Seminar Topics

1. Introduction and Survey of semantic web research
   1. Semantic web - overview of research problems and the current state of the art
   2. Representing and reasoning with ontologies
      1. Description logics, RDF, OWL
      2. Tableau-based reasoning algorithms
   3. Ontology-based information integration
      1. Describing data sources
      2. Semantics-based querying
   4. Services
      1. Service description languages
      2. Service composition
   5. Tools
      1. Ontology editors (e.g., OWL)
      2. Reasoners (e.g., Racer)
   6. Representative Applications
      1. Semantic search
      2. Semantic mash-ups
2. Selected semantic web research topics
   1. Modular ontologies
      1. P-DL and related formalisms
      2. Federated reasoning
   2. Privacy-preserving reasoning
   3. Ontology-based information integration
      1. INDUS 2.0
      2. Beyond relational data
      3. Statistical queries
   4. Knowledge acquisition from semantically heterogeneous data
      1. Sufficient statistics-based framework for learning classifiers from distributed data
      2. Multi-relational learning
      3. Learning from multi-modal data
   5. Service composition
      1. Specification-based service composition
      2. Service substitution
      3. Service reformulation