OWL leaves the nest
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Start: Friday, November 04, 2005, 04:00PM
End: Friday, November 04, 2005, 05:30PM
Location: Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington VA
Abstract: OWL leaves the nest
a panel at the
2005 AAAI Fall Symposium Series
First International Symposium on Agents and the Semantic Web
16:00-17:30 Friday 4 November 2005
Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington VA
Panelists
- Tim Finin, UMBC, Baltimore MD (moderator)
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Norman Sadeh, CMU, Pittsburgh PA
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Yannis Labrou, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, College Park MD
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Harry Lik Chen, Image Matters LLC, Leesburg VA
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Filip Perich, Shared Spectrum Company, Vienna VA
Although the Semantic Web languages and related technology were
designed to publish and share information on the Web, it's always been
recognized that they have many other uses. This panel will focus on
the use of the Semantic Web technologies in mobile and pervasive
computing and communication. Some recent examples that we will touch
on include the following. A number of research efforts involving
mobile and pervasive computing have adopted OWL to describe services,
share information and cooperate. Policies grounded in OWL are being
used to control communication and ensure privacy in "smart spaces".
Research projects are using RDF metadata to help manage and route
communication in conventional and ad hoc networks. Additional
usecases will be covered and the challenges and obstacles for
realizing them will be discussed.
Issues to be explored
The panelists will each make a short preliminary statement and then
respond to any or all of the following questions or issues. Workshop
participants are encouraged to think up new and provocative issues and
to spring them on the panelists without warning and ask for a
response.
- Will the impact of RDF and OWL on the systems and communication
ultimately be greater than on the World Wide Web?
- How likely are system developers to adopt a multiagent system
approach?
- How likely are system developers to adopt the current semantic web
technologies?
- Are RDF and OWL the right languages for these kinds of
applications? If not, what's missing?
- Do current ideas for semantic web services (e.g., OWL-S, WMSO)
meet your needs? If not, how should they change?
- Declarative policies encoded in RDF are popular in research
systems now. Are they ready for real applications?
- What non-web applications do you think will be the first to be deployed by industry or government?
- Will the use of Semantic Web languages drive a unified web-based design in the future mobile computing systems?
- It's difficult for RDF and OWL to encode and use certain kinds of common sense knowledge (e.g., nearby, faster, closer, typically, probably) essential for building smart applications. How can we address these issues?
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