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People | Alumni | Vlad Tanasescu

P-time external PhD Research Student

I am a PhD student at KMi with a hybrid background in philosophy and computer science. Geographical Information Systems aim to become a complete and useful, hence cognitively sound, representation of our environment. At the same time the Semantic Web ambition is to unleash the true power of the Web through the use of standardised, machine understandable, services and protocols. My interest lies in trying to articulate both fields in order to provide a different approach to GIS interaction which would successfully make use of the emerging Semantic Web resources.

Keys: Semantic Web Services, GIS, ontologies, XML, cognitive models, e-government, programming languages

5 Most Recent External Publications

Dietze, S. and Tanasescu, V. (2009) Spatial Groundings for meaningful Symbols, Workshop: Workshop on Matching and Meaning 2009 at AISB Convention, Edinburgh, UK

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Gugliotta, A., Domingue, J., Tanasescu, V., Villarias, L., Davies, R., Rowlatt, M., Richardson, M. and Stincic, S. (2008) Enabling Data, Information, and Process Integration with Semantic Web Services: from a New Technology Infrastructure to a Compelling Demonstrator Enabling Data, Information, and Process Integration with Semantic Web Services: from a New Technology Infrastructure to a Compelling Demonstrator., in eds. E. di Nitto, P. Traverso, A. Sassen, A. Zwegers, At your service: An overview of results of projects in the field of service engineering of the IST programme, MIT Press Series on Information Systems

Tanasescu, V. and Domingue, J. (2008) Towards General Spatial Intelligence, Workshop: Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning at 18th European Conference on Artigicial Intelligence (ECAI 2008), Patras, Greece

Tanasescu, V. and Domingue, J. (2008) A Differential Notion of Place for Local Search, Workshop: First International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2008) at First International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2008) in conjunction with the WWW 2008 Conference, Beijing, China

Gugliotta, A., Domingue, J., Cabral, L., Tanasescu, V., Galizia, S., Davies, R., Villarias, L., Rowlatt, M., Richardson, M. and Stincic, S. (2008) Deploying Semantic Web Services-based Applications in the e-Government Domain, Journal on Data Semantics, X, pp. 96-132, Publisher Springer Berlin / Heidelberg

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Knowledge Media Institute | The Open University | Juan Carlos Tanasescu

Event | SSSW 2013, The 10th Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web

Journal | 25 years of knowledge acquisition

Future Internet

Knowledge
Management Multimedia &
Information Systems Narrative
Hypermedia New Media Systems Semantic Web &
Knowledge Services

Future Internet is...

With over a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Internet's physical infrastructure, software, and content now play an integral part of the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not. Now nearing its fifth decade, the Internet has shown remarkable resilience and flexibility in the face of ever increasing numbers of users, data volume, and changing usage patterns, but faces growing challenges in meetings the needs of our knowledge society. Globally, many major initiatives are underway to address the need for more scientific research, physical infrastructure investment, better education, and better utilisation of the Internet. Within Japan, USA and Europe major new initiatives have begun in the area.

To succeed the Future Internet will need to address a number of cross-cutting challenges including:

Scalability in the face of peer-to-peer traffic, decentralisation, and increased openness

Trust when government, medical, financial, personal data are increasingly trusted to the cloud, and middleware will increasingly use dynamic service selection