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Univ. Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel obtained in 1989 a master in Social Science at the Free University of Berlin and a master in Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin. In 1993 he was awarded a Doctor"s degree in economic science at the University of Karlsruhe. From October 1999 until October 2002, he worked as an Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In October 2002, he took a chair on computer science at the University of Innsbruck. He published around 150 papers as books and journal, book, conference, and workshop contributions. He co-organized around 150 scientific workshops and conferences and has edited several special issues of scientific journals. He is associated editor of the Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (KAIS), IEEE Intelligent Systems, the Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI), and Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (WIAS), Elsevier"s Journal on Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, and the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) subline entitled "Semantics in Data Management". He has been involved in several national and internal research projects, for example, in the IST projects COG, Esperonto, H-Techsight, IBROW, Multiple, Ontoknowledge, Ontoweb, SWAP, SWWS, and Wonderweb. He has been the project coordinator of Ontoknowledge, Ontoweb, and SWWS. He supervised around forty master theses and Ph.Ds and won the Carl-Adam-Petri-Award of the Faculty of Economic Sciences from the University of Karlsruhe (2000). Prof. Dr. Fensel is currently co-chairing the International Joint Semantic Web Services ad hoc Consortium (SWSC, swsc.semanticweb.org). He is the member of the Semantic Web Science Foundation which aims to organizing various semantic web international conference and first semantic web international journal. He is EU advisor for Joint US/EU ad hoc Agent Markup Language Committee (www.daml.org/committee) with Tim Berners-Lee as the US advisor.
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