
Senior Researcher in Information Technology
Cottbus Area, Germany

Senior Researcher in Information Technology
Cottbus Area, Germany
Adrian GIURCA, born 1966, is currently investigating methods and applications for information systems of the next generation especially (agent based) reasoning on social media/software and reasoning on the Web and Semantic Web. Formerly, he worked on knowledge representation (particularly with uncertainty representation) and logic programming.
Since 2005, he is a senior researcher at the Institute for Informatics of the Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany. From 1990 through 2004, he was with the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Craiova, Romania. During this time he was also consultant for a number of small size enterprises.
He received in 2004 a doctoral degree from the University of Bucharest. He has been or is involved in research projects founded by the European Commission (FP6). He has been member of the Network of Excellence REWERSE (http://rewerse.net 2004-2008) of the 6th Framework Program of the European Commission.
He likes biking and traveling. He lives with his family in Cottbus, Germany, and Craiova, Romania.
Information systems, web technologies and service-oriented architectures, rule languages, automated reasoning.
Particularly:
* Knowledge Bases and Logic Programming.
* Uncertainty in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.
* Rule Markup Languages and the Semantic Web.
* Uncertainty in Web Languages.
* Web Languages: XML, FLogic, RDF, OWL, ERDF.
* Web Rule Languages: R2ML, RIF
* UML.
* Rules engines: Flora2, Drools
* Business Processes, SOA
* Agent-based Simulation
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
2005 — Present (3 years)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2005 — February 2008 (3 years)
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2000 — February 2005 (5 years 1 month)
Information systems, web technologies, rule languages, automated reasoning.
Drools, REWERSE, RIF