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About the Contributors Jörg Rech is a project manager and senior scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He received the BS (Vordiplom) and the MS (Diplom) in computer science with a minor in electrical science from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. His research mainly concerns software antipatterns, software patterns, defect discovery, software min- ing, software retrieval, automated software reuse, software analysis, and knowledge management. He is also the speaker of the GI working group on architectural and design patterns. Contact him at joerg. [email protected]. Björn Decker is a solution engineer for semantically enabled knowledge management solutions at empolis GmbH, part of avarto, a Bertelsmann company. Before that occupation, he was a project manager and scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He received the BS (Vordiplom) and the MS (Diplom) in computer science from the Univer- sity of Kaiserslautern, Germany. His research interests are experience management, in particular the collaborative maintenance of online repositories and usage of social software. He is a trainer concern- ing the usage of Wikis in software engineering companies and scientific writing. He organizes and is PC member of different workshops and conferences in the domain of software engineering, semantic Wikis, and experience management. Contact him at [email protected]. Eric Ras is a senior scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He received the BS (Vordiplom) and the MS (Diplom) in computer science from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. His research interests are learning material production, vocational training methods, software patterns, and experience management. Eric Ras is scientific coor- dinator of the international distance learning program Software Engineering for Embedded Systems at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He organized and is PC member of different workshops and conferences in the domain of software engineering, e-learning, and knowledge management. Contact him at [email protected]. * * * Copyright © 2008, IGI Global, distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. About the Contributors Enrique Alfonseca is a lecturer at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid since 2001. His main research interests are natural language processing topics such as information extraction, text summarisation, sentiment analysis, parsing, semantic annotation, and application of NLP to e-learning. Olli Alm is a research assistant in the Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo) at the University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science, and at the Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Media Technology. His research interests include ontology-based information extraction. Klaus-Dieter Althoff is full professor at the University of Hildesheim and is directing a research group on intelligent information systems. He studied mathematics with a focus on expert systems at the Uni- versity of Technology at Aachen. In 1992 he finished his doctoral dissertation on an architecture for knowledge-based technical diagnosis at the University of Kaiserslautern, where he also received the postdoctoral degree (Habilitation) with a thesis on the evaluation of case-based reasoning systems in 1997. He worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering as group leader and department head until he went to Hildesheim in April 2004. His main interests include techniques, methods and tools for developing, operating, evaluating, and maintaining knowledge-based systems, with a focus on case-based reasoning, agent technology, experience management, and machine learning. Sören Auer leads the research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) at the department Business Information Systems (University of Leipzig). He studied mathematics and computer science in Dresden, Hagen and Ekaterinburg, Russia. From 2000 to 2003, Sören was managing director of adVIS GmbH, a Dresden-based Internet and IT service provider. In 2006 he finished his PhD thesis on agile knowledge engineering at the University of Leipzig. Sören is project leader of Powl/OntoWiki, an integrated open-source, Semantic Web development framework for the scripting language PHP and founding member of the DBpedia project. Sören is author of over 50 peer-reviewed scientific publica- tions, co-organiser of several workshops and chair of the first Social Semantic Web conference. Michel Buffa is an associate professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. He is also a researcher in the Mainline group of the I3S laboratory and conducts his research work on the Semantic Web and social networks now. Currently he is a visiting scientist in the EDELWEISS/ACACIA group at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis where he works on the SweetWiki software that is used by several communities of practice. María Ruiz Casado is a PhD student at the Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Her thesis topic is Ontology Learning and Population from Free Text. Pablo Castells is associate professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid since 1999, where he leads and participates in several national and international projects in the areas of the semantic-based knowledge systems. His current research interests are focused on information retrieval, personalisation technologies, and context modelling. Ángel García Crespo is the head of the SofLab Group at the Computer Science Department in the Carlos III University and the Head of the Institute for Promotion of Innovation Pedro Juan de Lastanosa, Madrid. He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (award About the Contributors from the Instituto J.A. Artigas to the best thesis) and received an Executive MBA. from the Instituto de Empresa. Professor García Crespo has led and actively contributed to relevant European Projects of the FP V and VI, and also in many business cooperations. He is the author of more than 100 publications in conferences, journals, and books, both Spanish and international. Jin-Song Dong received both a Bachelor (1st class honors) and a PhD degree in computing from Univer- sity of Queensland in 1992 and 1996. From 1995-1998, he was a research scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Since 1998 he has been in the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he is currently associate professor and assistant dean. He is a Steering Committee member of the International Conference on Formal En- gineering Methods (ICFEM) and the Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) series. Guillaume Erétéo is a graduate student engineer from the Computer Science Department of Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de Nice Sophia-Antipolis. Roar Fjellheim is a cofounder and director of business development at Computas AS, a Norwegian SME specializing in work support systems and knowledge-based systems. He is also an associate pro- fessor in computer science at the University of Oslo. His primary professional interests are industrial applications of semantic technology, artificial intelligence, and systems engineering. Fjellheim has an engineering degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim). Prior to joining Computas, he held positions at The Norwegian Computing Centre (Oslo), CERN (Geneva), Det Norske Veritas (Oslo), and Innovation Norway (San Francisco). Thomas Franz is a researcher in the group for Information Systems and Semantic Web (ISWeb) at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. He joined ISWeb in 2005. His research interests include personal information management, Semantic Web, and knowledge representation. He is involved in the European research project X-Media and has previously worked in the research center for Knowledge Management at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne, Germany. Thomas holds a Masters Degree in computer science from the University of Freiburg and a diploma degree from the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne. He attended the Clemson University, USA, and the Chalmers University, Sweden Fabien Gandon is a full-time researcher in Informatics and Computer Science in the EDELWEISS/ ACACIA Research team of INRIA in the Research Center of Sophia-Antipolis (France). He has a PhD in Computer Science and he is a Graduated Engineer in Applied Mathematics from INSA. His profes- sional interests include: Semantic Web, ontologies, knowledge engineering and modelling, mobility, privacy, context-awareness, Web services, and multi-agents systems. His main domain of application is organizational memories (companies, communities, etc.) and knowledge management in general. He also participates to W3C working groups. Nicholas Gibbins is a lecturer in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. He is currently an investigator on the EU-funded TAO project, and was previously a member of the EPSRC-funded Advanced Knowledge Technologies project from 2000-2007. His research interests include open hypertext and hypermedia, large-scale multiagent systems, and the Semantic Web. About the Contributors Juan Miguel Gómez is a visiting professor at the Computer Science Department in the Carlos III Uni- versity. He holds