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Antoine Zimmermann
ISCOD/LSTI - Institut Henri Fayol
École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne
158 cours Fauriel
42023 Saint-Étienne Cedex 2
France
+33(0)4 77 42 66 03
+33(0)4 77 42 66 66
Antoine.Zimmermann@emse.fr

Research

I am doctor of computer science of Grenoble University. I work at École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne in Institut Henri Fayol, ISCOD team, led by Olivier Boissier. I am also teaching at ENSMSE.

Domains of study

• Knowledge representation
• Semantic Web
• Linked Data / Web of Data
• Ontology alignment
• Networked knowledge, distributed reasoning, distributed querying, reasoning with heterogeneous knowledge
• Quality of data and of ontologies in the Web of Data
• Ontology alignment algebra
• Ontology modularisation

Projects and responsibilities

• Metadata co-chair for the WWW'2012 Conference. See also the call for applications for the WWW2012 Metadata Challenge.
• Co-chair of WG1 on Semantics in COST Action IC0801 on Agreement Technologies
• Metadata co-chair at WWW 2012.
• Member of the new W3C RDF Working Group.
• Programme committee member at ISWC 2012 and ESWC 2012, and many others before.
• Pedantic Web group.

Publications

My Erdös number is at most (and most likely equals to) 4.

Journal

• Aidan Hogan, Antoine Zimmermann, Jürgen Umbrich, Axel Polleres, Scalable and Distributed Methods for Entity Matching, Consolidation and Disambiguation over Linked Data Corpora, in Journal of Web Semantics, special issue on Web-scale Semantic Information Processing, Elsevier, vol.10, p76-110, 2012. ,
• Antoine Zimmermann, Nuno Lopes, Axel Polleres, Umberto Straccia, A General Framework for Representing, Reasoning and Querying with Annotated Semantic Web Data, in Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier, vol.11, p72-95, 2012. ,

Book chapters

• Ratnesh Sahay, Antoine Zimmermann, Ronan Fox, Axel Polleres and Manfred Hauswirth, A Formal Investigation of Semantic Interoperability of HCLS Systems, in Miguel-Angel Sicilia, Pablo Serrano-Balazote (Eds.): Interoperability in Healthcare Information Systems: Standards, Management, and Technology. IGI Global, to appear in 2011 (hopefully).
• Sébastien Laborie and Antoine Zimmermann, On Using Information Retrieval Techniques for Semantic Media Adaptation, in Marios C. Angelides (Ed.): Advances in Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization, Volume 2. Auerbach Publications, ISBN 978-1420076646. March 2009.

International conferences

• Anca Dumitrache, Alessandra Mileo, Antoine Zimmermann, Axel Polleres, Philipp Obermeir, Owen Friel, Enabling Privacy-Preserving Semantic Presence in Instant Messaging Systems, in Michael Beigl, Henning Christiansen, Thomas Roth-Berghofer, Anders Kofod-Petersen, Kenny R. Coventry and Hedda Rahel Schmidtke (Eds.): Modeling and Using Context - 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 26-30, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 6967 Springer 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-24278-6. p82-96. AR: 33%. ,
• Ratnesh Sahay, Ronan Fox, Antoine Zimmermann, Axel Polleres and Manfred Hauswirth, A Methodological Approach for Ontologising and Aligning Health Level Seven (HL7) Applications, in A Min Tjoa, Gerald Quirchmayr, Ilsun You and Lida Xu (Eds.): Availability, Reliability and Security for Business, Enterprise and Health Information Systems - IFIP WG 8.4/8.9 International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop, ARES 2011, Vienna, Austria, August 22-26, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 6908 Springer 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-23299-2. p102-117. ,
• Nuno Lopes, Axel Polleres, Umberto Straccia and Antoine Zimmermann, AnQL: SPARQLing up annotated RDF, in Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Yue Pan, Pascal Hitzler, Peter Mika, Lei Zhang, Jeff Z. Pan, Ian Horrocks, Birte Glimm (Eds.): The Semantic Web - ISWC 2010 - 9th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2010, Shanghai, China, November 7-11, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol.6496 Springer 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-17745-3. p518-533. AR: 22%. ,
• Chan Le Duc, Myriam Lamolle and Antoine Zimmermann, An API for Distributed Reasoning on Networked Ontologies with Alignments, in Joaquim Filipe, Jan L. G. Dietz (Eds.): KEOD 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, Valencia, Spain, October 25-28, 2010. SciTePress 2010, ISBN 978-989-8425-29-4. p295-304. ,
• Manfred Hauswirth, Jérôme Euzenat, Owen Friel, Keith Griffin, Pat Hession, Brendan Jennings, Tudor Groza, Siegfried Handschuh, Ivana Podnar Zarko, Axel Polleres and Antoine Zimmermann, Towards Consolidated Presence, in: The 6th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2010, Chicago, IL, USA, 9-12 October 2010, IEEE 2010, ISBN 978-963-9995-24-6. p1-10. ,
• Alexandre Passant, Antoine Zimmermann, Jodi Schneider and John Breslin, A semantic framework for modelling quotes in email conversations, in Ayman Alnsour, Shadi Aljawarneh (Eds.): Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Intelligent Semantic Web-Services and Applications, ISWSA 2010, Amman, Jordan, June 14-16, 2010. ACM 2010, ISBN 978-1-4503-0475-7. ,
• Antoine Zimmermann, Ratnesh Sahay, Ronan Fox and Axel Polleres, Heterogeneity and Context in Semantic-Web-Enabled HCLS Systems, in Robert Meersman, Tharam Dillon, Pilar Herrero (Eds.): On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009 - Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, IS, and ODBASE 2009, Vilamoura, Portugal, November 1-6, 2009, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 5871 Springer 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-05150-0. p1165-1182. AR: 25% for full papers (49% including short papers and posters). ,
• Antoine Zimmermann and Chan Le Duc, Reasoning with a Network of Aligned Ontologies, in Diego Calvanese and Georg Lausen (Eds.): Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, Second International Conference, RR 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, October/November 2008, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 5341 Springer 2008, ISBN 3-540-88736-9. p43-57. AR: 34% for full papers (60% including short papers and posters). ,
• Faisal Alkhateeb and Antoine Zimmermann, Query Answering in Distributed Description Logics, in Houda Labiod and Mohamad Badra (Eds.): New Technologies, Mobility and Security, Proceedings of NTMS'2007 Conference. Springer 2007, ISBN 978-1-4020-6269-8. p523-534. AR: 48%. ,
• Jason J. Jung, Antoine Zimmermann and Jérôme Euzenat, Concept-based Query Transformation Based on Semantic Centrality in Semantic Peer-to-Peer Environment, in Kevin C. Chang, Wei Wang, Lei Chen, Clarence A. Ellis, Ching-Hsien Hsu, Ah Chung Tsoi, Haixun Wang, Xuemin Lin, Yun Yang, Jeffrey Xu, (Eds.): Advances in Web and Network Technologies, and Information Management, APWeb/WAIM 2007 International Workshops: DBMAN 2007, WebETrends 2007, PAIS 2007 and ASWAN 2007, Huang Shan, China, June 16-18, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 4537 Springer 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-72908-2. p622-629. AR: 16%. ,
• Antoine Zimmermann, Markus Krötzsch, Jérôme Euzenat and Pascal Hitzler, Formalizing Ontology Alignment and its Operations with Category Theory, in Brandon Bennett, Christiane D. Fellbaum (Eds.): International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2006), Baltimore, Maryland (USA), November 9-11, 2006. IOS Press, Amsterdam (NL), ISBN 1-58603-685-8. p277-288. ,
• Antoine Zimmermann and Jérôme Euzenat, Three Semantics for Distributed Systems and their Relations with Alignment Composition, in Isabel F. Cruz, Stefan Decker, Dean Allemang, Chris Preist, Daniel Schwabe, Peter Mika, Michael Uschold, Lora Aroyo (Eds.): The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006, 5th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2006, Athens, GA, USA, November 5-9, 2006, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 4273 Springer 2006, ISBN 3-540-49029-9. p16-29. AR: 24%. ,

International workshops

• Antoine Zimmermann, Leveraging the Linked Data Principles for Electronic Communications, in Romain Vuillemot, Gaëlle Recourcé and Philippe Gilbert (Eds.): First International Workshop on Next Trends in Email (NextMail'11). August 2011. ,
• Nuno Lopes, Antoine Zimmermann, Aidan Hogan, Gergely Lukácsy, Axel Polleres, Umberto Straccia and Stefan Decker, RDF Needs Annotations, to appear in RDF Next Steps. June 2010. AR: 87%. ,
• Aidan Hogan, Axel Polleres, Jürgen Umbrich and Antoine Zimmermann, Some entities are more equal than others: statistical methods to consolidate Linked Data, to appear in Proceedings of the Workshop on New Forms of Reasoning for the Semantic Web: Scalable & Dynamic. May 2010. ,
• Antoine Zimmermann, Position paper: Ontology Recommendation for the Data Publishers, to appear in Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web. May 2010. ,
• Camila Bezerra, Fred Freitas, Jérôme Euzenat and Antoine Zimmermann, An Approach for Ontology Modularization, in Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navaux (Ed.): Proceedings of Colibri - Colloquium of Computation: Brazil / INRIA, Cooperations, Advances and Challenges. July 2009. ,
• Camila Bezerra, Fred Freitas, Jérôme Euzenat and Antoine Zimmermann, ModOnto: A tool for modularizing ontologies, in Fred Freitas, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Sofia Pinto, Andreia Malucelli, Oscar Corcho (Eds.): Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Ontologies and their Applications, WONTO 2008. ,
• Sébastien Laborie and Antoine Zimmermann, A Framework for Media Adaptation Using the Web and the Semantic Web, in Phivos Mylonas, Manolis Wallace, Marios Angelides (Eds.): Second International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization, SMAP 2007, London, United Kingdom, December 17-18, 2007. IEEE Computer Society (CA, USA), ISBN 0-7695-3040-0. p32-37. AR: 63%. Best Paper Award. ,
• Jérôme Euzenat, Antoine Zimmermann and Fred Freitas, Alignment-based modules for encapsulating ontologies, in Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, Vasant Honavar, Anne Schlicht, Frank Wolter (Eds.): Second International Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO 2007), October 28, 2007, Whistler, British Columbia Canada. p32-45. ,
• Antoine Zimmermann, Integrated Distributed Description Logics, in Diego Calvanese, Enrico Franconi, Volker Haarslev, Domenico Lembo, Boris Motik, Sergio Tessaris, Anni-Yasmin Turhan (Eds.): Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Description Logics DL 2007, June 8-10, 2007, Brixen-Bressanone, Italy. Bozen-Bolzano University Press, ISBN 978-88-6046-008-5. p507-514. ,

Domestic Conferences and Workshops

• Faisal Alkhateeb and Antoine Zimmermann, Répondre à des requêtes dans un système distribué à base de connaissances, in Yves Demazeau, Jérôme Euzenat, François Jacquenet, Laurent Vercouter (Eds.): Atelier Intelligence Artificielle et Web Intelligence, IAWI 2007, Grenoble, France, July 2, 2007. ,

Technical reports

• Nuno Lopes, Axel Polleres, Umberto Polleres and Antoine Zimmermann, A General Framework for Representing, Reasoning and Querying with Annotated Semantic Web Data, CoRR Technical Report, 2011. ,
• Giorgios Trimponias, Peter Haase, Chan Le Duc, Antoine Zimmermann and Simon Schenk, D1.4.4: Reasoning over Distributed Networked Ontologies and Data Sources, NeOn Deliverable, 2009. ,
• Mathieu d'Aquin, Peter Haase, Chan Le Duc and Antoine Zimmermann, D1.1.4: NeOn Formalism for Modularization: Implementation and Evaluation, NeOn Deliverable, 2008. ,
• Mathieu d'Aquin, Peter Haase, Sebastian Rudolph, Jérôme Euzenat, Antoine Zimmermann, Martin Dzbor, Marta Iglesias, Yves Jacques, Caterina Caracciolo, Carlos Buil Aranda and Jose Manuel Gomez, D1.1.3: NeOn Formalisms for Modularization: Syntax, Semantics, Algebra, NeOn Deliverable, 2008. ,
• Antoine Zimmermann and Chan Le Duc, Reasoning with a Network of Aligned Ontologies, INRIA research report, 2008. ,
• Jérôme Euzenat, François Scharffe and Antoine Zimmermann, D2.2.10: Expressive alignment language and implementation, Knowledge Web Deliverable, 2007. ,
• Jérôme Euzenat, Mathieu d'Aquin, Marta Sabou and Antoine Zimmermann, D3.3.1: Matching ontologies for context, NeOn Deliverable, 2007. ,
• Pascal Hitzler, Jérôme Euzenat, Markus Krötzsch, Luciano Serafini, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Holger Wache and Antoine Zimmermann, D2.2.5: Integrated view and comparison of alignment semantics, Knowledge Web Deliverable, 2005. ,

Others

• Rodolphe Héliot and Antoine Zimmermann (eds.), The Sixth Review of April Fool's day Transactions (RAFT'2011), the yearly bilingual publication on nonchalant research.
• Rodolphe Héliot and Antoine Zimmermann (eds.), The Fifth Review of April Fool's day Transactions (RAFT'2010), the yearly bilingual publication on nonchalant research.
• Rodolphe Héliot and Antoine Zimmermann (eds.), The Fourth Review of April Fool's day Transactions (RAFT'2009), the yearly bilingual publication on nonchalant research.
• Antoine Zimmermann, Sémantiques des réseaux de connaissances : gestion de l'hétérogénéité fondée sur le principe de médiation. Ph.D. thesis, Université Joseph Fourier, November 2008. ,
• Rodolphe Héliot and Antoine Zimmermann (eds.), The Third Review of April Fool's day Transactions (RAFT'2008), the yearly bilingual publication on nonchalant research.
• Rodolphe Héliot and Antoine Zimmermann (eds.), The Second Review of April Fool's day Transactions (RAFT'2007), bilingual (French-English) annual review published on the 1st of April.
• Antoine Zimmermann, Fusion de descriptions hétérogènes en RDF. Master Thesis, Université Joseph Fourier, June 2004.

Teaching

• May 2012 - June 2012: Langages et concepts de programmation objet at École des Mines de Saint-Étienne.
• Nov. 2011 - Feb. 2011: Conception de systèmes d'information at École des Mines de Saint-Étienne.
• Oct. 2011 - Nov. 2011: Langages et concepts de programmation - Structures de données et algorithmes en C at École des Mines de Saint-Étienne.
• Sep. 2011 - Oct. 2011: Langages et concepts de programmation - Introduction à la programmation en langage C at École des Mines de Saint-Étienne.
• Feb. 2011 - June 2011: Supervision of a mecatronic project at INSA de Lyon.
• Nov. 2010 - Dec. 2010: Initiation aux bases de données at INSA de Lyon.
• Oct. 2010 - June 2011: Algorithmie et programmation orientée objet at INSA de Lyon.
• Mar. - Apr. 2010: Tutorial on Description Logics and OWL at DERI, NUIG, Ireland.
• 1st Apr. 2009: Short tutorial on Description Logics at DERI, NUIG, Ireland.
• Feb. - May 2008: Tableur avec MS Excel at IUT2 de Grenoble.
• Feb. - May 2008: Bureautique avancée avec MS Access, MS Excel et MS Word at IUT2 de Grenoble.
• Sep. - Dec. 2007: Traitement de texte avec MS Word at IUT2 in Grenoble.
• Sep. - Dec. 2007: Base de données avec MS Access at IUT2 in Grenoble.
• Sep. - Dec. 2006: Algèbre et géométrie élémentaires at Université Joseph Fourier.