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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,
(2^nd Ed. by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig).

Modeling and Application Platforms

UML/OCL
Java, JEE5 (including EJB3)
JBoss Application Server (including JBoss Rules)

Web Technologies

XML Technologies: XML, XML Schema, Namespaces, XPath, XSLT, XQuery, XHTML, MathML, SVG.
Semantic Web Technologies: RDF(S), OWL, SWRL, RuleML, R2ML
Server side: PHP, JSP(including JSP Documents)
Web services: SOAP, WSDL
Web 2.0: What Is Web 2.0, by Tim O'Reilly, Create your blog for free, Web 2.0 and Ajax Technology at Wikipedia, Javascript and Ajax at Mozilla Developer Center, RDFa Primer 1.0: Embedding RDF in XHTML and RDFa Syntax: A collection of attributes for layering RDF on XML languages at W3C, Drupal, WordPress, SocialText Open Wiki, PhpWiki: a PHP WikiWikiWeb .

Software Engineering Methodologies

Methodologies: Rational Unified Process, Agile Modeling, Extreme Programming
Best practices: Java Coding Guidelines, Ian Sommerville Software Engineering.

Tools

UML modeling: ArgoUML, MagicDraw
XML Processing: Oxygen XML Editor
Programming: Eclipse Framework.

Forthcoming Book: Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies: Open Solutions and Approaches

Community Events 2009

The 3^rd International Conference on Adaptive Business Information Systems (ABIS 2009), Leipzig, Germany, 23-25 March 2009
4^th International Symposium on Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering (ITEE 2009), Thessaloniki, Greece, May 28-29, 2009.
3^rd East European Workshop on Rule-Based Applications, (RuleApps 2009)
3^rd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC 2009), Ayia Napa, Cyprus, October 12-14, 2009.

See Past Events in which I was involved

Teaching (check our Moodle server to be in touch with the last lectures)

Web Documents (XML, DTD, XML Schema XHTML, MathML, SVG, SMIL, RDF, RDFS)
Web Applications (Apache Web Server, PHP, JSP,EJB, JBoss Application Server)
Logic for Information Systems(Partial Logic, Herbrand-Semantic, SQL, RDF, OWL, OCL, Fuzzy-Databases)
E-Business Technologies(ebXML, UBL, SOAP, UDDI, BPMN, BPEL, Web Services)

Research Interests

Web Technologies
Rules and rule markup languages will play an important role for the success of the Semantic Web. Rule expressions will be used in Web applications for defining derived terms on the basis of a taxonomy, for specifying validation constraints, for representing organizational policies and business rules, for specifying the behavior of a software agent, and for many other purposes.
1. Starting from March 20, 2006 the Real Rules web log was launched. Read the latest news about rules from rule experts, rule developers, business rules consultants and friends of rules !
2. The R2ML rule markup language was launched. The main goal of R2ML is to be an interchange format for rules between different rule systems and applications. Learn how to use it in rule development from the official page.
Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Data Mining
Plausibility measures are a general approach for representing uncertainty. The covered topics are discrete plausibility measures, where a plausibility measure just associates with an event its plausibility, an element is some partially ordered set or an interval of plausibilities.

The data mining is represented by the area of mining association rules.
Logic Programming and Knowledge Representation
Logic applies to all areas of artificial intelligence and computer science. Logic programming is fundamental to these areas. The covered topics are AI applications that use logic programming, natural language processing and knowledge representation.

Also, the formal description of an object-oriented knowledge model based on frame theory (FRAKS) is provided. The knowledge model represents all frames as objects and eliminates the object versus values dichotomy, by representing all entities as frames.