Mathieu d'Aquin's Curriculum Vitæ


Personal Data

Mathieu D'AQUIN

Married, 28 years old, French.

Office Address:
Knowledge Media Institute,
The Open University
Milton Keynes, KK7 6AA, UK
Phone: +44 (0) 1908 655526
e-mail: m.daquin@open.ac.uk
web: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/mathieu/


Current Position
Research Fellow At the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open Univeristy in Milton keynes, UK. Four years contract started on the 15th of June 2006. Working within the NeOn project (http://www.neon-project.org) on Lifecyle support for Networked Ontologies, in particular on the Watson Semantic Web Gateway, Ontology Modularization, Ontology Matching, Ontology Dynamics and Next Generation Semantic Applications.
Education
2002-2005 PhD. in the Orpailleur team of the LORIA computer science laboratory of Nancy, France. Defended on the 14th of December 2005. Dissertation Topic: A Semantic Portal for Knowledge Management in Oncology.
2001-2002 DEA (5th year degree equivalent to M.Sc.) in computer science at the UHP Nancy 1 University of Nancy, with honours. Dissertation Topic: Knowledge Representation Needs and Multiple Viewpoint Representation for Adaptation in Case-Based Reasoning
2000-2001 Maîtrise (4th year degree equivalent to B.Sc.) in computer science at the UHP Nancy 1 University of Nancy, with honours.
1999-2000 Licence (3th year degree equivalent to B.Sc.) in computer science at the UHP Nancy 1 University of Nancy, with honours.
1997-1999 DUT (two years University Degree) in computer science at the Nancy 2 University of Nancy.

(July 2003) European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web, SSSW 2003, July 21-26 2003 in Cercedilla near Madrid, Spain.
Teaching Activities
Sep. 2005 - June 2006 Teaching Java programming and databases to student preparing a Licence (3 years University degree) in computer science at the UHP Nancy 1 University of Nancy.
Sep. 2003 - Jul. 2005 Teaching advanced algorithmic, data structures, networks and computer architectures to students preparing a DUT (two years University degree) in computer science at the Nancy 2 University of Nancy.
Sep. 2002 - Jul. 2003 Teaching algorithmic and Java programming to student at the ESSTIN engineering school of Nancy.

Trainnee Supervisions: Supervised several students achieving tranning periods, from several educationnal levels (from 2th to 5th year of studies).
PhD Students Supervisions: Currently co-supervising 3 full-time PhD students at KMi (2 as primary supervisor).

Technical Skills and Competences

Good programming skills with many different languages (Java, Javascript, PHP, C, Lisp, etc.), using object-oriented methodologies (UML, design patterns). Knowledge and experience in database technologies and administrating databases (MySQL, PostgreSL, Oracle).

Competence and experience concerning knowledge engineering technologies, in particular knowledge representation languages (Description Logics, Fuzzy logic, Frame-based representation), ontology editors (Protégé, Oiled, NeOn toolkit) and different reasoning paradigms (classification, rule-based reasoning, case-based reasoning), etc.

Knowledge and experience concerning the Web, Web services and Semantic Web technologies (HTML, XML, CSS, AJAX, RSS, SOAP, WSDL, RDF(S), OWL, C-OWL, SPARQL, Alignment format).

Languages
French: mother tongue.
English: read, written and spoken.
German: basic notions.

Main Developments
Others
Publications
Book Chapters

[OntoMod] Mathieu d'Aquin, Anne Schlicht, Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Marta Sabou. Criteria and Evaluation for Ontology Modularization Techniques. To appear in "Ontology Modularization", Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra, Heiner Stuckenschmidt (editors.) Springer, 2007

[C-OWL] Mathieu d'Aquin, Jean Lieber and Amedeo Napoli. Applying C-OWL for Representing Viewpoint in a Medical Application. Submitted as a chapter of "Distributed Ontologies on the Semantic Web - The C-OWL Approach", Fausto Giunchiglia, Frank van Harmelen Luciano Serafini, Heiner Stuckenschmidt (editors).

[FLSW06] Mathieu d'Aquin, Jean Lieber and Amedeo Napoli. Towards a Semantic Portal for Oncology using a Description Logic with Fuzzy Concrete Domains. Chapter 19 of "Fuzzy Logic and the Semantic Web", Elsevier, 18 p, 2006.

International Journals

[JODS08] Marta Sabou, Mathieu d'Aquin and Enrico Motta. Exploring the Semantic Web as Background Knowledge for Ontology Matching. Journal of Data Semantics, 2008.

[IEEE-IS-08a] Mathieu d'Aquin, Enrico Motta, Marta Sabou, Sofia Angeletou, Laurian Gridinoc, Vanessa Lopez, and Davide Guidi. Towards a New Generation of Semantic Web Applications. IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol.23, 3, (20-28).

[IEEE-IS-08a] Mathieu d'Aquin, Enrico Motta, Martin Dzbor, Laurian Gridinoc, Tom Heath, and Marta Sabou. Collaborative Semantic Authoring. IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol.23, 3, (20-28).

[CI06] Mathieu d'Aquin, Jean Lieber and Amedeo Napoli. Adaptation Knowledge Acquisition: A Case Study for Case-Based Decision Support in Oncology. Computational Intelligence, Volume 22, Number 3/4, 2006.

[IJHCS05] Mathieu d'Aquin, Christophe Bouthier, Sébastien Brachais, Jean Lieber and Amedeo Napoli. Knowledge Editing and Maintenance Tools for a Semantic Portal in Oncology. International Journal of Human - Computer Studies, IJHCS 62/5, pp. 619-638, 2005.

French Journal

[L-OBJET07] Mathieu d'Aquin, Jean Lieber and Amedeo Napoli. La représentation de points de vue dans le système d'aide à la décision en cancérologie KASIMIR. Accepted for publication in the special issue of the french journal "L'Objet" on viewpoint modeling and representation.

International Conferences

[WWW2008a] Mathieu d'Aquin. Building Semantic Web Based Applications with Watson. WWW2008 - The 17th International World Wide Web Conference - Developers' Track, Beijing, China.

[WWW2008b] Peter Haase, Holger Lewen, Rudi Studer, and Mathieu d'Aquin. The NeOn Ontology Engineering Toolkit. WWW2008 - The 17th International World Wide Web Conference - Developers' Track, Beijing, China.

[WWW/Internet2007] Mathieu d'Aquin, Claudio Baldassarre, Laurian Gridinoc, Marta Sabou Sofia Angeletou and Enrico Motta. Watson: Supporting Next Generation Semantic Web Applications. In proc. of the WWW/Internet conference 2007.

[ISWC07] Marta Sabou, Jorge Gracia, Sofia Angeletou, Mathieu d'Aquin, and Enrico Motta. Evaluating the Semantic Web: A Task-based Approach. In proc. of the International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2007.

[ISWC07p] Mathieu d'Aquin, Claudio Baldassarre, Laurian Gridinoc, Sofia Angeletou, Marta Sabou and Enrico Motta. Watson: A Gateway for Next Generation Semantic Web Applications. Poster, International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2007

[DEXA07] Mathieu d'Aquin, Anne Schlicht, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, and Marta Sabou. Ontology Modularization for Knowledge Selection: Experiments and Evaluations. In Proc. of the 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2007.

[ESWC07] Mathieu d'Aquin, Marta Sabou, Martin Dzbor, Claudio Baldassarre, Laurian Gridinoc, Sofia Angeletou, and Enrico Motta. WATSON: A Gateway for the Semantic Web. Poster session of the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007).

[IJCAI07] Mathieu d'Aquin, Fadi Badra, Sandrine Lafrogne, Jean Lieber, Amedeo Napoli and Laszlo Szathmary. Case Base Mining for Adaptation Knowledge Acquisition. 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007).

[ECAI06] Mathieu d'Aquin, Fadi Badra, Sandrine Lafrogne, Jean Lieber, Amedeo Napoli and Laszlo Szathmary. Adaptation Knowledge Discovery from a Case-Base. Poster session of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006).

[AIMSA06] Mathieu d'Aquin, Jean Lieber and Amedeo Napoli. Case-based Reasoning Within Semantic Web Technologies. Adaptation Knowledge Discovery from a Case-Base. The Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems and Applications (AIMSA 2006), Varna, Bulgaria.

[ISWC05] Mathieu d'Aquin, Jean Lieber and Amedeo Napoli. Decentralized Case-Based Reasoning for the Semantic Web. to appear in International Semantic Web Conference", ISWC 2005. 2005. 14 p.

[CGP04] Mathieu d'Aquin, Sébastien Brachais, Jean Lieber and Amedeo Napoli. Decision Support and Knowledge Management in Oncology using Hierarchical Classification. Proceedings of the Symposium on Computerized Guidelines and Protocols - CGP-2004. (Prague, Czech Republic). IOS Press, 2004. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. vol 101. pp.16--30.

[AIME03] Jean Lieber, Mathieu d'Aquin, Pierre Bey, Amedeo Napoli, Maria Rios and Catherine Sauvagnac. Acquisition of Adaptation Knowledge for Breast Cancer Treatment Decision Support. In 9th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Europe 2003 - AIME 2003. (Protaras, Chypre). 2003. 10 p.

French Conferences

[LFA06] Mathieu d'Aquin , Julien Cojan, Jean Lieber eand Amedeo Napoli. Vers l'implantation d'un moteur d'inférences pour une logique de descriptions avec domaine concret flou Rencontres francophones sur la logique floue et ses applications (LFA-06). (Nancy, France). 2004. 6 p.

[CE2I04] Mathieu d'Aquin, Sébastien Brachais, Jean Lieber and Amedeo Napoli. Kasimir : gestion de connaissances décisionnelles en cancérologie. Modélisation et pilotage des systèmes de Connaissances et de Compétences dans les Entreprises Industrielles - 2ème colloque - C2EI'04. (Nancy, France). 2004. 6 p.

[LFA04] Mathieu d'Aquin, Jean Lieber and Amedeo Napoli. Étude de quelques logiques de descriptions floues et de formalismes apparentés. Rencontres francophones sur la logique floue et ses applications - LFA'04. (Nantes, France). Cépadues-Editions, 2004. pp.255-262.

[LMO04] Mathieu d'Aquin, Jean Lieber and Amedeo Napoli. Représentation de points de vue pour le raisonnement à partir de cas. In Langages et Modèles à Objets - LMO'04. (Lille, France). 2004. Revue des Sciences et Technologies de l'Information, RSTI - série L'Objet. vol 10. n° 2-3. pp.245-258.

International Workshops

[SFSW08] Laurian Gridinoc and Mathieu d'Aquin. MOAW - URI's Everywhere. 4th Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web (challenge entry), ESWC 2008, Tenerife, Spain.

[OM07] Jorge Gracia, Vanessa Lopez, Mathieu d'Aquin, Marta Sabou, Enrico Motta and Eduardo Mena. Solving Semantic Ambiguity to Improve Semantic Web based Ontology Matching. Workshop on Ontology Matching, The 6th International Semantic Web Conference and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference.

[EON07] Mathieu d'Aquin, Claudio Baldassarre, Laurian Gridinoc, Sofia Angeletou, Marta Sabou and Enrico Motta. Characterizing Knowledge on the Semantic Web with Watson. Evaluation of Ontologies and Ontology-based tools, 5th International EON Workshop, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'07).

[WoMO07] Mathieu d'Aquin, Paul Doran, Enrico Motta and Valentina Tamma. Towards a Parametric Ontology Modularization Framework Based on Graph Transformation. International Workshop on Modular Ontologies, K-CAP 2007

[IWOD07] Diana Maynard, Wim Peters, Mathieu d'Aquin and Marta Sabou. Change Management for Metadata Evolution. First International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD 2007). ESWC 2007 Workshop.

[WoMO06] Mathieu d'Aquin, Marta Sabou et Enrico Motta. Modularization: a Key for the Dynamic Selection of Relevant Knowledge Components. First International Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO 2006), collocated with ISWC?06.

[OM06] Marta Sabou, Mathieu d'Aquin et Enrico Motta. Using the Semantic Web as Background Knowledge for Ontology Mapping. International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2006), collocated with ISWC'06.

[HealthComm02] Jean Lieber, Mathieu d'Aquin, Pierre Bey, Benoît Bresson, Olivier Croissant, Pierre Falzon, Anne Lesur, Julien Lévêque, Vanina Mollo, Amedeo Napoli, Maria Rios and Catherine Sauvagnac. The Kasimir Project: Knowledge Management in Cancerology. In 4th International Workshop on Enterprise Networking and Computing in Health Care Industry - HealthComm 2002. (Nancy, France). 2002. pp.125--127.


French Workshops

[RaPC06] Mathieu d'Aquin. Raisonnement à partir de cas décentralisé pour le Web sémantique. Actes du quatorzième atelier raisonnement à partir de cas (RàPC 2006).

[RaPC05] Mathieu d'Aquin, Jean Lieber et Amedeo Napoli. Vers une utilisation du critère pessimiste de Wald pour aider à la décision à partir de cas. 13ème Atelier de Raisonnement à Partir de Cas - RàPC'05.

[WSM04] Mathieu d'Aquin, Sébastien Brachais, Jean Lieber and Amedeo Napoli. Kasimir : portail sémantique pour la gestion des connaissances en cancérologie. In Second séminaire francophone du Web Sémantique Médical - WSM 2004. (Rouen, France). 2004. 2 p.

[RàPC04a] Mathieu d'Aquin, Sébastien Brachais, Jean Lieber and Amedeo Napoli. Vers une acquisition automatique de connaissances d'adaptation par examen de la base de cas --- une approche fondée sur des techniques d'extraction de connaissances dans des bases de données . 12ème Atelier de Raisonnement à Partir de Cas - RàPC'04. (Université Paris Nord, Villetaneuse, France). 2004. pp.41-52.

[RàPC04b] Jean Lieber, Mathieu d'Aquin, Sébastien Brachais and Amedeo Napoli. Une étude comparative de quelques travaux sur l'acquisition de connaissances d'adaptation pour le raisonnement à partir de cas. 12ème Atelier de Raisonnement à Partir de Cas - RàPC'04. (Université Paris Nord, Villetaneuse, France). 2004. pp.53-60.

[WSM03] Sébastien Brachais, Mathieu d'Aquin, Jean Lieber and Amedeo Napoli. Vers un Web sémantique en cancérologie. In Première journée Web sémantique médical - WSM'2003. (Rennes, France). 2003. 2 p.

[RàPC03] Mathieu d'Aquin. Un modèle de connaissances en RDF(S) pour raisonner à partir de cas sur le Web sémantique. In Atelier raisonnement à partir de cas - Plate-forme AFIA. (Laval). 2003. 9 p.

[RàPC02] Mathieu d'Aquin, Jean Lieber and Amedeo Napoli. Représentation multi-points de vue des connaissances pour l'adaptation. 10ème séminaire français de raisonnement à partir de cas - RàPC'2002. (Paris, France). 2002. pp.23--31.