Axel Polleres

My general research interests are:

• Semantic Web
• Ontology Languages
• Web Databases and Query Languages
• Linked Data
• Open Data
• Nonmonotonic Reasoning
• Deductive Databases
• Logic Programming, Answer Set Programming
• Planning
• Web Technologies
• Knowledge Management
• Semantic Web Services

I participate(d) in the following projects and working groups:

• Co-chair of the W3C SPARQL Working Group
• Member of the W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF) Working Group
• Member of the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group
• Former Member of the W3C RDB2RDF Incubator Group
• Former Member of the WSMO (Web Service Modeling Ontology) working group
• Former Member of the SWSL Committee
• Involved in Agreement Technologies (IC0801) an EU sponsored COST Action.
• Involved in Net²-A Network for Enabling Networked Knowledge an EU sponsored exchange program funded by the Marie Curie "International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES)".
• Involved in inContext an EU sponsored Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP).
• Involved in TripCom a EU sponsored Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP).
• Involved in Infrawebs a EU sponsored Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP).
• Involved in KnowledgeWeb a large EU sponsored network of excellence (NoE).
• Involved in dip, a challenging EU sponsored Integrated Project (IP) on Data and Process Integration involving many international partners.
• For my PhD thesis I was employed in a research project to develop "A Declarative Planning System Based On Logic Programming" which was supported by the Austrian Science Funds (FWF) under project number P14781 (developing the planning system DLV^K)