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Frank van Harmelen is a full professor in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. After studying Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam, he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh (Department of AI) for his research on meta-level reasoning. He is one of the designers of OWL, the W3C standard Web Ontology Language. He is scientific advisor of Aduna, one of the earliest companies in the Semantic Web arena, and developers of the Sesame RDF storage and retrieval engine. He has published over 100 papers, many of them in leading journals and conferences. One of his five books is the first text book on Semantic Web technology (now deployed in university courses across the world, with translations in Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and Korean). He was the 2002 Programme Chair of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the General Chair of the 2004 International Semantic Web Conference, and Chair of the Semantic Web track of the 2005 World Wide Web conference. He has been keynote speaker in numerous events, among which the 2005 European Semantic Web Summer school, the 2006 European Semantic Web Conference, and the 2006 Web Intelligence Conference in Hong Kong.

Mark Greaves is currently Director of Knowledge Systems Research at Vulcan Inc., the private asset management company for Paul Allen (www.vulcan.com). He is currently sponsoring US and European advanced research in large knowledge bases and semantic web technologies. Formally, Mark was at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the central research and development organization of the US Department of Defense. At DARPA, he served as Director of the Joint Logistics Technology Office, and Program Manager in the Information Exploitation Office. He directed over $20M/year of advanced research on logistics and supply chain control technologies, formal ontology specification, semantic web technology, and the application of software agent technology to problems of distributed control of complex systems-of-systems. He managed a variety of DARPA projects, including the UltraLog, DAML, Network-Centric Logistics, and Advanced Logistics Projects. In May of 2005, he was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service for his contributions to US national security while serving at DARPA. Mark's main research interests are in mathematical logic, semantic web, and software agent technology.