Reasoning Web 2009 Summer School

The Semantic Web is one of the major current endeavors of applied Computer Science. The Semantic Web aims at enriching the existing Web with meta-data and processing methods so as to provide web-based systems with advanced (so-called intelligent) capabilities, in particular with context-awareness and decision support.
The advanced capabilities required in most Semantic Web application scenarios primarily call for reasoning. Reasoning capabilities are offered by Semantic Web languages that are currently being developed. Most of these languages, however, are developed mainly from functionality-centered perspectives (e.g. ontology reasoning or access validation) or application-centered perspectives (e.g. Web service retrieval and composition). A perspective centered on the reasoning techniques complementing the above-mentioned activities appears desirable for Semantic Web systems and applications. This Summer School series is devoted to this perspective.

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For more information please visit the website: http://reasoningweb.org/2009/

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Program Committee
Thomas Eiter, Vienna Technical University, Austria
Enrico Franconi (co-chair), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Siegfried Handschuh, DERI Galway, Ireland
Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble, France
Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Sergio Tessaris (co-chair), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Local Organisation
Stefano David, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Steering Committee
Uwe Assmann
Cristina Baroglio (chair)
François Bry
Norbert Eisinger
Nicola Henze
Massimo Marchiori
Axel Polleres (deputy chair)

Local organisation
Enrico Franconi and Sergio Tessaris
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Faculty of Computer Science
Via della Mostra 4
I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy
Email: rw09 AT inf.unibz.it