Past events
Presenters:
Agata Filipowska I Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, PL Marin Dimitrov I Ontotext Lab., Sirma Group Corp., Sofia, BG Dumitru Roman I STI Innsbruck, AT
The proposed tutorial is to explain and demonstrate how the combination of technologies from the area of Business Process Management (BPM) and Semantic Web Services (SWS) can contribute to the vision of Internet of Services and multi-partners processes. The tutorial will present the state of the art in the areas of BPM and SWS motivating the need for explicit use of semantics to overcome the Future Internet challenges. Next, a consolidated technical framework that integrates SWS and BPM technology will be demonstrated. The tutorial will be held by the BPM and SWS experts that actively work on integration of both technologies in the EU-funded SUPER project. After having presented pure SWS tutorials as well as tutorials on the integration of SWS into BPM at previous conferences, we now propose the tutorial showing semantic management of processes between enterprises contributing to the vision of Internet of Services. We therewith follow the trend in the research community to focus on the applicability and integration of semantic technologies in the real-world, next to foundational research on ontologies and Semantic Web Services.
Presenters:
Reto Krummenacher I STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, AT Jacek Kopecky I STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, AT David de Francisco I TID, ES
In the tutorial, we introduce a newly emerging technology called "Triple Space", a system which applies the paradigm of space-based computing to realize a coordination middlewaremanaging information formalized using Semantic Web representation languages and coordinating the exchange of machine-readable information among many distributed entities on the Web. Triple Space Computing is a future solution for high scale knowledge distribution and coordination scenarios. We present the concept and the existing implementation, guided by a concrete demonstration based on a Digital Asset Marketplace for a large telecommunications company. Attendees will download and use a Triple Space kernel and learn how to use it as communication and coordination middleware for their Semantic Web applications. The need for novel Web service coordination middleware compliant with fundamental architectural principles of the Web -- such as persistent publication and asynchrony -- is identified as essential in the Future Internet. Such middleware will cope with an Internet in which automated, intelligent services will outnumber human users, performing many tasks based on the generation and consumption of knowledge available on the Semantic Web. Without such middleware, the scalability and coordination needs of the Future Internet will not be satisfiable. The goal of this tutorial is to introduce the Triple Space Computing paradigm and to showcase its use forthe development of applications for the Future Internet. The tutorial will provide insights into both theoretical as well as practical aspects of this new paradigm, and aims at familiarizing
developers and researchers with the available software and theories that were mostly established in course of the European research project TripCom. Participants will be granted full access to an instance of the Triple Space and learn how to use it for the integration and coordination of their distributed, heterogeneous and large scale (Semantic) Web applications.
The Asian School on the Semantic Web was held between December, 8 - 12, 2008 in Thailand, in parallel to the ASWC 2008 conference.
The Asian Semantic Web School aims to teach its attendees how to apply semantic technologies in their own projects and environments. The school is targeted at PhD students, youngresearchers and other interested parties affiliated to academia or industry. It is particularly our goal to bring together international experts in the field and to invite the leading research groups in Asia to be part of the program.
The OCG Forum Semantic Systems 2009 took place on 4th of March in Vienna, Austria.
The OCG Forum Semantic Systems 2009 brought together researchers, industry practitioners and decision makers to analyze the current state of play in the area of semantics and discuss its role in the global context of the ICT developments of the last years. Furthermore the aim of the event was to identify the instruments necessary to maximize the impact that semantictechnologies can potentially have in the realization of the future Internet and to position Austrian R and D in this market at the European and international level. The program included twoinvited talks, a poster and demonstration session and a panel discussion. Prof. John Domingue from the Open University (UK) held a presentation on the topic "The Future Internet - a Service's and Semantic's Perspective", while Mag. Wernher Behrendt from Salzburg Research (AT) spoke about "Interactive Knowledge - Semantic Technology for Content Management".
Jörg Wurzer from IQser AG, Christian Boser from AustriaPro /WKO and Stefan Kalteis from 123people discussed "The Future Internet - a universal remedy for the economy?" in the panel
moderated by Alexander Wahler from STI International.
Future Plans: Tutorials
This tutorial has been accepted for the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in June 2009.
Presenters: John Domingue, Jacek Kopecky, Carlos Pedrinaci, Elena Simperl and Agata Filipowska
Structure:
Part I: Introduction to SWS
Part II: SWS within the Enterprise
Part III: SWS and the Service Web
Part IV: Hands-on session
Summary:
Service-Oriented Computing is commonly lauded as a silver bullet for Enterprise Application Integration, inter-organizational business processes implementation, and even as a general solution for all complex applications. Still, the level of automation provided by traditional technologies is limiting the benefits that can be achieved. Semantic Web Services extend Web Services with semantic annotations in order to circumvent these limitations, better supporting the automation of service discovery, composition, mediation and execution. In this tutorial we present an introduction to Semantic Web Services technologies covering a wide range of topics ranging from formalisms, to their interpretation and use within concrete scenarios. We briefly introduce current Web Services technologies and standards. We present WSMO, a highly expressive formalism for describing Semantic Web Services. We describe a reference architecture for Semantic Execution Environments able to process WSMO descriptions in order to automate the discovery, composition and mediation of Web Services and how this can support furtherautomation within the life-cycle of Business Process Management systems. We additionally introduce a lighter set of formalisms, namely WSMO-Lite and MicroWSMO, aimed at supporting ascalable application of Semantic Web Services technologies over the Web. Finally, we help attendants to get better acquainted with the notions exposed through a hands-on session using state of the art technologies.
The 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference will take place December 2009 in Shanghai, China. The Asian Semantic Web conference is meanwhile recognized as the yearly conference on theoretical foundations, technological building blocks and practical applications of semantic technologies on the Asian continent. Targeted at both academia and industry, the conference presents the latest research and development of the Semantic Web and its related technologies. It brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, knowledge modeling, logic, databases, social networks, Web services, distributed computing, Web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, multimedia, and human-computer interaction. In contrast to the European Semantic Web state the Semantic Web in Asia is new and an emerging topic which marks the importance of an institutionalized and long-term event within the Asian region.
A call for tutorials is not yet published.
The 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) will be held 25-29 October 2009 at the Westfields Conference Center near Washington, DC.
ISWC is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented.
Tutorial proposals are due June 2009. The call for proposals on semantic and service technologies.
The 2nd Future Internet Symposium will take place in September 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
The Future Internet Symposium (FIS) is a venue for European and international researchers to share their work on next generation Internet technologies. FIS is a scientific forum for the European Union's Future Internet Initiative, an effort to align European Internet research on the shared challenges presented by Europe's increasingly Internet-based society and economy. FIS is intended to bridge traditional disciplinary boundaries of Internet research, emphasizing the use of machine understandable semantics to enable diverse communities, devices, and organizational groupings to share Internet resources. An additional and equally important role for the Future Internet Symposium is to be a home for the Future Internet community. In this respect the Symposium will serve the interest of the emerging community and foster new researchers (PhD students and fresh Post-docs) as they progress to become the new leaders in this emerging field. Finally, the Symposium will co-operate fully with other initiatives in the area of the Future Internet, especially those within the European Arena.
A call for tutorials is not yet published.
The 3rd European Semantic Technology Conference will take place in December 2009 in Vienna,
Austria.
The European Semantic Technology Conference brings together the world's leading thinkers, innovators, developers, engineers, and senior practitioners within organizations responsible for information technology and systems in one place to learn about how to integrate this unparalleled technology into their operations. ESTC is Europe's most prominent and authoritative conference focusing on the growth of the ICT semantic technology markets, highlighted by showcased industry practices, advancements in the field of semantic technologies achieved in the past year, and successful marketing strategies in delivering semantic applications that generate new revenues. Participants know how to develop a cohesive strategy for managing semantic technology initiatives and utilizing these to evolve the operations and effectiveness of their organizations.
A call for tutorials is not yet published.
Future Plans: Schools
The Seventh Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW'09) will take place in Cercedilla, Spain from 5th to 11th of July 2009.
The successful and groundbreaking SSSW series of summer schools started in 2003, as part of the activities of the OntoWeb Network Consortium, continued from 2004 to 2007 as part of the activities of the Knowledge Web Network of Excellence, and is now a well-establish event within the research community and a role model for several other initiatives. Presented by leading researchers in the field, it represents an opportunity for postgraduate students to equip themselves with the range of theoretical, practical, and collaboration skills necessary for full engagement with the challenges involved in developing Ontologies and Semantic Web applications.
The 6-day event takes place on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley in July 20-25, 2009.
Semantic Computing is currently emerging as a new field that integrates methods from multimedia (computer vision, speech processing), natural language processing, semantic web and ontology engineering, software engineering, and other fields with the goal of creating new applications that connect intuitively formulated user-intentions with the content of data. The summer school will provide an introduction to the field to senior undergraduate and graduate students. A mix of young and well-established researchers and educators will present recent research results, as for example presented in the IEEE conferences on Semantic Computing or the International Journal on Semantic Computing. The tutorials will be complemented by keynote talks by renowned experts in the areas of Semantic Technologies, Ontologies, Multimedia or Natural Language Processing.
Following the success of the Asian Semantic Web School in 2008, we plan another event co-located with the Asian Semantic Web Conference in 2009.
Future Plans: Seminars
Building on the success of the Tiroler IT Tag 2008, the second annual event will be held in the STI Innsbruck offices on the 9th of October 2009. The event aims to continue the transfer of innovative research from STI Innsbruck to Tirolean Industry through a full-day program of presentations and discussions.
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