About the Authors
Pascal Hitzler is an assistant professor at the Kno.e.sis Center for
Knowledge-Enabled Computing, which is an Ohio Center of Excellence at
Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. From 2004 to 2009, he was
an assistant professor at the Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, and
from 2001 to 2004 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Institute at TU Dresden in Germany. In 2001 he obtained a PhD
in mathematics from the National University of Ireland, University College
Cork, Cork, Ireland, under the supervision of Anthony Seda, and in 1998 he
obtained a Diplom (Masters degree equivalent) in mathematics from the University of T¨ ubingen in Germany. His research record lists over 150 publications
in such diverse areas as the Semantic Web, neural-symbolic integration, knowledge representation and reasoning, denotational semantics, and set-theoretic
topology. He is editor-in-chief of the IOS Press journal Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability and the IOS Press book series Studies
on the Semantic Web. He is vice-chair of the steering committee of the conference series on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) and the RR2010 PC
co-chair. He is co-chair of the 2010 International Semantic Web Conference
(ISWC) “Semantic Web In Use” and “Industry” tracks and co-chair of the
2011 Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) “Reasoning” track. He is
co-author of the W3C Recommendation OWL 2 Primer, of the first German
introductory textbook to the Semantic Web, published by Springer-Verlag,
and of the book Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies published by
CRC Press, 2009. For more information, see http://www.pascal-hitzler.de.
Anthony Karel Seda is a senior lecturer in the Department of Mathematics,
University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. He holds a BSc and a PhD in pure
mathematics from the University of Wales, UK, and an MSc from the University of Warwick, UK, also in pure mathematics. His research record lists
nearly 100 publications in areas ranging from measure theory and functional
analysis to topology and fixed-point theory in computer science through to
denotational semantics and the semantics of logic programs, including two
books of which he is a co-editor. In addition, he has a wide range of teaching
interests, including the research areas just listed. He is a member of several
editorial boards of journals, including the editorial board, and associate editor for Europe, of the international journal Information; editorial board of
the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence; and he was for ten years a
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Pascal Hitzler is an assistant professor at the Kno.e.sis Center for
Knowledge-Enabled Computing, which is an Ohio Center of Excellence at
Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. From 2004 to 2009, he was
an assistant professor at the Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, and
from 2001 to 2004 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Institute at TU Dresden in Germany. In 2001 he obtained a PhD
in mathematics from the National University of Ireland, University College
Cork, Cork, Ireland, under the supervision of Anthony Seda, and in 1998 he
obtained a Diplom (Masters degree equivalent) in mathematics from the University of T¨ ubingen in Germany. His research record lists over 150 publications
in such diverse areas as the Semantic Web, neural-symbolic integration, knowledge representation and reasoning, denotational semantics, and set-theoretic
topology. He is editor-in-chief of the IOS Press journal Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability and the IOS Press book series Studies
on the Semantic Web. He is vice-chair of the steering committee of the conference series on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) and the RR2010 PC
co-chair. He is co-chair of the 2010 International Semantic Web Conference
(ISWC) “Semantic Web In Use” and “Industry” tracks and co-chair of the
2011 Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) “Reasoning” track. He is
co-author of the W3C Recommendation OWL 2 Primer, of the first German
introductory textbook to the Semantic Web, published by Springer-Verlag,
and of the book Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies published by
CRC Press, 2009. For more information, see http://www.pascal-hitzler.de.
Anthony Karel Seda is a senior lecturer in the Department of Mathematics,
University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. He holds a BSc and a PhD in pure
mathematics from the University of Wales, UK, and an MSc from the University of Warwick, UK, also in pure mathematics. His research record lists
nearly 100 publications in areas ranging from measure theory and functional
analysis to topology and fixed-point theory in computer science through to
denotational semantics and the semantics of logic programs, including two
books of which he is a co-editor. In addition, he has a wide range of teaching
interests, including the research areas just listed. He is a member of several
editorial boards of journals, including the editorial board, and associate editor for Europe, of the international journal Information; editorial board of
the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence; and he was for ten years a
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