1 DIP Partner Presentation Frankfurt, January 17, 2003 Rudi Studer & Alexander Maedche FZI Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany AIFB

2 FZI - Introduction The research center for information technologies … founded 1985 as associated institute at the University of Karlsruhe is technology and knowledge transfer organisation, bridge between industry and research The FZI research group WIM … History: Founded 2000 as new research group at FZI, partner institute is Institute AIFB at the University of Karlsruhe Coordination: Prof. Dr. R. Studer and Dr. A. Maedche Research Topics: in general knowledge technologies Modeling, extracting and distributing knowledge Ontology management infrastructure Knowledge management, Web Services The FZI research group DBS … founded 1985 as first research group of FZI, partner institute is Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization (IPD) at the University of Karlsruhe Coordination: Prof. Dr. P. Lockemann and W. Kazakos Research topics: Information integration, Web data management, Context-based Systems

3 Fields & Activities SWWS – Semantic Web Services OFA – Food and Agriculture Ontologies VISION – Thematic Network Knowledge Management Ontologging – Ontology- based Knowledge Management Intelligent Human Resource Management Knowledge Management in Virtual Organizations SSII – Study Semantic Information Integration Classifier VICODI – Visual Contextualization of Digital Information Individuals (Document Access, E-learning...) Organisation Units (Business Processes, Knowledge Exchange, Groupware,...) Integrated Enterprise (Intra-Enterprise-Interoperability, Intranet Portals, EAI,...) Within companies Extended Enterprise (Extra-Enterprise-Interoperability, B2B, SCM, CRM, B2C,...) Networked Enterprise (Inter-Enterprise-Interoperability, Virtual Enterprise,... ) Between companies Automatic KAT Extractor Ontology-based Content Access Autonomic Computing Tourism Harmonization

4 Building Blocks of Semantic Services Description Discovery Composition Quality of Service Security Integration Wire

5 FZI Contribution to DIP Karlsruhe’s core competency: Knowledge Representation & Data Management Technology Information Integration Architectures and Systems Ontology Engineering & Management Query Evolution Views Mapping Semantic Web compliant (standards like RDF(S), OWL, etc.) FZI will exploit its SWWS results

6 FZI Contribution to DIP FZI would like to contribute to Discovery & Integration, combined with the necessary description aspects Discovery: Infrastructure that allows searching for distributed and centralized services using Semantic Web technologies Integration: includes mediation between services and legacy systems and mediation between heterogeneous services to further improve methods and tools for Ontology management, e.g. evolution, views is interested in participating in real-world case studies (applied research)