Galway OpenCoffee Club July 2008 July 4, 2008

The July 2008 Galway OpenCoffee Club will be held in the DERI Café tomorrow at the slightly earlier time of 10:30 AM.

This will be followed by a talk in the DERI Seminar Room for those interested.

For more details on this talk, see below.

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Time: Friday 04/07/2008, 11:00am

Location: Conference Room, DERI

Speaker: Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA Rhône-Alpes)

Title: "Interoperability in Semantic Distributed Systems"

Abstract:
Semantic distributed systems take advantage of formally expressed knowledge distributed in a network without centralising any of this knowledge. They occur in various contexts such as semantic peer-to-peer systems or semantic social networks. In this talk we will present and abstraction of this kind of systems and consider some open problems of these systems. This include how to find relations between peers from knowledge, how to transfer knowledge appropriately from peer to peers, and how to be sure that I can take the most out of my network. All these problems depend on two main features of these systems: their heterogeneity (each node can describe knowledge differently) and locality (each node communicates only with its neighbours). In addition we will describe a piece of infrastructure based on our Alignment server.

About the speaker:
Jérôme Euzenat is a senior research scientist at INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes. He leads the Exmo team investigating the exchange of formal knowledge mediated by computers. He is particularly nterested in the relationships between representations including abstraction, granularity, versioning and transforming representations. He holds a PhD and habilitation in computer science, both from Grenoble 1 University.

For more information, please check his homepage at:
http://www.inrialpes.fr/exmo/people/euzenat/