MISC: side event of A'dam ftf

Frank, Dieter and I are organizing a side event of the A'dam ftf meeting
on Wednesday April 10.  We are very glad that Peter and Pat have agreed
to give a talk in a masterclass on "Logical Foundations of the Semantic
Web", mainly directed at Dutch PhD students in AI/CS  For your
information I enclose the announcement. 
Guus

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SIKS/Ontoweb Master Class
"Logical Foundation of the Semantic Web"

Wednesday April 10, 2002
10.00 - 12.30
Bondsraadzaal Vakbondsmuseum, Henri Polaklaan 9, Amsterdam (opposite
Artis zoo)
Venue information: http://www.deburcht-vakbondsmuseum.nl/contact.html

SPEAKERS

Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research
Pat Hayes, University of West-Florida


BACKGROUND

The World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has started, as part of its
Semantic Web activity, a new working group to develop a web ontology
language (see http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/). The second meeting
of this group will be held at CWI in Amsterdam on April 8-9. Ontoweb
and SIKS have taken this opportunity to organize a master class on the
logical foundations of the semantic web. The two invited speakers are
members of the working group and experts in this field.


PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

9.30 - 10.00    Arrival and coffee

10.00 - 11.00   Talk by Peter Patel-Schneider

11.00 - 11.30   Break

11.30 - 12.30   Talk by Pat Hayes


REGISTRATION

Participation in this master class is free, but seating will be limited.
To register, send e-mail to enserink@swi.psy.uva.nl with the subject
"SIKS/Ontoweb master class" and with your address/affiliation details in
the message body.


ORGANIZERS

Guus Schreiber, University of Amsterdam
Dieter Fensel, Free University of Amsterdam
Frank van Harmelen, Free University of Amsterdam


SPONSORS

Ontoweb (European IST Thematic Network)
SIKS (Dutch Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems)

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A. Th. Schreiber, SWI, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15
NL-1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Tel: +31 20 525 6793 
Fax: +31 20 525 6896; E-mail: schreiber@swi.psy.uva.nl
WWW: http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/usr/Schreiber/home.html

Received on Friday, 15 March 2002 11:20:23 UTC