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DIP Partner Presentation

Frankfurt, January 17, 2003

Rudi Studer & Alexander Maedche

FZI Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germanywww.fzi.de

Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

AIFB

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FZI - Introduction

• The research center for information technologies …• founded 1985 as associated institute at the University of Karlsruhe• is technology and knowledge transfer organisation, bridge between

industry and research

• The FZI research group WIM …• History: Founded 2000 as new research group at FZI, partner

institute is Institute AIFB at the University of Karlsruhe• Coordination: Prof. Dr. R. Studer and Dr. A. Maedche• Research Topics: in general knowledge technologies

• Modeling, extracting and distributing knowledge• Ontology management infrastructure• Knowledge management, Web Services

• The FZI research group DBS …• founded 1985 as first research group of FZI, partner institute is

Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization (IPD) at the University of Karlsruhe

• Coordination: Prof. Dr. P. Lockemann and W. Kazakos • Research topics: Information integration, Web data

management, Context-based Systems

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Fields & Activities

SWWS – Semantic Web Services

OFA – Food andAgriculture Ontologies

VISION – ThematicNetwork Knowledge Management

Ontologging – Ontology-based Knowledge Management

IntelligentHuman Resource Management

Knowledge Managementin Virtual Organizations

SSII – Study Semantic Information Integration

Classifier

VICODI – Visual Contextualization ofDigital Information

Individuals(Document Access, E-learning...)

Organisation Units(Business Processes, Knowledge Exchange, Groupware, ...)

Integrated Enterprise(Intra-Enterprise-Interoperability, Intranet Portals, EAI, ...)

Within companies

Extended Enterprise(Extra-Enterprise-Interoperability, B2B, SCM, CRM, B2C, ...)

Networked Enterprise(Inter-Enterprise-Interoperability, Virtual Enterprise, ... )

Between companies

Automatic KAT Extractor

Ontology-basedContent Access

Autonomic Computing

Tourism Harmonization

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Building Blocks of Semantic Services

Description

Discovery

Composition Quality of Service

Security

Integration

Wire

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FZI Contribution to DIP

• Karlsruhe’s core competency:• Knowledge Representation & Data Management

Technology

• Information Integration Architectures and Systems

• Ontology Engineering & Management

• Query

• Evolution

• Views

• Mapping

• Semantic Web compliant (standards like RDF(S), OWL, etc.)

• FZI will exploit its SWWS results

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FZI Contribution to DIP

• FZI would like

• to contribute to Discovery & Integration, combined with the necessary description aspects

• Discovery: Infrastructure that allows searching for distributed and centralized services using Semantic Web technologies

• Integration: includes mediation between services and legacy systems and mediation between heterogeneous services

• to further improve methods and tools for

• Ontology management, e.g. evolution, views

• is interested in participating in real-world case studies (applied research)