The program includes invited talks and tutorials by leading experts in the field, which are complemented by hands-on sessions, exercises and student projects. The main themes are “Introduction to Semantic Web”, “Ontologies and Ontology Engineering” and Semantic Web Services”, all of which are presented both form a theoretical and from a practical point of view. Throughout the school, emphasis is also given to real world applications.

Module “Introduction to Semantic Web gives an overview of the core concepts underlying the Semantic Web, of the state of the art in the field and the current directions of research and development. It covers also an overview of tools and languages used to develop semantic systems. The module includes two lecture units followed by a tutorial, a hands-on session and exercises in which the students get familiar with common methods and tools used on the Semantic Web.

Module “Ontologies and Ontology Engineering” The goal of this module is to teach students to build and manage ontologies and to formalize conceptual models using Semantic Web standard languages such as OWL. The module is divided into two lecture units introducing ontology engineering as a discipline describing methodologies and methods supporting particular phases in an ontology life cycle (particularly ontology matching), followed by tutorials, hands-on sessions and exercises on ontology modeling, and languages and reasoning, respectively.

Module “Semantic Web Services” Web Services are one of the main application areas of Semantic Web, heavily driven by the industries. After giving an overview of the field, we will concentrate on the work currently carried on under the umbrella of the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO) working group. The module will thus cover the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO), the Web Service Modeling Language (WSML), and the Web Service Execution Environment (WSMX). It is divided into two lecture units, a tutorial unit on WSMT and a hands-on and exercises.

Module “Semantic Web Applications” It is very important for students to know how Semantic Web technologies have been successfully implemented for real-world business purposes. This module will give the attendees the opportunity to learn about success stories and best practices in deploying semantic technologies for the resolution of key problems of current IT systems.

The autumn school will be running for one week (Monday to Saturday) in Busan, Korea between November, 5 – 10, 2007.

Registration will start in the previous Sunday afternoon (November, 4, 2007). Following each day will be roughly organized by the domain-focused talks, related technical tutorials, interleaved with or followed by guided hands-on sessions. Student projects will be used to link through all the days. The last day will conclude with a contest of the student project presentation and final closing discussions. The program will be surrounded by series of social events in order to further facilitate the collaboration between the participants (welcome night, excursion, party).

The schedule of the autumn school is depicted in the table below.

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Asian Autumn School on Semantic Technologies
	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
9:00-9:15	Welcome	Admin. Announcements	Admin. Announcements	Admin. Announcements	Admin. Announcements	Student Project Presentation
9:15-10:15	Introduction to Semantic Web	Ontology Engineering - 1	Identify	Student Project	Semantic Web Application - 1
10:15-11:15	Semantic Web reprensentation languages and reasoning	Ontology Engineering - 2	Semantic Web Services - 1	Student Project	Semantic Web Application - 2	Student Project Presentation
11:15-11:40	Tea Break
11:40-12:40	Tutorial Semantic Web Methods, Tools and Applications	Ontology Matching and Alignment	Semantic Web Services - 2	Student Project	Student Project	Student Project Presentation
12:40-14:30	Lunch
14:30-16:00	Hands-on Session and Exercises Semantic Web Methods, Tools and Applications	Tutorial Ontology Modeling	Tutorial WSMT	Excursion	Student Project	Winner Announcement and Closing Session
16:00-16:30	Tea Break				Tea Break
16:30-18:00	Hands-on Session and Exercises- OWL and reasoning	Hands-on Session and Exercises Ontology Modeling	Hands-on Session and Exercises WSMT		Student Project
19:00- 20:00	Dinner				Dinner
20:30-24:00	Welcome Night	Student Project Proposal Presentation			Closing Party