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Dr. Pieter GM De Leenheer is assistant professor in Business, Web and Media at VU University Amsterdam. He is also co-founder and research director of Collibra, a Brussels-based semantic software company that spun off from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). From 2002-2009, Pieter worked as a scientist at VUB STARLab, and he was lecturer at the same university. Pieter holds a PhD in computer science, and a BSc and MSc in principle computer science, both from VUB. His main interest lies in the social aspects of collaborative business semantics management and its applications.
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Stijn Christiaens is a researcher at the Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Belgium. He contributed (and is contributing) to several national (FWO's Bonatema and IWT-Tetra POCEHRMOM) and European (Leonardo Da Vinci's CODRIVE, FP6's PROLIX) projects on ontology engineering.
At the moment, he is working on theories, methods and tools to support ontology creation and maintenance at the Domain Expert level. The focus of his research in this field is on meaning negotiation, or the process of reaching agreement on the semantic description in the knowledge elements.
Stijn holds a Master in Industrial Engineering (in IT) from the Katholieke Hogeschool Gent (KiHo), a Master in Artificial Intelligence from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a certificate in Project Management from the Ehsal Management School. After his education he spent some time in supply-chain and warehouse management industry as an R&D software engineer.
Most relevant publications
- Challenges and Opportunities for more Meaningful and Sustainable Internet Systems Pieter De Leenheer; Stijn Christiaens , Future of the Internet Symposium, 28/09/2008, Vienna, Austria, (2008)
- Ambient Intelligence for Elderly (AmIE): An Empowering Way of Independent Living of Elderly Laurence Claeys; Johan Criel; Stijn Christiaens; Lieven Trappeniers , Med-e-Tel, 16/04/2008, Luxembourg, (2008)
- Business Use Case: Ontologising Competencies in an Interorganisational Setting Stijn Christiaens, Pieter De Leenheer, Aldo de Moor, Robert Meersman , ontology Management for the Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, and Business Applications, (2008)
- PROFILE COMPILER: Ontology-Based, Community-Grounded, Multilingual Online Services to Support Collaborative Decision Making Yan Tang; Stijn Christiaens; Koen Kerremans; Robert Meersman , RCIS'08 (IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science), 03/06/2008, Marrakech, Morocco, (2008)
- Mind the Gap: Transcending the Tunnel Vision on Ontology Engineering Pieter De Leenheer, Stijn Christiaens , Proc. of the 2nd Int'l Conf. on the Pragmatic Web 2007, Tilburg, NL, (2007) Abstract
- Competency Model in a Semantic Context: Meaningful Competencies , OTM Workshops, Volume 4278, Montpellier, p.1100-1106, (2006) Abstract
- Metadata mechanisms: from ontology to folksonomy ... and back , On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops, Volume 4278/2006, Montpellier, (2006)
- Ontology Guided Data Integration for Computational Prioritization of Disease Genes , OTM Workshops, Volume 4278, Montpellier, p.689-698, (2006)
- T-Lex: A Role-based Ontology Engineering Tool , ORM 2006, 02/11/2006, Volume 4278, Montpellier, France, (2006)
- Tool interoperability from the trenches: the case of DOGMA-MESS , Conceptual Structures Tool Interoperability Workshop (CS-TIW 2006) at the 14th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Aalborg, (2006)