Universität Karlsruhe (DE) - The Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) at Universität Karlsruhe (TH) was founded in 1971 and is part of the School of Economics and Business Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe.

homepage: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/

British Telecom (UK) - BT is one of the world’s leading providers of telecommunications solutions and services, operating in 170 countries. BT’s portfolioof ICT services includes IP infrastructure, CRM, security, applications, managed mobility, hosting and outsourcing. In the financial year ending March 2005, BT’stotal revenue for networked IT services was around €6 Billion, more than 20% of a total revenue of around €27 Billion.

homepage: http://www.bt.com

Freie Universität Berlin (DE) - The working group "Networked Information Systems" operates STI Berlin. It is led by Prof. Dr. Robert Tolksdorf and currently comprises of eleven researchers as well as student employees.

homepage: http://www.ag-nbi.de

FZI (DE) is a non-profit contract research organisation that concentrates its efforts on novel information technologies for providers of investment and consumer products, of production or business products and of information services, and supports the development of innovative applications, primarily in engineering, on the basis of recent but already proven techniques.

homepage: http://www.fzi.de

The Open University (OU) (UK) is the world leader in distance teaching and the largest university in the UK. It is also well known as the UK’s most innovative and high-impact concept in higher education.

The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) was set up in 1995 in recognition of the need for the OU to be at the forefront of research and development in a convergence of areas that impacted on the OU’s very nature.

homepages: http://www.open.ac.uk/, http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects

Mimos Berhad (MY) - Driven by a strong and dynamic leadership team, together with world-class thinkers and scientists, MIMOS is adamant to transform the landscape of the indigenous industries. With highly skilled technology experts, MIMOS strives to stimulate Malaysia's economic growth by producing innovative technology platforms, which will be used by the industry to develop products and services to meet market demands.

homepage: http://www.mimos.my

NICTA (AU) is Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence. NICTA is an independent company in the business of research, commercialisation and research training. With over 700 people, NICTA is the largest organisation in Australia dedicated to ICT research.

homepage: http://nicta.com.au/

Ontotext (BG) provides core semantic technology distinctive for its performance, scale, and compliance with standards.

homepage: http://www.ontotext.com

The Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck (AT), formerly known as DERI Innsbruck, was founded by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel in 2002 and has developed into a challenging and dynamic research institute of approximately 60 people.

homepage: http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/

STI International (AT) is organized as a collaborative association of interested scientific, industrial and governmental parties that share a common vision.

homepage: http://www.sti2.org

The Talis (UK) Platform is an open technology platform for mass collaboration and human-centric and information-rich applications. A platform for semantic applications, it combines Semantic Web, information retrieval, collective intelligence and behavioral mining technologies.

homepage: http://www.talis.com/

The Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna)(AT) is located in the heart of Europe, in a cosmopolitan city of great cultural diversity. For nearly 200 years, the TU Vienna has been a place of research, teaching and learning in the service of progress. The TU Vienna is among the 10 most successful technical universities in Europe and is Austria’s largest scientific-technical research and educational institution.

homepage: http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/english/

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES) - Ontological Engineering Group

homepage: http://www.upm.es

The University of Aberdeen (UK) is Scotland's third oldest and the fifth oldest in the UK. Aberdeen is an international university built on serving one of the most dynamic regions of Europe.

homepage: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/

University of Malaga (ES) was founded in 1972. Today it is one of the key drivers for development in this province of Andalusia. What would be its first academic centre, the Faculty of Political, Economic and Business Sciences, had been created in 1963.

homepage: http://www.uma.es/

The University of Sheffield (UK) has been described by The Times as one of the powerhouses of British higher education. The University is a member of the Russell Group, the twenty universities who receive two-thirds of universities' research grant and contract funding in the United Kingdom.

homepage: http://www.shef.ac.uk/

XimetriX Network Thoughts (ES) creates and develops computer applications for the strategic processing of digital content and services using the standards of the Semantic Web.

homepage: http://www.ximetrix.com/