ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <TITLE>Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera's personal homepage</TITLE> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 2.2 (Win32)"> <META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20080121;17355159"> <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20080121;17361165"> </HEAD> <BODY LANG="en-GB" DIR="LTR"> <FONT COLOR="#333399"> <FONT FACE="Verdana"><FONT SIZE=1> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera's homepage </FONT> </FONT></FONT> <FONT FACE="Verdana" ><FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="margin-left: 2.0cm"> (Although, in Spanish my name is written <!-- , using my two family names,--> as: <FONT COLOR="#333399"> <B> Maria Vargas Vera </B></FONT>) </FONT> </FONT> <br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT FACE="Verdana"><FONT SIZE=5> <I> <B> <!--Witaj na stronie domowej --> Welcome to my homepage: &nbsp; Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera (FBCS) </B> </I> </FONT></FONT></FONT> <br> <br> <br> <!-- <FONT FACE="Verdana"><FONT SIZE=1> (Although, in Spanish my name is written as: <FONT COLOR="#333399"> <B> Maria Vargas Vera </B></FONT>) </FONT> </FONT> --> <br><br> <br> <!-- Witamy w bienvenidos en... Witajcie (Dr. Marii Vargas-Vera) --> <!-- LOGO <a><img src="Logo_1.jpg" align=right> </a> <br><br> --> <!-- <br><a><img src="UKFlag.jpg" width ="2.5%" align=left> </a> <a><img src="MexFlag.jpg" width ="2.8%" align=left> </a> --> <!-- <a><img src="maria_vargas_vera_MTC.jpg"></a> <a><img src="maria_bw.jpg" align=right></a> --> </P> <!-- <a><img src="Maria_VV_reduced.jpg" width ="10%"align=right></a> --> <a><img src="MVV.jpg" width ="13%"align=right></a> <!-- 14% --> <!-- <a><img src="DIS_Poznan_Seminar.jpg" width ="16%" ></a> --> <!-- <a><img src="maria_v-v_1.jpg" width ="12%" ></a> --> <a><img src="UKFlag.jpg" width ="2.8%" align=right> </a> <FONT COLOR="#333399"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><FONT FACE="Verdana"> <FONT SIZE=3> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <B> Maria Vargas-Vera (BSc, MSc, PhD, FBCS) </B> &nbsp;&nbsp; <B> Get a glimpse of my &nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Maria_Vargas-Vera_CareerSummary.pdf"> career summary: </A> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </B> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="MexFlag.jpg" width ="2.8%" align=right> </a> <br><br> </SPAN></FONT> </FONT> </FONT> <!--&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Maria_VV_reduced.jpg" width ="10%"align=right></a> --> <P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=2> <br> <br> <br> <br> Albert Einstein: <B> - "Imagination is more important than knowledge" &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ("Wyobraznia jest wa|niejsza ni| wiedza") </B></FONT></FONT></FONT> <!-- &nbsp; --> </P> <P STYLE="text-decoration: none"><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <center><a><img src="krakow_Maria_2.jpg" width ="20%"></a></center> <!-- <center><a><img src="Maria_at_river.JPG" width ="40%"></a></center> --> <!-- <center><a><img src="image002.jpg" width ="40%"></a></center> --> <!--<FONT STYLE="margin-left: 1cm"> To move 1cm vertically --> <P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>Maria </B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">- photo taken by </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en">Thadthong</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en">Bhrammanee</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">in </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>Krakow, Poland</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> (November 2007).</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> This photo shows a view from <!--"city square" in --> Courtyard at Wawel Castle in Krakow which is a lovely city in Poland. Maria's photo above, on the right hand side, was taken by Jon Hall (October 2009) outside the JLB at the Open University, UK. &nbsp; <!-- From "city square" you can reach the "City Hall", a neo-gothic&nbsp; building with renaissance elements. --> <!-- This photo was taken outside Krakow Castle in Poland. --> </SPAN> </P> <P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> Photos from Mexico, Poland, Germany, Cyprus and England</B> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">can be found at the bottom of&nbsp; this page. </SPAN> <br><br><br> <!-- <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> --> <!--<FONT COLOR="#333399"> <FONT FACE="Verdana"> <FONT SIZE=2> <B> <U> Note: this page does not cover all my professional activities. </U> </B> </FONT> </FONT> </FONT> --> </P> <!-- <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> Please note that I do not work in KMi since 2006. </FONT> Currently, I work at the <A HREF="http://www.computing.open.ac.uk/People/m.vargas-vera"> Computing Department Open University, UK </A> &nbsp; <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> as a Lecturer in Computing. </FONT> (US Assistant Prof); </FONT> If you wish to contact me and you do not have my email, please contact my secretary <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> &nbsp; Debby Hing &nbsp; </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> phone: +44 (0) 1908 658462; &nbsp; email:&nbsp; D.Hing AT open.ac.uk &nbsp; (blanks and a substitution for the symbol "@" were added to avoid spam). </FONT> Alternatively, please go to the bottom of this page. --> <FONT COLOR="#333399"> <FONT SIZE=3> If you wish to contact me and you do not have my email, please go to the bottom of this page. </FONT> &nbsp; <FONT COLOR="#333399"> <FONT SIZE=3> Also, note that I had been offered a template for my homepage but I do not really want to adopt a constrained style of writing as I like freedom. </FONT> </FONT> </FONT> <br> <br> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <a><img src="star4.JPG" width="3.5%" align=right> </a> <!-- <P> --> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="star4.JPG" width="3.5%"> </a> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <FONT FACE="Verdana"> <FONT SIZE=4> Spotlights:: &nbsp;&nbsp; <I>(News concerning Maria's activities) </I> </FONT> </B> </FONT> </FONT> <!-- <br> <br> --> <!--&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; --> <!-- <a><img src="star4.JPG" width="3.5%" align=right> </a> --> <br> <br> <br> <ul> <br> <!-- <li> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> FLASH: </B> </FONT> &nbsp;&nbsp; <B> Miklos Nagy passed his PhD viva on the 4 April 2011 Thesis: "Ontology Mapping with Intelligent Agents on the Semantic Web: The theory and practice of agent belief and consensus building" by Miklos Nagy. &nbsp;&nbsp; Advisor: Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera <br> <br> Many congratulations to Miklos Nagy!</B> <br><br> --> <li> <B> niedBugo! </B> <br> <!-- More comming soon --> <!-- <li> <B> News: Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera is the Editor in Chief (EIC) <A HREF="http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijtcs"> International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies (IJTCS) </A> &nbsp; ISSN(Online) 1749-916X, ISSN(Print): 1749-9151; from &nbsp; March 2010 &nbsp; to &nbsp; present. <br> <br> --> <!-- <li> <B> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera is on study leave from 1st February, 2010 until March 31, 2010. </B> --> <!--At this Fair we presented our <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> deep|think: a Second Life Campus for Part-time Research Students at a Distance. <br> </B> &nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Learn%20About%20Fair&w=32332324%40N00"> Photos </A> </FONT> --> </B> <br> </ul> <!-- </P> --> <!-- <br> --> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <B> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Spotlights.html"> Archive </A> </B> <br><br> <!-- &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Older news are not in the archive and they are not currently available. --> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <br><br> <center> <B> Na razie! </B> </center> </FONT> <!-- <a><img src="star4.JPG" width="3.5%" align=right> </a> --> <!-- <li> <B> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera will be Visiting Researcher at Technical University (TU) of Dortmund, Germany from 16 August to 26 September 2009. </B> <br> <br> --> <!-- </B> --> <!-- <li> <B> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera is not reading email everyday (just time to time) Please be patient I will be back to you asap. :-) </B> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br> <br> --> <br> <br> <br> <!-- <br> --> <br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT FACE="Verdana"> <FONT SIZE=4> <I> <U> <B>Partial View of Maria's Academic Achievements: </B> </U> </I> </FONT></FONT> </FONT> </P> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Dale Carnegie - "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." </FONT> </SPAN> </P> <P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Mark Twain - "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." </FONT> </SPAN> </P> <P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Maria Vargas-Vera - " Inspiration comes always when you have passion for research. Leave your heart go and follow it" </FONT> </SPAN> </P> <br><br> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>My Linkedin profile: </B></I></FONT></FONT> </P> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=18377322&trk=tab_pro"> Read my linkedin profile. </A> Although, it is not complete, it will give you an idea of &nbsp; Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera's held positions. <br><br><br><br> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>My Google Scholar profile: </B></I></FONT></FONT> </P> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=2K8vB9EAAAAJ&hl=en"> Read my Google Scholar profile. </A> Read citation indices, citations to my articles, list of papers and so forth. <br><br><br><br> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>My ResearchGate profile: </B></I></FONT></FONT> </P> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dr_Maria_Vargas-Vera/"> Read my ResearchGate profile. </A> Although, it is not complete, it will give you some information about publications, blog and so forth. <br><br><br><br> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> A summary of my research contributions: </B></I></FONT></FONT> </P> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Read a summary of my research contribtions. <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Maria_Vargas-Vera_Bio.pdf"> Here </A> <br><br><br> <br> <br> <br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>My Background: </B></I></FONT></FONT> </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>I </B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB">graduated&nbsp; in <B> Mathematics </B> at the Faculty of Sciences, <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Autonomous_University_of_Mexico"> <B>National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) </B> </A>,&nbsp; Also, at UNAM I received a <B> Master in Computer Sciences </B> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> UNAM. </B> </FONT> Then &nbsp;I received my </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>PhD </B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB">from </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>the</B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>Artificial Intelligence Department at <A HREF="http://www.ed.ac.uk/">Edinburgh University Scotland UK, </A> </B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN> <!-- <I> --> 1995. According to <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> the QS Universities Rankings published in 2011 </B> </FONT>. <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> UNAM </B> </FONT> is the <A HREF="http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/2011/sep/05/top-200-world-universities-rankings-2011"> <!-- <A HREF=" "http://www.universityportal.net/2008/01/thes-world-university-ranking-2008.html"> --> 169 position </A> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> best University in the World. </B> </FONT> and <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> Edinburgh University </B> </FONT> is collocated in <A HREF="http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/2011/sep/05/top-200-world-universities-rankings-2011"> <!-- <A HREF="http://www.universityportal.net/2008/01/thes-world-university-ranking-2008.html"> --> 20 </A> position as best University in the World. However, <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> The Department of Artificial Intelligence, at Edinburgh University is the best research place in Europe in the field of Artificial Intelligence. </B> <br> <B> At the Webometrics rankings of world universities 2011, UNAM is in the <A HREF="http://www.webometrics.info/top12000.asp"> 49 </A> position. </B> </FONT> <!-- </I> --> </P> <br><br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=4><I><B>Maria's background in Artificial Intelligence: </B></I></FONT></FONT> </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> My background is Artificial Intelligence - Knowledge-Based Systems. </B> </FONT> </P> <br> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Current Research Interests: </B></I></FONT></FONT> </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>I am interested in the use of knowledge in particular, Ontologies, in both Natural Language Processing and in Semantic Web applications. Currently, I work on <B> Ontology Alignment, Agents, Knowledge Integration, Semantic Web, Semi-Automatic Construction of Ontologies from Text and </B> <B> E-Learning, </B> In particular, I use Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence coupled with a Fuzzy Voting Model in the Ontology Alignment problem. Also, I have carried out research in <B> Logic Programming </B> and <B> Fuzzy Logic (Uncertainty Reasoning). &nbsp; </B> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> A quick link to my list of recent papers: &nbsp; <A HREF=" http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Papers.html"> <B> click here. </B> </A> <br> </FONT> </P> <!-- <B> </B> --> <br> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Teaching:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> I have experience in both face to face teaching and distance teaching. Before joining the Open University I worked in traditional Universities where teaching was face to face. <br> <br><br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=4><I><B>Teaching &nbsp; (<U> distance teaching</U>): </B></I></FONT></FONT> <UL> <LI> <B> The Open University, Computing Department, UK (2008 - 2010) </B> <br><br> At the Open University my main contribution to teaching is the production of a new "program of studies" called <B> "Virtual MPhil for the Computing Program" (Computing Master of Philosophy) </B> and the infrastructure to support it using educational technologies. These technologies comprises Second Life (immersive environment), Moodle, Elluminate, MyStuff (EPortfolios), Skype and Ning. Synchronous and asynchronous internet and web technologies are the backbone for an integrated learning environment to support the part-time MPhil in Computing at the Open University. The programme has been launched in October 2009 and it is <B> the first "program of studies" of this nature </B> at the Open University. <!-- , is a part-time Master of Philosophy (MPhil) to be delivered at a distance. --> <br> <br> <ul> <li><B>The Virtual MPhil program of studies in Computing </B> can be found at <A HREF="http://virtualmphil.open.ac.uk/"> <B> eMPhil </B> </A> <br><br> <li> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Team_MPhil.pdf"> <B> Virtual Mphil Team </B> </A> &nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://virtualmphil.open.ac.uk/8025754E0039125C/(httpAdHocPages)/328A90BACB402B6680257649002F67E0?OpenDocument"> <B> Alternatively the link to the Virtual MPhil Team </B> </A> <!-- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; --> <br><br> <li> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/SLCampus_Updated.html"> OU 3D-Virtual Campus Pictures</A> <br><br> <li> <A HREF="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2uaDJKA8o"> OU 3D-Virtual Campus video </A> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp <!-- <br><br> <li> <A HREF="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Deep%20Think%20East/228/29/34/"> Second life 3D-campus SLurl </A> --> <br><br> <li> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> The 3-D Virtual Campus (Deep|Think) is currently in use with the first generation of part-time students who started on October 2009. <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/ICERI_FINAL.pdf"> Preliminary evalation </A> has been carried out, however, more evaluations are planned to take place in the future. </FONT> </ul> </UL> </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"></FONT></P> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=4><I><B>Teaching &nbsp; (<U> face to face teaching</U>): </B></I></FONT></FONT> </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><B>Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems, Poznan Poland (semesters)</B></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Artificial Intelligence (I11421)&nbsp; Autumn 2007, (Systemy Stucznej Inteligencji &nbsp; 2007/2008)&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.google.com/notebook/public/12755164026938032506/BDSW6QwoQ2OLJgOQi"> &nbsp; Prowadzacy: Maria Vargas-Vera </A> </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Lab Artificial Intelligence (E1199)&nbsp; Autumn 2007, (Systemy Stucznej Inteligencji &nbsp; 2007/2008)&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.google.com/notebook/public/12755164026938032506/BDSW6QwoQ2OLJgOQi"> &nbsp; Prowadzacy: Maria Vargas-Vera </A> </SPAN> </P> </UL> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm">&nbsp;</P> <P><B>Intercollege Larnaca,Cyprus (Now known as University of Nicosia) &nbsp;(semesters)</B></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Artificial Intelligence (COMP-405)&nbsp;(Spring semester 2007)</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">C++ (COMP-255)&nbsp; (Spring semester 2007)</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Pascal and program development (COMP-152A)&nbsp; (Spring semester 2007)</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Data Structures (COMP-301) &nbsp;&nbsp; (Spring semester 2007)</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Algorithms (COMP-370)&nbsp;&nbsp; Theory&nbsp; (Spring semester 2007 independent study)</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Compilers Theory (COMP-335) &nbsp; (Spring semester 2007 independent study)</SPAN> </P> </UL> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>De Montfort University, England, UK (Campus Milton Keynes)</B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB">.</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>(terms).</B></SPAN></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P>MSc course on Intelligent Systems (COMP5107) ,&nbsp; Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering, Department of Computer &amp; Information Sciences, Autumn term (September 2002 until January 2003). </P> </UL> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><B>Sciences Faculty -&nbsp; Mathematics Department, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)&nbsp; (semesters of 6 months).</B></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P>Artificial Intelligence (0608), Science Faculty UNAM, semester 2000-1. </P> <LI><P>Lab. Artificial Intelligence (LAB0608), Science Faculty UNAM, semester 2000-1. </P> <LI><P>Database Systems (0606), Science Faculty UNAM, semester 2000-1. </P> <LI><P>Lab. Database Systems (LAB0606), Science Faculty UNAM, semester 2000-1. </P> <LI><P>Artificial Intelligence (0608), Science Faculty UNAM, semester 99-2. </P> <LI><P>Lab. Artificial Intelligence (LAB0608), Science Faculty UNAM, semester 99-2. </P> <LI><P>Functional and Logic Programming (0813), Science Faculty UNAM, semester 99-2. </P> <LI><P>Lab. Functional and Logic Programming (LAB 0813), Science Faculty UNAM, semester 99-2. </P> <LI><P>Artificial Intelligence (0608), Science Faculty UNAM, semester 99-1. </P> <LI><P>Lab. Artificial Intelligence (LAB0608), Science Faculty UNAM, semester 99-1. </P> <LI><P>Functional and Logic Programming (0813), Science Faculty UNAM, semester 99-1. </P> <LI><P>Lab. Functional and Logic Programming (LAB0813), Science Faculty UNAM, semester 99-1. </P> <LI><P>Artificial Intelligence (0608), Science Faculty UNAM, semester 98-2. </P> <LI><P>Lab. Artificial Intelligence (LAB0608), Science Faculty UNAM, semester 98-2. </P> <LI><P>Expert Systems (0821), Science Faculty UNAM, semester 98-2. </P> <LI><P>Lab. Expert Systems (LAB0821), Science Faculty UNAM, semester 98-2. </P> </UL> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>Edinburgh University, Scotland UK.</B></SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Prolog Demonstrator of the following courses </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>(terms)</B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB">:</SPAN></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P>Artificial Intelligence II (GC68), Edinburgh University, term 92-I. </P> <LI><P>Artificial Intelligence I (G700), Edinburgh University, term 91-II. </P> </UL> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>National Autonomous </B></SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>University of Mexico (UNAM)- courses in Mathematics and Computer Science&nbsp; (semesters of 6 months).</B></SPAN></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P>Algebra Lineal I (0005): 6 months course, 1982. </P> <LI><P>Introduccion a Ciencias de la Computacion (0224): 6 months course, 1982. </P> <LI><P>Algebra Superior II (0008): 6 months course, 1982. </P> <LI><P>Algebra Superior I (0007): 6 months course, 1982. </P> <LI><P>Introduccion a Ciencias de la Computacion (0224): 6 months course, 1981. </P> <LI><P>Algebra Superior II (0008): 6 months course, 1981. </P> <LI><P>Algebra Superior I (0007): 6 months course, 1981. </P> <LI><P>Algebra Superior II (0008): 6 months course, 1980. </P> <LI><P>Algebra Superior I (0007): 6 months course, 1980. </P> <LI><P>Introduccion a Ciencias de la Computacion (0224): 6 months course, 1980. </P> </UL> <br> <br> <P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>National Autonomous </B></SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>University of Mexico (UNAM)- courses at the Engineering Faculty &nbsp; (semesters of 6 months).</B></SPAN></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P>Compiler Theory (1764): 6 months course, 1990. </P> <LI><P>Expert Systems (0929) course for the ``Continuing Education for Engineers'' Programme, 1989. </P> <LI><P>Artificial Intelligence (1766) short course for the ``Continuing Education for Engineers'' Programme, 1989. </P> <LI><P>Artificial Intelligence (1766) short course for the ``Continuing Education for Engineers'' Programme, 1988. </P> <LI><P>Data Structures (1422): 6 monts course, 1988. </P> <LI><P>Discrete Mathematics (1552): 6 months course, 1987. </P> <LI><P>Data Structures (1422): 6 months course, 1987. </P> </UL> <br><br> <P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>Instituto Tecnologico de Toluca </B></SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B> &nbsp; (semesters).</B></SPAN></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P LANG="es-ES">Data Structures: Instituto Tecnologico de Toluca, Mexico, 1989. </P> </UL> <br> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=3><I><B> Recent short courses are not listed in this home page.</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"></FONT>&nbsp;</P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>My Students:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <br> <P><B>Current students:</B></P> <br> <UL TYPE=DISC> <!-- <LI> <B> Current MSc Students: </B> <ul> <LI><P> Carol Smith &nbsp;(MSc student). Computing M801 project, Open University,UK. &nbsp;&nbsp; (February 2009 - March 2010) - <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> --> <!-- A study on the use of a Facilitated Computer aided Knowledge Cartography Creation Process using Compendium, to aid the design of IT enabled projects to solve business problems. --> <!-- <U> Using a Knowledge Cartography Creation Process to improve IT enabled projects. </U> </SPAN></FONT> <B> (my role is Specialist Advisor).</B> </P> <LI><P> Penny Meiers &nbsp;(MSc student). Computing M801 project, Open University, UK. &nbsp;&nbsp;(February 2009 - March 2010) - <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> --> <!-- What value does the project compendium and its components contribute towards achieving project succes? --> <!-- <U> Which project compendium components are perceived to contribute most towards project success in the minds of project managers? </U> </SPAN></FONT> <B> (my role is Specialist Advisor).</B> </P> </ul> --> <!-- <br><br> --> <LI> <B> Current PhD Students: </B> <br><br> <ul> <LI><B> If you would like to do your Bachelor, Master or PhD thesis on any of my research areas please send me an email. </B> </ul> </UL> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><B>Former students:</B></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P> <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/index.cfm/idstring/miklos-nagy"> Miklos Nagy </A> &nbsp; (Part-time) External PhD student, KMI, Open University. <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <!-- <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-tr-06-08.pdf"> --> Thesis: <U> Ontology Mapping with Intelligent Agents on the Semantic Web: The theory and practice of agent belief and consensus building. </U> </SPAN></FONT> <B> (Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera is the Main Supervisor).</B> &nbsp;&nbsp; <B> Stage: <!-- writing-up PhD thesis (finished on the 4th of November 2010); expected thesis submitted on the 9 of December 2010; --> oral examination (viva) on the 4 April 2011. </B> Currently, Miklos Nagy works at Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency (TEN-T EA), Belgium. <!-- <br> Thesis likely to be available late in the year 2011. --> </P> <LI><P> <A HREF= "http://www.mcs.open.ac.uk/80256EE9006BCA7A/(httpPages)/F4A2B15A8B9BB53C80256F2C0049AB9C?OpenDocument&expandall&count=1000"> Adam Kay </A> &nbsp;(Full-time) PhD student, Open University UK. <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> &nbsp;&nbsp; Thesis: <U> Combinatorial and Probabilistic Aspects of Interconnected Trees. </U> </SPAN></FONT> (Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera was a Co-supervisor). <!-- Adam passed successfully his mini-viva on the 7 April 2010 (requirement at the end of the first year). --> <B> (co-supervision from 2009 to 2010). </B> </P> <LI><P> Carol Smith &nbsp;(MSc student). Computing M801 project, Computing Department, Open University,UK. &nbsp;&nbsp; (February 2009 - March 2010) - <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <!-- A study on the use of a Facilitated Computer aided Knowledge Cartography Creation Process using Compendium, to aid the design of IT enabled projects to solve business problems. --> <U> Using a Knowledge Cartography Creation Process to improve IT enabled projects. </U> </SPAN></FONT> <B> (my role is Specialist Advisor). Graduated, summer 2010. </B> </P> <LI><P> Penny Meiers &nbsp;(MSc student). Computing M801 project, Computing Department, Open University, UK. &nbsp;&nbsp;(February 2009 - March 2010) - <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <!-- What value does the project compendium and its components contribute towards achieving project succes? --> <U> Which project compendium components are perceived to contribute most towards project success in the minds of project managers? </U> </SPAN></FONT> <B> (my role is Specialist Advisor). Graduated, summer 2010 </B> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> with distinction. </FONT> </P> <LI>Marek Wisniewski. (Full-time) PhD student. PhD Thesis: <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <U>Ontology Construction from Text. </U> </FONT> Department of Management Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, Poland. The extraction of relations from text using an axiomatic approach was my contribution to this thesis (i.e. I supervised the extraction of relations from text). Link to thesis http://marekwisniewski.pl/ (refer to chapters 6 and 7. Also see page 20 and 189). &nbsp; <B> Graduated: 27 May 2009.</B> <br><br> <LI> Muhammad Mian (Full-time) PhD. I was Third Part Monitor, Computing Department, Open University, UK; from October 2008 until October 2009. <B> (Duties: Monitoring, Mentoring, Pastoral Care).</B> Currently, Muhammad Mian works at Investec, UK. <br> <br> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Ahmad Chaudhry Zaheer. Undergraduate Thesis:</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <U> Voice over Internet Protocol. </U> </SPAN></FONT> Computing Department, Nicosia University Cyprus &nbsp; <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> (graded with maximum score A). </FONT> <B> Graduated June 2007. </B> </SPAN> </P> </UL> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm"></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Yesica</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Castellanos. Undergraduate Thesis: &nbsp;</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <U> CONQUIRO: a Cluster-Based&nbsp; Information Retrieval Meta-search Engine.</U> </FONT> Sciences Faculty, Dept of Mathematics; National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> (rated as an excellent thesis by Examiners)</FONT> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> &nbsp; <B> Graduated:</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> &nbsp;</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">September 2006. </B> </SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI> Dileep Damle (Full-time) PhD. I was Third Part Monitor, KMI, Open University, UK; from October 2004 until November 2006. <B>(Duties: Monitoring, Mentoring, Pastoral Care).</B> <br> <br> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Gaston </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Burek. (Full-time) PhD student. PhD Thesis: &nbsp;</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <U> Mapping Queries into Ontological Spaces.</U> </FONT> KMI, Open University UK. <B> (supervision from October 2003 to October 2004). </B> </SPAN> </P> </UL> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm"></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">David&nbsp; Celjuska. &nbsp; MSc. Thesis:&nbsp; <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-04-11.pdf">Semi-Automatic Construction of Ontologies from Text</A> Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Kosice Slovakia. &nbsp;</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">(rated as outstanding thesis by Examiners)</FONT>&nbsp; <B> Graduated</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB">: June 2004. </B> </SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> Supervision Intern </B> David Celjuska, Technical University of Kosice Slovakia; July-September 2003. This internship was part of my project on Automatic Construction of Ontologies from Text. The student developed an initial Java interface for Marmot, Badger and Crystal (initial step for the Ontosophie system). &nbsp; <B> (the internship was completed succesfully on September 2003). </B> </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> Supervision Intern </B> Mattia</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Lanzoni, University of Bologna; May-September 2001. Interface for MnM an information Extraction System by Mattia Lanzoni. &nbsp; <B> (the internship was completed succesfully on September 2001). </B> </SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Alberto Castro. &nbsp; MSc. Thesis <A HREF="http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/575127.html">TBPG - a Techniques-Based Program Generator</A> </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">(selected thesis 1994). </SPAN></FONT> Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University. &nbsp; <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> Graduated: September 1994. </B> </SPAN> </P> </UL> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm"></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Gabriel Duncan. &nbsp; MSc. Thesis </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/papers/documents/mt92117.html">TX- a Prolog Explanation System</A> </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">(selected thesis 1992). </SPAN></FONT> Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University. &nbsp;<SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> Graduated: September 1992. </B> </SPAN> </P> </UL> <P>&nbsp;</P> <FONT STYLE="margin-left: 0.4cm" SIZE=4> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/AI_GenealogyProject_MVV.pdf"> Some of my graduated students in the AI Genealogy Project </A> </FONT> <br> <br> <br> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"></FONT>&nbsp;</P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>My Interns (Supervised Internships):</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <br> <UL> <LI> <P><B> Current Interns:</B></P> <!-- <UL TYPE=DISC> --> <!-- <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <A HREF="http://carpex.usal.es/~visusal/juan/"> Juan Francisco Garcia Navarro, </A> University of Salamanca Spain, from late 2010. This internship will be part of his PhD project at University of Salamanca, Spain. The proposed work is on "Visualization of Reasoning in Ontologies using 3D modelling". </SPAN> </P> --> <!-- <LI> --> <P><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> Currently, I do not have funding for summer internships however, I would be happy to receive inquiries from students who have their own funding. </FONT> </P> <!-- </UL> --> <br><br><br> <LI> <P><B> Former Interns:</B></P> <br> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> Supervision Intern </B> David Celjuska, Technical University of Kosice Slovakia; July-September 2003. This internship was part of my project on Automatic Construction of Ontologies from Text. The student developed an initial Java interface for Marmot, Badger and Crystal (initial step for the Ontosophie system). &nbsp; <B> (the internship was completed succesfully on September 2003). </B> </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> Supervision Intern </B> Mattia</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Lanzoni, University of Bologna; May-September 2001. Interface for MnM an information Extraction System by Mattia Lanzoni. &nbsp; <B> (the internship was completed succesfully on September 2001). </B> </SPAN> </P> </UL> </UL> <br><br> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"></FONT>&nbsp;</P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Mentoring:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <br> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI> School of Informatics, Edinburgh University. <!-- Careers --> Mentor; from July 2011 to present. <B> (Duties: Share experience on AI <!--, Careers path -->). </B> <br> <br> <LI> Muhammad Mian (Full-time) PhD. I was Third Part Monitor, Computing Department, Open University, UK; from October 2008 until October 2009. <B> (Duties: Monitoring, Mentoring, Pastoral Care). </B> <br> <br> <LI> Dileep Damle (Full-time) PhD. I was Third Part Monitor, KMI, Open University, UK; from October 2004 until November 2006. <B>(Duties: Monitoring, Mentoring, Pastoral Care).</B> <br> <br> </UL> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm"></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"></FONT>&nbsp;</P> <br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Member of Undergraduate/Master/PhD Committees:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <!-- <P><B>Examiner:</B></P> --> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> Observer (PhD examination), </B> </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> KMI, Open University, England UK&nbsp; Degree of PhD in Artificial Intelligence, 4 April 2011. Thesis: "Ontology Mapping with Intelligent Agents on the Semantic Web: The theory and practice of agent belief and consensus building" by Miklos Nagy. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> Examiner, </B> </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Intercollege Larnaca, Cyprus&nbsp; Degree of Bachelor of Science. February 8, 2007. Thesis: "Retired Programming Languages" by Nikolas Kouvaros. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B> President of the Jury of the Examination Panel,</B> National Autonomous University of Mexico, Degree of Bachelor of &nbsp;Computer Science, September 2006. Thesis: "CONQUIRO a Cluster-Based Information Retrieval Meta- Search Engine". by Yesica Castellanos. </SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P> <B> PhD External Examiner, </B> Robert Gordon University, February, 2004. Aberdeen, Scotland UK. <B> Thesis: "Representing and Reasoning about Concrete Domains with Inference Fusion" </B> by B. Hu. 2004. </P> <LI><P> <B> MSc Examiner </B> (Computer Science), UACPYP CCH, National University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City; 1988. </P> </UL> <br> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/OtherCommittees.html "> Member of other committees </A> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Teaching interests: </B></I></FONT></FONT> </P> <!-- <P>&nbsp;</P> --> <!-- <P> --> Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, Knowledge Representation, Database Systems, Logic Programming, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning , Semantic Web and Knowledge Management. <!-- </P> --> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm">&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Research:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <br> <B> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera's research statement &nbsp; </B> from my research career in Europe (90's) until the year 2011 and my current research agenda &nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/ResearchStatement_MVV.pdf"> read more </A> <br><br><br> <P><B>Current Projects:</B></P> <UL> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>&nbsp;</P> <LI> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"></SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> <U>AGENT_AQUA </B> </U></SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Agent-Based Question Answering System. This project aim to improve&nbsp; our&nbsp; AQUA system - a question answering system which was developed as centralized version in an earlier version. <!-- <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> MCT project. </B> </FONT> --> </SPAN></P> <!-- <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>&nbsp;</P> --> <UL> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <!-- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; --> </SPAN></FONT></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <U> MAOM-QA </U> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Multi-Agent Ontology Mapping for Question Answering. <!-- <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> MCT project. </B> </FONT> --> In this project we have carried out research on the Ontology mapping problem (also called ontology alignment). Our approach to ontology mapping is an agent based approach where we have several agents performing mappings and then we combine the evidences found by each of them using Dempster-Shafer Theory. This solution is generic as the system does not need to learn mappings in advance like other approaches which use Machine Learning techniques. Our mapping algorithms get evidences from different sources like wordnet and background knowledge (specific to the domain's ontology). Furthermore, our approach deals with uncertainty in mappings whilst other approaches only handle two valued logic {0,1}. <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> We (Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera and Miklos Nagy) were pioneers on the use of the Dempster-Shafer Theory coupled with a Fuzzy Voting Model on the Ontology Mapping problem. Our work can be followed from 2004 when my Team started solving the ontology alignment problem using the Dempster-Shafer approach and assessed the main limitations on the original rule of combination (refer to the two full publications appeared at Conferences in 2005). </B></FONT> Some years later (2006 and 2007), other researchers followed our approach to Ontology Mapping, in particular, researchers from the Ontology Mapping and Semantic Web Community. This has helped to broaden the general knowledge on this area. <br><br> As a second phase in our original proposal, we included into Dempster-Shafer rule of combination a Fuzzy Voting Model to resolve the problem of "contradictory evidences" which are ignored when using Dempster-Shafer rule of combination. The Dempster-Shafer rule strongly emphasises the agreement between multiple sources and ignores all the conflicting evidence through a normalization factor. One of the outputs of this project is the <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> DSSim System </B> </FONT> (short for <B>Sim</B>ilarity based on <B>D</B>empster-<B>S</B>hafer) which is written in Java. <br><br> We decided to evaluate our approach (embedded in a system called <B> DSSim </B>) using large and real ontologies. Therefore, we have participated in the Ontology Alignment Evaluation during several years. This participation helped to tune our algorithms over several interations. Then in the Evaluation 2008, due a excellent performance of our system, the DSSim Team was invited for a oral presentation at OM-2008, Germany 2008. Below are details of our participation in the Ontology Alignment Evaluation from 2006 until 2009: <br><br> </SPAN> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2006/"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> We had participated in the Ontology Aligment Evaluation Initiative 2006 with our DSSim system (v0.1). </A> However, we only participated on the benchmark track. </B> </SPAN></FONT> <br><br> <!--</SPAN> it appears an extra --> <LI> <A HREF="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2007/"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> We had participated in the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative OAEI 2007 with our DSSim system v0.2. </A> The Evaluation OAEI-2007, provided problems on several tracks but we only participated on benchmark, anatomy, food, environment and library tracks. </B> </SPAN></FONT> </P> <LI> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY "><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> We have participated in the <A HREF="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/">Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2008 with our system DSSim (v0.3),</A> together with Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, Poland. The OAEI-2008, provided problems on several tracks. This year we participated on all given tracks for the evaluation 2008: benchmark, anatomy, fao, directory, mldirectory, library, very large crosslingual resources and conference. For the year 2008, we included two new components "Compound Nouns" and "Fuzzy Voting Model" into our DSSim (v0.3) system. DSSim obtained exceptional results in the OAEI-2008 Evaluation. <br> <br> <!-- <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Research NewsHightlights_final.pdf"> --> <ul> <li> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/CRC_News.pdf"> <!-- <A HREF="http://crc.open.ac.uk/8025711B0044B697/httpNews?ReadForm&unid=82583E401E3B939D802574F2003E23CC"> --> DSSim made the news headlines in October 2008. </A> <br> <br> <li> <A HREF="http://news.kmi.open.ac.uk/rostra/news.php?r=11&t=2&id=1043"> More news on DSSim in the year 2008 </A> <br> <br> <br> </ul> </B> </SPAN></FONT> </P> <!-- STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm --> <LI> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY "><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> Also, we have participated in the <A HREF="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/">Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2009 with our system DSSim (v0.4),</A> together with Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, Poland. This year (2009) we participated in 7 tracks for the evaluation 2009: benchmark, anatomy, directory, ars, iimb, very large crosslingual resources and conference. Results can be found on paper <A HREF="http://www.dit.unitn.it/~p2p/OM-2009/oaei09_paper0.pdf"> Results of the Ontology Alignment Initiative 2009. </A> by Jerome Euzenat et al. presented at OM-2009; collocated with the ISWC 2009, Washington DC, USA, October 25 2009. A summary of our participation in 2009 can be found at &nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Summary_OAEI-2009.pdf"> DSSim's participation summary. </A> <!-- Preliminary indication shows that DSSim has similar performance like last year in some tracks. However, in bibliographic references seems that precision/recall has decreased. --> </B> </SPAN></FONT> </P> <br><br> <li> <B> Further information on DSSim: </B> <ul> <!-- WIKIPEDIA LINKS --> <!-- <br><br> <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nagymik/DSSim"> Local copy DSSim wikipedia entry. </A> --> <br><br> <li><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_alignment"> Ontology alignment wikipedia entry </A> &nbsp; &nbsp;(This link was already on the Web. However, it can be used as an entry point to DSSim wikipedia entry). <br><br> <li><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSSim"> DSSim wikipedia entry. </A> &nbsp; &nbsp;(compiled on March 2011). Alternatively try <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/DSSim_WikiEntry.pdf"> DSSim wikipedia entry (copy). </A> <!-- <br> Alternatively try <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/DSSim_Wikipedia.hmt"> DSSim wikipedia. </A> --> <!-- MOVIE LINKS --> <!-- First version <br><br> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/DSSim_video.wmv"> DSSim demo </A> --> <!-- Second version <br><br> <A HREF="http://home.scarlet.be/~mn267546/DSSim_video_v2.mov"> DSSim demo. </A> --> <!-- Second version <br><br> <A HREF="http://home.scarlet.be/~mn267546/DSSim_video_v2.mov"> DSSim demo. </A> --> <br><br> <li> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/DSSim_video_v2.mov"> DSSim demo </A> &nbsp; &nbsp;(compiled on March 2011). <br><br> <li> <A HREF="http://c4i.gmu.edu/URSW/2007/files/talks/URSW2007_P2_NagyVeraMotta_Slides.pdf"> DSSim talk </A> presented at URSW-2007, Busan, Korea; November 11 2007. <br><br> </ul> </UL> <br> </UL> <li> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <!-- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; --> <B><U> PEARL/ALSPAC, (£1.6M) </B> </U></SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> &nbsp; I work in the PEARL project (Wellcome-funded project). The objective of this project is working on creating a national standardised solution to the management of cohort studies. It aims to create a grid-based framework concerned with addressing issues associated with data linkage and extraction and longitudinal follow-up of patients across their healthcare institutions and their respective Electronic Health Records (EHRs). </SPAN></P> </UL> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><B>Past Projects:</B></P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>&nbsp;</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> 1. </B> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B><U>OntoLearning </B> </U></SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> &nbsp; I worked on the Automatic Construction of Ontologies from Text. In this work I use axiomatic approches to extract non-taxonomic relations from text and Information Extraction for instances classification. <!-- <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> MCT project. </B> </FONT> --> </SPAN></P> <!-- &middot; --> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>&nbsp;</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> 2. </B> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B> <U>eMPhil </B> </U></SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> &nbsp; I worked in the Virtual Computing Mphil/PhD Project <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> which was a Computing Department funded project at the Open University UK; (2008-2010). </B> </FONT> This project uses Second Life <A HREF="http://secondlife.com/"> (Linden labs) </A> as a platform for a E-Learning environment. The main users of such system are external MPhil/PhD students which joined the Open University as a long distance learning institution. <br> <br> <!-- The Virtual OU Campus SLURL will be provided later on. --> </SPAN></P> <ul> <li><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> The Virtual MPhil: a part-time online research degree for Computing (phase 2) was ready on October 2009. The main objective of this "program of studies" as described by the Team of the MPhil programme is shown as follows: <br> "This programme was designed to provide a supportive, professional-oriented structure within which advanced IT knowledge and related research skills and methods can be acquired. The new degree was available from October 2009 and is offered for part- time study at a distance, supported by a range of technologies for online study, supervision and assessment. The programme is particularly relevant to students who intend to go on to study for a PhD, as well as to IT professionals seeking to enhance knowledge and skills, particularly when research and scholarship are a significant part of their work. In being part-time and at a distance, the programme is especially suited to the needs of the working professional. From an academic perspective, the ultimate aim of the project is the creation of a vibrant online research community for Computing, supported by a rich and flexible Virtual Learning Environment (VLE): rich to encompass the many processes of research; flexible to meet different user needs, preferences and attitudes to technology." </FONT> </B> <br><br> The technologies offered in the Virtua MPhil comprises DeepThink (our OU immersive 3-D campus), Moodle, Elluminate, MyStuff (EPortfolios), Skype and Ning. Synchronous and asynchronous internet and web technologies are the backbone for an integrated learning environment to support the part time MPhil Computing program at the Open University. <br><br> <UL> <LI> <B> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/SLCampus_Updated.html"> OU 3D-Virtual Campus Pictures </A> </B> <!-- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; --> <br> <br> <LI> <B> <A HREF="http://virtualmphil.open.ac.uk/"> Virtual MPhil program of studies in Computing </A> <!-- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; --> <!-- <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Team_MPhil.pdf"> --> <br><br> <LI> <A HREF="http://virtualmphil.open.ac.uk/8025754E0039125C/(httpAdHocPages)/328A90BACB402B6680257649002F67E0?OpenDocument"> Team </A> <!-- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; --> <!-- <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Team_MPhil.pdf"> --> <br><br> <LI> <A HREF="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Deep%20Think%20East/228/29/34/"> Second life campus SLurl </A> </B> <!-- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; --> <br><br> <LI> <A HREF="http://learn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=5042&m=3"> <B> Moddle site </B> </A> (permission required) <br><br> <!-- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; --> <LI> <A HREF="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2uaDJKA8o"> OU 3D-Virtual Campus video </A> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp <br> <br> <!-- <B> --> <LI> Deep|Think article in the OU Magazine OpenHouse, Isuue number 425, 2009. The glamorous avatar Cielo - "Maria's avatar" - in the center; printed on the 24th November 2009 &nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/OpenHouse-MPhil.pdf"> read more </A> <!-- </B> --> <br><br> <LI> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> The 3-D Virtual Campus (Deep|Think) is currently in use with the first generation of part-time students who started on October 2009. <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/ICERI_FINAL.pdf"> Preliminary evalation </A> has been carried out, however, more evaluations are planned to take place in the future. </FONT> </UL> <br><br><br> <li> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> The OU Virtual Campus to support the Computing MPhil/PhD program at the OU (Phase 1) was ready on 2008!. The moodle "Computing Mphil Course" and others synchronous and asynchronous educational had been added to the Eduational Environment. <!-- However, it is locked to visitors! --> </B> </FONT> <br> <br> We decided to create an unusual design for the OU Virtual Campus like the one shown in the pictures (see link below). This was motivated by the idea "open spaces to our students". In addition, we also wanted to inject a sense of freedom in the design!. We expect that this Virtual Campus will provide with Learning Spaces where students can meet and learn collaboratively (i.e. share/exchange ideas on their MPhil/PhD studies) besides to enjoy a peaceful/beautiful scenery. Finally, in the OU virtual world Maria's avatar is called "Cielo" which can be translated in English as "Sky" or "Niebo" in Polish Language. <br> A curious note: I was surprised when I heard that people were expecting an OU Campus with Polish Buidings like the one shown top of my home page! :-) </ul> <P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> 3. </B> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> <U> ENIRAF </U> </B> </FONT> &nbsp; I participated in the </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> <U> ENIRAF </U> </B> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> project from September 2007 to November 2007. Enhanced Information Retrieval and Filtering for Analytical Systems. <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B>Founded EU project Framework 6; grant: ¬ 52,778 </B> </FONT> (http://eniraf.mis.ae.poznan.pl/). Financed by European Commission under contract no. MTKD-CT-2004-509766. Focus of the research in this project is on ontologies, web services and the Semantic Web for information filtering. <A HREF="http://www.kie.ae.poznan.pl/en/project/enhanced-information-retrieval-and-filtering-analytical-systems">Link to the project enIRaF </A></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> 4. </B> </SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT><A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/hot.cfm?name=KnowledgeWeb"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> <U>KnowledgeWeb </B> </U></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. </SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Knowledge Web is a FP6 Network of Excellence that aims to support the transition of Ontology technology from Academia to Industry. The current consortium is integrated by 18 participants including leading partners in Semantic Web, Multimedia, Human Language Technology, Workflow and Agents. <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> European Commission funded project (Framework 6); Grant: ¬ 6.7M (total); ¬ 375k (OU share). </B> </FONT> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">My work was mainly &nbsp;concerned with methodologies for evaluating MAGPIE&nbsp; (semantic browser).</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> 5. </B> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://www.aktors.org/akt/"> <B> AKT </B> </A> was a multi-million pound <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> (EPSRC funded project Grant: £7.5M (total); £1.3M (OU share)) </B> </FONT>, six-year collaboration between internationally recognized research groups at the Universities of Southampton, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Sheffield and the Open University. AKT aimed to tackle fundamental problems associated with the management of knowledge & Semantic Web.<FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> My work as main Researcher in the AKT project was from October 2000 to November 2006. The Review Panel rated the project as "outstanding" scoring 34 out of a maximum possible 35 on the review criteria used to assess the results of projects by the EPSRC. </B> </FONT> <br> <B> <A HREF="http://news.kmi.open.ac.uk/11/482"> First Review of the AKT project. </A> </B> </SPAN> <br> <br> <br> </P> <br> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.91cm"><FONT SIZE=4 COLOR="#ff0000"><U> <B> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera's AKT work.</B></U></FONT></P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-left: 1.91cm"></P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>&nbsp;</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-left: 2.54cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&middot;</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><U>CONQUIRO</U></SPAN></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> </FONT> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">A Cluster-Based&nbsp; Information Retrieval Meta-search Engine. </SPAN><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">CONQUIRO&nbsp; provides</SPAN></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">a suite of clustering methods:&nbsp; hierarchical and non-hierarchical &nbsp;clustering methods. CONQUIRO represents a solution to the problem of information management.</SPAN></FONT></P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-left: 1.91cm">&nbsp;</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-left: 2.54cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&middot;</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://www.aktors.org/technologies/aqua/">AQUA </A>&nbsp;Ontology driven Question Answering System. AQUA combines Natural Language processing (NLP), Ontologies, Logic, and Information Retrieval technologies in a uniform framework. AQUA makes&nbsp; intensive use of an ontology in several parts of the question answering system <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/AQUA_AKT.pdf"> (read more information) </A>. Typical questions using AQUA as closed-domain Question Answering System&nbsp; can be found at <!-- <A HREF="http://www.kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/akt/aqua/index.html"> --> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/AQUA.pdf"> AQUA-QUESTIONS</A>.</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.91cm">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 2.54cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&middot;</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><U>SVE </U></SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">&nbsp;</FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Student</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Essay Viewer. A system that allows tutors and students to visualize argumentation in student essays.</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-decoration: none"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 2.54cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&middot;</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><U>EVENT</U></SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> &nbsp;</FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">(Event Recognition on News Stories). A system which allows to recognize events happening in a news stories and populates a hand-crafted ontology.</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-decoration: none"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-left: 2.54cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&middot;</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><U>ONTOSOPHIE</U></SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> </FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">is our new system for Semi-Automatic Population of Ontologies from Text with confidence values associated to both the extraction rules and extracted values (extracted slots).</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-left: 2.54cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&middot;</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/akt/MnM/index.html">MnM</A>&nbsp; Semi-Automatic Population of&nbsp; Ontologies from Text using Amilcare. </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> MnM is the most well known system (in the Semantic Web Community) for ontology-driven semantic mark-up. However, MnM allows also to populate&nbsp; a given ontology. The latest is the main feature of the MnM system. A published Conference paper on MnM work had been widely cited in several research communities and boosted research on Information Extraction technologies. The MnM system is available as open source at http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/akt/MnM/ <br><br> Alternatively <A HREF=" http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/MnM_Page.pdf"> MnM page </A> &nbsp; and &nbsp; <A HREF=" http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/MnM_released.pdf"> released news </A> <br> <br> The name "MnM" is an abbreviation of "<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">M</FONT>aria a<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">n</FONT>d <FONT COLOR="#0000ff">M</FONT>attia". Therefore, I am proud to say that I have a system in my honour!. :-) </FONT> <br> <br> Furthermore, the MnM paper (result of the research AKT project) has been used in the context of European projects like &nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/dot.kom/publications.html"> Dotkom Project. </A> </B> </SPAN></FONT> </P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-decoration: none"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 2.54cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&middot;</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><U>INFOEXTRACTOR</U></SPAN></FONT> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Semi-Automatic Population of Ontologies from Text using Marmot, Crystal and Badger. <br> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <B> <A HREF="http://news.kmi.open.ac.uk/11/143"> AKT-0 success news</A> </B> <br><br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/kcap-canada.pdf"> InfoExtractor talk </A> presented at KCAP-2001, Victoria, Canada; October 2001. <br><br> </SPAN> </P> <P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </FONT> </P> <P STYLE="text-decoration: none"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> 6.</B> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><U><B>Machine Learning</B></U></SPAN></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">Extraction of Fuzzy Rules from images </FONT> &nbsp; (National Autonomous University of Mexico); <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> CONACyT-REDII funded project: Grant: $21,600 USD; (holder) </B> </FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </FONT> </P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B>7. </B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp; <!-- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; --> </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><U><B>Fuzzy Logic and Objects</B></U></SPAN></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Fril++:</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">An Object-Oriented Fuzzy Logic Programming Language, &nbsp;&nbsp; (Bristol University, England UK)&nbsp;&nbsp; <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> EPSRC funded project. </B> </FONT> </SPAN></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> 8. </B> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><U><B>Construction of&nbsp; Logic Programs&nbsp; using the concept of&nbsp; Program Schemata</B></U></SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><B> </B></FONT> </P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm">Automatic Programming -- Program Composition&nbsp; (Edinburgh University, Scotland UK). <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> PSPA-UNAM funded project; Grant: £24,000. </B> </FONT> </P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> 9. </B> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><U><B>Object-Oriented Databases &amp; Logic Programming. </B></U></SPAN></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm">A Copy Structure-Based Prolog interpreter for a Unix System&nbsp; (National Autonomous University of Mexico) <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> Conacyt funded project. </B> </FONT> </P> <br> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B> Current Research Team: </B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#333399"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"></FONT></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera </SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Miklos Nagy </SPAN> </P> <!-- <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Dietmar Jannach &nbsp;&nbsp; (Collaborator from TU Dortmund, Germany) </SPAN> </P> --> <!-- <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Piotr Stolarski &nbsp;&nbsp; (Collaborator from Poznan University of Economics, Poznan Poland) </SPAN> </P> --> <!-- <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Adam Kay </SPAN> </P> --> <!-- <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Piotr Stolarski</SPAN> </P> --> </UL> <!-- Program Committees --> <br> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B>Program Committees (Conference/Workshops)</B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#333399"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>:</I></SPAN></FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"></FONT></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://www.dexa.org/">The 23rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications 2012 (DEXA 2012). </A> Vienna, Austria; September 3-7,&nbsp; 2012.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://www.iceis.org/IVM.aspx"> The Workshop on Information Value Management (IVM 2012) </A> collocated with the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems(ICEIS 2012). Wroclaw, Poland; 28 June -1st July,&nbsp; 2012.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <!-- <A HREF="http://www.ftrai.org/mue2011/callforpapers.html"> --> <A HREF="http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/mue2012/"> The Fifth International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE-2012). </A> Track 1: Ubiquitous Computing and Beyond. Leganes, Madrid, 10-13 July 2012. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://www.micai.org/2011/">The Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2011)</A>, Puebla, Mexico; November 26- Dec 4,&nbsp; 2011.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://www.keod.ic3k.org/">The International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD 2011)</A>, Paris, France; October 26-29,&nbsp; 2011.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://wi-iat-2011.org/">The 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'11)</A>, Lyon, France; August 22-27,&nbsp; 2011.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://www.dexa.org/">The 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications 2011 (DEXA 2011). </A> Toulouse, France; August 29-September - 2 October ,&nbsp; 2011.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://www.iceis.org/IVM.asp"> 1st Workshop on Information Value Management (IVM 2011) </A> collocated with the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems(ICEIS 2011). Beijing, China; 8-11 June,&nbsp; 2011.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <!-- <A HREF="http://www.ftrai.org/mue2011/callforpapers.html"> --> <A HREF="http://www.ftrai.org/mue2011/programcommittees.html"> The Fifth International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE-2011). </A> Track 1: Ubiquitous Computing and Beyond. Creete, Greece, 27-29 June 2011. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://wm-konferenz2011.org/indexEN.html"> The first International Workshop on Knowledge Management and e-Human Resources Practices for Innovation (eER-KM2011). </A> Innsbruck, Austria; 21-23 February 2011. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://www.iccp.ro/index.php/home.html">The IEEE 6th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing.</A> </A> Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 26-28 August 2010. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://www.micai.org/2010/">The The 9th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI-2010).</A> </A>(Reviewer for the track of Logic, Reasoning, Ontologies, Knowledge Management, Knowledge-Based Systems, Multi-agent Systems and Distributed AI). Pachuca, Mexico; 8-13 November 2010. </SPAN> </P> <LI> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Member of the Program Committee of The <A HREF="http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/ontocontent2010"> 5th International Workshop on Ontology Content (OnToContent-2010), </A> collocated with <A HREF="http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/"> The OTM Federated Conferences 2010. </A> Greece, October 25-29, 2010. </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/">The 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'10)</A>, Toronto Canada, August 31 - 3 September,&nbsp; 2010.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://iimss-10.kesinternational.org/">The 3rd International Symposium on Intelligent and Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services ( KES IIMSS 2010). </A> 28-30 July Baltomore, USA&nbsp; 2010.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://kes2010.kesinternational.org/">The 14th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent and Engineering Systems (KES2010). </A> Cardiff, UK; 8-10 September,&nbsp; 2010.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://www.amcis2010.org/home/">The 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2010) </A> -Information Quality Track. Lima, Peru; 12-15 August,&nbsp; 2010.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://www.dexa.org/">The 21th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications 2010 (DEXA 2010). </A> Bilbao, Spain; August 30-September 3 ,&nbsp; 2010.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of the <A HREF="http://saakm2008.semanticauthoring.org/">Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup Workshop (SAAKM-2009) </A> co-located with the 5th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP-2009), Redondo Beach, California, USA, Canada September 1 2009. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF=" http://www.cv.utcluj.ro/iccp2009/index.php/home.html">The IEEE 5th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing.</A> </A>, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 27-29 August 2009. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://www.dexa.org/">The 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications 2009 (DEXA 2009). </A>, Linz Austria 31 August - 4 September,&nbsp; 2009.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09/WIhome.htm">The 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'09)</A>, Milan Italy 15-18 September,&nbsp; 2009.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of the <A HREF="http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/miniconf1.htm">Conference on Semantic Web and Web 2.0. </A> Open research Society, Athens Greece; September 24-28, 2008.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of the</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <A HREF="http://www.cv.utcluj.ro/iccp2008/index.php/home.html">IEEE 4rd International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing.</A> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;Cluj-Napoca, Romania.</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium">August 28-30</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB">, </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium">2008.</SPAN></SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of the <A HREF="http://saakm2008.semanticauthoring.org/">Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup Workshop (SAAKM-2008) </A> co-located with the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW-2008), Catania, Italy. September 28, 2008.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/wi/">The 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'08)</A>, Sydney Australia, December 9-12,&nbsp; 2008.</SPAN> IEEE/WIC is one of the top 15 conference in the ranking of <A HREF="http://www.cs-conference-ranking.org/conferencerankings/topicsii.html"> AI/ML conference list <A> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/">The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence </A></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">(WI'07)</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> , Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5,&nbsp; 2007.</SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of the <A HREF="http://saakm2007.semanticauthoring.org/">Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup Workshop (SAAKM-2007) </A> co-located with the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap 2007), Whistker, British Columbia, Canada. October 28-31 2007.</SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://baosw.epia05.di.ubi.pt/">The Workshop Building and Applying Ontologies for the Semantic Web</A>, in association with&nbsp; 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence EPIA 2007.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of the</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <A HREF="http://cs-gw.utcluj.ro/%7Eiccp07/">IEEE 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing.</A> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;Cluj-Napoca, Romania.</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium">September 6-8</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB">,</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium">2007.</SPAN></SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of the&nbsp; <A HREF="http://ekaw.vse.cz/committees.php">EKAW 2006 Conference (Poster &amp; Demo Session)</A>. October 2-6, Podebrady,&nbsp; Czech Republic, 2006.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of the <A HREF="http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/%7Ewii06/wi/">2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2006)</A>. Hong Kong, 18-22, December 2006.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/semannot2005">the 5th International Workshop on Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation (SemAnnot 2005)</A> in Association with 4th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2005, Galway Ireland, 6 -10 November 2005. </SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of &nbsp;<A HREF="http://baosw.epia05.di.ubi.pt/">the Workshop Building and Applying Ontologies for the Semantic Web</A>, in association with&nbsp; 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence EPIA 2005.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee&nbsp; of &nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05/news/">the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2005)</A>. September 19-22, 2005, Compi&egrave;gne University of Technology, France.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.iadis.org/multi2005/committees.asp">the IADIS ELearning 2005 Conference (EL 2005); </A> part of the IADIS Virtual Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2005); 11 - 29 April 2005. (http://www.iadis.org/multi2005).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of &nbsp;<A HREF="http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/semannot2004/">the 4rd International Workshop on Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation (SemAnnot 2004)</A> in Association with 3rd International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2004, Hiroshima, Japan, 8 November 2004.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee&nbsp; of &nbsp;<A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/victoria/ekaw/">the Workshop on the Application of Language and Semantic Technologies to Support Knowledge Management Processes EKAW-04</A>.&nbsp; Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK. 8 October, 2004.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee&nbsp; of <A HREF="http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI04/">the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2004)</A>. Beijing China, September 20-24 2004. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://www.aimsa2004.org/committee.php">The Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA 2004)</A>. Varna Bulgaria September 2-4, 2004. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of&nbsp; the Program Committee&nbsp; of <A HREF="http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/semannot2003">the Knowledge Markup &amp; Semantic Annotation Workshop, K-CAP 2003</A>, Sanibel Island, Florida Orlando,&nbsp; October 25-26,&nbsp; 2003. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of&nbsp; the Program Committee&nbsp; of <A HREF="http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org/cfp.htm#pc">the Second International&nbsp; Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2003)</A> , October 20-23, Sanibel Island, Florida Orlando, 2003. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of&nbsp; the Program Committee&nbsp; of <A HREF="http://gate.ac.uk/conferences/iswc2003/">the Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services Workshop</A>. ISWC-2003, 20-23 October, Sanibel Island, Florida Orlando,&nbsp; 2003. </SPAN> </P> </UL> <br> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B>Advisory Committees:</B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#333399"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"></FONT></P> <UL> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Program Committee of <A HREF="http://www.interscience.ac.in/ICIH/icih.html">The International Conference on Intelligent Health Care (ICIH 2011). </A> Bhubaneswar, India; July 9-10 ,&nbsp; 2011.</SPAN> </P> </UL> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Reviewer:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505608/description#description"> Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE), Elsevier </A> November, 2010.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smcb-ieee"> IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part B. </A> August, 2010.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://ees.elsevier.com/ipl/"> Information Processing Letters, Elsevier </A> August, 2010.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505608/description#description"> Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE), Elsevier </A> July, 2010.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505608/description#description"> Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE), Elsevier </A> February, 2010.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF=" http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijmso"> International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO). </A> January, 2010.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://www.editorialmanager.com/wwwj/"> World Wide Web Journal; Springer Verlag.</A> September, 2009.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/671322/description#description">Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier. </A> July, 2009.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://www.editorialmanager.com/wwwj/"> World Wide Web Journal; Springer Verlag.</A> April, 2009.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://www.academypublisher.com/jetwi/index.html"> Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (JETWI). </A> April, 2009.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smcb-ieee"> IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part A. </A> April, 2009.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smcb-ieee"> IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part A. </A> March, 2009.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smcb-ieee"> IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part B. </A> February, 2009.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://aire.edmgr.com/"> Artificial Intelligence Review (AIRE) </A> January, 2009.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smcb-ieee"> IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part B. </A> January, 2009.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smcb-ieee"> IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part B. </A> July, 2008.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <A HREF="http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-400190.html"> The Handbook of Technology Management (3 Volume set), </A> Editor Hossein Bidgoli, Wiley publisher; September, 2009.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=34405&v=tableOfContents"> Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services. </A> Editors M. Manuela Cunha, Eva F. Oliveira, António J. Tavares & Luís G. Ferreira February, 2008.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06/">IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC-06) and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE-06</A>), San Francisco California, June 26-29, 2006.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/dawei/talip/">ACM Transaction on Asian Languages Information Processing (TALIP) Special Issue on Reasoning in NLP.</A> February 2006.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/%7Ewaim06/home.htm">The Seventh International Conference on Web-Age Information Management. </A>&nbsp;Hong Kong, China, June 17-19, 2006.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><A HREF="http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/%7Eapweb06/"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">The 8</SPAN><SUP><SPAN LANG="en-GB">th</SPAN></SUP><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Asia Pacific Web Conference APWeb2006</SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. Harbin China, January 16-18, 2006.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smcb-ieee"> IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics </A> </SPAN></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">- Part B : Cybernetics</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">,&nbsp; September 2005.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Ekiffer/IJHCS.html">IJHCS special issue on ontologies and knowledge representation</A>. September, 2005.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai05.php"> AAAI-05: Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. </A> </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, July 9-13 2005.</SPAN></FONT> &nbsp; &nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2005/AAAI05-232.pdf"> List of Reviewers (online). </A> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">&nbsp;</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <A HREF=" http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2005/"> Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2005 (RANLP-05). </A> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Borovets, Bulgaria, 18-24 September 2005.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">The Fourth International Mexican Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI-2005)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">, Monterrey&nbsp; Mexico, November&nbsp; 14-18 2005.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Ontologies</SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">in the Context of Information Systems</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. Editors Rajiv Kishore, Ram Ramesh and Raj Sharman. Springer Verlag Fall 2005.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Workshop on Semantic Web Technology for Mobile and Ubiquitous Applications</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">, ISWC 04. Hiroshima Japan, November 7 2004.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <A HREF="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smcb-ieee"> IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics </A> </SPAN></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">- Part B : Cybernetics</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">, December 2004.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <A HREF="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smcb-ieee"> IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics </A> </SPAN></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">- Part B : Cybernetics</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">, July 2004.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">The 1st European Semantic Web Symposium</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">, Heraklion, Greece, May 10-12, 2004.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">The International Journal&nbsp; ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, </FONT> November 2004. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">The&nbsp; 8th</SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2004</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, January 13-16, 2004,</SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Book:&nbsp; </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">New Directions on Question Answering</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">, MIT press, 2003.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">The Second&nbsp; International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP-03)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">, Oct 23-25, USA,&nbsp; 2003.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">The 2003 International World Wide Web Conference (WWW-2003)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. Budapest, Hungary, May 20-24, 2003.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Special issue on the Semantic Web of the Elsevier Journal on Computer Networks</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">, October 2002. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Euroweb</SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">2002 Conference. The Web and the GRID: from e-science to e-business</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. St Anne's College Oxford UK, December 17-18, 2002.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">The 13th&nbsp; International Conference on Knowledge Engineering on Knowledge Management (EKAW02)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. Siguenza Spain, October 1-4,&nbsp; 2002.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">The&nbsp; Workshop on Knowledge Management through Corporate Semantic Webs (KMSW)</SPAN></FONT> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">held in association with The&nbsp; 13th&nbsp; International Conference on Knowledge Engineering on Knowledge Management (EKAW02). Siguenza Spain, September 30,&nbsp; 2002.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Workshop on Ontologies for Multi-Agent systems (OMAS)</SPAN></FONT> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">held in conjuction with the&nbsp; 13th&nbsp; International Conference on Knowledge Engineering on Knowledge Management (EKAW02). Siguenza Spain, September 30,&nbsp; 2002.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">The International Semantic Web Conference ISWC2002</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">, Sardinia Italy. June 10-12,&nbsp; 2002.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">The International Workshop on the Semantic Web</SPAN></FONT> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">in conjunction with&nbsp; The Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2002), Honolulu, Hawaii. May 7,&nbsp; 2002.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Ontologies</SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">and Information Sharing Workshop at IJCAI-01</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">, Seattle Washington, USA. August 4-5, 2001.</SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">First International Conference on&nbsp; Knowledge Capture&nbsp; (KCAP-01)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">, Victoria B.C. Canada. </SPAN><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Oct 21-23, 2001. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management Workshop&nbsp; (HTL &amp; KM) ACL-EACL 2001</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">, Toulouse France. July 6-11 2001. (Association for&nbsp; Computational Linguistic).</SPAN> </P> </UL> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <br> <P><I><B><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Most Recent Publications</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#333399"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">:</SPAN></FONT></B></I></P> <P><B>Refereed Journals & Book Chapters:</B></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <!-- <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Miklos Nagy </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> and Maria Vargas-Vera. <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> Establishing Trust for Contradictory Evidences by means of a Fuzzy Voting Model: An Ontology Mapping Case Study.</FONT> IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A Journal, To appear 2011; (forthcoming). </FONT> </P> --> <LI><P STYLE="line-height: 0.51cm"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Maria </FONT></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Vargas-Vera &nbsp; <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> A Framework for Extraction of Relations from Text using Relational Learning and Similarity Measures. </FONT> Special Issue on the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS); 2012, (forthcoming). </FONT> </FONT> </P> Keywords: Relational Learning, Similarity Measures, Semantic Web <br> <br> <br> <LI><P STYLE="line-height: 0.51cm"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Maria </FONT></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Vargas-Vera and Miklos Nagy. &nbsp; <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> Establishing Agent Trust for Contradictory Evidence by Means of Fuzzy Voting Model: An Ontology Mapping Case Study. </FONT> Special Issue on the Journal of Computers in Human Behavior (CHB), Elsevier Journal 2012; (forthcoming). </FONT> </FONT> </P> Keywords: Ontology mapping, Semantic Web, Multi-Agent systems, Uncertain reasoning <br> <br> <br> <LI><P STYLE="line-height: 0.51cm"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Maria </FONT></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Vargas-Vera and Miklos Nagy. &nbsp; <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> A Framework for Detecting and Removing Knowledge Overlaps in a Collaborative Environment: Case of Study a Computer Configuration Problem. </FONT> Special Issue on the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (IJCIS); 2012, (forthcoming). </FONT> </FONT> </P> Keywords: Knowledge-based systems, Knowledge overlaps, Configuration <br> <br> <br> <LI><P STYLE="line-height: 0.51cm"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Miklos </FONT></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Nagy and Maria Vargas-Vera. &nbsp; <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> Dealing with Contradictory Evidences using Fuzzy Trust in Semantic Web Data. </FONT> Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web II. Publisher Springer LNAI; 2012, (forthcoming). </FONT> </FONT> </P> Keywords: Ontology mapping, Fuzzy Trust Model, Semantic Web <br> <br> <br> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Miklos Nagy </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> and Maria Vargas-Vera. <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> Multiagent Ontology Mapping Framework for the Semantic Web. </FONT> IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A Journal (TSMCA), Volume 41, issue 4, pp. 693-704; 2011. <!-- (forthcoming). --> Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1109/TSMCA.2011.2132704. <br> <A HREF="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?asf_arn=null&asf_iid=5876615&asf_pun=null&asf_in=null&asf_rpp=null&asf_iv=null&asf_sp=null&asf_pn=2"> (buy). </A> <br><br> Keywords: Multiagent systems, Ontology Mapping, Semantic Web, Uncertain Reasoning. <!-- <br> <br> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> In this paper we analyse the ontology matching challenges and introduce our multi-agent ontology mapping framework that has been designed to operate effectively in the Semantic Web environment. </B> --> </FONT> </P> <LI><P STYLE="line-height: 0.51cm"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Maria </FONT></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Vargas-Vera , Yesica Castellanos and Miltiadis Lytras. &nbsp; <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> CONQUIRO: A Cluster-Based Information Retrieval Engine. </FONT> Special Issue on the Journal of Computers in Human Behavior (CHB), Elsevier. Ed. Miltiadis Lytras and John Carroll; 27(4); pp. 1303-1309; 2011. <!-- &nbsp;&nbsp; <br> http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2010.07.025; Impact factor 2.5. --> <br> <A HREF="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VDC-50TYH0X-2&_user=10&_coverDate=08%2F21%2F2010&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=fc2209ecbd3a1a6c40d8bb900dbe74ff&searchtype=a">(buy) </A> <br> <br> Keywords: Clustering Methods, Vector Space Model, Visualisation of clusters, Knowledge Management, </FONT> </FONT> </P> <LI><P STYLE="line-height: 0.51cm"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Maria </FONT></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Vargas-Vera, Miklos Nagy and Dietmar Jannach. &nbsp; <FONT COLOR="#0000ff">An Approach to Knowledge Integration Applied to a Configuration Problem. </FONT> <A HREF="http://springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-17930-3/"> Intelligence-Based Systems Engineering. </A> Eds. Andreas Tolk and Lakhmi C Jain. ISRL 10, Chapter 4, pp. 75-105; Springer Verlag, 2011. ISBN: 978-3-642-17930-3; e-ISBN 978-3-642-17931-0; DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-17931-0. <br> <A HREF="http://springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-17930-3/">(buy) </A> <!-- <br> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Vargas-Vera_Chapter4_Knowledge_Integration.pdf"> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <FONT SIZE=3 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Camera Ready &nbsp; PDF </A> </FONT> </FONT> --> <br><br> Keywords: Knowledge Integration, Configuration, Kowledge-based Systems. <br><br> <!-- <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> This chapter is devoted to one of the problems which could arise when performing collaborative knowledge integration, namely detecting knowledge overlaps. Our case of study is a Configuration problem which is a real scenario. </B> </FONT> --> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> The solution to the overlapping problem relies on the use of matching algorithms embedded in our DSSim (short for <B>Sim</B>ilarity based on <B>D</B>empster-<B>S</B>hafer) System. </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> The work reported in this paper was started during my research stay at University of Dortmund, Germany. </FONT> </FONT> </FONT> </P> <LI><P STYLE="line-height: 0.51cm"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Maria </FONT></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Vargas-Vera and Miltiadis Lytras.&nbsp; <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> AQUA: Hybrid Architecture for Question Answering Services. </FONT> Special Issue on Semantic Web Support for Software Development; IET Software Journal. Colomo-Palacios R. and Gomez-Bebis J. M. (eds); Volume 4 issue 6, pp. 418-433; December 2010. <br><br> doi:10.1049/iet-sen.2010.0053. The IET Journal is ISI indexed. <!-- Impact factor 0.5. --> Read abstract &nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.ietdl.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=ISEOB7&Volume=CURVOL&Issue=CURISS"> Abstract </A> </FONT> </FONT> </P> <LI><P STYLE="line-height: 0.51cm"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Maria </FONT></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Vargas-Vera and Miklos Nagy. &nbsp; <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> Towards Intelligent Ontology Alignment Systems for Question Answering : Challenges and Roadblocks. </FONT> Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (JETWI); Vol 2 No. 3; pp. 244-257; August 2010. <br> doi:10.4304/jetwi.2.3.244-257 (JETWI, ISSN 1798-0461). <!-- <A HREF="http://www.academypublisher.com/ojs/index.php/jetwi/article/view/0203244257/0"> --> <!-- <A HREF="http://ojs.academypublisher.com/index.php/jetwi/issue/current"> --> </FONT> </FONT> </P> <LI><P STYLE="line-height: 0.51cm"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Maria </FONT></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Vargas-Vera and Miltiadis D. Lytras.&nbsp; <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <A HREF="http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/1171994026-22914920/title~db=all~content=g924333520~tab=toc~order=page"> AQUA: a Closed-domain Question Answering System. </A> </FONT> Special Issue on the Journal of Information Systems Management (IMS). Ed Miltiadis Lytras; ISM 27(3), pp.217-225; July 2010. Publisher Taylor & Francis; ISSN: 1058-0530 print / 1934-8703 online. Impact factor 1.029. <br> <A HREF="http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/1171994026-22914920/title~db=all~content=g924333520~tab=toc~order=page"> (buy) </A> </FONT> </FONT> </P> <LI><P STYLE="line-height: 0.51cm"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Miklos</FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Nagy and Maria Vargas-Vera. &nbsp; <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <A HREF="http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~studia-i/2010-2/06-NagyVargas.pdf"> Reasoning Introspection and Visualisation Framework for Ontology Mapping in the Semantic Web. </A> </FONT> "Studia Universitatis Babes Bolyai Series Informatica" Journal; Volume LV, number 2, pp. 57-68; 2010. <br> <br> The "Studia Universitatis Babes Bolyai Series Informatica" Journal is ranked CNCSIS B+ and indexed in major international databases (MathSciNet, Zentralblatt fur Mathematik, DOAJ, EBSCO Publishing, CiteSeer, CiteSeer-X). </FONT> </FONT> <br> <br> </P> <!-- <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Miklos Nagy and </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Maria Vargas-Vera. <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> Towards an Automatic Semantic Data Integration<B>: </B> Muti-Agent Framework Approach. </FONT> Accepted for a special issue on  Sematic Web , ISBN 978-1-60566-650-1; I-Tech Education and Publishing KG, To appear in 2009. </FONT> </P> --> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Miklos Nagy and </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Maria Vargas-Vera. <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> Towards an Automatic Semantic Data Integration<B>: </B> Muti-Agent Framework Approach. </FONT> Sematic Web. Gang Wu (ed), Chapter 7, pp. 107-134; In-Tech Education and Publishing KG; 2010, ISBN:978-953-7619-54-1. </FONT> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera, Miklos Nagy, Dominik Zyskowski, Konstanty Haniewicz, Witold Abramowicz and Monica Kaczmarek. <FONT COLOR="#0000ff" SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Challenges on Semantic Web Services. </FONT> <A HREF="http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=34405&v=tableOfContents"> The Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services. </A> Editors M. Manuela Cunha, Eva F. Oliveira, António J. Tavares & Luís G. Ferreira; Chapter II, pp. 25-48; ISBN: 978-1-60566-650-1; Publisher Information Science Reference, May, 2009.</SPAN> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Vargas-Vera_etal_SWS.pdf"> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Camera Ready &nbsp; PDF </A> </B> </FONT> </FONT> <!-- <br><br> --> <br> <br> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> This paper shows an application of the Dempster Shafer and Fuzzy model to the problem of discovery and trust in Semantic Web Services. The extended Dempster Shafer with the Fuzzy Voting Model has not been introduced before in the context of Semantic Web Services. Therefore, Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera and Team are pioneers on Dempster-Shafer applied to Semantic Web Services. <br> <br> The work reported in this paper was partially supported by the Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge Fellowship (TOK) of the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme under the contract number MTKD-CT-2004-509766 (enIRaF). </B> </FONT> </P> <br> <!-- <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Miltiadis D. Lytras, Patricia Ordonez De Pablos </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> and Maria Vargas-Vera. <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> Semantic Web for Interactive Academic Portals: the case of OpenLMS. </FONT> Accepted for publication in the special issue on "Interactive Learning for the Knowledge Society - Emerging Technologies for the Society and the Humanity" organized from articles accepted in Athens World Summit on the Knowledge Society; 2009. <br> <br> </P> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Miltiadis D. Lytras, Patricia Ordonez De Pablos </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> and Maria Vargas-Vera. <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> Ontologies for Learning content Discovery in Learning Communities, Interactive Learning Environments. </FONT> Accepted for publication in the special issue on Web 2.0 and Social Networks for Learning; 2008. <br> <br> </P> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Miltiadis D. Lytras </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> and Maria Vargas-Vera. <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> Personalized Semantic Learning Portals: Social Networking. </FONT> Computers in Human Behaviour, Accepted for publication in the special issue on Advances of Semantic Web and Knowledge Management for social Networks; 2008. <br> <br> </P> --> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">and Miltiadis D. Lytras. </SPAN><A HREF=" http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Exploiting Semantic Web and Ontologies for Personalized Learning Services: Towards semantic web enabled learning portals for real learning </SPAN></FONT></A><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, Volume 4 Issue&nbsp; 1; pp. 1-17, 2008. <br> <br> Electronic abstract at: </SPAN><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF=" http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php">http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php</A> </SPAN></FONT> <br> <br> <!--<FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> The work reported in this paper is the result of a collaboration with Dr. Miltiadis Lytras at Patras University, Greece. </B> </FONT> <br> --> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">and Emanuela Moreale. </SPAN><A HREF=" http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> What is missing in the Semantic Web Cake? </SPAN></FONT></A><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies. Special issue on Semantic Web&nbsp; IJTCS 1(4); pp. 333-343, 2008. <br> <br> Electronic abstract at: </SPAN><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF=" http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php">http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php</A> </SPAN></FONT> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera, Emanuela Moreale, Arthur Stutt, Enrico Motta and Fabio Ciravegna. </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.springerlink.com/content/t6754lp3283062l3/"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">MnM:&nbsp; Semi-Automatic Ontology Population from Text.</SPAN></FONT></A><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Ontologies: A Handbook of Principles, Concepts and Applications in Information Systems, Editors Rajiv Kishore, Ram Ramesh, and Raj Sharman.</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Chapter 13</SPAN><FONT FACE="Courier New"><FONT SIZE=2><SPAN LANG="en-GB">, </SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Springer Verlag,&nbsp; ISBN-10: 0-387-37019-6</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#000080"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. </SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp; pp. 373-402, December, &nbsp;2006.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Victoria Uren, Philipp Cimiano, Jose Iria, Siegfried Hanndschuh, Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta and Fabio Ciravegna.</SPAN> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/webSemantics2006.pdf"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Semantic Annotation Systems for Knowledge Management: A Survey of Requirements and State of the Art</SPAN></FONT></FONT></A><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">: </SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;<SPAN LANG="en-GB">Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier. Volume 4, issue 1, pp. 14-28, &nbsp; January 2006. <br> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Uren_etal_CameraReady_WebSemantics2006.pdf"> Camera Ready PDF </A> &nbsp;&nbsp; (Impact Factor: 3.41). &nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.semanticwebjournal.org/">http://www.semanticwebjournal.org/</A>&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF=" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B758F-4HKD000-1&_user=10&_coverDate=01%2F31%2F2006&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=2ac0f0fde778f7b460d90c8ea1b8e30c&searchtype=a"> (buy) </A> or alternatively&nbsp; can be found at </SPAN> <!-- </P> --> <!-- </UL> --> <!-- <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> --> <A HREF="http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S1570826805000338">http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S1570826805000338</A> Also, AKT selected paper (2005), pp. 1-29,&nbsp; Eds N. Shadbolt and Y.&nbsp; Kalfoglou, ISBN&nbsp; 085432 854 8, August 2005.</SPAN> <br> <A HREF="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=maria+vargas-vera&amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;oe=ISO-8859-1&amp;hl=en"><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> <br> <A HREF="http://news.kmi.open.ac.uk/11/886"> The most wanted paper on 2005: news article </FONT> </A> <br> <A HREF="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-web-semantics/most-read-articles/"> The above paper is in the list of most read Journal of Web Semantics Articles </A> <br> <A HREF="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=maria+vargas-vera&amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;oe=ISO-8859-1&amp;hl=en"><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> This paper, according to Google Scholar, has been cited &nbsp; in different research communities such as Semantic Web and Knowledge Management. </B> </A> </FONT> <br> <br><br> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">and Emanuela Moreale. </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=record&amp;rec_id=8354"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Student Essays</SPAN></FONT></A><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, Volume 1 Issue&nbsp; 4, pp. 318-331, 2005. (Impact Factor 1.2) &nbsp;&nbsp; Electronic abstract can be found at: </SPAN><FONT SIZE=2><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=42&amp;year=2005&amp;vol=1&amp;issue=4">http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=42&amp;year=2005&amp;vol=1&amp;issue=4</A> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Also, AKT selected paper (2005), pp. 58-75,&nbsp; Eds N. Shadbolt and Y.&nbsp; Kalfoglou, ISBN&nbsp; 085432 854 8, August 2005. </SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">and David Celjuska. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-04-14.pdf">Event Recognition on News Stories and Semi-Automatic Population of an Ontology.</A> Selected AKT papers (2004), pp. 159-163. Eds. N. Shadbolt and K.&nbsp; O'Hara, ISBN&nbsp; 85432 8122, October&nbsp; 2004. <A HREF="http://www.aktors.org/publications/selected-papers/2004/159-163.pdf">http://www.aktors.org/publications/selected-papers/2004/159-163.pdf</A></SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P> <FONT COLOR="#000000"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Emanuela</SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Moreale</SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">and Maria Vargas-Vera. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-03-12.pdf">Semantic Services in E-Learning: an Argumentation Case Study</A>. IFETS Journal Special issue </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>Ontologies</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>and </I></SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>the Semantic Web for E-learning</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">, IEEE Educational Technology &nbsp;Journal, Volume 7 Issue 4, pp. 112-128, October&nbsp; 2004.</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://www.ifets.info/journals/7_4/ets_7_4_contents.pdf">http://www.ifets.info/journals/7_4/ets_7_4_contents.pdf</A> &nbsp;Alternatively can be also found at</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> &nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><A HREF="http://www.ifets.info/index.php?"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><FONT FACE="Courier New"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><U>http://www.ifets.info/index.php? </U></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </A> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Mattia Lanzoni, Arthur Stutt and Fabio Ciravegna. <A HREF="http://www.aktors.org/publications/">MnM: Ontology Driven Semi-Automatic and Automatic Support for Semantic Markup</A>. Selected AKT papers (2003), pp. 42-55. Ed. N. Shadbolt, ISBN 0854 327932. <A HREF="http://www.aktors.org/publications/selected-papers/06.pdf">http://www.aktors.org/publications/selected-papers/06.pdf</A></SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera, John Domingue, Yannis Kalfoglou, Enrico Motta and Simon Buckingham-Shum. <A HREF="http://www.aktors.org/publications/">Template-Driven Information Extraction for Populating Ontologies</A>. Selected AKT papers (2003), pp. 17-22. Ed N. Shadbolt, ISBN 0854 327932. <A HREF="http://www.aktors.org/publications/selected-papers/03.pdf">http://www.aktors.org/publications/selected-papers/03.pdf</A></SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Yannis</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Kalfoglou, John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Maria Vargas-Vera and Simon Buckingham-Shum. <A HREF="http://www.aktors.org/publications/">myPlanet: an ontology-driven Web-based personalised news service</A>. Selected AKT papers (2003), pp. 140-148. &nbsp;Ed. N. Shadbolt, ISBN 0854. <A HREF="http://www.aktors.org/publications/selected-papers/15.pdf">http://www.aktors.org/publications/selected-papers/15.pdf</A></SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">James F. Baldwin, Trevor P. Martin and Maria Vargas-Vera. <A HREF="http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/ai/martin/abstracts/lpsc96.html">Fril++: an Object-based Extensions to Fril</A>. Logic Programming and Soft Computing, by Research Studies Press, pp 223-240. Eds.&nbsp; Trevor Martin and Francesca Arcelli, 1998. <B> Authors are listed in alphabetical order as it was the general policy in the AI group of the Engineering Maths Department at Bristol University. However, I am the main author of this paper. </B> </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Andy Bowles,&nbsp; Dave Robertson, Wamberto Vasconcelos, Maria Vargas-Vera and Diana Bental. <A HREF="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/journals/ijmms/ijmms41.html#BowlesRVVB94">Applying Prolog Programming Techniques</A>. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier. IJHCS 41(3):329-350; 1994. ISSN: 1071-5819. <!-- (Also research paper 641, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 1993). --> </SPAN> <br> <br> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> The work described in this paper was influential in automatic construction of programs and software visualization communities. </B> </FONT> <A HREF="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=maria+vargas-vera&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&hl=en"><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> <br> This paper, according to Google Scholar, has been cited &nbsp; in different research communities such as: Automatic Construction of Programs, software visualization. </B> </FONT> </A> <br> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Bowles_etal_ApplyingPrologTechniques.pdf"> Camera Ready </A> <br> </P> </UL> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>&nbsp;</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><B>Refereed Conferences & Workshops:</B></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P STYLE="line-height: 0.51cm"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Leonor</FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Barroca, Lucia Rappanotti, Marian Petre and Maria Vargas-Vera. &nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.iated.org/concrete2/technical_program.php?event_id=8"> Developing Research Degrees Online. </A> &nbsp; <A HREF=" http://www.iated.org/iceri2010/"> International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI). </A> November 15-17; Madrid, Spain 2010. <!-- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.iated.org/concrete2/technical_program.php?event_id=8"> Technical Program. </A>--> <br> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/ICERI_FINAL.pdf"> Camera Ready PDF </A> <br><br> Keywords: Experiences in Post-graduate education. <br> </FONT> </FONT> <br><br> </P> <LI><P STYLE="line-height: 0.51cm"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Lucia</FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Rappanotti, Leonor Barroca, Maria Vargas-Vera and Ahmad Reeves. &nbsp; deep|think: A Second Life environment for part-time research students at a distance. (Short Paper). <A HREF="http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2010/others/"> The 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2010). </A> &nbsp; pp. 200-201; July 5-7; Sousse, Tunisia 2010. </FONT> </FONT> <br><br> </P> <LI><P STYLE="line-height: 0.51cm"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Miklos</FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Nagy and Maria Vargas-Vera. &nbsp; Multi-Agent Voting For Conflict Resolution: A Fuzzy Approach. <A HREF=  http://www.icaart.org/ > The Second International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2010). </A> Joaquim Filipe, Ana L. N. Fred, Bernadette Sharp (Eds.); ICAART(1) pp. 178-183; INSTICC Press 2010, ISBN 978-989-674-021-4. Valencia Spain; January 22-24, 2010. </FONT> </FONT> </P> <LI><P STYLE="line-height: 0.51cm"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Miklos</FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Nagy and Maria Vargas-Vera &nbsp; Reasoning Representation and Visualisation Framework for Ontology Mapping Using 3D modelling. <A HREF="http://inter-eng.upm.ro/"> The 4th International Conference on Interdisciplinarity Engineering (INTER ENG 2009). </A>  Petru Maior University of Târgu Mure_, Romania. pp. 315-322, ISSN 1843-780X; November 12-13, 2009. </FONT> </FONT> <br> <br> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> A plenary session presentation showing our team work was given by co-author at INTER ENG 2009. </FONT> </P> <LI><P STYLE="line-height: 0.51cm"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Miklos</FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Piotr Stolarski. &nbsp; <!-- <A HREF="http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/"> --> DSSim Results for OAEI-20009. <!--</A> --> Ontology Mapping Evaluation (OM-2009). OAEI-2009, collocated with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2009), (Eds) Shvaiko P., Euzenat J., Giunchiglia F. and Stuckenschmidt H. Washington DC, USA, October 25-29, 2009. CEUR WS vol. 551 &nbsp; <A HREF="http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-551/" TARGET="_blank">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-551 </A> <br> <A HREF="http://www.dit.unitn.it/~p2p/OM-2009/oaei09_paper5.pdf"> </A> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/NAGY_ETAL_OAEI2009.pdf"> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Camera Ready &nbsp; PDF </A> </B> </FONT> </FONT> <br><br> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B>This paper describes our participation on the Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2009 with our system DSSim (v0.4),</A> together with Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, Poland. This year (2009) we participated in 7 tracks for the evaluation 2009: benchmark, anatomy, directory, ars, iimb, very large crosslingual resources and conference. <!-- <br><br> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> My big thanks to the DSSim Team: Miklos Nagy and Piotr Stolarski. </FONT> --> </B> <!--CEUR WS vol. 431.&nbsp; <A HREF="http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-431/" TARGET="_blank">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-431 </A> <br> <A HREF="http://www.dit.unitn.it/%7Ep2p/OM-2007/0-o-oaei2007v4.pdf"> </A> --> </FONT> </FONT> <!-- was missing --> </P> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Miklos </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Nagy and Maria Vargas-Vera. Reaching Consensus Over Contradictory Interpretation of Semantic Web Data for Ontology Mapping. (Short paper) <A HREF=" http://cv.utcluj.ro/iccp2009/index.php/home.html"> IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing. </A> (Ed) Ioan Alfred Letia; pp. 63-66; ISBN: 978-1-4244-5007-7; Cluj-Napoca, Romania, August 27-29, 2009. &nbsp; </FONT> </P> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Miklos Nagy and </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Maria Vargas-Vera. Experimental Evaluation of Multi-Agent Ontology Mapping Framework. <A HREF="http://delab.csd.auth.gr/aiai2009/"> The 5th IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations (AIAI 2009). </A> Springer Verlag, ISBN: 978-1-4419-0220-7; pp. 145-150. Thessaloniki, Greece, April 23-25, 2009. </FONT> </P> <LI><P STYLE="line-height: 0.51cm"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Miklos</FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Piotr Stolarski. &nbsp;<A HREF="http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/">DSSim Results for OAEI-20008. </A> Ontology Mapping Evaluation (OM-2008). OAEI-2008, collocated with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2008), (Eds) Shvaiko P., Euzenat J., Giunchiglia F. and Stuckenschmidt H. Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26-30, 2008; CEUR WS vol. 431.&nbsp; <A HREF="http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-431/" TARGET="_blank">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-431 </A> <br> <!--<A HREF="http://www.dit.unitn.it/%7Ep2p/OM-2007/0-o-oaei2007v4.pdf"> </A> --> </FONT></FONT> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/NAGY_ETAL_OAEI2008.pdf"> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> <FONT SIZE=3 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Camera Ready &nbsp; PDF </A> </B> <B> &nbsp;&nbsp; Alternatively it can be found at link to <A HREF="http://www.dit.unitn.it/~p2p/OM-2008/oaei08_paper5.pdf"> PDF </A> </B> </FONT></FONT> <!-- </A> --> <br> <br> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> This paper describes the results to the problems set for the OAEI-2008, namely: benchmark, anatomy, fao, directory, mldirectory, library, very large crosslingual resources and conference. It is worth to note that this year we have participated in all the tracks given for the organizers of the evaluation 2008. </B> </FONT> <br> <br> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> FLASH: </B> &nbsp; </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> In this year (2008) we have participated in the Ontology Matching Evaluation 2008 with our system DSSim (v0.3) system, together with Poznan University of Economics, Poznan, Poland and our DSSim system was one of the top systems in OAEI-2008. DSSim was selected for presentation at OM-2008 together with ASMOV; October 26-30, 2008; Karlsruhe , Germany. </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> &nbsp;&nbsp; Read more at &nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/CRC_News.pdf"> <!--<A HREF="http://crc.open.ac.uk/8025711B0044B697/httpNews?ReadForm&unid=82583E401E3B939D802574F2003E23CC"> --> DSSim made the news headlines in October 2008. </A> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Also information at link &nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF=" http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Research NewsHightlights_final.pdf"> DSSim in the news </A> <!-- <br> <br> My big thanks to the DSSim Team: Miklos Nagy and Piotr Stolarski. --> </B> </FONT> </P> <br> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Miklos</SPAN></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. </SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Introducing Fuzzy Trust for Managing Belief Conflict over Semantic Web Data. <A HREF="http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/"> Uncertanty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2008)</A>, &nbsp;collocated with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2008), (Eds) Bobillo F, Costa P.G.C., D'Amato C, Fanizzi N., Laskey K., Lukasiewicz T., Martin T., Nickles M., Pool M. and Smrz P. Karlsruhe, Germany; October 26-30, 2008; </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT FACE="Verdana"><FONT SIZE=2><SPAN LANG="en-GB">CEUR WS vol. 423 </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><A HREF="http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-423/" TARGET="_blank"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=2> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-423</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></A> <br> <br> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> In this paper we present partially the work that Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera and Miklos Nagy have done towards to extend the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence by adding to the rule of combination a "Fuzzy Voting Model" to resolve the problem of "contradictory evidences" which are ignored when using the Dempster-Shafer rule of combination. </B> </FONT> </P> <br> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Miklos Nagy, </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. A Fuzzy Approach for Managing Belief Conflict over Semantic Web Data. (Poster) <A HREF="http://aswc2008.ait.ac.th/"> Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008). </A> Bangkok, Thailand 8-11 December 2008. Re-scheduled to February 2-5, 2009. </FONT> </P> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Miklos Nagy, </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. Managing Conflicting Beliefs with Fuzzy Trust on the Semantic Web. <A HREF="http://www.micai2008.net/"> The Seventh International Mexican Conference on Artificial&nbsp; Intelligence (MICAI-2008). </A> &nbsp; Lectures Notes on Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 5317, pp. 827-837; ISBN 978-3-540-88635-8, Springer Verlag 2008. Mexico City, Mexico; October 27-31, 2008. </FONT> </P> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Maria </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Vargas-Vera and Miltiadis D. Lytras. Perzonalized Learning using Ontologies and Semantic Web Technologies. <A HREF="http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/confprogram.pdf"> &nbsp; Semantic Web and Web 2.0. </A> Track: Knowledge, Learning, Education, Learning Technologies and E-Learning for the Knowledge Society, </A> <A HREF="http://www.springerlink.com/content/35255044604j0154/">LNAI 5288 </A>, pp. 177-186, Springer Verlag 2008. (WSKS), Athens Greece; September 24-28, 2008. </FONT> </P> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Witold</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Abramowicz, Maria Vargas-Vera and Marek Wiesniewski. Axiom-Based Feedback Cycle for Instance and Non-Taxonomic Relations Extraction in Ontology Learning from Text.<A HREF="http://www.dexa.org/"> WebS-2008, collocated with the 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems (DEXA-2008). </A> Proceedings published on IEEE Computer Society (CPS), pp. 202-206; Turin Italy, 1-5 September 2008. </FONT> <!-- &nbsp; --> <br> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/RelationExtraction_CameraReady.pdf"> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B> Camera Ready &nbsp; PDF </A> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1441150"> Alternative link read more </A> </B> </FONT> <br> <br> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> The work reported in this paper was partially supported by the Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge Fellowship (TOK) of the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme under the contract number MTKD-CT-2004-509766 (enIRaF). </B> </FONT> </P> <br> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Miklos </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. Multi-Agent Conflict Resolution with Trust for Ontology Mapping.<A HREF=" http://idc08.diit.unict.it/"> The 2nd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC'2008.</A> Studies in Computational Intelligence, Badica C., Mangioni G., Carchiolo V. and Burdescu D.(Eds) <A HREF="http://www.springerlink.com/content/kw1243rp8115/?sortorder=asc&p_o=20">Springer Verlag,</A> SCI 162, pp. 275-280. ISBN: 978-3-540-85256-8; Catania, Italy, 18-20 September 2008. &nbsp; </FONT> </P> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Miklos </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. Multi-Agent Trust for Belief Combination on the Semantic Web. (Short paper). <A HREF="http://cv.utcluj.ro/iccp2008/index.php/home.html"> IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing. </A> (Ed) Ioan Alfred Letia; pp. 261-264; ISBN 978-1-4244-2673-7; Cluj-Napoca, Romania, August 28-30, 2008. &nbsp; </FONT> </P> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Miklos</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. Feasible Uncertain Reasoning for Multi-Agent Ontology Mapping. <A HREF="http://www.informatics-conf.org/"> IADIS International Conference Informatics 2008, </A> Hans Weghorn and Ajith P. Abraham (Eds), ISBN: 978-972-8924-62-1, pp. 19-26; Netherlands 22-27 July, 2008.&nbsp; </FONT> </P> <LI><P STYLE="line-height: 0.51cm"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Miklos</FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"> </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#333333"> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. DSSim System for Managing Uncertainty for Ontology Mapping on the &nbsp;Semantic Web. &nbsp;<A HREF="http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org/main/default.asp">Ontology Mapping Ontology (OM-2007)</A> OAEI-2007, collocated with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2007), (Eds) Shvaiko P., Euzenat J., Giunchiglia F. and He B. pp. 160-169, Busan, Korea; November 11-15, 2007. CEUR WS vol. 304, <A HREF="http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-304/" TARGET="_blank"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=2><SPAN LANG="en-GB">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-304</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></A> <A HREF="http://www.dit.unitn.it/%7Ep2p/OM-2007/0-o-oaei2007v4.pdf"> </A></FONT></FONT><A HREF="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2007/"><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> <FONT SIZE=3 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> <br> <br> We participated in the Ontology Matching Evaluation 2007 with our system DSSim system (V0.2).</B> </A> </FONT> </FONT> <br> <br> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> This paper describes the results to the problems set for the OAEI-2008, namely: benchmark, anatomy, food, environment and library. </B> </FONT> <A HREF=" http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=miklos+nagy&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search"><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> <br> According to Google Scholar, has been cited &nbsp; in different research communities such as: Semantic Web and Fuzzy Logic. </B> </FONT> </A> </P> <br> </UL> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.64cm"> <! &nbsp; </P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Miklos</SPAN></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. </SPAN></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Uncertain Reasoning for Creating Ontology Mapping on the Semantic Web. (Position paper). <A HREF="http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org/main/default.asp">Uncertain Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2007)</A>, &nbsp;collocated with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2007), (Eds) Bobillo F, Costa P.G.C., D'Amato C, Fanizzi N., Fung F., Lukasiewicz T., Martin T., Nickles M., Peng Y., Pool M., Smrz P. and Vojtas P. pp. 120-124, Busan, Korea; November 11-15, 2007. CEUR WS vol. 327, <A HREF="http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-327/" TARGET="_blank"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=2> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-327</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></A> </FONT> </P> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Miklos</SPAN></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. </SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Multi-Agent Ontology Mapping with Uncertainty on the Semantic Web. <A HREF="http://cs-gw.utcluj.ro/%7Eiccp07/">IEEE 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing.</A> ISBN number 1-4244-149-1, pp. 49-56. Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 6-8, 2007. </FONT> <br> <B> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/NAGY_ETAL_ICCP2007_CameraReady.pdf"> Camera Ready &nbsp; PDF </A> </B> <!-- <br> <br> This paper has been nominated for publishing in In-Tech new book project under the working title "Semantic Web", ISBN 978-953-7619-33-6. <A HREF="http://intechweb.org/invitations.php?code=1624930e2ef7789489df257852ad92bb"> link at </A> --> </P> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Miklos</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt">Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. Uncertain Reasoning in Multi-Agent Ontology Mapping on the Semantic Web. <A HREF="http://www.micai.org/2007/">The 6th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence</A>, <A HREF="http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/proceedings/m#4">IEEE CS publication </A> , pp. 221-230 ISBN number 978-0-7695-3124-3. Aguascalientes Mexico, November 5-9 2007.&nbsp; </FONT> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Maria Vargas-Vera and Yesica Castellanos. </SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">CONQUIRO: A Cluster-Based Meta Search Engine. <A HREF="http://cicomp.uabc.mx/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=21&amp;Itemid=34">The First International Congress of Computing CiComp-06</A>. pp. 28-36; ISBN: 970-735-051-2; Ensenada, BC, Mexico, November 6-8, 2006. </SPAN></FONT> </P> <LI><P><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Miklos</SPAN></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. </SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">DSSim-ontology Mapping with Uncertainty. <A HREF="http://om2006.ontologymatching.org/">International Workshop on Ontology Matching OM-2006</A>, collocated with the 5</SPAN></FONT><SUP><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">th</SPAN></FONT></SUP><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2006,&nbsp; Athens Georgia USA, November 5-9 2006.&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT FACE="Verdana"><FONT SIZE=2><SPAN LANG="en-GB">CEUR-WS Vol-225:</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> <A HREF=" http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-225/" TARGET="_blank"><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT FACE="Verdana"><FONT SIZE=2><SPAN LANG="en-GB">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-225</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></A> <A HREF="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2006/"><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> <FONT SIZE=3 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> <br> <br> We participated in the Ontology Matching Evaluation 2006 </A> with our system DSSim system (v0.1) only in the benchmark track.</B> </FONT></FONT> <A HREF=" http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=miklos+nagy&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search"><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> <br> <br> This paper, according to Google Scholar, has been cited &nbsp; in different research communities such as: Semantic Web and Fuzzy Logic. </A> </B> </FONT> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Miklos</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="es-ES">Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Uncertainty Handling in the Context of Ontology Mapping for Question Answering. &nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.aaai.org/Library/Symposia/Fall/fs06-06.php">AAAI-2006 Symposium on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, </A> AAAI press (FS-06-06), Menlo Park, California, pp. 48-55; Hyatt Crystal City, Arlington VA, October 12-15, 2006.</SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Miklos</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="es-ES">Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <A HREF="http://oa.upm.es/5295/1/EKAW2006-Poster-Demo-Proceedings_(2).pdf"> Similarity Mapping with Uncertainty for Knowledge Management of Heterogeneous Scientific Databases in a Distributed Ontology-Mapping&nbsp; Framework. </A> Short contribution (poster) for&nbsp; <A HREF="http://ekaw.vse.cz/accepted-posters.php">the 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge management (EKAW-2006). Podebrady, Czech Republic, October 2-6 2006.</A></SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Miklos</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="es-ES">Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/micai/micai2005.html#NagyVM05"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Multi-agent Ontology Mapping Framework in the AQUA Question Answering System</SPAN></FONT></A><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. the Fourth International Mexican Conference on Artificial&nbsp; Intelligence (MICAI-2005), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence LNAI 3789, Gelbukh, A de Albornoz and H. Terashima (Eds), &nbsp;pp. 70-79, Monterrey&nbsp; Mexico, November&nbsp; 14-18, 2005.</SPAN> <br> <br> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> This paper describes our Framework for ontology mapping using Dempster-Shafer. Again, it is also worth to mention that we (Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera and Miklos Nagy) were pioneers on the use of the Dempster-Shafer Theory on the Ontology Mapping problem and our work can be followed from 2004. Some years later, other researchers followed our approach to Ontology Mapping (researchers from the Ontology Mapping and Semantic Web Community). However, this has helped to broaden the general knowledge on this area. </B></FONT> </P> <br> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera. <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <U> AQUA: A Question Answering System for Heterogeneous Sources. </U> </FONT> The XXXVIII National Mexican Congress of Mathematics, Mexico City, Mexico 24-28 October 2005. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Miklos</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. </SPAN><A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-05-3.pdf"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Ontology Mapping with Domain Specific Agents in the AQUA Question Answering System</SPAN></FONT></A><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. USERSWEB Workshop in association with The Second European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC05), pp. 69-83, Heraklion Greece, 29 May to 1</SPAN><SUP><SPAN LANG="en-GB">st</SPAN></SUP><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> June 2005</SPAN><FONT FACE="Times"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">.</SPAN></FONT></FONT> &nbsp;<SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-137">http://ceur-ws.org (CEUR Workshop proceedings Vol-137).</A> </SPAN> <br><br> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> This paper describes our Framework for ontology mapping using Dempster-Shafer and Agents suitable for AQUA (a Question Answering System). It is worth to mention that we (Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera and Miklos Nagy) were pioneers on the use of the Dempster-Shafer Theory on the Ontology Mapping problem and our work can be followed from 2004. Some years later, other researchers followed our approach to Ontology Mapping (researchers from the Ontology Mapping and Semantic Web Community). However, this has helped to broaden the general knowledge on this area. </B></FONT> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Martin Dzbor</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">and Maria Vargas-Vera. Editors of the<A HREF="http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-137"> Workshop on End Users Aspects of the Semantic Web (UserSWeb) </A> in conjunction with ESWC-2005, Heraklion Greece, 29 May 2005.</SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">and&nbsp; Enrico Motta. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-03-7.pdf">AQUA -&nbsp; Ontology-based&nbsp; Question Answering System.</A></SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Third International Mexican Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI-2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2972 Springer Verlag. Eds R. Monroy, &nbsp;G. Arroyo-Figueroa, L.E. Sucar and J.H. Sossa Azuela. pp. 468-477, Mexico City, April 26-30, 2004. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">and David Celjuska. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-04-14.pdf">Event Recognition on News Stories and Semi-Automatic Population of an Ontology.</A> IEEE/ACM International Joint Conference on Intelligent Agent and Web Intelligence (WI 2004), pp. 615-618. Beijing, China, September&nbsp; 20-24, 2004,&nbsp; publisher IEEE Computer Society Press, 2004. <br> <B> <A HREF="http://news.kmi.open.ac.uk/11/671"> link to the WI-2004 Conference news article </A> </B> </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Emanuela</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Moreale</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">and Maria Vargas-Vera. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-03-8.pdf">A Question-Answering System Using Argumentation.</A> Third International Mexican Conference on Artificial Intelligence(MICAI-2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2972 Springer Verlag, Eds&nbsp; R. Monroy, G. Arroyo-Figueroa, L.E. Sucar and J.H Sossa Azuela. pp.400-409, Mexico City,&nbsp; April 26-30, 2004. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">David Celjuska</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">and Maria Vargas-Vera. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-04-19.pdf">Ontosophie: A Semi-Automatic System for Ontology Population from Text</A>.&nbsp; International Conference on Natural Language Processing ICON 2004, Hyderabad, India,&nbsp; December 19-22, 2004</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Gaston Burek, Maria Vargas-Vera and Emanuela Moreale. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-04-8.pdf">Indexing Student Essays Paragraphs Using LSA Over an Integrated Ontological Space</A>. Workshop on eLearning for Computational Linguistics and Computational Linguistic for eLearning. COLING 2004, pp. 32-37, Geneva, Switzerland, 28th August 2004.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">David Celjuska</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">and Maria Vargas-Vera. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-04-18.pdf">Semi-automatic Population of Ontologies from Text</A>. Workshop on Data Analysis WDA 2004, pp. 33-49. Eds. J Paralic, G. Polzlbauer and A. Rauber. ISBN 80-89066-87-9, Slovakia,&nbsp; June 2004.</SPAN> </P> <!-- <UL TYPE=DISC> --> <!-- </UL> --> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta and John Domingue.&nbsp; <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/akt/publication-pdf/SS803MVargas-Vera.pdf">AQUA: An Ontology-Driven Question&nbsp; Answering System</A>.&nbsp; AAAI Spring&nbsp; Symposium, New Directions in Question Answering, Stanford University, &nbsp;pp. 53-57, March 24-26, 2003. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Emanuela</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Moreale</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">and Maria Vargas-Vera. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/akt/publication-pdf/CAA-2003_Moreale_Vargas-Vera.pdf">Genre Analysis and the Automated Extraction of Arguments from Student Essays</A>.&nbsp; The Seventh International Computer Assisted Assessment Conference (CAA-2003),&nbsp; pp. 271-286, Loughborough University, 8-9&nbsp; July 2003. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Mattia Lanzoni,Arthur Stutt and Fabio Ciravegna. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/akt/publication-pdf/vargas-vera-etal.pdf">MnM: Ontology Driven Semi-Automatic and Automatic Support for Semantic Markup</A>. The 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Management (EKAW 2002), Lecture Notes in Computer Science&nbsp; 2473, &nbsp;pp. 379-391. Ed. &nbsp;Gomez-Perez, A., Springer Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-540-44268-5. <br> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Camera-readyMnM-EKAW-2002.pdf"> Camera Ready PDF </A> &nbsp;&nbsp; alternative location. <br> <A HREF="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=maria+vargas-vera&amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;oe=ISO-8859-1&amp;hl=en"><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> <br> <br> This paper, according to Google Scholar, has been cited widely&nbsp; in different research communities such as: NLP, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Semantic Web, Knowledge Management, Digital Libraries, Databases, Ontology Engineering, Knowledge Acquisition, Agents, E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Government, Semantic Web Services, Social Networks, Pervasive Computing, Grid Computing, Web 2.0 and Hypertext </A>. <br> <br> The work described in this historical paper boosted research on Information Extraction Technologies. It was an stepping stone for systems which appeared later using some of the features of MnM. The name "MnM" is an abbreviation of "<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">M</FONT>aria a<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">n</FONT>d <FONT COLOR="#0000ff">M</FONT>attia". Therefore, I am proud to say that I have a system in my honour!. :-)</B> <br> </SPAN></FONT> </P> <br> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Mattia Lanzoni, Arthur Stutt and Fabio Ciravegna. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/akt/publication-pdf/vargas-saakm02.pdf">MnM: Ontology Driven&nbsp; Tool for Semantic Markup</A>. In proceedings of the Workshop Semantic Authoring, Annotation &amp; Knowledge Markup (SAAKM 2002), held in conjuction with the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2002), &nbsp;pp. 43-47, Lyon France, July&nbsp; 22-23, 2002. <A HREF="http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-100/">http://SunSITE.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-100/</A></SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera. <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <U> Information Extraction for Populating Ontologies.</U> </FONT> The XXXIV National Mexican Congress of Mathematics,Toluca, Mexico, 8 October 2001. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera, John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Simon Buckingham Shum and Mattia Lanzoni. <A HREF="http://semannot2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/papers/2_vargas-saw.pdf">Knowledge Extraction by using an Ontology-based Annotation Tool</A>.&nbsp; In proceedings of the Workshop&nbsp; Knowledge Markup &amp; Semantic Annotation, held in conjuction with the&nbsp; First International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2001), &nbsp;pp. 5-12. Victoria Canada, October 2001.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera, John Domingue, Yannis Kalfoglou, Enrico Motta and Simon Buckingham-Shum. <A HREF="http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-38/vargas01.pdf">Template-Driven Information Extraction for Populating Ontologies</A>. In proceedings of the Workshop Ontology Learning IJCAI-2001, Seattle, USA, 4 August 2001. <A HREF="http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-38"> http://ceur-ws.org (CEUR Proceedings Vol-38).</A> </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Simon Buckingham Shum, Maria Vargas-Vera and Yannis Kalfoglou. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/akt/publication-pdf/kcap01_john_final.pdf">Supporting Ontology Driven Document Enrichment within Communities of Practice</A>. ACM First International Conference on Knowledge Capture,&nbsp; pp. 30-37. Victoria Canada,October 21-13, 2001; ISBN:1-58113-380-4, Order Number:607010. Proceeding are available at ACM Digital Library.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Yannis</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Kalfoglou, John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Maria Vargas-Vera and Simon Buckingham-Shum. <A HREF="http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-47/kalfoglou.pdf">myPlanet: an ontology-driven Web-based personalised news service</A>. In proceedings of the Workshop Ontologies and Information Sharing IJCAI-2001, pp. 44-52. Seattle, USA, 4-5 August 2001. <A HREF="http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-47"> http://ceur-ws.org (CEUR Proceedings Vol-47). </A> </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">James F. Baldwin, Trevor P. Martin and Maria Vargas-Vera. <A HREF="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/ijcai/ijcai97fl.html#BaldwinMV97">Fril++ a Language for Object-Oriented Programming with Uncertainty</A>. <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"><B>Selected Papers </B> </FONT>. Lectures Notes of Artificial Intelligence 1566. Ed. Anca Ralescu, Springer Verlag, 1999, pp. 62-78. ISBN 3-540-66374-6. <B> Authors are listed in alphabetical order as it was the general policy in the AI group of the Engineering Maths Department at Bristol University. However, I am the main author of this paper. </B> </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">and James F. Baldwin. <A HREF="http://www.eufit.org/proceedings/97/volume_1.htm">Combining Objects and Fuzzy Logic</A>. EUFIT-97: The 5th European Congress on&nbsp; Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing, pp. 992-996. Aachen Germany, 8-11 September 1997.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Trevor P. Martin, Maria Vargas-Vera and James F. Baldwin. <A HREF="http://www.eufit.org/proceedings/97/volume_1.htm">Learning Fuzzy Classes in Object Models</A>. EUFIT-97: The 5th&nbsp; European Congress on&nbsp; Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing,&nbsp; pp. 1142-1146. Aachen Germany, 8-11 September 1997.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">James F. Baldwin, Trevor. P. Martin and Maria Vargas-Vera. <A HREF="http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/marchives/fuzzy-mail97/0272.html">Integration of Fuzzy Logic and the Object-Oriented Paradigm</A>. In proceedings of the workshop&nbsp; Fuzzy Logic in Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-97,&nbsp; pp. 13-18. Nagoya Japan, 23-24 August 1997. <B> Authors are listed in alphabetical order as it was the general policy in the AI group of the Engineering Maths Department at Bristol University. However, I am the main author of this paper. </B> </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">James F. Baldwin, Trevor P. Martin and Maria Vargas-Vera. <A HREF="http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/ai/ai_pubs.html">A Data Browser using Fuzzy Objects and Fril++</A>. In proceedings of the Workshop Fuzzy Logic: Applications and Future Directions, pp. 167-182. London, 18-19 March 1997. <B> Authors are listed in alphabetical order as it was the general policy in the AI group of the Engineering Maths Department at Bristol University. However, I am the main author of this paper. </B> </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">James F. Baldwin, Trevor P. Martin and Maria Vargas-Vera<A HREF="http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/ai/ai_pubs.html"> Fril++: Design and Implementation</A>. In proceedings of the Workshop&nbsp; Fuzzy Logic: Applications and Future Directions, pp. 183-194. London, 18-19 March 1997. <B> Authors are listed in alphabetical order as it was the general policy in the AI group of the Engineering Maths Department at Bristol University. However, I am the main author of this paper. </B> </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">James.F. Baldwin, Trevor P. Martin and Maria Vargas-Vera. <A HREF="http://www.amast.org/archive/amast/mail/1996/msg00099.html">A Data Browser in Fril++ using&nbsp; Object-Oriented Logic Programming with Uncertainty</A>. PAP97: The Fifth International Conference on Practical Application of Prolog, pp. 32-51, London, April 1997. <B> Authors are listed in alphabetical order as it was the general policy in the AI group of the Engineering Maths Department at Bristol University. However, I am the main author of this paper. </B> </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera. <A HREF="http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/papers/documents/pt9508.html">Using Prolog Techniques to Guide Program Composition</A>. PhD. Thesis, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University, 1995. PhD. Thesis number 9508.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera and&nbsp; Dave Robertson. <A HREF="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/wlp/wlp94.html#Vargas-VeraR94">An Environment for Combining Prolog Programs Based on Knowledge about their Construction</A>.The 10th Workshop on Logic Programming (WLP 94), University of Zurich, pp. 73-76, October 1994. (Also research paper 718, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 1994 and also Technical Report 94/10, Institut fur Informatik der Universitat Zurich, September 1994). </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Maria Vargas-Vera, Wamberto W. Vasconcelos and Dave Robertson. </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/slp/slp93.html#Vargas-VeraVR93">Building Large-Scale Prolog Programs using a Techniques Editing System</A>. Presented as poster in International Logic Programming Symposium. MIT Press, pp 636, October 1993. (Also research paper 635, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 1993). </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera, Dave Robertson and Robert Inder. <A HREF="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/lopstr/lopstr93.html#Vargas-VeraRI93">Combining Prolog Programs in a Techniques Editing System</A>. Third International Workshop on Logic Programming Synthesis and Transformation, Springer Verlag, pp. 82-84, July 1993. (Also research paper 636, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 1993). </SPAN> </P> <LI><P>Maria Vargas-Vera.&nbsp; <FONT COLOR="#0000ff">Combining Prolog Programs using Knowledge about their Construction History</FONT>. ALP-UK Workshop on Logic Programming Support Environments. Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 16-17 September 1993. </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Maria Vargas-Vera, Rolando Carrera and Francisco Cervantes. </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">CELOG: an Environment for C, Assembler and Logic</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. Second Iberoamerican Congress on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA 90), Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico, 1990.(Also research paper 553, IIMAS-National University of Mexico, 1989). </SPAN> </P> <!-- <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera. </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">A Copy Structure-Based Prolog Interpreter</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. M Sc&nbsp; Thesis at National Autonomous University of&nbsp; Mexico.</SPAN> </P> --> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Maria Vargas-Vera and Rolando Carrera. </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">An Interpreter for Prolog using Copy-Structure Technique</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. International Conference on&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Information Science, Habana, Cuba, 1988.(Also research paper 496, IIMAS-National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1987). </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Maria Vargas-Vera and Rolando Carrera. </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">An Interpreter for Prolog</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. First Iberoamerican Congress on Artificial Intelligence IBERAMIA 88), Spain 1988. (Also research paper 481, IIMAS-National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1987). </SPAN> </P> <!-- <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera. Undergraduate thesis at National Autonomous University of Mexico. This not listed in this page.</SPAN> </P> --> </UL> <!-- <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>&nbsp;</P> --> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY> <B> Refereed Publications related to Educational Technologies:</B></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI> <P> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Publikacje wkrótce! <!-- publications comming soon! --> <!-- <LI> <P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Lucia Rapanotti, Leonor Barroca, Maria Vargas-Vera and Shailey Minocha. deep|think: a Second Life campus for part-time research students at a distance. ACM SIGCSE The 14th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education ITiCSE 09. Paris, July 3-8 2009. This paper reports on the design of a Second Life campus for a new innovative post-graduate research programme at the Open University, UK, a world leader in supported distance higher education. </SPAN> </P> --> </SPAN> </P> </UL> <!-- <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>&nbsp;</P> --> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><B> Thesis:</B></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Maria Vargas-Vera.Using Prolog Techniques to Guide Program Composition. PhD. Thesis, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University, 1995. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Maria Vargas-Vera. A Prolog Interpreter using Copy-Structure Technique. MSc. Thesis, UACPYP CCH., National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1988. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Maria Vargas-Vera. SISMAP: An Intelligent System for Creation, Manipulation, Storage and Validation of Capture Forms. BSc. Thesis, Science Faculty, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1983. </SPAN> </P> </UL> </FONT> <!-- <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>&nbsp;</P> --> <P><B>Technical Reports:</B></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="es-ES"> Leonor Barroca, Lucia Rapanotti, Marian Petre, Maria Vargas-Vera and Ahmad Reeves. </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/TR2010-05.pdf"> Developing Research Degrees Online. </A> </FONT> Computing Department, Technical Report, TR2010/05, The Open University, ISSN 1744-1986, February 2010. </SPAN> <P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="es-ES"> Lucia Rapanotti, Leonor Barroca, Maria Vargas-Vera and Shailey Minocha. </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/TR2009-01.pdf"> deep|think: a Second Life campus for part-time research students at a distance.</A> </FONT> Computing Department, TR2009-01, The Open University, ISSN 1744-1986, January 2009. <br> <br> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B>The paper reports on the design of a Second Life 3-D campus for a new innovative post-graduate research programme at the Open University, UK, a world leader in supported distance higher education. </B> </FONT> </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Miklos</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="es-ES">Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta.</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="es-ES"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF=" http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/techreports.php?techreport=kmi-08-05"> Uncertain Reasoning for Ontology Mapping in a Multi-Agent Query Answering System </A>., </SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">KMI-08-05,The Open University, October 2008.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Miklos</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="es-ES">Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta.</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="es-ES"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-tr-06-08.pdf">Probabilistic Methods for Data Integration in a Multi-Agent Query Answering System</A>., </SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">KMI-08-06,The Open University, March 2006.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Maria Vargas-Vera</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="es-ES">and Enrico Motta. </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-04-20.pdf">AQUA a Question Answering System for Heterogeneous Sources</A>. KMI-04-20, The Open University, October, 2004.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Maria Vargas-Vera</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="es-ES">and Enrico Motta. </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-04-17.pdf">A Knowledge-Based Approach to Ontologies Data Integration</A>. KMI-TR-152, The Open University, July 2004.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Maria Vargas-Vera</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="es-ES">and Enrico Motta. </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-04-16.pdf">An Ontology-driven Similarity Algorithm</A>. KMI-TR-151, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University,&nbsp; July 2004.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Maria Vargas-Vera</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="es-ES">and Enrico Motta. </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-04-15.pdf">AQUA:A Knowledge-Based Architecture for Question Answering</A>, KMI-TR-150, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, July, 2004.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Gaston Burek</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">and Maria Vargas-Vera. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-04-13.pdf">Document retrieval based on intelligent query formulation</A>. KMI-TR-147, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, June 2004.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">and David Celjuska. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-03-11.pdf">Ontology-Driven Event Recognition on Stories.</A></SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">KMI-TR-135, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, November 2003.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">and David Celjuska. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-03-10.pdf">Event Recognition using Information Extraction Techniques</A>. KMI-TR-134, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, October 2003. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="es-ES">Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Mattia Lanzoni, Arthur Stutt, Fabio Ciravegna. </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-03-9.pdf">MnM: A Tool for Automatic Support on Semantic Markup.</A> KMI-TR-133, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, October 2003.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta and John Domingue. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-03-5.pdf">An Ontology-Driven Question Answering System (AQUA)</A>. KMI-TR-129, Knowledge Media Institute,The Open University, June 2003. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Md</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maruf Hasan, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Simon Buckingham Shum, Maria Vargas-Vera and Mattia Lanzoni. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-02-6.pdf">A Spreading Activation Framework for Ontology-enhanced Adaptive Information Access</A>. KMI-TR-122, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, September 2002. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera, John Domingue, Yannis Kalfoglou, Enrico Motta and Simon Buckingham Shum. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-01-12.pdf">Integration of Information Extraction with an Ontology</A>. KMI-TR-109, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, &nbsp;May 2001. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Yannis</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Kalfoglou, John Domingue, Leslie Carr, Enrico Motta, Maria Vargas-Vera, Simon Buckingham Shum. <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/kmi-01-11.pdf">On the integration of technologies for capturing and navigating knowledge with ontology-driven services</A>. KMI-TR-106, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, &nbsp;May 2001. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P>James F. Baldwin, Trevor P. Martin and Maria Vargas-Vera. <FONT COLOR="#0000ff">Fril++ an Object-Oriented Fuzzy Logic Programming Language</FONT>. ITRC 240A, Dept. Of Engineering Maths, University of Bristol, 1996. <B> Authors are listed in alphabetical order as it was the general policy in the AI group of the Engineering Maths Department at Bristol University. However, I am the main author of this paper. </B> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera, Dave Robertson and Robert Inder. <A HREF="http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/papers/authors/mariav.html">A Mathematical Framework for the Problem of Combination of&nbsp; Prolog Programs</A>, Research Paper 612, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 1992. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera, Dave Robertson and Robert Inder. <A HREF="http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/papers/authors/mariav.html">An Environment for Combining Prolog Programs</A>, Research Paper 610, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 1992. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera. <A HREF="http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/papers/authors/mariav.html">A Techniques Editor for Prolog</A>, DP-106, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 1991. &nbsp;</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera, Rolando Carrera, Sergio Marcelin, E. Santos and Julieta. Noguez. Sistema experto financiero. (An expert system for finances). Research paper 518, IIMAS, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1988. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Maria Vargas-Vera and Rolando Carrera. Metodolog1a para el desarrollo de sistemas expertos. (A methodology for developing expert systems). Research paper 529, IIMAS, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1988. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Rolando Carrera and Maria Vargas-Vera. Caracter´1sticas de los sistemas de CAD. (Characteristics of DBMS-CAD systems). Research paper 501, IIMAS, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1987. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Rolando Carrera and Maria Vargas-Vera. El diccionario de datos para la base de datos de CAD. (The data dictionary for the OO DBMS for CAD). Research paper 500, IIMAS, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1987. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Maria Vargas-Vera and Rolando Carrera. Sistemas expertos, aplicaciones de CAD y Prolog como herramienta de disenio. (Expert systems and Prolog as tools for CAD applications). Research paper 445, IIMAS, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1986. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Cecilia Montero, Pedro Flores, Maria Vargas-Vera, Rosa Vera and Raymundo Peralta. Especificacion Formal de Lenguages de Programacion. Communicaciones Internas serie Azul, no. 101, 1986. </SPAN> </P> </UL> </FONT> <br><br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> My papers in several databases of publications:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <UL> <LI> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B> <A HREF="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/v/Vargas=Vera:Maria.html">Publications in DBLP</A> </B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P> <!-- <P>&nbsp;</P> --> <LI> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B> <A HREF="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/search;jsessionid=F11432C2F99DCB178F22F3D953F24A28?q=maria+vargas-vera&submit=Search&sort=rel&ic=1">Publications in CiteSeerX</A> </B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P> <!-- <P>&nbsp;</P> --> <LI> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B> <A HREF="http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/csbib/index?query=maria+vargas-vera&submit=Search">The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies (CSB) </A> </B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P> <LI> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B> <A HREF="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=maria+vargas-vera&hl=en&btnG=Search">Google Scholar </A> </B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P> <LI> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B> <A HREF="http://www.aktors.org/publications/">AKT selected publications </A> </B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P> <LI> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Scopusbib.htm"> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera's publications in Scopus </A> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus/"> (the largest database of peer-reviewed literature). </A> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Scopus.pdf">Alternatively see my Scopus list here </A> </B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P> </UL> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Other Papers:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <br> <UL> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"> <LI> <P><B>Open University magazine:</B></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI> Virtual MPhil provides online support to postgraduate research community. Lucia Rapanotti, Leonor Barroca and Maria Vargas-Vera. OpenHouse magazine; page 9; Issue 425, 2009. <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/OpenHouse-MPhil.pdf"> printed version. </A> <br> <br> <LI> Interpreter for Prolog using Copy-Structure Technique. Gaceta UNAM, National Autonomous University of Mexico, January 1988. </UL> </UL> </FONT> <br> <br> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Editorship/Co-Editorship:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <!-- <li> <B> Co-Editor of the book on Personalized Semantic E-learning, Springer Verlag; 2009.</B> <br> <br> --> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Proceedings &nbsp; of</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">a&nbsp; of the Workshop on Users Aspects of the Semantic Web. Organized in conjunction with the Second European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-05), Heraclion Greece, May 29 -1st June 2005. &nbsp; </SPAN> Program <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/usersweb/programme.html"> click here. </A> <br> <A HREF="http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-137"> Proceedings </A> </P> </UL> <br><br><br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera Impact Analysis (Citations Analysis):</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <br> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/MVV_Citations.pdf"> <FONT SIZE=4> Citations Analysis </FONT> </A> &nbsp; (compiled on 20 March 2011). <br> http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm <br><br> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/MicrosoftAcademicSearch.pdf"> <FONT SIZE=4> (MSRA) Microsoft Academic Search for author Maria Vargas-Vera </FONT> </A> &nbsp; (compiled on 12 April 2011). <br> http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ </UL> <br><br><br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Course Production &nbsp; (<U> At The Open University</U>): </B></I></FONT></FONT> </P> <UL> <LI> eMPHIL/PhD Program for external studies approved by the Open University during 2008-2009. It has been launched during October 2009. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2uaDJKA8o"> OU Virtual 3D-Campus video </A>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://virtualmphil.open.ac.uk/"> Virtual Mphil program of studies in Computing </A> <br> <br> Deep|Think article in the OU Magazine OpenHouse, issue number 425, 2009. The glamorous avatar Cielo - "Maria's avatar" - in the center; printed on the 24th November 2009 &nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/OpenHouse-MPhil.pdf"> read more </A> </UL> <P>&nbsp;</P> <!-- <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"></FONT></P> --> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Session Chair:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Session Chair: Information Retrieval session. <A HREF="http://earth.cs.ccsu.edu/%7Eflairs/program2005.php">The 18th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS-2005)</A>. May 15-17&nbsp; 2005, Clearwater Beach, Florida USA</SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Session Chair: Knowledge Acquisition session. <A HREF="http://earth.cs.ccsu.edu/%7Eflairs/program.php">The 17th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS-2004).</A> May 17-19 &nbsp;2004, Miami Beach, Florida USA. </SPAN> </P> </UL> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B>Organized&nbsp; Workshops:</B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/usersweb/">Workshop on End Users Aspects of the Semantic Web (UserSWeb)</A> &nbsp;in conjunction with ESWC-2005, Heraklion Greece, 29 May 2005.</SPAN> </P> <LI> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> AKT0 Workshop on Information Extraction. </FONT> KMi, Open University, March 26-28, 2001. <A HREF="http://news.kmi.open.ac.uk/11/143"> Read more. </A> <br> <br> </UL> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Expert Evaluator of Project Bids:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">I have been involved in referring international project bids for the European Commission (EC); Brussels 2005. In particular, </SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> I was Expert Evaluator of Project Bids for the 6th EU Framework programme for research, technology development and demonstration (FP6), call under the strategic objective &quot; Semantic based Knowledge and Content Systems&quot;, European Commission (EC); </B> </FONT> Brussels, 18 to 27 April 2005. </SPAN> </P> </UL> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Expert Project Reviewer:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Review&nbsp; of</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">a&nbsp; EU project&nbsp; 6th EU Framework. <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> I was member of the Review Panel, European Commission (EC) </B> </FONT>; Lyon, France, 28 November 2008.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Review&nbsp; of</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">a&nbsp; EU project&nbsp; 6th EU Framework. <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> I was member of the Review Panel, European Commission (EC) </B> </FONT>; Brussels, Belgium, April 2008.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Review&nbsp; of</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">a&nbsp; EU project&nbsp; 6th EU Framework. <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> I was member of the Review Panel, European Commission (EC) </B> </FONT>; Brussels, Belgium 21 of February 2007.</SPAN> </P> </UL> <!-- <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=4><I><B>Editorial in Chief</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&middot;</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Editor in Chief (EIC) <A HREF="http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijtcs"> International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies (IJTCS) </A> &nbsp; ISSN(Online) 1749-916X, ISSN(Print): 1749-9151; from &nbsp; March 2010 &nbsp; to &nbsp; present.</SPAN></P> --> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Editorial Board:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&middot;</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Associated Editor: <A HREF="http://www.academypublisher.com/jetwi/index.html"> Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (JETWI). </A> &nbsp; (ISSN 1798-0461) published by the Academy Publisher in Finland; from &nbsp; April 2009 &nbsp; to &nbsp; present.</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&middot;</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Associated Editor: <A HREF="http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=42#board"> International Journal of Knowledge and Learning IJKL. </A> &nbsp; ISSN(Online) 1741-1017, ISSN(Print): 1741-1009; from &nbsp; April 2008 &nbsp; to &nbsp; present.</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&middot;</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Associated Editor: <A HREF="http://www.ejournal.unam.mx/cuadros2.php?r=7">Revista Iberoamericana Computacion y Sistemas</A> (included in the list of Scientific Journals of Excellence, of CONACyT&mdash;Mexican Ministry of Science and Technology); internationally refereed, ISSN 1405-5546; from &nbsp; March 2006 &nbsp; to &nbsp; November 2009.</SPAN></P> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Memberships:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI> Member of the Intelligent Systems Society. January, 2011 - present. <br> <br> <LI> Member of the School of Informatics Career Mentoring group. <!-- <A HREF=""> Read more, </A> --> July 2011- present. <br><br> <LI> Member of the Edinburgh Informatics Alumni group. <A HREF="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?homeNewMember=&gid=23058&trk="> Read more, </A> &nbsp; July 2011- present. <br><br> <LI> Member of the Ontology Matching group. <A HREF="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3608066"> Read more, </A> October 2010 - present. <br><br> <LI> <P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the British Combinatorics Interest Group from July 2009 - present; &nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.essex.ac.uk/maths/bcb/BCBFiles/2009/bcb2009.pdf"> British Combinatorial Bulletin 2009. </A> </SPAN> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.essex.ac.uk/maths/bcb/BCBFiles/2009/listbapril2009.pdf"> List 2009 </A> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the LTN ICT Special Interest Group; January 2009 - present.</SPAN> </P> <LI> Member of the Marie Curie Fellowship Association (MCFA). Portal; &nbsp; 2008 - present. <br><br> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Semantic Web Network; 2002 - present.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society; 2004 - 2006.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence (SMIA); 2004 - present.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS); 1994-1995.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the &nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.ed.ac.uk/alumni"> Edinburgh University Alumni Association </A>; 1995- present. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Member of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Alumni Association; 1988 - present. </SPAN> </P> </UL> <br> <br> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Awards:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=4><I><B>European Awards:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <!-- <LI> <P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), November 2009. </SPAN> </P> --> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Marie Curie Fellow under Framework Programme 6 - Fellowship for EU researchers with more than 10 years of experience; August 2007.</SPAN> </P> </UL> <br> <br> <LI> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=4><I><B>British Awards:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI> <P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), November 2009. The FBCS was granted after an evaluation from the Fellowship Panel at BCS. The grade of Fellowship comprises the most senior and respected professionals in the Information Technology (IT) field. &nbsp; <A HREF="http://wam.bcs.org/wam/memberdirectory.aspx?letter=V&grade=FBCS"> Link to Chartered Members and Fellows. </A> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.bcs.org/category/10968"> FBCS Criteria. </A> </SPAN> </P> <!-- <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Marie Curie Fellow under Framework Programme 6 (FP6); August 2007.</SPAN> </P> --> </UL> <br> <br> <LI> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=4><I><B> Open University (UK) Awards:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <UL> <li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera was given a Special Award for her outstanding contribution to the MCT Faculty, Open University during the period 2008-2009. <br> <br> <li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera was given a Special Award for her outstanding contribution to the KMi, Open University during the period 2002-2003. <br> <br> <li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera was given a Special Award for her outstanding contribution to the KMi, Open University </FONT> during the period 2000-2001. <br> <br> </UL> <br><br> <LI> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=4><I><B> Mexican Awards:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <ul> <li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera awarded PRIDE (Level C) from 1998-2000. <br> <br> <li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera was awarded REDII from 1998-2000. <br> <br> <li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera was awarded from  National Researchers System (SNI) from 1988-1990. </ul> </UL> <br> <br> <br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Honors:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <UL> <LI> Dr. Vargas-Vera was acknowledged for her research career at the "70 years Celebrations of the Science Faculty"; National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), March 2009. This has been an great honour for Dr. Vargas-Vera. <br> <br> <LI> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera's papers included as post-conference Journals and book Chapters. <br><br> <LI> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera selected for visiting fellowship to a Canadian Government Laboratory Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), 1998. <br> <br> <LI> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera obtained the award of the best student of my generation at the Preparatoria school where I obtained a grade 10 (out of 10). The Preparatoria school in Mexico takes 3 years before University. <br> <br> <LI> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera received a Honorific Mention in a <B> "painting competition" </B> on the theme <B> "nature & flowers". </B> <br> <br> <LI> Dr Maria Vargas-Vera was taught painting by the famous Muralist Prof. Pablo Patinio Cornejo. It is worth to say that Prof. Patinio Cornejo was in my opinion one of my best Professors. A link to one of his murals is <A HREF="http://rumbossemanario.blogspot.com/2009/08/restauraran-el-mural-tula-eterno.html"> Tula Eterno. </A> </UL> <br> <br> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Scholarships:</B></I></FONT></FONT> </P> <UL> <li> Scholarship for PhD Studies given by DGAPA-UNAM (Direccion General del Personal Academico), 1991-1994; (open competition). <br> <br> <li> Scholarship for MSc Studies given by CONACYT (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia), 1984-1987; (open competition). <br> <br> <li> Scholarship for BSc Studies given by Sciences Faculty, UNAM, 1979-1982. &nbsp; (I obtained one out of three scholarships for the Science Faculty at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)); (open competition). <br> <br> </UL> <br> <br> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Interviews:</B></I></FONT></FONT> </P> <UL> <LI> Topic: Interpreter for Prolog using Copy-Structure Technique.IIMAS, National Autonomous University of Mexico, &nbsp;Mexico City, Mexico. January 1988 UNAM. </UL> <br> <br> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Studies Equivalence:</B></I></FONT></FONT> </P> <UL> <LI> My PhD has been recognized as equivalent to PhD program (5 years) in Mexico after an evaluation done by a Committee appointed by the Secretaria de Educacion Publica (SEP). Then as a last step, my degree has been registered at Direccion General de Profesiones (DGP), Mexico City; 2009. </UL> <br> <br> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Online Recommendations:</B></I></FONT></FONT> </P> <UL> <LI>Recommendations for Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera online <A HREF=" http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=18377322&authType=name&authToken=6CNB&locale=en_US&pvs=pp&trk=ppro_viewmore"> read them at my Linkedin profile. </A> </UL> <!--<br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=4><I><B>Research Visits:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <UL> <LI> </UL> <br> --> <br> <br> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Keynote Speeches:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://dns.smm.org.mx/">The XXXVIII National Mexican Congress of Mathematics</A>, &nbsp;Mexico City, Mexico 24-28 October 2005.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><A HREF="http://si.csf.itesm.mx/index.php?option=content&amp;task=view&amp;id=12&amp;Itemid=27"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">The International Engineering Week</SPAN></FONT></A><SPAN LANG="en-GB">, Tecnologico de Monterrey Campus Santa Fe, Mexico,&nbsp; October 22-29 2004.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF="http://dns.smm.org.mx/">The XXXIV National Mexican Congress of Mathematics</A>,Toluca, Mexico, 8 October 2001. </SPAN></FONT> </P> </UL> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Open Lectures:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> Plenary session presentation </B> </FONT> was given by a DSSim Team Member at The 4th International Conference on Interdisciplinarity Engineering (INTER ENG 2009).  Petru Maior University of Târgu Mure_, Romania, November 12-13, 2009. <!-- <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Plenary Presentation.pdf"> pdf </A> --> <!-- </SPAN> --> </P> <LI><P> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> Open Lecture </B> </FONT> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera delivered an Open Lecture at Kolloquium der Fakultät für Informatik.<FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> "Ontology Mapping in a Multi-Agent Question Answering System". </FONT> Technical University (TU) of Dortmund; Germany, 22 of September 2009. &nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF=" http://kolloquium.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pdf/einladung2019-color.pdf"> Read more </A> &nbsp;&nbsp; Alternatively <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/einladung2019-color.pdf"> read note. </A> <br><br> Another, alternative location for the announcement of the Open Lecture is at <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/nps/de/Home/Veranstaltungen/Vortrag_Vargas/index.html"> TU Dortmund CS Department </A> <br><br> Also, you could find <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/TU_Dortmund_seminar2009.pdf"> the annoucement of the Open Lecture in German language. </A> </SPAN> </P> <br> <LI><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> Open Lecture </B> </FONT> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera delivered an <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <U>Open Lecture at the "70 years Celebrations of the Science Faculty"; National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) </U> </FONT>, Mexico City, March 2009. At this celebrations Dr. Vargas-Vera was acknowledged for her research career. This has been an great honour for Dr. Vargas-Vera! <br> <br> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> Invited presentation, </B> &nbsp; </FONT> </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF= "http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/"> DSSim results for the Ontology Alignment Evaluation 2008. </SPAN></FONT> </A> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">&nbsp; </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> &nbsp; October 26, 2008.&nbsp; at the Ontology Mapping Workshop -2008, collocated with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2008), Karlsruhe , Germany. </SPAN></FONT> </P> <LI><P><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> Open Lecture, </B> &nbsp; </FONT> </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><A HREF= "http://www.ae.poznan.pl/pages/i/1/647.php">Ontology Population from Text&nbsp; &amp; Question Answering.</SPAN></FONT> </A> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">&nbsp; </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> &nbsp; November 21, 2007.&nbsp; Department of&nbsp; Information Systems., Poznan University of Economics; Poznan, Poland. Alternatively can be found at </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> </FONT><A HREF="http://www.kie.ae.poznan.pl/department/news/"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> http://www.kie.ae.poznan.pl/department/</SPAN></FONT></A> </P> </UL> <br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Talks at Conferences:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <UL> <LI> Third International Mexican Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI-2004), Mexico City, April 26-30, 2004. </P> <LI> IEEE/ACM International Joint Conference on Intelligent Agent and Web Intelligence (WI 2004), Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2004. </P> <LI>AAAI Spring Symposium, New Directions in Question Answering, Stanford University, March 24-26, 2003. </P> <LI> Presented: AQUA: Ontology-Driven Question Answering. AKT Workshop at Department of Computing Science, Aberdeen University, July 1-5 2002. </P> <LI> Presented: Ontology-Driven Question Answering. AKT Workshop at CISA, Informatics Division. Edinburgh University, January 22-25, 2002. </P> <LI> Presented: Template-Driven Information Extraction. AKT Workshop at Department of Electronics & Computer Science University of Southampton, UK. June 25-27 2001. </P> <LI>Presented: Template-Driven Information Extraction. AKT Workshop, Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield, UK. January, 2001. </P> <LI>The International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 01), Victoria, Canada, 21-23 October 2001. </P> <LI> The IJCAI-01 Workshop on Ontologies and Information Sharing, Seattle, Washington, 4-5 August 2001. </P> <LI> The IJCAI-01 Workshop on Ontology Learning, Seattle, Washington, 4 August 2001. </P> <LI> The Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Environments, Xalapa Mexico, 11-12 September 1998. </P> <LI> EUFIT-97: The 5th European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing, Aachen Germany, 8-11 September 1997. </P> <LI> The Workshop Fuzzy Logic in Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-97, Nagoya Japan, 23-24 August 1997. </P> <LI> PAP97: The Fifth International Conference on Practical Application of Prolog, London, April 1997. </P> <LI> The Workshop Fuzzy Logic: Applications and Future Directions, London, 18-19 March 1997. </P> <LI>The 10th Workshop on Logic Programming (WLP 94), University of Zurich, October 1994. </P> <LI> The Third International Workshop on Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation 1993 (LoPSTr-93) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, July 1993. </P> <LI> ALP-UK Workshop on Logic Programming Support Environments. Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 16-17 September 1993. </P> <LI> The International Logic Programming Symposium 93 (ILPS-93) in Vancouver, Canada, October 1993. </P> </UL> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Invited Research Talks:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Departmental seminar, </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Ontology Mapping in the Context of AQUA (a Question Answering System).</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp; Computing Department at Open University, England UK., July 14, 2008. </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Invited departmental seminar, </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Information Extraction Trends.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp; IMSS at Reading University, England UK., July 17, 2006. </SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Invited departmental seminar, </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Text Mining and Question Answering.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp; Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh Scotland, UK. June 12, 2006. </SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Invited departmental seminar, </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">AQUA-Ontology-Driven Question Answering System.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp; The Robert Gordon University, Scotland, UK. February 11&nbsp; 2004.</SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Internal departamental seminar, </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">AQUA: An Ontology-Driven Question Answering System</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. Mathematics and Computing Department, The Open University, &nbsp;England, UK. March 2003.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Internal KMI seminar, </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">AQUA:</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">An Ontology-Driven Question Answering System</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, &nbsp;England, UK. March&nbsp; 2003.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Internal departmental seminar,. </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Pattern-Driven Information Extraction</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. April 2002.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Invited departmental seminar, </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Pattern-Driven Information Extraction</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. Department of Computing Science, Brock University, Ontario, Canada. February 2002.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Internal KMI seminar, </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Template-Driven Information Extraction</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. Knowledge Media Institute, the Open University, England, UK. August 2001.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Invited internal seminar, </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Combining objects and Fuzzy Logic</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. </SPAN><SPAN LANG="es-ES">IIMAS, National Autonomous University of Mexico, &nbsp;Mexico City, Mexico. December 1998.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Invited internal seminar, </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Fril++: Object Oriented Programming with Uncertainty</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. Artificial Intelligence Department (Software Systems &amp; Processes Group), Edinburgh University, Scotland, UK. December 1997.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Internal seminar, </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Fril++: Object Oriented&nbsp; Fuzzy Logic Programming Language</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. The ACRC (Advanced Computing Research Centre), Bristol University, England, UK. December 1996.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Internal seminar, </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Using Prolog Techniques to Guide Program Composition</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. The ACRC (Advanced Computing Research Centre), Bristol University, England, UK. December 1995.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Invited seminar, </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Using Prolog Techniques to Guide Program Composition,</SPAN></FONT> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">CICESE, Ensenada Mexico</SPAN><FONT FACE="Courier New"><FONT SIZE=2><SPAN LANG="en-GB">,</SPAN></FONT></FONT> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">September&nbsp; 1995</SPAN><FONT FACE="Courier New"><FONT SIZE=2><SPAN LANG="en-GB">.</SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Internal seminar, </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Using Prolog Techniques to Guide Program Composition</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">.&nbsp; Artificial Intelligence department, Edinburgh University, Scotland, UK. May 1995.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Internal seminar, </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">A Techniques Editor for Prolog</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB">. Artificial Intelligence department, Edinburgh University, Scotland, UK. February 1992.</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Internal seminar, </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">A Copy Structure-Based Prolog Interpreter</SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>.</I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="es-ES">IIMAS, National Autonomous University of Mexico, &nbsp;Mexico City, Mexico. January 1988.</SPAN> </P> </UL> <br> <br> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> AKT related workshop's presentations:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI> Attended: AKT Workshop at Department of Electronics & Computer Science University of Southampton, UK. January 26-30 2004. <br> <br> <LI> Attended: AKT Workshop, Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield, UK. July 14-18, 2003. <br> <br> <LI> Attended: DotKom Wokshop, KMi, The Open University, June 25-27, 2003. <br> <br> <LI> Presented: <B> AQUA: Ontology-Driven Question Answering. </B> AKT Workshop at KMi, The Open University, February 4-7, 2003. <br> <br> <LI> Attended AKT Workshop (Reference Ontology), at KMi, The Open University, UK. December 19, 2002. <br> <br> <LI> Attended AKT Workshop (Reference Ontology), at Department of Electronics & Computer Science University of Southampton, UK. June 25, 2002. <br> <br> <LI> Presented: <B> AQUA: Ontology-Driven Question Answering. </B> AKT Workshop at Department of Computing Science, Aberdeen University, July 1-5 2002. <br> <br> <LI> Presented: <B> Ontology-Driven Question Answering. </B> AKT Workshop at CISA, Informatics Division. Edinburgh University, January 22-25, 2002. <br> <br> <LI> Attended AKT Workshop (Reference Ontology), at KMi, The Open University, UK. September 25-27, 2001. <br> <br> <LI> Presented: <B> Template-Driven Information Extraction. </B> AKT Workshop at Department of Electronics & Computer Science University of Southampton, UK. June 25-27 2001. <br> <br> <LI> Organized & Attended: AKT0 Workshop at KMi, Open University, March 26-28, 2001. <br> <br> <LI> Presented: <B> Template-Driven Information Extraction. </B> AKT Workshop, Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield, UK. January, 2001. <br> <br> </UL> <br> <br><br> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Research Visits:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <br> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI> Computer Science Department; Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, from 19 February until March 6 2010. <A HREF=" http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/visits_germany.pdf"> Read more </A> <br> <br> <LI> Computer Science Department; Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, from 16 August until 26 September 2009. <A HREF=" http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/visits_germany.pdf"> Read more </A> <br> <br> <LI> Information Systems Department; Poznan University of Economics (PUE) August-December 2007. <A HREF=" http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/TalkDIS-Nov-2007.pdf"> Read more </A> <br> </UL> <br> <br> <br> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Developed Technologies:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <br> <ul> <!-- <P> <li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera and Miklos Nagy are the authors of a system called <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> DSSim (v0.4) </B> </FONT> <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> DSSim HAS BEEN ONE OF THE </B> </FONT> <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> TOP SYSTEMS in the OAEI-2009 Evaluation. </B> </FONT> More information can be found at: <B> <A HREF="http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/"> link. </A> </B> DSSim obtained top places in several tracks of the OAEI-2008 Evaluation, For example, Library, Directories among others. </P> <br> --> <P> <li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera and Miklos Nagy are the authors of a system called <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> <A HREF="http://news.kmi.open.ac.uk/rostra/news.php?r=11&t=2&id=1043"> DSSim </A> </B> </FONT> (a variation of my similarity algorithm has been implemented in DSSim system).<FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> DSSim HAS BEEN ONE OF THE </B> </FONT> <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> TOP SYSTEMS in the OAEI-2008 Evaluation. </B> </FONT> More information can be found at: <B> <A HREF="http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/"> link. </A> </B> DSSim obtained top places in several tracks of the OAEI-2008 Evaluation, For example, Library, Directories among others. Therefore, on the light of the DSSim performance is fair to say that DSSim has became a competitive International System for Ontology Alignment. <br><br> <ul> <li> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/CRC_News.pdf"> <!-- <A HREF="http://crc.open.ac.uk/8025711B0044B697/httpNews?ReadForm&unid=82583E401E3B939D802574F2003E23CC"> --> <B> DSSim made the news headlines in October 2008. </A> </B> <!-- WIKIPEDIA LINKS --> <!-- <br><br> <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nagymik/DSSim"> Local copy DSSim wikipedia entry. </A> --> <br><br> <li> <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSSim"> DSSim wikipedia entry </A> &nbsp; &nbsp;(compiled on March 2011). Alternatively try <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/DSSim_WikiEntry.pdf"> DSSim wikipedia entry (copy). </A> <!-- MOVIE LINKS --> <!-- First version <br><br> <A HREF="http://home.scarlet.be/~mn267546/DSSim_video.mov"> DSSim demo. </A> --> <!-- Second version <br><br> <A HREF="http://home.scarlet.be/~mn267546/DSSim_video_v2.mov"> DSSim demo. </A> --> <br><br> <li> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/DSSim_video_v2.mov"> DSSim demo </A> &nbsp; &nbsp;(compiled on March 2011). <br><br> <li> <A HREF="http://c4i.gmu.edu/URSW/2007/files/talks/URSW2007_P2_NagyVeraMotta_Slides.pdf"> DSSim talk </A> presented at URSW-2007, Busan, Korea; November 11 2007. <br> <br> </ul> </P> <br><br> <P><li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera, Dr. Lucia Rapanotti, Dr. Leonor Barroca, Dr. Shailey Minocha, Prof. Darrel Ince, Graham Roberts, TwOfour, LTS, OU Library and Research School are the main creators of <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> deep|think </B> </FONT> the <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> OU 3D-Virtual Campus for research students (Mphil/PhD's). </B> </FONT> This 3D-Virtual Campus was developed from May 2008 until January 2010. <br><br> <ul> <li> <B> <A HREF="http://virtualmphil.open.ac.uk/"> Virtual MPhil program of studies in Computing </A> </B> <!-- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; --> <br><br> <li> <B> <A HREF="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Deep%20Think%20East/228/29/34/"> Second life 3D-campus SLurl </A> </B> <!-- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; --> <br><br> <li> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Team_MPhil.pdf"> <B> Virtual Mphil Team </B> </A> <br><br> <li> <A HREF="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2uaDJKA8o"> OU 3D-Virtual Campus video </A> <!-- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp --> <br><br> <li> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/SLCampus_Updated.html"> OU 3D-Virtual Campus Pictures</A> <br> <br> <li> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> Deep|Think article in the OU Magazine OpenHouse, issue number 425, 2009. The glamorous avatar Cielo - "Maria's avatar" - in the center; printed on the 24th November 2009. </FONT> &nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/OpenHouse-MPhil.pdf"> read more </A> <br><br> <li> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> The 3-D Virtual Campus (Deep|Think) is currently in use with the first generation of part-time students who started on October 2009. <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/ICERI_FINAL.pdf"> Preliminary evalation </A> has been carried out, however, more evaluations are planned to take place in the future. </FONT> </uL> </P> <br><br> <P><li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera is the main author of a system called <B> <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/akt/MnM/index.html">MnM </A> </B> &nbsp;&nbsp; <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> MnM IS THE MOST WELL KNOWN SYSTEM in the Semantic Web Community. </B> </FONT> The MnM system is available as open source at http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/akt/MnM/ <br> Alternatively <A HREF=" http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/MnM_Page.pdf"> MnM page </A> &nbsp; and &nbsp; <A HREF=" http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/MnM_released.pdf"> released news </A> <br> <br> <ul> <li> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/kcap-canada.pdf"> InfoExtractor talk </A> presented at KCAP-2001, Victoria, Canada; October 2001. <br><br> <li> <B> <A HREF="http://news.kmi.open.ac.uk/11/376"> MnM released in 2003 as open source </A> </B> </ul> </P> <br> <P> <li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera is the author of the Question Answering System called &nbsp; <B> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/AQUA_AKT.pdf"> AQUA. </A> </B> </P> <P> <li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera and Yesica Castellanos are the authors of the system &nbsp; <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B>CONQUIRO</B>: A Cluster-Based&nbsp; Information Retrieval Meta-search Engine. </FONT> </P> <P> <li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera and David Celjuska are the authors of the system &nbsp; <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> Ontosophie </B> (Semi-Atomatic Construction of Ontologies from Text). </FONT> </P> <P> <li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera and Emanuela Moreale are the authors of the system &nbsp; <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> SVE </B> (Student Essay Viewer). </FONT> </P> <P> <li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera is the author of &nbsp; <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> Fril++ Interpreter </B> (first version). </FONT> </P> <P> <li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera is the author of the system &nbsp; <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> A Composition System for Logic Programs. </B> </FONT> </P> <P> <li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera is the author of a &nbsp; <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> Prolog interpreter </B> (a Copy Structure-Based Prolog Interpreter). </FONT> </P> <P> <li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera is the author of &nbsp; <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> SISMAP: An Intelligent System for Creation, Manipulation, Storage and Automatic Validation of Capture Forms. </B> </FONT> </P> </ul> <br> <br> <br> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Open-Source Software:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <ul> <P><li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera is the main author of a system called <B> <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/akt/MnM/index.html">MnM </A> </B> &nbsp;&nbsp; The MnM system is available as open source at http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/akt/MnM/ <br> <br> <B> <A HREF="http://news.kmi.open.ac.uk/11/376"> MnM released in 2003 as open source </A> </B> <br> <br> <br> Alternatively <A HREF=" http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/MnM_Page.pdf"> MnM page </A> &nbsp; and &nbsp; <A HREF=" http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/MnM_released.pdf"> released news </A> <br> <br> <br> The name "MnM" is an abbreviation of "<FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B>M</B></FONT>aria a<FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><B>n</B></FONT>d <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> <B>M</B></FONT>attia". Therefore, I am proud to say that I have a system in my honour!. :-) </P> </ul> <br><br><br> <br> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Profesional Training:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <br> <UL> <LI> A list of profesional training can be found &nbsp; <A HREF=" http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Training.html"> <B> click here. </B> </A> </UL> <br><br><br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Academic Committees:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <br> <UL> <LI> A list of academic committees can be found &nbsp; <A HREF=" http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Profesional_Activities.html"> <B> click here. </B> </A> </UL> <br><br><br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Some Other Organized Events:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <br> <UL> <LI> A list of organized events can be found &nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Events_organized.html"> <B> click here. </B> </A> </UL> <br><br><br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Technical Skills:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <br> <UL> <LI> A list of my technical skills can be found &nbsp; <A HREF=" http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Software_Skills.html"> <B> click here. </B> </A> </UL> <br><br><br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Language Skills:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <br> <UL> <LI> Spanish <br> <br> <LI> English <br> <br> <LI> Italian: some knowledge. <br> <br> <LI> Greek: some knowledge <br> <br> <LI> Polish: some knowledge <br> <br> </UL> <br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Dissemination Activities related to the Mphil project (Deep|think a 3D-virtual Campus and Educational technologies embedded in the E-learning environment): </B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <br><br> <!-- Educational Technologies: --> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI> Talk at CALRG-2010 given by a member of the MPhil Team, "The Virtual MPhil project: fostering online communities for research students at a distance". Open University, UK; 29 April 2010. Slides <A HREF=" http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/getfile.cfm?documentfileid=16722"> click here. </A> <br><br> <LI> Talk given by a member of the MPhil Team. "deep|think: a Second Life campus for the Virtual MPhil", Virtual Worlds SIG, Learning Innovation Office, The Open University, Milton Keynes, March 2010. <br><br> <LI> Talk given by a member of the MPhil Tean. The Virtual MPhil and its Second Life campus, Staff Tutor Conference, The Open University, Milton Keynes, February 2010. <br> <br> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera participated in the Educational Technology Fair on the 10th February 2010. JLB, Nexus; The Open University, UK. The fair gave the opportunity to find out about the latest developments in the use of technology in education. &nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Stalls_Fair2010.pdf"> Stalls in the JLB, </A> &nbsp; Open University UK. At this Fair we presented our <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> deep|think: a Second Life 3-D campus for part-time research students at a distance. &nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hockeyshooter/sets/72157623399111718/"> Photos </A> </B> </FONT> &nbsp;&nbsp; <!-- <A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hockeyshooter/sets/72157623399111718/"> --> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/OU Knowledge Network.pdf"> Read more </A> </SPAN> </P> <LI> Talk given by a member of the MPhil Team. "The Virtual MPhil, Explore", Media Development Working Group, HSC, The Open University, Milton Keynes, October 2009. <br> <br> <LI> Workshop: "The Virtual MPhil, Explore, Map, Build Workshop", The Open University, Milton Keynes, October 2009. <br> <br> <LI> The Computing Department at the Open University UK launched our Second Life 3-D Campus Deep Think. Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera and Colleagues involved on Deep Think presented the Campus to the OU Community, October 2009. <br> <br> <LI> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera and Colleagues from the OU participated in the "Open Day" at the Open University Campus Milton Keynes. We presented our Second Life 3-D Campus (Deep Think) during the "Open Day" at the OU, 27 June, 2009. <br> <br> <LI> Talk given by a member of the MPhil Team. "The Virtual MPhil", CALRG Conference, The Open University, Milton Keynes, May 2009. <br> <br> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera participated in the Educational Technology Fair on the 21th January 2009. JLB, Nexus; The Open University, UK. At this Fair we presented our <FONT COLOR ="#0000ff"> <B> deep|think: a Second Life 3-D campus for part-time research students at a distance. &nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Learn%20About%20Fair&w=32332324%40N00"> Photos </A> </B> </FONT> &nbsp;&nbsp; <!-- <A HREF="http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/news.cfm?newsstrandid=1"> --> <A HREF="http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/2840"> Read more </A> </SPAN> </P> </UL> <br> <br> <br><br> <P><B><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>My research work used in courses: </I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#666699"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT></B></P> <br> <UL> <LI> <P><B> <!-- <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> --> <FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> My papers used in courses in USA universities </SPAN></FONT> <!-- </FONT> --> <FONT COLOR="#666699"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">:</SPAN></FONT></B></P> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www-scf.usc.edu/ csci586/project/cs586-p1.html"> Semantic Information Management and Integration on the Federated Ontologies. </A> School of Engineering, University of Southern California, USA. <br><br> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.ececs.uc.edu/ mazlack/ECE.716.w08/schedule.w08.html"> Course ECES 716 on Semantic Web, </A> Winter 2008. University of Cincinnati, Ohio USA. <br><br> <LI> <A HREF="http://osm7.cs.byu.edu/CS652s04/outline.html"> Course CS652 on Information Extraction and Integration, </A> Spring 2004 by David W. Embley and Yihong Ding at Brigham Young University, Utah USA. <br><br> </UL> <br> <br> <LI> <P><B> <!-- <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> --> <FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> My papers used in courses in Germany universities </SPAN></FONT> <!-- </FONT> --> <FONT COLOR="#666699"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">:</SPAN></FONT></B></P> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.uni-koblenz.de/FB4/Institutes/IFI/AGStaab/Teaching/SS05/seminar semZaM"> Seminar Semantikbasierter Zugriff auf Multimediadaten, </A> Universitat Koblenz 2005, Steffen Staab. <br> <br> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/Lehre/Winter2002-03/ebiziw/themen.html"> Themen zum Seminar. E-Bussiness & Intelligence. </A> Winter semester 2002/2003. Siegfried Handschuh, Steffen Staab, Rudi Studer. <br> <br> </UL> <br> <br> <LI> <P><B> <!-- <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> --> <FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> My papers used in courses in UK universities </SPAN></FONT> <!-- </FONT> --> <FONT COLOR="#666699"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">:</SPAN></FONT></B></P> <UL> <LI> Edinburgh University by S Potter at Division of Informatics. Link is not available anymore. <br><br> <LI> Aberdeen University by Derek Sleeman. Computer Science Course 2001. Link is not available anymore. </UL> </UL> <br> <br> <br> <br><br> <P><B><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>My research work cited in EU projects reports: </I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#666699"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"></SPAN></FONT></B></P> <br> <UL> <LI> Ontoweb project <A HREF="http://www.ontoweb.org/About/Deliverables/Deliverable111.pdf"> Deliverable 1.1.1 </A> &nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu/publications/OntoWeb Del 1-3.pdf"> Deliverable 1.3 </A> <br> <br> <LI> KR and reasoning in MUMIS (Semis-semweb) <A HREF=" http://gate.ac.uk/sale/mumis-semweb/mumis-semweb.doc"> Read more </A> <br> <br> <LI> Ontology Learning. <A HREF=" http://www.csd.uoc.gr/ hy566/Deliverables/final/Plast-Balaf.ppt"> Deliverables </A> <br> <br> <LI> Knowledgeweb. <A HREF="http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/semanticportal/deliverables/D2.6.6v2.pdf"> Deliverable 2.6.6 </A> &nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.stiinnsbruck.at/fileadmin/documents/deliverables/Knowledge Web/D2.1.4.pdf"> Deliverable 2.1.4 </A> <br> <br> <LI> Muscle (Project no. FP6-507752). <A HREF=" http://www.mee.tcd.ie/ muscle/WP8/WP8 MUSCLE SoA.pdf"> WorkPackage 8 </A> <br> <br> <LI> Collaborative annotations project. <A HREF=" http://dart.edu.au/workpackages/aa/aa3-finalreport.pdf"> workpackages </A> <br> <br> <LI> Project EDELWEISS. <A HREF="http://ralyx.inria.fr/2007/Raweb/edelweiss/bibliography.html"> project information </A> <br> <br> <LI> SWAD-Europe: Semantic Blogging and Bibliographies - Requirement Specification <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/open demonstrators /hp-requirements-specification.html"> project information </A> <br> <br> <LI> DELOS (Network of Digital libraries). <A HREF=" http://www.delos.info/files/pdf/delos reports/Research Activities 2005.pdf"> DELOS reports </A> <br><br> <LI> DotKom. <A HREF=" http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/dot.kom/pdocs/D2-3.pdf"> Project information </A> <br> <br> <LI> DigiCult (Core Technologies for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage sector). <A HREF=" http://www.digicult.info/downloads/TWR3-lowres.pdf"> DigiCult information </A> <br> <br> <LI> Neon Deliverable D4.2.1 refers to NeOn-proj.org <br> <br> </UL> <!--</UL> --> <br> <br> <br><br> <P><B><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>Some of my research outputs (software) used in other Universities: </I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#666699"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT></B></P> <br> <UL> <LI> <P><B> <!-- <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> --> <FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> DSSim system (V0.4) used on Research project at Miami University, USA. </SPAN></FONT> <!-- </FONT> --> <FONT COLOR="#666699"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"></SPAN></FONT></B></P> <ul> <li> Brennan Anderson (Supervisor: Prof. Valerie Cross); Computer Science and Software Engineering Department, Miami University, USA (requested for research purposes July 2010). </ul> </UL> <br><br><br><br> <P><B><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>Acknowledgments in books/papers: </I></SPAN></FONT> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#666699"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">:</SPAN></FONT></B> <br><br> <ul> <li>Acknowledgment on the paper by Non Scantlebury, James McNulty and Nicola Dowson. <!-- <A HREF=" http://www.open.ac.uk/relive08/documents/ReLIVE08 conference proceedings Lo.pdf"> --> <FONT COLOR="#0000ff">  Developing sustainable Library services within the context of a parallel universe . </FONT> <!-- </A> --> ReLIVE 08 Proceedings of Researching Learning in Virtual Environments International conference; 20-21 November 2008, The Open University, UK. <br> <br> <li> Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera and Dr. Robert Inder supplied the idea for our predicate combination example presented in the book: <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> Software Blueprints: Lightweight uses of Logic in Conceptual Modelling </FONT> by David Robertson and Jaume Agusti. Addison-Wesley 1999 . (Refer to the book for information). <br> <br> <li>Acknowledgment on the paper: <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"> A generalized constraint and exception handler for an object-oriented CAD-DBMS </FONT> by Buchmann A., Carrera S. and Vazquez M.A. ACM International Workshop on Object Oriented Database Systems 1986. </ul> </P> <br> <br><br><br><br> <P><B><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>Useful Links </I></SPAN></FONT> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#666699"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">:</SPAN></FONT></B> <br> <br> <ul> <li> Argumentation maps made at Stanford University on the history and status of the Debate <A HREF="http://www.stanford.edu/~rhorn/a/site/HornCV.html"> "Can Computers Think? </A> <br> <br> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.stanford.edu/~rhorn/a/topic/phil/artclISSAFigure1.pdf"> Map part 1 </A> <br> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.stanford.edu/~rhorn/a/topic/phil/artclISSAFigure2.pdf"> Map part 2 </A> </UL> </ul> </P> <br> <br><br><br><br> <br> <P><B><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>Social Networks </I></SPAN></FONT> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#666699"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">:</SPAN></FONT></B> </P> <br> <!-- <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> --> <P><B><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <I> LINKEDIN </I> </SPAN></FONT></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#666699"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">:</SPAN></FONT></B> <A HREF="http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/maria-vargas-vera/6/1a3/36"> <!-- <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> --> Social Network for IT Professionals. <!-- </SPAN> --> </A> </P> <br> <!-- <P><B><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <I>FLINK </I> </SPAN></FONT></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#666699"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">:</SPAN></FONT></B> <A HREF="http://flink.semanticweb.org/action/showperson?uri=http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7Epmika/socionet#Maria+Vargas-Vera"> Social Network: Semantic Web. </A> </P> <br> --> <P><B><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <I>FACEBOOK </I> </SPAN></FONT></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#666699"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">:</SPAN></FONT></B> <A HREF="http://www.facebook.com/maria.vargasvera"> <!-- <A HREF="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000838956144#!/profile.php?ref=profile&id=100000838956144"> --> <!-- <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> --> A social networking website owned by Facebook Inc. <!-- </SPAN> --> </A> </P> <br> <br> <br><br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B> Consulting:</B></I></FONT></FONT></P> <br> <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> Please enail me directly to my email address (see bottom of my homepage). </FONT> <br> <br><br> <br> <br><br> <P><B><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I> Recent Administration: </I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#666699"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN></FONT></B></P> <br> <ul> <li> Library Representative of the Computing Department, at the Open University; (2008 - 2010). </ul> <br> <br> <br> <P> <FONT COLOR="#333399"> &nbsp; </FONT> </P> <P><B><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>People (somehow related to my career like collaborators, students or managers): </I> </SPAN> </FONT> </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#666699"><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> </SPAN> </FONT> </B> </P> <!-- </FONT> added for firefox --> <br> <UL TYPE=DISC> <!-- <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Juan Francisco </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Garcia Navarro (University of Salamanca, Spain ; 10/2009-present).</SPAN> </P> --> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Gareth </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Tyson (King's College London ; 2011 - present).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Yuhui </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Chen (King's College London ; 2011 - present).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Richard </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Bache (King's College London ; 2011 - present).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Simon </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Miles (King's College London ; 2011 - present).</SPAN> </P> <!-- <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Brendan </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Delaney (King's College London ; 2011 - present).</SPAN> </P> --> <!-- <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Michael </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Luck (King's College London ; 2011 - present).</SPAN> </P> --> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Adel </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Taweel (King's College London ; 2011 - present).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Dietmar </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Jannach (TU Dortmund, Germany ; 08/2009 - 03/2011).</SPAN> </P> <!-- <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Emanuela</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Moreale</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">(10/2009-present).</SPAN> </P> --> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Marian </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Petre (Department of&nbsp; Computing, The Open University; 11/2009 - 02/2010).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Ahmad </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Reeves (Department of&nbsp; Computing, The Open University; 07/2009 - 12/2009).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Brian </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Kavanagh (Department of&nbsp; Computing, The Open University; 02/2009 - 03/2010).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Carol </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Smith (Department of&nbsp; Computing, The Open University; 02/2009 - 03/2010).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Penny </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Meiers (Department of&nbsp; Computing, The Open University; 02/2009 - 03/2010).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Fred </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Holroyd (Department of&nbsp; Maths, The Open University; 01/2010 - 03/2010).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Chris </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Rowley (Department of&nbsp; Maths, The Open University; 10/2008 - May 2011).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Bridget </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Webb (Department of&nbsp; Maths, The Open University; 10/2008 - May 2010).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Adam </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Kay (Department of&nbsp; Maths & Computing, The Open University; 10/2008 - 2010).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Lucia </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Rapanotti (Department of&nbsp; Computing, The Open University; 05/2008 - 05/2010).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Leonor </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Barroca (Department of&nbsp; Computing, The Open University; 05/2008 - 05/2010).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Shailey </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Minocha (Department of&nbsp; Computing, The Open University; 05/2008 - 03/2010).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Darrel </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Ince (Department of&nbsp; Computing, The Open University; 05/2008 - 03/2010).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Graham </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Roberts (Department of&nbsp; Computing, The Open University; 03/2009 - 03/2010).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Miltiadis </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Lytras (Computing Engineering &nbsp; and Informatics Department, University of Patras, Greece, 05/2008 - 2011).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Piotr </SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Stolarski (Department of&nbsp; Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, Poland 07/2008 - 12/2009).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Dominik</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Zyskowski (Department of&nbsp; Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, Poland; 09/2007 - 10/2008).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Konstanty</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Haniewicz (Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, Poland; 09/2007 - 10/2008).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Marek</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Wisniewski &nbsp;(Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, Poland; 09/2007 - 10/2008).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Witold</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Abramowicz (Department of&nbsp; Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, Poland; 09/2007 - 10/2008 ).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Monika</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Kaczmarek (Department of&nbsp; Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, Poland; 09/2007 - 10/2008).</SPAN> </P> </UL> <UL TYPE=DISC> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Ahmad Chaudhry Zaheer. (Intercollege Larnaca, Cyprus 02/2007-09/2007). </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Pedro Miramontes (National Autonomous University of Mexico; 01/2005 - 09/2006). (join supervision of students).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Emanuela</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Moreale</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">(School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Nottingham University; 04/2003 - 08/2004).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Miklos</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Nagy (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, England UK; 06/2004 - present).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Philipp Cimiano(</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#000000"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Universit&auml;t Karlsruhe (TH); 2005)</SPAN></FONT> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Siegfried Handschuh (</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#000000"><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Universit&auml;t Karlsruhe (TH); 2005)</SPAN></FONT> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Jose Iria (Sheffield University, UK; 2005).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Victoria Uren (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, England </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-GB">UK; 2005).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Arthur Stutt (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, England UK; 09/2002 - 09/2003).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">John Domingue (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, England UK 10/2000 - 03/2003).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Simon Buckingham Shum</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">(Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, England UK; 10/2000 - 10/2001).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Enrico</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Motta (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, England UK; 10/2000 - 10/2006).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Gaston Burek (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, England UK; 10/2003 - 10/2004).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Jan Paralic</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">(Technical University Kosice Slovakia; 2004). (join supervision of students).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">David&nbsp; Celjuska</SPAN> &nbsp;<SPAN LANG="en-GB">(Technical University Kosice Slovakia; 2003 - 2004).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Mattia</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Lanzoni</SPAN>&nbsp; <SPAN LANG="en-GB">(Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, England UK; 2002).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Fabio Ciravegna (Sheffield University, UK; 2002).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Yannis</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Kalfoglou (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, England UK; 2001).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Yesica Castellanos (National Autonomous University of Mexico; 01/1005 - 09/2006). </SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Gustavo de la Cruz Martinez (National Autonomous University of Mexico).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Eliot Peña (National Autonomous University of Mexico).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Roberto Rosenberg Gonzalez (National Autonomous University of Mexico 1998 - 1999).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Hector Cuevas (National Autonomous University of Mexico; 1998 - 1999).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Alfredo Hernandez (National Autonomous University of Mexico; 1998 - 1999).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">James F.&nbsp; Baldwin (Bristol University, England UK; 11/1995 - 10/1997).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">T.P. Martin (Bristol University, England UK; 1997).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Diana Bental (Edinburgh University, Scotland UK, 1994).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Andy Bowles (Edinburgh University, Scotland UK; 1994).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Wamberto</SPAN> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">Vasconcelos (Edinburgh University, Scotland UK; 1994).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Alberto Castro &nbsp;(Edinburgh University, Scotland UK).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Gabriel Duncan &nbsp;(Edinburgh University, Scotland UK; 1992).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">David Robertson (Edinburgh University, Scotland UK; 1991-1994).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Robert Inder (Edinburgh University, Scotland UK; 1991-1994).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">R Carrera&nbsp; (National Autonomous University of Mexico).</SPAN> </P> <LI><P><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Francisco Cervantes (National Autonomous University of Mexico)</SPAN> </P> </UL> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"> <FONT FACE="Verdana"> <FONT SIZE=5> <U> <I><B>Maria's Photos: </U> </FONT> </FONT> <br> <br> <FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=3> <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZDIpaEI0Qg"> Frida Kahlo House, Mexico (known as the Blue House) </A> (2004) and Wroclaw, Poland (2007):</B></I> </FONT></FONT> </FONT> </P> Frida's Kahlo house address: Londres 247, Col. del Carmen Coyoacan, Mexico City, MEXICO. <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="lulu_fridahouse.JPG" width ="25%"></a> <SPAN LANG="en-GB">&nbsp; <B> Maria at Frida Kahlo's house </B> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="maria_two_towers.jpg" width ="25%"></a> <B> Maria at Wroclaw, Poland </B> </SPAN> </P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;</P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=4><I><B>Photos from Mexico City and Teotihuacan Mexico (2004):</B></I></FONT></FONT> </P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Angel_Independence.jpg" width ="25%"></a> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> <B> Independence Angel, Mexico </B> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="image006.jpg" width ="25%"></a> <B> Sun Pyramid, Mexico <br> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Symbol of Freedom for the Mexican people </B> </SPAN> </P> <br> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm"> <!-- <a><img src="Maria_V-V.JPG" align=right></a> --> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="smt_maria.jpg" width ="40%"></a> <B> Maria -Photo taken on Marcin Day, 11 November, 2007; Poznan, Poland. </B> </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="PoznanOffice.jpg" width ="45%"></a> <B> Photo taken in my office 1808: Poznan, Poland (2007) </B> </P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;</P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Poznan_AIGroup.jpg" width ="45%"></a><B> My dearest AI Group at Poznan, Poland (2007) </B> </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Wroclaw_Roses.JPG" width ="40%"></a> <B> Nice roses!; photo taken in Wroclaw, Poland (2007) </B> </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Wroclaw_Flowers.JPG" width ="40%"></a> <B> More nice roses!; photo taken in Wroclaw, Poland (2007) </B> </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Wroclaw_basket.JPG" width ="40%"></a> <B> Maria is buying a basket of roses!; photo taken in Wroclaw, Poland (2007) </B> </P> <!--<P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="bochum.JPG" width ="40%"></a> <B> Maria infront of a garden!; photo taken in Bochum, Germany (Summer 2009) </B> </P> --> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Krakow_Maria.JPG" width ="41%"></a> <B> Maria at the entrance of Wawel Castle, Krakow, Poland (2007) </B> </P> <br><br> <P> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Poznan.html"> More photos from Poznan </A> </P> <br><br> <P>Photos were taken by Emanuela Moreale and Thadthong Bhrammanee.</P> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=4><I><B>Photos from Germany (Summer 2009):</B></I></FONT></FONT> </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="bochum.jpg" width ="30%"></a> <B> Maria infront of a garden!; photo taken in Bochum, Germany (Summer 2009) </B> </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Maria_boat.JPG" width ="30%"></a> <B> Maria is resting and having fun!; photo taken in Biggesee Germany (Summer 2009) </B> </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Maria_river.JPG" width ="30%"></a> <B> Maria at the river ; photo taken in Biggesee Germany (Summer 2009) </B> </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Maria_postcards.JPG" width ="30%"></a> <B> Maria buying postcards; photo taken in Biggesee Germany (Summer 2009) </B> </P> <br><br><br><br> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Ausflug.pdf" width ="30%"> <B> Maria having lunch at Dietmar's office and our visit to the cave and Biggesee park; </A> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is a composition of photos taken in Biggesee Germany (Summer 2009) </B> </P> <br><br> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Maria_catedral.JPG" width ="30%"></a> <B> Maria infront of Cologne's catedral!; photo taken in Cologne Germany (Summer 2009) </B> </P> <br><br><br><br> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Maria_around_catedral.JPG" width ="30%"></a> <B> Maria around Cologne's catedral!; photo taken in Cologne Germany (Summer 2009) </B> </P> <br><br><br><br> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Maria_cologne.JPG" width ="30%"></a> <B> Maria resting after a walking tour around Cologne!; photo taken in Cologne Germany (Summer 2009) </B> </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Maria_cologne_sky.JPG" width ="30%"></a> <B> Maria admiring the buildings in Cologne whilst Dietmar is saying something funny!; photo taken in Cologne Germany (Summer 2009) </B> </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Dortmund_talk.JPG" width ="30%"></a> <B> Maria given a seminar at TU Dortmund !; photo taken in Dortmund Germany (Summer 2009) </B> </P> <br><br> <P>Photos taken by Dietmar Jannach and Lukas Kalabis and the composition of Photos made by Harald Hutter. </P> <br><br> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Cyprus_2010_pic1.jpg" width ="30%"></a> <B> Maria in Cyprus!; photo taken in Troodos Cyprus (Summer 2010) by David Jacques. </B> </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Cyprus_2010_pic2.jpg" width ="30%"></a> <B> Maria in Cyprus!; photo taken in Troodos Cyprus (Summer 2010) by David Jacques. </B> </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="MKDecember2010_v1.JPG" width ="18%"></a> <B> Maria in MK, England!; photo taken in December 2010. </B> </P> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br><br> <P STYLE="margin-left: 2.27cm">&nbsp; <a><img src="el_sol_brilla.jpg" width = "23%"></a> <B> El Sol Brilla </B> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="calendario_azteca.jpg" width = "23%"></a> <B> Calendario Azteca </B> </P> <P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=2> <B> <A HREF=" html"> <A HREF="http://fjldown.org.mx/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1"> copyright of the four paintings Mexican's Children Art </A> </B></FONT></FONT></FONT></P> &nbsp;&nbsp; <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="sandia.jpg" width = "18%"></a> <B> Sandia </B> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="atardecer.jpg" width = "27%"></a> <B> Atardecer en el Mar </B> </P> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br><br> <P STYLE="margin-left: 2.27cm">&nbsp; <a><img src="Tula.jpg" width = "30%"></a> <B> Mural "Tula Eterno" by Prof. Juan Pablo Patinio Cornejo. </B> </P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp; </FONT> </P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Interesting Stuff about Maria:</B> </I> </FONT></FONT> </P> <P> At the time that I finished my job with KMi at the Open University, Ortenz Rose together with the rest of my KMi colleagues wrote an article which was published in an electronic newsletter. One of the sentences said <B> <A HREF="http://news.kmi.open.ac.uk/11/890">"She has reached the pinnacle of her research career within KMi.". </A> </B> At that time (2006), I thought that this statement was "true" because I did not know what was comming after that ? ... <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"> <B> Now, I believe that the statatement is "false" as I am reaching a higher step in my careeer right now in the year 2008, 2009, 2010 and hopefully during the following years to come. Therefore, I am very happy that the statement was "false". :-) </B> </FONT> </P> <!-- <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/maria/"> <A HREF="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/alumni/maria-vargas-vera"> Maria's work at Kmi --> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp; </FONT> </P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Hobby:</B> </I> </FONT></FONT> </P> <P> I enjoy science fiction literature and painting exhibitions, in particular, my favourite painter is <B> <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo"> Frida Kahlo </A>. </B> In the past, I did paintings and I got a Honorific Mention in a <B> "painting competition" </B> on the theme <B> "nature & flowers". As an additional note, it is a honor to say that I was taught painting by the famous Muralist Prof. Pablo Patinio Cornejo</B> <br> Also, I enjoy to browse in antique shops and I collect and wear old brooches (Eighteen Century or earlier). My favourite music is the <B> <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZxqlaUYky0"> Huapango of Moncayo; </A> </B> &nbsp; a 1941 composition from <B> <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Pablo_Moncayo"> Jose Pablo Moncayo </A> </B> a Mexican composer. A quote from Wikipedia is the following: "the Huapango of Moncayo is not just an arrangement but a legitimate work inspired by the popular music of Veracruz (<B> El Siquisiri</B>, <B>El Balajú</B> and <B> El Gavilancito</B>)". Finally, I enjoy travel and I had been lucky to travel and visit many countries as part of the learning process (science, culture & society). In fact, I also have lived in several countries for short perid of time (like Cyprus, Poland, Germany, Belgium). </P> <!-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx2L5lbQ_e4&feature=fvw --> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp; </FONT> </P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5><I><B>Acknowledgments:</B> </I> </FONT></FONT> </P> <P> I wish to express my gratitude to to people who had supported me during my career. Also my big thanks to Artur Kurnicki and Piotr Aosowski for their help on the Polish Language. Also, my thanks to Elizabeth Jacques for her help in the Greek language. <!-- Finally my big thanks to Clarita Tellez for her support during these years. --> <br><br> <center> Maria &nbsp;&nbsp; <a><img src="Maria-name-calligraphy.JPG" width ="2%"></a> </center> </P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5> <I> <B>Contact Details: </B> </I> </FONT></FONT></P> <br> (I have added blanks and a substitution for the symbol "@" and quotes to avoid spam) &nbsp; <P> <SPAN LANG="en-GB"> Email:&nbsp; <A HREF="mailto:mvargasvera@gmail.com">" mvargasvera " AT gmail dot com</A></SPAN> </P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <br> <!-- <a><img src="Smiling.jpg" width= "5%" align=right></a> --> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=5> <I> <B>Postal Address:</B> </I> </FONT></FONT> </P> <!-- <a><img src="Logo_1.jpg" align=right></a> --> <!-- </P> no sure why is here --> Informatics Department <br> King's College, <br> Capital House, <br> 42 Weston Street, London SE1 3QD, <br> England UK. <br><br> <B> <A HREF= "http://www.kcl.ac.uk/index.aspx"> Homepage: Informatics Department, King's College. </A> </B> <br> <br> <br> <br><br> <br> <FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=3> <A HREF="http://www.zen116786.zen.co.uk/Maria_Vargas-Vera.html"> Back to Maria's homepage (top of the page) </A> </FONT> </FONT> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=3> <Center> <B> Dzikuj za wizyt na mojej stronie </B> </Center> </FONT></FONT> </P> <br> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=3> <Center> <B> Good bye! </B> </Center> </FONT></FONT> </P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=3> <Center> <B> Adios! </B> </Center> </FONT></FONT> </P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=3> <Center> <B> Arrivederci! </B> </Center> </FONT></FONT> </P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=3> <Center> <B> Yassou! </B> </Center> </FONT></FONT> </P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=3> <Center> <B> Cze[! </B> </Center> </FONT></FONT> </P> <P><FONT COLOR="#333399"><FONT SIZE=3> <Center> <B> Auf Wiedersehen! </B> </Center> </FONT></FONT> </P> <br> <Center> <FONT COLOR="#333399"> <FONT SIZE=3><B> Last updated: February, 2012. </B> </FONT> </FONT> </Center> <!-- </FONT> extra no needed --> </BODY> </HTML>