His research interests are in the areas of Internet of Services and Service Science (with SAP Research, Germany), IT Services (with SEI/CarnegieMellon, USA), Linking Open Data and Semantic Web (with Knoesis Research Center, USA), and Business Process Management (with the University of Bayreuth and University of Eindhoven). He created and led until 2009 the development of the W3C Unified Service Description Language. Jorge has a PhD from the University of Georgia (USA) and he is a founding member of the IFIP Working Group 12.7 on Social Semantics.