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Introducing: Asuman Dogac

Nationality: Turkish

Residence: Ankara, Turkey

Languages spoken: Turkish, English

Web Page: http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/~asuman/

Asuman Dogac is a full professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. She is the founding director of the Software Research and Development Center (http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/) at METU and CEO of the Software Research and Development and Consultancy Ltd. (http://www.srdc.com.tr/).


Career Experience:

Current: Full Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Campus (O.D.T.U.), 06531, Ankara, TURKEY

Director, Software Research and Development Center, METU

  • E-mail: asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr

General Manager, SRDC Software Research & Development and Consultancy Ltd., ODTU KOSGEB Teknoloji Gelistirme Merkezi Islik No:210, 06531 Ankara / TURKEY

  • E-mail: asuman@srdc.com.tr
  • Fax: +90 -312-210 1004
    +90-312-210 1259
  • Telephone: +90 -312- 210 5598
    +90 -312- 210 2076

Project Experience:

Some Recent Projects Undertaken:

European Commission Supported Projects:


Title and Web page address

End date

Role

IST

027074

Saphire

Intelligent Healthcare Monitoring based on Semantic Interoperability Platform

http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/projects/saphire/

July 2008

Coordinator

IST 027065

RIDE

A Roadmap for Interoperability of eHealth Systems in Support of COM 356 with Special Emphasis on Semantic Interoperability

http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/projects/ride/

January 2008

Coordinator

IST 027306

Abilities

Application Bus for InteroperabiLITy In enlarged Europe SMEs

http://services.txt.it/abilities/

January 2008

Partner

IST-002104

SATINE

Semantic-based Interoperability Infrastructure for Integrating Web Service Platforms to Peer-to-Peer Networks

http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/projects/satine/

July 2006

Coordinator

IST-002103

Artemis

A Semantic Web Service-based P2P Infrastructure for the Interoperability of Medical Information Systems

http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/projects/artemis/

July 2006

Coordinator

ICT-213031

iSURF

An Interoperability Service Utility for Collaborative Supply Chain Planning across Multiple Domains Supported by RFID Devices

http://www.srdc.com.tr/isurf/

July 2010

Coordinator

Publications:

Journal Publications Since 1998:

Dogac, A., Dengi, C., Ozsu, T., "Building Interoperable Databases on Distributed Object Management Platforms", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 41, No. 9, September 1998.

Dogac, A., Durusoy, I., Arpinar, S., Tatbul, N., Koksal, P., Cingil, I., Dimililer, N., "A Workflow-based Electronic Marketplace on the Web", ACM Sigmod Record, Special Section on Electronic Commerce, Vol. 27, No. 4, December 1998, pp. 25-31.

Arpinar, B., Halici, U., Arpinar, S., Dogac, A., "Formalization of Workflows and Correctness Issues in the Presence of Concurrency, Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases, Vol. 7, No. 2, April 1999, pp. 199-248.

Arpinar, S., Dogac, A., Tatbul, N., "An Open Electronic Marketplace Architecture through Agent-based Workflows: MOPPET", Intl. Journal on Digital Libraries, Vol. 3, No. 1, July 2000, pp. 36-59.

Cingil, I., Dogac, A., Azgin, A., "A Broader Approach to Personalization", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 43, No. 8, August 2000, pp. 136-141.

Arpinar, S., Dogac, A., "Provision of Market Services for eCo Compliant Electronic Marketplaces", ACM Sigmod Record, Vol. 29, No. 3, September 2000.

Cingil, I., Dogac, A., Sevinc, E., Cosar, A., "Dynamic Modification of XML Documents: External Application Invocation from XML", ACM SIGecom Exchanges, inaugural edition, September 2000, pp.1-6.

Cingil, I., Dogac, A., "An Architecture for Supply Chain Integration and Automation on the Internet", Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases, Vol.10, No.1, July 2001, pp. 59-102.

Dogac, A., Cingil, I., "A Survey and Comparison of Business-to-Business E-Commerce Frameworks", in ACM SIGEcom Exchanges, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2001, pp16-27.

Dogac, A., Tumer, A., "Issues in Mobile Electronic Commerce", Journal of Database Management, Vol. 13, No. 1, January 2002, pp. 37-43.

Dogac, A., Laleci, G., Kabak, Y., Cingil, I., "Exploiting Web Service Semantics: Taxonomies vs. Ontologies", IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Vol. 25, No. 4, December 2002, http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/db/debull/issues-list.htm

Ozen, B., Kilic, O., Altinel, M., Dogac, A., "Highly Personalized Information Delivery to Mobile Clients", Wireless Network: The Journal of Mobile Communication, Computation and Information, Volume 10, No. 6, November 2004, pp. 665-683.

Dogac, A., Kabak Y., Laleci, G. , Sinir S., Yildiz A., Kirbas S., Gurcan Y., "Semantically Enriched Web Services for Travel Industry", ACM Sigmod Record, Vol. 33, No. 3, September 2004.

A. Dogac, Y. Kabak, G. B. Laleci, C. Mattocks, F. Najmi, J. Pollock, "Enhancing ebXML Registries to Make them OWL Aware", Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal, Springer, Vol. 18, No. 1, July 2005, pp. 9-36. (Science Citation Index Expanded, Impact Factor: 00.897).

Cicekli, N., Cosar, A., Dogac A., Polat, F., Senkul, P., "Data Management Research at the Middle East Technical University", ACM Sigmod Record, Vol. 34, No. 3, September 2005 (Science Citation Index Expanded, Impact Factor: 00.675).

Bicer, V.,Laleci, G.,Dogac, A., Kabak, Y., "Artemis Message Exchange Framework: Semantic Interoperability of Exchanged Messages in the Healthcare Domain" ACM Sigmod Record, Vol. 34, No. 3, September 2005 (Science Citation Index Expanded, Impact Factor: 00.675).

Bicer, V., Kilic, O., Dogac, A., Laleci, G., "Archetype-based Semantic Interoperability of Web Service Messages in the Healthcare Domain", International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, Vol. 1, No. 4, October-December 2005, pp. 1-23.

Tumer, A., Dogac. A., Toroslu. H., "A Semantic based Privacy Framework for Web Services", in Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization, B. Mobasher, S. Anand (Editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3169, Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2005, pp. 289 - 305 (ISBN: 3-540-29846-0), http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11577935_16.

Eichelberg, M., Aden, T., Riesmeier, J., Dogac, A., Laleci, G., "A Survey and Analysis of Electronic Healthcare Record Standards", ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 37, No. 4, December 2005, pp. 277 – 315. (Science Citation Index Core, Impact Factor: 07.500).

Dogac, A., Laleci, G., Kirbas S., Kabak Y., Sinir S., Yildiz A. Gurcan, Y., "Artemis: Deploying Semantically Enriched Web Services in the Healthcare Domain", Information Systems Journal (Elsevier), Volume 31, Issues 4-5, June-July 2006, pp.321-339 (Science Citation Index Core, Impact Factor: 03.327).

Asuman Dogac, Gokce Laleci, Yildiray Kabak, Seda Unal, Thomas Beale, Sam Heard, Peter Elkin, Farrukh Najmi, Carl Mattocks, David Webber, "Exploiting ebXML Registry Semantic Constructs for Handling Archetype Metadata in Healthcare Informatics", International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (Inderscience), Vol. 1, No. 1, January 2006., pp. 21-36, http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=152&year=2006&vol=1&issue=1, http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/projects/artemis/ publications/

Dogac, A., Laleci, G., Aden, T., Eichelberg M., "Enhancing IHE XDS for Federated Clinical Affinity Domain Support", IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 11, No. 2, March 2007, pp. 213-221. (Science Citation Index Core, Impact Factor: 1.575)

Nee O., Hein A., Gorath T., Hulsmann N., Laleci G., Yuksel M., Olduz M., Tasyurt I., Orhan U., Dogac A., Fruntelata A., Ghiorghe S., Ludwig R. SAPHIRE: Intelligent Healthcare Monitoring based on Semantic Interoperability Platform - Pilot Applications IEE Proceedings Communications Special Issue on Telemedicine and e-Health Communication Systems. Accepted for publication. (Science Citation Index Core)

Yarimagan Y., Dogac A., "Semantics Based Customization of UBL Document Schemas", Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases, Springer-Verlag, to appear. (Science Citation Index Expanded, Impact Factor: 00.897).

Laleci G., Dogac A., Olduz M., Tasyurt I., Yuksel M., Okcan A. SAPHIRE: A Multi-Agent System for Remote Healthcare Monitoring through Computerized Clinical Guidelines Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing Special Issue on Agent Technology and e-Health. Accepted for publication.

Kilic O., Dogac A., "Achieving Clinical Statement Interoperability using R-MIM and Archetype-based Semantic Transformations" IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, to appear. (Science Citation Index Core, Impact Factor: 1.575).

Dogac A., Kabak Y., Namli T., Okcan A., "Collaborative Business Process Support in eHealth: Integrating IHE Profiles through ebXML Business Process Specification Language", IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, to appear. (Science Citation Index Core, Impact Factor: 1.575).

Conference Publications since 1998:

Dogac, A., "A Survey of Current State-of-the Art in Electronic Commerce and Research Issues and in Enabling Technologies", Euro-Med-Net Conference, Electronic Commerce Track, March 1998.

Karagoz, P., Arpinar, S., Koksal, P., Tatbul, N., Gokkoca, E., Dogac, A., "Task Handling in Workflow Management Systems", In Proc. of Intl. Workshop on Issues and Applications of Database Technology, IADT '98, Berlin, June 1998.

Dogac, A., "An Electronic Marketplace", Intl. Workshop on Component-based Electronic Commerce, Berkeley, USA, July 1998, http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/~citm/cec/.

Dogac, A.,Durusoy, I., Arpinar, S., Gokkoca, E., Tatbul, N., and Koksal, P., "METU_EMar: Agent-based Electronic Marketplace on the Web", Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.1513, Springer Verlag, September 1998.

Koksal, P., Arpinar, S., Dogac, A., "History Management in Workflow Systems", in Proc. of International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Antalya, Turkey, October 1998.

Dogac, A., Alonso, G., Schek, H. J., Beeri, C., "The MARIFlow Project: A Workflow Management System for the Maritime Industry", 1st European Workshop on Workflow and Process Management (WPM '98), Zurich, Switzerland, October 1998.

Dogac, A., Durusoy, I., Arpinar, S., Tatbul, N., and Koksal, P., "An Electronic Marketplace Architecture", in Current Trends in Data Management Technology, Idea Group Publishing, 1999.

Dogac, A., Beeeri, C., Tumer, A., Ezbiderli, M., Tatbul, N., Icdem, C., Erus, G., Cetinkaya, O., Hamali, N., "MARIFlow: A Workflow Management System for Maritime, Industry, in Application of Information Technologies to the Maritime Industry, Publisan, Portugal, 1999, pp. 33-51.

Koksal, P., Cingil, I., Dogac, A., "A Component-based Workflow System with Dynamic Modifications", in Proc. of the Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems Conference (NGITS '99), Israel, July 1999.

Cingil, I., Dogac, A., Tatbul, N., "An Adaptable Workflow System Architecture on the Internet for Electronic Commerce Applications, in Proc. of Intl. Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications, IEEE Press, Edinburgh, September 1999.

Dogac, A., Ezbiderli, M., Tambag, Y., Icdem, C., Tumer, A., Tatbul, N., Hamali, N., Beeri, C., "MARIFlow Workflow Management System", Intl. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE), San Diego, February 2000, 99, pp. 193.

Dogac, A., Tambag, Y., Tumer, A., Ezbiderli, M., Tatbul, N., Hamali, N., Icdem, C., Beeri, C., "A Workflow System through Cooperating Agents for Control and Document Flow over the Internet", in Proc. Of the Intl. Conf. on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS `00), Israel, September 2000, pp. 138-143.

Dogac, A., Tambag, Y., Tumer, A., Ezbiderli, M., Hamali, N., "An Agent-based Workflow System for Inter-enterprise Business Processes", in Proc. of European Commission`s eBusiness and eWork Conference and Exhibition, Madrid, Spain, October 2000.

Ozen, B. T., Kilic, O., Altinel, M., Dogac, A., "Highly Personalized Information Delivery to Mobile Clients", in Proc. of 2nd ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE `01), May 2001, Santa Barbara, USA, pp. 35-42.

Dogac, A., Cingil, I., "POEM: A Platform for an Open Electronic Marketplace based on eCo Framework", in Proc. of European Commission`s eBusiness and eWork Conference and Exhibition, Venice, Italy, October 2001, pp. 492-498.

Dogac, A., Tambag, Y., Pembecioglu, P., Pektas, S., Laleci, G. B., Kurt, G., Toprak, S., Kabak, Y., "An ebXML Infrastructure Implementation through UDDI Registries and RosettaNet PIPs", ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, June 2002.

Mitkas, P., Symeonidis, A., Kechagias, D., Athanasiadis, I., Laleci, G., Kurt, G., Kabak, Y., Acar, A., Dogac, A., "An Agent Framework for Dynamic Agent Retraining: Agent Academy", e2002: European Commission's e-Business and e-Work Annual Conference, Czech Republic, October 2002.

Dogac, A., Acar, A., Putnam, M., "Country Profile: Turkey", Global Information Technology Report 2001-2002: Readiness for the Networked World, Center for International Development at Harvard University, February 2002.

Dogac, A., Laleci, G., Kurt, G., Kabak, Y., Acar, A., "A Platform for Semantically Enriched Mobile Services", in Proc. of the First International Conference on Mobile Business, Athens, Greece, July 2002.

Dogac, A., Cingil, I., Laleci, G. B., Kabak, Y., "Improving the Functionality of UDDI Registries through Web Service Semantics", 3rd VLDB Workshop on Technologies for E-Services (TES-02), Hong Kong, China, August 23-24, 2002.

Tumer, A., Dogac. A., Toroslu. H., "A Semantic based Privacy Framework for Web Services", WWW'03 workshop on E-Services and the Semantic Web (ESSW `03), Budapest, Hungary, May 2003.

Dogac, A., Kabak, Y., Laleci, G., "A Semantic-Based Web Service Composition Facility for ebXML Registries", 9th International Conference of Concurrent Enterprising, Espoo, Finland, June 2003.

Dogac, A., Laleci, G., Kabak, Y., "Context Frameworks for Ambient Intelligence", eChallenges 2003, October 2003, Bologna, Italy.

Dogac, A., Kabak, Y., Laleci, G., "Enriching ebXML Registries with OWL Ontologies for Efficient Service Discovery", in Proc. of RIDE'04, Boston, March 2004.

Dogac, A., Y. Kabak, G. Laleci, S. Sinir, A. Yildiz, A. Tumer, "SATINE Project: Exploiting Web Services in the Travel Industry", eChallenges 2004 (e-2004), 27 - 29 October 2004, Vienna, Austria.

G. B. Laleci, Y. Kabak, A. Dogac, I. Cingil, S. Kirbas, A. Yildiz, S. Sinir, O. Ozdikis, O. Ozturk, "A Platform for Agent Behavior Design and Multi Agent Orchestration", Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE-2004) Workshop, the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2004), New York City, New York - July 19, 2004

Bicer, V., Laleci, G., Dogac, A., Kabak, Y., "Providing Semantic Interoperability in the Healthcare Domain through Ontology Mapping", eChallenges 2005, October 2005, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Dogac, A., Bicer, V., Okcan A., "Collaborative Business Process Support in IHE XDS through ebXML Business Processes", In proc. of International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2006), Atlanta, USA, April 2006.

Dogac A., Namli T., Okcan A., Laleci G., Kabak Y., Eichelberg M., "Key Issues of Technical Interoperability Solutions in eHealth", eHealth 2006 High Level Conference and Exhibition, Malaga, Spain, May 2006, pp. 917-923.

Laleci G., Dogac A., Akcay B., Olduz M., Yuksel M., Orhan U., Tasyurt I., Sen T., Kabak Y., Namli T., Gulderen O., Okcan A., "SAPHIRE: A semantic Web service based Clinical guideline deployment infrastructure exploiting IHE XDS", eChallenges Conference, Barcelona, Spain, October 2006.

Hein A., Nee O., Willemsen D., Scheffold T., Dogac A., Laleci G., "SAPHIRE - Intelligent Healthcare Monitoring based on Semantic Interoperability Platform - The Homecare Scenario", European Conference on eHealth (ECEH06) , Fribourg, Switzerland, October 2006.

Eichelberg M. ,Aden T., Riesmeier J., Dogac A., Laleci G., "Electronic Health Record Standards – A Brief Overview", 4th International Conference on Information and Communications Technology (ICICT 2006), Cairo, Egypt, December 2006.

Jordan, B., Dogac, A., Boecle, G., Del Pozo, F., Jacquemin, C., "NESSI e-Health: Accelerating the Impact of ICT in the European e-Health Domain", eChallenges Conference, Barcelona, Spain, October 2006, pp. 893-901.

Della Valle E., Cerizza D., Celino I., Dogac A., Laleci G., Kabak Y., Okcan A., Gulderen O., Namli T., Bicer V. , An eHealth Case Study, Book Chapter in "Semantic Web Services: Concepts, Technologies, and Applications", Studer, Rudi; Grimm, Stephan; Abecker, Andreas (Eds.), 2007, Approx. 15 p., 100 illus., Hardcover, ISBN: 978-3-540-70893-3, Due: April 5, 2007, Springer.

Thiel A., Eichelberg M., Wein B., Namli T., Dogac A., Goals and Challenges for the realization of a European wide eHealth infrastructure European Conference on eHealth (ECEH07), Oldenburg, Germany, October 2007

Dogac A., Namli T., Okcan A., Laleci G., Kabak Y., Eichelberg M. Key Issues of Technical Interoperability Solutions in eHealth and the RIDE Project eChallenges Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands, October 2007


Academic Qualifications:

Ph.D. Degree in Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, TURKEY, September, 1980.

MS in Computer Science, Middle East Technical University, October, 1975.

BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, July, 1973.


Professional Affiliations:

OASIS Member

IEEE Member


Courses:

CENG 520 - Advanced Topics in Internet Computing

CENG 352 - Database Management Systems


Presentations Given:

Oct. 19, 2007, RIDE Projesi: Avrupa Birligi e-Saglik Yol Haritasi, 2. e-Saglik Kongresi, Antalya, Turkiye.

Oct. 16, 2007, Turkiye'de UBL Kullanimi, Kurumlararasi Elektronik Dokuman Paylasimi Calistayi, Ankara, Turkiye.

Oct. 12, 2006, Configuration Managent Issues in IHE, World of Health IT 06 Conference, Geneva, Switzerland.

Oct. 11, 2006, Key Issues of Interoperability in eHealth, World of Health IT 06 Conference, Geneva, Switzerland.

Oct. 10, 2006, The RIDE Interoperability Roadmap, Eurorec 2006 Annual Conference, Geneva, Switzerland.

May 12, 2006, Key Issues of Technical Interoperability Solutions in eHealth, eHealth 2006 High Level Conference, Exhibition and Associated Events, Malaga, Spain.

March 2, 2006, Exploiting ebXML Registry Semantics in the eHealth Domain, Ontolog-Forum.

Feb. 16, 2006, Untangle the Web: Communicating Through the Web Services Using Semantics, HIMSS 2006, San Diego, USA.

Dec. 9, 2004, Artemis Project: Using ebXML To Handle Healthcare Information, presented at Collaborative Expedition Workshop 37, Toward Coherence in Knowledge Through All Things Ontological: Making Sense Together, NSF, USA.

Nov. 25, 2004, Artemis Project: A Semantic Web Service-based P2P Infrastructure for the Interoperability of Medical Information systems, Satellite Conference on Ontology: Interoperability of patient records and biomedical informatics, Brussels, Belgium.

Nov. 18, 2004, Artemis Project: Using ebXML To Handle Healthcare Information, A Seminar at National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), Washington DC, USA.

Nov. 17, 2004, Artemis Project: A Semantic Web Service-based P2P Infrastructure for the Interoperability of Medical Information systems, OASIS International Health Continuum (IHC) TC first face-to-face meeting, Washington DC, USA.

July 27, 2004, Tutorial, Semantic Web Services , Int. Conf. on Web Engineering, Munich, GERMANY.

March 28, 2004, Keynote Talk: Exploiting Web Service Semantics in eBusiness Applications, 14th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Web Services for E-Commerce and E-Government RIDE-WS-ECEG'2004, Boston, USA.

March 29, 2004, Enriching ebXML Registries with OWL Ontologies for Efficient Service Discovery, 14th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Web Services for E-Commerce and E-Government RIDE-WS-ECEG'2004, Boston, USA.

     
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