Research Interests

• reasoning on the Semantic Web,
• modular web rule bases,
• non-monotonic-reasoning,
• faceted metadata and semantics,
• conceptual modelling,
• contextual organization of information,
• information integration and retrieval systems for the web,
• interoperability of heterogeneous and distributed information bases,
• biomedical information systems.

Awards

• Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Scholarship (1992-1993)
• Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship Award (1991-92)
• Society of Women Engineers Fellowship Award (1989-90 and 1990-91)
• Fulbright Fellowship Award (1988-89)
• Scholarship and Award of Excellence of the National Board of Scholarships, Greece, four times recipient (1984-1988)

Participation in Research Projects

• ACGT - Advancing Clinico-Genomic Clinical Trials on Cancer: Open Grid Services for Improving Medical Knowledge Discovery, (FP6-IP-No 026996 2006-2010).
• REWERSE - Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics, (EU - IST 2004-2008).
• PROGNOCHIP - Development and Establishment of DNA Microarray Technology in Greece: Identification and Validation of Classification and Prognosis Molecular Markers for Breast Cancer, (GSRT - Op. Pr. Competitiveness 2003-2006), (Scientific Co-coordinator on behalf of the Information Systems Laboratory) .
• SHMASIA - Multilingual Semantic Lexicon for Text Retrieval and Machine Translation, (GSRT-EPET 2000-2001), (Scientific Coordinator).
• TERM-IT - Multilingual Support for Multimedia Services, (EU - DGXIII, Telematics 1998-99).
• POLEMOΝ - Coordinated Services for the Documentation, Management, and Promotion of Cultural Heritage, (GSRT-EPET 1995-97).
• AQUARELLE - Sharing Cultural Heritage through Multimedia Telematics, (EU - DGIII, ESPRIT 1996-98).
• HYPERTOUR - A Hypermedia Platform Combining an Organizational Framework and a Methodology for the Exploitation and Promotion of Tourism in Europe of 2000, (EU - DGIII, Information Technologies Programme 1995-97).

Short CV

Anastasia Analyti earned a B.S. degree in Mathematics from University of Athens, Greece and a M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University, USA. She worked as a visiting professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, and at the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete. Since 1995, she is a principal researcher at the Information Systems Lab of the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH-ICS). Her current interests include the Semantic Web, conceptual modeling, faceted metadata and semantics, rules for the Semantic Web, bio-medical ontologies and systems, contextual organization of information, contextual web-ontology languages, and integration of information. She has participated in several projects and has published over 85 papers in refereed journals and conferences.