Associate Professor

Dr. Raúl García-Castro is Assistant Professor at the Computer Science School at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain.

After three years as a software engineer, since he graduated in Computer Science (2003) he has been working at UPM in the Ontology Engineering Group in several European and Spanish research projects.

His research focuses on the benchmarking of semantic technologies, ontological engineering, and application integration. In 2008 he obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the UPM with his thesis titled “Benchmarking Semantic Web technology”, which obtained the Ph.D. Extraordinary Award at UPM. He regularly participates in standardization bodies (W3C and OASIS) and in the program committees of the conferences and workshops that are most relevant in the field and has organised several international conferences and workshops.

You can find out more about Raúl on his website: http://www.garcia-castro.com/.

Projects

In the context of his research lines, nowadays he is participating in the following research projects:

• España Virtual. (CENIT2008-1030)
• SEALS. (FP7-238975)
• mIO! (CENIT-2008-1019)
• SemSorGrid4Env. (FP7-223913)

He has also participated in the following projects, some of which have had a large impact in the aforementioned research areas:

• NeOn. (FP6-027595)
• Infraestructura tecnológica de servicios semánticos para la web semántica. (TIN2004-02660)
• Knowledge Web. Realizing the Semantic Web (FP6-507482)
• OntoGrid. Paving the Way to Knowledgeable Grid Services and Systems (FP6-511513)
• Esperonto. Application Service Provision of Semantic Annotation, Aggregation, Indexing and Routing of Textual, Multimedia, and Multilingual Web Content (IST-2001-34373)

Publications

His most relevant publications are:

• García-Castro, R. "Benchmarking Semantic Web technology". Studies on the Semantic Web vol. 3. AKA Verlag – IOS Press. ISBN: 978-3-89838-622-7. January 2010.
• García-Castro, R.; Gómez-Pérez, A. "Interoperability results for Semantic Web technologies using OWL as the interchange language". Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents in the World Wide Web. ISSN: 1570-8268. Elsevier. Editors: T. Finin, R. Mizoguchi, S. Staab. Volume 8, number 4. pp. 278-291. November 2010.
• García-Castro R.; Corcho O.; Hill C. "A Core Ontology Model for Semantic Sensor Web Infrastructures". International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems. ISSN: 1552-6283. IGI Global. Editor: A. Sheth.
• Corcho O.; García Castro R. "Five Challenges for the Semantic Sensor Web". Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability. ISSN: 1570-0844. IOS Press. Editors: P. Hitzler, K. Janowicz. Volume 1, number 1-2. pp. 121-125. December 2010.
• Compton M.; Barnaghi P.; Bermudez L.; García-Castro R., Corcho O., Cox S., Graybeal J., Hauswirth M., Henson C., Herzog A., Huang V., Janowicz K., Kelsey W.D., Le Phuoc D.; Lefort L.; Leggieri M.; Neuhaus H.; Nikolov A.; Page K.; Passant A.; Sheth A.; Taylor K. "The SSN ontology of the W3C semantic sensor network incubator group". Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents in the World Wide Web. ISSN: 1570-8268. Elsevier. Editors: T. Finin, R. Mizoguchi, S. Staab.

A complete list of publications can be found here.