Semantic Web Towards a Web of Knowledge - Outline Spring 2006 Computer Engineering Department Sharif University of Technology

Semantic web - Computer Engineering Dept. - Spring 2006 Aim To be familiar with the ongoing efforts in building next generation of web Have a working knowledge of semantic web layers Study logical foundation of SW and reasoning based on it Familiarity with Ontology concept, how to create and evaluate them Shifting current web toward SW Major tools and frameworks Some application areas in SW Semantic web - Computer Engineering Dept. - Spring 2006

Semantic web - Computer Engineering Dept. - Spring 2006 Contents Introduction to SW Project definitions XML related technologies: XML, XSD, XPath, XSL, … RDF & RDFS Querying on the web: XQuery, SparQL and RDQL Knowledge Representations and Taxonomies Description Logics Ontology Engineering Ontology alignment Bootstrapping the SW Semantic web - Computer Engineering Dept. - Spring 2006

Semantic web - Computer Engineering Dept. - Spring 2006 Contents (cont.) Tools and Frameworks Rules in SW Trust management with and in SW Web Services and Semantic Web Services Search for Ontologies Search Using Ontologies Semantic web - Computer Engineering Dept. - Spring 2006

Semantic web - Computer Engineering Dept. - Spring 2006 References Chapters of following books The Semantic Web, A guide to the future of XML, Web Services and Knowledge Management, By Michael C. Daconta et al., 2003 Spinning the Semantic Web, Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential Edited by Dieter Fensel, James A. Hendler, Henry Lieberman and Wolfgang Wahlster The Description Logic Handbook Theory, Implementation and Applications Edited by Franz Baader, Diego Calvanese, Deborah McGuinness, Daniele Nardi, Peter Patel-Schneider Published January 2003 Some papers Online materials Semantic web - Computer Engineering Dept. - Spring 2006

Semantic web - Computer Engineering Dept. - Spring 2006 Grading policy Midterm and Final Exam 50% Homeworks 20% Term based project 30% Semantic web - Computer Engineering Dept. - Spring 2006

Semantic web - Computer Engineering Dept. - Spring 2006 Term based project This semester we will have a term based project with following characteristics: It is done in groups of at most 3 students Each group selects a different project Each group will have at least two presentations: A presentation on related works and introducing new ideas Developed solution presentation Semantic web - Computer Engineering Dept. - Spring 2006