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January 30, Tuesday
12:00 – 14:00

Semantic Web: Schism of the Languages
Computer Science seminar
Lecturer : Dr. Michael Kifer
Lecturer homepage : http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~kifer/
Affiliation : State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Location : 202/37
Host : Dr. Michael Elkin
In this talk we will describe the current efforts towards defining a Semantic Web knowledge representation language. The talk will deal with the foundations of the current standard, the Web Ontology Language (OWL), its limitations, and the efforts to extend OWL with a rule-based component. We will describe the problems facing researchers who work in this area as well as their possible resolution.