Dieter Fensel (born 10 October 1960 in

Nuremberg Nuremberg (, ; ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the Franconia#Towns and cities, largest city in Franconia, the List of cities in Bavaria by population, second-largest city in the States of Germany, German state of Bav ...

, died 29 December 2024 in

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; ) is the capital of Tyrol (federal state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the Wipptal, Wipp Valley, which provides access to the ...

) was a German researcher in the field of

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s and the

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. He was University Professor at the

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, where he directed the Semantic Technologies Institute Innsbruck (STI Innsbruck), a research center associated with the university.

Biography

Fensel studied mathematics, social science and computer science at Berlin, and received his doctorate in economics in 1993, studying under Dr Rudi Studer at the

University of Karlsruhe The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; ) is both a German public university, public research university in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, and a research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Ka ...

. (Title: ''Die Wissen-Erfassungs- und Repräsentationssprache KARL''). In 1998 he received his habilitation and started work at the Institute for Applied Computer Science and Formal Description Procedures (AIFB), focusing, inter alia, on

knowledge management Knowledge management (KM) is the set of procedures for producing, disseminating, utilizing, and overseeing an organization's knowledge and data. It alludes to a multidisciplinary strategy that maximizes knowledge utilization to accomplish organ ...

and

s. Subsequently he worked as an assistant professor at

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, and as a professor at

NUI Galway The University of Galway () is a public research university located in the city of Galway, Ireland. The university was founded in 1845 as "Queen's College, Galway". It was known as "University College, Galway" (UCG) () from 1908 to 1997 and as ...

(

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) (2003–2006) and at the

. He was hired by

to direct the

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(DERI); he resigned this position after a dispute with

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over whether he could be reimbursed for chartered aircraft, used to simplify the otherwise-complicated travel connections between Galway and Innsbruck. Since 2003 he has also been the director of DERI Innsbruck, which in December 2007 was renamed to Semantic Technologies Institute Innsbruck (STI Innsbruck). Fensel was the founding director of the

Semantic Technology Institute International Semantic Technology Institute (STI) International is an association of global experts in semantics and services, located in Austria. It has members mostly from Europe, but also from South Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore. STI International is gover ...

(STI2). He was one of five founders of seekda spin-off company of STI Innsbruck.Semantic Technology Institute about seekda
Retrieved 29 November 2007) Fensel has published numerous articles in technical periodicals, has been giving keynote speeches and co-organized conferences. He has been involved in several national and international research projects such as LarKc, SOA4All and Insemtives.

Bibliography

* Dieter Fensel: ''The Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Language KARL,'' Kluwer Academic Publisher, Boston, 1995 * Dieter Fensel: Problem-Solving Methods: ''Understanding, Development, Description, and Reuse, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI),'' no 1791, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000 * Dieter Fensel: Ontologies: ''Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce,'' Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001 * Dieter Fensel, Borys Omelayenko, Ding Ying: ''Intelligent Information Integration in B2B Electronic Commerce,'' Kluwer, 2002 * John Davies, Dieter Fensel, Frank van Harmelen (Editors): ''Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-Driven Knowledge Management,'' Wiley, 2002 * Dieter Fensel, John Davies (Editors): ''Spinning the Semantic Web,'' MIT Press, Boston, 2003 * Dieter Fensel, Katia Sycara,

John Mylopoulos John Mylopoulos (born 12 July 1943) is a Greek-Canadian computer scientist, Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada, and at the University of Trento, Italy. He is known for his work in the field of conceptual modeling, specifically the de ...

(Editors): ''The Semantic Web. ISWC 2003,'' Springer-Verlag, 2004 * Dieter Fensel, Umutcan Şimşek, Kevin Angele,

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, Elias Kärle, Oleksandra Panasiuk, Ioan Toma, Jürgen Umbrich and Alexander Wahler: Knowledge Graphs - Methodology, Tools and Selected Use Cases, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2020 * Umutcan Serles and Dieter Fensel: An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs, Springer, Cham, 2024

References

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Curriculum Vitae Dieter Fensel
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