# Alignment API: Credits

## Contributors

Below is the name of individual whose work has contributed to the Alignment API. This can be either because they directly worked on the project or because the released some code that has been integrated within the project.

Jérôme Euzenat
  is the main architect and developer of the Alignment API and Server.
Petko Valtchev
  was instrumental in fixing many different parts of the code when working on other projects.
Chan Le Duc
  develops the NeOn plug-in and improves the whole system.
Jérôme David
  developed the Ontology part of the API.
Jérôme Pierson
  initially developed the WordNet interface and the agent profile for the Alignment Server
Seunkeun Lee
  developped the low-level storage layer and the web service profile for the Alignment Server
Raphaël Troncy
  fixed the basic implementation of BasicAlignment for n:m alignments.
Arun Sharma
  Developed the queryinterface
François Scharffe
  developed the initial version of EDOAL
Giorgos Stoilos and Georges Stamou
  offered the code of their "SMOA" paper similarity
Sean Bechhofer and Raphael Voltz
  provided some code snippets for using the OWL API
Jarno Elonen
  developped a small footprint HTTP server that was embedded in the Alignment Server (in version 2.5-3.0)
Konstantinos A. Nedas
  implemented the Hungarian method which is embedded in the Alignment API implementation.
an anonymous person
  developped the Levensthein distance implementation that is used in the Alignment API implementation.

## Copyright owners

Copyright (C) 2003-2010 INRIA (most of the code)
Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Université de Montréal (parts of the impl/ and ling/ directories)
Copyright (C) 2005 CNR Pisa. (parts of BasicAlignment)
Copyright (C) 2003 The University of Manchester (parts of the util/ directory)
Copyright (C) 2003 The University of Karlsruhe (parts of the util/ directory)
Copyright (C) 2005 Konstantinos A. Nedas (HungarianAlgorithm).
Copyright (C) 2006 CERT. (ISub class in org.ivml.alimo)
Copyright (C) 2006 Seungkeun Lee. (server database access in service/)
Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Orange R&D (parts of JADEFIPAAServProfile)
Copyright (C) 2008 Quentin Reul (parts of SKOSRendererVisitor)

## Acknowledgements

Other people participated in the developement of the Alignment API by providing bug reports, feature requests and patches: Mathieu d'Aquin, Jürgen Bock, Mark Ingram, Antoine Isaac, Kotis Kostas, Angel López Cima, Sabine Maβmann, Quentin Reul, Vassilis Spiliopoulos, Peter Wullinger, Anna Zhdanova

## Enablers

See the list of Embedded libraries for the enabling technologies the Alignment API gladly relies on.

## Sponsors

The development of the Alignment API and server has partially benefited from the support of the following projects (click on the logos for more information about them):