My name is Arif Bramantoro. Some of my friends call me Arif or Bram. Currently, I am a PhD candidate in Ishida and Matsubara Laboratory, Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics , Kyoto University.

I hold master degree from the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne - Australia in 2005. My bachelor degree was from the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Institute Technology of Bandung (ITB), Indonesia in 2001.

During my study, I am a research assistant at Kyoto University in 2008 and 2010. I was a technical assistant at National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT) in 2009. In addition to my academic service, I served as organizing committee of Seminar Nasional Ilmu Komputer dan Teknologi Informasi (SNIKTI) 2003 in Indonesia, program committee of Indonesian Scientific Conference (ISC) 2007 in Kyoto, and external reviewer at IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) 2009 and IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) 2009.

Before my PhD, I had lectured several courses on object oriented programming, computer programming, software engineering, computer architecture, computer graphics, data warehousing, operating system, and other technical software related trainings such as Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server, Oracle, Corel Draw, Micromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft Office.

My research interests include services computing, quality of service (QoS), information retrieval, and natural language processing (NLP). My research aims at optimizing a concrete problem of user- and domain-dependent QoS, even if the service environment dynamically changes. The concrete problem is a language service problem implemented in a hybrid architecture, i.e. service- and component-based architecture. I realize that there have been some break-throughs of QoS researches in services computing. However, I argue that none of these researches can solve the fundamental problems that we found in language services and most likely in other services, especially implemented in a hybrid architecture. An ongoing developments of language service that my research is getting involved with is the Language Grid.

• Arif Bramantoro, Ulrich Schafer and Toru Ishida, Towards an Integrated Architecture for Composite Language Services and Multiple Linguistic Processing Components, Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-10), May 2010, Valetta, Malta (To Appear)


• Arif Bramantoro and Toru Ishida, QoS Agent in User-Centered Service Selection, Accepted for Joint Agent Workshops and Symposium (JAWS-09), October 2009, Sendai, Japan


• Arif Bramantoro and Toru Ishida, User-Centered QoS in Combining Web Services for Interactive Domain, Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge, and Grid (SKG-09), October 2009, Zhuhai, China, Pages 41 - 48 (pdf)


• Arif Bramantoro, Masahiro Tanaka, Yohei Murakami, Ulrich Schafer and Toru Ishida, A Hybrid Integrated Architecture for Language Service Composition, Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS-08), September 2008, Beijing, China, Pages 345 - 352 (pdf) (Research Track, Acceptance rate:16%)


• Arif Bramantoro, J2EE vs. .NET XML Web Services, Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 16th Indonesian Scientific Conference in Japan, August 2007, Kyoto, Japan, Pages 294-301 (pdf)


• Arif Bramantoro, Utilizing .NET Technology in Web Services application, Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 2nd Information and Communication Technology Seminar (ICTS-06), 2006, Surabaya, Indonesia


• Arif Bramantoro, Shonali Krishnaswamy and Maria Indrawan, A Semantic Distance Measure for Matching Web Services, Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 2005 Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS-05) held in conjunction with the 6th International Web Information Systems Engineering Conference (WISE-05), New York, USA, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 3807, Oct 2005, Pages 217 - 226 (pdf)


• Agus Zainal Arifin, Arif Bramantoro and Chofifah, Information Retrieval Application for Automatic Thesaurus Building in Bahasa Indonesia, Accepted for Publication in the Proeceeding of the 3rd Seminar Nasional Ilmu Komputer dan Teknologi Informasi (SNIKTI-03), August 2003, Surabaya, Indonesia (in Bahasa Indonesia)


• Agus Zainal Arifin and Arif Bramantoro, Word Processor Application with Spelling Checker and Thesaurus in Indonesian Language, Research Report of DIK 2002 Funding, Research Institute, ITS, February 2003 (in Bahasa Indonesia)