Activities

Evaluation Boards

• Expert Evaluator for EU/ICT FP7

Selected Invited Lectures:

• Designing Adaptive Web Applications, SOFSEM'2008, Novy Smokovec, Slovakia, January 2008
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Personalized Web-Based e-Learning Applications, Znalosti 2006. Hradec Kralove. Czech Republic, February 2006

PhD Students or Research Assistants (team)

• Mohamad Alrifai, L3S Research Center, University of Hannover: Intelligent Transactional Middleware for Web Services
• Fred Durao, Aalborg University, Personalization of Semantic Social Software
• Yujian Lin, Aalborg University, conceptual modelling, creativity techniques and semantic web
• Karsten Jahn, Aalborg University, Personalization of Semantic Social Software

Examiner of PhD thesis:

• Andrew Wai Kwong Lum (supervised by Judy Kay) at Sydney University, 2007

Industrial Collaboration:

,    Morpheus Software Netherlands,   

Reviewer in following journals:

• Springer User Modelling and User Adapted Interaction
• IEEE Software
• IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering
• ACM Transactions on Web
• IEEE Intelligent Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Computers
• IEEE Internet Computing
• Journal of Web Engineering
• World Wide Web Journal
• IET Proceedings Software (Formerly IEE Proceedings Software)
• IBM Systems Journal
• J.UCS: Journal of Universal Computer Science
• Computing and Informatics
• Informatica
• IJWIS International Journal of Web Information Systems

Organizer or program committee member in following conferences and workshops:

2008

• Third European Conference on Technology Enhance Learning (ECTEL'2008)
• 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2008), September 2008, Auckland, New Zealand;
• Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web Based Systems (AH2008), July 2008, Hannover, Germany;
• 8th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2008), July 2008, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA;
• Hypertext 2008: 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia -- Applications of Hypertext (HT'2008), June 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA;
• 11th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2008), in conjunction with with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2008, June 2008, Vancouver, Canada
• Co-chair of International Workshop on Social Web and Knowledge Management (SWKM2008), in conjunction with 17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), April 22nd, 2008, Beijing, China
• 34th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM'2008), Web Technologies Track, January 2008, Stary Smokovec, Slovakia
• 5th Workshop on Ubiquitous USer Modeling (UbiqUM 2008) in conjunction with the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2008)

2007

• 4th Annual Scientific Conference - Lornet Teaching Network (I2LOR 2007), November 2007, Montreal, Canada
• 5th Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB2007), October-November 2007, Santiago de Chile, Chile;
• Workshop on Cross-Media and Personalized Learning Applications on top of Digital Libraries (LADL 2007), at the 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2007), 16-21 September, Budapest, Hungary
• Hypertext 2007: 18th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia -- Hypertext and Society track (HT'2007), September 2007, Manchester, UK;
• 3rd International Conference on Semantic Technologies (I-Semantics'07), Graz, Austria, September 2007
• 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhance Learning (ECTEL'2007), September 2007 , Crete, Greece;
• 7th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2007), July 2007, Como, Italy;
• Co-Organizer of AEWSE'07: Second International Workshop on Adaptation and Evolution in Web Systems Engineering in conjunctions with 7th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2007), July 2007, Como, Italy;
• Fifth International Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Web for E-Learning (SWEL'07) at 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED2007), July 2007, LA, USA
• Co-Chair of the International Workshop on on Ubiquitous and Decentralized User Modeling (UBIDEUM'2007), June 26, 2007, Corfu, Greece, in conjunction with with the 11th International Conference on User Modeling (UM 2007)
• Znalosti/Knowledge 2007(Znalosti 2007), February 2007, Ostrava, Czech Republic;

2006

• First European Conference on Technology Enhance Learning (ECTEL'2006), October 2006 , Crete, Greece - organization and PC member;
• 4th Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB2006), October 25-27 2006 , Universidad de las Americas, Puebla Cholula, Mexico;
• Workshop on Ubiquitous USer Modeling (UbiqUM 2006) in conjunction with the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006)
• Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web Based Systems (AH2006), June 2006, Dublin, Ireland;
• Co-chair of the International Workshop on Adaptive Learning and Learning Design (ADALE 2006) at AH2006), June 2006, Dublin, Ireland;
• Workshop on Applying Service Oriented Architectures to Adaptive Information Systems (SOA-AIS) at AH2006), June 2006, Dublin, Ireland;
• International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (SWEL 2006) at AH2006), June 2006, Dublin, Ireland;
• Znalosti/Knowledge 2006 (Znalosti 2006), February 2006 , Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic;

2005

• First International Workshop on Multimedia Service Composition(MSC2005) at ACM Multimedia 2005, November 2005, Singapore;
• 3rd Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB2005), Oct. 31 - Nov. 2nd 2005, Buenos Aires - Argentina;
• Educators' Symposium at ACM / IEEE 8th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (formerly the UML series of conferences) (MODELS 2005);
• First Int. Workshop on Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE 2005) at 5th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2005), July 2005, Sydney, Australia;
• 10th International Conference on User Modeling, July 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (UM'2005);
• Co-chair of the DASUM 2005: WORKSHOP on Decentralized, Agent Based and Social Approaches to User Modelling at UM 2005, July 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK;
• PROLEARN Workshop on Personalized Adaptive Technologies for Professional Training at UM 2005, July 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK;
• PerSWeb’05 Workshop on Personalization on the Semantic Web at UM 2005, July 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK;
• Workshop on Adaptive Systems for Web-Based Education: Tools and reusability (WASWBE 2005) at AIED 2005 - 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, July 2005, Amsterdam;
• International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (SWEL 2005), session at AIED 2005, ICALT 2005;
• Workshop on Interoperability of Web-Based Educational Systems (workshop web site) at the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'2005);
• The 20th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 13 -17, 2005(SAC'2005), Special Track on Web Technologies and Applications (WTA2005);

2004

• Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modelling in Interactive Software Systems 2004 at LWA, Berlin (ABIS'2004);
• Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for Adaptive Educational Hypermedia - SW-EL'04: Semantic Web for E-Learning (SW-EL'04 - session co-chair - at Third International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH'2004);
• Workshop on Applying Adaptive Hypermedia Techniques to Service Oriented Environments at Third International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH'2004)

Reviewer for following conferences and workshops:

• 11th International Conference on User Modeling, June 2007, Corfu, Greece(UM'2007);
• 15th European Conference on Information Systems, June 2007, St. Gallen, Switzerland (ECIS'2007);
• 32nd International Conference on Very Large Databases, September 2006, Soeul, Korea (VLDB'2006);
• 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, September 20-24, 2004, Beijing, China (WI'04)
• International Workshop on Web Information Systems Modeling (WISM 2004) at the 16th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering(CAiSE*04);
• Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modelling in Interactive Software Systems (ABIS'2003);
• Advances in Databases and Information Systems 2002 (ADBIS'2002);
• Extending Database Technology 2002 (EDBT'2002)

Organizing commitee member of Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems 2002 (ADBIS'2002)

Research Visits:

• 15 September 2005 - October 2005: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group at VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I visited Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Holger Wache at in the context of Knowledge Web NoE exchange. Report from the visit can be found here.
• 22 November 2004 - 10 December 2004: Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano. I visited prof. Stefano Ceri and his group.
• 2 May 2004 - 14 May 2004: Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano. I visited prof. Stefano Ceri and Maristella Matera on invitation of prof. Stefano Ceri.
• 11 August 2003 - 5 September 2003: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Department of Knowledge Management. Invitation from Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel. Cooperation with Michael Sintek.