Alumni Member
Vlad Tanasescu (Alumni) 
P-time external PhD Research Student
I am a PhD student at KMi with a hybrid background in philosophy and computer science. Geographical Information Systems aim to become a complete and useful, hence cognitively sound, representation of our environment. At the same time the Semantic Web ambition is to unleash the true power of the Web through the use of standardised, machine understandable, services and protocols. My interest lies in trying to articulate both fields in order to provide a different approach to GIS interaction which would successfully make use of the emerging Semantic Web resources.
Keys: Semantic Web Services, GIS, ontologies, XML, cognitive models, e-government, programming languages
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Publications
Gugliotta, A., Davies, R., Gutiérrez-Villarías, L., Tanasescu, V., Domingue, J., Rowlatt, M., Richardson, M. and Stincic, S. (2006). Enhancing data and processes integration and interoperability in emergency situations: a SWS based emergency management system. In: First International Workshop on Applications and Business Aspects of the Semantic Web (SEBIZ 2006), 6 Nov 2006, Athens, Georgia, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23131/.
Tanasescu, V. and Domingue, J. (2008). Towards general spatial intelligence. In: Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning at The 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2008), 22 Jul 2008, Patras, Greece. https://oro.open.ac.uk/24462/.
Gugliotta, A., Tanasescu, V., Domingue, J., Davies, R., Gutiérrez-Villarías, L., Rowlatt, M., Richardson, M. and Stin?i?, S. (2006). Benefits and challenges of applying Semantic Web Services in the e-Government domain. In: Semantics 2006, 28-30 Nov 2006, Vienna, Austria. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23127/.
Tanasescu, V., Gugliotta, A., Domingue, J., Gutiérrez Villarías, L., Davies, R., Rowlatt, M., Richardson, M. and Stin?i?, S. (2006). A Semantic Web Services GIS based emergency management application. In: The 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC06), 05-09 Nov 2006, Athens, GA, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23132/.
Tanasescu, V., Gugliotta, A., Domingue, J., Gutiérrez Villarías, L., Davies, R., Rowlatt, M., Richardson, M. and Stin?i?, S. (2006). Spatial integration of Semantic Web Services: the e-Merges approach. In: Terra Cognita 2006, 6 Nov 2006, Athens, Georgia, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23130/.
Tanasescu, V. and Domingue, J. (2006). Toward user oriented semantic geographical information systems. In: 2nd AKT Doctoral Symposium, 23 Jan 2006, Aberdeen University, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23139/.
Tanasescu, V., Domingue, J. and Cabral, L. (2004). OCML ontologies to XML schema lowering. In: First AKT Workshop on Semantic Web Services (AKT-SWS04), 8 Dec 2004, Milton Keynes, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23219/.
Tanasescu, V., Gugliotta, A., Domingue, J., Gutiérrez Villarías, L., Davies, R., Rowlatt, M., Richardson, M. and Stin?i?, S. (2007). Geospatial data integration with Semantic Web services: the eMerges approach. In: Scharl, Arno and Tochtermann, Klaus eds. The Geospatial Web : how geobrowsers, social software and the Web 2.0 are shaping the network society. Advanced Information & Knowledge Processing. London, UK: Springer, pp. 247–256. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23125/.
Gugliotta, A., Domingue, J., Tanasescu, V., Gutierrez Villarias, L., Davies, R., Rowlatt, M., Richardson, M. and Stinčić, S. (2008). Enabling data, information, and process integration with semantic web services: from a new technology infrastructure to a compelling demonstrator. In: Di Nitto, Elisabetta; Sassen, Anne-Marie; Traverso, Paolo and Zwegers, Arian eds. At Your Service: Service-oriented Computing from an EU Perspective. MIT Press, pp. 327–356. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23110/.
Gugliotta, A., Domingue, J., Cabral, L., Tanasescu, V., Galizia, S., Davies, R., Villarias, L.G., Rowlatt, M., Richardson, M. and Stincic, S. (2008). Deploying Semantic Web Services-Based Applications in the e-Government Domain. In: Spaccapietra, Stefano ed. Journal on Data Semantics X. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (4900). Springer, pp. 96–132. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23115/.
Dietze, S. and Tanasescu, V. (2009). Spatial groundings for meaningful symbols. In: Workshop on Matching and Meaning 2009 at The AISB 2009 Conference, 6-9 Apr 2009, Edinburgh, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23070/.
Tanasescu, V. (2007). Spatial semantics in difference spaces. In: Winter, S.; Duckham, M.; Kulik, L. and Kuipers, B. eds. Spatial Information Theory. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin: Springer, pp. 96–115. https://oro.open.ac.uk/15680/.
Domingue, J., Cabral, L., Galizia, S., Tanasescu, V., Gugliotta, A., Norton, B. and Pedrinaci, C. (2008). IRS-III: A broker-based approach to semantic Web services. Journal of Web Semantics, 6(2), pp. 109–132. https://oro.open.ac.uk/11602/.
Cabral, L., Domingue, J., Galizia, S., Gugliotta, A., Tanasescu, V., Pedrinaci, C. and Norton, B. (2006). IRS-III: A Broker for Semantic Web Services based Applications. In: The 5th International Semantic Web Conference: ISWC 2006, 5-9 Nov 2003, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/9632/.
