Tomas Vitvar is a senior researcher with the Semantic Technology Institute in Austria where he leads the Service Web Intelligence group. He has over ten years of industrial and research experience gained while working as a software developer, IT architect, systems analyst, researcher and a lecturer. His professional interests are in distributed systems and applications including service-oriented computing, web services and enterprise computing. In a number of international R&D projects, he works as the technical leader and the architect and he contributes to the standardization in the W3C and OASIS. Tomas is a member of IEEE and he holds a PhD and a MSc degrees in Computer Science from the Czech Technical University, Departments of Informatics, Telecommunications and Systems Engineering.

Research and Development Focus

• Service-Oriented Computing represents a distinct approach for analysis, design, and implementation which further introduces aspects of communication, architecture, and processing logic. The research lies in definition of new methods, tools and algorithms that can improve integration and interoperation of services.
• Semantic Web Services aim at rich and formal description of information and behavioral models enabling automation of various tasks within service provisioning process by means of logical reasoning.
• Enterprise Computing with focus on integration of business information systems within intra- and inter-enterprise settings. The goal is to enable more flexible integration that is more adaptive to changes that might occur over a software system's lifetime.