Schedule
- Week 1: January 13, 2009
- Week 2: January 20, 2009
- Week 3: January 27, 2009
- Week 4: February 3, 2009
- Week 5: February 10, 2009
- holiday
- Week 6: February 24, 2009
- Week 7: March 3, 2009
- holiday
- Week 8: March 17, 2009
- Week 9: March 24, 2009
- Week 10: March 31, 2009
- Week 11: April 7, 2009
- Week 12: April 14, 2009
- April 21, 2009 - group meeting (no formal class)
- Week 13: April 28, 2009
- Group meeting on Tuesday February 17, 2009 - no class this week but we still meet
Weekly detail
Week 1
- Outline of scope of Advanced Semantic Technologies
- Journals we will examine
- Journal of Web Semantics: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/671322/description?navopenmenu=-2
- Journal of AI Research: http://www.jair.org/
- International Journal On Semantic Web and Information Systems: http://www.ijswis.org/
- International Journal of Semantic Computin g (IJSC): http://www.worldscinet.com/ijsc/
- International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO): http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijmso
- Journal of Data Semantics: http://lbdwww.epfl.ch/e/Springer/
- Journal of Semantics: http://jos.oxfordjournals.org/
- Nature of articles - see the following conferences for additional topic/ subject areas
- Semantic Web Keywords
- Form of presentations and evaluations
notes:
- 15 students attended
Week 2
- Student 10 minute introduction - interests and experience
Instructions for written material
- 1/2 - 3/4 page
- should contain a clear statement of a research interest/ topic
- should provide a few sentences on why this research is important, or its application
- 3-5 keywords or phrases classifying the topic and if an index set or controlled vocabulary was used
- should indicate what this research builds upon
- should indicate (cite) related, or pre-cursor work
- should present or discuss (short paragraph) some current (or proposed) work on the topic
- should include citation references in a suitable format (i.e. indicating source)
- this assignment has no grade associated with it but is required to be handed in
Instructions for presentation and sign up
- 10 mins, NO longer, some questions or comments should be anticipated
- slides are optional, if you use them, please post them alongside your name in the table below
- please sign up in 15 minute blocks starting at 4:15
- enrolled students (top of the list below) will start
- we will follow with others who wish to participate
Student 10 minute research interests presentation sign-up sheet
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/ Questions |
| * Gregory Todd Williams | 4:15 | Distributed SPARQL | Distributed SPARQL | - |
| * Joshua Shinavier | 6:15 | Collective Intelligence and the Semantic Web | File:AdvSemTech-researchInterests.ppt | |
| * Zhenning Shangguan | 5:00 | Semantic MediaWiki based Open Ontology Repository | File:AdvSemTech SMW OOR.ppt | |
| * Ankesh Khandelwal | 4:45 | Policy Framework for Semantic Web | Experience and Interests | |
| * Jesse Weaver | 6:00 | Applying HPC Technologies to the Semantic Web | File:ResearchInterestSummary.ppt | - |
| * James Michaelis | 5:15 | Provenance, Browsing and Visualization on the Semantic Web | Research Interests | - |
| * Rui Huang | 5:30 | Optimization of Justification | File:Optimization of Justification.ppt | - |
| * Giovanni Thenstead | 5:45 | Improving Information Provenance using Multi-agent Semantic Reasoners | - | - |
| * Jiao Tao | 4:30 | ASP-based Integrity Constraint Modeling and Checking | File:ASP-based IC Checking 20090120.ppt | - |
Week 3
- 4pm - 30 minute research presentation (20 min presentation and 10 min questions)
- 5 longer presentations on one most relevant paper from your research interests presentation (20+10mins each)
20 minute research paper presentation sign-up sheet
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/ Questions | Citation |
| * Gregory Todd Williams | 4:30 | Hexastore: Sextuple Indexing for Semantic Web Data Management | Slides | - | C Weiss, P Karras and A Bernstein. Proc. of VLDB Endow., 1(1)1008-1019, 2008. |
| * Joshua Shinavier | 5:00 | Collective Intelligence and its Implementation on the Web: Algorithms to Develop a Collective Mental Map [1] | Slides | - | Heylighen, Francis [1999]."Collective Intelligence and its Implementation on the Web: Algorithms to Develop a Collective Mental Map." Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory. Vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 253-280. |
| * James Michaelis | 5:30 | Piggy Bank: Experience the Semantic Web inside your web browser | Slides | - | David Huynh, Stefano Mazzocchi, David Karger: Piggy Bank: Experience the Semantic Web inside your web browser In Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2007, Pages 16-27 |
| * Ankesh Khandelwal | 6:00 | Analyzing Web Access Control Policies | Slides | - |
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| * Jesse Weaver | 6:30 | What is Approximate Reasoning? | Slides | - | Rudolph, S., Tserendorj, T., Hitzler, P.: What is Approximate Reasoning? In Calvanese, D., Lausen, G., eds.: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2008). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer (2008) 150–164 |
Week 4
- 20+10 minute presentations, starting at 4:15
20 minute research paper presentation sign-up sheet
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/ Questions | Citation |
| * Jiao Tao | 4:15 | Learning Concept Mappings from Instance Similarity | Slides | Jiao Concept Mapping | Shenghui Wang, Gwenn Englebienne, Stefan Schlobach. "Learning Concept Mappings from Instance Similarity". ISWC 2008, 339-355. |
| * Giovanni Thenstead | 4:45 | Numeric Reasoning in the Semantic Web | Slides: [PDF]|[PPT] | Giovanni Numeric Reasoning | Chimène Fankam, Stéphane Jean, Guy Pierra. "Numeric reasoning in the Semantic Web." SeMMA 346(2008): 84-103. |
| * Rui Huang | 5:15 | Revyu: Linking reviews and ratings into the Web of Data | Slides | - | Tom Heath, Enrico Motta. "Revyu: Linking reviews and ratings into the Web of Data". Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web 6(2008) 266-273 |
| * Alvaro Andres Graves Fuenzalida | 5:45 | Specifying and enforcing high-level semantic obligation policies | Slides | Alvaro Semantic Obligation Policies | Z Liu, A Ranganathan and A Riabov. "Specifying and enforcing high-level semantic obligation policies". Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web 7 (2009) 28–39 |
| * Zhenning Shangguan | 6:15 | Managing multiple and distributed ontologies on the Semantic Web | Slides | Shangguan Managing Ontologies | A. Maedche, B. Motik, L. Stojanovic. The VLDB Journal, Volume 12 , Issue 4 (November 2003). |
| * Zhi Zeng | 6:45 (10 mins) | - | - | - | - |
Week 5 - February 10, 2009
- 45-60 minute discussion of research interests and directions for semantic web, journal selections
- Visitors: Cynthia Chang, Patrick West, Stephan Zednick
- Project meetings: http://tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Semantic_Data_Services
- Research topic discussion and small group formation
- Small group brainstorming
- Topic listings:
- distributed reasoning (Jie, Giovanni, ..)
- reasoning for small devices (Evan)
- reasoning for supercomputers (Jesse)
- peer to peer reasoning (Shangguan)
- Web services for reasoning (Josh S)
- Policy infrastructures (Ankesh)
- Trust <-> Policy esp across organizations in daily life(Alvaro)
- SemanticWebX (Semantic Calendar, email, blog....) (Jie)
- Distributed Semantic Web Query (parallel) (Greg, Jesse)
- Tuple Stores (Jesse, Evan, Greg)
- Collaborative Customizable Knowledge Environments (views, updates)
- Provenance Tracking (James )
- Trust-based application (James)
- Evaluation (Jiao)
- Rules and Query Languages (Jiao, Zhi)
- Closed World / Open World Intersection (Jie)
- Graph-based representations and storage (Josh S.)
- Environments using justifications (best, abstraction) (Rui)
- Controlled English / Alternative Formats (Josh T. , Jie)
- Ontology Repository, Trust, Policy, User Behavior (XiXi)
- Hyper-graph theory for SW and how to use (Li)
Grouping results
- Trust / policy – Alvaro, James, Ankesh
- Dist reasoning – Giovanni, Jesse, Shangguan, Josh S.
- Rules and query - Jiao, Zhi, Greg,
- Collaborative customizable knowl env – Evan, Xixi, Rui, Jie
notes taken by Li Ding
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February 17, 2009
Visitor Peter Mika will be here and will present a talk. Please read some of his publications, at least his SearchMonkey paper: http://www.talis.com/nodalities/pdf/nodalities_issue4.pdf
Week 6 February 24, 2009
Small group presentations. Presentations include:
- Overview of material from 2-3 papers
- Highlights of how semantic technologies are providing contributions to the work
- Some ideas of how the work could be enhanced with the kind of technologies we are strong in
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/ Questions | Citation | |
| Jiao Tao and Gregory Todd Williams | 4:05 | SPARQL and Rules | SPARQL and Rules presentation | Questions for From SPARQL to Rules Questions for The Expressive Power of SPARQL |
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| Zhenning Shangguan, Joshua Shinavier, Giovanni Thenstead, and Jesse Weaver | 4:45 | Distributed Reasoning | File:DistributedReasoning ASTGroupPresentation.ppt | Questions_for_Distributed_Reasoning |
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| Ankesh, Alvaro Graves and James Michaelis | 5:30 | Trust and policies | Policy and Trust.pdf | Questions for Policy and Trust |
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| Rui Huang, Xixi Luo, and Evan Patton | 6:10 | Customizable, collaborative task environments | File:TaskEnvironments.pdf | Questions for The Two Cultures |
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Week 7 - March 3, 2009
Review presentations. Individual presentations will include:
- Overview of a single paper
- Critical reviewing according to format Deborah and Peter provide including technical merit, originality, etc. We will use the IJCAI review form so those of you possibly involved in IJCAI reviewing will get more practice. This will be posted soon.
- You should review a paper that you have not already reviewed and presented. It should be slightly outside your research area but not way out of your research area.
- 10mins presentation and 5 minutes for questions.
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/ Questions | Citation |
| Shangguan | 4:05 | Paper_Review_Shangguan | - | q2semantic: a lightweight keyword interface to semantic search }}
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| Rui | 4:20 | paper_review_Rui | - | enriching an ontology with multilingual information }}
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| Ankesh | 4:35 | Paper Review Ankesh.pdf | - | toward expressive syndication on the web }}
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| Jesse Weaver | 4:50 | Overview and IJCAI Review of XSPARQL Paper | - | xsparql: traveling between the xml and rdf worlds - and avoiding the xslt pilgrimage }}
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| Giovanni Thenstead | 5:05 | Semantics-aware Software Project Repositories | - | semantics-aware software project repositories }}
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| Gregory Todd Williams | 5:20 | Review presentation | - | anytime query answering in rdf through evolutionary algorithms }}
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| James Michaelis | 5:35 | - | Slides | - | semantic reasoning: a path to new possibilities of personalization }}
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| Joshua Shinavier | 5:50 | slide show PDF | - | ontogame: weaving the semantic web by online games }}
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After presentations another round of research topic discussion and small group formation ~ 30-45 mins. Group composition is still to be determined.
- Tuple stores – Jesse, Greg, Giovanni
- Provenance – James, Rui, Shangguan, Jiao
- Graph theory / graph-based semantic webs – Josh s., Alvaro, Ankesh
- Social semantic web – Evan, Xixi, Jie, Zhi, Josh T.
Spring break - no class on March 10
March 17, 2009
Visitor Raúl García Castro from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid will give a talk titled "Benchmarking the interoperability of Semantic Web technologies".
The slides of the talk are here.
Week 8 - March 17, 2009
Resume small group presentations. Presentations include:
- Overview of material from 2-3 papers
- Highlights of how semantic technologies are providing contributions to the work
- Some ideas of how the work could be enhanced with the kind of technologies we are strong in
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/ Questions | Citation | |
| Jesse Weaver, Gregory Todd Williams, Giovanni Thenstead | 4:05 | Tuple Stores | Brief Overview of Tuple Stores, Clustered TDB, YARS2 | - |
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| Rui Huang,James Michaelis,Zhenning Shangguan,Jiao Tao | 4:45 | Provenance | Slides | - |
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| Ankesh Khandelwal,Joshua Shinavier,Alvaro Graves | 5:30 | Graph Theory | Slides | - |
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| Jie Bao, Evan Patton | 6:10 | Social Semantic Web | File:Social Semantic Web.pdf | - |
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- FINAL assignment (due at last class, April 28)
- Three use case implementations from Semantic e-Science (Fall 2008): Sensors - orchard watering, stargazer, diabetic exchange portal
- Reform the three teams with original members
- Additional participants to nominate which project they wish to associated with - MUST verify this with professors before starting work with the groups - this is to ensure a balanced distribution of effort
- GOAL: to write up the project into a workshop/conference-style paper (format is ISWC, 8-10 pages)
- Will need to include an evaluation component to the paper
- Some extension/ improvement upon previously presented work is required
- Working demonstration in a stable location is required
- Will need to sort out authorship, order and contributions
- Paper to be handed in at last class (before 1pm, April 28)
- Present paper in class - group presentation, each person to present unless approve by professors
- 45 mins per presentation with 5-10 mins for questions, criticique
Week 9 - March 24, 2009
Reviews of papers
- Individual presentations of paper reviews - choose a paper that you have been involved in presenting - either individual or group
- review the paper using the IJCAI review form
- 20 mins presentation of the review + 5 mins questions
- presentations will cover two weeks - please sign up in either of the week 9 or 10 slots
- PLEASE select paper and post the link by Wednesday March 18 5pm to allow others time to read the papers
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/ Questions | Citation |
| * Reserved | 4:05 | - | - | - | - |
| * Gregory Todd Williams | 4:30 | Federated Querying | Slides | - | A Harth, J Umbrich, A Hogan, and S Decker. YARS2: A Federated Repository for Querying Graph Structured Data from the Web. ISWC (2007) |
| * Ankesh Khandelwal | 4:55 | KAoS Policy | Slides | - | Uszok A, Bradshaw J.M. et al. New Developments in Ontology-Based Policy Management: Increasing the Practicality and Comprehensiveness of KAoS. POLICY 2008. |
| * Zhenning Shangguan | 5:25 | Graph Search | Slides | - | blinks: ranked keyword searches on graphs }}
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Week 10 - March 31, 2009
Continue reviews
- PLEASE select paper and post the link by Wednesday March 25 5pm to allow others time to read the papers
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/ Questions | Citation |
| * Jie Bao Li Ding | 4:05 | Report from AAAI SSS09 workshop | - | - | - |
| Jesse Weaver | 4:30 | IJCAI Review | File:IJCAIReview2 JesseWeaver.ppt | - | Soma, R.; Prasanna, V.K., "Parallel Inferencing for OWL Knowledge Bases," Parallel Processing, 2008. ICPP '08. 37th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.75-82, 9-12 Sept. 2008 URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=4625835&isnumber=4625815 |
| Rui | 4:55 | IJCAI review | File:Review rui.pptx | - | P. Doran, V. Tamma, I.Palmisano, T.R.Payne, L. Iannone Evaluating ontology modules using an entropy inspired metric. In 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent agent technology |
| Joshua Shinavier | 5:20 | - | File:OntologyOfResourcesForLinkedData.pdf | - | Halpin, H., Presutti, V. An Ontology of Resources for Linked Data. In WWW2009 workshop: Linked Data on the Web. Madrid, Spain. |
| Jiao Tao | 5:45 | Semantic Query Language | File:IJCAIReview SPARQLDL JiaoTao.ppt | - | Evren Sirin, Bijan Parsia SPARQL-DL: SPARQL Query for OWL-DL. In 3rd OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop (OWLED2007). |
| James Michaelis | 6:10 | - | Slides | - | Biton, O., Cohen-Boulakia, S., Davidson, S.B., Hara, C.S., Querying and Managing Provenance through User Views in Scientific Workflows. In IEEE 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (IDCE), 2008 |
Week 11 - April 7, 2009
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/ Questions | Citation |
| Medha Atre | 4:10 | TBD | - | - | - |
| Joshua Shinavier | 4:45 (45 mins) | The state of the art in Linked Data | File:LinkedData.pdf | - | File:LinkedDataSurvey.pdf |
| Ankesh Khandelwal | 5:30 (45 mins) | Data Usage Control | Data Usage Control (pdf) | - | - |
| Giovanni Thenstead | 6:20 (25 mins) | Clustered TDB: A Clustered Triple Store for Jena | - | A Owens, A Seaborne, N Gibbins, and mc schraefel. "Clustered TDB: A Clustered Triple Store for Jena." |
Week 12 - April 14, 2009
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/ Questions | Citation |
| Selcuk Atli | 4:10 | Recommender Systems (TBC) | - | - | - |
| Jesse Weaver | 4:45 | Parallel Computing for the Semantic Web | File:LiteratureReview-JesseWeaver.ppt | - | - |
| Zhenning Shangguan | 5:30 | Semantic Search on the Web | slides | - | - |
Week 13 - April 28, 2009
Project paper presentations
- Three use case implementations from Semantic e-Science (Fall 2008): Sensors - orchard watering, stargazer, diabetic exchange portal
- Reform the three teams with original members
- Additional participants to nominate which project they wish to associated with - MUST verify this with professors before starting work with the groups - this is to ensure a balanced distribution of effort
- GOAL: to write up the project into a workshop/conference-style paper (format is ISWC, 8-10 pages)
- Will need to include an evaluation component to the paper
- Some extension/ improvement upon previously presented work is required
- Working demonstration in a stable location is required
- Will need to sort out authorship, order and contributions
- Paper to be handed in at last class (before 4pm, April 28)
- Present paper in class - group presentation, each person to present unless approved by professors
- 45 mins per presentation including 5-10 mins for questions, criticique
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/ Questions | Citation |
| Jesse, Greg, Ankesh and Eric | 4:15 | Diabetic exchange | File:DietEsciencePresentation.ppt | - | - |
| Jaio, Shangguan, Rui | 5:15 | Orchard Irrigation | - | - | - |
| James, Josh, Alvaro, Giovanni | 6:15 | Stargazer | File:CSCI6965-StarGazer.pdf | - | - |
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