, 2006.

9.      IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2005, 2006.


3 Committee Member of Conferences and Workshops

1.      Program Committee Member of SEMAPRO 2010: The Fourth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing, 25-30 October 2010, Florence, Italy.

2.     Workshops Co-chair of FIS 2010: 3rd Future Internet Symposium, 20-22 September 2010, Berlin, Germany.

3.      Program Committee Member of I-SEMANTICS'10: International Conference on Semantic Systems, 1-3 September 2010, Graz, Austria.

4.     Tutorials Co-Chair, Social Web main paper track, Poster and Demo track Program Committee Member of 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'10), 30 May - June 3, 2010, Heraklion, Greece.

5.      Program Committee Member of IEEE 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010), 20-23 April 2010, Perth, Australia.

6.      Technical Program Committee Member of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’10), 18-21 April 2010, Sydney, Australia.

7.      Program Committee Member of 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Ontology Alignment and Visualization (OnAV'10), a workshop in association with International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, 15-18 February 2010, Krakow, Poland.

8.      Program Committee Member of Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge, a workshop in association with International Semantic Web Conference 2009 (ISWC'09), 25 October 2009, near Washington, DC., USA.

9.     Program Committee Member of FIS 2009: 2nd Future Internet Symposium, 1-3 September 2009, Berlin, Germany.

10.      Program Committee Member of Third International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2009), 11-16 October 2009, Sliema, Malta.

11.      Program Committee Member of International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD 2009), 5-8 October 2009, Madeira, Portugal.

12.     Technical Program Committee Member of 4th European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC2009) , 16-18 September 2009, Guildford, UK.

13.      Program Committee Member of I-SEMANTICS'09: International Conference on Semantic Systems, 2-4 September 2009, Graz, Austria.

14.      Program Committee Member of International Workshop on Social Networks Mining and Analysis for Business Applications (SNMABA’09), a workshop in association with IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom'09), 29-31 August 2009, Vancouver, Canada.

15.      Program Committee Member of 1st International Workshop on Mining Social Networks for Decision Support (MSN-DS’09), a workshop in association with International Conference on on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 20-22 July 2009, Athens, Greece.

16.     Program Committee Member for Poster and Demo Track of 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'09), 31 May - June 4 2009, Heraklion, Greece.

17.      Technical Program Committee Member of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’09), 5-8 April 2009, Budapest, Hungary.

18.      Program Committee Member of 2nd International Workshop on Ontology Alignment and Visualization (OnAV'09), a workshop in association with International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, 16-19 March 2009, Fukuoka, Japan.

19.      Organising Committee Member of 3rd International ExpertFinder Workshop: Personal Identification and Collaborations - Knowledge Mediation and Extraction (PICKME'08), a workshop in association with International Semantic Web Conference 2008 (ISWC'08), 27 October 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany.

20.     Poster and Demo Track Chair and Program Committee Member of FIS 2008: Future Internet Symposium, 28-30 September 2008, Vienna, Austria.

21.     Technical Program Committee Member of PIMRC 2008: IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 15-18 September 2008, Cannes, France.

22.      Program Committee Member of I-SEMANTICS'08: International Conference on Semantic Systems, 3-5 September 2008, Graz, Austria.

23.      Program Committee Member of International Workshop on Ontology Alignment and Visualization (OnAV'08), a workshop in association with International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, 4-8 March 2008, Barcelona, Spain.

24.      Program Committee Member of First International Conference on Ambient Media and Systems (AmbiSys'2008), 11-14 February 2008, Quebec City, Canada.

25.      Organising Committee Member of Finding Experts on the Web with Semantics, a workshop in association with International Semantic Web Conference 2007 (ISWC'07), 12 November 2007, Busan, Korea.

26.    Program Committee Member of Workshop on Collective Intelligence on Semantic Web (CISW 2007), a workshop in association with IEEE/WIC/ACM Joint International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology 2007, 2-5 November 2007, Silicon Valley, USA.

27.      Organising Committee Member of Conference on Social Semantic Web (CSSW), SABRE sub-conference, 24-28 September 2007, Leipzig, Germany.

28.     Organising Committee and Program Committee Member of CAPS 2007: Third Workshop on Context Awareness for Proactive Systems, 18-19 June 2007, Guildford, UK.

29.      Program Committee Member of IRMA 2007 International Conference, 19-23 May 2007, Vancouver, Canada.

30.      Organising Committee Member of 1st International ExpertFinder Workshop, 16 January 2007, Berlin, Germany.

31.      Program Committee Member of Semantics 2006: From Visions to Applications – Semantics: The New Paradigm Shift in IT, 28-30 November 2006, Vienna, Austria.


4 Reviewer of Further Conferences and Workshops

1.      Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'08), Florence, Italy, 5-10 April 2008.

2.      65th Semi-Annual IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Spring 2007, Dublin, Ireland, 23-25 April 2007.

3.      IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, ICEIS 2006, Islamabad, Pakistan, 22-23 April 2006.

4.      5th International Symposium on Software Composition, Vienna, Austria, 25-26 March 2006.

5.      3rd Latin American Web Congress, LA WEB 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 31 October – 1 November 2005.

6.      3rd  International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2005, Banff, Canada, 2-5 October 2005.

7.      7th International Conference on Information Integration and Web Based Applications & Services, iiWAS 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 19-21 September 2005.

8.      5th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2005, Sydney, Australia, 25-29 July 2005.

9.      2nd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2005, Heraklion, Greece, 29 May – 1 June 2005.

10.  8th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS, Poznan, Poland, 20-22 April 2005.

11.  IFIP International Conference, INTELLCOMM 2004, Bangkok, Thailand, 23-26 November 2004.

12.  3rd International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2004, Hiroshima, Japan, 7-11 November 2004.

13.  14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Management, EKAW 2004, Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK, 5-8 October 2004.

14.  11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Methodology, Systems, and Applications, Aimsa 2004, Varna, Bulgaria, 2-4 September 2004.

15.  Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 22-25 August 2004.

16.  4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004.


           Research Projects and Cooperation with Industry


Below, the projects where I work or used to work are listed.

FFG-funded project (COIN) SESAME (SEmantic SmArt Metering: Enablers for Energy Efficiency) aims to facilitate home owners or building managers (also referred to as users or end-customers) in saving energy within their environments and in optimizing their energy costs, while actively controlling and maintaining their preferred quality of living. The project is realized by the consortium of FTW and four SMEs (from Austria, Serbia and Russian Federation) bringing together various competencies and fields of expertise. 2009-2010.

Specific Targeted Research Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Program for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 7th Framework Program: A Metropolis of Ubiquitous Services (m:Ciudad) . Project partners are Fundación Robotiker (ES) - coordinator, Telefónica (ES), University of Surrey (UK), Alcatel-Lucent (F), Valtion Teknillinen Tutkimuskeskus (FI), YDreams (PT), Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (D), ftw. Telecommunications Research Center (A). 2007-2010.

Integrated Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Program for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 6th Framework Program: Service Platform for Innovation Communication Environment (SPICE). Project partners are France Telecom (F) - coordinator, Alcatel (F), DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe (D), Telefonica (ESP), Telecom Italia Labs (I), Telenor (NOR), Siemens (D, A), Ericsson (NL), Nokia (FIN), Stichting Telematica Instituut (NL), NEC Europe (UK), Bull (F), Fraunhofer Fokus (D), University of Kassel (D), Alma Consulting Group (F), University of Brussels (B), IRIS (I), Neos (I), University of Surrey (UK), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NOR), Politecnico di Torino (I), Telekomnikacja Polska (POL). 2006-2008.

ProtecNETplus program of FFG project SemNetMan (semantic based network/cluster management) combines two methods relevant for the knowledge society: the social network analyses (SNA) and techniques of the Semantic Web. The resulting method should enable efficient network management within the scope of project environments and related requirements. The project is realized by seven Austrian organisations from research to industry containing specialists from network management, semantic technologies and social network analyses. 2005-2006.

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. 2004 - 2007.

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. 2003 – 2008.

Integrated Project in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Program for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration under the 6th Framework Program: 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.

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.

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.

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