RESEARCH INTERESTS

Generally, I am interested in developing novel software solutions for assisting humans to effectively manage and intelligently use large amounts of data which are often heterogeneous, distributed, and autonomous.  Specifically, I am interested in the problem of discovering, capturing, and representing semantics of data in open and dynamic information systems. Solutions to this problem so far include the development of tools for helping users to discover meanings of legacy data and framework for better capturing semantics for database-resident data. I developed the MAPONTO semantic mapping tool in the past. Some current projects can be viewed here.  The current approaches I am interested in span techniques in conceptual modeling, information extraction and retrieval, and data management. The following is a list of topics within the scope of my interests.
  1. Web Information Systems Design and Engineering
  2. Information Modeling and Integration
  3. Schema Mapping
  4. Data Semantics
  5. The Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services
  6. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  7. Data Integration for Life Sciences
  8. Healthcare Informatics
  9. Business Intelligence
  10. Requirements Analysis and Engineering
  11. Data Reverse Engineering
  12. Object-Relational Mapping
  13. Semantic Mapping Maintenance
  14. Information Visualization
  15. Knowledge Representation and Database
NEWS AND ACTIVITIES
    1. 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'08)
    2. Data Integration in Life Sciences 2008 (DILS'08)
    3. The 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE´08)
    4. The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2007).
    5. SWDB & ODBIS 2007 in conjunction with VLDB 2007 .