Manel Palau is the director of research at TMT Factory . He obtained a BSc degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the School of Telecommunications Engineering of Barcelona (ETSETB) in 2007, and currently, he is performing the master thesis to obtain the MSc in artificial intelligence organized by the Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB) . His main research interests combine: personalized recommendation; usability; service-oriented architectures; Web services; ubiquitous computing; context-aware computing; multi-agent systems in dynamic environments; and the semantic Web. As a member of the research staff at TMT Factory , he collaborated in the SOPAT project. Currently, he coordinates TMT Factory ‘s efforts in the ALIVE European project, in the SemAnts project and in the INREDIS project.