Conference & Workshop Invited Talks

1. "Empowering Translational Research using Semantic Web Technologies," Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics (OCCBIO), Toledo, OH, June 2-4, 2008.
2. “Semantic Sensor Web,” Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Working Group of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), St. Louis, MO, March 26, 2008.
3. “Semantic Sensor Web,” Special SICoP Conference, Building Semantic Interoperability Solutions for Information Sharing and Integration, Falls Church, VA, February 5, 2008.
4. “Strategic Importance of Higher Education and Research in Positioning Gujarat for Global Competitiveness,” plenary invited talk, Global Gujarat & Its Diaspora, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, India. January 17–19, 2008.
5. “Trailblazing, Complex Hypothesis Evaluation, Abductive Inference and Semantic Web—exploring possible synergy,” ARO Workshop on Abductive Reasoning, Reasoning, Evidence and Intelligent Systems, Adelphi, MD, August 23–24, 2007.
6. “Relationship Web: Realizing the Memex vision with the help of Semantic Web,” SemGrail 2007, Redmond, WA, June 21–22, 2007.
7. “Semantic Annotations for WSDL,” with Jacek Kopecky (DERI Innsbruck), W3C Track at the 16th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), Banff, Canada, May 10, 2007.
   
8. “Semantic empowerment of Life Science Applications,” Cincinnati Children Hospital and Medical Center, Microsoft eScience Workshop, October 14, 2006.
9. “Semantic empowerment of Health Care and Life Science Applications,” W3C track at the 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006), Edinburgh, Scotland, May 26, 2006. presentation
10. “Semantic Web applications in Financial Industry, Government, Health Care and Life Sciences,” Taxonomies and Semantic Technologies for S&T Analysis Conference, MITRE Corporation, March 17, 2006.
11. “Active Semantic Electronic Patient Records,” Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, CA, March 7, 2006.
12. “Autonomic Web Process”(co-authored with K. Verma), Vision Paper, 3rd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 13, 2005. Presentation
13. “Semantic Technology in the Real World: Experiences and Lessons Based on Enterprise Semantic Applications,” Semantic Technology Conference 2005, San Francisco, CA, March 8, 2005.
14. “Semantic Web Technology in Support of Bioinformatics for Glycan Expression,” W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences, Cambridge, MA, October 28, 2004.
15. “From Semantic Search & Integration to Analytics,” KMWorld 2004, Santa Clara, CA, October 26–28, 2004.
16. “Semantic Technology in the Real World: Experiences and Lessons based on Commercialization of Academic Research & Industry Applications,” Dagstuhl Seminar on Semantic Interoperability and Integration, Dagstuhl, Germany, September 21, 2004.  Abstract
17. “Semantic Web Technology Ontology Testbed,” Ontology In Action Workshop, Banff, Canada, June 21, 2004.
18. “Semantic Visualization: Interfaces for exploring and exploiting ontology, knowledgebase, heterogeneous content and complex relationships,” NASA Virtual Iron Bird Workshop, Monterey, CA, April 2, 2004.  Abstract
19. “Ontology-driven Integration and Analysis for Semantic Applications in Business Intelligence and National Security,” Ontology and Semantic Web Technical Exchange Meeting, MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA, June 12–13, 2003.
20. “Database and Information Systems Research for Semantic Web and Enterprises: Review of the Amicalola Workshop” and “Snapshot of the Semantic Web Commercial State of the Art,” Invited Talk, Science on the Semantic Web, Building a New Generation of Environmental Information Systems, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, October 24, 2002.
21. “Process Composition: Quality of Service Specification Semantics, and Adaptation,” Invited Talk, EI3-IC workshop on Interoperability of Business Processes and Enterprise Models, Gaithersburg, MD, February 6–8, 2002.
22. “Semantic Content Annotation and Applications: Semantic Web Now and Challenges Ahead,” Invited Talk, 2001 IRC International Conference on Internet Information Retrieval, Seoul, South Korea, October 29, 2001.
23. “On Supporting Complex Relationships and Knowledge Discovery in the Semantic Web,” Plenary Invited Talk, 2001 BISC International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and the Internet: New Directions in Enhancing the Power of the Internet, Berkeley, CA, August 16, 2001.
24. “Information Scapes: A Paradigm for Knowledge Discovery in Semantic Web,” Inaugural Session Invited Talk, IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Distributed, Dynamic, Heterogeneous, Autonomous Data and Knowledge, Sources, Seattle, WA, August 6, 2001.
25. “Realizing Semantic Information Brokering and Semantic Web,” Invited Talk, Perspectives on Agents: Theories and Technologies Seminar Series, Universita degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy, April 27, 2000.
26. “Workflow and Process Automation in Information Systems: A Proposal for a Multidisciplinary Research agenda and Follow-up,” Invited Talk, NSF Invitational Workshop on Distributed Information, Computation, and Process Management for Scientific and Engineering Environments, Virginia, May 15–16, 1998.
27. “From Process Modeling to Workflow Automation,” Invited Talk, National Institute of Standards and Technology sponsored Process Information Technology Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, March 13, 1998,
28. “Workflow Applications to Research Agenda: Scalable and Dynamic Work Coordination and Collaboration Systems,” Invited Talk (with K. Kochut), NATO Workshop on Advances in Workflow Management Systems and Interoperability, Istanbul, Turkey, August 1997.
29. “Overview of Workflow Research and Technology,” nvited Talk, DARPA Collective Actions Tools Workshop, March 1996.
30. “From Data Dirt Roads to Infocosm,” Inaugural Session Invited Talk, 7th International Conference on Management of Data, Pune, India, December 1995.