TITLE: Ontologies and Rules for the Semantic Web

PRESENTER: Grigoris Antoniou

AFFILIATION: University of Crete, Greece

DATE: Thursday 4th September 2003

TIME: 12-1pm

PLACE: CSE K17 1st Floor Seminar Room

ABSTRACT:

In this talk we will give a brief overview of the current design of the Semantic Web. Its current state is strongly based on and biased towards descriptio logic based ontology languages. However the concept of rules is gaining importance. We will discuss which role rule technology can be expected to play, either in conjunction with description logics or as an alternative

BIOGRAPHY OF SPEAKER:

Grigoris Antoniou is a Professor at the University of Crete, Greece. He has spent most of his academic career in Germany and Australia, and held previously professorial appointments in both countries. His main research interests lie in knowledge representation and it applications. His is author of over 100 technical papers, and author of two books. His book on the Semantic Web will be published by the MIT Press in early 2004.

HOST

Maurice Pagnucco and Thomas Meyer
School of Computer Science and Engineering

Seminar Convenor:

Bernhard Hengst
Tel: +61-2-9385-3988,
E-mail: bernhardh@cse.unsw.edu.au
School of Computer Science & Engineering, UNSW.