Bio
Kunal Verma is a researcher at Accenture Technology Labs. He is leading a number of projects in requirements engineering and is also exploring semantic modeling for SOA and infrastructure.
He has published several research papers in the areas of SOA, semantic Web services and processes, adaptive Web processes and XML databases. He has organized a number of international workshops and acted as a reviewer for a number of conferences and journals. Recently, he was the PC vice chair for International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2008. He graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Georgia in 2006. During his Ph.D. work, he was instrumental in creating WSDL-S, which is now a W3C recommendation called SAWSDL.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Georgia.
Research Interests
Requirements engineering, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), semantic Web, semantic Web services, adaptive Web processes, Markov decision processes, Web service composition, policy based middleware, XML databases, Web 2.0 and software-as-a-service.
Recent Projects
Accenture Requirements Engineering Suite, Requirements Analysis Tool, Semantic Data Integration, Semantic SOA.
Selected Publications
- Extracting High-Level Functional Design from Software Requirements
Vibhu Sharma, Santonu Sarkar, Kunal Verma, Arun Panayappan and Alex Kass
Proceedings of 16th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2009)
- SPARQL Query Re-writing Using Partonomy Based Transformation Rules
Prateek Jain, Peter Z. Yeh, Kunal Verma, Cory A. Henson and Amit P. Sheth
Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS 2009)
- Automated review of natural language requirements documents: generating useful warnings with user-extensible glossaries driving a simple state machine
Prateek Jain, Kunal Verma, Alex Kass and Reymonrod G. Vasquez
Proceedings of Indian Software Engineering Conference (ISEC 2009)
- Requirements Analysis Tool: A Tool for Automatically Analyzing Software Requirements Documents.
Kunal Verma and Alex Kass
Proceedings of International Semantic Web Conference 2008, (ISWC 2008)
Best paper award in “Semantic Web in use” track
- A Faceted Classification Based Approach to Search and Rank Web APIs.
Karthik Gomadam, Ajith Ranabahu, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Amit P. Sheth and Kunal Verma
Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Conference on Web services (ICWS 2008)
- Optimal Adaptation in Web Processes with Coordination Constraints
Kunal Verma, Prashant Doshi, Karthik Gomadam, John A. Miller and Amit P. Sheth
The Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Web services (ICWS 2006)
- Semantic Interoperability of Web Services - Challenges and Experiences
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller and Jonathan Lathem
The Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Web services (ICWS 2006)
- Semantic WS-Agreement Partner Selection
Nicole Oldham, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth and Farshad Hakimpour
To appear in the Proceedings of 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006)
- Autonomic Web Processes
Kunal Verma and Amit Sheth
In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Service-oriented Computing (ICSOC)
- Semantic Matching of Web Service Policies
Kunal Verma, Rama Akkiraju and Richard Goodwin
Second International Workshop on Semantic and Dynamic Web Processes (SDWP 2005), In Conjunction with the Third International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'05), pp. 79-90
July, 2005 Orlando, Florida
- METEOR-S WSDI: A Scalable Infrastructure of Registries for Semantic Publication and Discovery of Web Services
Kunal Verma, Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Amit Sheth, Abhijit Patil, Swapna Oundhakar and John Miller
Journal of Information Technology and Management
- Constraint Driven Web Service Composition in METEOR-S
Rohit Aggarwal, Kunal Verma, John A. Miller and William Milnor
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2004), pp. 23-30
September, 2004 Shanghai, China
- Adding Semantics to Web Services Standards
Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Kunal Verma, Amit Sheth and John A. Miller
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'03), pp. 395-401
June, 2003 Las Vegas, Nevada
Journal Papers
- Semantically Annotating a Web Service
Kunal Verma and Amit P. Sheth
IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 11( 2), pp. 83-85.
March/April 2007
- Ontology Driven Data Mediation in Web Services
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth and John A. Miller
International Journal of Web services research
- Semantics to Energize the Full Services Spectrum
Amit P. Sheth, Kunal Verma and Karthik Gomadam
Communications of the ACM, 49(7), 55-61
2006
- METEOR-S WSDI: A Scalable Infrastructure of Registries for Semantic Publication and Discovery of Web Services
Kunal Verma, Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Amit Sheth, Abhijit Patil, Swapna Oundhakar and John Miller
Journal of Information Technology and Management, Special Issue on Universal Global Integration, Vol. 6, No. 1 pp. 17-39. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
2005
- Discovery of Web Services in a Federated Registry Environment
Swapna Oundhakar, Kunal Verma, Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Amit Sheth and John Miller.
International Journal of Web Services Research, 1 (3), pp. 8-39 2005
Professional Organizations
IEEE
Personal Interests
Playing golf and tennis, ballroom dancing, watching Georgia Football and reading.
What do you like most about being in the Accenture Technology Labs?
Inventing algorithms and creating tools to solve problems for some of the most important companies in the world.