EMU FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING

 CMPE 588- ENGINEERING SEMANTIC WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Code:            CmpE 588

Course Title:             Engineering Semantic Web Information systems

Course Credit:          (3 , 0) 3

Semester:                  2007 - 2008 Spring

Course Website:      http://cmpe.emu.edu.tr/aelci/Courses/D-588/COURSE-OUTLINE-588_Spring2008.htm

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Faculty:                     Assoc. Prof. Dr. Atilla Elçi: Office CmpE 208, Ph. 630 2843

COURSE OUTLINE

Course Outline

Week

Topics

1

Course introduction; survey of interest area, Semantic Web, RDF. 

Lacy Chs. 7-9  CmpE 583 Survey Paper: pdf

2

OWL: syntax & semantics, leads:   Summary: Tutorial (Introduction: slides #1,17-21, 24-26, 41-48)  Lacy Ch. 11

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

MT & TP?

Developing ontology for knowledge management (Ch. 7) Presentation

9

Semantic information access (Ch. 8) Presentation

10

Using semantic query languages in info systems Presentation

11

Semantic technology application show cases (Ch. 11 ) Presentation

12

Developing Semantic Web applications (Ch. 12) Presentation

13

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

14

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

 Bonus

Tools for Business Rules and Processes

MT#1

TOR

Final Scheduled on 13 June 2 pm. BUT, do respond to the survey for a change by 2 June.  

TP

TOR. Report due on 4 June and presentation is on 6 June. BUT, do respond to the survey for a change by 2 June.

Project Presentations: Semantic Web Day  Grading

 

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. Also try proceedings in (Springer) LNCS & LNAI volumes.

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

 

READING FOR THE WEEK

Read and critically review the following; do hand in one page review within a week of date assigned.

19 Feb '08:
D. Kanellopoulos, S. Kotsiantis, Semantic Web: A state of the art survey, International Review on Computers and Software (IRECOS), Vol. 2, n. 5 September 2007, pp. 428-442 [pdf].

26 Feb '08:
Brusa, G., Caliusco, M.L. and Chiotti, O. (2006). A Process for Building a Domain Ontology: an Experience in Developing a Government Budgetary Ontology. In Proc. Second Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2006), Hobart, Australia. CRPIT, 72. Orgun, M.A. and Meyer, T., Eds., ACS. 7-15  Abstract  PDF

4 March 2008: Annotation
Arjona, J.L.; Corchuelo, R.; Ruiz, D.; Toro, M. (2007). From Wrapping to Knowledge.
Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on, Volume 19,  Issue 2,  Feb. 2007 Page(s):310 - 323
AbstractPlus | Full Text: PDF(4352 KB)    IEEE JNL

Also note: Tony Patton's blog is on W3C's new draft of HTML 5 (aka Semantic HTML) a step beyond HTML 4 towards inclusion of semantic annotation:

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/programming-and-development/?p=601

 

11 March 2008: Ontology Construction

Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness. Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology.

 

18 March 2008: Ontology Evolution

Ceusters W, Smith B. A Realism-Based Approach to the Evolution of Biomedical Ontologies. Proceedings of AMIA 2006, Washington DC, November 11-15, 2006, pp 121-125. (draft)

 

25 March 2008: Reasoning

1 April 2008: Nonmonotonic Reasoning

Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh and Dirk Vermeir. Nonmonotonic Ontological and Rule-Based Reasoning with Extended Conceptual Logic Programs

 

EXAMS

·         MT (25%)

·         Term Project TOR (35%)

·         Final (35%)

·         R&R (5% bonus)

·         Attendance (5%)

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Updated June 18, 2008.