With Effect From the Academic Year 2013-14
BIT 412
SEMANTIC WEB(ELECTIVE –III)
Instruction per Week 4 Periods
Duration of University Examination 3 Hours
University Examination 75 Marks
Sessional 25 Marks
UNIT- I
The Future of the Internet: Introduction, Syntactic Web, Semantic Web, Working of Semantic Web, What is not a Semantic Web, Side Effects.
Ontology: Definitions, Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies, Classifying Ontologies, Web Ontology Description language, Ontologies-Categories-Intelligence .
UNIT- II
Knowledge Description in Description Logic: Introduction, Example, Family of Attributive Languages, Inference problems.
RDF and RDF Schema: Introduction, XML Essentials, RDF, RDF Schema.
UNIT- III
OWL: Introduction, Requirements for Web Ontology Description Languages, Header Information, Versioning and Annotation Properties, Properties, Classes, Individuals, Data types
Rule Languages: Introduction, Usage Scenarios, Datalog, RuleML, SWRL, TRIPLE.
UNIT- V
Semantic Web Services: Introduction, Web Service Essentials, OWL-S Service Ontology, OWL-S Example.
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.
UNIT- V
Ontology Sources: Introduction, Metadata, Upper Ontologies
Software Agents: Introduction, Agent Forms, Agent Architecture, Agents in the Semantic Web Context.
Applications: Introduction, Horizontal Information Products, Open academia, Bibster, Data Integration, Skill Finding, Think Tank Portal, e-learning, Web Services.
Suggested Reading:
1)Karin K Brietman, Marco Antonio Casanova, Walter Truszkowski, “Semantic Web – Concepts”, Technologies and Applications. Springer 2007.
2)Grigoris Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen, “A Semantic Web Primer”, PHI 2008.
3)Liyang Yu, “Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services”, CRC 2007.