News & Events
February 22 - 24, 2011 Prof. Sheth is PC Member for IEEE CogSIMA 2011
Dr. Sheth is the program committee member for the 2011 IEEE Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (IEEE CogSIMA 2011), Miami Beach, Florida, USA
January 23 - 28, 2011 Prof. Hitzler is DBKDA 2011 PC Member
Prof. Hitzler is the program committee member for the The Third International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications, St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles, under GlobeNet 2011 umbrella.
January 01, 2011 Prof. Amit Sheth with co-edit IEEE Internet Computing
Special Issue on Provenance in Web Applications. Provenance lets us answer basic questions for a given data item, such as who created it and when, who modified it and when, what was the process used to create the data item, and can the content be trusted? Such information provides documentation that’s imperative to preserving data and crucial for determining the data’s quality and authorship to understand, reproduce, and validate results.
November 07 - 11, 2010 Prof. Hitzler's tutorial proposal accepted for ISWC 2010
OWL 2 - Theory and Practice, tutorial at 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010), Shanghai, China.
November 07 - 11, 2010 Prof. Hitzler is Vice Chair of ISWC2010
9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010), Shanghai, China. ISWC is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented.
November 07 - 08, 2010 Satya Sahoo will lead ISWC 2010 workshop
Out of 49 workshop entries, Satya's workshop proposal was one of nine accepted for The 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010) in Shanghai, China.
October 26 - 28, 2010 Prateek Jain is PC Member for ODBASE 2010
Prateek is the program committee member for the conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE'10) in Crete, Greece provides a forum on the use of ontologies and data semantics in novel applications that bridge traditional boundaries between disciplines such as databases, networking, mobile systems, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and computational linguistics.
September 23 - 24, 2010 Pascal Hitzler is co-PC Chair for RR2010
Pascal is the co-program comittee chair for the Fourth International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2010), Bressanone, Italy.
September 14, 2010 Prateek Jain is PC Member for LSTD2010.
Prateek is the program committee member for the Workshop On Linked Spatiotemporal Data (LSTD2010) in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2010) in Zurich, Switzerland.
September 08 - 10, 2010 Prof. Hitzler is PC Member for AIMSA 2010
Prof. Hitzler is the program committee member for the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA 2010).
August 16 - 20, 2010 Prof. Hitzler is PC Member for ECAI2010
Prof. Hitzler is the program committee member for the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI2010), Lisboa, Portugal.
July 13, 2010 Prateek Jain is PC Member for SMDT2010
Prateek Jain was invited to be a program committee member for The 2nd Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies (SMDT2010) which searches for research contributions on the mapping and integration of multimedia metadata and ontologies into databases, on multimedia query languages, on the optimization and processing of semantic queries. The workshop is collocated with the 5th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT2010) in Saarbrücken, Germany - Dec 1-3, 2010.
July 11 - 15, 2010 Prof. Sheth is PC Member for AAAI2010
Prof. Sheth is the program committee member for the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2010)will be held at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
July 11 - 15, 2010 Prof. Hitzler is PC Member of AAAI-10
Prof. Hitzler is the program committee member for the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10), to be held in Atlanta, Georgia
June 30, 2010 Pablo Mendes is PC Member of SDOW
Pablo Mendes is a program committee member for the Social Data on the Web (SDOW) workshop at the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010) in Shanghai, China November 8, 2010.
June 28, 2010 Delroy Cameron's paper selected for ICSC2010
"A Taxonomy-based Model for Expertise Extrapolation" was accepted by The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC2010) as a "Full Paper". The conference had a total of 108 submissions and 35 papers have been accepted as Full papers (acceptance rate=32%).
June 27 - 30, 2010 Prof. Hitzler is PC Member for ILP 2010
Pascal is the program committee member for the 20th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2010), Firenze, Italy.
June 23 - 25, 2010 Prof. Prasad is PC Member for NLDB 2010
Prof. Prasad is the program committee member for the 15th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2010), Cardiff, Wales.
June 16, 2010 Prof. Hitzler is Research Track Chair for ESWC2011
8th Extended Semantic Web Conference in Heraklion, Greece from May 29 to June 4, 2011. The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference is to bring together researchers and practioners dealing with different aspects of semantics on the Web.
June 15 - 17, 2010 Dr. Raymer is Steering Committee Member for OCCBIO
Dr. Raymer was appointed to the Steering Committee for the Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics (OCCBIO 2010), Columbus, OH.
June 12, 2010 Dr. Karthik Gomadam receives PhD
Dr. Karthik Gomadam received his degree at the graduation ceremony. He was hooded by his advisor, Prof. Amit Sheth. Karthik is currently a research scientist at the University of Southern California, and has already achieved remarkable success in carrying out academic responsibilities including student advising, research funding, and publications..
June 03, 2010 Kno.e.sis Bioinformatics paper selected for IEEE/ACM/TCBB cover
Automated isolation of translational efficiency bias that resists the confounding effect of GC(AT)-content selected for cover of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, the flagship journal for results in computational biology.
May 31, 2010 Pablo Mendes win SFSW scripting challenge
Pablo Mendes win SFSW scripting challenge Alexandre Passant and Pablo Mendes win Semantic Web challenge at Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in Herkalion, Greece for their sparqlPUSH project. Final Scirpting for challenge was sponsored by Talis. sparqlPUSH brings an element of real-time to working with Linked Data. Instead of needing to poll for new data periodically, sparqlPUSH works alongside PubSubHubbub to effectively push data out to where you need it.
May 30 - June 30, 2010 Meena Nagarajan is PC Member for ESWC 2010
Meena is the program committee member for the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010), Heraklion, Greece.
May 30 - June 03, 2010 Cory Henson is Program Committee Member for ESWC 2010
7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010), Heraklion, Greece.
May 30 - June 03, 2010 Pascal Hitzler is co-Organizer and PC Member for ESWC2010
Pascal is the co-organizer and program committee member for the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010), Heraklion, Greece.
May 29, 2010 Pablo Mendes' and Pavan Kapanipathi's paper accepted for IEEE/WIC/ACM WI'10
"Linked Open Social Signals" accepted as a paper for oral presentation at IEEE/WIC/ACM WI'10 in Toronto, Canada and for publication in IEEE Computer Society Press.
May 23 - 26, 2010 Prof. Sheth is PC Member for ICWSM-10
Dr. Sheth is Program Committee Member for the 4th Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10), George Washington University, Washington, DC.
May 23 - 26, 2010 Meena Nagarajan is Senior PC Member for ICWSM-10
Meena is the senior program committee member for the 4th Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10), George Washington University, Washington, DC.
May 17 - 21, 2010 Cory Henson is PC Member for SWE 2010
Cory is the program committee member for the Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement 2010 (SWE2010), Chicago, Illinois
May 13, 2010 Prof. Raymer awarded Outstanding Faculty Member
This honor is decided and awarded by CECS students.
May 13, 2010 Dr. Sheth receives Trustees Award for Faculty Excellence
Dr. Amit Sheth received the Trustees Award for Faculty Excellence, the highest award given by Wright State University. The award is intended to honor those who serve as the most outstanding of role models for all faculty. President Hopkins wrote in his weekly message to the university: "And you could understand why he was selected from his comments--he focused his remarks on the success of his students, the contributions of his current students, and the accomplishments of the faculty he works with every day. " Video of Ceremony
May 05, 2010 Dr. Raymer accepts positions on two journal editorial boards and a conference program committee
Dr. Raymer has accepted positions at The International Journal of Computational Bioscience EB, The International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Designb EB and The 6th European Conf on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics PC
May 05, 2010 Dr. Raymer awarded Excellence in Teaching Award
Dr. Raymer was awarded the College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award for 2008-2009.
May 05, 2010 Joshua Pschorr wins 2010 Graduate Student Excellence Award
Joshua Pschorr, Dr. T. K. Prasad's advisee, is the winner of 2010 Graduate Student Excellence Award for M.S. in C.S.
May 1, 2010 Prof. Dong is PC Member SDM10
Prof. Dong is the program committee member for the Tenth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM10), Columbus, Ohio.
April 27, 2010 Meena Nagarajan's paper accepted in super competitive VLDBJ special issue
"Multimodal Social Intelligence in a Real-Time Dashboard System" has been accepted for publication in the special issue of the VLDB Journal on "Data Management and Mining for Social Networks and Social Media".
April 27, 2010 Prof. Sheth is Advisory Committee Member for WIMS'11
The International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS'11) in Sogndal, Norway May 25-27, 2011. New series of conferences concerned with intelligent approaches to transform the World Wide Web into a global reasoning and semantic-driven computing machine.
April 26 - 30, 2010 Prof. Sheth is PC Member for HCLS
Prof. is the program committee member for the Workshop on The Future of the Web For Collaborative Science (HCLS), to be co-located at WWW2010, Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, NC, USA.
April 15, 2010 Dr. Raymer Oustanding Faculty Member
Dr. Raymer was awarded the College of Engineering and Computer Science Outstanding Faculty Member award for 2010
April 12, 2010 Center of Excellence Inauguration
The Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents inaugurates the Center of Excellence on Knowledge-enabled Computing at an event hosted by the President of the Wright State University. President's Invitation.

On April 12, the President will host the region as we unveil our fourth Center of Excellence--Kno.e.sis--so designated by Governor Strickland for its pioneering work moving the world from simple data processing towards critical analysis for decision making. Sixteen faculty from four of our colleges have been collaborating on funded research that supports Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as well as many multinational corporations. Joining us on the 12th will be representatives from LexisNexis, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Aptima. Chancellor Fingerhut will be here as well.
April 11 - 16, 2010 Prof. Hitzler is PC Member
Prof. Hitzler is the program committee member for the Second International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge (DBKDA 2010), and Data Applications, Menuires, The Threee Valleys, France
April 07 - 09, 2010 Dr. Raymer is PC Member
Dr. Raymer is the program committee member for the 8th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics (EVOBIO) Istanbul, Turley, in conjunction with EVO* conferences and workshops.
April 07 - 10, 2010 Prof. Hitzler is PC Member
Prof. Hitzler is the program committee member for the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2010), Valencia, Spain.
April 07, 2010 Dr. Raymer invited speaker at Ohio University
Dr. Raymer presented an invited talk for the Distinguished Speakers in Bioinformatics Series at Ohio University: "Real World CSI: The Science and Non-Science of Forensic DNA Analysis and Interpretation," Columbus, OH.
April 04, 2010 Prof. Sheth is PC Member for ISWC 2010 Doctoral Consortium
Prof. Sheth is a program committee member for The annual ISWC Doctoral Consortium, the consortium is an opportunity for doctoral students within the Semantic Web community, to present and discuss in details their research topics and plans, and to get extensive feedback from leading scientists in the field.
March 29 - April 01, 2010 Prof. Dong is PC Member SPB10
Prof. Dong is the program committee member for the Third International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SPB08), Bethesda, MD.
March 29, 2010 Message from President Hopkins
President Hopkins, accompanied by Meena Nagarajan, had editorial meetings with the Dayton Business Journal, the Dayton Daily News, and Channel 7 promoting the university, our centers of excellence, and primarily, our Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing. Dayton Daily News
February 19, 2010 Ohio Center of Excellence
On February 19, Governor Ted Strickland and Eric Fingerhut, Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, recognized Wright State University’s Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis) as an Ohio Center of Excellence. Kno.e.sis uses the latest technology in semantic computing and Web 3.0 to translate massive amounts of data into meaningful information. Example uses of the Center's research include making sense out of millions of Tweets related to an event such as an earthquake, analyzing billions of observations from thousands of sensors to study a storm or a military mission, or integrating many databases for streamlining access to medical records. Dr. Amit Sheth, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar, serves as the Center’s Director.

Kno.e.sis has one of the largest academic research groups in Semantic Web/3.0 that is pioneering new techniques in knowledge- and semantic-enabled computing. Its research leads to development of knowledge services for increasing competitiveness of industry in the region and the state, including IT/data management (social and sensor Webs, services/cloud computing), e-Science (esp. bio/health sciences) and defense. Center's fifteen faculty members have published over 1,000 papers and have over 2,000 citations per faculty (well over 30,000 total), support 45 researchers (mainly PhD students), direct 12 labs, have approx. $8.7 million in research funds and have received $45 million in research support.
February 05, 2010 Prof. Sheth presents at SOIC Colloquium
"Semantic (Web) Technologies for Translational Research in Life Sciences," Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, Bloomington, Indiana.
February 03, 2010 Meena Nagarajan is invited as a panelist at WSDM 2010
Meena Nagarajan is invited as a panelist at the Third Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010), co-located with the ACM WSDM 2010 Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. The panel is titled "What are the most important research problems for SSM?" After her keynote at SDOW, another honor for Meena.
January 24 - 29, 2010 Prof. Sheth is a co-organizer of Dagstuhl Seminar on
Semantic Challenges in Sensor Networks
January 24 - 29, 2010 Prof. Hitzler is Seminar Co-Organizer
Dagstuhl Seminar on Learning paradigms in dynamic environments
January 23 - 29, 2010 Prof. Dong Program Committee Member of SOFSEM 2010
36th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science(SOFSEM 2010), Web Science track in Špindleruv Mlýn near Prague, Czech Republic.
January 20, 2010 Partnership with AFRL
An Education Partnership Agreement between Wright State and the 711th Human Performance Wing, Air Force Research Laboratory was signed under the leadership of Profs. Amit Sheth and John Flach of Knucomp Center. The agreement calls for the Air Force to provide $61K of computer equipment to be installed at WSU for joint work on distributed systems for psychological modeling. This is the first step in developing an ongoing relationship between this group of AFRL researchers who are relocating at WPAFB.
January 20, 2010 Prof. Hitzler launches IOS Press journal SWJ
Pascal Hitzler is editor-in-chief of newly launched IOS Press journal "Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability."
December 16-18, 2009 Prof. T.K. Prasad is organizing a special session at IICAI-2009
Prof. T.K. Prasad is organizing a special session on "Semantic Web and Information Retrieval" at the 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09), near Bangalore, India.
December 10 - 11, 2009 Prof. Prasad to give keynote at AIA2009
"Research Directions in Semantic Web and Information Retrieval : Trust, Sensors and Search" at the International Seminar on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA2009) to be held at GMR Institute of Technology near Vishakapatnam, Andra Pradesh, India.
December 06 - 09, 2009 Dr. Guozhu Dong is a PC Member
Dr. Guozhu is the program committee member for the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2009)in Miami, Florida, USA.
December 03 - 04, 2009 Prof. Hitzler invited speaker at GEOS 2009
Towards Reasoning Pragmatics, Third International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics (GEOS 2009), Centro de Investigación en Computación, Mexico City, Mexico
December 03 - 04, 2009 Prof. Hitzler is PC Member and will give an OWL 2 Tutorial
Pascal is the program committee member for the Third International Conference on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS 2009), Mexico City, Mexico
December 3-4, 2009 Prateek Jain, Peter Yeh, Kunal Verma, Cory Henson, Amit Sheth to appear in GEOS 2009
"SPARQL Query Re-writing for Spatial Datasets Using Partonomy Based Transformation Rules" in Proceedings of Third International Conference on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS 2009), Mexico City, Mexico.
December 03 - 04, 2009 Prateek Jain and Cory Henson are PC Members
Prateek and Cory are program committee members for the International Conference on Geospatial Semantics 2009 (GeoS 2009)
November 20, 2009 Kno.e.sis alumni Karthik Gomadam (Kats) wins highly competitive ISWC
Semantic Web Challenge - Elsevier EU1000 prize for TrialX,Kats completed his dissertation on "Semantic Enriched Service Environments" in summer 2009,was best graduate student award in our department, and is now a research scientist at USC.
November 15, 2009 Meena Nagarajan, doctoral student in the Kno.e.sis Center gives keynote at ISWC 09
Meena Nagarajan, doctoral student in the Kno.e.sis Center gave a Keynote talk at the Social Data on the Web workshop, collocated with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). She presented representative work from her dissertation research, several of which were conducted in collaboration with researchers at IBM, MSR and UC Berkeley. She covered problems along three dimensions of understanding user- generated informal content on social media - what (named entities, topics) are people talking about, why (intentions, sentiments expressed) are they talk and how (word usages) are they talking? Slides for the talk can be found here. While at ISWC, she also presented her research paper with IBM Research, Almaden on identifying music artist and track entities from user-generated content on MySpace music forums.
November 14, 2009 Satya Sahoo, doctoral student in the Kno.e.sis Center co-organized the first SWPM workshop at the 8th ISWC.
Satya Sahoo, doctoral student in the Kno.e.sis Center co-organized the first Semantic Web and Provenance Management (SWPM) workshop at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). The workshop explored the role of Semantic Web in addressing some of the critical challenges facing the provenance research community, for example capturing and propagating provenance metadata as data is processed, fragmented and recombined across multiple applications and domains on the Web scale. Dr. Carole Goble, winner of the first Jim Gray eScience award, presented the keynote address titled “”. The workshop attracted several prominent computer science researchers including Susan Davidson (UPenn), Deborah McGuiness (RPI), Yolanda Gill (USC/ISI), and David DeRoure (USouthampton) among others. The proceeding and talks from the workshop can be found here. Satya Sahoo also attended the ?th International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBSE09), where he presented his research paper describing work with the University of Georgia on addressing the four aspects of managing scientific provenance information in parasite research – provenance capture, representation, storage, and analysis. The slides for the talk can be found here. He also chaired a session on “Data Heterogeneity” at the same conference.
November 14, 2009 Ajith Ranabahu, doctoral student in the Kno.e.sis Center, presented his research at the 24 th OOPSLA conference.
Ajith Ranabahu, third year doctoral student in the Kno.e.sis center, presented the research in Cloud computing interoperability and Service Level Agreements during the Cloud Computing design workshop at the 24 th OOPSLA conference in Orlando FL, last October. During the regular conference he co-presented his work at IBM research with Dr. Michael Maximilien. He also demonstrated the IBM Altocumulus platform during the demo sessions. Ajith concentrated on the interoperability and homogenization of Cloud computing platforms using a middleware, a pioneering research effort lead by Dr Michael Maximilien from IBM Research. Ajiths work in the summer of 2009 at IBM Research made Altocumulus a reality. IBM Altocumulus is a middleware capable of unified deployment and management of cloud computing applications. It has been very successful both in terms of research breakthroughs and business value and the Altocumulus technology is being transferred to IBM's software groups. Ajith is also one of the official bloggers for ACM and published several high profile blog posts on OOPSLA during the conference.
, Prof. Chen is Tutorial Chair for CollaborateCom09
International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom09), Crystal City, Washington DC.
November 09 - 12, 2009 Dr. T. K. Prasad is on the PC for MOST-ONISW 2009
Dr. T.K. Prasad is the program committee member for the Joint International Workshop on Metamodels, Ontologies, Semantic Technologies, and Information Systems for the Semantic Web to be held in Gramado, Brazil.
November 01 - 06, 2009 Prof. Sheth is a PC co-Chair and Christopher Thomas is a PC Member
Dr. Sheth is the program committee member for the COMBEK'09: International Workshop on Community-Based Evolution of Knowledge-Intensive Systems, Vilamoura, Portugal.
November 01 - 06, 2009 Satya Sahoo is a PC Member
Satya is the program committee member for the 8th International Conference on Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2009), Vilamoura, Algarve-Portugal,
November 01 - 06, 2009 Prateek Jain is PC Member
Prateek is the program committee member for the 8th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2009)
November 01 - 04, 2009 Prof. Sheth to give keynote at ICDIM'09
Prof. Sheth will give keynote, "Computing for Human Experience: Semantics empowered Sensors, Services, and Social Computing on Ubiquitous Web," at the Fourth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM'09) to be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
October 28, 2009 Ajith Ranabahu nominated as official blogger for ACM on OOPSLA
Ajith will be blogging at least once a day from ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications. Feel free to follow the events at http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm. The news editor liked my last blog so much, he promoted it to the front page of the ACM website
October 27, 2009 Prof. Hitzler is co-author of OWL 2 primer
W3C recommended primer provides an approachable introduction to OWL 2, including orientation for those coming from other disciplines, a running example showing how OWL 2 can be used to represent first simple information and then more complex information, how OWL 2 manages ontologies, and finally the distinctions between the various sublanguages of OWL.
October 26, 2009 Prof. Hitzler is Co-Chair of the NatuReS workshop
Nature Inspired Reasoning for the Semantic Web (NatuReS09) at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), Washington, DC
October 25-29, 2009 Prof. Prasad is the Proceedings Chair of ISWC 2009
Prof. Prasad is the Proceedings Chair for the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), near Washington, DC.
October 25 - 29, 2009 Prof. Hitzler is Steering Committee Member for two ISWC09 Events
The workshop OWL - Experiences and Directions: and The conference Web Reasoning and Rule Systems
October 25-29 , 2009 Dr. Sheth is advisor/ steering comm. chair/member and Cory Henson is a Program Committee Member
The 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks 2009, A workshop of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2009, Washington DC, USA.
October 25-29, 2009 Dr. Sheth is advisor/ steering comm. chair/member and Satya Sahoo is PC-CoChair of SWPM-2009
The First International Workshop on the role of Semantic Web in Provenance Management Co-located with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2009, Washington, DC
October 25 - 26, 2009 Prof. Hitzler co-author of runner-up to best paper award at RR2009
The Third International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2009), Chantilly, VA, USA.
October 25 - 26, 2009 Prof. Hitzler is Steering Committe Member
Third International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, Washington D.C., USA
October 25, 2009 Meena Nagarajan to give keynote at ISWC
User-Generated Content on Social Media Challenges, Opportunities at Social Data on the Web Workshop, collocated with International Semantic Web Conference, Washington D.C.
October 24, 2009 Cory Henson is coordinating the Semantic Markup Work Package for SSN-XG
Semantic Markup Work Package at the W3C Semantic Sensor Networks Incubator Group ()
October 24, 2009 Cory Henson is co-organizing SSN-XG
The first SSN-XG Face-to-Face meeting co-located with ISWC2009.
October 23 - 24, 2009 Prof. Hitzler is Steering Committe Member
OWL - Experiences and Directions (OWLED2009), Sixth International Workshop, Washington D.C., USA
October 12 - 15, 2009 Prof. Hitzler is PC Member
Pascal is the program committee member for the Computational Logic with Applications (COLA09),
Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence(KDBI09,
thematic track at (EPIA 2009), the Fourteenth Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aveiro, Portugal, October 2009. (PC member)
October 11-16, 2009 Meena Nagarajan is SEMAPRO 2009 Publicity Chair
Third International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2009), Sliema, Malta.
October 11 - 16, 2009 Prof. Hitzler and Satya Sahoo are PC Members
Pascal and Satya are program committee members for the Third International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2009), October 11-16, 2009, Sliema, Malta
October 5-7, 2009 Meenakshi Nagarajan, Karthik Gomadam, Amit Sheth, Ajith Ranabahu, Raghava Mutharaju and Ashutosh Jadhav to appear in WISE 2009
Spatio-Temporal-Thematic Analysis of Citizen Sensor Data: Challenges and Experiences at 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering Poznan, Poland.
October 2, 2009 Prof. Hitlzer is Co-Organizer, Program Committee Member and will give Tutorial
Co-Organizer of AST2009, 4th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies at Informatik 2009, Lübeck, Germany
ASA 2009, Assistenzsysteme im Alltag: Von der Forschung in die Praxis, at Informatik 2009, Lübeck, Germany
Tutorial on Semantic Web Ontology Languages 39th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (Informatik 2009), Lübeck, Germany
September 28 - 30, 2009 Prof. Hitzler is PC Member
Pascal is the program committee member for the Third International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM2009), Washington D.C.
September 16-18, 2009 Prof. Sheth will give a keynote
on "Computing for Human Experience: Semantics empowered Sensors, Services, and Social Computing on ubiquitous Web" at the 4th European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC 2009),Guildford, United Kingdom.
September 15 - 18, 2009 Prof. Hitzler is Co-Organizer, Co-Chair, Program Committee Member and will present tutorial
Co-Organizer of AI Mashup Challenge 2009
Co-Chair of Ontologies & Semantic Web
Program Committee Member for Relational Approaches to Knowledge Representation and Learning (RAKRL09)
Tutorial, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for the Semantic Web - OWL 2 and Rules
32nd Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2009), Paderborn, Germany.
September 15 – 18, 2009 Meenakshi Nagarajan, Kamal Baid, Amit P. Sheth, and Shaojun Wang, Monetizing User Activity on Social Networks to appear in IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-2008
"Monetizing User Activity on Social Networks - Challenges and Experiences," The 2009 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI'09)and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'09) Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy
September 14 - 17, 2009 Prof. T. K. Prasad is a PC Member
Prof. T.K. Prasad is the program committee member for the 18th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Prague, Czech Republic.
September 8, 2009 Bioinformatics Research Group paper to appear in Bioinformatics
"Characterization of 1H NMR spectroscopic data and the generation of synthetic validation sets" has been accepted to the journal Bioinformatics published by Oxford University Press. This journal's impact factor (4.328) is currently the 5th highest of any computer science journal.
, Prof. Hitzler is PC Member
Pascal is the program committee member for the 5th International Symposium on Domain Theory (ISDT2009), Shanghai, China
August 19 - 21, 2009 Dr. Guozhu Dong is a PC Member
Dr. Dong is the program committee member for the 8th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2009) in Aachen, Germany
August 05, 2009 Data Mining
Prof. Guozhu Dong presented a talk on "Overview of Data Mining Research Results and Applications" and Prof. Amit Sheth presented a talk on "Semantics empowered Understanding, Analysis and Mining of Nontraditional and Unstructured Data" at the WSU-AFRL Window-on-Science Seminar on Data Mining.
August 2009 Kno.e.sis is delighted to welcome its newest and seventh faculty member: Dr. Pascal Hitzler.
Dr. Pascal Hitzler's expertise is in knowledge representation and reasoning, and he is an international leader in the areas of Semantic Web, especially Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. With his addition, Kno.e.sis further solidifies its leadership in Semantic Web.
July 30, 2009 Ajith Ranabahu presents Almaden Cloud Computing Seminar
Working Knowledge | Application Management and Scaleability on Cloud Platforms via Altocumulus about the latest Altocumulus platform and also reveals some of the latest additions on scaling and the ability to perform map-reduce type computations.
June 23 - 26, 2009 Prof. T. K. Prasad is a PC Member
Prof. T.K. Prasad is the program committee member for the 4th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, Saarbrücken, Germany
June 28 - July 01, 2009 Dr. Guozhu Dong is a PC Member
Dr. Dong is the program committee member for the 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Minding in Paris, France.
June 18, 2009 Justice Samuel Alito cited a paper co-authored by Dr. Michael Raymer
In a United States Supreme Court opinion. In 2002 Dr. Raymer, along with Wright State colleagues Dr. Dan Krane and Dr. Travis Doom, co-founded the company Forensic Bioinformatics, Inc. (www.bioforensics.com) to perform objective and independent reviews of forensic DNA evidence in criminal trials. Dr. Raymer and his colleagues have published numerous papers on the use of forensic DNA evidence. In the case "District Attorneys for the Third Judicial District et al. v. Osbourne", Justice Alito cites a 2003 paper, co-authored by Drs. Raymer, Doom, and Krane, describing some of the technical, scientific, and statistical issues salient to the analysis and interpretation of forensic DNA.
June 15, 2009 Kno.e.sis wins one more innovation award from Industry
Prof. Amit Sheth has been selected to receive a 2009 HP Labs Innovation Research Award, a program designed to create opportunities for colleges, universities and research institutes around the world to conduct breakthrough collaborative research with HP. The project ”Model Generation and Model Extension for Information and Knowledge Management” will develop techniques for guided search and browsing as well as classification and selection of information to improve information processing and knowledge sharing. Recently Kno.e.sis Center has received innovation awards and gifts from major companies such as IBM, Microsoft, HP and Google. Prof. Shuojun Wang received an award in 2008 from Google for his research on "Syntactic, Semantic and Lexical Language Models." Prof. Sheth received Microsoft Beyond Search Award (2008) for "Chatter, Intent, Good Karma, and Contextual Advertisements in Social Networks" and IBM Innovation Award (2007) for "Infrastructure for Summarizing Casual, Unstructured Text." A key to Kno.e.sis Center's collaboration with Industry and such awards is the important role of its PhD students who typically intern at top industry research labs. These internships lead to continuing collaborations when the intern is back to Kno.e.sis, understanding of challenging problems and access to real world data. Prof. Sheth credits Meena Nagarajan's work for the awards from IBM Research and Microsoft Research, and similarly credits Christopher Thomas' collaboration with HP labs for the latest award and earlier gifts. For additional details, see information on projects and funding at http://knoesis.wright.edu
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June 14-18, 2009 Prateek Jain to present at Sem Tech 2009
"Extending SPARQL to Support Spatially and Temporally Related Information," 2009 Semantic Technology Conference (Sem Tech 2009), San Jose, CA.
June 12, 2009 Delroy Cameron nominated for Excellence in Teaching
Teaching assistants who have distinguished themselves by the care they have given and the skill they have shown in meeting their classroom responsibilities are nominated by College of Engineering and Computer Science students. The essential purpose of the citation is to bring University-wide recognition to the best of the graduate teaching assistants and by so doing to underline the qualitative contribution which they are making to the program.
June 10-11, 2009 Meena Nagarajan and Prof. Sheth invited to attend Beyond Search
Meena Nagarajan and Prof. Sheth are invited to attend Beyond Search: Semantic Computing and Internet Economics 2009 Workshop organized by Microsoft, to present "Monetizing User Activity on Social Networks – Challenges and Experiences."
June 3, 2009 Cloud Computing Collaboratory Launch
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June - August 2009 Meena Nagarajan secures internship with Microsoft Research
Internships at Microsoft Research provide students with the opportunity to apply research and theory to practice while working with well-known researchers and networking with fellow PhD students from around the world. Meena's internship topic is Cultural entity identification in social media text. Supervisors: Amir Padovitz, Matt Hurst
, Pablo Mendes inters with Yahoo! Research
Yahoo! Research lab in Barcelona, Spain concentrates on research in the areas of Web search and mining, harnessing the strengths of the European academic search community through collaborations and joint projects. Pablo's internship topic is Using metadata to improve web search Supervisors: Peter Mika and Hugo Zaragoza
, Satya Sahoo in leadership role in W3C RDB2RDF Incubator Group
RDB2RDF Incubator Group Charter; Problem to be solved as part of this work is the mapping of RDB names to RDF/XML names.
June 2009 - March 2010 Christopher Thomas member of W3C Social Web Incubator Group
The mission of the Social Web Incubator Group, part of the Incubator Activity, is to understand the systems and technologies that permit the description and identification of people, groups, organizations, and user-generated content in extensible and privacy-respecting ways.
May 30-June 5, 2009 Cory Henson to appear in ESWC09
Cory Henson presents An Ontological Representation of Time Series Observations on the Semantic Sensor Web at 1st International Workshop on the Semantic Sensor Web 2009, collocated with the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009)
May 27, 2009 Seminar on Ontologies and Data Integration in Biomedicine
Wright State University Kno.e.sis Center is pleased to announce Ontologies and Data Integration in Biomedicine Seminar by Dr. Olivier Bodenreider from NIH at 11am EST
May 18 - 22, 2009 Cory Henson is a PC Member for Sensor Web Enablement Workshop
Cory is the program committee member for the 2009 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2009)
May 6, 2009 Karthik Gomadam receives Graduate Student Excellence Award
Criteria for the selection include superior academic achievement, noteworthy thesis work, and potential for significant contributions to field of study. Program Image Mentor
May 2009 Sensor Web Enablement
Prof. Amit Sheth is co-organizing a Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement in Baltimore, MD, USA. Presentation
May 2009 Software Engineer/Research Scientist Position
Consideration of candidates begins May 1, 2009 and continues until the position is filled. See advertisement for details.
April 27 - 30, 2009 Dr. Guozhu Dong is a PC Member
Dr. Dong is the program committee member for the 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-09), Bangkok, Thailand
April 20, 2009 Satya Sahoo is a PC Member
Satya is the program committee member for the 1st International Workshop on Data and Process Provenance (WDPP09), In conjunction with DASFAA 2009, Brisbane, Australia
April 18-19, 2009 Prof. Amit Sheth to give keynote at 20th MAICS 2009
Prof. Amit Sheth will give a keynote on "Computing for Human Experience: Sensing, Perception, Semantics, Social Computing, Web 3.0, and beyond" at The 20th Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference (MAICS2009), Fort Wayne, Indiana, April 18-19, 2009.
April 05 - 07, 2009 Dr. Guozhu Dong is a PC Member
Dr. Dong is the program committee member for the 2009 Joint International Conferences on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and Web-Age Information Management (WAIM)in Suzhou, China.
, Prof. Dong became ACM Senior Member
The Senior Member Grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 10 years of professional experience and 5 years of continuous Professional Membership who have demonstrated performance that sets them apart from their peers.
April- July 2009 Ajith Ranabahu secures internship with IBM Research
The Services research group at IBM's Almaden Research Center leads the next generation research in service innovations and middleware systems. Ajith is conducting research in interoperability in cloud computing supervised by Dr Michael Maximilien .
April 2009 - June 2010 Prateek Jain Member of W3C SPARQL Working Group
The mission of the SPARQL Working Group, part of the Semantic Web Activity, is to produce a W3C Recommendation that extends SPARQL.
April 2009 Cory Henson receives Fellowship
Awarded competitive AFRL/DAGSI Ohio Student-Faculty Research Fellowships based on proposal titled "Architectures for Secure Semantic Sensor Networks for Multi-Layered Sensing."
January - April 2009 Satya Sahoo Member of Incubator Group
World Wide Web Consortium RDB2RDF Incubator Group
March 31 - April 1, 2009 Dr. Guozhu Dong is a Poster Chair
Second International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SBP09) in Phoenix, Arizona
November 2-6, 2009 Guozhu Dong is a Demonstration Program Committee Member
The ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'09) in Hong Kong, China
February 27, 2009 ACM TechNews
A. Sheth, M. Nagarajan, "Semantics-Empowered Social Computing," Internet Computing (02/09) Vol. 13, No. 1, P. 76.
February 17, 2009 Prof. Sheth to present at From E-Gov to Connected Governance
Dr. Sheth presents "Semantic Integration of Citizen Sensor Data and Multilevel Sensing: A Comprehensive Path Towards Event Monitoring and Situational Awareness" at From E-Gov to Connected Governance to the Computer Science Corporation, Executive Briefing Center, Falls Church, VA on February 17, 2009.
February 2-5, 2009 Prof Sheth to give keynote at Asian Semantic Web Conference
Prof. Sheth will deliver a keynote address and serve as Senior Program Committee Member, “Computing for Human Experience: Sensors, Perception, Semantics, Web N.0, and Beyond,” at the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference(ASWC 2008), Bangkok, Thailand. Presentation
December 2008 Prof. Sheth presents "Semantic Sensor Web" at American Geophysical Union
Semantic Sensor Web, Library Link
November 11-13, 2008 Matthew Perry and Satya Sahoo are members of the Program Committee
Matthew Perry and Satya Sahoo are members of the Program Committee for the 7th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2008), Monterrey, Mexico.
November 09 - 14, 2008 Christopher Thomas is a PC Member
Prof. Sheth is a co-organizer and Christopher Thomas is a Program Committee Member for the International Workshop Toward Community-Based Evolution of Knowledge-Intensive Systems (COMBEK'08), Monterrey, Mexico.
October 31, 2008 TENURE TRACK FACULTY POSITION AT WRIGHT STATE UNIVESITY
Consideration of candidates begins November 15, 2008 and continues until the position is filled. See Faculty Position for details.
October 26 - 30, 2008 Prof. Prasad is a PC Member
Prof. Prasad is the program committee member for the 2nd International Workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web (ONISW 2008) held in conjunction with ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), Napa Valley, CA.
October 23 - 26, 2008 Prof. Sheth is a PC Chair
Prof. Sheth is a Program Committee Chair and Prof. Prasad is the Proceedings Chair for the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008), Karlsruhe, Germany.
October 20-23, 2008 Prof. Sheth will give a keynote
Prof. Sheth will give a keynote at the 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2008), Barcelona, Spain.
October 2008 - March 2010 Prof. Sheth is a co-chair and Cory Henson is a member of W3C SSN-XG Working Group
The mission of the Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group, part of the Incubator Activity, is to begin the formal process of producing ontologies that define the capabilities of sensors and sensor networks, and to develop semantic annotations of a key language used by services based sensor networks.
September 21, 2008 Faceted Search for Web APIs gets accepted at ICWS 2008, Beijing
Submission titled A Faceted Search for Web APIs has been accepted for publication at ICWS 2008. ICWS is regarded as the top conference in services research with an acceptance rate of 16%. This paper is the sixth straight year for SRL at ICWS. The authors of this paper include Karthik Gomadam, Ajith Ranabahu, Meenakshi Nagarajan and Amit P. Sheth.
September 1-4, 2008 Prof. Sheth serves as Steering Committee Chair
Prof. Sheth serves as Steering Committee Chair and Ajith Ranabahu as Publicity Chair for semantics4ws 2008, “BPM 2.0—Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Meet BPM: Semantics in Business and Scientific Processes,” Milan, Italy.
September 2008 ACM TechNews highlights Kno.e.sis article
S. Sahoo, A. Sheth, C. Henson, "Semantic Provenance for eScience: Managing the Deluge of Scientific Data," Internet Computing, 12(4), pp. 46, August 2008.
August 2008 Kno.e.sis Center is delighted to welcome Prof. Keke Chen its sixth faculty member.
Professor Chen will lead the Data-Intensive Analysis and Computing (DIAC) Lab that further strengthens our Center. Before joining us, he was a senior scientist in Yahoo! Labs. He received his PhD from Georgia Tech.
August 5, 2008 Kno.e.sis students and Prof. Sheth will present tutorial
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, and Amit Sheth will present a tutorial, “Text Analytics for Semantic Computing—The good, the bad and the ugly,” at the International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2008), Santa Clara, CA, August 4–7, 2008.
August 4-7, 2008 Three papers accepted for ICSC2008
Kno.e.sis is delighted to have had three papers accepted for the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2008), Santa Clara, CA: "Mediatability: Estimating the Degree of Human Involvement in XML Schema Mediation," "Applications of Voting Theory to Information Mashups," and "TcruziKB: Enabling Complex Queries for Genomic Data Exploration."
August 4-7, 2008 Special session on Mobile Semantic Computing
Karthik Gomadam, Anupam Joshi, and Amit Sheth will organize a special session on Mobile Semantic Computing at the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2008), Santa Clara, CA.
July–August 2008 Prof. Sheth to give talks at Australian universities
Prof. Sheth gave talks at several universities/research institutes in Australia on topics related to Semantic Web, Semantics to empower Services, and Semantic Sensor Web, including (a) University Public Lecture at Swinburne University of Technology and (b) Colloquia at Swinburne Institute of Technology- Melbourne, University of Adelaide-Adelaide, University of Melbourne (Computer Science and ISSNIP ARC Center)-Melbourne, Victoria University-Melbourne, Macquarie University- Sydney, and Universiy of New South Wales- Sydney.
July 8, 2008 Prof. Sheth is Steering Committee Member
Prof. Sheth is Steering Committee Member and Karthik Gomadam is Program Committee Member for the 2nd International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2008), to be held in conjunction with 6th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC-2008), Honolulu, HI.
June 24 - 27, 2008 Prof T.K.Prasad is a PC Member
Prof T.K.Prasad is on the Program Committee of the 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2008), London, UK.
June 2008 Kno.e.sis Center Awarded "Human Performance Ontology" Project by The Air Force Research Lab's Human Effectiveness Directorate, WPAFB
Project extends work in focused knowledge extraction from scientific literature, automatic taxonomy extraction from selected community authored content, and semi-automatic ontology development with limited expert guidance. These will be combined to create an ontology engineering system that will allow domain experts to semi-automatically create ontologies through an iterative process resulting in a comprehensive human performance ontology.
June 2008 Prof. T.K. Prasad wins Outstanding Faculty Award
Dr. T. K. Prasad won 2007-2008 College of Engineering and Computer Science Outstanding Faculty Award.
June 2008 Dr. Trivikram Immaneni won 2008 Graduate Student Excellence
Dr. Trivikram Immaneni won 2008 Graduate Student Excellence Award (for Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering).
June 2–4, 2008 Prof. Sheth gives invited talk at OCCBIO
Prof. Amit Sheth gives an invited talk, “Empowering Translational Research using Semantic Web Technologies,” at the Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics (OCCBIO), Toledo, OH.
June 2-4, 2008 Dr. Raymer presents tutorial
Dr. Raymer presents the tutorial “Fundamental Concepts of Bioinformatics” at the Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics (OCCBIO 2008), Toledo, OH. Dr. Raymer is also Session Chair for the Workshop on Bioinformatics Research Infrastructure at OCCBIO 2008 and is on the Program Committee for this conference.
, Matthew Perry is a PC Member
Matthew Perry is a member of the Program Committee for a workshop on Semantic Metadata Management and Applications as part of the European Semantic Web Conference, Tenerife, Spain.
May 20 - 23, 2008 Prof. T.K. Prasad is a PC Member
Prof. T.K. Prasad is on the Program Committee of the 17th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'08), Toronto, Canada.
May 19-22, 2008 Kno.e.sis members give tutorial and two talks at SemTech 2008
Kno.e.sis members Karthic Gomadam, Cory Henson, and Prof. Sheth give a tutorial and two talks at the 2008 Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, CA: “Dynamic and Agile SOA using SAWSDL,” “Semantic Sensor Web,” and “SA-REST: Using Semantics to Empower RESTful Services and Mashups.”
April 30, 2008 Prof. Sheth's NIH R01 grant proposal funded
Kno.e.sis is delighted to announce that the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of NIH has funded "Semantics and Services enabled Problem Solving Environment for Trypanosoma cruzi." The total award for the four-year project is $1,510,470. Collaborators in this Wright State University led project (Prof. Sheth is the PI) are the University of Georgia's Tarleton Lab and LSDIS Lab (Prof. Tarleton, Prof. Doshi) and the National Center of Biomedical Ontologies at Stanford University (Prof. Mark Musen, Dr. Natasha Noy). Details.
April 22, 2008 Prof. Sheth is a co-organizer
Prof. Sheth is a co-organizer of the WWW08 International Workshop on Context Enabled Source and Service Selection, Integration, and Adaptation, Beijing, China.
April 2008 Trivikram Immaneni wins Graduate Student Excellence Award
Trivikram Immaneni, who completed his doctoral dissertation, "A Hybrid Approach to Retrieving Web Documents and Semantic Web Data," under the guidance of Dr. T.K. Prasad, has won the Graduate Student Excellence Award for 2008. Vikram is currently employed at Technorati (in San Francisco).
April 2008 Two student-faculty teams in Kno.e.sis are awarded
Two student-faculty teams in Kno.e.sis are awarded competitive AFRL/DAGSI Ohio Student-Faculty Research Fellowships based on their proposal titled “Architectures for Secure Semantic Sensor Networks for Multi-Layered Sensing”: Cory Henson with Prof. Amit Sheth, and Josh Pschorr with Prof. T.K. Prasad.
March 26 - 28, 2008 Dr. Raymer is a PC Member
Dr. Raymer is a member of the Program Committee of the 6th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics (EvoBIO), Naples, Italy.
March 26, 2008 Prof. Sheth gives invited talk on Semantic Sensor Web
Prof. Sheth presents an invited talk, “Semantic Sensor Web,” at the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) working group of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), St. Louis, MO.
March 25-26, 2008 Prof. Amit Sheth will be a co-organizer
Prof. Amit Sheth will be a co-organizer of the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium: AI Meets Business Rules and Process Management, at Stanford University.
March 13, 2008 Prof. Wang receives a Google Research Award
Prof. Shaojun Wang receives a Google Research Award for his proposal "Syntactic, Semantic and Lexical Language Models for Machine Translation." This award will enable Shaojun Wang and his research group to build a family of statistical language models beyond n-grams that simultaneously capture various local lexical and long-range syntactic and semantic regularities of natural language.
March 2008 Dr. Raymer is the WSU PI
Dr. Raymer is the WSU PI of the successful Choose Ohio First proposal “Ohio Consortium for Bioinformatics,” which will provide scholarships to Ohio students interested in pursuing bioinformatics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. WSU award: $235,000, 2008–2013.
February 5, 2008 Prof. Amit Sheth gives invited talk
Prof. Amit Sheth gives invited talk “Semantic Sensor Web” at the Special SICoP Conference, Building Semantic Interoperability Solutions for Information Sharing and Integration, Falls Church, VA.
February 2008 Prof. Sheth's proposal is selected for an award
Prof. Sheth's proposal “Chatter, Intent, Good Karma, and Contextual Advertisements in Social Networks” is selected for an award in the “Beyond Search: Semantic Computing and Internet Economics” competition sponsored jointly by Microsoft Research and adCenter. Meena Nagarajan is the primary contributor in this effort.
February 2008 Dr. Raymer is named Coordinator
Dr. Raymer is named Coordinator for Research Infrastructure for the Ohio Consortium for Bioinformatics, a state-wide collaboration of bioinformatics researchers funded by the Ohio Board of Regents.
January 2008 HP Labs gives an award to Prof. Sheth
HP Labs gives an award to Prof. Sheth to support research in automatic ontology creation applications and in statistical attribute and relationship extraction from community-authored content such as Wikipedia. This award is based on work initiated by Christopher Thomas.
2008 Prof. Amit Sheth will co-edit
Prof. Amit Sheth will co-edit an IEEE Internet Computing special issue on Service Mashups (submission deadline: January 15, 2008; publication date: July/August 2008).
December 17-19, 2007 Prof. T.K. Prasad organizes a Special Session
Prof. T.K. Prasad organizes a Special Session, “Semantic Web and Information Retrieval,” at the Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
December 4-5, 2007 Prof. Sheth gives a keynote
Prof. Sheth gives the keynote, “Semantic Web for Health Care and Biomedical Informatics,” at the NSF Biomedical Informatics Workshop: Expanding Secondary Use of Health Data.
November 14-15, 2007 Prof. Sheth delivers invited talk
Prof. Sheth delivers invited talk, “Semantic Web techniques empower perception and comprehension in Cyber Situational Awareness?” at the ARO Cyber Situational Awareness Workshop, Fairfax, VA.
November 2007 Kno.e.sis recieves IBM UIMA Innovation Award
Kno.e.sis is delighted to receive a competitive IBM UIMA Innovation Award for “UIMA-based Infrastructure for Summarizing Casual, Unstructured Text,” a proposal based on Meena Nagarajan's summer 2007 internship with the Semantic Super Computing group at IBM Almaden.
October 29, 2007 Dr. Dong and Dr. Bailey present tutorial
Dr. Guozhu Dong and Dr. James Bailey (University of Melbourne) present tutorial, “Contrast Data Mining: Methods and Applications,” at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Omaha, NE.
October 25, 2007 Dr. Ulf Schreier gives Kno.e.sis Center Guest Lecture
Prof. Dr. Ulf Schreier of Furtwangen University, Germany, gives Kno.e.sis Center Guest Lecture: “Modelling of Message Security Concerns with UML.”
October 14-17, 2007 Dr. Raymer is Poster Chair
Dr. Raymer is Poster Chair and a member of the Program Committee, IEEE 7th Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2007), Boston, MA.
October 9, 2007 Prof. Sheth gives invited talk
Prof. Sheth gives invited talk, “Semantic Web: Promising Technologies and Current Applications,” at the Reed Elsevier EPIC conference, Toronto, Canada.
September 28, 2007 Prof. Sheth gives keynote
Prof. Sheth gives keynote, “Realizing the Relationship Web: Morphing information access on the Web from today's document- and entity-centric paradigm to a relationship-centric paradigm,” at the ACM Multimedia 2007 International Workshop on the Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics, Augsburg, Germany.
September 24, 2007 Prof. Sheth is a co-organizer
Prof. Sheth is a co-organizer of the 2d Workshop on Advances in Semantics for Web Services (semantics4ws'07) at BPM 2007, Brisbane, Australia.
September 19–21, 2007 Cartic Ramakrishnan serves as member of the Program Committee
Cartic Ramakrishnan serves as member of the Program Committee for the 11th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2007).
September 7, 2007 IEEE IC Special Issue
John Davies, Miltiadis Lytras,and Amit Sheth (Eds.), IEEE IC Special Issue, “Semantic-based Knowledge Management.”
August 31, 2007 Prof. Sheth gives a seminar
Prof. Amit Sheth gives a seminar on the “Relationship Web: Spinning the Semantic Web from Trailblazing to Complex Hypothesis Evaluation,” at the College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago.
August 24, 2007 Prof. Sheth speaks on Trailblazing ...
Prof Amit Sheth speaks on “Trailblazing, Complex Hypothesis Evaluation, Abductive Inference and Semantic Web—exploring possible synergy,” at Evidence and Intelligent Systems: ARO Workshop on Abductive Reasoning, Adelphi, MD.
August 17, 2007 Dr. Dong and Jian Pei co-author Sequence Data Mining
Dr. Guozhou Dong and Jian Pei co-author Sequence Data Mining, volume 33 in Springer's series Advances in Database Systems.
August 16, 2007 Prof. Sheth presents Relationship Web
Prof. Amit Sheth presents “Relationship Web: Spinning the Semantic Web from Trailblazing to Complex Hypothesis Evaluation,” as part of the Cyber Center Lecture Series at Purdue University.
July 9, 2007 Prof. Amit Sheth is the General Chair
Prof. Amit Sheth is the General Chair of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Web for Services and Processes (SWSP 07), Salt Lake City, UT.
July 9, 2007 Prof. Amit Sheth is a co-organizer
Prof. Amit Sheth is a co-organizer of the 1st International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2007). Karthik Gomadam and Ajith Ranabahu are on the Program Committee of this workshop.
July 9, 2007 Dr. Raymer presents an invited tutorial
Dr. Raymer presents an invited tutorial, “Fundamental Concepts in Bioinformatics,” at the Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics (OCCBIO), Oxford, OH, July 9–11. Dr. Raymer is a member of the Program Committee for this conference.
July 2007 Prof. Sheth becomes a co-editor
Prof. Amit Sheth becomes a co-editor of Springer's book series Advances in Database Systems (ISSN: 1386-2944).
June 12-16, 2007 Prof. Sheth delivers a keynote address
Prof. Sheth delivered a keynote address, “Semantics to Empower Services Science: Using Semantics at Middleware, Web Services and Business Levels,” at the 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Funchal, Portugal. Prof, Sheth also presented “New World Order for Interactions across Enterprise Information Systems in the Flat World?” at a plenary panel organized at the conference.
June 3-7, 2007 A Unified Approach to Retrieving Web Documents
Authors: Trivikram Immaneni and Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan
Title: A Unified Approach to Retrieving Web Documents and Semantic Web Data Conference: 4th European Semantic Web Conference 2007.
June 2007 Prof. Sheth joins as co-Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Amit Sheth joins as co-Editor-in-Chief of Springer's Distributed and Parallel Databases: An International Journal (ISSN: 0926-8782).
May 11, 2007 Prof. Sheth and Susie Stephens present tutorial
Prof. Amit Sheth and Susie Stephens (Eli Lilly) present the tutorial “Semantic Web: Technologies and Applications for the Real-World” at the 16th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), Banff, Canada. (PPT)
May 11, 2007 Kemafor Anyanwu presents her paper on SPARQ2L
Prof. Sheth's student Kemafor Anyanwu presents her paper “ SPARQ2L: Towards Support for Subgraph Extraction Queries in RDF Databases” at the 16th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), Banff, Canada.
May 10, 2007 Prof. Sheth talks about Semantic Annotations
Prof. Sheth talks about “Semantic Annotations for WSDL” with Jacek Kopecksy (DERI Innsbruck) in the W3C Track at the 16th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), Banff, Canada.
May 8, 2007 Prof. Sheth participates Semantic Web panel
Prof. Amit Sheth participates in the panel “Do the current Semantic Web standards and technologies benefit Heath Care and Life Science research today?” at the 1st International Workshop on Health Care & Life Sciences Data Integration for the Semantic Web (HCLS-DI2007). Satya Sahoo and Prof. Sheth are coauthors of a paper “ An experiment in integrating large biomedical knowledge resources with RDF: Application to associating genotype and phenotype information, ” also at HCLS. (PPT)
May 7-8, 2007 Prof. Sheth attends Advisory Committee Meeting
Prof. Amit Sheth attends the Advisory Committee (AC) Meeting of the World Wide Web Consortium. WSU is a W3C member and Prof. Sheth is its AC Representative.
April 16, 2007 Dayton Daily News appearance
Dr. Sheth and Kno.e.sis Center appear in the Dayton Daily News
April 2007 Kno.e.sis Center featured in WSU Dialogue
Kno.e.sis Center featured in WSU Dialogue: Researchers Pioneer New Ground in Web Technology.
March 30, 2007 ACM Technews Headline include this about Prof. Sheth's work
Wright State Researchers Pioneer New Ground in Web Technology Affecting Health Care, Terrorism, Defense, Financial Services
March 29, 2007 Amit Sheth pioneering next generation of Web technology
New ground in Web technology affecting health care. Amit Sheth, Ph.D., is pioneering the next generation of Web technology with applications in diverse fields ranging from defense and thwarting terrorism to health care and financial services. The results of his efforts will spur economic development through the creation of high-tech jobs and the emergence of new information technology companies.
March 27, 2007 Kno.e.sis Center in the news
Kno.e.sis Center in the news: Wright State researchers pioneer new ground in Web technology affecting health care, terrorism, defense, and financial services.
March 26, 2007 ACM TechNews includes Kno.e.sis article
K. Verma, A. Sheth, "Semantically Annotating a Web Service", Internet Computing (04/07) Vol. 11, No. 2, P. 83.
March 11-15, 2007 Hybrid Retrieval from the Unified Web
Authors: Trivikram Immaneni and Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan
Title: Hybrid Retrieval from the Unified Web Conference: 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2007.
January 2007 Prof. Sheth is a member of W3C's SAWSDL
Prof. Sheth is a member of the W3C's SAWSDL Working Group, which has released Candidate Recommendation. SAWSDL is based largely on the WSDL-S W3C-member input that was developed under Prof. Sheth's leadership at LSDIS lab in partnership with IBM. (PPT)
January 2007 Wright State University joins W3C
Wright State University joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as a member. Prof. Sheth serves as the Advisory Committee Member for W3C.
2007 Dr. Raymer joins editorial boards
Dr. Raymer joins the editorial boards of the International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design (Inderscience Publishers), Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal (Bentham Science Publishers), and the International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (Inderscience Publishers).

 
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