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

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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
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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
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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
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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
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Grading policy
Midterm and Final Exam 50%
Homeworks 20%
Term based project 30%
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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