Associate Professor

Office 2107 - Facultad de Informática

Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, España

Telephone: +34 913366605

Fax: +34 913524819

Oscar Corcho is an Associate Professor at Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial (Facultad de Informática , Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) , and he belongs to the Ontology Engineering Group.

His research activities are focused on Semantic e-Science and Real World Internet, although he also works in the more general areas of Semantic Web and Ontological Engineering. In these areas, he has participated in a number of EU projects (Wf4Ever, PlanetData, SemsorGrid4Env, ADMIRE, OntoGrid, Esperonto, Knowledge Web and OntoWeb), and Spanish R&D projects (CENITS mIO!, España Virtual  and Buscamedia, myBigData, GeoBuddies), and has also participated in privately-funded projects like ICPS (International Classification of Patient Safety), funded by the World Health Organisation, and HALO, funded by Vulcan Inc.

Previously, he worked as a Marie Curie research fellow at the University of Manchester, and was a research manager at iSOCO. He holds a degree in Computer Science, an MSc in Software Engineering and a PhD in Computational Science and Artificial Intelligence from UPM. He was awarded the Third National Award by the Spanish Ministry of Education in 2001.

He has published several books, from which “Ontological Engineering" can be highlighted as it is being used as a reference book in a good number of university lectures worldwide, and more than 100 papers in journals, conferences and workshops. He usually participates in the organisation or in the programme committees of relevant international conferences and workshops. 

Projects

Oscar is currently participating in the following R&D projects:

• Wf4Ever is focused on the preservation and efficient retrieval and reuse of digital libraries of scientific workflows.
• PlanetData is a network of Excellence whose aim is to establish a sustainable European community of researchers in the area of large-scale semantic data management.
• Ciudad2020 is focused on providing technologies for smart cities.
• mIO! - Tecnologías para prestar servicios en movilidad en el futuro universo inteligente.
• BUSCAMEDIA - Hacia una semántica Adaptación de Medios Digitales multirredmultiterminal.

He has also participated in the following projects, some of which have had a large impact in the aforementioned research areas:

• SemsorGrid4Env. Semantic Sensor Grids for Rapid Application Development for Environmental Management (FP7-ICT-223913)
• ADMIRE. Advanced Data Mining and Integration Research for Europe (FP7-215024)
• GeoBuddies. Collaborative semantic annotation on mobile devices in the Camino de Santiago (TSI2007-65677-C02-01)
• OntoGrid. Paving the Way to Knowledgeable Grid Services and Systems (FP6-511513)
• WS-DAIOnt-OWL. Providing a Grid-compliant access to and reasoning with OWL ontologies (MERG-CT-2007-046415)
• RSSGRID. Reasoning Services for the Semantic Grid (FP6-2002-Mobility-5-006668)
• HALO. Digital Aristotle. Funded by Vulcan, Inc
• DIP. Data, Information, and Process Integration with Semantic Web Services (FP6-507483)
• HOPS. Enabling and Intelligent Natural Language Based Hub for the Deployment of Advanced Semantically Enriched Multi-channel Mass-scale Online Public Services (IST-2002-507967)
• Esperonto. Application Service Provision of Semantic Annotation, Aggregation, Indexing and Routing of Textual, Multimedia, and Multilingual Web Content (IST-2001-34373)
• SWWS. Semantic Web enabled Web Services (IST-2001-37134)
• Knowledge Web. Realizing the Semantic Web (FP6-507482)
• ODE-PICSEL. Dynamic service discovery in WebODE (HF-2002-0013)
• Plataforma Tecnológica para la web semántica: Ontologías, análisis de lenguaje natural y comercio electrónico (TIC-2001-2745)
• OntoWeb. Ontology-based information exchange for knowledge management and electronic commerce (IST-2000-29243)
• MKBEEM. Multilingual Knowledge Based European Electronic Marketplace (IST-1999-10589)

Publications and Other Results

Some of the most relevant publications are listed below:

• "Ontological Engineering". Gómez-Pérez, A.; Fernández-López, M.; Corcho, O. Springer-Verlag. November 2003.
• Problem-Solving Methods for Understanding Process Executions. Gómez-Pérez JM, Corcho O. Computing in Science and Engineering 10(3):20-25. May/June 2008
• Understanding Semantic-Aware Grid Middleware for e-Science. Alper P, Corcho O, Goble CA. Journal of Computing and Informatics 27(1):93-118. January/February 2008

• An overview of S-OGSA: A Reference Semantic Grid Architecture.Corcho, Óscar and Alper, P. and Kotsiopoulos, I. and Missier, P. and Bechhofer, S. and Goble, C. (2006)  Journal of Web Semantics, 4 (2). pp. 102-115. ISSN 1570-8268
• Accessing RDF(S) data resources in service-based Grid infrastructures Esteban-Gutiérrez, M. and Kojima, I. and Pahlevi, S. M. and Corcho, Óscar and Gomez-Perez, A. (2009)  Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience, 21 (8). pp. 1029-1051. ISSN 1532-0626
• An ActOn-based Semantic Information Service for EGEE. Xing, W. and Corcho, Óscar and Goble, C. and Dikaiakos, M. (2010)  Future Generation of Computer Systems, 26 . pp. 324-336.
• Ontology Languages for the Semantic Web. Gomez-Perez, A. and Corcho, Óscar (2002) IEEE Intelligent Systems, 17 (1). pp. 54-60. ISSN 1094-7167
• A semantic portal for fund finding in the EU: Semantic upgrade, integration and publication of heterogeneous legacy data Barrasa Rodríguez, Jesús and Corcho, Óscar and Gomez-Perez, A. (2006) . In: 10th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2006), October 9-11 2006, Bournemouth, UK.

A complete list of publications can be found here.