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.

Program

This term the seminar covers 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 block seminar from Friday, January 7th 2005 (2 pm.) until Sunday, January 9th 2005 (around 3pm). The presentations will be given in one of the Seminar rooms 03W3 or 03W04 in the new building besides the architecture building at the Technik-Campus of the university.

Schedule

Preliminary Discussion

The student presentation proposals as well as all other organizational issues like requirements, dates and location will be discussed in a meeting on Monday, October 18th 2004, 6 pm. (Room SR13, Architektur-Gebäude). The seminar will be held as a block seminar. The precise date for the seminar is to be announced after the preliminary discussion meeting.

Registration

Please register for this seminar via e-mail to Uwe Keller (E-Mail: uwe.keller@deri.org) timely. The number or participants is strictly restricted.

Lecturer

Dieter Fensel
dieter.fensel@deri.org

Time

Block

Language

English