Re: EU FP Ontology projects

Hi Azamat --

You wrote:

*Which else is promising integrative frameworks, models, methods,
techniques, or tools ? *

You may like to add the Internet Business Logic system to your list.

It's a kind of Wiki, for content in open vocabulary, executable English.

As you know, English text (like this sentence) is normally something for a
person to read, but it cannot be used as a program that you can run on a
computer.

On the other hand, executable English is something that a person can read,
and that you can also run on a computer.

As befits a Wiki, shared use of the system is free.  Just point a browser to
www.reengineeringllc.com .

Since the executable knowledge is in English, Google indexes and retrieves
it, acting  as a kind of registry.

You can use your browser to write programs in English, run them, and get
English explanations of the results.

Applications of the system include: Risk Analysis, Reasoning over
Taxonomies, Knowledge Based Data Mining, Business Intelligence, and Supply
Chain Management. Please see [1,2,3,4,5].

To use the system there is nothing to install.  Simply point your browser to
the site below, to run the examples provided, and to write and run your own
examples.

As mentioned, shared use of the system is free.

Please be aware that anyone on the web can view, run and change anything
that you write into the shared area.

Apologies if you have seen this before, and thanks for your comments,

         Adrian Walker, CTO, Reengineering

[1]
www.reengineeringllc.com/A_Wiki_for_Business_Rules_in_Open_Vocabulary_Executable_English.pdf

[2]
www.reengineeringllc.com/Oil_Industry_Supply_Chain_by_Kowalski_and_Walker.pdf

[3] www.reengineeringllc.com/ibldrugdbdemo1.htm   (Flash video with audio)

[4] www.reengineeringllc.com/EnergyIndependence1Video.htm  (Flash video with
audio)

[5] Internet Business Logic
A Wiki and SOA endpoint for executable open vocabulary English
Online at www.reengineeringllc.com   Shared use is free

Adrian Walker
Reengineering



2009/2/27 Azamat <abdoul@cytanet.com.cy>

>  Dear All,
>
> Making a review, I am looking for the full listing of FP6/FP7
> ontology-centered semantic technology projects:
> 1. ESSI or STI Projects (Knowledge Web, SUPER, TripCom).
> [The mission of STI International  - Semantic Technology Institute
> International - is to establish Semantics as a core pillar of modern
> computer engineering.]
> 2. ONTORULE project.
> [The objective of ONTORULE is to integrate all the required pieces of
> knowledge and technology to allow the acquisition of ontologies and rules
> from the most appropriate sources, including natural language documents]
> 3. NeOn project.
> [Our aim is to advance the state of the art in using ontologies for *
> large-scale* semantic applications in the distributed organizations.
> Particularly, we aim at improving the capability to handle multiple *networked
> ontologies* that exist in a particular *context*, are created *
> collaboratively*, and might be highly dynamic and constantly *evolving*.]
> Which else is promising integrative frameworks, models, methods,
> techniques, or tools ?
> I'd appreciate any extension to the short list: web sites, general
> documents, deliverables, research papers, etc.
>
> Also, if anybody could comment on the NeOn methodolody:
> "Most of the existing practices for the development of ontologies focus on
> a single ontology, on a global consistency of such an ontology, and, in
> principle, on a linear development. This is very restrictive– it is as if we
> all communicated in a single language and completely disregarded our
> cultural or historical specifics. Single ontology means single viewpoint on
> the problems, situations and solutions. If in our everyday life we use many
> different viewpoints, why can't designers of semantic applications and
> engineers developing knowledge models do the same? In NeOn, we see several
> dimensions, in which the existing single-ontology style of work need to be
> enriched:...",
> http://www.neon-project.org/web-content/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=23
> Thanks.
> Azamat Abdoullaev
> http://www.eis.com.cy
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jos de Bruijn" <debruijn@inf.unibz.it>
> To: <semantic-web@w3.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 12:32 PM
> Subject: Postdoc position at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
>
> > ============================================================
> > Job: Postdoc position at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
> > Duration: 3 years, renewable (by mutual consent) for another 3 years
> > Topics: Knowledge Representation, Description Logics, Rules
> >
> > Language requirement: English
> >
> > Application deadline: 25 March 2009
> > ============================================================
> >
> >
> > The KRDB research centre at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
> > (http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/) seeks applicant for a postdoctoral
> > position. The bulk of the research to be carried out is in the context
> > of the ONTORULE project (http://ontorule-project.eu/), and is concerned
> > with the application of Description Logics to business rules and the
> > combination of production rule and Description Logic formalisms. Both
> > representational adequacy and computational complexity play important
> > roles in such combinations.
> >
> > Candidates must have a strong research record and a solid background in
> > description and/or modal logics. Experience with first-order modal and
> > fixed-point logics, and to a lesser extent experience with active rule
> > languages such as production rules, is considered desirable, but by no
> > means mandatory.
> >
> >
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>