Knowledge Engineering Lab

Very preliminary website.

Kno.e.sis Center
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Wright State University,
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy
Dayton, Ohio 45435
USA

Mission

Modern society is overwhelmed with ever-increasing amounts of information. Knowledge Engineering provides methods and applications for organization, analysis, management, and reuse of information.

The Knowledge Engineering Lab currently focuses on the following fundamental lines of research.

The Knowledge Engineering Lab pursues applied research along the following lines.

Selected Recent Highlights

  • February 2012: Pascal Hitzler invited panelist at GeoVoCampSB2012, Santa Barbara, California, February 2012.
  • August 2011: Pascal Hitzler invited speaker at Reasoning Web 2011.
  • June 2011: Pascal Hitzler invited speaker at OWLED2011.
  • May 2011: Pascal Hitzler keynote speaker at ICFCA2011.
  • April 2011: Pascal Hitzler invited speaker at Emerging Trends in Scholarly Computing.
  • January 2011: Textbook Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies receives Outstanding Academic Title 2010 award.
  • September 2010: $450,000 NSF project TROn launched.
  • January 2010: Semantic Web journal launched.
  • December 2009: Pascal Hitzler keynote speaker at GeoS2009.
    • Some more highlights.

    People

    Prof. Pascal Hitzler, PhD

    Graduate Students

    David Carral Martinez, B.Sc. (Master student)
    Michelle Cheatham, M.Sc. (PhD student)
    Amit Krishna Joshi, M.Sc. (PhD student)
    Ron Koron, B.Sc. (Master student)
    Adila Alfa Krisnadhi, M.Sc. (PhD student)
    Raghava Mutharaju, M.Tech. (PhD student)
    Kunal Sengupta, B.Tech (PhD student)
    Cong Wang, B.E. (PhD student)
    Prateek Jain, B.Tech. (associated, group of Prof. Amit Sheth) (PhD student)

    Undergraduate Students

    Christopher Lamp

    Alumni

    Matthias Knorr, PhD (September 2011)
    Fabian Leuchtner (November 2009 - February 2010)
    Kylyn Magee (April 2011 - December 2011)
    Frederick Maier, PhD (January 2010 - August 2011
    Jacob Saunders (September 2010 - June 2011)

    Publications

    Publications since 2009.
    For older publications, please see this list.

    Funding

    Student Travel Fellowships: 2012 Reasoning Web Summer School and the Web Reasoning and Rule Systems Conference. National Science Foundation, February 2012 to January 2013. PI. $14,850

    ISWC 2011 student travel grant. Courtesy of the National Science Foundation via the ISWC2011 organizers, for Kunal Sengupta. $1,500.

    ERRO - Efficient Reasoning with Rules and Ontologies. FCT Portugal. January 2012 to December 2014. Co-PI. (PI: Joao Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) €140,373.

    Expressive Scalable Querying over Integrated Linked Open Data. National Science Foundation. September 2011 to August 2013. PI: Amit P. Sheth. Co-PI: Pascal Hitzler. $125,828.

    Undergraduate Research Support Grant. Wright State University, September 2011 to November 2011. PI: Pascal Hitzler. $500

    SEM - Semantics-enabled Editorial Management. IOS Press, July 2011 to December 2011. PI: Pascal Hitzler. Co-PI: Krzysztof Janowicz. $6,000

    Kno.e.CoM - Knowledge-enabled Content Management. State of Ohio Research Incentive. April 2011 to March 2012. PI: Pascal Hitzler. $20,250

    TROn - Tractable Reasoning with Ontologies. National Science Foundation. September 2010 to August 2013. PI: Pascal Hitzler. $449,223

    Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) supplement to TROn - Tractable Reasoning with Ontologies. National Science Foundation. September 2010 to August 2013. PI: Pascal Hitzler. $16,000

    Fulbright Indonesia Presidential Scholarship PhD Grant. 2010-2013. PI: Adila Alfa Krisnadhi.

    A Decision Support Reasoner. Lockheed-Martin. April to June 2010. PI: Pascal Hitzler. $20,000

    DiCoy - Distributed Computing for the Web Ontology Language. Wright State University Research Council. May 2010 to June 2011. PI: Pascal Hitzler. $10,000.

    Ontology and Semantic-Aided Human Cognition Knowledge Discovery. Henry M. Jackson Foundation. 2009-2011. PI: Amit P. Sheth. Co-PIs: Pascal Hitzler, T.K. Prasad. $300,000.

    Page maintained by Pascal Hitzler.