Author: Raphael Troncy

Dr. Raphaël Troncy, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Netherlands Raphaël Troncy obtained his Master”s thesis with honours in computer science at the University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble, France. He received his Ph D with honours in 2004. His research interests include Semantic Web and Multimedia Technologies, Knowledge Representation, Ontology Modeling and Alignment. Raphaël Troncy is an expert in audio visual metadata and in combining existing metadata standards (such as MPEG-7) with current Semantic Web technologies. Dr. Benoit Huet, Institut EURECOM, France Benoit Huet received his BSc degree in computer science and engineering from the Ecole Superieure de Technologie Electrique (Groupe ESIEE, France) in 1992. In 1993, he was awarded the MSc degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Westminster (UK) with distinction. He received his Ph D degree in Computer Science from the University of York (UK). His research interests include computer vision, content-based retrieval, multimedia data mining and indexing (still and/or moving images) and pattern recognition. Simon Schenk, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Simon Schenk is a research and teaching assistant at the Information Systems and Semantic Web Group of University of Koblenz-Landau.Simon is working towards his Ph D degree under the supervision of Professor Dr. Steffen Staab. Previously, he has worked as a consultant for Capgemini. Schenk studied at NORDAKADEMIE University of Applied Sciences, Germany and Karlstads Universitet, Sweden and received his diploma in Computer Science and Business Management from NORDAKADEMIE in 2004.