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www.deri.ie
The Digital Enterprise Research Institute, a CSET based in NUI Galway, is dedicated to researching the technologies that will underpin the next generation of the World Wide Web – the Semantic Web. The Institute, which SFI has supported since 2003 with a €12 million grant over 5 years, aims to develop the software that allows the Internet to become a platform where organizations and individuals communicate more easily with each other to carry out commercial activities and provide value-added services.
DERI’s key industrial partner is Hewlett-Packard, whose European Software Centre is based in Galway. DERI has already grown to approximately 100 members, comprising of senior researchers, post-doctoral, post graduate, outreach and administration. There are researchers from both NUI Galway and HP Galway involved in joint research efforts. DERI will continue to expand it’s workforce and expertise in the future with additional funding from EU projects and continued support from SFI.
 Prof Stefan Decker
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Prof. Stefan Decker is a professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway, director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute and Cluster Leader of the Semantic Web Cluster within the institute. Previously he worked in the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (ISI), in the Computer Science Department (Database Group) at Stanford University and at the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, University of Karlsruhe. Since October 2003 Prof Decker has been involved in setting up DERI, leading the Semantic Web research group as a Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer and since July 2006 as the Director of the Institute.
Prof Decker's current research interests include the Semantic Web, metadata, ontologies and semi-structured data, web services, and applications for Digital Libraries, Knowledge Management, Information Integration and Peer-to-Peer technology. He has published around 70 papers as books and journal, book, conference, and workshop contributions. He has co-organized around 35 scientific workshops and conferences and has edited several special issues of scientific journals. He was editor-in-chief of Elsevier’s Journal of Web Semantics, editorial committee member of the Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI) (the Semantic Web), the Journal on Internet Research and the Journal on Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (WIAS) and is recognized as one of the most widely cited Semantic Web scientists. Prof Decker's dissertation work was quoted as one of the inspirations for the DARPA DAML program, which span the Semantic Web effort.
“The technologies that DERI is developing will radically change the way people and machines communicate and exchange data over the Internet. The web is connecting all of human kind, and it must have a way of operating that responds to culturally diverse users and which works in countless different contexts. With the mix of skills and cultures on our team, we are able to develop a technology that can add this semantic power to the Web.”
“The partnership with industry enables us to solicit ideas and develop real-world applications that address real-world problems. It keeps the research focused on technologies with demonstrable business benefi ts.”
“The international dimension allows for a greater exchange of ideas among researchers. It also gives us the opportunity to develop strategic links with other research institutions and position ourselves at the forefront of this developing technology.”
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 Prof Manfred Hauswirth
Vice-Director
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Prof Manfred Hauswirth is Vice-Director of DERI and a professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). He holds an MSc (1994) and a PhD (1999) in computer science from the Technical University of Vienna. Before coming to DERI he was a senior researcher and research project manager at the Distributed Information Systems Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and an assistant professor at the Distributed Systems Group at the TU Vienna. Prof Hauswirth's main research interests are on semantic distributed information systems and applications, including semantic web services, sensor network infrastructures, and peer-to-peer systems. He has published a large number of papers in these domains, several book chapters on P2P data management and semantics, and has co-authored a book on distributed software architectures. Prof Hauswirth has served in over 100 program committees of international scientific conferences and recently was local chair of WDAS2004 and program co-chair of SME05, STD3S, MCISME, and DMC2006. In 2007 he is program co-chair of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.
"The advent of sensor technologies and the Semantic Web provide the unique opportunity to unify the real and the virtual worlds. Similarly as the Internet has changed the way people communicate in the virtual world, we can now extend this vision to the physical world enabling novel ways for humans to interact with their environment and facilitating interactions among entities of the physical world."
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