CSIT600f: Introduction to Semantic Web
for MSc(IT) Fall 2005

• Course Paper:  Detail Instructions.  Pls remember to submit in the IEEE format.
  • Topic and draft abstract - any time starting from now
  • Abstract and paper outline submission for feedback (not for grading) - before Dec 1
  • Draft paper for comment - before Dec 18
  • Final paper due: Dec 22 23:59 HKT
• Potential course paper topics:
  • Use of ontology matchmaking, recommendation, negotiation, decision making, and another any useful "intelligent" activities
  • (web) service and web-based activities
  • exceptions, alerts, and their handling
  • e-marketplaces (cf. auctions.yahoo.com.(hk) , ebay)
  • friend matchmaking (cf. hk.personals.yahoo.com, www.match.com )
  • e-tourism
  • workforce management
  • mobile context
  • grid computing

Objectives

• To provide a conceptual overview on contemporary Semantic Web technologies
• To provide hands-on opportunities on selected features of this technologies
• To provide basic skills of reading and writing "IT" papers.
• To provide a basis for undertaking further courses or self-learning in related and/or more specific areas

Course Description 

The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) with the participations of a large number of researchers and industrial partners. It is based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF), which integrates a variety of applications using eXtended Markup Language (XML) for syntax and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) for naming.In this one-credit topic course, we shall cover the basis of Semantic Web including (i) Resource Description Framework (RDF), (ii) Web Ontology Language (OWL), and (iii) Semantic Web Services.
Emphases will be on practice and applications. We shall demonstrate some practical tools and discuss with recent case studies on the contemporary and future application of Semantic Web. The students' assessment will be based on a course paper.

Course Information

• Venue: Friday 7:30-10:20pm (T5) / Saturday 3:00pm - 5:50pm (T6) at Rm 2464 (Lift 25-26)

• Course Page: http://teaching.ust.hk/~csit600f

• Newsgroup:  hkust.csit.class.600 (Access through SSL)

• Support / Consultation Logistics: first try newsgroup, then tutor, then lecturer

Lecturer

• Dr. Dickson K.W. CHIU (Ph.D., HKUST, SMIEEE) http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~kwchiu

• Email: dicksonchiu@ieee.org (24 x 7!) 

• Phone consultation:  Leave your phone number and question by email, and I'll call back.

TA: Miss Cherrie NG (MSc, HKUST) (email: cscherrie@gmail.com)

References:

• [AH] Grigoris Antoniou & Frank van Harmelen. A Semantic Web Primer. MIT Press.

• [W3C] Ivan Herman. Tutorial on Semantic Web Technology.

• [Protege] Matthew Horridge. A Practical Guide To Building OWL Ontologies With The Protégé-OWL Plugin. (PDF)

• Protégé tool. http://protege.stanford.edu/

• [J2EE] J2EE Tutorial (includes servlet and XML API, online and downloadable tutorial), Sun Microsystem Inc. 

• [DW] Deitel et al., Java Web Services for Experienced Programmers, Prentice Hall, 2002. 

Evaluation: individual course paper 90%, class participation 10%  - no exam :-)

Course Schedule 

• Lecture 1 (Oct 21 / 22)

and

• Introduction (.ppt)

• D.K.W. Chiu, S.C. Cheung, P.C.K. Hung and H.F. Leung. Facilitating e-Negotiation Process with Semantic Web Technologies, HICSS38, Jan 2005. (.doc)(.ppt)

• Lecture 2 (Oct 28 / 29)

• D.K.W. Chiu, J.K.M. Poon, W.C. Lam, C.Y. Tse, W.H.T. Siu, W.S. Poon. How Ontologies Can Help in an E-marketplace, European Conference on Information Systems 2005 (ECIS 2005), May 2005. (.doc)(.ppt)

• D.K.W. Chiu and H.F. Leung. Next Generation Multi-platform Tourist Assistance Systems: A Multi-agent and Semantic Web Approach, ICEC 2005, Xian, China, August 2005. (.doc)(.ppt)

• D.K.W. Chiu, S.C. Cheung, and H.F. Leung. A Multi-Agent Infrastructure for Mobile Workforce Management in a Service Oriented Enterprise, HICSS38, Jan 2005. (.doc)(ppt)

• Lecture 3 (Nov 4 / 5) 

• RDF (.ppt) (Read also textbook chapter 3)

• Lecture 4 (Nov 11 / 12) 

• OWL (.ppt) (Read also textbook chapter 4)

• Lecture 5 (Nov 18 / 19) 

• Applications (.ppt)  (Read also textbook chapter 6)

• Ontology Engineering (.ppt)  (Read also textbook chapter 7)

• Summary and Outlook (.ppt) (Read also textbook chapter 8)

Course Paper: Detail Instructions

Best Student Papers from Spring 2005 accepted for publication:

• Cherrie W.W. Ng and D.K.W. Chiu. e-Government Integration with Web Services and Alerts: A Case Study on an Emergency Route Advisory System in Hong Kong, 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS39), Jan 2006.

• Anthony C.Y. Lam and D.K.W. Chiu. Cooperative Brokerage Integration for Transaction Capacity Sharing: A Case Study in Hong Kong, HICSS39, Jan 2006.

• Gordon K.T. Lau, D.K.W. Chiu and P.C.K. Hung. Web-service Based Information Integration for Decision Support: A Case Study on e-Mortgage Contract Matchmaking Service, HICSS39, Jan 2006.

• Hing-Sum Chan, D.K.W. Chiu, P.C.K. Hung and H.F. Leung. Credibility Relationship Management in a Web Service Integration Environment, 4th ICIS Workshop on e-Business, Las Vegas, Dec 10, 2005.

Outstanding Student Papers from Spring 2005 in progress for publication:

• Allen K.L. Lam and D.K.W. Chiu. Enhancing Availability of Information and Towards Freedom of News Distribution: Supporting Small-scale News Agencies with a Web-Service Infrastructure.

• Frank K.W. Cheong, Dickson K.W. Chiu, and S.C. Cheung. Developing a Distributed e-Monitoring System for Website and Web Services: An Experience Report with Free Libraries and Tools.