Subject Matter

Considering computer science as both a stimulus and a response in the evolution of "how we live, learn, and work with the net", the Internet can be viewed as the underlying infrastructure for the converging IT, telecommunications, and media industries. Even scientific disciplines increasingly shape up a web: formerly considered a mere service discipline for engineering, life sciences, and humanities, computer science now learns and imports from the partner disciplines, becomes an adult peer in a growing mesh. The Internet goes mobile and multimedia, goes business, broadcast and personal - and faces the Post-PC era of ubiquitous computing. In a world where the complexity of the "made" reaches up to the complexity of the "born", truely dependable systems become ever less realistic.

We need novel approaches to connectivity, adaptability, sociability, scalability, and usability of global computing in order to make computers disappear in and interweave with our environment, and in order to move humans back to the center. As humans "telecooperate" with one another and with their (computer-augmented) environment in this vision, "tele" alludes both to the fact that humans cooperation is intentional (and supported as such) and to the mediating role of maybe invisible technology, but not to physical remoteness - which should matter less and less.

Schedule

Programme		Material
March 4	Introduction	.pdf	.pdf
March 11	What is Telecooperation? Concepts, History and Application Areas	.pdf	.pdf	.zip
March 18	From the current Web towards a Semantic Web, Introduction XML & Semistructured Data	.pdf	.pdf	.zip	.zip
March 25	DTDs & XML Schema - Grammars for XML	.pdf	.pdf	.zip	.zip
April 1	Information Retrieval and Extraction (XPath, XSLT and HTML Wrappers)	.pdf	.pdf	.zip	.zip
April 22	Ontologies I: RDF and RDF Schema	.pdf	.pdf	.pdf	.zip
April 29	Ontologies II: OWL and Ontology Reasoning	.pdf	.pdf		.pdf
May 13	The Semantic Web becomes Reality: Applications	.pdf	.pdf	.pdf
May 27	Web Services I: Conceptual Overview	.pdf	.pdf	.zip
June 3	Web Services II: WSDL, SOAP, UDDI	.pdf	.pdf	.zip
June 17	Semantic Web Services :: NEW TIME: 9h-11h	.pdf	.pdf	.zip
June 24	Summary, Running Projects and Conclusions	.pdf	.pdf

Final exam

Final exam: July 1, 2004

Alternative exam: September 29, 2004

Final mark There is a written exam on the lecture content at the end of the semester. We offer exams at three different dates for students to choose. Students are not required to attend the lecture, but they must show up in the exam and in the tutorials. Tutorial marks are based on attendance and the performance in the exercises.

Registration

The registration happens electronically starting from March 1, 2004. Please visit informatik.uibk.ac.at/anmeldesystem/anmeldesys.html to register online.

Tutorial

There are tutorials every Thursday from 2:00 till 3:30 pm, from 3:45 till 5:15 pm, and from 7:00 till 8:30 pm given by Jos de Bruijn, Axel Polleres, Sinuhe Arroyo, Dumitru Roman, Rubén Lara, Anna V. Zhdanova, and Holger Lausen. Students must attend the tutorials and cannot miss more than 2 tutorials per semester. The final mark depends from individual attendance, performance and reports.

Lecturer

Axel Polleres
axel.polleres@deri.org

Time

Thursday 11:15 am - 1:00 pm lecture hall A