Introduction from Frank van Harmelen on 2001-11-06 (www-webont-wg@w3.org from November 2001) (original) (raw)

I am a senior lecturer in AI at the "Vrije Universiteit" in Amsterdam, where I lead the research group on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.

I have been doing KR since my Ph.D. days in Edinburgh, ranging from work on Knowledge Engineering methodologies to work on meta-languages and reflective systems to work on model-based diagnosis, and a bit of theorem proving on the side.

Together with Ian (you just saw his introduction), I was involved in the early days of developing OIL [1], and its later merge into DAML+OIL. I am also involved in various European projects that aim to either develop new Semantic Web technology (e.g. WonderWeb, [2]) or apply Semantic Web technology for various purposes, such as Knowledge Management (On-To-Knowledge, [3]) or service composition (IBROW, [4]).

Logicians think my work is applied, industrial people think its theoretical...

You can find out for yourself at my homepage, [0].

The local airport here is Schiphol International:

<apt:Airport rdf:about="http://www.megginson.com/exp/id/airports/EHAM"> apt:icaoEHAM apt:nameAmsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands apt:iataAMS apt:latitude52-18N apt:longitude004-46E apt:elevation-2M

(and yes, it really does have a negative elevation, this is The Netherlands, after all:-).

Frank van Harmelen. ---- Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh Department of AI, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam de Boelelaan 1081a, 1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel (+31)-20-444 7731 fax&voicemail (+31)-84-8722806

[0] http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh [1] http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil [2] http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~horrocks/WonderWeb/ [3] http://www.ontoknowledge.org [4] http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/ibrow/home.html

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