Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services:
From Research and Technology to Deployed Applications for Enterprises and
Scientific Research
Amit Sheth, Semagix and LSDIS Lab, The
Semantics can already be seen as the key enabler for the new breed
of enterprise and scientific applications. I have had the unique vantage point
of seeing Semantic Web research transition from academic research at the LSDIS
lab to commercialization at Taalee and Semagix, and further on to powering
applications serving
In this talk, we will review several ontology-driven applications
and information systems. For commercial applications, we will focus on
We will also review our experiences in building practical
ontologies that have involved hundreds of classes to a few million
instances/assertions, and the approaches to deal with scalability and
performance challenges in building real-world applications.
Background information for this talk can be
found at:
Article in Data Engineering special issue
on Making the Semantic Web Real (Dec. 2003) http://wwwt.semagix.com/documents/SemanticWebTechinAction.pdf
Commercial Technology: http://www.semagix.com/download.html
Semantic Discovery Projects at UGA &
UMBC: SemDis project
Semantic Web Services and Processes: METEOR-S project
Bioinformatics Ontologies and Applications:
Glycomics project
Semantics for the Semantic Web: the
Implicit, the Formal and the Powerful: http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/library/download/SRT05-IJ-SW-IS.pdf
Speaker Biography
Amit Sheth is a professor of Computer Science at The
University of Georgia (UGA) and the CTO of Semagix, Inc. He
started the LSDIS lab at UGA in 1994. For nine years before, he served in R&D
groups at Bellcore, Unisys, and Honeywell. In August 1999, Dr. Sheth
founded Taalee, Inc., based on the SCORE
technology developed at the LSDIS lab, and managed it as CEO until June
2001. Following acquisition/merger of Taalee and its follow-on Voquette
resulting in Semagix, he currently serves as its CTO. His research has
led to two successful companies, three significant commercial products, several
deployed applications, and over 200 publications. He has given 20 keynotes and
over 150 invited talks/colloquia, has served on over 100 program committees,
led organization of 15 international conferences/workshops and is the Editor in
Chief of International Journal on Semantic Web & Information
Systems. He received his BE from BITS
(Pilani,