WITH EFFECT FROM THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013–2014
CS 472
SEMANTIC WEB
(Elective III)
Instruction 4 Periods per week
Duration of University Examination 3 Hours
University Examination 75 Marks
Sessionals 25 Marks
UNIT I
The Future of the Internet: Introduction, The Syntactic Web, The Semantic Web, The working Semantic Web. Ontology in Computer Science: Defining the Term Ontology, Differences among Taxonomies, Thesauri, and Ontologies, Classifying Ontologies, Web Ontologies, Web Ontology Description Languages, Ontology, Categories, and Intelligence.
UNIT II
Knowledge Representation in Description Logic: Introduction, an Informal Example, the Family of Attributive Languages, Inference Problems. RDF and RDF Schema: Introduction, XML Essentials, RDF, RDF Schema, A Summary of the RDF/RDF Schema Vocabulary.
UNIT III
OWL: Introduction, Requirements for Web Ontology Description Languages, Header Information, Versioning, and Annotation Properties, Properties, Classes, Individuals, Data types, A Summary of the OWL Vocabulary. Rule Languages: Introduction, Usage Scenarios for Rule Languages, Datalog, RuleML, SWRL, TRIPLE. Semantic Web Services: Introduction, Web Service Essentials, OWL-S Service Ontology, An OWL-S Example.
UNIT IV
Methods for Ontology Development: Introduction, Uschold and King Ontology Development Method, Toronto Virtual Enterprise Method, Methontology, KACTUS Project Ontology Development Method, Lexicon-Based Ontology Development Method, Simplified Methods. Ontology Sources: Introduction, Metadata, Upper Ontologies, Other Ontologies of Interest, Ontology Libraries. Semantic Web Software Tools: Introduction, Metadata and Ontology Editors, Reasoners, Other tools.
UNIT V
Software Agents: Introduction, Agent Forms, Agent Architecture, Agents in the Semantic web Context. Semantic Desktop: Introduction, Semantic Desktop Metadata, Semantic Desktop Ontologies, Semantic Desktop Architecture, Semantic Desktop Related Applications. Ontology Application in Art: Introduction, Ontologies for the Description of Works of Art, Metadata Schemas for The Description of Works of Art, Semantic Annotation of Art Images.
SUGGESTED READING:
1. Semantic Web Concepts: Technologies and Applications, Karin K. Breitman, Marco Antonio Casanova and Walter Truszowski, Springer.
REFERENCES:
1. Information Sharing on the Semanting Web, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Frank van Harmelen, Springer.
2. Semantic Web Primer, Grigoris Antoniou, Frank Van,third Edition, MIT Press.
3. Semantic Web Services: Concepts, Technologies and Applications, Rudi Studer, Stephan Grimm, Andrees Abeker, Springer.
4. Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology Driven Knowledge Management, John Davis, Dieter Fensal, Frank Van Harmelen, J. Wiley.