1. Semantic Web & Service Platforms Technical Club Centre for Communication Systems Research Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences University of Surrey May 2010

2. The Club Objectives  Identifying the research and innovation areas and using these technologies in the current/future research at the centre.  Brain storming, finding joint research areas, and sharing ideas.  Discussing contribution of the semantic technologies and (semantic) service platforms to the current information communication technologies.

3. Club members - introduction  S. Amir H Tabatabaei  Basil Elmasri  Ralf Kernchen  Suparna De Suparna De  Gilbert Cassar Gilbert Cassar  Yichao Jin Yichao Jin  Glenn Aliu  Tarek Elsaleh Tarek Elsaleh  Stefan Meissner  Qiwei Zhang  Alexander Gluhak  Payam Barnaghi

4. Club name

5. Activities  State-of-the-art discussion  Discussing a new paper, new project, idea for a research (short presentations by members, 10 mins)  Tutorials  Demonstration (demo of our work)  Research methodology discussion and evaluation approaches (PhD journey tips and tricks)  Social activity- teams (Ralf) ...

6. Facilities  Working groups  Wiki ...

7. Meetings Monthly meeting Occasional meetings

8. Suggestions, volunteers