Subject matter

Recently computers have changed from being single isolated devices and have become valuable entry points in a world wide network of information exchange and business transactions called the World Wide Web (WWW).  At the same time, the WWW is in the process of being transformed from a simple unstructured information repository to a huge shared space of data, information and services – it becomes a place for cooperation between human beings, companies and software agents.

Therefore support in data, information, and knowledge exchange becomes the key issue in current computer technology. The World Wide Web has drastically changed the availability of electronically available information and services. However, this success and exponential grow makes it increasingly difficult to find, to access, to present, and to maintain the information of use to a wide variety of users. In reaction to this bottleneck, many new research initiatives and commercial enterprises have been set up to enrich available information and services with machine processable semantics. Such support is essential for exploiting the full potential of the Web in areas such as knowledge management, enterprise application integration and electronic commerce. It is envisioned that the next generation of the Web – a Web based on Semantic Technologies – will provide intelligent access to heterogeneous and distributed information and services, enabling software products (agents) to mediate between the user needs and the available information sources and services.

Master and Ph.D. students are encouraged to prepare and present a talk on a topic in Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, Semantic Web Portals, Triple Space Computing, or related areas.

Programm

This term the seminarcovers topics from the following areas in Semantic Web and related fields:

* Web Services Technologies and WSMO / WSMX

* Ontologies: History and Ontology Management

* Semantic Web Services and Composition

* Semantic Description of Web Services

* Product and Service Representation on the Semantic Web

* Agent technology applications

* Semantic Web Portals

* Grid Computing

* Logics and Automated Reasoning tailored for the Semantic Web

* Natural Language Processing

* Next-generation Information Retrieval and Filtering

* Data Management

* Formal Methods

The seminar will be held as a blocked seminar in June.

Lecturer

Dieter Fensel
dieter.fensel@deri.org

Time

June 14, 2005