SOS Research Group - STI Innsbruck

PhD Seminar 2007 in Vienna

The seminar is targeted at PhD students whose research interests cover the Semantic Web and Web Service areas. It will help the students concretize their research intentions and receive feedback on the soundness and completeness of their achieved work.

The seminar is open to everyone who's interested, it is not restricted to PhD students and their supervisors.

Lecturers

Dieter Fensel
Elena Simperl
Gerti Kappel

Language

English

Time

blocked (20.9./21.9.2007)
Vienna

Introduction

Following up the 1st PhD Seminar 2006 this year the seminar will be a joint event between DERI UIBK and the Business Informatics Group at TUW. The seminar will take place in Vienna, 20.9.2007/21.9.2007 at the Vienna University of Technology (TUW).

Location: Hoersaal des Dekanatszentrums (auch Dekanat der Fakultaet fuer Informatik)
Getreidemarkt 9, Stiege 2, 1. Stock, 1060 Wien. Venue information is available at www.studyguide.at.

Train transportation and accomodation in Vienna have been organized. Rooms were booked at the AUSTRIA Trend Hotel ANATOL. For further questions please contact Elena.Simperl@deri.at

The seminar will contain full and short presentations. PhD students who are in an early stage of their doctoral research (i.e. phase 0 or at the beginning of phase 1) will be asked to give a short presentation of 10 minutes talk and 5 minutes discussion. PhD students who are in a more advanced stage (at the end of phase 1 or in phase 2) will be asked to give a full presentation (20 minutes talk + 10 minutes discussion). PhD students who are about to finish their thesis (phase 3) may choose to give a presentation as well - please inform the organizers at your earliest convenience if this should be the case.

Important Dates

Deadline for abstracts: 30. June 2007

Seminar: 20./21. September 2007, Vienna

Detailed Schedule

Day 1 - Thursday, 20.09.2007
09.00 - 09.30	Introduction
09.30 - 10.30	Session 1 (2 x DERI)
	Keller Uwe BDD-Tableau: Combining Rich Semantic Structures with Tableau-based Search for Description Logic Reasoning Stollberg Michael Scalable Semantic Web Service Discovery for Goal-driven Service Oriented Architectures
10.30 - 11.00	coffee break
11.00 - 12.30	Session 2 (3 x DERI)
	Scharffe Francois Patterns-based Ontology Alignment Specification Kerrigan Mick Modeling in the Lifecycle of Semantic Web Services Feier Cristina New Methods for Distributed Knowledge Representation and Distributed Reasoning on the Semantic Web: Distributed Open Answer Set Programming
12.00 - 14.00	lunch break
14.00 - 15.30	Session 3 (3 x BIG)
	Stefanov Veronika Increasing the Potential of Data Warehouses for Organizations Murzek Marion Model Morphing - Horizontal Transformations between Business Process Models Korherr Birgit Business Process Modeling: A special focus on goals and performance measures
15.30 - 16.00	coffee break
16.00 - 17.00	Session 4 (3 x BIG - ModelCVS)
	Wimmer Manuel From Mining to Mapping - A Systematic Approach to Model Integration Kargl Horst Automatic Model Integration based on Smart Matching Strommer Michael Model Transformation By-Example
17.30	Departure to "Heurigen" in "Gutramsdorf" ( http://weingut-gausterer.at/ )
22.00 - 23.00	Return journey from "Heurigen" in "Gutramsdorf" (arrival 23.00)

Day 2 - Friday, 21.09.2007
09.00 - 10.00	Session 5 - Short Presentations
	Sirbu Adina ScalableWeb Service Composition with Partial Matches Siorpaes Katharina Community-Driven Ontology Engineering based on Wikis Shafiq Omair Communication and Coordination issues in Semantic Service Execution: towards Performance Engineering for Semantically Enabled Service Oriented Architectures Scicluna James Web Service Composition: Background Theories, Paralellisation and Business Policies
10.00 - 10.30	coffee break
10.30 - 12.00	Session 6 (3 x DERI)
	Kopecky Jacek Semantic Web Service Offer Discovery through Interaction Toma Ioan Semantic Web Services Ranking based on Non-Functional Properties Krummenacher Reto Ontology-Driven Management of Scalability Factors of Semantic Spaces
12.00 - 13.30	lunch break
13.30 - 15.00	Session 7 (1 x DERI, 2 x BIG)
	Bürger Tobias Towards a Methodology for Self-Producing Media Schauerhuber Andrea Applying Aspect-Orientation to the Model-Driven Web Application Development of Ubiquitous Web Applications Graf Sabine Adaptivity in Learning Management Systems Focusing on Learning Styles
15.00 - 15.30	coffee break
15.30 - 16.30	Closing discussion

Workshop Organization

Dieter Fensel (DERI Innsbruck, Austria)
Elena Simperl (DERI Innsbruck, Austria)
Gerti Kappel (BIG TU Vienna, Austria)