Activities

From korrekt.org

Below is an overview of my recent academic activities including event organisation, reviewing, and invited talks. My current main activities beyond research and teaching are:

• Lead developer of Semantic MediaWiki
• Co-developer of the ELK Reasoner
• President of the Open Semantic Data Association e.V.
• Member of the new W3C Web Ontology Language (OWL) working group (as of 2012, it still exists, dormant, waiting for XML Schema to finish)
• Former member of W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF) working group
• Maintainer of semanticweb.org, the Semantic Web community portal

Contents 1 Organisation of events 2 Reviewing for conferences and journals 3 Invited talks

Organisation of events

Tutorials and summer school lectures are listed under teaching.

• ESWC 2012: 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference; Reasoning Track Programme Chair
• RR 2012: 6th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems; Programme Chair
• PODS 2012: 31st ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems; Proceedings & Publicity Chair
• OWLED 2008 (EU), the 5th International Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, Karlsruhe, Germany, Oct 26 – 27 2008, local organisation.
• SWKM 2008, the 2008 Workshop on Social Web and Knowledge Management at WWW 2008, Bejing, China, April 22nd, 2008.

Reviewing for conferences and journals

I have been reviewing (on programme committees or individual requests) for the following journals:

• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
• Journal of Symbolic Computation, reviewer for special issue on Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability, 2008
• International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 2008
• Journal of Web Semantics, PC member of special issue on Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web, 07 2007
• Journal of Universal Computer Science, PC member of special issue on Ontologies and their Applications, JUCS 13(12), 2007
• Semantic Web Journal

I serve or have served as a programme committee member of the following events:

• ISWC 2011, the 10th International Semantic Web Conference, Bonn, Germany, October 23 – 27 2011
• IJCAI 2011, the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, July 16 – 22 2011
• DL 2011, the 24th International Workshop on Description Logics, Barcelona, Spain, July 13 – 16 2011
• Deep Knowledge Representation Challenge Workshop, Banff, Alberta, Canada, June 26, 2011
• ESWC 2011, the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion, Greece, May 29 – June 2 2011
• ISWC 2010, the 9th International Semantic Web Conference, Shanghai, China, November 7 – 11 2010
• ESWC 2010, the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, May 30 – June 3 2010
• OWLED 2010, the 7th International Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, San Francisco, California, USA, June 21 – 22 2010
• SemWiki 2010, the 5th Workshop on Semantic Wikis, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, May 31 2010
• ICCS 2010, the 18th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, July 26 – 30 2010

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Invited talks

See also the talk section in publications.

• Speaker at Reasoning Web Summer School 2007 on «Reasoning in Semantic Wikis»
• Invited talk at the Semantic Web Technology Showcase 2007, Vienna, Austria (colocated with ESTC2007, the first European Semantic Technology Conference) on «Practical Reasoning with OWL and Rules»