Developed Technologies:

• Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera and Miklos Nagy are the authors of a system called DSSim (a variation of my similarity algorithm has been implemented in DSSim system). DSSim HAS BEEN ONE OF THE TOP SYSTEMS in the OAEI-2008 Evaluation. More information can be found at: link. DSSim obtained top places in several tracks of the OAEI-2008 Evaluation, For example, Library, Directories among others. Therefore, on the light of the DSSim performance is fair to say that DSSim has became a competitive International System for Ontology Alignment.

1. DSSim made the news headlines in October 2008. 
2. DSSim demo    (compiled on March 2011).
3. DSSim talk presented at URSW-2007, Busan, Korea; November 11 2007.

• Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera, Dr. Lucia Rapanotti, Dr. Leonor Barroca, Dr. Shailey Minocha, Prof. Darrel Ince, Graham Roberts, TwOfour, LTS, OU Library and Research School are the main creators of deep|think the OU 3D-Virtual Campus for research students (Mphil/PhD’s). This 3D-Virtual Campus was developed from May 2008 until January 2010.
  1. Virtual MPhil program of studies in Computing 
  2. Second life 3D-campus SLurl 
  3. Virtual Mphil Team 
  4. OU 3D-Virtual Campus video 
  5. OU 3D-Virtual Campus Pictures
  6. Deep|Think article in the OU Magazine OpenHouse, issue number 425, 2009.  Printed on the 24th November 2009.    read more 
  7. The 3-D Virtual Campus (Deep|Think) is currently in use with the first generation of part-time students who started on October 2009. Preliminary evalation has been carried out, however, more evaluations are planned to take place in the future.
• Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera is the main author of a system called MnM    MnM IS THE MOST WELL KNOWN SYSTEM in the Semantic Web Community. The MnM system is available as open source at http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/akt/MnM/
  Alternatively MnM page   and   released news 

InfoExtractor talk  presented at KCAP-2001, Victoria, Canada; October 2001.

MnM released in 2003 as open source

• Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera is the author of the Question Answering System called AQUA.
• Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera and Yesica Castellanos are the authors of the system   CONQUIRO: A Cluster-Based  Information Retrieval Meta-search Engine.
• Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera and David Celjuska are the authors of the system   Ontosophie (Semi-Atomatic Construction of Ontologies from Text).
• Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera and Emanuela Moreale are the authors of the system   SVE (Student Essay Viewer).
• Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera is the author of   Fril++ Interpreter (first version).
• Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera is the author of the system   A Composition System for Logic Programs.
• Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera is the author of a   Prolog interpreter (a Copy Structure-Based Prolog Interpreter).
• Dr. Maria Vargas-Vera is the author of   SISMAP: An Intelligent System for Creation, Manipulation, Storage and Automatic Validation of Capture Forms.