Willie Milnor

104, Armour Ct, Athens, GA-30605 • milnor@gmail.com

706-255-1096 (C) • http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/~milnor

Objective

 

To obtain a challenging research or development position in the area of distributed information systems and internet and Semantic Web technology where I can exercise my technical, analytical and problem solving skills in a great work environment.

Academic Profile

 

Master of Science, Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens

GPA: 3.82

Graduation: Aug. 2005

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens

GPA: 3.86

Graduated: May 2002

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens

 

Graduated: Aug. 2000

 

Technical Expertise

 

Languages

J2EE (Servlets, JSP), Java (AWT, JDBC, Swing, RMI), Python, C, C++, Prolog, LISP

Operating Systems

Windows-(98, NT, XP), Sun Solaris, Unix, Linux

Databases

MySQL, Oracle

Web technologies

XML, JavaScript, HTML, PHP, ASP, XSLT, XPath, Tomcat, Zope

Tools/Packages

SQL, VB, MS Office, Visio, MS Project, Eclipse, LINDO, Protégé, Poseidon, UML, Ant, Maven, Checkstyle

Web Services

SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, BPEL

Semantic Web

RDF, DAML+OIL, OWL

Software Engineering

OO design/analysis/development, design patterns, software life-cycle, unified process

 

Professional Experience

 

Website Developer (Full-Time), SOFOREXT - Southern Regional Extension Forestry, Athens, Georgia      Aug’ 2002 – Dec’ 2003 

Content Management System

  • Designed and implemented the navigational and search behaviors of the Forestry Encyclopedia Website as well as a content management system involving a complex workflow for the online publication of research articles.
  • Designed and implemented the navigational and search behaviors for the Urban Forestry South Website including a content management system for maintaining and updating data on government funded research projects.
  • Assisted in the design and implementation of the front-end of the Urban Forestry South Website.
  • Acted as project manager and liaison for the Urban Forestry South Website project.

 

Research Experience

Graduate Research Assistant, Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Lab, UGA                                       Jan’ 2004 – present

(Under the direction of Dr. Amit Sheth)

  • Implementing an indexing scheme for resources in a live semantic web.
  • Designing and implementing a main memory representation of an RDF graph.
  • Researching automatic reasoning over an RDF graph utilizing graph algorithms and database technologies.
  • Researching calculation of QoS for business process workflows.

 

Publications

 

Constraint Driven Web Service Composition in METEOR-S; Rohit Aggarwal, Kunal Verma, Amit Sheth, John Miller, Willie Milnor

2004 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing April, 2004

 

Using the Zope Web application framework to build and manage a large encyclopedia of scientific knowledge; Jordin, John, Jr.; Hubbard, William; Kennard, Deborah; Milnor, William; Rauscher, Michael; Veal, Bryan

Natural resources information management forum: Putting knowledge to work. T. lnnes (editor). FORREX-Forest Research Extension Partnership, Kamloops, B.C. FORREX Series No. 8. pp. 135-145. 2003

 

The Encyclopedia of Southern Appalachian Forest Ecosystems: A Prototype of an Online Scientific Knowledge Management System; Kennard, D.K., H.M. Rauscher, P.A. Flebbe, D.L. Schmoldt, W.G. Hubbard, J.B. Jordin, and W. Milnor

For IUFRO Decision Support and Knowledge Management Conference, Vienna, Austria. CD-ROM proceedings. 2003

 

Projects

 

 Semantic Web Processes

  • Implemented a system for calculating the QoS of Web processes for the dynamic binding of Web services. The main feature of the work was in considering domain and application constraints to find compatible Web service sets.
  • Designed and implemented a constraint analyzer to determine the optimal compatible Web Services set.

 

Semantic Web Technology Evaluation Ontology (SWETO)

  • Assisted in the development of a large-scale publicly accessible ontology.
  • Extracted data from various Web sources using Semagix Freedom Toolkit

 

Semantic Discovery (SemDis)

  • Assisted in the development of an RDF representation for reasoning over semantic associations.
  • Developed a Web interface for the Semantic Associations Ranking Demo.

 

Trust and Provenance for SWETO

  • Developing a model for describing and inferring over Trust and Provenance metrics in the SWETO ontology.
  • This model would enable users to quantify the amount of trust they can place in a assertion made by some source anywhere on the Semantic Web.

 

WebMaven (team leader)

  • Developing a web based interface to the Maven project management tool from Apache.
  • The server side is implemented using Servlets and RMI to access the Maven plugins.

 

Open Source Tools

 

METEOR-S Web service composition tools release  (Aug 2004)

WebMaven   (May 2005)