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Advanced Semantic Web

Professors: Deborah L. McGuinness
Topics: Semantic Foundations
Description:
This course aims at showing the cutting edge research on semantic web and encouraging research capability for advanced students. Students attending this course should expect reading, presenting and evaluating important research papers on semantic web, identifying and surveying interesting semantic web research areas.

DataScience

Professors: Peter Fox
Topics: eScience
Description:
This course combines aspects of data management, library science, computer science, and physical science using supporting cyberinfrastructure and information technology. It aims to provide formal education and training in the key cognitive and skill areas to enable graduates to become key participants in escience collaborations.

Goals:
To instruct future scientist how to sustainably generate/ collect and use data for their research as well as for others. Participants will learn and be evaluated on the full life-cycle of data and relevant methods, technologies and best practices.

Emerging Trends in Semantic Technology

Professors: Deborah L. McGuinness
Topics: Semantic eScience, Semantic Foundations
Description:
This course will discuss emerging trends in semantic technologies. This is a seminar course, not a lecture course. We will have many presentations and discussions throughout the course that help you to understand, conduct, and evaluate academic research while we discuss the emerging trends in semantic technologies.

Goals:
  • Prepare you for research in Semantic Technologies by giving you
  • practice and guidance on:
  • Critically reading research papers
  • Making technical presentations - individually and in groups
  • Preparing research papers
  • Preparing grant proposals
  • Also giving you the opportunity for practice talks, suggestions, literature review, etc.

GIScience

Professors: Peter Fox
Topics: eScience
Description:
Introduction to relational analysis and interpretation of spatial data and their presentation on maps (using MapInfo software). Geographic spatial data concepts covered are map projections, reference frames, multivariate analysis, correlation analysis, regression, interpolation, exptrapolation, and kriging. Database concepts of building and manipulating a spatial database, SQL, spatial queries, and integration of graphic and tabular data are covered. During each class we will discuss topics and do examples. Related take-home exercises will be assigned. Students will occasionally be asked to present their weekly assignment to the rest of the class. Each student will do a semester-long project on some topic of particular interest to them, but also of relevance to the class. These projects will be presented to the class at the last meeting. 4 credit hours.

Goals:
  1. To provide students an opportunity to learn geospatial applications and tools.
  2. To introduce relational analysis and interpretation of spatial data and presentation on maps.
  3. Introduce spatial database concepts and technical aspects of query languages and geographic integration of graphic and tabular data.
  4. To introduce intermediate aspects of geospatial analysis: map projections, reference frames, multivariate analysis, correlation analysis, regression, interpolation, exptrapolation, and kriging.
  5. To gain experience in an end-to-end GIS application via a term project.

Semantic eScience

Professors: Deborah L. McGuinness
Topics: eScience
Description:
As semantic technologies have been gaining momentum in various e-Science areas, it is important to offer semantic-based methodologies, tools, middleware to facilitate scientific knowledge modeling, logical-based hypothesis checking, semantic data integration and application composition, integrated knowledge discovery and data analyzing for different e-Science applications.

Goals:
To fill the gaps that are currently present in the integrative nature of informatics for the translation of science into requirements for the underlying and largely syntactic e-infrastructure.

Web Science

Professors: Jim Hendler
Topics: Semantic Web
Description:
Since its inception the World Wide Web has changed the ways people work, play, communicate, collaborate, and educate. There is, however, a growing realization among researchers across a number of disciplines that without fundamental understanding of the current, evolving and potential Web, we may be missing or delaying opportunities for new and revolutionary capabilities.

Goals:
This course attempts to provide the foundations of that understanding, exploring the fundamentals of the World Wide Web's function including the HTTP protocol, key algorithms that make the Web function, future trends, and social issues with respect to Web use and effect.

Xinformatics

Professors: Peter Fox
Topics: eScience
Description:
Xinformatics is intended to provide both the common informatics knowledge as well as how it is implemented in specific disciplines. The theoretical basis arises from information science, cognitive science, social science, library science as well as computer science, aggregating these studies and adds both the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems.

Goals:
This course will introduce informatics, each of its components and ground the material that students will learn in discipline areas by coursework and project assignments.
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