Knowledge Representation: Advanced Topics

Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio

Spring Quarter 2012

This class has special prerequisites. Contact the teacher if you're interested in taking this class.

Meeting Times

Mostly Wednesdays 10:30am-2pm (max), including a 30-minutes break. See listing below. Location: Russ 355 (exception see below). No classes on 28th of March, 11th of April, and on 9th and 28th of May.
Office Hours: W5-6pm. Email contact is preferred. No office hour on 9th of May and 28th of May.

Course Concept
Students will take turns presenting state-of-the-art research related to Knowledge Representation and Reasoning on the Sematnic Web. Each participant must contact the teacher as soon as possible to discuss possible topics.

Evaluation
Assessment of in-class presentations and participation in discussions.

Course Outline (tentative)
April 4: Logic Programming and Resolution
April 25: Open versus closed-world reasoning
April 30: RDF and lightweight OWL (RL) reasoning
May 2: Tableaux reasoning algorithms
May 10: Stream Reasoning. Starts at 10:00am in Joshi 399!
May 14: Querying OWL
May 16: Dealing with Inconsistencies
May 21: Dealing with uncertainty
May 23: Contextualized knowledge

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