Funded attendance at Manchester Family History: Advanced OWL Tutorial

The School of Computer Science at The University of Manchester is 
looking for individuals to participate in a funded OWL tutorial that 
covers the more advanced language concepts for OWL. We will cover 
reasonable expenses for travel in the UK, subsistence and up to 2 nights 
of accommodation. The tutorial is gratis and will take place on Tuesday 
16th and Wednesday 17th of June at the University of Manchester.

 From those who attend the tutorial we will seek volunteers to take part 
in a study in which their interaction with Protégé will be logged. 
In doing so, we will learn how people go about authoring ontologies. 
Taking part in the study will not interfere in your learning objectives 
as no additional tasks have to be carried out and data will be collected 
silently. If you decide to participate in the study, you will be free to 
opt-out anytime without detriment to your funding and participation in 
the tutorial. We will award volunteers a £20 Amazon voucher.

This tutorial goes beyond the world-famous Manchester Pizza Tutorial, by 
exploring OWL concepts in greater depth, concentrating on properties, 
property hierarchies, property features and individuals. The topic of 
family history is used to take the tutee through various modelling 
issues and, in doing so, using many features of OWL 2 to build a Family 
History KnowledgeBase (FHKB). The exercises involving the FHKB are 
designed to maximise inference about family history through use of an 
automated reasoner on an OWL knowledge base (KB) containing many members 
of a family. The aim, therefore, is to enable people to learn advanced 
features of OWL 2 in a setting that involves both classes and 
individuals, while attempting to maximise the use of inference within 
the FHKB.

By the end of the tutorial you will be able to:
1. Know about the separation of entities into TBox and ABox;
2. Use classes and individuals in modelling;
3. Write sophisticated class expressions;
4. Assert facts about individuals;
5. Use the effects of property hierarchies, property characteristics, 
domain/range constraints to drive inference;
6. Use property characteristics and subproperty chains on inferences 
about individuals
7. Understand and manage the consequences of the open world assumption 
in the TBox and ABox;
8. Use nominals in class expressions;
9. Appreciate some of the limits of OWL 2.

Supplementary material for the tutorial can be found at: 
http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/publications/talks-and-tutorials/fhkbtutorial/

Participants should at least be familiar with fundamental OWL constructs 
– those covered in the OWL Pizza Tutorial: 
http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/publications/talks-and-tutorials/protg-owl-tutorial/

We are looking for a maximum of 15 individuals and we will register 
participants on a first-come, first-served basis. You will be reimbursed 
for travel within the UK (or price equivalent), subsistence and 
accommodation for up to 2 nights in compliance with the University of 
Manchester expenses policy; we will reimburse up to £500. The tutorial 
is gratis.

To register, please use Eventbrite 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/advanced-owl-tutorial-manchester-family-history-tickets-16857552393 
before June 12. For further enquiries about the tutorial and funding 
email Robert Stevens (robert.stevens@manchester.ac.uk). For enquiries 
about the study email Markel Vigo (markel.vigo@manchester.ac.uk).
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Professor Robert Stevens
Bio-health Informatics Group
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
United Kingdom
M13 9PL

Robert.Stevens@Manchester.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6251
Blog: http://robertdavidstevens.wordpress.com
Web: http://staff.cs.manchester.ac.uk/~stevensr/

KBO

Received on Tuesday, 5 May 2015 18:49:55 UTC