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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, Germany www.fzi.de Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany. AIFB. FZI - Introduction.
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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
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
Between companies Networked Enterprise (Inter-Enterprise-Interoperability, Virtual Enterprise, ... ) Extended Enterprise (Extra-Enterprise-Interoperability, B2B, SCM, CRM, B2C, ...) Integrated Enterprise (Intra-Enterprise-Interoperability, Intranet Portals, EAI, ...) Organisation Units (Business Processes, Knowledge Exchange, Groupware, ...) Individuals (Document Access, E-learning...) Within companies Fields & Activities SWWS – Semantic Web Services Knowledge Management in Virtual Organizations Tourism Harmonization Autonomic Computing OFA – Food and Agriculture Ontologies VICODI – Visual Contextualization of Digital Information SSII – Study Semantic Information Integration VISION – Thematic Network Knowledge Management Intelligent Human Resource Management Ontologging – Ontology-based Knowledge Management Classifier Ontology-based Content Access Automatic KAT Extractor
Building Blocks of Semantic Services Composition Quality of Service Security Description Discovery Integration Wire
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
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)