[Acpc-l] Einladung zum WIT-Kolloquium von Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel am 21.6.04

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:09:33 +0200

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Das Wissenschafterinnenkolleg Internettechnologien der Fakultaet fuer
Informatik der TU Wien laedt gemeinsam mit der Oesterreichischen Computer
Gesellschaft zu folgendem Vortrag ein:

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Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel
Uni Innsbruck

Datum: Montag, 21. Juni 2004
Uhrzeit: 17:00 bis 18:00+
Ort: TU Wien, Hoersaal EI 9 (Hlawka-Hs), Gusshausstr. 27-29, Erdgeschoss

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TITEL:
Semantic Web Services:
A new infrastructure for eWork and eCommerce

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ABSTRACT:
Tim Berners-Lee referred to the future of the current WWW as the "Semantic
Web" - an extended Web of  machine-readable information and automated
services that extend far beyond current capabilities. The explicit
representation of the semantics underlying data, programs, pages, and other
Web resources, will enable a  knowledge-based Web that provides a
qualitatively new level of service. Automated services will improve in their
capacity to assist humans in achieving their goals by "understanding" more
of the content on the Web, and thus  providing more accurate filtering,
categorization, and searches of information sources. This process will
ultimately  lead to an extremely knowledgeable system that features various
specialized reasoning services. Examples include  both business
applications, such as automated procurement and supply chain management, but
also non-commercial  applications as well as military applications. Web
services can be completely decentralized and distributed over the  Internet
and accessed by a wide variety of communication devices. Organizations can
be released from the burden of  complex, slow and expensive software
integration and focus instead on the value of their offerings and mission
critical tasks. The dynamic enterprise and dynamic value chains would become
achievable and may be even mandatory for competitive  advantage. These
services will support us in nearly all aspects of our daily life - making
access to information as  pervasive and necessary, as access to electricity
is today.

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CV:
Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel (1960) obtained in 1989 a Diploma in Social Science
at the Free University of Berlin and a  Diploma in Computer Science at the
Technical University of Berlin. In 1993 he was awarded a Doctor's degree in
economic science (Dr. rer. pol.) at the University of Karlsruhe and in 1998
he received his Habilitation in Applied  Computer Science. He was working at
the University of Karlsruhe (AIFB), the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and
the  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). In 2002, he took a chair at the
University of Innsbruck, Austria. In 2003 he  became the scientific director
of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the National
University of  Ireland, Galway, based on a large grant acquired from Science
Foundation Ireland (SFI). His current research  interests include
Ontologies, semantic web, web services, knowledge management, enterprise
application integration,  and electronic commerce. More details:
www.fensel.com

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KONTAKTPERSON AN DER TU WIEN:
Dr. Beate List,
list@wit.tuwien.ac.at, Tel. 58801-18830

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FOERDERUNG
WIT wird gefoerdert von BMBWK und ESF im Rahmen von fFORTE - Frauen in
Forschung und Technologie.

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SPONSORING
Die Finanzierung dieser Veranstaltung erfolgt durch freundliche
Unterstuetzung der Erste Bank.

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ANMELDUNG
Wir bitten um Anmeldung unter http://wit.tuwien.ac.at/events.

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HINWEIS

Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos.
Im Anschluss an den Vortrag gibt es bei Käse und Wein die Gelegenheit zum
informellen Meinungsaustausch.

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