• 2^nd Grade Diploma from Minor Academy of Science of Ukraine, Lugansk, Ukraine, 1998.
• Golden medal for school study, 1998.

IV. Scientific Interests

My main scientific interests are in artificial intelligence domain. I am interested in such techniques as AI agents, machine learning algorithms, ontologies and their application in e-commerce and others.

V. Hobbies, Activities and Arts

I am interested in studying history in original works (monographies and memoirs). My main free-time activities are communicating with friends, reading and listening to music.

VI. Other

My native language is Russian. I also know Ukrainian and English.

During my school study I took part in regional olympiads in physics (3^rd place, Lugansk, 1998) and mathematics (2^nd place, Lugansk, 1997).

My programming skills are based on my main education in Kharkov University of Radioelectronics. I am experienced in object oriented programming and software engineering using Java, C++ and Object Pascal (Delphi) programming languages, database and Internet programming, implementation of AI techniques.

My current research interests are connected with the problem of gathering and integrating information about products catalogues published in Internet. Product catalogues usually are organized into hierarchical tree-like structures representing relations between category and its subcategories (see [3]). Different vendors can use different standarts for describing their catalogues that makes the task of integrating these catalogues together non-trivial. These problems are described in [1] and [2]. One of the possible ways for performing this task is aligning different products classification standarts between each other by determining semantical correspondence between their nodes.

References:

1. Borys Omelayenko, Dieter Fensel:An Analysis of B2B Catalogue Integration Problems. Content and Document Integration. Amsterdam, 2001
2. Borys Omelayenko, Dieter Fensel: An Analysis of Integration Problems of XML-Based Catalogs for B2B Electronic Commerce. Amsterdam, 2000
3. Deborah L. McGuinness: Ontologies for Electronic Commerce, Stanford, CA94305

PROGRAMMING EDUCATION:

1997-1998, Sverdlovsk Lyceum School.

1998 –2001, Kharkov State Technical University of Radioelectronics (KTURE).

My programming skills are based on my main education in Kharkov University of Radioelectronics. During my university studies I have well mastered all the courses on system and applied programming and databases. I am experienced in object oriented programming and software engineering using Java, C++ and Object Pascal (Delphi) programming languages, database and Internet programming, implementation of AI techniques.

Projects:

Marriage Computer Game This is an implementation of "marriage" card game. Program was commended with 2^nd Grade Diploma of Minor Academy of Science of Ukraine.

Platform: PC/DOS

Language: Pascal

Tools : Borland Turbo Pascal 7.0

 

Vector Graphic Editor It is a simple vector graphical editor that able to create graphical primitive shapes (cut, rectangle, ellipse and arc). Also in the editor were implemented several functions as grouping/ungrouping, undo/ redo and other operations.

E-commerce catalogue integration system (System development project) Program for catalogue tree analysis and search for corresponding categories in two different catalogue trees.

Language: Java

Tools: Borland JBuilder 3.0

Sincerely,

Andriy Nikolov