Dave Cliff University of Bristol United Kingdom

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Fernando Teixeira de Sousa IBM Portugal

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David De Roure University of Oxford United Kingdom

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David De Roure is Professor of e-Research in the Oxford e-Research Centre and the UK National Strategic Director for Digital Social Research. An expert on social computing, he has worked for many years applying digital technologies and research methods in and across multiple disciplines including include social sciences, digital humanities, chemistry, bioinformatics and environmental science. He has been closely involved in the UK e-Science programme and has an extensive background in Web and Linked Data, as well as being a champion for the Web Science Trust. His research projects draw on Web 2.0, Semantic Web, workflow and pervasive computing technologies and he advocates sharing methods as well as data. His personal research is in web-scale computational musicology.

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Jeff Z. Pan University of Aberdeen United Kingdom

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Jeff Z. Pan is a Senior Lecturer and the Deputy Director of Research of the Department of Computing Science at University of Aberdeen. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Manchester in 2004. His research focuses primarily on knowledge representation and the Semantic Web, in particular on scalable ontology reasoning, querying and reuse, and their applications (such as those in Software Engineering). He has over 100 refereed publications on related topics. He is a key contributor to the W3C OWL2 standard and leads the work of the TrOWL Tractable OWL2 reasoning infrastructure (http://trowl.eu/). He is on the Editorial Board on leading Semantic Web journals, such as the Journal of Web Semantics (JWS) and the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS). He was a Program Chair of the International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule System (RR2007), of the Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST2011), and of the Doctoral Consortiums in the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010) and in the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2011).

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Semantic Web technologies have been shown useful in many domain applications. Can they make further impacts in software engineering in general? The talk presents some of the how-to's on applying Semantic Web technologies in Model Driven Software Development. It illustrates why and how semantic web technologies can help by real world case studies, including the ones in the EU MOST (Marrying Ontology and Software Technology) project. Key related questions include: How to bridge the semantics of software models and ontologies? How to reduce software engineering problems to reasoning and querying over ontologies? How to deal with local closed world reasoning / querying in ontologies? How to provide efficient reasoning and querying over ontologies? How to explain the result of ontology reasoning and querying?