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http://www.pms.ifi.lmu.de/erlebt/ Profile on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/francoisbry Professional web page: http://pms.ifi.lmu.de/mitarbeiter/bry Curriculum vitae: François Bry, born 1956, is currently investigating methods and applications for information systems of the next generation emphasizing XML, RDF, OWL, semistructured data, query answering, reactivity, search, and reasoning on the Web and Semantic Web. Formerly, he worked on knowledge representation, deductive databases, automated theorem proving, and logic programming.
Since 1994, he is a professor at the Institute for Informatics of the University of Munich, Germany, and head of a unit (
http://pms.ifi.lmu.de). From 1984 through 1993, he was with the European Computer-Industry Research Centre (ECRC), Munich, a joint venture of Bull (France), Siemens (Germany), and ICL (United Kingdom). Before 1983, he has worked in a few companies in Paris, France, among others on an early word processor.
He received in 1981 a doctoral degree from the University of Paris 6. He has been or is involved in research projects founded by the European Commission (ESPRIT, FP6) and in doctoral schools founded by the German Foundation for Research (DFG). He has been the scientific coordinator of the Network of Excellence REWERSE (
http://rewerse.net 2004-2008) of the 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission. He is involved in the project KIWI (
http://www.kiwi-project.eu, 2008-2011) on a semantic wiki founded by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission.
He likes biking, hiking, and traveling, especially to Asia. He lives with his family in Vienna, Austria, and Munich, Germany, and frequently travel to France, especially to Paris.
Specialties: Information systems, web technologies, social software, search engines, query languages, rule languages, event processing, automated reasoning.
Scientific publications: In DBLP:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/b/... In Google scholar:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100&hl=en&lr=&...
