Hauptseminar (LV 28792) an der Universität des Saarlandes im Bereich Künstliche Intelligenz der Fachrichtung Informatik (FR 6.2)

Scope

The continuous proliferation of Web services encapsulating business software and hardware assets, e-commerce, or social software applications in the Web 2.0 holds promise to revolutionize the way of interaction within today's society and economy. However, from the perspective of strong AI automated and meaningful coordination of Web services appears hard to achieve without well-founded logic based specification of service semantics. Conventional XML-based Web services are lacking such formal semantics.
Key idea of the semantic Web is to annotate Web resources and services with concept terms and rules taken from agreed-upon, or aligned ontologies which semantics are formally specified in an appropriate logic theory. That enables intelligent agents to better understand the meaning of such services in due course of their proactive service discovery, composition, and execution. In environments with contested services, the agents may even need to enter service negotiations in order to resolve conflicting goals, and to maximize their individual payoffs or social welfare. Other issues of agent-based semantic service coordination include privacy, and trust, as well as dynamics, and scalability.
It is often proclaimed that the synthesis between semantic Web, services, and agents eventually leads to a significant improvement of the way and quality of Web service provision to the human user. The convergence of semantic Web technologies, social Web 2.0, and Web services into a so called service Web 3.0 is considered the next step in the evolution of the Web.

Talks of this seminar will present selected means, systems, and applications of agent-based service coordination in the semantic Web.

Credit Points

Depending on the examination regulations (Prüfungsordnung, PO) valid for your individual study of computer science at theuniversity of the Saarland, the credit points given for successfull participation in this seminar vary from 7 (PO 2006) to 8 (PO 2004) to 9 (PO 2002).

Registration

To participate in this seminar, please register for it until April 15, 2008, 6pm CET via email to klusch@dfki.de providing your full name (first and family name; enrollment number (Matrikulationsnummer); contact details; current semester; and preferred topic of your seminar talk (please check the list of still available topics)

First presentation of topics and assignment of seminar talks was on February 22, 2008, 1:30 - 2 pm, DFKI (Building D3.2), Room +2.”Bledsoe”. If you are interested in giving a seminar talk on any of the remaining topics, please contact as at any time or register via email until April 15 , 6pm latest.

The DFKI research division for Intelligent Information Systems and Agents (I2S) offers interesting themes of master thesis in this area, and an excellent supervision and working environment to master students.

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