Achille Zappa
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(PhD) I am a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Insight @ NUIG.
I received my BSC/MSC degree in Biomedical Engineering and my PHD in Bioengineering from the University of Genoa (Italy), my PHD project was related to Semantic Web integration, knowledge engineering and data management of Biomedical and Genomic data
My research interests include Semantic Web Technologies, Semantic Data Mashup, Linked Data, Big Data Management, Knowledge Engineering, Big Data Integration, Semantic Integration in Life Sciences & Health Care, Workflow Management, IoT Semantic Interoperability, IoT Semantic Data & Systems Integration.
I am the W3c Advisory Committee representative for Insight Centre @ NUIG. I am member of w3c groups like the HCLS IG, the Web of Things (WoT) IG and WG, the Spatial Data on the Web WG.
I work for the main Insight Linked Data Strand with the Linked Data and Semantic Web Groups and with the UIoT (Internet of Things and Stream Processing Unit) Unit, addressing collaboration with different units and involvement in various projects. In the Linked Data Foundations WP we seek to develop a general-purpose Linked Data Analytics platform, which enables (a) flexible and scalable data integration mechanisms, and (b) flexible use and reuse of data analytics components such as visualization components and analytics methods.
I have an extensive expertise of applying Semantic Web technologies and Linked Data Principles in Health Care & Life Sciences domains.
I worked also in two joint projects in collaboration with Industry Company like RTE and Fujitsu. The Fujitsu project KI2NA (Knowledge Integration 2 enable Network Applications) aims at building a platform to enable the develop of big linked data applications through a combination of Linked Data concepts and novel approaches to knowledge representation, extraction and analysis. The research project is undertaken in collaboration between Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd (Japan), Fujitsu Laboratories Europe (UK), Fujitsu Ireland and Insight at Galway.
I am member of various International Societies (W3c, ISCB, HVP, BITS, Force11, AIOTI..) with publications in impacted peer reviewed international journals and participation to international conferences and workshops.
We just successfully finished the H2020 BIG IoT Project, The objective of the BIG IoT project is to ignite vibrant Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems. Due to the fragmentation of IoT platforms, no broadly accepted professional IoT ecosystems exist. The goal of this project is to overcome these hurdles by Bridging the Interoperability Gap of the IoT and by creating marketplaces for service and application providers as well as platform operators. We address the interoperability gap by defining a generic, unified Web API for smart object platforms, called the BIG IoT API. The establishment of a marketplace where platform, application, and service providers can monetize their assets will introduce an incentive to grant access to formerly closed systems and lower market entry barriers for developers and service providers.
In the BIG IoT H2020 Project I am leading the main Tasks for development of Semantic Interoperability and Application Domain Models and I am leading the Working Package for the Dissemination and Standardization.
I am now also workng in the ACTIVAGE Project H2020; ACTIVAGE is a European Multi Centric Large Scale Pilot on Smart Living Environments. The main objective is to build the first European IoT ecosystem across 9 Deployment Sites (DS) in seven European countries, reusing and scaling up underlying open and proprietary IoT platforms, technologies and standards, and integrating new interfaces needed to provide interoperability across these heterogeneous platforms, that will enable the deployment and operation at large scale of Active & Healthy Ageing IoT based solutions and services, supporting and extending the independent living of older adults in their living environments, and responding to real needs of caregivers, service providers and public authorities. The project will deliver the ACTIVAGE IoT Ecosystem Suite (AIOTES), a set of Techniques, Tools and Methodologies for interoperability at different layers between heterogeneous IoT Platforms and an Open Framework for providing Semantic Interoperability of IoT Platforms for AHA, addressing trustworthiness, privacy, data protection and security. User-demand driven interoperable IoT-enabled Active & Healthy Ageing solutions will be deployed on top of the AIOTES in every DS, enhancing and scaling up existing services, for the promotion of independent living, the mitigation of frailty, and preservation of quality of life and autonomy. ACTIVAGE will assess the socio-economic impact, the benefits of IoT-based smart living environments in the quality of life and autonomy, and in the sustainability of the health and social care systems, demonstrating the seamless capacity of integration and interoperability of the IoT ecosystem, and validating new business, financial and organizational models for care delivery, ensuring the sustainability after the project end, and disseminating these results to a worldwide audience. The consortium comprises industries, research centres, SMEs, service providers, public authorities encompassing the whole value chain in every Deployment Site,
In the ACTIVAGE H2020 Large Scale Pilot LSP Project I am Leading the WP7 Working Package on Outreach & Ecosystem Enlargement, part of PSB steering board and manage Insight/NUIG work in Tssks 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 3.3, 7.1, 8.2.
Publications
- Journal: Briefings in Bioinformatics,Authors
Md Rezaul Karim, Oya Beyan, Achille Zappa, Ivan G Costa, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Michael Cochez, Stefan Decker
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2020Refereed Review Article - Journal: Ieee Pervasive Computing, 2018,Authors
Arne Bröring, Andreas Ziller, Victor Charpenay, Stefan Schmid, Aparna Thuluva, Darko Anicic, Achille Zappa, Mari Paz Linares, Lars Møller Mikkelsen, Christian Seidel
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2018Refereed Original Article - Conference Name: European Semantic Web Conference ESWC 2018 ,Authors
Victor Charpenay, Hoan Nguyen, Mohamad Ibrahim, Achille Zappa, Arne Bröring
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: The Semantic Web: ESWC 2018 Satellite Events. ESWC 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11155. Springer, Cham, Date: 2018Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Authors
Arne Bröring, Achille Zappa, Ovidiu Vermesan, Arkady Zaslavsky, Regel Gonzalez-Usach, Pawel Szmeja, Carlos Palau, Michael Jacoby, Ivana Podnar Zarko, Sergios Soursos, Corinna Schmitt, Marcin Plociennik, Srdjan Krco, Stylianos Georgoulas, Iker Larizgoitia, Nenad Gligoric, Raúl García-Castro, Fernando Serena, Viktor Oravec, Raffaele Giaffreda, Csaba Kiraly
Publication DetailsType:Date: 2018Book - Journal: CoRR Cornell University,Authors
Md Karim, Michael Cochez, Oya Deniz Beyan, Achille Zappa, Ratnesh Sahay, Stefan Decker, Dietrich-Rebholz Schuhmann
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2018Refereed Original Article - Journal: Journal of Biomedical Semantics,Authors
Alok kumar, Yasar Khan, Muntazir Mehdi, Rezaul Karim, Qaiser Mehmood, Achille Zappa, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Ratnesh Sahay
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2017Refereed Original Article - Conference Name: Semantic Web solutions for large-scale biomedical data analytics (SeWeBMeDA) ,Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: ESWC'2017, Date: 2017Location: Slovenia,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Improving data workflow systems with cloud services and use of open data for bioinformatics researchJournal: Briefings in Bioinformatics,Authors
Rezaul Karim, Audrey Michel, Achille Zappa, Pavel Baranov, Ratnesh Sahay, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2017Refereed Original Article - Conference Name: InterOSS-IoT 2016: Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things. InterOSS-IoT 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10218. Springer, Cham, Date: 2017Location: Germany,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things. InterOSS-IoT 2016 ,Authors
Stefan Schmid, Arne Bröring, Denis Kramer, Sebastian Käbisch, Achille Zappa, Martin Lorenz, Yong Wang, Andreas Rausch, Luca Gioppo
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things. InterOSS-IoT 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10218. Springer, Cham, Date: 2017Location: Germany,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Conference Name: International Conference of Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) - 2015, Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) ,Authors
Alokkumar Jha, Yasar Khan, Muntazir Mehdi, Aftab Iqbal, Achille Zappa, Ratnesh Sahay, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
Publication DetailsType:Date: 2015Location: United Kingdom (excluding Northern Ireland),Edited Conf./Meeting Proceeding
Presentations
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Achille ZappaEvent: CWSI 2019, Date: 22/10/2019Event Type: WorkshopPresentation Type: Oral Presentation
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Achille ZappaEvent: Internet of Things School 2019, Venue: DCU Alpha DublinDate: 30/09/2019Event Type: Invited SeminarPresentation Type: Invited speaker
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Achille ZappaEvent: Internet of Things School 2019, Venue: DCU Alpha DublinDate: 30/09/2019Event Type: SeminarPresentation Type: Invited speaker
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Achille ZappaEvent: U4IoT Sustainability Models for LSP’s at IoT Week 2019, Date: 20/06/2019Event Type: WorkshopPresentation Type: Invited speaker
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Achille ZappaEvent: LSP Activity Group 01 Workshop: Large Scale Pilots exploitation, Venue: Iot Week 2019Date: 20/06/2019Event Type: WorkshopPresentation Type: Oral Presentation
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Achille ZappaEvent: Open IoT Summer School 2018, Date: 25/09/2018Event Type: SeminarPresentation Type: Invited speaker
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Achille ZappaNon-Insight Researchers: Stefan Schmid, Arne Bröring, Denis Kramer, Sebastian Käbisch, Martin Lorenz, Yong Wang, Andreas Rausch, Luca GioppoEvent: InterOSS-IoT Workshop, Venue: StutgartDate: 07/11/2016Event Type: WorkshopPresentation Type: Paper
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Achille Zappa, Aqeel Kazmi, Martin Serrano, Zeeshan JanEvent: InterOSS-IoT Workshop, Venue: StutgartDate: 07/11/2016Event Type: WorkshopPresentation Type: Paper
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Achille ZappaOrganising Body: Insight, Event: Open Internet of Things Summer School, Venue: GalwayDate: 07/09/2016Event Type: SeminarPresentation Type: Invited speaker
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Achille ZappaEvent: CONNECTED CONFERENCE 2016, Venue: ParisDate: 26/05/2016Event Type: ConferencePresentation Type: Poster
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Achille ZappaOrganising Body: European Commission, Event: Net Futures 2016, Venue: BrusselsDate: 21/04/2016Event Type: ConferencePresentation Type: Oral Presentation
Conferences/Workshops/Seminars
- DetailsInsight ParticipantAchille ZappaSponsor OrganisationACM, SIGCHI, ACTIVAGE, LocationSpainStart Date22/10/2019 to End Date22/10/2019
- DetailsInsight ParticipantAchille ZappaSponsor OrganisationIEEE, WIC, ACM, LocationGreeceStart Date15/10/2019 to End Date17/10/2019
- DetailsInsight ParticipantAchille ZappaSponsor OrganisationIEEE, ACM, WIC, LocationGreeceStart Date14/10/2019 to End Date17/10/2019
- DetailsInsight ParticipantAchille ZappaSponsor OrganisationMicrosoft, Amazon, Bloomberg, Google, Yahoo ..., LocationUnited StatesStart Date13/05/2019 to End Date17/05/2019
- DetailsInsight ParticipantAchille ZappaSponsor OrganisationTNO, NL, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, MINES Saint-Étienne, France, LocationUnited StatesStart Date15/10/2018 to End Date15/10/2018
- DetailsInsight ParticipantAchille Zappa, Martin SerranoSponsor OrganisationBIG IoT Project, symbIoTe Project, LocationSpainStart Date06/06/2018 to End Date06/06/2018
- DetailsInsight ParticipantAchille ZappaSponsor OrganisationThe International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2), LocationFranceStart Date23/04/2018 to End Date27/04/2018
- DetailsInsight ParticipantAchille ZappaSponsor OrganisationCreate-IoT project, Activage Project, Bosch , Siemens, LocationAustriaStart Date22/10/2017 to End Date22/10/2017
- DetailsInsight ParticipantAchille ZappaSponsor OrganisationAIOTI, ENTROPY project, ETSI, oneM2M, VICINITY project, LocationNetherlandsStart Date11/09/2017 to End Date11/09/2017