Freitag, 27.3.2009
22:00, 4 EUR Eintritt
Pflichttermin, beste Musik der Stadt, Balkan Beatz meets Electronic.
Duck punching instead of typing
Well, I was just totally sold by Adam, the idea being that if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s a duck, right? So if this duck is not giving you the noise that you want, you’ve got to just punch that duck until it returns what you expect.
From http://podcast.rubyonrails.org/programs/1/episodes/railsconf-2007 via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_patch
The IJCAI-09 workshop on Identity and Reference in web-based Knowledge Representation (IR-KR2009) deadline extended: 16.3.
Here the CFP from the IR-KR workshop. All who think there are cooler uris than those, submit something.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
IR-KR2009 at IJCAI-09
July 11-13, 2009
Pasadena, CA, USA
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The IJCAI-09 Workshop on
“Identity and Reference in web-based Knowledge Representation” (IR-KR2009)
http://ir-kr.okkam.org/
July 11-13, 2009
Pasadena, California, USA
held at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-09)
http://ijcai-09.org
— IR-KR2009 goals —
The goal of this workshop, which in past years was mainly organised
within the Web and Semantic Web (SW) communities (see past editions at
WWW2006, WWW2007, ESWC200q8), is to widen debate on the impact and the
challenges that the notions of *identity* and *reference* in
web-oriented KR poses to some of the core concepts of AI.
— Background & Description of the workshop —
The Semantic Web initiative advances the idea that the web may become
a space not only for publishing and interlinking documents (through
HTML hyperlinks), but also knowledge bases (e.g. in the form of RDF
graphs) in an open and fully decentralized environment.
Even though models and languages used to implement the nascent
Semantic Web have been taken from long-standing research in AI, SW and
AI have different priorities. While traditionally a strong focus
within AI has been developing theories and code to support sound and
complete reasoning, web-oriented KR has a primary concern of web-wide
information interoperability and integration.
Perhaps the most central issue in reconciling these concernd is the
Principle of Global Identifiers: “global naming leads to global
network effects” (see Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One,
2004, at http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-webarch-20041215/). As for the
web of documents, the overall value of such open and distributed
network of truly interlinked knowledge sources, based on global names,
would be immensely bigger than the sum of the value of the components.
This central role of identity and reference for a web-scale KR poses
new challenges to traditional KR, and many researchers have suggested
that the concept of URI may deeply affect the notions of language
(e.g. the semantics of using the “same” URI in different models),
reference (e.g. rigid vs. non rigid designation), interpretation
(e.g. the meaning of “links” across knowledge bases) & reasoning
(e.g. distributed reasoning across theories) in traditional
logic-based KR in AI. This workshop addresses these challenges.
— Expected outcome —
The anticipated outcome of the workshop is to assess the state of the
art in the area of Identity and Reference in AI and the SW, and to go
beyond the limited scope of the current Semantic Web, as well as to
discuss and critically evaluate approach and next steps in
implementing and reasoning about identity and reference. It is
expected that the workshop will provide a valuable opportunity for
cross-fertilization across different research communities.
— Workshop format —
Based on the successful experience in the past workshops on this
topic, the format of IR-KR2009 will be the following:
* a keynote talk that illustrates the importance of the topic
* very short presentations of the accepted papers, to give
participants an overview of the research work of the main
workshop contributors
* presentation of a detailed list of topics to discuss, by the
workshop chair
* extensive, moderated plenary discussion
* collaborative write-up of conclusions and next steps
— Submissions —
The workshop aims at collecting contributions which can roughly be
grouped as follows:
* Foundations: formal and conceptual theories of identity and
reference for web-oriented KR
* Formal theories: semantics for KR on the web, soundness and
completeness of web-oriented reasoning, semantics of interlinked
data
* Vision papers: visionary solutions to the problems of identity
and reference in KR
* Project papers: descriptions of research & development projects
in this area
* Experiences: contributions from research and industry that
illustrate case studies or approaches to deal with the issues of
identity and reference on a web-scale
* Critical viewpoints: discussions of advantages and disadvantages
of the proposed approaches
We especially encourage contributions from groups or organizations
which are working on assembling large knowledge-based data collections
in order to compare the different practical solutions which were found
for integrating semantic data from multiple sources.
— Submission Requirements and Dates —
IR-KR2009 will accept submissions for full papers, posters and
demonstrations. The selection will be based on the significance and
the quality of submissions as well as oriented towards fostering
cross-pollination and discussions during the event. All selected
abstracts will be included in the IJCAI-09 Working Notes. Authors are
kindly requested to provide keywords upon submission. The format for
submissions is the same as that of IJCAI-09. Please check
http://ijcai-09.org for the style files. Submissions should be no
longer than 5 pages.
– Submission deadline (papers, posters, demos): March 6, 2009
– Notification to authors: April 17, 2009
– Camera-ready version: May 8, 2009
– Workshop dates: July 11-13, 2009
Submissions will be managed through EasyChair.org at:
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=irkr2009
— Attendance —
Following IJCAI-09 policy, the total number of participants in
IR-KR2009 will be limited to 75 people. This includes organizers, PC
members, invited speakers, authors and attendees. Authors will be
selected based on the significance of their submission and will be
preferred during registration to non-presenting
attendees. Non-presenting attendees will be selected on a
first-come-first-served basis. Please refer to http://ijcai-09.org for
the application procedure and fees.
— Workshop Chair —
Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento [PRIMARY CONTACT]
bouquet@disi.unitn.it
— Workshop Organizers —
Marko Grobelnik, IJS, Slovenia
marko.grobelnik@ijs.si
Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh
hhalpin@ibiblio.org
Frank van Harmelen. VU Amsterdam
Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl
Heiko Stoermer. University of Trento
stoermer@dit.unitn.it
Giovanni Tummarello. DERI Galway
giovanni.tummarello@deri.org
Michael Witbrock, Cycorp Inc
witbrock@cycorp.eu
— Program Committee —
Confirmed members:
Bo Andersson
Karl Aberer
Michael K. Bergman
Dan Brickley
Werner Ceusters
Kendall Clark
Richard Cyganiak
Hugh Glaser
Nicola Guarino
Gregor Hackenbroich
Tom Heath
Alexander Löser
Antonio Maña
Larry Masinter
Bijan Parsia
Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Valentina Presutti
Marta Sabou
Leo Sauermann
Luciano Serafini
Dagobert Soergel
Andraz Tori
Bernard Vatant
Visit me on the CeBit 2009
I am at the DFKI booth, presenting ALOE, NEPOMUK, and EyeBook. Until Sunday, 8th March. We also present facts about our new Semantic Desktop Spin-Off gnowsis.com.
Hall 9, Booth B45
Gnowsis.com is hiring
Gnowsis.com is hiring – and we search for more co-founders. Read our “join the team” page for our three open positions:
- Corporate Design and Communications
- Web 2.0 Development
- Semantic Desktop Developer
Get your CV together, pimp your linkedin profile, and get in touch with us.
NOKIA uses Nepomuk/OSCAF ontologies for maemo mobile platform
Its official now, and we will soon put it on OSCAF.org, but for my dear readers (Stefano!) I am able to break the news:
Image via CrunchBase
We examined the NEPOMUK ontologies and found that they are a well suited for our plans for the Nokia Maemo platform (www.maemo.org) based next generation internet enabled mobile devices.
We are developing a mobile semantic content storage and retrieval solution that uses NEPOMUK as its base ontology. We are in the process of adapting and extending the ontologies and pushing the changes to be part of the NEPOMUK standards.
The recommendations created as standards by the NEPOMUK project are a solid foundation for the semantic mobile content solutions we are working on.
Kind regards,
Urho Konttori
Project Manager
Nokia – Maemo Desktop Data
Fyi: the NEPOMUK ontologies are managed by OSCAF.org, if you also want to use them in business scenarios and want to join the standardization, jump on board
NEPOMUK is finished, the aftermaths start
The NEPOMUK project is ending now, we are delivering the last deliverables and wrapping up the financial parts. Time to go through the repository and clean it of copyright infringements and documenting what else we did… such as this:
a mashup of 
marco, the business man, and a penguin.
Well, look yourself into the svn logs to know who committed it … best greetings, Leo
Move in Aperture Management from Leo Sauermann to Christian Reuschling
Open Letter to Aperturians and SMILAns
Aperture.sourceforge.net is a great project and DFKI has a lot of interest in it, we are using
Aperture both in nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org and dynaq.opendfki.de.
As I will be starting a business based on the Semantic Desktop soon,
I will step back from my position as DFKI representative of Aperture.
We talked about the transition process within the Aperture Administration team
and within DFKI and found that Christian Reuschling is the right person
to take over. Christian is a senior developer at DFKI developer and
the DynaQ project,which uses Aperture underneath
dynaq: http://dynaq.opendfki.de
Christian’s homepage: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~reuschling/
Please take this chance to welcome him!
As “DFKI representative for Aperture”, Christian is
- the DFKI contact person for Aduna and other companies regarding Aperture
- a key person in Aperture architecture discussions
- directing the ongoing engagement of DFKI in Aperture
He is also an experienced Aperture user, and generally an excellent programmer and friend.
Christian was also at the SMILA presentation at Empolis on 3.2.09
and met the SMILA management team.
Myself, I will stay a project member and commit code from
time to time, and answer mails, but the authority to manage the Project
from the DFKI side is now at Christian.
I am currently working on establishing a company to help people remember
facts, based on the semantic desktop and aperture results, watch out
www.gnowsis.com for updates in the coming year.
best
Leo
p.s. Aperture rocks, it is a good tool that is helping us to bootstrap the semantic web,
>10k downloaders can’t be wrong.
End of idling
Image by Dante Inferno via Flickr
After three years of literally doing nothing, I will stop. This goes as far as it covers IdleRPG, a roleplaying game where your only way to achieve something is to do nothing for a long time.
I was attracted to IdleRPG when I found out that it is one of the much frequented IRC channels on Freenode. Typically, there are more than 50 players online, for years.
So what is the game about? You register a character, give it a name, class, and alignment, and then start playing. Which is – idling. My character is “Bush and his pony”, of class “president and pony”. Once you are online in the chat, the game plays itself. To reach the next level, you have to wait a certain amount of time (something like 10 minutes for the first level). The higher you are, the longer it takes to reach next level. The only thing you have to care for is to stay online for a long time, every time you disconnect you get punished by added time to your “clock” to reach next level.
At my last level, 49, it took about 10 days to reach the next level. Now I have reached level 50 and maxed out: as I am really online to play, I can’t reach 51 realistically, every time I log off I lose about 3.8 hours. Given that I log on/off two times a day, I lose more time than I am online. Thats it! I reached my goal and maxed out. Of course, Gunnar’s quest for semi-goddom in nethack was much more noble.
To go on from this point, I would have to set up a IRC command-line client on my linux box to idle for me, which would be cheating. So I rather say: it was an excellent time of idling, I had a lot of fun, BushAndHisPony maxed out, and Barack Obama is now president. The right moment to send Bush and his Pony into retirement. Greetings to all idlers out there, I am gone!
At the end, I own the following items:
- helm: 72 [Mattt’s Omniscience Grand Crown]
- ring: 69 [Juliet’s Glorious Ring of Sparkliness]
- tunic: 104 [Res0’s Protectorate Plate Mail]
And this is what happened in the last days of playing, the full story here:
[01/28/09 04:23:17] bushAndHisPony stopped using dial-up! This wondrous godsend has accelerated them 0 days, 03:37:34 towards level 50.
[01/28/09 07:38:21] nohar [845/1207] has challenged bushAndHisPony [423/488] in combat and won! 8 days, 01:11:32 is removed from nohar’s clock.
[01/29/09 08:05:22] infe [226/553] has challenged bushAndHisPony [261/488] in combat and lost! 0 days, 14:29:07 is added to infe’s clock.
[01/29/09 21:42:02] simmy [248/660] has challenged bushAndHisPony [434/488] in combat and lost! 0 days, 07:29:34 is added to simmy’s clock.
[01/29/09 23:42:14] bushAndHisPony [34/488] has challenged MegaBunny [103/492] in combat and lost! 0 days, 02:28:31 is added to bushAndHisPony’s clock.
[02/02/09 03:41:54] bushAndHisPony [326/488] has come upon praetorian [116/819] and taken them in combat! 0 days, 03:47:10 is removed from bushAndHisPony’s clock.
[02/02/09 05:46:15] geekboi, FreeBeak, and integral [959/2077] have team battled bushAndHisPony, VxD, and betterworld [1418/2191] and lost! 0 days, 05:39:17 is added to their clocks.
[02/02/09 11:48:39] integral [500/550] has come upon bushAndHisPony [146/488] and taken them in combat! 0 days, 03:20:48 is removed from integral’s clock.
[02/04/09 10:56:55] bushAndHisPony [344/488] has challenged pravus [389/657] in combat and lost! 0 days, 00:31:29 is added to bushAndHisPony’s clock.
[02/09/09 03:10:57] nohar [839/1207] has come upon bushAndHisPony [442/488] and taken them in combat! 1 day, 20:31:33 is removed from nohar’s clock.
[02/11/09 00:16:49] bushAndHisPony [446/488] has challenged barbarian [133/485] in combat and won! 0 days, 03:30:18 is removed from bushAndHisPony’s clock.
[02/16/09 02:01:41] Verily I say unto thee, the Heavens have burst forth, and the blessed hand of God carried bushAndHisPony 0 days, 22:35:43 toward level 50.
[02/16/09 07:31:15] simmy [43/666] has challenged bushAndHisPony [411/488] in combat and lost! 3 days, 11:34:26 is added to simmy’s clock.
[02/19/09 02:24:46] bushAndHisPony is forsaken by his evil god. 0 days, 00:08:32 is added to his clock.
[02/19/09 19:31:44] bushAndHisPony [1/488] has challenged Ol’M00sato [501/728] in combat and lost! 0 days, 22:16:33 is added to bushAndHisPony’s clock.
[02/19/09 20:46:31] bushAndHisPony [3/488] has come upon Shuriq [184/306] and been defeated in combat! 0 days, 20:57:49 is added to bushAndHisPony’s clock.
(and for the joy of it, I zemantified this post)
SMILA has new partners Attensity and Living-E
The open source initiative SMILA (SeMantic Information Logistics Architecture), which bring semantic search to enterprises, has two new members.
US-based Attensity and German based living-a AG are now joining the Eclipse-hosted SMILA community.
We made an official press release, you find that the news agencies picked it up:
This is good news! We need a standards-based, open-source solution for enterprise indexing and semantic search, in fact – many companies are interested to use this. This also shows DFKI‘s own early involvement into SMILA was the right step, and that brox and empolis are excellent partners. If you are interested to join, read the SMILA wikipage about contributions, or hit the mailinglist.
p.s: and we welcome also the two companies as new Aperture users, which is part of SMILA 🙂