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Short CV | Research Domain | Projects | Publications | Other Research Activities        [last update:2010-03-10]

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Short CV:

Education background:

• 1996~2000, Northwestern Polytechnical University of China (Xi'An, Shan Xi Province, China), B.S. Computer Science & Technology.
• 2001~2002, Faculty of Applied Science, VUB (Free University of Brussels) Belgium, Postgraduate Diploma of Advanced Studies in Applied Computer Science.
• 2002~2003, Faculty of Applied Science, VUB, Belgium, Master in Applied Computer Science.
• 2003~2004, Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Solvay Business School, VUB Belgium, Master in Business Information Management
• 2004 ~ 2009, VUB Belgium, STARlab, PhD in Science
• 2009 ~ now, VUB Belgium, STARlab, post-doc and senior researcher

Research domain:

• Ontology based application arch.
• Ontology based decision making
• Decision support, Decision table and semantics
  
• Business ontology, modeling and business rules

Current Project:

• ITEA Dyse project. My contribution:
• apply community-based ontology creation methodology
• model smart home ontology
• validate Semantic Decision Tables (SDT) with a case of Smart Home

Past Project:

• EC PROLIX Project. My contribution:
• apply available ontology capture methodologies from STARLab to teach domain experts to build domain ontologies
• analyze the structures of the possible ontology based applications (requirement analysis)
• design algorithms for ontology-based data matching framework
• implement algorithm API (in Java) and evaluate algorithms
• IWT PoceHRmom Project. My contribution:
• construct a Profile Compiler (a tool) for ontology-based competence resource
• EC PRIME project. My contribution:
• construct an ontology capturing methodology for the Privacy domain
• EC ff POIROT project. My contribution:
• build an ontology-based tool to detect email fraud

Publications (selected):

Book:

1. Yan Tang, Semantic Decision Tables - A New, Promising and Practical Way of Organizing Your Business Semantics with Existing Decision Making Tools , ISBN 978-3-8383-3791-3, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing AG & Co. KG, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2010

Journal paper:

1. Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, Use Semantic Decision Tables to Improve Meaning Evolution Support Systems, special issue of the Inderscience International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS), in, Frode Eika Sandnes, Yan Zhang et. al., (eds.) ISSN (Online): 1754-8640, ISSN (Print): 1754-8632, 2010, Vol. 3, No.1 pp. 92 - 109.
2. Peter Spyns, Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, A model theory inspired collaborative ontology engineering methodology, Journal of Applied Ontology, special issue on "Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling", Giancarlo Guizzardi and Terry Halpin (eds.), Volume 3, Issue 1-2, p.13-39 (2008) 

Book chapter:

1. Yan Tang, Robert Meersman and Jan Vanthienen, From Decision Tables to Semantic Decision Tables: a Trend in Traditional Decision Support Tools for Data and Knowledge Engineering? in book "Applied Semantic Technologies: Using Semantics in Intelligent Information Processing",Vijayan Sugumaran and Jon Atle Gulla(eds.) to be published by Taylor and Francis 
2. Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, SDRule Markup Language: Towards Modeling and Interchanging Ontological Commitments for Semantic Decision Making, Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies: Open Solutions and Approaches, IGI Publishing, ISBN: 1-60566-402-2, USA, 2009, abstract
3. Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, Towards Building Semantic Decision Tables with Domain Ontologies, in book "Challenges in Information Technology Management", Man-Chung Chan, Ronnie Cheung & James N K Liu (eds), ISBN 978-981-281-906-2, 981-281-906-1, World Scientific, 2008, paper, abstract, selection rate: 17% (30/175)

International conference paper:

1. Yan Tang, Robert Meersman, Ioana-Georgiana Ciuciu, Ellen Leenarts and Kevin Pudney, Towards Evaluating Ontology Based Data Matching Strategies, in proc. fo fourth IEEE Research Challenges in Information Science RCIS'10, Nice, France, May 19 - 21, 2010, selection rate: 36%(52/144)
2. Yan Tang, Gang Zhao, Peter De Baer and Robert Meersman, Towards Freely and Correctly Adjusted Dijkstra's Algorithm with Semantic Decision Tables for Ontology Based Data Matching, in Proc. fo the 2nd International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering "ICCAE 2010", V. Mahadevan, J. Zhou (edt.), IEEE (Category number: CFP1096F-ART, CFP1096F-PRT), EI (Compendex), Thomason ISI Proceeding (ISTP), ISBN: 978-1-4244-5586-7, 978-1-4244-5585-0), Suntec city, Singapore, February 26 - 28, 2010
3. Yan Tang, Robert Meersman and Jan Vanthienen, Semantic Decision Tables: Self-Organizing and Reorganizable Decision Tables, in proc. of DEXA'08 (19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications), Srpinger, LNCS 5181, Sourav S. Bhwmich, Josef Kung, Roland Wagner (Eds.), Turin, Italy, 1~5 September, 2008, selection rate: 18.75% (39/208) 
4. Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, Use Semantic Decision Tables to Improve Meaning Evolution Support Systems, proc. of UIC'08 (The 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing), Building Smart Worlds in Real and Cyber Spaces, Springer Verlag, LNCS, in, Frode Eika Sandnes, Yan Zhang, Chunming Rong, Laurence T. Yang and Jiahua Ma (eds.), Oslo, Norway, June 23~25, 2008, paper, presentation, selection rate: 26% (27/102)
5. Yan Tang, Stijn Christiaens, Koen Keeremans and Robert Meersman, PROFILE COMPILER: Ontology-Based, Community-Grounded, Multilingual Online Services to Support Collaborative Decision Making, in proc. of RCIS'08 (IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science), IEEE catalog:CFP0840D-PRT, ISBN: 978-1-4244-1677-6, Marrakech, Morocco, June 3~6, 2008, paper, presentation
6. Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, Organizing Meaning Evolution Supporting Systems Using Semantic Decision Tables, In Proc. of 15th International Conference on Cooperative Information System (CoopIS'07), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE, GADA, and IS, Part I, pp: 272 - 284, Springer Verlag. LNCS 4803, Robert Meersman and Zahir Tari (eds.), Vilamoura, Portugal, 2007, paper, presentation. Selection rate: 22.8% (21/92)
7. Yan Tang, Peter Spyns and Robert Meersman, Towards Semantically Grounded Decision Rules Using ORM+, Proc. of International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML'07), in, Adrian Paschke and Yevgen Biletskiy (eds.), Springer Verlag, LNCS 4824, pp.78-91,October 25-26, 2007, Orlando, Florida, paper, presentation. Selection rate: 21.95% (9/41)
8. Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, On constructing semantic decision tables, in proc. of 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'2007), LNCS 4653, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 3~7th September, 2007, in, R. Wagner, N. Revell, and G. Pernul (Eds.), Regensburg, Germany, p.34-44 (2007), paper, presentation, selection rate: 32% (86/267)
9. Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, Towards building semantic decision table with domain ontologies, In Proceedings of International Conference of information Technology and Management (ICITM2007), 3~5 January, 2007, in, C. Man-chung, J.N.K. Liu, R. Cheung, J. Zhou, (eds.) ISM Press, ISBN 988-97311-5-0, pp. 14-21, paper, presentation, selection rate: 37.7% (66/175)
10. Damien Trog, Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, Towards Ontological Commitments with O-RIDL Markpu Language, Proc. of International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML'07), in, Adrian Paschke and Yevgen Biletskiy (eds.), Springer Verlag, LNCS 4824, paper (abstract only)
11. Edgard Nyssen, Horatiu Patrascu, Yan Tang, Marek Suliga and Rudi Deklerck, Active Images - a Tool for Interactive and Participative Web-Based Learning, Proc. of IASTED international conference on WEB-BASED EDUCATION – WBE 2004 (Feb.2004 Innsbruck, Austria), ACTA Press, ISBN: 0-88986-406-3, pp 416-832, paper

International workshop paper:

1. Yan Tang, Peter De Baer, Gang Zhao and Robert Meersman, On Conducting, Grouping and Using Topical Ontology for Semantic Matching, the 5th international IFIP workshop on Semantic Web and Web Semantics (SWWS’09), proc. Of On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009 Workshops, Springer, LNCS 5872, ISBN -978-3-642-05289-7, pp 816-825, Vilamoura, Portugal, Nov. 1 ~ Nov. 6, 2009
2. Yan Tang, Peter De Baer, Gang Zhao, Robert Meersman and Kevin Pudney, Towards a Pattern-Driven Topical Ontology Modeling Methodology in Elderly Care Homes, the 4th International Workshop on Ontology Content (OntoContent'09 Workshop), Special tracks on Business, Human Resources, eHealth, Web 3.0, OTM’09 workshops, Springer, international OntoContent’09 workshop, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009 Workshops, Springer, Heidelberg, LNCS 5872, ISBN 978-3-642-05289-7, pp. 514—523, Vilamoura, Portugal, Nov. 1 ~ Nov. 6, 2009
3. Peter De Baer, Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, An Ontology-based Data Matching Framework: Use Case Competency-based HRM, the fourth international workshop on ontology matching (OM’09), international OntoContent’09 workshop, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009 Workshops, Springer, Heidelberg, LNCS 5872, ISBN 978-3-642-05289-7, pp. 514—523, Vilamoura, Portugal, Nov. 1 ~ Nov. 6, 2009Vilamoura, Portugal, Nov. 1 ~ Nov. 6, 2009
4. Yan Tang and Damien Trog, Model Ontological Commitments Using ORM+ in T-Lex, in proc. of ORM workshop, OTM 2008, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-540-88874-1, Volume 5333/2008, pp. 787-796, 9-14 Oct. 2008
5. Yan Tang, On Conducting a Decision Group to Construct Semantic Decision Tables, In proc. of OntoContent Workshop, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 workshops, Part I, pp: 534 - 543, Robert Meersman, Zahir Tari and Pilar Herrero (eds.), Springer, LNCS 4805, Vilamoura, Portugal, 25~30 November, 2007, paper, presentation. Selection rate: 38% (6/16)
6. Yan Tang, Judicial support systems: ideas for a privacy ontology-based case analyzer, Proc. of OTM 05 PHD Symposium, in Meersman R., Zahir T., Herrero P. et al.,(eds.), 2005 (Oct.2005 Agia Napa, Cyprus), LNCS 3762, Springer Verlag, ISBN 3-540-29739-1, pp. 800-807 paper (abstract only) , presentation
7. Koen Kerremans, Yan Tang, Rita Temmerman and Gang Zhao, Towards ontology-based email fraud detection, Proc. of EPIA 2005 BAOSW Workshop of 12th Portuguese conference on AI, (Dec.2005 Covilha, Portugal), in, C. Bento, A. Cardoso and G. Dias, (eds.) IEEE publication, ISBN 0-7803-9365-1, IEEE Catalog Number 05EX1157, pp. 106 - 111, 05-08 Dec. 2005, paper

See also

• DBLP record
• VUB R&D Record
• STARLab bib record

Other research activities:

• Paper review
• Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Springer), Special Issue on Context-Aware Middleware and Applications, Yu, Z.W., Zhang, D.Q., Indulska, J., and Becker, C. (eds.), 2010
• International Editorial Board (IEB) of Special Issue of Cybemetics and Systems (Taylor & Francis),   Yu, Z.W., Nugent, C., Hussain, S., Ma, J.H. and Pianesi, F. (eds.), 2009
• Conference program committee
• The Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing --- Building Smart Worlds in Real and Cyber Spaces, 2010
• Visit and Stay
• Decision Support Systems Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, supported by exchange schema of Greek Interoperability Centre, 15/03/2010~19/03/2010
• School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, Feb. 25, 2010
• School of computer science and engineering, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, May 2009
• School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 16 May 2008

Online Articles:

• Methodology
• Lexon engineering
• Rule writing for ontological commitments (including SDT commitments).
• SDRule-L
• ORM+ ML
• ORM+ Rules in Prolog
• SDT
• Definition of SDT
• SDT XML Schema

Others:

• Student corner
• Collections (conferences, speech, personal blogs)
• Yan's personal page