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Semantic Web and Software Engineering
Advanced seminar (WS 08) - Organisation
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Thema
The Semantic Web is an area of research which attempts to promote "semantics" on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee, the director of W3C, explained the Semantic Web to be an "extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation." The Semantic Web has come to include a range of formalisms and techniques to accomplish this goal. Among these techniques, for example, "ontologies" play a large role for sharing and and modeling the well-defined information.
Semantic Web technology can not only be used to promote better understanding on the Web, but efforts have recently also been started for deploying such techniques in other areas, for example, in Software Engineering.
This Hauptseminar will discuss the fundamental notions and techniques of the Semantic Web, and then investigate how it relates to, and can be exploited for, Software Engineering.
The goal of the Hautpseminar is to: (1) Provide basic understanding of some main Semantic Web technology, and (2) Give an overview of how this technology relates to, and is envision to be used and deployed in, the Software Engineering field.
Organization
For successful participation in the Hauptseminar, the following tasks should be completed:
- Read the proposed material and possibly research other resources as well (as needed).
- Present the read material. (at time N)
- Write a summary report on the read topic (at time N-2 weeks, N-1 week for the first seminar).
- Complete two reviews of reports written by two other participants (at time N-1 where N is the preesntation of the work being reviewed).
- Include the reviewer comments into your own report (at time N+1 week).
Presentation
The presentation should give a good overview of the selected subject. Please take care to organize a good presentation structure, use interesting and clear examples and make the topic interesting to the other participants. Re-work the structure and flow of your presentation as many times as is needed before the presentation. Convince yourself that the structure is meaningful. A good way of making sure the structure and line of argument is good is to give a test presentation to a friend or colleague who can give you some initial feedback. The presentation may not extend over the 45 minute time limit. The slides and presentation should preferrably be in English, but exceptions are naturally possible.
Written Report
The written report should be in LNCS style and should be approximate 10 pages. The report should preferably be written using LaTeX, but Word can also be used if really required. The final version should be available to the reviewers as a PDF.
Information and templates on how to conform to LNCS can be found at Springer.
Reviews
Review content
The review should contain comments on:
Review system
The reviews will be handeled via SVN. Each participant should have been given access to the SVN server for uploading reports and comments (if not, please contact the organizer).
Review assignments
The following participants are considered, followed by their assigned reviewers (last updated 17th November 2008):
The review should contain comments on:
- Overall presentation and structure
- Coverege (Is there enough information to understand the issue at hand?)
- Editorial comments (punctuation, sentence structure, spelling etc.)
- Rerefences (check that they are available and well-formed)
Review system
The reviews will be handeled via SVN. Each participant should have been given access to the SVN server for uploading reports and comments (if not, please contact the organizer).
Review assignments
The following participants are considered, followed by their assigned reviewers (last updated 17th November 2008):
- Ghiath Makhoul (7,8) ; (deadline: 20.11)
- Benjamin Bach (8,10) ; (20.11)
- Christoph Seidl (10,11) ; (20.11)
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- Johannes Mey (11,12) ; (27.11)
- Georg Berndt (12,1) ; (27.11)
- Michael Muck (1,2) ; (4.12)
- Peter Mucha (2,3) ; (4.12)
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- Johann Gehrisch (3,5) ; (11.12)
- Peter Süttner (5,6) ; (18.12)
- Ivan Hristov (6,7) ; (18.12)
Allowances
The course can be used for the modules as specified by the department: here. Students with other exam regulations can attend the course, but cannot do the exam.