Roy Lachica, M.Sc.

Web developer

Primary field of interests Web 3.0, Application Development, Complex problem solving, Systems thinking, Knowledge Management, Semantic technologies and Collective Intelligence. Dedicated to the challenges of holism, open knowledge and democracy in socio-semantic collaborative online systems.

Current position
Senior developer, Webnodes.

Current research activities
Koios a Web 3.0, research 2.0, civic web, problem solving platform.
koios.org (website), Project description (pdf),

Work experience

Consultant at Bouvet, 2007-2011
Advisor and project lead. Medical Informatics. Rikshospitalet University Hospital, 2005-2007
Lead webmaster. Telemedicine. Radiumhospitalet (Comprehensive Cancer Centre), 2004-2005
Self-employed manager of webdesign firm Hyposoft, 2002-present
Consultant, software engineer, Osiris data AS, 1998-2002
TaeKwonDo instructor Grorud Tkd klubb, 2002-present

Education

Master of Informatics 2007 UIO/IFI University of Oslo. Part time. Thesis project: (www.fuzzzy.com)
Bachelor in computer science 1999 HIO/IU Oslo University College, faculty of engineering
Electronics and computer hardware technician 1996, Sofienberg tekniske fagskole

Selected publications and presentations

Lachica, R. (2010). GopherMap.com Azure cloud computing social media mashup demo. (Slideshare)
Experiences, tips and tricks developing web apps for Windows Azure. Presentation at Norwegian .Net user group meeting, February 23. 2010
Lachica, R. (2009). Social Semantic Web and Ontology Design. (Pdf)
Guest lecture at IFI, University of Oslo.
Lachica, R. (2008). Manifesto Prospectus Omniscious Commodum (DRAFT) Requirements specification for Web3.0 Complex problem solving service.
Draft manuscript for Knowledge Federation 2008
Lachica, R. and Karabeg, D. (2007). Towards holistic knowledge creation and interchange Part I: Socio-semantic collaborative tagging. Proc. Third International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Application, Leipzig. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer: Berlin.
Metadata Creation in Socio-semantic Tagging Systems (Pdf)
TMRA 2007 conference presentation.
Quality, relevance and importance in Information Retrieval with fuzzy semantic networks (Pdf)
TMRA 2008 University of Leipzig LIV series post-proceeding Paper.
Knowledge Federation as a Principle of Social Organization of Knowledge Creation and Sharing (Pdf)
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Knowledge Federation, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 20-22, 2008, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-552

Other hobby projects

BobsDB.com - Bob's online activity database.

Roy Lachica
Last changed: February 20. 2010
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