Vrije Universiteit
Faculty of Sciences
devision of Math. and Computer Science
De Boelelaan 1081a
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Room U3.34

projects

• NoTube - Making Television more personal
• ParaDemo - An Expertise-based democracy
• Marvin - a distributed platform for massive RDF inference
• Open-Knowledge - Generic Peer-to-Peer platform for (Web)service discovery, execution and composition
• Multimedian & E-culture - Development of a set of e-culture demonstrators providing multimedia access to distributed collections of cultural heritage objects
• SWAP - Generic Peer-to-Peer platform with Semantic Web extensions
• Bibster - Peer-to-Peer system for sharing bibliographic (BibTex) entries

• Most Cited Article 2006-2010 Award from the Journal of Web Semantics, Elsivier
• Another news article with the title "Unlocking the dynamic web" on the EU Cordis news website
• News article with the title "Unlocking the dynamic web to form new partnerships" on the EU Cordis news website
• 3rd prize Semantic Web Challenge 2008 "Billion Triple Challenge" track, ISWC'08 with the Marvin distributed RDF reasoner. Link
• 1st Prize Semantic Web Challenge 2006, ISWC'06, Athens Georgia with the MultimediaN E-Culture demonstrator and an article in NRC Next (PDF)
• Article in the 'Automatiserings Gids' regarding my thesis (PDF)
• System Innovation Award for Bibster (PDF)
• German Do-IT Software Innovation Award for Bibster
  
• Article about our group in Vrij Nederland

•  The OpenKnowledge System: an interaction-centered approach to knowledge sharing
  Ronny Siebes, Dave Dupplaw, Spyros Kotoulas, Adrian Perreau de Pinninck, Frank van Harmelen and David Robertson
  R. Meersman and Z. Tari (Eds.): OTM 2007, Part I, LNCS 4803, pp. 381-390, 2007. LNCS proceedings of the 15th Intl. Conference on Cooperative information systems (CoopIS), Portugal, November, 2007
  
•  An Alternative Interpretation of the Seven-Pointed Star on CBS 1766
  Caroline Waerzeggers and Ronny Siebes
  NABU 2007/2, 43-45
  
  
•  Models of Interaction as a Grounding for Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Sharing
  David Robertson, Adam Barker, Paolo Besana, Alan Bundy,
  Yun Heh Chen-Burger, David Dupplaw, Fausto Giunchiglia, Frank van Harmelen, Fadzil Hassan, Spyros Kotoulas, David Lambert, Guo Li, Jarred McGinnis, Fiona McNeill, Nardine Osman, Adrian Perreau de Pinninck, Ronny Siebes, Carles Sierra and Chris Walton
  to appear in the LNCS Advances in Web Semantics , Springer Verlag
  
  
• Adaptive Routing in Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlays
  Spyros Kotoulas, Ronny Siebes
  Proceedings of the 3rd Intl. IEEE workshop on Collaborative Service-oriented P2P Information Systems (COPS workshop at WETICE'07), Paris, France, June 2007
  (PDF)
• Scalable Discovery of Private Resources
  Spyros Kotoulas and Ronny Siebes
  Proceedings of the IEEE SECOVAL workshop at SECURECOMM, Portugal, 2007
  (PDF)
• The OpenKnowledge Kernel
  Adrian Perreau de Pinninck, Dave Dupplaw, Spyros Kotoulas, Ronny Siebes
  Proceedings of the XXI Intl. Conference on Computer, Information and Systems Science, Vienna, Austria, May 25-27, 2007 
  (PDF)
•  MultimediaN E-Culture Demonstrator
  Guus Schreiber, Alia Amin, Mark van Assem, Victor de Boer, Lynda Hardman, Michiel Hildebrand, Laura Hollink, Zhisheng Huang, Janneke van Kersen, Marco de Niet, Borys Omelayenko, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Ronny Siebes, Jos Taekema, Jan Wielemaker and Bob Wielinga.
  First prize in the Semantic Web Challenge at the Fifth International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, GA, USA, November 2006.
  (PDF)
• Semantic Routing in Peer-to-Peer Systems
  Ronny Siebes
  Ph.D. thesis
  (PDF)
• Expertise-based Peer Selection
  Ronny Siebes, Peter Haase, Frank Harmelen
  In Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer: Decentralized Management and Exchange of Knowledge and Information
  Staab, Steffen; Stuckenschmidt, Heiner (Eds.)
  2006, XIV, 366 p. 89 illus., Hardcover
  ISBN: 3-540-28346-3
  (PDF)
• pRoute: Peer selection using shared term similarity matrices
  Ronny Siebes and Spyros Kotoulas
  In Journal of Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, vol. 5 nr. 1, 2007 
  (PDF)
• pRoute: Expertise-based Selection using Shared Term Similarity Matrices
  Ronny Siebes and Spyros Kotoulas
  In Proceedings of the 17th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Brussels, Belgium. Oct 17-18, 2005
  (PDF)
• Expertise-based Peer Selection in Peer-to-Peer Networks
  Peter Haase, Ronny Siebes and Frank van Harmelen
  In Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS): An International Journal, 2005
  (PDF)
• pNear - combining Content Clustering and Distributed Hash Tables
  Ronny Siebes
  In Proceedings of the IEEE'05 Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management. San Diego, CA, USA. July 17, 2005
  (PDF)
• Bibster - A Semantics-Based Bibliographic Peer-to-Peer System
  Peter Haase, Björn Schnizler, Jeen Broekstra, Marc Ehrig, Frank Harmelen, Maarten Mika, Michal Plechawski, Pawel Pyszlak, Ronny Siebes, Steffen Staab, Christoph Tempich
  Journal of Web Semantics 2 (1): 99--103 . 2005.
  Elsevier, Amsterdam
  ISSN: 1570-8268
  (PDF)
• Bibster - A Semantics-Based Bibliographic Peer-to-Peer System
  Jeen Broekstra, Marc Ehrig, Peter Haase, Maarten Menken, Peter Mika, Björn Schnizler, Ronny Siebes
  In Sheila A. McIlraith and Dimitris Plexousakis and Frank van Harmelen, Proceedings of the Third International Semantic Web Conference, Hiroshima, Japan, 2004, volume 3298 of LNCS, pp. 122--136. Springer, November 2004.
  (PDF)
• Peer Selection in Peer-to-Peer Networks with Semantic Topologies
  Peter Haase, Ronny Siebes, Frank van Harmelen
  In International Conference on Semantics of a Networked World: Semantics for Grid Databases, 2004, Paris, France. June 2004
  (PDF)
• A Metadata Model for Semantics-Based Peer-to-Peer Systems.
  Jeen Broekstra, Marc Ehrig, Peter Haase. Frank van Harmelen, Arjohn Kampman, Marta Sabou, Ronny Siebes, Steffan Staab, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Christoph Tempich.
  In 1st Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing at the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, Budapest, Hungary, May 20, 2003
  (PDF)
• The SWAP data and metadata model for semantics-based peer-to-peer systems
  Jeen Broekstra, Marc Ehrig, Peter Haase. Frank van Harmelen, Arjohn Kampman, Marta Sabou, Ronny Siebes, Steffan Staab, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Christoph Tempich.
  In Proceedings of MATES-2003. First German Conference on Multiagent Technologies. Erfurt, Germany, September 22-25. LNAI, Springer 2003
  (PDF)
• SWAP: Ontology-based Knowledge Management with Peer-to-Peer Technology
  Jeen Broekstra, Marc Ehrig, Frank van Harmelen, Marta Sabou, Ronny Siebes, Steffen Staab, Heiner Suckenschmidt, Christoph Tempich
  In WM2003 -German Conference on Knowledge Management. Workshop on Ontology-based Knowledge Management. Lecture Notes in Informatics, GI e.V. /Kollen Verlag, 2003. Reprinted as an inivted workshop paper in: WIAMIS-2003. 4th European Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, April 9-11, 2003, London, UK
  (PDF)
• Ranking agent statements for building evolving ontologies
  Ronny Siebes and Frank van Harmelen
  In Proceedings of the AAAI-02 workshop on meaning negotiation, Alberta, Canada,July 28 2002
  (PDF)
• Semantic web application areas
  Dieter Fensel, Christoph Bussler, Ying Ding, Vera Kartseva, Michel Klein, Maksym Korotkiy, Borys Omelayenko and Ronny Siebes
  In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2002), Stockholm, Sweden, June~27-28, 2002
  (PDF)
• LARiSSA: a Prototype Implementation for Evolving Ontologies
  Ronny Siebes
  Master's thesis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Aug 2001
  (PDF)