Kno.e.sis is a center in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Wright State University. As part of Ohio's Third Frontier program, its cutting-edge research complements daytaOhio's mission to leverage innovation in data-intensive technologies for economic expansion.

Kno.e.sis specializes in the use of semantic and services science for data integration, analysis, and process management. Drawing on our faculty's collective decades of expertise of in database management (including integration, mining, and visualization), AI and knowledge representation, and bioinformatics, our research focuses on realizing a knowledge society that utilizes semantics and services as key enablers.

Our work encompasses the current Computer Science areas of Semantic Web, Services Oriented Computing, Scientific Workflows, Business Process Management, Data Management and Mining (pattern recognition, machine learning, NLP), Evolutionary Computing, and Bioinformatics.

Key application areas are semantic e-science (including bioinformatics, biomedicine, health care), Web-based information management (including search and business intelligence), and national and homeland security (including intelligence analysis). Our research has pioneered techniques and capabilities related to:

• ontology management and multi-ontology environments
• integration and analysis of heterogeneous (structured, semi-structured, unstructured) data
• advanced and intelligent search, browsing, querying, mining, analysis and knowledge discovery
• semantic annotation of documents, scientific data and services involving entity and relationship extraction/disambiguation
• semantic enhancement of Web2.0 including social search and light-weighted services,semantic middleware and semantics-enabled networking
• semantic Web services and processes including semantics based publication, discovery, composition and dynamic binding of services

Much of Kno.e.sis's research is transdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and team-oriented, with a strong practical and systems orientation, and involves partners from industry, the sciences, and government. As a result, vision and concepts lead to prototypes and their evaluation, with the participation of academic and commercial partners, technology development and licensing followed by real-world deployment, or commercialization with our partner institution daytaOhio.