Dr. Ioana Ciuciu visited INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France and MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland from 28 June - 7 July, based on the International Mobility Contract (IMC) of the 3DAH Project. The principle of the IMC is to give researchers the opportunity of working with a different partner team for a short period of time.

The Greek Interoperability Center is an organization supported by the EC 7th Framework Programme. The main goal of the Greek Interoperability Centre is to establish a new research centre targeting eGovernment and eBusiness Interoperability Research. The Greek Interoperability Centre aims at becoming a premium research centre in the field of Interoperability, forming a strong regional pole of research and technology in Europe.

Dr. Ioana Ciuciu and Dr. Kang Han visited MIRALab of University of Geneva from January 18th to January 29th, based on the Intenal Mobility Contract of 3DAH.

Prof. Dr. Zhiwen Yu will visist STARLab and give a talk on Feb. 8, 2010. He is currently a professor at the School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, P. R. China. He received his B.Eng, M.Eng and Ph.D degree of Engineering in computer science and technology in 2000, 2003 and 2005 respectively from the Northwestern Polytechnical University. He has worked as a research fellow at the Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University, Japan from Feb. 2007 to Jan. 2009, and a post-doctoral researcher at the Information Technology Center, Nagoya University, Japan in 2006-2007.

EC Prolix project successfully ended on 1/12/2009. The final general assembly meeting has been held at Bedford Lodge Hotel in New Market, Suffolk, UK from Jan. 20th, 2010 till Jan. 22nd, 2010. Jan. 19th is the internal meeting for the preparation. 

Yan Tang and Gang Zhao attended the meeting on behalf of STARLab. 

About Bedford Hotel: Yan loves the 19M heated indoor swimming pool.

About Suffol: It is too small to pay a visit.

About the weather: It is better than Brussels (same time)

We had STARLab New Year lunch at la quincaillerie, which resides at Ixelles, Rue Du Page 45, Brussels.

We choose there because of beautiful 80's decoration and good food (see the picture on the right from the official website: http://www.quincaillerie.be/). 

On Dec. 18, 2009, we had a STARLab Christmas dinner at an Ethiopian restaurant. 

It was a great dinner. Everyone enjoyed it so much. Good food in huge quantities, good wine, beautiful waitresses, warm environment and above all ... good company!

The restaurant is called Kokob - the name is very exotic!

Address: Rue des Grands Carmes 10, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Telephone: 02 511 19 50 

Kokob in media:

The OnTheMove Federated Conferences & Workshops 2009, which took place at the Tivoli Marina Hotel in Vilamoura, Portugal, from 1 - 6 November 2009. OTM'09 fouses on the development and deployment of large and complex intelligent and networked information systems, required for the internet- and intranet-based systems in organizations, and covering a very wide range of application domains as well as technology and research issues.

In this photo, from right to left - Prof. Robert Meersman, Peter De Baer, Christophe Debruyne, Quentin Reul, Yan Tang, Mariam Samy Mohammed, dr. Pieter De Leenheer, dr. Hang Kang, Ioana Ciuciu, Anu Mulmi

We would like to thank Dr. Dongya Wu for her stay at the STARLab as a visiting scholar. During past 10 months, she has been always very helpful to every researcher.

Dr. Dongya Wu is currently the deputy chairman of network subcommittee of China national information Technology standardization technical committee (NITS) and the committeeman of China Computer Federation(CCF).  During her stay at the STARLab, she has been actively working on the relations between ontology and international standardization. 

On July 30th, 2009. We have organized a goodbye party + dinner for Dongya at the restaurant "Au Thé de Pékin " (丽晶大酒店). We have enjoyed very much the Dim Sum.