Related Projects at NTNU

AKSIO
MOSES

Involved people at IPT/NTNU

Egil Tjåland (IPT)
Håvard Sjøvoll (IPT)

People at IDI/NTNU involved in IIP:

Prof. Dr. Jon Atle Gulla -- IIP project leader at NTNU.

Professor Dr. Jon Atle Gulla is professor of Information Systems at NTNU since 2002. He received his MSc in 1988 and his PhD in 1993, both in Information Systems at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. In his PhD thesis he used linguistic theories to generate user-tailored explanations of conceptual models and their executions. Gulla also has a MSc in Linguistics from the University of Trondheim from 1995. In 2003 he completed a MSc of Management (Sloan fellow) at London Business School. Jon Atle Gulla is responsible for courses on information retrieval, text mining, semantic web, and project management. Before accepting the professorship at NTNU he was the general manager of Elexir Sprachtechnologie, a Munich software company developing computational linguistics software for the search engine of Fast Search & Transfer. He was a senior consultant and project manager in Norsk Hydro in Brussels from 1997 to 2000, and a research scientist at GMD in Darmstadt from 1995 to 1996. Gulla is a co-founder of LingIT and Businesscape and is also serving as the chairman of the board for Businesscape.

Gulla’s research interests include text mining, information retrieval, ontologies, enterprise modeling and integration, and semantic technologies. The focus of his current research is on how multi-disciplinary techniques may be used to extract and manage enterprise knowledge and how ontological knowledge and semantics may be applied in intelligent large-scale enterprise applications. He is a reviewer for several journals, and since 1994 he has been a permanent program committee member of the NLDB conference series. He has published more than 40 papers in international refereed journals, conferences and workshops.

Stein Løkke Tomassen -- Ph.D. student.

Stein L. Tomassen is a PhD student at NTNU. He received his MSc in Information Systems at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2002. From 2002 to 2005 he was employed as a researcher by SINTEF ICT. From 2006 he has a part time position at SINTEF ICT.

His research interests include semantic technologies, text mining, user context, mobile applications, ontology and information quality evaluation, in general; and improvement of information retrieval quality using ontologies, in particular. His publications include more than 10 articles in international refereed books, journals, conferences and workshops. He has assisted in the review process of several international conferences. He has been serving as a member of program committee for the STAB'07 workshop and the CAiSE Forum Chair 2007.

Dr. Darijus Strasunskas -- Researcher.

Darijus Strasunskas is Researcher at NTNU. He received his PhD in Information Systems from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2006. He has master degree from Vilnius University (2000). From 1997 to 2001 he was employed by Kraft Foods International in Lithuania as finance analyst and was responsible for financial control of Snacks Factory construction project and ERP system implementation, later he became a key user of ERP system manufacturing module. For his performance he was awarded with a letter of commendation in 2001.

His research interests include conceptual modelling, requirements engineering, semantic technologies, in general; and ontology and information quality evaluation, rule-based notification, information retrieval, distributed cooperative systems development, traceability and semantic interoperability of information, in particular. His publications include more than 30 articles in international refereed books, journals, conferences and workshops. He has assisted in the review process of international conferences including ER, RE, CAiSE, NLDB, ISD and other. He has been serving as a member of a program committee for the CAiSE Doctoral Consortium ('05 & '06), the International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR'06 & '07) and the Information Resource Management Association IRMA 2007 Conference, the international conference on Information Systems Development (ISD '08), the international workshop on Ontology Alignment and Visualization (OnAV'08). He has co-organized the STAB'07 workshop.

Personal information: born in 1976, married in 2001, has son.