- Academic Profile -

Anton Deik

Research Assistant, Sina Institute, BZU
ICT Support Engineer (Volunteer), M/V Logos Hope, GBA Ships

anton (dot) deik (at) gmail (dot) com

Permanent Address: 80 Beit Sahour St., PO Box 811, Bethlehem, Palestine
Mailing Address: Logos Hope, Alte Neckarelzer Str. 2, 74821 Mosbach, Germany
Telephone: +1 954 518 7256 (US), +44 1228 815 299 (UK), Office Ext: 9504
LinkedIn: (www.linkedin.com/in/antondeik)

IT Research Interest

Ontology: Logical Foundations, Engineering and Modeling Methodologies.
Database: Graph Databases, Query Optimization.
Web: Semantic Web (Web 3.0), Linked Data, RDF, SPARQL.
Application Areas: Data Integration, e-Government, Interoperability.

Projects

MashQL: A novel approach for querying the Data Web (sites.birzeit.edu/comp/mashql)
Involvement in the project: Research, building prototypes, writing and publishing the original contributions of the project.

Zinnar: The Palestinian Interoperability Framework (zinnar.pna.ps)
Involvement in the project: Worked on the development of the Framework in addition to writing and publishing the original contributions of the project.

PalGov - e-Government Lifelong Learning Consortium (EU TEMPUS Funded) (egovacademy.ps)
Involvement in the project: Assisted in developing course materials and tutorials.

SIERA - Integrating Sina Institute into the European Research Area (FP7 Funded) (sina.birzeit.edu/SIERA)
Involvement in the project: Closely assisted in designing and writing the proposal of this project throughout all of its phases.

The ORM/OWL2 Research Project: Developing an ORM-based Graphical Notation for Authoring OWL 2 Ontologies.
Involvement in the project: Assisted in research and in writing a scientific article and submitting it to publication.

Research Community Activities

ISWSA'11 - The International Conference on Intelligent Semantic Web - Services and Applications, Amman, Jordan, 2011
Activities (PC Member): Paper Review, Call Dissemination.

IJKL- International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, Special Issue on Knowledge Management and e-Human Resources Practices for Innovation.
Activities: Paper Review; Assisted editor in assigning authors, correspondences, and paper acceptance/rejection decisions.

Work Experience

January 2012 - Present	M/V Logos Hope, GBA Ships Position: Crew Member (Volunteer) - ICT Support Engineer
June 2010 - Present	Sina Institute, Birzeit University Position: Research Assistant
June 2010 - Sep 2011	Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Technology - Palestine Position: E-government Interoperability Engineer

Education

2005-2010	Bachelor Degree in Computer Systems Engineering Birzeit University, Palestine Thesis Project: Querying the Data Web Supervisor: Dr. Mustafa Jarrar Jury - 1st Discussion: Prof. Adnan Yahya (BZU Vice President for Academic Affairs), Dr. Yousef Hassouneh, Dr. Amneh Elyan Jury - 2nd Discussion: Dr. Safa Nasser Eldin (Palestinian Minister of Telecom and IT), Dr. Amneh Elyan, Mr. Majed Ayyad
2000-2005	Secondary School Certificate (Tawjihi) Dar Al-Kalima Lutheran School, Palestine

Conference Participation

June 2010	Speaker	ISWSA'10 - The International Conference on Intelligent Semantic Web - Services and Applications, held in Isra University, Amman, Jordan. Article Title: "Towards Query Optimization for the Data Web - Disk Based Algorithms: Trace Equivalence and Bisimilarity".
March 2010	Speaker	PICCIT'10 - The 3rd Palestinian International Conference on Computer and IT, held in Palestine Polytechnic University, Hebron, Palestine. Article Title: "Towards Query Optimization for the Data Web".

Refereed Publications

Mustafa Jarrar, Rami Hodrob, Anton Deik: An ORM-based Graphical Notation for Authoring OWL 2 Ontologies. Elsevier Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal. (Submitted).
Mustafa Jarrar, Anton Deik, Bilal Faraj: Ontology-based Data and Process Governance Framework -The Case of e-Government Interoperability in Palestine. In pre-proceedings of the IFIP International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA'11). Pages(83-98). ISBN 978-88-903120-2-1. Campione, Italy. June 30, 2011.
Ala Hawash, Anton Deik, and Mustafa Jarrar: Towards Query Optimization for the Data Web - Disk Based Algorithms: Trace Equivalence and Bisimilarity. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Semantic Web - Services and Applications (ISWSA'10). Pages 131-137. ACM. ISBN 9781450304757. Amman, Jordan. June 2010.
Anton Deik, Bilal Faraj, Ala Hawash, Mustafa Jarrar: Towards Query Optimization for the Data Web. In proceedings of the 3rd Palestinian International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (PICCIT 2010). Hebron, Palestine. March 2010.