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Héctor Oscar Nigro received a systems engineer degree from UNICEN (Universidad Nacional del

Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires), Tandil, Argentina; Magister degree in sociology and political sciences from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) and he is PhD from UBA

(Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires). He is a full professor in the Department of Computer Sciences and Systems in the Exact Sciences Faculty—UNICEN. He is the director MERAIS III—Data MiningOntologyProject(UNICEN).Also,herealizesconsultingactivitiesrelatedtodatamining,data analysis, and knowledge management for the last 15 years. His research interests are in databases, data warehouses, data mining, knowledge management, and OLAP. He has published book chapters and articles presented at various professional conferences on his research activities.

Sandra Elizabeth González Císaro was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina. She received a systems engineer degree from UNICEN (Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires), Tandil, Argentina. She is an assistant professor at Department of Computer Sciences and Systems in theExactSciencesFaculty,UNICEN,andsheisalsoworkingonMERAISIII—DataMiningOntology

Project (UNICEN). Her research interests are in databases, data warehouses, data mining, knowledge management, OLAP, symbolic data analysis and management expert systems. She has published book chapters and articles presented at various professional conferences related with her research activities.

Eng. González Císaro is an IEEE Computer Society member.

Daniel Hugo Xodo received a mathematics-physics sciences degree, industrial engineer degree and master degree in business administration from UNICEN (Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires). He is a professor at Department of Computer Sciences and Systems, in the Exact Sciences Faculty, UNICEN, and a professor at UTN (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Regional Bahía Blanca, Argentina). He is studies group director on knowledge management (UTN), and is working on MERAIS III Project (UNICEN). His research interests are in data mining, knowledge management, management science, balanced scorecards and operations research. He has published book chapters and has articles presented at various professional conferences related with his researching. In addition, he realizes consulting activities related to his professional field.

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Luis Otavio Alvares is a professor at the Department of Applied Computing (Departamento de

Informática Aplicada) at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.

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He received his PhD in computer science from Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, in 1988, and his MSc in computer science from PPGC/UFRGS in 1982. He did a postdoctoral stage at Laboratoire

LEIBNIZ/IMAG, Grenoble, France, with Yves Demazeau in 1994/1995. He has served as reviewer, organizer, and technical committee member of several conferences and journals. His research interests include artificial intelligence applied to computer games, multiagent systems, geographic information systems, and data mining. He advised 21 MSc and three PhD dissertations.

Marie-Aude Aufaure obtained her PhD in computer science from the University of Paris 6 in 1992.

From 1993 to 2001, she was associated professor at the University of Lyon; then, she was integrated into a French research center in computer science (INRIA) for two years. Now, she is a professor at

Supélec and scientific partner of the Inria Axis project. From 1998 to 2001, she was a member of the GDR-CNRS I3’s direction committee. Her research interests deal with the combination of data mining techniques and ontologies to improve the retrieval process of complex data. Another research interest concerns the construction of a Web knowledge base in a specific domain to improve the retrieval process. She also works on semantic and conceptual context-aware information retrieval. Another topic of interest is about the integration of metadata and ontologies into a whole process, such as data mining. Her work is published in international journals, books, and conferences.

Delphine Bernhard is a PhD candidate in the TIMC Laboratory. Her work is focused on the unsupervised acquisition of morphological knowledge with the aim of building lexical resources. Her research interests include text mining, natural language processing, and the acquisition of semantic knowledge.

Vania Bogorny is currently in a postdoctoral position at the Computer Science Department of the Univerity of Hasselt, Belgium, in the context of the GeoPKDD project. She received her PhD in computer science from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, in

2006, and her MSc in computer science from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in 2001. Research accomplishments include frequent pattern mining in geographic databases, knowledge discovery in spatio-temporal databases using prior knowledge, databases, and data mining.

Thyago Borges is a candidate for a bachelors in information systems in the Catholic University of

Pelotas, Brazil. His research interests include ontologies and text mining.

Peter Brezany isaprofessorattheInstituteofScientificComputing,UniversityofVienna,Austria.

He received his PhD in computer science, in 1980, from the Slovak Technical University Bratislava,

Slovakia. Since 1990, he has worked at the University of Vienna on automatic parallelization of scientific and engineering applications for distributed-memory systems, parallel input/output support for high-performance computing, and large-scale parallel and distributed data mining. His current research focus is knowledge discovery and data management on computational Grids.

Ana Isabel Canhoto is a fellow in marketing at Henley Management College, serves as a consultant to a number of leading UK and international organisations, and is a member of the FIDIS Network of Excellence, supported by the European Union. Her primary research interests lie in the role of technol-

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ogy, mental stereotypes and social norms on decision making. Most recently, she has been investigating the mining of large transaction databases, and how that may be influenced by the value judgments and task constraints of the individuals participating in the data mining activity.

Dimitris Christodoulakis was born in Samos. He received a BSc degree in mathematics from the University of Athens in 1975 and a PhD degree in informatics from the University of Bonn in 1980. From 1980 to 1983 he was a researcher at the National Informatics Centre of Germany (GMD, Bonn), assistant and associate professor in computer engineering at Patras University from 1984 to1995. From

1995 until now he is a professor. He is also scientific coordinator in many research and development projects in the followings sections: knowledge and data base systems, very large volume information storage, hypertext, natural language technology for modern Greek. He is author and co-author in many articles published in international conferences, editor in proceedings of conventions, and responsible for proofing tools development for Microsoft Corp. Since 1991 he is vice director at the Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (RACTI). From September 1997 until 2001 he was chairman of the computer engineering and informatics department of Patras University and from 2001 until now he is vice President of the department.

Gayo Diallo isamemberoftheOSIRISgroupattheIn3SLaboratoryandaparttimelecturerincomputer science at Pierre Mendès France University in Grenoble. His research interests include ontologies and Semantic Web technologies, data integration, and information retrieval. He received an bachelor degree in computer science from the National Computer Engineering Institute (INI, Algiers) and a master degree in information systems from Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble.

Tharam S. Dillon is currently the dean of faculty of information technology at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He is the foundation professor in computer science and engineering. He is the chair of Work Group on Web Semantics (WG 2.12/12.4) in Technical Committee for Software: Theory and Practice (TC2) for International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). He is an expert in objectcomponent-basedconceptualmodeling,anddesign,XMLmodeling,ontologydevelopment,and knowledge engineering. He has authored five books and co-edited four books. He has also published over 400 scientific papers in refereed journals and conferences.

Elizabeth Chang is currently director of the frontier technology for Extended Enterprise Centre (Centre for Extended Enterprise and Business Intelligence) at Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology, in Perth, Western Australia. She is the vice-chair of Work Group on Web Semantics (WG 2.12/12.4) in Technical Committee for Software: Theory and Practice (TC2) for International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Professor Chang has published over 200 scientific conference and journal papers including two co-authored books. The themes of these papers are in the areas of ontology, software engineering, object/component-based methodologies, e-commerce, trust management, and security, Web services, user interface, and Web engineering as well as logistics informatics.

Heinz Dreher is a senior lecturer and research fellow in information systems at the Curtin Business School, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. He has published in the educational technology and informationsystemsdomainthroughconferences,journals,invitedtalksandseminars;iscurrentlythe

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holder of Australian National Competitive Grant funding for a 4 year e-learning project and a four-year project on automated essay grading technology development, trial usage and evaluation; has received numerousindustrygrantsforinvestigatinghypertextbasedsystemsintrainingandbusinessscenarios; and is an experienced and accomplished teacher, receiving awards for his work in cross-cultural awareness and course design. In 2004. Dr. Dreher was appointed adjunct professor for computer science at

TU Graz, Austria, and continues to collaborate in teaching and learning and research projects with

European partners.

Paulo Martins Engel is a professor in the Department of Applied Computing (Departamento de

Informática Aplicada) at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. He received his PhD in microelectronics from Technische Universität München, Germany, in 1986, and his MSc in microelectronics Science from Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, in 1981. He did a postdoctoral stage at Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany, from 1991 to1992. He has served as reviewer,organizer,andtechnicalcommitteememberofseveralconferencesandjournals.Hisresearch interestsincludeconnectionistapproachestoartificialintelligenceanddatamining.Headvised22MSc and five PhD dissertations.

James Geller received a engineering diploma from the Technical University, Vienna, Austria, in

1979, and the MS degree, in 1984, and a PhD, in 1988, in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Geller joined the Computer Science Department of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in 1988. He was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor in 1993. Subsequently, he was promoted to full professor in 2000. Dr. Geller has authored and co-authored about 40 journal papers and over 50 conference papers. These papers are in a number of areas, including knowledge representation, parallel reasoning, semantic modeling in object-oriented databases, medical informatics, medical vocabularies, and auditing of ontologies and medical terminologies.

Nathalie Hernandez is a postdoctoral at the Toulouse II University. She obtained a PhD in computer science, in 2005, with a focus in information retrieval “modeling context in information retrieval using domainontologies.”SheiscurrentlyworkinginthefieldoftheSemanticWeb,inparticularonontology elaboration and use for document indexing and retrieving.

Ivan Janciak is a PhD candidate at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria and research assistant at the Institute of Scientific Computing, University of Vienna, Austria. He received his MS degree in business informatics, in 2000, from the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia. His research interests include distributed and parallel data and text mining, Semantic Web, Grid computing, and workflow management.

Evangelos Kotsifakos is a PhD candidate at the Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus (UniPi). He was born in 1978 in Athens, Greece, and received his bachelor and master degree in information systems from the department of Informatics of Athens University of Economics and Business.

His research interests include pattern management, data mining and scientific databases. He also has a professional experience in software engineering.

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Yves Lechevallier was integrated in 1976 into a French research center in computer science (INRIA). He is now vice-leader of the AxIS research team, which is located at Sophia Antipolis and Rocquencourt (near Paris). His current research interests are on the clustering algorithms (dynamic clustering method, Kohonen maps, divisive clustering method), discrimination problems and decision tree approaches. His work was published in international journals, books and conferences. Since 1998, he teaches at the Paris-Dauphine university clustering and neural network methods and, now, teaches data mining techniques at various engineer schools (ENSAE and ENSG near Paris).

Bénédicte Le Grand is an associate professor at the University Pierre and Marie Curie, in the Computer Science Laboratory of Paris 6 (LIP6). After receiving her engineer diploma in telecommunications from the National Institute of Telecommunications, she got her PhD in computer science, in 2001. Her research interests deal with information retrieval in complex systems, the Web in particular. She works on Semantic Web standards, especially topic maps, in order to propose Semantic Web visualization solutions. She also works on conceptual analysis techniques to extract knowledge from data and automate ontology construction. She published her work in international conferences and contributed to several books.

Daniel Lichtnow is a lecturer and researcher at the Catholic University of Pelotas (UCPEL), Brazil.

He obtained a MSc degree in computer science at Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), in 2001. His interests include databases systems, text mining, case-based reasoning, information retrieval,

XML, and knowledge management.

Stanley Loh is a professor at the Catholic University of Pelotas (UCPEL) and at the Lutheran UniversityofBrazil(ULBRA),inBrazil.HehasaPhDdegreeincomputerscience,obtainedin2001,atthe

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He has done researches in recommender systems, information retrieval, data-text-web mining, and technology applied to knowledge management.

Gerasimos Marketos is a PhD candidate at the Department of Informatics at the University of Piraeus (UniPi), Greece. Born in 1981, he received his BSc, in 2003, in informatics from University of Piraeus and his MSc, in 2004, in information systems engineering from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK. His research interests include spatiotemporal data warehousing and mining, pattern management and scientific databases. He is member of BCS.

Florent Masseglia is currently a researcher for the INRIA (Sophia Antipolis, France) in the AxIS team. He did research work in the data mining group at the LIRMM (Montpellier, France) from 1998 to 2002, and received a PhD in computer science from Versailles University, in France, in 2002. His research interests include data mining (particularly sequential patterns and applications such as Web

Usage Mining) and databases. He is one of the five persons in charge for the French working group on mining complex data. He has co-edited a special issue of the RNTI journal (Cépaduès ed.) about mining complex data, co-chaired the 2nd French workshop on mining complex data, and co-chaired the 6th and the 7th internationalworkshopson“multimediadatamining,”inconjunctionwiththeKDDconference.

Dr. Masseglia is one of the guest editors of special issues of two international journals: MTAP and the

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IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He is the author of over 30 publications about data mining in journals and conferences and he is a reviewer for international journals.

Radja Messai was trained in computer science (bachelor of science from the University of Batna—

Algeria in 2003) and is currently a PhD student at the UJF University in Grenoble. She is working on health-related ontology and terminology services for patients and citizens.

Josiane Mothe is a professor at the teacher training school (IUFM,Toulouse) since 2002, previously Maître de Conference at the Toulouse I University (1995-2002). Teaches information system design and information retrieval. She is part of the Information Retrieval Group of the Research centre in Computer Science of Toulouse. She obtained a PhD in computer science, in 1994, in information retrieval and a habilitation, in 2000, in information retrieval and mining. Currently, she is working on information retrieval and knowledge discovery from semistructured information. Scientific and technical fields of work are information extraction, indexing and mining, definition of interactive information retrieval and discovering strategies and graphical interfaces. She works on applications of these techniques to the Web and other more classical collections. She also supervises several DEA and PhD students in this field. She is a co-Editor of the Information Retrieval Journal (Kluwer) for Europe and Africa and has a scientific role in several European projects for IRIT.

Shastri L Nimmagadda is a senior geophysicist with Wafra Joint Operations Petroleum Company in Kuwait. He previously worked for several petroleum companies in India, Australia, and Uganda.

He did his masters work in tech in exploration geophysics from Osmania University and a PhD in the exploration of geophysics from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India. He obtained a master of information technology with distinction from the Curtin University of Technology, Australia. Dr. Shastri is interested in data processing, interpretation, knowledge mapping, and exploration data integration. Dr. Shastri is working with a research project on “ontology based warehousing approach for mining of exploration and production data of oil and gas companies.”

Alexandros Ntoulas holds a PhD in computer science from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). His area of expertise is databases and Web information retrieval. His research interests are in the study of systems and algorithms that facilitate the monitoring, collection, management, mining, and searching of information on the World Wide Web. Dr. Ntoulas has received an MSc degree from the University of California Los Angeles in 2003, and an M.Sc and BSc degree from the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department (CEID) of the University of Patras, Greece, in 2003, and 2000 respectively. He has published a number of research papers in international conference proceedings and he recently received the Best Paper Award for the ICDE 2005 conference. Dr. Ntoulas has co-founded Infocious, a Web search engine that applies linguistic analysis techniques in order to provide highly relevant results and a better search experience to the user.

Minh Hai Pham iscurrentlyaPhDcandidateinLAVOClaboratoryoftheSwissFederalInstituteof Technology, in Lausanne. His work now is concentrating on traffic data processing. During his internship for the master degree in computer science, he did research on text mining within OSIRIS group.

His research interests include machine learning and data mining.

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Gustavo Piltcher has a bachelors degree in computer science, obtained at the Catholic University of Pelotas in 2006. His research interests include clustering algorithms, ontologies, data structures, and computer theory.

Amandeep S. Sidhu is a structural bioinformatics researcher at in the faculty of IT at the University of Technology Sydney, with expertise in protein informatics. He is currently working on a protein ontology project with Professor Tharam S. Dillon. His research interests include: biomedical ontologies, structuralbioinformatics,proteomics,XMLenabledWebservices,andartificialintelligence.Hiswork in these fields resulted in 27 scientific publications.

Michel Simonet, PhD, is the head of the knowledge base and database team of the TIMC laboratory. His group works on the design and the implementation of knowledge bases and databases, and currently on the integration of information systems by using the tools and methodologies they have developed.

They work on two main projects: a database and knowledge base management system, named OSIRIS, and a system for database conception and reverse engineering based on original concepts and a new methodology. Ontologies have become central to their work, both as a particular case of a knowledge baseandasthestartingpointofdatabasedesign.OntologieshavebeenappliedtotheSemanticannotation of texts and to the automatic clustering of texts.

SofiaStamouis a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department at Patras University, Greece. She received both her PhD and MSc degrees in computational linguistics from Patras University, in 2006 and 2002, respectively, and a diploma in linguistics from the University of Ioannina, Greece, in 1999. Her research interests focus on the linguistic processing of Web data, Web data classification, semantics and information retrieval. While being a postgraduate student, Sofia has been invited to spend a year as a visiting researcher at the Department of Linguistics of the University of California, Los Angeles. From October, 1999 until present she has been a member of the Databases

Laboratory of Patras University, where she also teaches the undergraduate course “Language Technology.” Sofia has published numerous articles in international scientific journals and conferences and she has served as a reviewer to several international conferences on language technology.

Yannis Theodoridis is an assistant professor with the Department of Informatics at the University of Piraeus (UniPi). Born in 1967, he received his B.S. (1990) and PhD, in 1996, in electrical and computer engineering, both from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. His research interests include spatial and spatiotemporal databases, geographical information management, knowledge discovery, and data mining. Currently, he is scientist in charge for UniPi in the EC-funded GeoPKDD project (2005-08) on geographic privacy-aware knowledge discovery and delivery, also involved in several national-level projects. He has co-authored three monographs and over 50 articles in scientific journals (such as Algorithmica, ACM Multimedia, IEEE TKDE) and conferences (such as ACM SIG-

MOD, PODS, ICDE) with over 400 citations in his work. He participates in the steering committee for the International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD) and in the editorial board for the International Journal on Data Warehousing and Mining. He is member of ACM and IEEE.

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A Min Tjoa is a full professor and the head of the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at the Vienna University of Technology. He received his PhD in engineering from the University Linz in Austria. Since 1999, he has been president of the Austrian Computer Society. His research interests include Semantic Web, e-commerce, advanced and scalable data management, and data analysis solutions for management information systems and decision support.

Brigitte Trousse received her PhD in computer science (artificial intelligence and computer-aided design)fromtheUniversityofNice—SophiaAntipolis.In1990,shewasapermanentresearchscientist at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, in France, and in 2003 the scientific leader of the AxIS Project-Team there.

Her research interests deal with knowledge discovery from databases (KDD) in the context of a global approach of knowledge management in designing complex systems: in particular her work aims the use of usage mining in addition with content and structure mining in order to evaluate or (re)design information/knowledge systems such as Web sites. Her research topics include artificial intelligence

(AI) in design, information systems, adaptive recommender systems, information retrieval, knowledge management, KDD, Web mining, case-based reasoning, and Semantic Web. She has published her work in over 60 articles in journals, books, and conferences and was co-editor or guest editor for few journals, proceedings and books on mining complex data and on AI in Design. She has also an intense reviewing activity for international and national conferences and journals.

Xuan Zhou is currently working as a software engineer at VPIsystems Corporation located in Holmdel, New Jersey. Dr. Zhou received his PhD in computer science, in 2006, from the New Jersey InstituteofTechnology(NJIT)atNewark,NewJersey.Dr.ZhoualsoreceivedtheMasterofarchitecture and Bachelor of architecture from Hunan University at Changsha, Hunan, P.R.China, in 2000 and 1997, respectively.Dr.Zhou’sresearchinterestsincludeontologies,datamining,algorithms,andarchitectural terminologies, about which he has published several papers.

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