My general research interests are:
- Semantic Web
- Ontology Languages
- Web Databases and Query Languages
- Nonmonotonic Reasoning
- Deductive Databases
- Logic Programming, Answer Set Programming
- Planning
- Semantic Web Services
I participate(d) in the following projects and working groups:
- Co-chair of the W3C SPARQL Working Group
- Member of the W3C RDB2RDF Incubator Group
- Member of the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group
- Member of the WSMO (Web Service Modeling Ontology)
working group, where we aim on building up a Web Service Modeling Ontology to make semantically enabled Web Services come true.
- Member of the SWSL Committee which was working on a W3C submission
for a lanuage for describing Semantic Web Services, where I was representing the WSMO working group there.
- Involved in inContext an EU sponsored Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP).
- Involved in TripCom a EU sponsored Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP).
- Involved in Infrawebs a EU sponsored Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP).
- Involved in KnowledgeWeb a large EU sponsored network of excellence (NoE).
- Involved in
dip, a challenging EU sponsored
Integrated Project (IP) on Data and Process Integration involving many international partners.
- For my PhD thesis I was employed in a research
project to develop "A Declarative Planning System Based On
Logic Programming" which was supported by the Austrian Science
Funds (FWF) under project
number P14781.
Have a look at the latest version of the planning system DLVK.
