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Week 1 Aug 24 |
Introduction, Course Scope and Plans
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Week 2 Aug 31 |
Semantic Web and Ontologies
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Week 3 Sep 7 |
Labor Day
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Week 4 Sep 14 |
Information Retrieval with Ontologies
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Week 5 Sep 21 |
Inter-relating Ontologies
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Week 6 Sep 28 |
Resolution of Database Semantic Heterogeneity
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Week 7 Oct 5 |
Federated Ontologies
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Week 8 Oct 12 |
RDF
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- Stefan Decker, Sergey Melnik, Frank van Harmelen, Dieter Fensel, Michel C. A. Klein, Jeen Broekstra, Michael Erdmann, and Ian Horrocks.
The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF .
IEEE Internet Computing 4(5): 63-74 (2000)
(Presenter: Sangeet Lohariwala)
- Daniel J. Abadi, Adam Marcus, Samuel Madden, and Katherine J. Hollenbach.
Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partitioning. In proceedings of the 33th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. (VLDB 2007).
(Presenter: Na Chen)
- Grigoris Antoniou and Antonis Bikakis.
DR-Prolog: A System for Defeasible Reasoning with Rules and Ontologies on the Semantic Web. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 19(2): 233-245 (2007)
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Week 9 Oct 19 |
OWL and DAML+OIL
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Week 10 Oct 26 |
Trust and Information Retrieval
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Week 11 Nov 2 |
Privacy and Security |
- Elisa Bertino, Beng Chin Ooi, Yanjiang Yang, and Robert H. Deng.
Privacy and Ownership Preserving of Outsourced Medical Data.
In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005).
(Presenter: Hardik Patel)
- Gagan Aggarwal, Mayank Bawa, Prasanna Ganesan, Hector Garcia-Molina, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Nina Mishra, Rajeev Motwani,
Utkarsh Srivastava, Dilys Thomas, Jennifer Widom, and Ying Xu.
Vision Paper: Enabling Privacy for the Paranoids.
In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2004).
(Presenter: Hardik Patel)
- Patrick Stahlberg, Gerome Miklau, and Brian Neil Levine.
Threats to privacy in the forensic analysis of database systems. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2007).
(Presenter: Nidhi Singh)
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Week 12 Nov 9 |
Ontology/Semantics Learning and Discovery
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- Sangsoo Sung, Seokkyung Chung, and Dennis McLeod.
Efficient Concept Clustering for Ontology Learning using an Event Life Cycle on the Web In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Ceara, Brazil, March 2008 (Best Paper Award)
(Presenter: Nishant Sehgal)
- Bollegala, D. T., Matsuo, Y., and Ishizuka, M. Measuring the Similarity Between Implicit Semantic Relations From the Web. In Proceedings of the 18th international Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2009).
(Presenter: Raghav Tulshibagwale)
- Ciro Cattuto, Dominik Benz, Andreas Hotho, and Gerd Stumme. Semantic Grounding of Tag Relatedness in Social Bookmarking Systems. In Proceedings of International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008).
(Presenter: Malay Parekh)
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Week 13 Nov 16 |
Scientific Applications |
- Lisa B. Grant, Andrea Donnellan, Dennis McLeod, Marlon Pierce, Geoffrey C. Fox, Anne Yun-An Chen, Miryha M. Gould, Sang-Soo Sung, and Paul Rundle.
A Web-Service Based Universal Approach to Heterogeneous Fault Databases. Computing in Science and Engineering Special Issue on Multi-Physics Modeling, 2007
(Presenter: Poorak Kashyap)
- Jihie Kim, Yolanda Gil, and Varun Ratnakar.
Semantic Metadata Generation for Large Scientific Workflows. In Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006).
(Presenter: Raghav Bhatnagar)
- Hu Changjun, Zhang Xiaoming, Zhao Qian, and Zhao Chongchong.
Ontology-Based Semantic Integration Method for Domain-Specific Scientific Data. In Proceedings of the 8th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2007).
(Presenter: Arnab Dutta)
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Week 14 Nov 23 |
Other Applications |
- Jean-Pierre Bardet, Dennis McLeod, Gisele Ragusa, and Nazila Mokarram. Ontologies and Web-Semantics for Improvement of Curriculum in Civil Engineering. In Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Conference (2008).
This paper will not be presented. Instead, The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF (1st paper on Ocv 12) is presented.
- Fei Wu, and Daniel S. Weld. Automatically Refining the Wikipedia Infobox Ontology. In Proceeding of the 17th international Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2008).
(Presenter: Huy Pham)
- Ramakrishna Soma, and Viktor K. Prasanna. Detecting Dirty Queries during Iterative Development of OWL Based Applications. In Proceedings of the OTM 2008 Confederated international Conferences, Coopis, Doa, Gada, Is, and ODBASE (2008).
(Presenter: Na Chen)
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Week 15 Nov 30 |
Project Presentations |
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