Tuesday, 5/22/2007
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Level: Technical - Advanced

Many applications for semantic reasoning require efficient access and processing of dynamic information, but reasoning is traditionally performed within the confines of the knowledge base or triple store. Cloudwall provides a framework enabling semantic processing of asynchronous real-time events and federated data outside the direct control of the reasoner for the purpose of consequence management of natural and man-made disasters. A Java Message Service architecture is combined with the JENA Semantic Web Framework and a semantic SOA integration capability, called Wave, to build situation-specific notification plans. This presentation should be of interest to those developing applications of ontological reasoning over dynamic information such as real-time events and federated data. Issues discussed will include:

• Cloudwall system architecture
• domain ontology and knowledge representations
• real-time event processing
• JENA reasoning
• SPARQL querying over federated data.

Dr. Richard Hull is Chief Scientist and Vice President of Modus Operandi, Inc. Dr. Hull has extensive experience as a research scientist and software developer. He has focused on leveraging research in the areas of knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation and reasoning for solving real-world research and business problems in the areas of drug discovery and military applications.