http://knoesis.wright.edu/news/ Knowledge Enabled Information and Services Science en-us http://knoesis.wright.edu/news/#1213733132 Prof. Sheth will deliver a keynote address, “Computing for Human Experience: Sensors, Perception, Semantics, Web N.0, and Beyond,” at the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference(ASWC 2008), Bangkok, Thailand. December 8–11, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207241260 Prof. Sheth will serve as a Senior Program Committee Member for the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008), Thailand. December 8–11, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207241227 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 11-13, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207241165 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. November 9-14, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207241073 Prof. Sheth is a Program Committee Chair for the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008), Karlsruhe, Germany. October 23-26, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207241052 Prof. Sheth will give a keynote at the 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2008), Barcelona, Spain. October 20-23, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207241025 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 1-4, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207241002 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 5, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news/#1210783857 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 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207241431 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. August 4-7, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news/#1212781205 Prof. Sheth will give talks at several universities in Australia, including (a)University Public Lecture at Swinburne University of Technology: “Semantics to Empower Services Science: Using Semantics at Middleware, Web Services and Business Levels,” July 16, 2008; and (b)a Lecture at the Centre for Information Technology Research: “Semantic Web: Research Directions, Promising Technologies and Current Applications,” July 18, 2008. July–August 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240915 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. July 8, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240897 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 24-27, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news/#1212680458 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 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207241519 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. June 2-4, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240787 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. June 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240768 Prof. T.K. Prasad is on the Program Committee of the 17th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'08), Toronto, Canada. May 20-23, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news/#1211231058 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.” May 19-22, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news/#1209654432 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 30, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240742 Prof. Sheth is a co-organizer of the WWW08 International Workshop on Context Enabled Source and Service Selection, Integration, and Adaptation, Beijing, China. April 22, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news/#1208550126 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 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240727 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. April 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240701 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 26-28, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news/#1207752827 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 26, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240677 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 25-26, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240652 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 13, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240512 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. March 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240452 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 5, 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240402 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 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207241892 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. February 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240367 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. January 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240247 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). 2008 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240222 Prof. T.K. Prasad organizes a Special Session, “Semantic Web and Information Retrieval,” at the Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. December 17-19, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240175 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. December 4-5, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240120 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 14-15, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240085 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. November 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207240051 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 29, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207239943 Prof. Dr. Ulf Schreier of Furtwangen University, Germany, gives Kno.e.sis Center Guest Lecture: “Modelling of Message Security Concerns with UML.” October 25, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207239892 Dr. Raymer is Poster Chair and a member of the Program Committee, IEEE 7th Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2007), Boston, MA. October 14-17, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207239846 Prof. Sheth gives invited talk, “Semantic Web: Promising Technologies and Current Applications,” at the Reed Elsevier EPIC conference, Toronto, Canada. October 9, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207239619 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 28, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207239597 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 24, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207239461 Cartic Ramakrishnan serves as member of the Program Committee for the 11th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2007). September 19–21, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207238500 John Davies, Miltiadis Lytras,and Amit Sheth (Eds.), IEEE IC Special Issue, “Semantic-based Knowledge Management.” September 7, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1207238324 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 31, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206039264 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 24, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206038337 Dr. Guozhou Dong and Jian Pei co-author Sequence Data Mining, volume 33 in Springer's series Advances in Database Systems. August 17, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206038295 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. August 16, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206038229 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 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206038138 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 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206037932 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 9, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206037906 Prof. Amit Sheth becomes a co-editor of Springer's book series Advances in Database Systems (ISSN: 1386-2944). July 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206037877 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 12-16, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206037759 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 3-7, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206037714 Prof. Amit Sheth joins as co-Editor-in-Chief of Springer's Distributed and Parallel Databases: An International Journal (ISSN: 0926-8782). June 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206037675 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 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206037633 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 11, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206037589 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 10, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206037267 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 8, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206037165 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. May 7-8, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206037092 Dr. Sheth and Kno.e.sis Center appear in the Dayton Daily News April 16, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206037036 Kno.e.sis Center featured in WSU Dialogue: Researchers Pioneer New Ground in Web Technology. April 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206037012 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 27, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206036661 Authors: Trivikram Immaneni and Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan Title: Hybrid Retrieval from the Unified Web Conference: 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2007. March 11-15, 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206036629 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 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206036610 Wright State University joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as a member. Prof. Sheth serves as the Advisory Committee Member for W3C. January 2007 http://knoesis.wright.edu/news#1206036403 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). 2007