Olaf Noppens

Associate member of the Institute

Research Interests

• Knowledge Engineering (Ontology languages RDF, RDFS, OWL)
• Combination of Automatic Reasoning and Visual Analytics
• Semantic Technologies
• Information Visualization and Analytics
• Human-Computer-Interaction
• Communication protocols for the Semantic Web
• Linked (Open) Data

Projects

• CrimeInspector- Visual semantic analysis tool for complex data analysis, Inpol-Land Polas Competence Center (IPCC) (2010)
• OWLlink API Java interface and implementation of the OWLlink protocol
• OWLlink protocol specification. W3C member submission 2010
• Ontology-based document management. EU Network of Excellence: ReSIST (2008 - 2009)
• Semantic service discovery. docomo Eurolabs GmbH, Munich (2003 - 2007)

Awards

• IEEE VAST Challenge Award Winner 2009
• IEEE InfoVis Contest Finalist 2007

Organisational Activities

• Member of the programme commitee of WOP 2012, the Industry Track of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011),  of the 2nd Workshop on Ontology Patterns (WOP 2010)
• Co-organizer and speaker of the tutorial "Connecting OWL2-aware Components via OWLlink" at the International Semantic Web Conference 2009 (ISWC 2009)
• Invited referee for ISWC, ESWC, OWLED, WOP and other events
• Supervisor of diploma and bachelor theses

Patents

• Method and apparatus for preference building to be used in service discovery, EP1807773

Invited Talks

• Knowledge Engineering, Visualization, and Analysis.
  Invited talk at the Chisel group at University of Victoria, 26 Jan 2011

• VIScover: Visualizing and analyzing complex data.
  Heidelberger Innovationsforum, 20 October 2009.