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WWW2006 - The 15th International World Wide Web Conference
23-26 May 2006, Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Scotland
The WWW Conference aimed at bringing together the key influencers, decision makers, technologists, business and standards bodies shaping the future of the web.
- WWW2006 Website
- Programme & Speakers
Semantic Technology - A European perspective, 23 May 2006
Horst Forster, Director at the European Commission, Directorate 'Content', chaired the session on 'Semantic Technology - A European perspective' with some of the leading academic and industrial experts in the field.
Find the presentations:
- Introductory Remarks, by Roberto Cencioni (head of unit 'Knowledge & Content Technologies') (PDF, 53KB)
Further (the order reflects a progression from theory to practice) Van Harmelen talked about theory of knowledge representation formalisms and reasoners, Giunchiglia on what organisational and networking features are necessary to ensure that these technologies are in fact widely adopted; Fensel talked about how to bring these technologies in the world of businesses and services. Davies explained what is needed to introduce them in the world of corporate knowledge management and information retrieval. Davies finally asked the other three speakers which technologies are closest to be mature enough for deployment and what the deployment path should be:
- Presentation, by Professor Frank Van Harmelen (PDF, 595KB)
Frank Van Harmelen
Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and leading the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group. - Semantic Technology - A European perspective, by Professor Fausto Giunchiglia (PDF, 459KB)
Fausto Giunchiglia
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Trento, Department of Information and Communication Technology. - The Role of Semantic Technology, by Professor Dieter Fensel (PDF, 4.334KB)
Dieter Fensel
Scientific Director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway and Innsbruck. - European Perspectives - An Industrial View, by John Davies (PDF, 718KB)
John Davies
Dr John Davies leads British Telecom's Next Generation Web research group.
Opportunities for the Semantic Web - Research & Development, 24 May 2006
This full-day session entitled 'The Next Wave of the Web' featured presentations and demonstrations given by several EU-funded projects. Horst Forster opened the afternoon session 'Opportunities for the Semantic Web - Research & Development'.
- EU Semantic Web Research - A broad Overview, by Roberto Cencioni (head of unit 'Knowledge & Content Technologies') (PDF, 88KB)
- SEmantic Knowledge Technology, by John Davies, Manager, Next Generation Web Research, BT (PDF, 537KB)
- Opportunities for the Semantic Web - Research & Development: Bringing Semantic Web 'Technology to the Market, by Richard Benjamins, Director of Innovation and R&D, Intelligent software Components (iSOCO) (PDF, 1.016KB)
- The SOA Yellow Brick Road: Drawing the Curtain on the SOA Wizard, by Michael Brodie, Chief Scientist of Verizon IT
- Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Artifical Intelligence, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.