Robert H.P. Engels - short CV

Robert is a project and peer reviewer/referent in a variety of EU projects, several international conferences on AI, Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition, Data Mining & Business Intelligence as well as conferences and workshops on Knowledge Management.

Besides being a member of the board in several companies, he owns ESIS Norge AS, a consultancy company specialised on product conceptualisation and implementation for Semantic (Web) Technology. Acting as an international expert, he is reviewer on European IST research projects. He is consultant for several R&D institutions, f.ex. Trondheim Polytechnic (NTNU), Norway and the Western Norwegian Research Institute. He has been a guest lecturer at the BI in Oslo (Norwegian School of Management), Høgskolen i Narvik and the Norwegian Polytechnic for Information Technology (NITH) and coordinates international student exchange (cooperating with the Universities of Amsterdam, Netherlands and Karlsruhe, Germany). He also teached primary school level at the Dutch School in Oslo (NTC). Before starting ESIS Norge, Robert Engels was employed at CognIT a.s (Norway).

Presenter at various national- and international conferences and events, ranging from academic (Int. Semantic Web Conference, ICML, ECML, AAAI, etc.) to commercial initiatives (Semantic Days in Oil&Gas, Dutch Microsoft Office Days, etc.).

projects

On several occassions Robert Engels was responsible for (nationally and EU-funded) research projects. Being active in EU initiatives for many years, he has extensive experience in acquiring of and participation in projects. In addition he is engaged by the EU commission as an FPx Expert for reviewing proposals and projects.

• Sesam4 (project leader). This nationally funded project (budget € 4M) investigates technology and methods for bringing your data into the semantic web. During the project period the project focussed on support for the emerging Linked Open Data initiative.

• IST-027705NEPOMUK (reviewer). This 6^th framework project (budget € 20M) aims at bringing semantics to the knowledge worker's workplace. The project involves Open Source communities around Mandriva Linux and KDE, and is a cooperation between major European and global players.

• IST-FP6-26978 XMEDIA. This 6^th framework project (budget € 13M) focusses on large scale knowledge management across multi-media and information processing.

• IST-2001-38513 VISION. A 6th framework Roadmap project defining the "Next Generation Knowledge Management". Cooperating partners: FZI (D), BT (UK), CognIT (N), Sirma (BG), CAS (D), National Technical University Athens (EL), IDP Italian Development Partners (B).

• IST-2001-34244 AmbieSense: Ambient, personalised, and context-sensitive information systems for mobile users. A project with SINTEF, CognIT, Robert Gordon University, Reuters, Siemens AG, lonely planet, Oslo Airport and Sevilla.

• IST-2002-37134: SWWSSemantic Web Enabled Web Services. Member of the industrial advisory board.

• IST-2001-33052: WonderWeb Bringing the Web to its full potential. Member of the industrial advisory board.

• IST-2001-32533: AcKnowNet: Active Knowledge Networks. Partnering with Tupai Systems and Deutsche Forschungszentrum Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI).

• IST-2000-29243: OntoWeb: Ontology-based information exchange for knowledge management and electronic commerce.

• IST-1999-10132: On-To-Knowledge: Content-driven Knowledge-Management through Evolving Ontologies

• ESPRIT IV 29288: ML-Net II - Machine Learning Network of Excellence.

ONTOKNOWLEDGE CONSORTIUM (OSLO, 2000)

(co-) organiser of:

• Semantic Web in Practice at Software 2008, february 12th, Oslo, Norway. Featuring Prof. Dr. Stefan Decker from DERI, Gallway.

• Semantic Technology Track at Software 2007, february 13th, Oslo, Norway.

• Semantic Web Workshop Oslo Seminar Semantic Web Oslo, Oslo, Norway, january 2003.

• Workshop for the OntoKnowledge project, Sandvika, Norway, july 2000.

• Workshop on The Methodology of Applying Machine Learning Organized together with Floor Verdenius and David Aha. This workshop formed part of the co-located AAAI-98 and ICML-98

• "Workshop on ML-Applications in the real world". Organized together with Floor Verdenius, Jürgen Hermann and Bob Evans this is an ICML-97 Workshop

• The Fachgruppentreffen Maschinelles Lernen 1997 (FGML-97) took place in Karlsruhe. Organization together with Holger Friedrich and Marcus Wiese.

Publications & Scientific Work

Author and co-author of a number of scientific and popular publications on machine learning and AI. Supervisor, reviewer/sensor and opponent on 50+ MSc and PhD theses at European Universities and Polytechs on topics like Statistics, Case Based Reasoning, Inductive Logic Programming, Genetic Algorithms, Logic, Semantic Web Technology, etc.

Some publications:

R. Engels. Open and coordinated access to digital cultural heritage. Advices for a succesful presence in the digital kultural world. "Åpen og samordnet tilgang til kulturarven. Anbefalinger for en velykket tilstedeværelse i den digitale kulturelle verden"). (in Norwegian). A 2010 report for the Digital Cultural Heritage sector ordered by the Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority. ABM-Utvikling 2010. Freely distributed.

R. Engels and D. Norheim. Tying it all together: Inter-operable Topic-Centred Information Portals. (click here for full, non-published version) In: Bizer, Chr. and Joshi, A.. (Eds). Proceedings of the Poster and Demonstration Session at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008). Karlsruhe, Germany, October 28, 2008, Wileys, UK.

R. Engels and T. Ch. Lech. Generating Ontologies for the Semantic Web: OntoBuilder In: J. Davies, D. Fensel and F. van Harmelen (Eds). Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-Driven Knowledge Management., Wileys, UK.

D. Fensel, F. van Harmelen, Y. Ding, M. Klein, H. Akkermans, J. Broekstra, A. Kampman, J. van der Meer, Y. Sure, R. Studer, U. Krohn, J. Davies, R. Engels, V. Iosif, A. Kiryakov, T. Lau, and U. Reimer. On-To-Knowledge: Semantic Web Enabled Knowledge Management IEEE Computer.

R.Engels and B.A. Bremdal.CORPORUM: A Workbench for the Semantic Web. Semantic Web Mining workshop. PKDD/ECML – 01. Freiburg, Germany, 2001.

R. Engels. ICT solutions for support of life-long learning scenarios. 13th ENCoDe conference, Halden, Norway, 5-7 July 2001.

Y. Ding, R. Engels and D. Fensel. IR and AI: Using co-occurrence theory to generate specific domain (light-weight) ontologies. IJCAI, 2001.

R.Engels and B. A. Bremdal. Information Extraction: State-of-the-Art Report. Deliverable of the EU 5^th framework project OntoKnowledge (IST-1999-10132), 2000.

R. R. Jones, B. A. Bremdal, Ch. Spaggiari, F. Johansen and R. Engels. Knowledge Management through Content Interpretation. AISC2000, September 21th-22th, Hong Kong, China, 2000.

D. Fensel, F. van Harmelen, H. Akkermans, M. Klein, J. Broekstra, C. Fluyt, J. van der Meer, H.-P. Schnurr, R. Studer, J. Davies, J. Hughes, U. Krohn, R. Engels, B. Bremdahl, F. Ygge, U. Reimer, and I. Horrocks. OnToKnowledge: Ontology-based Tools for Knowledge Management. In Proceedings of the eBusiness and eWork 2000 (EMMSEC 2000) Conference, Madrid, Spain.

R.Engels and Ch.Theusinger: Support for Data Transformation in Machine Learning Applications. In: C. Giraud-Carrier and M. Hilario (Eds.). ECML'98 Workshop Notes - Upgrading Learning to the Meta-Level: Model Selection and Data Transformation, Technical Report CSR-98-02, Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, April 1998.

R. Engels, B. Evans, J. Herrmann and F. Verdenius (Eds.): Proceedings of the workshop on Machine Learning Application in the real world; Methodological Aspects and Implications. Nashville, TN, July 12th, 1997.

F. Verdenius and R. Engels:A Process Model for Developing Inductive Applications. In: Proceedings of the Seventh Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning , Tilburg, NL, 119-128, 1997.

R. Engels, G. Lindner and R. Studer: A Guided Tour through the Data Mining Jungle. (kdd 97 Version (4 pages) or (full version, I prefer this one!) In: Proceedings of the 3nd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD-97), August 14 -17, Newport Beach, CA. 1997.

R. Engels, G. Lindner and R. Studer: Providing User Support for Developing Knowledge Discovery Applications; A Midterm report. In: S. Wrobel (Ed.) Themenheft der Künstliche Intelligenz, (1) March, 1998.

R. Engels, G. Lindner and R. Studer: Benutzerunterstützung für Wissensentdeckung in Datenbanken. Appeared in: Ch. Nakhaeizadeh: Data Mining: Theoretische Aspekte und Anwendungen. Reihe: Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsinformatik, ISBN 3-7908-1053-3. Physica-Verlag, Berlin. This book is in German (cf. book evaluation). 1998.

R. Wirth, C. Shearer, U. Grimmer, Th. Reinartz, J. Schlösser, Chr. Breitner, R. Engels, and G. Lindner. In: Towards Process-Oriented Tool Support for KDD Proceedings of the 1st European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery , 243-253, June 1997, Trondheim, Norway. 1997

R. Engels:Planning tasks for Knowledge Discovery in Databases; Performing Task-Oriented User-Guidance. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD'96), August 2 - 4, Portland, Oregon. 1996

R. Engels and R. Perkuhn:Describing and Integrating Competence Theories for Problem Solving Components and Machine Learning Algorithms. In: Position Paper Collection of the European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (EKAW '96), Matlock Bath, U.K., May 14 - 17, 1996.

R.Engels: Högdalenverket: Applying ILP in an Industrial Setting. In: Proceedings of the Fifth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence SCAI '95 (Trondheim, Norway, May 29-31), 401-405, 1995. A long version of this paper is published at the Intelligent Adaptive Systems Workshop IAS-95, Melbourne-beach, Florida (1995).