Mustafa Jarrar

Mustafa Jarrar

Associate Professor
Faculty Member - Department Of Computer Science
PhD
Université libre de Bruxelles
mjarrar@birzeit.edu
Office: 
Masri320

Associate professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, at Birzeit University in Palestine.Before joining Birzeit in 2009, he was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Cyprus (2007-2009), and was (1999-2007) a Senior Research Scientist at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he completed his Masters (2000) and PhD (early 2005). Prof. Jarrar published +75 articles and refereed reports in the areas of Ontology Engineering, Lexical Semantics, Semantic Web, and Databases, chaired 18 international workshops, a PC member of +100s journals/conferences, a coordinator/manager of 20 large EU project, a full member of the IFIP2.6 on Database Semantics, the IFIP2.12 on Web Semantics, the IEEE Learning Standards Committee, and the CEN/ISSS ICT Skills, and UN ESCWA Technology Centre Board of Governors, among others. Prof. Jarrar is also the founder of both Sina Institute for Knowledge Engineering and Arabic Technologies, and the Palestinian eGovernment Academy, at Birzeit University; and is voluntarily serving as a advisor at the Palestinian ministry of Telecom & IT for e-government topics, where developed the Palestinian e-Government Interoperability Framework (called Zinnar). 

                   

Productivity- 53 Refereed Publications + 28 Scientific Reports + 6 Well-Known Tools/Databases

Citations = +2000  (i.e., 2000 articles cited my articles, excluding self-citations).

H-Index = 21 (i.e., I have at least 21 articles, each is cited by at least 21 articles, excluding self-citations).     

2014

  • Mustafa Jarrar, Nizar Habash, Diyam Akra, Nasser Zalmout: Building A Corpus For Palestinian Arabic: A Preliminary Study. In proceedings of the EMNLP 2014 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Pages (18-27). October 25, 2014, Doha, Qatar. ISBN: 978-1-937284-96-1
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  • Mamoun Abu Helou, Matteo Palmonari, Mustafa Jarrar, Christiane Fellbaum: Towards Building Lexical Ontology Via Cross-Language Matching. In Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Global WordNet. Global WordNet Association, Pages (346-354). January, 2014, Tartu, Estonia. ISBN: 7492329949978
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  • Antonio Lucas Soares, Carla Sofia Pereira, Mustafa Jarrar (eds): Proceedings Of The International Workshop On Ontology Content And Evaluation (OnToContent 2014). In OTM 2014 Workshops. Page 575. LNCS:8842, Springer. ISBN: 978-3-662-45549-4. October 2014.
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2012

  • Gianluca Elia, Mustafa Jarrar: Guest Editorial: Knowledge Management And E-Human Resources Practices For Innovation. The International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL). Inderscience Publishers. Vol. 8 No. 1/2. Pages: 1-5. 2012
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  • Mustafa Jarrar, Amanda Hicks, Matteo Palmonar (eds): Proceedings Of The International Workshop On Ontology Content And Evaluation (OnToContent 2012). In OTM 2012 Workshops. Page 419. LNCS:7567, Springer. ISBN:978-3-642-33618-8. October 2012.
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2011

  • Mustafa Jarrar: Building A Formal Arabic Ontology (Invited Paper). In proceedings of the Experts Meeting On Arabic Ontologies And Semantic Networks. Alecso, Arab League. Tunis, July 26-28, 2011.
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  • Mustafa Jarrar, Anton Deik, Bilal Faraj: Ontology-Based Data And Process Governance Framework -The Case Of E-Government Interoperability In Palestine. In pre-proceedings of the IFIP International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA’11). ####. Pages(83-98). ISBN 978-88-903120-2-1. Campione, Italy. June 30, 2011.
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  • Paolo Ceravolo, Chengfei Liu, Mustafa Jarrar, Kai-Uwe Sattler: Guest Editorial: Querying The Data Web -Novel Techniques For Querying Structured Data On The Web. The World Wide Web Journal. Springer. August 2011. ISSN:1573-1413.
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2010

  • Mustafa Jarrar and Marios D. Dikaiakos: A Query Formulation Language For The Data Web. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.IEEE Computer Society. (2010, In Press).
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  • Mustafa Jarrar and Marios D. Dikaiakos: Querying The Data Web –The MashQL Approach. IEEE Internet Computing. Volume 14, No. 3. Pages (58-670). IEEE Computer Society, ISSN 1089-7801. May 2010.
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  • Anton Deik, Bilal Faraj, Ala Hawash, Mustafa Jarrar: Towards Query Optimization For The Data Web - Two Disk-Based Algorithms: Trace Equivalence And Bisimilarity. In proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Semantic Web – Applications and Services. Pages 131-137. ACM. ISBN 9781450304757. June 2010.
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  • Rami Hodrob, Mustafa Jarrar: ORM To OWL 2 DL Mapping. In proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Semantic Web – Applications and Services. Pages 131-137. ACM ISBN 9781450304757. June 2010.
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  • Anton Deik, Bilal Faraj, Ala Hawash, Mustafa Jarrar: Towards Query Optimization For The Data Web - Two Disk-Based Algorithms: Trace Equivalence And Bisimilarity. In proceedings of the 3rd Palestinian International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (PICCIT 2010). Hebron, Palestine. March 2010.
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  • Jamal Daher, Mustafa Jarrar: Towards A Methodology For Building Ontologies -Classify By Properties. (In Arabic). In proceedings of the 3rd Palestinian International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (PICCIT 2010). Hebron, Palestine. March 2010.
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  • Mustafa Jarrar, Paolo Ceravolo: (eds): Proceedings Of The International Workshop On Ontology Content And Evaluation (OnToContent 2010). In OTM 2010 Workshops. Page 367. LNCS:6428, Springer. ISBN:9783642169601. October 2010.
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2009

  • Mustafa Jarrar and Marios D. Dikaiakos: A Data Mashup Language For The Data Web. Proceedings of LDOW, WWW'09. ACM. ISSN 1613-0073. (2009).
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  • Sergey Lukichev and Mustafa Jarrar: Graphical Notations For Rule Modeling. Book chapter in "Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies". IGI Global. ISBN:1-60566-402-2. (2009)
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  • Mustafa Jarrar: Ontology-Based Data And Process Governance Framework -The Case Of E-Government Interoperability In Palestine. In pre-proceedings of the IFIP International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA’11). ####. ISBN 978-88-903120-2-1. Campione, Italy. June 30, 2011.
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2008

  •  Mustafa Jarrar and Marios D. Dikaiakos: MashQL: A Query-By-Diagram Language -Towards Semantic Data Mashups. Proceedings of ONISW'08, part of the ACM CiKM conference. ACM. pages (89-96) ISBN 9781605582559. (2008).
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  •  Mustafa Jarrar: Towards Effectiveness And Transparency In E-Business Transactions, An Ontology For Customer Complaint Management. A book chapter in "Semantic Web Methodologies for E-Business Applications". chapter 7. pp.127-149. IGI Global. ISBN:978-1-60566-066-0. (2008)
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  • Mustafa Jarrar and Stijn Heymans: Towards Pattern-Based Reasoning For Friendly Ontology Debugging. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools. Volume 17. No.4. World Scientific Publishing. August 2008. 
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  • Mustafa Jarrar and Robert Meersman: Ontology Engineering -The DOGMA Approach. Book Chapter in "Advances in Web Semantics I". Chapter 3. Pages 7-34. LNCS 4891, Springer.ISBN:978-3540897835. (2008).
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  • Ramon F. Brena, Andreas Schmidt, Mustafa Jarrar, Werner Ceusters, Francisco J. Cantu: (eds): Proceedings Of The International Workshop On Ontology Content And Evaluation (OnToContent 2007). In OTM 2008 Workshops. Page 583. LNCS:5333, Springer. ISBN: 9783540888741. November 2008.
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2007

  • Mustafa Jarrar: Mapping ORM Into The SHOIN/OWL Description Logic- Towards A Methodological And Expressive Graphical Notation For Ontology Engineering. In OTM 2007 workshops: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Object-Role Modeling (ORM'07). Pages (729-741), LNCS 4805, Springer. ISBN: 9783540768890. Portogal. November, 2007
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  • Mustafa Jarrar: Towards Automated Reasoning On ORM Schemes. -Mapping ORM Into The DLR_idf Description Logic. In proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2007). Pages (181-197). LNCS 4801, Springer. Auckland, New Zealand. ISBN 9783540755623. November 2007
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  • Mustafa Jarrar, Andreas Schmidt, Claude Ostyn, and Werner Ceusters (eds): Proceedings Of The International Workshop On Ontology Content And Evaluation (OnToContent 2007). On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2007 Workshops. Pages (509). LNCS 4805. Springer. Albufeira, Portugal. ISBN: 978-3540768876. November 2007.
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2006

  • Mustafa Jarrar: Towards The Notion Of Gloss, And The Adoption Of Linguistic Resources In Formal Ontology Engineering. In proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006). Edinburgh, Scotland. Pages 497-503. ACM Press. ISBN: 1595933239. May 2006.
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  • Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Karl Aberer, Alia Abdelmoty, Tiziana Catarci, Ernesto Damiani, Arantza Illarramendi, Mustafa Jarrar, Robert Meersman, Erich Neuhold, Christine Parent, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Monica Scannapieco, Stefano Spaccapietra, Peter Spyns, and Guy De Tre:Viewpoints On Emergent Semantics. In Stefano Spaccapietra, Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux (eds): Journal on Data Semantics. 4090(6):1-27. ISBN: 3540367128. Springer. 2006. 
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  • Mustafa Jarrar and Stijn Heymans: Unsatisfiability Reasoning In ORM Conceptual Schemes. In Current Trends in Database Technology - EDBT 2006: Proceeding of the IFIP-2.6 International Conference on Semantics of a Networked. Pages (517-534). LNCS 4254, Springer. Munich, Germany. ISBN: 3540467882. March 2006. 
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  • Mustafa Jarrar, Claude Ostyn, Werner Ceusters, and Andreas Persidis (eds):Proceedings Of The International Workshop On Ontology Content And Evaluation (OnToContent 2006). On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops. Pages (1011). LNCS 4278, Springer. Montpellier, France. ISBN: 9783540482734. November 2006.
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  • Katia Sycara, Elizabeth Chang, Ernesto Damiani, Mustafa Jarrar, and Tharam Dillon (eds): Proceedings Of The 2nd IFIP WG 2.12 And WG 12.4 International Workshop On Web Semantics (SWWS'06). On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops. Pages (1723). LNCS 4278, Springer. Montpellier, France. ISBN: 9783540482734. November 2006. 
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  • Mustafa Jarrar, Maria Keet, and Paolo Dongilli: Multilingual Verbalization Of ORM Conceptual Models And Axiomatized Ontologies. Technical report. STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, February 2006. 
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2005

  • Mustafa Jarrar: Modularization And Automatic Composition Of Object-Role Modeling (ORM) Schemes. OTM 2005 Workshops: Proceedings of the Object-Role Modeling (ORM'05). Pages (613-625). LNCS 3762, Springer. Larnaca, Cyprus. ISBN: 3540297391. November 2005. 
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  • Mustafa Jarrar: Towards Methodological Principles For Ontology Engineering. PhD Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel. (May 2005) 
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  • Tharam Dillon, Ling Feng, Mustafa Jarrar, Aldo Gangemi, Joost Breuker, Jos Lehmann, and Andre Valente (eds): Proceedings Of The 1st IFIP WG 2.12 And WG 12.4 International Workshop On Web Semantics (SWWS'06). On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: OTM 2005 Workshops. Pages (808). LNCS 3762. Springer. Larnaca, Cyprus. ISBN: 3540297391. November 2005.
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2004

  • Karl Aberer, Tiziana Catarci, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Tharam Dillon, Stephan Grimm, Mohand-Said Hacid, Arantza Illarramendi, Mustafa Jarrar, Vipul Kashyap, Massimo Mecella, Eduardo Mena, Erich Neuhold, Aris Ouksel, Thomas Risse, Monica Scannapieco, Felix Saltor, Luca De Santis, Stefano Spaccapietra, Steffen Staab, Rudi Studer, and Olga De Troyer: Emergent Semantics Systems. Proceedings of the first International IFIP 2.6 Conference on Semantics of a Networked World. Pages(14-44). LNCS 3226, Springer. Paris, France. ISBN: 3540-236090. June 2004.
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  • Peter Spyns, Sven Van Acker, Marleen Wynants, Mustafa Jarrar, and Andriy Lisovoy: Using A Novel ORM-Based Ontology Modelling Method To Build An Experimental Innovation Router. Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web (EKAW 2004). Pages (82-98), LNCS 3257, Springer. ISBN: 3540233407. October 2004. 
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  • Mustafa Jarrar and Aldo Gangemi (eds): Proceedings Of The 2nd International Workshop On Regulatory Ontologies (WORM 2004). On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: OTM 2004 Workshops. Pages(568). LNCS 3292, Springer. Larnaca, Cyprus. ISBN: 3540236643. November 2004. 
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  • Robert Meersman, Zahir Tari, Pilar Herrero, Gonzalo Méndez, Lawrence Cavedon, David Martin, Annika Hinze, George Buchanan, Mar?a S. Pérez, V?ctor Robles, Jan Humble, Antonia Albani, Jan L. G. Dietz, Hervé Panetto, Monica Scannapieco, Terry A. Halpin, Peter Spyns, Johannes Maria Zaha, Esteban Zim?nyi, Emmanuel Stefanakis, Tharam S. Dillon, Ling Feng, Mustafa Jarrar, Jos Lehmann, Aldo de Moor, Erik Duval, Lora Aroyo: (eds):On The Move To Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: OTM 2005 Workshops. LNCS 3762, Springer. Larnaca, Cyprus. ISBN: 3540297391. November 2005. 
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2003

  • Mustafa Jarrar, Jan Demey, and Robert Meersman: On Using Conceptual Data Modeling For Ontology Engineering. Journal on Data Semantics, Special issue on "Best papers from the ER/ODBASE/COOPIS 2002 Conferences". Pages (185-207). LNCS 2800. No 1. Springer. ISBN: 3540204075. October 2003.
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  • Mustafa Jarrar, Ruben Verlinden, and Robert Meersman: Ontology-Based Customer Complaint Management. OTM 2003 Workshops, proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies and the Modeling of Complaint Regulations. Pages (594-606). LNCS 2889, Springer. Sicily, Italy. ISBN: 3540204946. November 2003.
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  • Mustafa Jarrar and Anne Salaun (eds): Proceedings Of The 1st International Workshop On Regulatory Ontologies And The Modeling Of Complaint Regulations (WORM CoRe 2003). On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2003 Workshops. Pages (578), LNCS 2889, Springer. Sicily, Italy. ISBN: 3540204946. November 2003.
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2002

  • Mustafa Jarrar and Robert Meersman: Formal Ontology Engineering In The DOGMA Approach. Proceedings of the International Conference on Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBase 2002). Pages (1238-1254). LNCS 2519, Springer. ISBN:3540001069. October 2002. 
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  • Peter Spyns, Robert Meersman, and Mustafa Jarrar: Data Modelling Versus Ontology Engineering. The SIGMOD Record Magazine. Pages (12-17) Volume 31, no 4. ACM, ISSN: 01635808. March 2002.
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  • Jan Demey and Mustafa Jarrar and Robert Meersman: A Conceptual Markup Language That Supports Interoperability Between Business Rule Modeling Systems. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 02). Pages (19-35). LNCS 2519, Springer. ISBN: 3540001069. October 2002.
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  • Mustafa Jarrar and Robert Meersman: Scalability And Knowledge Reusability In Ontology Modeling. In Veljko Milutinovic (eds): Proceedings of the International conference on Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, and e-Medicine (SSGRR 2002s). Scuola Superiore G Reiss Romoli. Rome, Italy. August 2002.
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  • Jan Demey, Mustafa Jarrar, and Robert Meersman: A Markup Language For ORM Business Rules. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Rule Markup Languages for Business Rules on the Semantic Web (RuleML 2002). Pages(107-128). Volume 60. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. ISSN 1613-0073. June 2002.
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  • Peter Spyns, Daniel Oberle, Raphael Volz, Jijuan Zheng, Mustafa Jarrar, York Sure, Rudi Studer, and Robert Meersman: OntoWeb- A Semantic Web Community Portal. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management (PAKM 2002). Pages (189-200). LNCS 2569, Springer. ISBN: 3540003142. December 2002.
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  • Jan De Bo, Mustafa Jarrar, Ben Majer, and Robert Meersman: Ontology-Based Author Profiling Of Documents. Proceedings of the Workshop Event Modeling for Multilingual Document Linking (LREC 2002). ELRA, pages: 23-28. Gran Canaria. 2002.
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2005

  • Alain Leger and Mustafa Jarrar: Outreach To Industry, Industry Board Members And Economic Sectors. Deliverable D1.1.1v2 (WP1.1), The Knowledge Web Network of Excellence (NoE) IST-2004-507482, Luxemburg. August 2005.
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  • Lyndon Nixon, Malgorzata Mochol, Mustafa Jarrar, Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Vasileios Papastathis, and Yiannis Kompatsiaris: Prototypical Business Use Cases. Deliverable D1.1.2 (WP1.1), The Knowledge Web Network of Excellence (NoE) IST-2004-507482, Luxemburg. January 2005.
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  • Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Elena Paslaru Bontas, Jens Hartmann, Lyndon Nixon, Mustafa Jarrar, Maria Carmen Suarez-Figueroa, and Raul Garcia-Castro: Identification Of Standards On Metadata For Ontologies. Deliverable D1.3.2 (WP1.1), The Knowledge Web Network of Excellence (NoE) IST-2004-507482, Luxemburg. January 2005. 
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  • Jerome Euzenat, Thanh Le Bach, Jesus Barrasa, Paolo Bouquet, Jan De Bo, Rose Dieng, Marc Ehrig, Manfred Hauswirth, Mustafa Jarrar, Ruben Lara, Diana Maynard, Amedeo Napoli, Giorgos Stamou, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Pavel Shvaiko, Sergio Tessaris, Sven Van Acker, Ilya Zaihrayeu: Ontology Alignment - State Of The Art. Deliverable D2.2.3 (WP2.2), The Knowledge Web Network of Excellence (NoE) IST-2004-507482, Luxemburg. January 2005.
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  • Holger Wache, Luciano Serafini, Raul Garcia-Castro, Perry Groot, Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Mustafa Jarrar, Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Diana Maynard, Jeff Pan, Rosario Plaza-Arteche, Floris Roelofsen, Stefano Spaccapietra, Giorgos Stamou, Andrei Tamilin, and Ilya Zaihrayeu: Survey Of Scalability Techniques For Reasoning With Ontologies. Deliverable D2.1.1 (WP2.1), The Knowledge Web Network of Excellence (NoE) IST-2004-507482, Luxemburg. January 2005.
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