CMPE 588- ENGINEERING SEMANTIC WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS

2006-2007 Spring Sem.

COURSE OUTLINE

Course Outline

Week

Topics

1

Course introduction; survey of interest area,
Semantic Web, RDF.  Lacy Chs. 7-9  CmpE 583

2

OWL: syntax & semantics, leads:  Lacy Ch. 11  Tutorial

3

Tools for semantic annotation:   Presentation

4

Ontology construction and tools:   Presentation  Çelik Talk

5

Ontology evolution and translation:   Presentation Gruber Talk: mp3 ppt

6

Reasoning with ontologies:  Presentation

7

Reasoner tools and use in building info systems (5.5-9) Presentation

8

Developing ontology for knowledge management (Ch. 7) Presentation

9

Semantic information access (Ch. 8) Presentation

10

Using semantic query languages in info systems

11

Semantic technology application show cases (Ch. 11 ) Presentation

12

Developing Semantic Web applications (Ch. 12)

13

Building Semantic Web services: methods and tools (Ch. 10)

14

Semantic SOA architecture; howto; innovative applications; future directions (Ch. 13)

 Bonus

Tools for Business Rules and Processes

MT#1

Review TOR and request a topic. FCFS.

TP

Review TOR and propose a topic. FCFS.

 

TEXTBOOK / REFERENCES

Following two books may be used as textbooks jointly:

* John Davies (Editor), Rudi Studer (Editor), Paul Warren (Editor): Semantic Web Technologies: Trends and Research in Ontology-based Systems, John Wiley & Sons (July 11, 2006). ISBN: 0470025964 (Soft/Hardcover). See it at Wiley Or, search at Amazon.
* A. Sheth and Miltiadis Lytras: Semantic Web-Based Information Systems: State-of-the-Art Applications (Advances in Semantic Web and Information Systems), Cybertech Publishing (Idea Group, Hardcover - Nov 16, 2006, Softcover- Dec. 21, 2006). ISBN: 1599044269.
TOC  Idea Group Publishing: Publication Details  Additional Information

 

 

Many related books are available also as e-book in the ACM Books; access is free to ACM student members. ACM membership is $18/year for EMU students. Check the note on ACM membership. There are many free-to-members ACM e-Books and ACM e-Courses on Semantic Web, Web/Internet programming and others. Check TOP TEN courses of the last month.

Similarly, you may have access to relevant e-books sources such as EBRARY & SAFARI through EMU Library online databases.

You can try Wikibooks or Google Books, too, for free e-books on the subject.

 

 

Assignment for the week:

Read and critically review in one page the following turn in by 27 Feb.:

 

Gottfried Vossen, Miltiadis Lytras, and Nick Koudas: Editorial: Revisiting the (Machine) Semantic Web: The Missing Layers for the Human Semantic Web, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING, VOL. 19, NO. 2, FEBRUARY 2007, pp: 145-8. Get it here.

 

 

Tutorial on the W3C OWL Web Ontology Language (Given at ISWC 2003 and ENC 2004; this is the ENC version.) or local copy

 

Reviews for the week of 13 March:    ReviewList.doc

EXAMS

MT

Term Project TOR  Projects.

Final

GRADES