News

2009-10-07: Dr. Michael Uschold visits our group.
It was a great honor for us to host Dr. Michael Uschold, an internationally recognized expert in ontologies and Semantic Web technologies both in academia and industry, in October. During his visit, we had the chance to explain our work on the GoodRelations ontology and its impact on
e-commerce on the Web of Linked Data.

2009-04-24: Martin Hepp has been appointed ACM Senior Member by the Association for Computing Machinery.
2009-02-09: The Semantic Universe portal publishes an article on Semantic Web for E-Commerce.
2008-10-20: Yahoo! adopts the GoodRelations ontology developed at our group as one of the key vocabularies for their SearchMonkey technology.
2008-10-16: Martin Hepp gives a talk on the GoodRelations work in the Ontolog forum. Click here for the slides and here for a podcast / MP3 recording.
2008-08-22: New Web page released.
2008-04-01: Martin Hepp has been appointed Professor of General Management and
E-Business at Bundeswehr University Munich (with tenure).

Events

• KRDB school 2010:
  3rd KRDB school on Trends in the Web of Data (KRDBs-2010), September 17-18, 2010, Brixen-Bressanone, Italy.
• SBPM 2009:
  4th International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM 2009).
• COMBEK 2009:
  International Workshop on Community-Based Evolution of Knowledge-Intensive Systems, November 1-6, 2009, Vilamoura, Portugal.
• ECIS 2009:
  17th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2009), June 8-10, 2009, Verona, Italy (Associate Editor for Semantic Web topics).
• SBPM 2009:
  4th International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM 2009), June 1, 2009, Heraklion, Greece.
• ESWC 2009:
  6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009), May 31 - June 4, 2009, Heraklion, Greece (Program Committee Vice Chair).
• BIS 2009:
  12th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2009), April 27-29, 2009, Poznan, Poland.
• ASWC 2008:
  Third Asian Semantic Web Conference, December 8-11, 2008, Bangkok, Thailand.
• COMBEK'08:
  International Workshop on Community-Based Evolution of Knowledge-Intensive Systems, November 9-14, 2008, Monterrey, Mexico.
• ISWC 2008:
  7th International Semantic Web Conference, October 26-30, 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany.
• OBI2008:
  First International Workshop on Ontology-supported Business Intelligence, October 26 or 27, 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany.
• EKAW 2008:
  16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, September 29 - October 3, 2008, Acitrezza, Catania, Italy.
• semantics4ws 2008:
  3rd International Workshop on Advances in Semantics for Web Services, September 1-4, 2008, Milan, Italy.