nl’s weblog

Since (recently after) I moved the blog I put online my FOAF file. Still needs further improvements

The blog is also exporting SIOC data due to the WordPress SIOC plugin. You can browse the data for instance here. The Semantic Radar plugin for Firefox is also a great tool to view semantic data on the web. Any other tools?

My blog was moved to another server. The new URL is http://nunolopes.org/blog.

I will set up a redirect for your old feeds but you might also want to update to this url: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/nunolopes.

New website is now online.
Check out the Language Specification and the demo.

Due to the “high” number of posts I hadn’t noticed that the feed URL does not get redirected! So I ask you to update your feeds to this one (which I think is correct): http://nunolopes.org/feed/

May 2009 be a better (or even better) year for all of you!

Happy 2009

I’m very pleased to announce 2 papers accepted for publication. One journal paper related to my Master’s research and a workshop paper of some new work under research:

• Nuno Lopes, Cláudio Fernandes and Salvador Abreu, Representing and Querying Multiple Ontologies with Contextual Logic Programming, ComSIS – Computer Science and Information Systems, Special Issue on Compilers, Related Technologies and Applications, Volume 5, Number 2, December 2008, Accepted for publication.
• Philipp Karger, Nuno Lopes, Axel Polleres and Daniel Olmedilla, Towards Logic Programs with Ordered and Unordered Disjunction, ASPOCP 2008 – Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms, Accepted for publication

Today I got a nice suggestion from google reader: subscribe to the Planet Emacsen feed.

By reading some of the posts I got some nice tips about things I did not know:

• Query Replace points you some interesting options of query-replace (‘,’ to replace and stay in the same place, C-r to enter “Recursive Edit” which allows to edit the replacement for this entry only and, C-M-c to return to the replacement from “Recursive Edit”
• iswitchb is a different way to switch buffers
• savehist-mode saves your history between sessions (a nice complement to desktop-mode)

Back to Galway from Venice. Among some good presentations (and others not so good ) there was a very interesting talk from Umberto Straccia entitled
“Managing Uncertainty and Vagueness in Description Logics, Logic Programs and Description Logic Programs” (pdf).

A interesting research topic seems to be Fuzzy and/or Probabilistic RDF. Fuzzy RDF seems to be a good place to start which means somebody is going to be contacted very soon

Just a quick hello from venice!

First of all nice bar with a nice name at Dublin Airport:

I wonder if it’s run by a Portuguese guy

Venice is what you’d expect:

Very nice! And also very nice the view from my room (although we don’t spend that much time in it with all the talks):

Well, it’s true and I have the proof:

I went swimming in Silverstrand (a beach near Galway).

I wonder why the Spanish and the Portuguese guys were the last ones in

The water was cold but the weather quite nice, everybody says it was strange