Blogging from ISWC06
Tim Finin, 1:00pm 5 November 2006ISWC06 is, of course, the 2006 International Semantic Web Conference.
I arrived at at ATL last night and took the ISWC bus to Athens, which is about 60 miles outside Atlanta. Chris Thomas, a PhD student at UGA, did a great job of finding us all and telling us about Athens and UGA during the 90 minute ride. He even offered to provide a personal tour of the Athens night life. I passed. It’s surprisingly cold here — I was expecting Georgia to be warmer in Early November — but the University of Georgia campus is quite attractive and their conference center is very nice. Today I’m participating in the Semantic Web Policy Workshop. Grit Denker of SRI started off our workshop by giving an invited talk on their work on using policies to control agile, software controled radios used in wireless communication. This was a great talk to start the workshop, since it’s grounded in a real application with some non-toy requirements, like delivering policy decisions in milliseconds and reasoning with complicated numerical constraints. Consequently, their policies are not represented in OWL but in a custom language that is supported by a policy reasoning implemented in Prolog.
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