Dr. Adrian Giurca
Department of Internet Technology
Institute of Informatics
BTU Cottbus
P.O. Box 10 13 44
D-03013 Cottbus

Email: giurcatu-cottbus.de
Phone: (+49 355) 69 2032
Fax: (+49 355) 69 2766

Employment

• Senior Researcher - Chair of Internet Technology, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, from March 2005.
• Lecturer - Department of Computer Science, University of Craiova, from 1999 to 2005.
• Assistant - Department of Computer Science, University of Craiova, from 1992 to 1999.
• Researcher - Department of Computer Science, University of Craiova, from 1990 to 1992.

Studies

• PhD in Mathematics at University of Bucharest. Thesis: Models and Algorithms for Processing Uncertain Knowledge, Supervisor: Professor Ion Vaduva.
• Diploma (MSc) in Mathematics at University of Craiova, Romania.

Research Interests

• Knowledge Bases and Logic Programming.
• Natural Language Processing.
• Uncertainty in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.
• Rule Markup Languages and the Semantic Web.
• Uncertainty in Web Languages.
• Web Languages: XML, FLogic, RDF, OWL.
• Web Rule Languages: RuleML, SWRL, WRL
• Conceptual Modeling with UML.

Working Groups and Affiliations

• FuzzyRuleML WG of RuleML Initiative, from 2005.
• I1 WG in REWERSE Project, from 2005.
• Research Center of Artificial Intelligence, Craiova, from 2001.
• webAI Group 2001.
• Romanian Mathematical Society, from 1990.

Teaching at BTU

1. Web Documents (WebDoc)

   Mark up the structural parts of a document with XML. Create XHTML documents. Markup of mathematical expression with MathML, vector graphics with SVG and multimedia presentation with SMIL. Grammar specification of a document with the help of DTDs and XML Schema. Using CSS for defining the presentation style and layout of Web pages. Transformation of XML documents into another XML format, or into a Web page, with the help of XSLT or into a high quality document format, such as PDF, with the help of XSL-FO. Expressing statements about Web resources with RDF and RDFS. Design ontologies with OWL and protege.

2. Web Applications (WebApp)

   Get familiar with important technologies for Web applications and to acquire the basic skills needed for developing Web applications. Contents: Apache Web Server, PHP , JSP, EJB, EJB Application Servers(JBoss).

3. Logic and Information Systems (LogIS)

   The goals of this lecture are:

   • To understand the fundamental ideas of the model theory in logic
   • To be able to apply model theory to the inquiry problem in relational data bases
   • To learn refinements/extensions of the model theory as basis of the semantics of RDF
   • To understand the semantics of OWL and OCL

4. E-Business Technologies (eb-Tech)

   After taking this course, you are expected to know ...

   • What is EDI
   • What is ebXML.
   • Which messaging technologies can be used to implement business interactions
   • How to use Web services in e-business systems

Past courses (before 2005)

• Advanced Programming Techniques
• Natural Language Processing
• Logic Programming
• Java Programming
• UML Analysis and Design
• Software Engineering

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