Abstract:

I am group leader at Digital Enterprise Research Institut - DERI and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Research unit - CIMRU. I hold a PhD in Industrial Engineering and engineer diploma in Industrial Robotics.I have a keen interest in decision automation, applied IT research and mathematical modelling for B2B and other industrial applications.

Applied Research Products:

MAARS: Mutual Fund portfolio Construction - a M2MN project result

MAARS: Fund Selection - a M2MN project result

Research involvement:

Research topics:

• Automated business negotiation (machine 2 machine negotiation) for financial applications, procurement, energy and betting
• Semantic Web Services, B2B, e-Commerce, Extended Enterprises / Virtual Enterprises

Research projects involvement:

• SUPER # Business Process Management applications with semantic web services (EU project)
• M2MN # Machine to Machine business Negotiation (Enterprise Ireland funded project)
• TRIPCOM # triple space computing combined with semantic web services (EU project)
• SWING # geospatial application of semantic web services (EU project)
• EastWeb # Building and Integrated Leading Euro-Asian Higher Education and Research Community in the Semantic Web field
• DIP - Data, Information and Process Integration with Semantic Web Services
• MOMENT
• MOTTO

Research interests:

• Decision Automation
• Machine to Machine negotiation
• Mobile and Humanoid Robotics
• Semantic Web Services (SWS) for industry
• Business to business (B2B)

Research Activity :

03/2009 Paper: Paraschiv Daniel, Raghav Srinivas, Laurentiu Vasiliu: Algorithmic Trading with Human Agents and Computer Agents in an Artificial Stock Market, 15th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Sydney, Australia, 2009

11/2008 Paper: ZhangBing Zhou, Brahmananda Sapkota, Emilia Cimpian, Doug Foxvog, Laurentiu Vasiliu, Manfred Hauswirth, Peng Yu: Process Mediation Based on Triple Space Computing. APWeb 2008: 672-683

09/2008 Paper: Mihai Andrei, Arne-Jørgen Berre, Luis Costa, Philippe Duchesne, Daniel Fitzner, Miha Grcar, Jörg Hoffmann, Eva Klien, Joel Langlois, Andreas Limyr, Patrick Maué, Sven Schade, Nathalie Steinmetz, Francois Tertre, Laurentiu Vasiliu, Raluca Zaharia, Nicolas Zastavni: SWING: An Integrated Environment for Geospatial Semantic Web Services. ESWC 2008: 767-771

10/2008 Paper: ZhangBing Zhou, Ke Ning, Sami Bhiri, Laurentiu Vasiliu, Lei Shu, Manfred Hauswirth: Behavioral analysis of web services for supporting mediated service interoperations. ICEC 2008: 34

08/2008 Paper: ZhangBing Zhou, Sami Bhiri, Walid Gaaloul, Lei Shu, Laurentiu Vasiliu, Manfred Hauswirth: Developing Process Mediator for Web Service Interactions. ICWS 2008: 828-829

07/2008 Paper: Daniel Paraschiv, Srinivas Raghavendra, Laurentiu Vasiliu: Algorithmic Trading on an Artificial Stock Market. IDC 2008: 281-286

06/2008 Paper: ZhangBing Zhou, Sami Bhiri, Lei Shu, Kaizhu Huang, Laurentiu Vasiliu, Manfred Hauswirth: A Scenario-View Based Approach to Analyze External Behavior of Web Services for Supporting Mediated Service Interactions. IEEE SCC (2) 2008: 249-256

04/2008 Paper: Raluca Zaharia, Laurentiu Vasiliu, Costin Badica: Semi-automatic Composition of Geospatial Web Services Using JBoss Rules. RuleML 2008: 166-173

03/2008 Journal Paper: Laurentiu Vasiliu, Harinder Jagdev, Michal Zaremba, Jim Browne: A Semantic Web Service Environment for B2B and B2C auction applications within Extended and Virtual Enterprises, Computer in Industries Journal, UK

02/2008 Patent Filed: Laurentiu Vasiliu, Will Fleury, Ilko Grigorov, Daniel Paraschiv: System And Method For Auction Negotiation, Irish Patent Application No. S2008/0098, Patent Office, Dublin, Ireland.

02/2008 Demo: Raluca Zaharia, Laurentiu Vasiliu: SWING: An Integrated Environment for Geospatial Semantic Web Services, 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 08), Tenerife, Spain, 2008

08/2007 Paper: Brahmananda Sapkota, Sanaullah Nazir, Tomas Vitvar, Ioan Toma, Laurentiu Vasiliu, Manfred Hauswirth: Semantic Overlay for Scalable Service Discovery, Proceedings of CollaborateCom, New York, USA

05/2007 Paper: Zhou Zhang Bing, Laurentiu Vasiliu: Better Behavioural Description for Dynamic Semantic Web Services Collaboration, 3rd International conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG 2007), Xi'an, China, 2007

03/2007 Paper: Amit Goyal, Laurentiu Vasiliu: A Markov Logic Network Learning Algorithm for Relational Missing Data, IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, Beijing, China

11/2006 Paper: Amit Goyal, Laurentiu Vasiliu, Brahmananda Sapkota: Use of AI in Query Optimization of Relational Databases, 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 06), Washington, USA.

04/2006 Talk: Semantic Web Services Applications for Robots, ETRI Institute, South Korea.  

04/2006 Paper: Laurentiu Vasiliu, Hong-Gee Kim: Semantic Web Services Driven Application on Humanoid Robots, 2nd International Workshop on Collaborative Computing, Integration, and Assurance (WCCIA), Gyeongju, South Korea.

11/2005 Paper: Brahmanada Sapkota, Laurentiu Vasiliu, Ioan Toma, Dumitru Roman, Christoph Bussler: Peer-to-Peer technology usage in Web Service Discovery and Matchmaking, 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2005), New York, USA.

11//2004 Tutorial: Katia Sycara, Christoph Bussler, Laurentiu Vasiliu: Semantic Web Services Tutorial, Hiroshima, Japan - 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004).

07/2004 Paper: Laurentiu Vasiliu, Michal Zaremba, Matthew Moran, Christoph Bussler, Jim Browne: Web-service semantic enabled implementation of Machine vs. Machine business negotiation, International Conference on Web Services 2004 (ICWS04)”San Diego-California, USA .

06/2003 Paper: Laurentiu Vasiliu, Jim Browne: An integrated modelling approach of the Extended Enterprise, 9th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising on Enterprise Engineering in the Networked Economy, Espoo–Helsinki, Finland.

05/2003 Paper: Laurentiu Vasiliu, Jim Browne: Modelling negotiation in Extended Enterprises, International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Production Management ,Porto, Portugal.

08/2002 Paper: Laurentiu Vasiliu, Jijiang Wang: An Integrated model for developing e-business, e2002 e-Business and e-Work Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.

10/1996 Paper: Laurentiu Vasiliu, Paun Antonescu: Model of Bio mechanism for the five-finger hand with possibility of application in the medical field, 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing SystemsBucharest, Romania.

Involvement in Conferences:

• Industrial Track Chair, Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 08), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Pathumthani, Thailand, December, 2008
• Committe member: Mobile Agents and Systems (MAS), ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008)Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil 2008
• Committe member:International Symposium on Intelligent and Distributed Computing - IDC'2007, October 2007, Craiova, Romania
• Committe member:Special Issue on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems, Multiagent and Grid Systems (MAGS), An International Journal of IOS Press, June, 2007
• Committe member:1st European Semantic Technology Conference, workshop on Space Based Computing as Semantic Middleware for Enterprise Application Integration, June 2007, Vienna, Austria
• Committe member:Multi-agents Systems in E-Business: Concepts, technologies and applications, December 2006, Hong-Kong, China.
• Committe member:International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems, ESAS 2006, September 2006, Chicago, USA
• Committe member:International Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology, 2006 Bucharest, Romania
• Committe member:International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2006, 'Reactivity on the Web' Workshop, 2006, Munich, Germany
• Committe member:7th International IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology 2005, July 19-22, 2005, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany.
• Committe member:14th International World Wide Web conference (WWW2005) - Web Services Semantics Workshop - Towards Dynamic Business Integration, May 2005, Chiba, Japan.
• Committe member:ICSOC04 - 2nd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, New York City,November 15-18, 2004, USA.
• Committe member:Net.ObjectDays2004: Konferenzen für objektorientierte und Internet-basierte Technologien, Konzepte und Anwendungen, (international conferences on object-oriented and internet-based technologies, concepts, and applications) 27 - 30 Sptember 2004, Erfurt, Germany.
• Committe member:AIMSA 2004 - The Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications- Semantic Web Challenges , 2 - 4 September 2004, Varna, Bulgaria.
• Reviewer: CAiSE2004 - Enterprise modelling and Ontologies for Interoperability, 7-8 June 2004, Riga, Latvia.

Education:

09/2000 – 04/2004 National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, Ph.D, Industrial Engineering
PhD thesis: Modelling Negotiation in Extended Enterprise
Committee: Prof. Dr. Jim Browne ( NUIG, Ireland), Prof. Dr. Harinder Jagdev (UMIST, Manchester, UK)

10/1997 - 07/1998 Bucharest Politechnic University, Romania, Postgraduate Studies - Computer integrated manufacturing. Dissertation subject: Industrial benchmarking in automotive industry.

10/1992 - 07/1997 Bucharest Polytechnic University / Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti, Romania, Engineer Diploma in industrial robotics.

09/1988-07/1992 National College “ Sf. Sava”, Bucharest/ Colegiul National "Sf. Sava"- Baccalaureate (Leaving certificate)

			Last update: March 5th, 2009