The 2013 STI Semantic Summit

Presentations

Richard Benjamins, Telefonica Digital, Spain

Short Bio:

Dr. V.R. Richard Benjamins is Director of Business Intelligence at Telefonica Digital, the newly created digital branch of Telefoncia. Before that he was responsible for Global BI programs across TEF footprint, and Director of User Modelling, where he was responsible for research and development in areas related to customer intelligence. His responsibilities included the development and technology transfer of products in areas including data mining, big data, targeted advertising, personalisation, and privacy. Richard is a frequent speaker on big data, BI and analytics events. Previously he was Director of Technological Strategy at the same company which he joined in July 2007. Before that he was director and board member at Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO), which he co-founded in 1999 and he led its international positioning as a Semantic Web company. Based on his work, iSOCO were granted the National Award for Computer Science. Dr. Benjamins has held positions at the Technical University of Madrid, the University of Amsterdam, the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, the University of Paris-South, France, and the Spanish Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Barcelona. He has published over 100 scientific articles (http://www.researchgate.net/profile/V_Richard_Benjamins/) in books, journals and proceedings, covering areas such as artificial intelligence, knowledge-based systems, semantic web and technology transfer. He has been guest editor of several journal special-issues and co-chair of numerous international workshops and conferences. He is on advisory boards of several start-ups and international research projects. He is general chair of the K-CAP 2013 Conference.

Georg Gottlob, The Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna), Austria

Short Bio:

Georg Gottlob is a Professor of Computing Science at Oxford University and an Adjunct Professor at TU Wien. His interests include data extraction, database theory, graph decomposition techniques, AI, knowledge representation, logic and complexity. More recently, Gottlob has been interested in ontology-enhanced databases and ontological query-answering. He and his co-workers have introduced the Datalog+/- language family that uses Datalog variants for uniformly expressing both ontological rules and database integrity constraints. Gottlob has received the Wittgenstein Award from the Austrian National Science Fund, is an ACM Fellow, an ECCAI Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences, and the Academia Europaea. He chaired the Program Committees of IJCAI 2003 and ACM PODS 2000, was the Editor in Chief of the Journal Artificial Intelligence Communications, and is currently a member of the editorial boards of journals, such as CACM and JCSS. He is the main founder of Lixto, a company that provides tools and services for web data extraction. Gottlob was rexcently awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator's Grant.

Registration

All registrations have to be send to office@sti2.org by May 10, 2013.

Fees

• STI Board Members – €100
• Others - €250

Dates

• Position papers: April 12, 2024 by e-mail to office@sti2.org
• Registrations: May 10, 2024 by e-mail to office@sti2.org

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