Panel Presentations at Conferences & Workshops

1. "Context is highly contextual!," 4th European Conference on Smart Sensing & Context 2009, Surrey, UK, September 18, 2009.
2. "Relationship Web: Spinning the Web from Trailblazing to Semantic Analytics," 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2008), Barcelona, Spain, October 20-23, 2008.
3. "Do the current Semantic Web standards and technologies benefit Heath Care and Life Science research today?" 1st International Workshop on Health Care and Life Sciences Data Integration for the Semantic Web (HCLS-DI2007), 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), Banff, Canada, May 8, 2007. (Panelist)
4. "Semantic Web and Database Conferences," 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases, Atlanta, GA April 8, 2006.
5. "Strengths & Weaknesses of Semantic Technology Solutions: View from the Vendor and Research Community," Taxonomies and Semantic Technologies for S&T Analysis Conference, MITRE Corporation, March 17, 2006.
6. "Semantic Web Services: Past, Present, and Future," International Workshop in Dynamic Web Processes (DWP, 2005), Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 12, 2005.
7. "FLINT and Semantic Web," BISCSE 2005: Forging New Frontiers, Berkeley CA, November 2–6, 2005.
8. "Semantic Web Service Ontology Standard," Ontology Conference Call, October 20, 2005.
9. "Computing for Human Experience and Wellness," Views from the Labs panel at Emerging Ventures Conference, Boston, MA, October 11, 2005.
10. "Future of Semantics," Semantic Technology Conference 2005, San Francisco, CA, March 8, 2005.
11. "Get Ready for Semantic Web," KMWorld/Intranets 2004, Santa Clara, CA, October 26, 2004.
12. "The Role of Web Services in Semantic Interoperability and Integration," Dagstuhl Seminar on Semantic Interoperability and Integration, September 20, 2004, Dagstuhl, Germany. [Panel Chair]
13. Web Service Choreography, Panel at WWW2003, Budapest, Hungary, May 22, 2003. [Panel Chair]
14. "Semantic (Web) Technology in Action - today," panel: The Semantic Web-Scientific American article considered harmful? WWW2003, Budapest, Hungary, May 21, 2003.
15. "Semantics" in the Semantic Web: Is the Domain/Discipline Important? (ODBASE'02), Irvine, CA, October 29, 2002.
16. "Summary of NSF Databases and the Semantic Web Workshop," Science on the Semantic Web: Building a New Generation of Environmental Information Systems,Newark, NJ, October 24, 2002.
17. "Research Directions for the Semantic Web," 3rd OntoWeb Meeting, Sardinia, Italy, June 13, 2002.
18. "User Experience of Enterprise Semantic Content Management," Symposium on the User Experience of Business Intelligence & Knowledge Management, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, March 18, 2002.
19. "Semantic Web: Rehash or Research Goldmine," 6th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2001), Trento, Italy, September 6, 2001. [Panel Chair]
20. "Semantic Web: The Road Ahead," 2nd International Workshop on the Semantic Web, SemWeb'2001 at WWW10, Hong Kong, May 1, 2001.
21. "Creating Searchable Audio Video Web Sites," Streaming Media West 2000, San Jose, CA, December 14, 2000.
22. "Impact of Broadband," Internet Entrepreneur Conference, sponsored by SiliconIndia, Atlanta, GA, May 8, 2000. [Panel Chair]
23. "Future Research in Semantics of Multimedia Systems," 8th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-8), Rotorua, New Zealand, January 4–8, 1999.
24. "Virtual Teams and Infocosm: Challenges for research in cooperative information systems," 3rd Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, New York, NY, August 1998. [Panelist and Co-Chair]
25. "Is Healthcare Ready for Internet? Technology Is!" Annual Meeting of the Healthcare Open Systems and Trials Consortium, Washington, DC, November 1997.
26. "Cooperative Multiagent Systems for the Web," Second IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, Kiawah Island, SC, June 1997. [Panel Chair]
27. "Active Databases and Agents in Cooperative Information Systems," Second IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, Kiawah Island, SC, June 1997. [Panelist]
28. "World Wide What?" 4th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, Miami, FL, December 20, 1996. [Panelist]
29. "What Can Database Contribute to Multidisciplinary Research in Work Activities Coordination," International Workshop on Advanced Models and Architectures, Goa, India, September 1, 1996. [Panel Chair]
30. "Database Research in Workflow Management Systems: Do We Have Anything to Contribute?" International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'96), June 20, 1996. [Panelist]
31. "How Do We Meet the Challenges of the Global Computing Revolution," International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'96), June 21, 1996. [Panelist, Plenary Session Panel]
32. "Data Semantics: What, Where and How," 6th IFIP TC-2 Working Conference on Data Semantics (DS-6), Stone Mountain, GA, June 1995. [Panel Chair] [see Section 3a, #7]
33. "Information Resource Discovery: A Torch in the Deep Darkness of the Information Superhighway?" 11th International Conference on Data Engineering, Taiwan, March 1995. [Panel Chair]
34. "Where are Distributed Databases headed?" 6th International Conference on Management of Data, Bangalore, India, December 1994. [Panelist]
35. "Challenges in Global Information Systems," 20th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Chile, September 1994. [Panelist]
36. "Why do we need Extended Transaction Models?" 16th IEEE-CS Computer Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC92), September 1992. [Panelist]
37. "Dealing with Heterogeneous Databases: Is the Research on Right Track?" 2nd International Conference On Systems Integration, Morristown, PA, June 1992. [Panel Chair]
38. "Key Information Management Issues in the Real World," US West-NSF-DARPA Workshop on Heterogeneous Databases and Semantic interoperability, Boulder, CO, February 1992. [Panelist, Final Plenary Session Panel]
39. "Cooperative Database Design," 17th IVLDB, Barcelona, September 1991. [Panelist]
40. "Resolving Semantic Heterogeneity," 6th International Conference on Data Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, February 1990. [Panelist]
41. "Does loose AI-DBMS coupling stand a chance?" 5th International Conference on Data Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, February 1989. [Panel Chair]
42. "Can we meaningfully integrate drawing, text, image, and voice with structured data?" 4th International Conference on Data Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, February 1988. [Panel Chair]
43. "When will we have true Heterogeneous Databases," Fail Joint Computer Conference, October 1987. [Panelist]
44. "Improving Concurrency in Distributed Systems," 3rd International Conference on Data Engineering, February 1987. [Session Discussant]