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.

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.

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.

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.  

On June 5th, Professor Tharam S. Dillon visited STAR Lab. Professor Dillon had given a keynote on 'Modeling the Dynamics of Web-based Service and Resource-Oriented Digital Ecosystems' some days earlier at IEEE DEST 2009. To our great pleasure he was prepared to repeat the presentation here at the lab. This has led to some interesting discussions afterwards and hopefully will lead to some joint research in the near future.

STARLab's spinoff Collibra was selected as one of the 19 SMEs to exhibit at ICT 2008 in Lyon. The ICT 2008 event presented Europe's priorities for ICT research, development and funding. Many of STARLab's project partners also attended the event.

Prof. Robert Meersman from STAR Lab has presented a keynote talk at IEEE DEST 2008 (Second IEEE Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies), Phitsanulok, Thailand. This conference has a special theme on "Selforganized Collaborative Platform" this year.

Keynote title

Ontologies for Web Information Systems and Open Applications.

On 16th April, 2008, Dr. Tanguy Coenen from VUB STARLab gave a speech "semantic challenges in social software" at IFIP workshop on “Emergent semantics in a social context”.

He has discussed social software and the way it is evolving, some semantic challenges which already exist or which could become relevant in the future, the aspects of the application of social software in organisations and provided a broad overview to incite further discussion during the workshop.