We’re excited about SemTech 2009 in June for many reasons, including the 5 talks we’re giving:
- Introducing OWL 2: A Panel and Community Discussion, featuring Mike Smith, who’s one of the OWL 2 Test Suite editors; Ian Horrocks (Oxford), Ivan Herman (W3C), Deb McGuinness (RPI), and Zhe Wu (Oracle).
- Faceted Browsing Tools where Mike Grove will talk about jSpace, our faceted visual query browser for SPARQL.
- Government Sidebar, where Evren Sirin and Mike Smith will talk about HTN-DL Planner and the work we’ve done with Kevin Newman and John T. Carson from Lockheed Martin on planning UAVs;
- Managing OWL: Using Oracle and Pellet for Massively Scalable, Highly Expressive OWL Infrastructure where Xavier Lopez from Oracle and I will talk about the work we’ve done to combine Oracle’s scalable reasoning with Pellet’s expressive reasoning in PelletDb, a new offering from us later this year;
- A Programmer’s Introduction to Pellet: How to Build Ontology-based Semantic Applications where Evren and Mike Smith will give a 3-hour tutorial on how to build real OWL applications based on Pellet (where “real” means “uses inference in anger” and “is semantics-respecting”).
At SemTech 2008 our talks focused on R&D work we’d been doing around OWL reasoning with Pellet, probabilistic reasoning with Pronto, etc. This year our talks are much more tightly focused on industrial applications of Pellet, automatic planning, and SPARQL tools, as well as our standards work at W3C.
See you in San Jose!
