WAI › Schedule › 2011 › 17 jan

Title : High performance reasoning: reconciling backward and forward inference

Presenter Jacopo Urbani
Abstract Performing rule-based reasoning on a large amount of data is a challenging task. In the Semantic Web, there are billions of statements on which reasoning can be applied to infer new and useful knowledge. Reasoning can be applied in several ways. Currently, forward inference is the most scalable approach but backward inference is more appealing because it is executed at query time only on the knowledge we are interested on. In this talk, I will briefly present the state of the art on this field and discuss how we can merge these two types of reasoning under a high performance and scalability point of view.

Title : Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems

Presenter Martijn Schut
Abstract In this talk, I'll give a brief overview of the AWARE project (http://www.aware-project.eu), which started last October. AWARE provides a supportive environment for research into self-awareness in autonomic systems, helping to create a well-connected community of researchers and conveying a coherent prospect to a wider scientific and technological audience. AWARE reaches out to a diverse, multidisciplinary scientific community that researches the domain of awareness. We support 5 FET funded projects. The VUA is responsible for the educational part of the project which includes the organisation of summer schools and development of open courseware and mobile apps. I hope that at the presentation you will think with me 1) about awareness itself, 2) on how to develop open courseware (any semantic technologies out there that we should know of?), and 3) and brainstorm about creating nice educational mobile apps (for iPhone, iPad, android, etcetera).