Vlad Tanasescu

Domingue, John; Cabral, Liliana; Galizia, Stefania; Tanasescu, Vlad; Gugliotta, Alessio; Norton, Barry and Pedrinaci, Carlos (2008). IRS-III: A broker-based approach to semantic Web services. Journal of Web Semantics, 6(2), pp. 109–132.

Gugliotta, A., Domingue, J., Cabral, L., Tanasescu, V., Galizia, S., Davies, R., Gutiérrez Villarías, L., Rowlatt, M., Richardson, M., Stinčić, S., (2008) Deploying Semantic Web Services-based Applications in the e-Government Domain. Journal on Data Semantics, Vol.X, (96-132), Publisher Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.

Reitsma, F. and Tanasescu, V. (2010). KnowledgeScapes: linking knowledge to spatial features. Sixth international conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2010) 14-17th September, 2010, Zurich, Switzerland.

Tanasescu, V., Mackaness, W., Cairns, S., Lucas, R. (2010). Understanding 'Desakota': The Case Study of Jakarta. GISUpdate at Edinburgh Conference, June 2010, Edinburgh, UK.

Cairns, S., Lucas. R., Mackaness, W., Tanasescu, V. (2009). Patch Urbanism in Southeast Asia: A fieldwork report. Field/work, AHRA Conference, 20-21 November 2009, Edinburgh, UK.

Tanasescu, V., Roman, D., Domingue, J., (2009). Service Selection via Extreme Geotagging. International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Web Services (GEOWS 2009), Cancun, Mexico. (33% acceptance rate)

Tanasescu, V. (2007). Spatial semantics in difference spaces. In: Winter, S.; Duckham, M.; Kulik, L. and Kuipers, B. eds. Spatial Information Theory. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin: Springer, pp. 96–115. (27% acceptance rate)

Vlad Tanasescu, Alessio Gugliotta, Rob Davies, Sandra Stincic, Marc Richardson, Mary Rowlatt and Bernhard Schreder (2007). Evaluation of a Semantic Web Services enabled GIS Emergency Planning system (2007). 1st European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC2007)

Cabral, Liliana; Domingue, John; Galizia, Stefania; Gugliotta, Alessio; Tanasescu, Vlad; Pedrinaci, Carlos and Norton, Barry (2006). IRS-III: A Broker for Semantic Web Services based Applications. In: The 5th International Semantic Web Conference: ISWC 2006, 5-9 Nov 2003, USA. (24% acceptance rate)

Tanasescu, Vlad; Gugliotta, Alessio; Domingue, John; Gutiérrez Villarías, Leticia; Davies, Rob; Rowlatt, Mary; Richardson, Marc and Stinčić, Sandra (2006). A Semantic Web Services GIS based emergency management application. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4273 pp. 959–966. (28% acceptance rate)

Gugliotta, Alessio; Tanasescu, Vlad; Domingue, John; Davies, Rob; Gutiérrez-Villarías, Leticia; Rowlatt, Mary; Richardson, Marc and Stinčić, Sandra (2006). Benefits and challenges of applying Semantic Web Services in the e-Government domain. In: Semantics 2006, 28-30 Nov 2006, Vienna, Austria.

Tanasescu, Vlad and Domingue, John (2006). Toward user oriented semantic geographical information systems. In: 2nd AKT Doctoral Symposium, 23 Jan 2006, Aberdeen Univeristy, UK.

Tanasescu, V. and Wojciechowski, P., (2005) Role-Based Declarative Synchronization for Reconfigurable Systems. 7th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 05), Long Beach, CA, USA. (47% acceptance rate)

Gugliotta, Alessio; Domingue, John; Tanasescu, Vlad; Gutierrez Villarias, Leticia; Davies, Rob; Rowlatt, Mary; Richardson, Marc and Stinčić, Sandra (2008). Enabling data, information, and process integration with semantic web services: from a new technology infrastructure to a compelling demonstrator. In: Di Nitto, Elisabetta; Sassen, Anne-Marie; Traverso, Paolo and Zwegers, Arian eds. At Your Service: Service-oriented Computing from an EU Perspective. MIT Press, pp. 327–356.

Tanasescu, Vlad; Gugliotta, Alessio; Domingue, John; Gutiérrez Villarías, Leticia; Davies, Rob; Rowlatt, Mary; Richardson, Marc and Stinčić, Sandra (2007). Geospatial data integration with Semantic Web services: the eMerges approach. In: Scharl, Arno and Tochtermann, Klaus eds. The Geospatial Web : how geobrowsers, social software and the Web 2.0 are shaping the network society. Advanced Information & Knowledge Processing. London, UK: Springer, pp. 247–256.

Gugliotta, Alessio; Tanasescu, Vlad; Domingue, John; Gutierrez, Leticia; Davies, Rob; Rowlatt, Mary; Bryant, Jon; Stincic, Sandra; Richardson, Marc (2006) SWS Enhanced GIS prototype (IRSIII) Report Final version V2.. DIP, D9.14.

Gugliotta, Alessio; Tanasescu, Vlad; Domingue, John; Gutierrez, Leticia; Davies, Rob; Rowlatt, Mary; Bryant, Jon; Stincic, Sandra; Richardson, Marc (2006). SWS Enhanced GIS prototype (IRSIII) v 2.0. DIP, D9.12.

Gutierrez, Leticia; Davies, Rob; Rowlatt, Mary; Bryant, Jon; Gugliotta, Alessio; Tanasescu, Vlad; Stincic, Sandra; Richardson, Marc (2006). SWS Enhanced GIS prototype (IRSIII) v 1.0.DIP, D9.11.

Gugliotta, Alessio; Domingue, John; Tanasescu, Vlad; Gutierrez, Leticia; Rowlatt, Mary; Davies, Robert (2005). GIS WSMO descriptions v1.0.DIP, D9.10.

Arroyo, Sinuhe; de Bruijn, Jos; Bussler, Christoph; Cabral, Liliana; Domingue, John; Galizia, Stefania; Moran, Matthew; Motta, Enrico; Stollberg, Michael; Tanasescu, Vlad; Zaremba, Michal (2005). Second set of external WSMO tutorials.DIP, D14.1

Bussler, Christoph; Cabral, Liliana; Cimpian, Emilia; Domingue, John; Galizia, Stefania; Haller, Armin; Kerrigan, Mick; Moran, Matthew; Norton, Barry; Pedrinaci, Carlos; Roman, Dumitru; Sapkota, Brahmananda; Shafiq, Omair; Stollberg, Michael; Tanasescu, Vlad; Zaremba, Michal (2005). Fifth set of external WSMO tutorials . DIP, D14.1e.

Arroyo, Sinuhe; de Bruijn, Jos; Bussler, Christoph; Cabral, Liliana; Domingue, John; Galizia, Stefania; Moran, Matthew; Stollberg, Michael; Tanasescu, Vlad; Zaremba, Michal (2005). Online WSMO tutorials . DIP, D14.2

Nixon, Lyndon and Paslaru, Elena. With contributions from: Zaremba, Michal; Dente, Enrica; Lara, Ruben; Binder, Walter; Constantinescu, Ion; Jurga, Radu; Schickel-Zuber, Vincent; Tanasescu, Vlad; Carman, Mark; Penserini, Loris; Pistore, Marco; reviewed by: Cimpian, Emilia (2004). State of the art of current Semantic Web Services initiatives.KnowledgeWeb, KWEB/2004/WP2.4ID1/v1.

Tanasescu, V., (2007) Beyond Mashups: the New Challenges of SWS Based Geospatial Applications. 2nd Workshop on Challenges and Promise of the Semantic Web, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

Tanasescu, V., (2007) eMerges + SW Challenge: a Thrilling Semi Success Story. European GeoInformatics Workshop, National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh, UK

Dietze, Stefan and Tanasescu, Vlad (2009). Spatial groundings for meaningful symbols. In: AISB 2009 Conference, 6-9 Apr 2009, Edinburgh, UK.

Tanasescu, V. (2008). Spatiotemporal Metaphors and Internet Technologies. Workshop: First International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on the Internet, in conjunction with the FIS 2008 Symposium, Vienna, Austria.

Tanasescu, V., Domingue, J., (2008) Towards General Spatial Intelligence. Workshop: ECAI-08 Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, in conjunction with the ECAI 2008 Conference, Patras, Greece.

Tanasescu, V., Domingue, J., (2008). A Differential Notion of Place for Local Search. Workshop: LocWeb 2008, First International Workshop on Location and the Web in conjunction with the WWW 2008 Conference, Beijing, China.

Tanasescu, V., Streibel, O., (2007) Extreme Tagging: Emergent Semantics through the Tagging of Tags. Workshop: International Workshop on Emergent Semantics and Ontology Evolution (ESOE 2007), in conjunction with the ISWC 2007 Conference, Busan, Korea.

Tanasescu, V., (2007) Differences + Triple Spaces = Active Triple Spaces. Workshop: New forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web: scalable, tolerant and dynamic (LarKC), in conjunction with the ISWC 2007 Conference, Busan, Korea.

Tanasescu, Vlad; Gugliotta, Alessio; Domingue, John; Gutiérrez Villarías, Leticia; Davies, Rob; Rowlatt, Mary; Richardson, Marc and Stinčić, Sandra (2006). Spatial integration of Semantic Web Services: the e-Merges approach. In: Terra Cognita 2006, 6 November 2006, Athens, Georgia, USA.

Gugliotta, Alessio; Davies, Rob; Gutiérrez Villarías, Leticia; Tanasescu, Vlad;Domingue, John; Rowlatt, Mary; Richardson, Marc and Stinčić, Sandra (2006). Enhancing Data and Processes Integration and Interoperability in Emergency Situations: a SWS based Emergency Management System. In: First International Workshop on Applications and Business Aspects of the Semantic Web (SEBIZ 2006), 6 November 2006, Athens, Georgia, USA.

Tanasescu, V., Gugliotta, A., Domingue, J., Gutiérrez Villarías, L., Davies, R., Rowlatt, M., Richardson, M., (2006) A Semantic Web GIS based Emergency Management System. Workshop: Workshop on Semantic Web for eGovernment, 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), Budva, Montenegro.

Tanasescu, Vlad; Domingue, John and Cabral, Liliana (2004). OCML ontologies to XML schema lowering. In: First AKT Workshop on Semantic Web Services (AKT-SWS04), 8 Dec 2004, Milton Keynes, UK.

Vlad Tanasescu, William Mackaness, Stephen Cairns, Ray Lucas (2009). Cultures of Legibility Web Map. Ordnance Survey Geospatial Mashup Challenge – GISRUK 2009.

Tanasescu, V., Gugliotta, A., Domingue, J., Gutiérrez Villarías, L., Davies, R., Rowlatt, M., Richardson, M., Stinčić, S., (2006) Presentation of eMerges. Semantic Web Challenge, The 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC06), Athens, Georgia, USA.

Vlad Tanasescu, John Domingue (2006) Presentation of a Semantic Google Maps Based Emergency Management Graphical User Interface. 2nd Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web, Colocated with ESWC 2006, Budva, Montenegro.

Vlad Tanasescu (1999). Hana-bi, violente solitude. Hors-champ, revue Suisse de Cinéma no 4.

Presentation of eMerges at the AKT Project final review in Southampton, UK.

Fifth European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW-2007) held in Cercedilla, Spain.

European GeoInformatics Workshop, e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, UK.

GIScience 2006 Conference, Munster, Germany.

Vespucci Summer Institute on GI Science 2006, Fiesole, Italy.

Presentation to Open University Malaysia (OUM) representants during their European tour.

WWW2008 Conference Student Travel Award (out of 15).

Prize for the mini project on "the tagging of tags" at the Semantic Web Summer school held in Cercedilla, Spain. The mini project was extended and presented as a workshop paper at ESOE 2007.

COSIT'07 Conference PSMA Australia Limited Student Travel Award (out of 5)

Finalist at the Semantic Web Challenge, collocated with the International Semantic Web Conference 2006 (ISWC'06), Athens, GA, USA.

Winner of the Semantic Scripting Challenge of the 2nd Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web, collocated with ESWC 2006.

Honourable Mention, for the paper, the quality of presentation, and progress made in a short time at the 2nd AKT Doctoral Symposium, Aberdeen University, UK, 23 January 2006.

Open University Student scholarship to attend the Vespucci Summer Institute.

Third International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services (GEOProcessing 2011) [Technical PC]

Journal of Web Semantics [Review]

Journal of Selected Topics in Earth Observations and Remote Sensing [Review]

International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) [Metadata Committee]

Extended Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) [Systems Demos and Posters Committee]

Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web (SFSW) [PC]

International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS) [PC]

International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Web Services (GEOWS) [Publicity Chair & PC]

International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW) [PC]

International Workshop on the Role of Services, Ontologies, and Context in Mobile Environments (RoSOC) [PC]

Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web (SFSW) [PC]

International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW) [PC]

International Workshop on the Role of Services, Ontologies, and Context in Mobile Environments (RoSOC) [PC]

Web Services and the Semantic Grid (WSSG) [PC]

Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web (SFSW) [PC]

Mobile Services-oriented Architectures and Ontologies (MoSO) [PC]

International Workshop on the Role of Services, Ontologies, and Context in Mobile Environments (RoSOC) [PC]

Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web (SFSW) [PC]

International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW) [PC]

Mobile Services-oriented Architectures and Ontologies (MoSO) [PC]

Co-organized the Open-University filmmaking challenge

Open University Student Association Representative (Research Students)

Animation of seminars for the Open University Participatory Video Research Circle

Internal Seminars Coordinator, Knowledge Media Institute

Developed a social network website, The Slog, allowing cross-world blogging for Schome, a Second Life based education research effort

Secretary of the Society of Open University Potholing Club

Treasurer of the Open University Martial Arts Club

Treasurer of the Edinburgh Stammering Association

Chair of the Edinburgh Stammering Association