The 1st Asian Autumn School on the Semantic Web aims to teach its attendees how to apply semantic technologies in their own projects and environments. The school is targeted at PhD students, young researchers and other interested parties affiliated to academia or industry. It is particularly our goal to bring together international experts in the field and to invite the leading research groups in Korea to be part of the program.
Presentations by leading international experts in the field will introduce the core technologies of the Semantic Web:
- Standard knowledge representation languages such as Resource Description Framework (RDF) or Web Ontology Language (OWL), including tools for exploiting their reasoning capabilities.
- Principles, methods and tools to build and manage ontologies.
- The current directions in Semantic Web Services, in particular the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO) and the related Web Service Modeling Language (WSML) and Web Service Execution Environment (WSMX).
Tutorials, hands-on sessions and exercises will provide additional insights into these topics and guide the students in applying the technologies in particular situations. These learning modules will be complemented by invited talks which report on the deployment of semantic technologies in real-world business scenarios, handed over by representatives of well-known international companies.
Finally the participants will be involved in projects, in which they will develop prototypical Semantic Web applications in small teams on the basis of a pre-defined scenario specification.
The Asian Autumn School on the Semantic Web will be held between November, 5-10, 2007 in Korea, prior to the joint ISWC-ASWC 2007 conference.
To ensure a high ratio between tutors and students the school will be limited to 50 participants worldwide.
The Asian Autumn School on the Semantic Web (AASSW) brings the tradition of a School on the Semantic Web to Asia, which has proved to be so succesful in Europe through the KnowledgeWeb Summer School. Many thanks go to the directors of the KnowledgeWeb Summer School, Enrico Motta (Open University) and Asunción Gómez-Pérez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), as well as to the tutors and invited speakers involved in the previous Summer Schools, who motivated us to organize this event.