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AI Seminar-Rudi Studer:

Speaker: Rudi Studer, Institutes AIFB/KSRI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology & FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Talk Title: A Declarative Language for Interoperation between Web Data and Services

Abstract: In recent years the amount of data that have been published according to Linked Data principles as well as the number of Web APIs that expose data in various formats has been growing rapidly. In order to integrate these two worlds the notion of Linked APIs will be presented that combines principles from Linked Data and Representational State Transfer (REST). The combination provides a uniform resource-centric abstraction, which includes the RDF data format and manipulation mechanisms for the data.

For declaratively specifying interactions with web resources in the context of Linked APIs, Data-Fu is introduced. Data-Fu is a lightweight declarative rule language with state transition systems as formal grounding. An execution engine that supports the parallel execution of the declarative Data-Fu programs is outlined as well. Application examples show the advantages of the developed approach.




Biography: Rudi Studer is Full Professor in Applied Informatics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute AIFB. In addition, he is director at the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) as well as at the FZI Research Center for Information Technology. His research interests include knowledge management, semantic web technologies and applications, data and text mining, big data and services.

He obtained a Diploma in Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart in 1975. In 1982 he was awarded a Doctor's degree in Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Stuttgart, and in 1985 he obtained his Habilitation in Informatics at the University of Stuttgart. From 1985 to 1989 he was project leader and manager at the Scientific Center of IBM Germany.

He is involved in various national and international cooperation projects, among others the DFG Graduate School Information Management and Market Engineering (IME), the EU Network of Excellence on Large-Scale Data Management (PlanetData) as well as the EU projects XLike (Cross-lingual Knowledge Extraction) and Render (Reflecting Knowledge Diversity). He is former president of the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) and former Editor-in-chief of the Journal Web Semantics: Science, Services, and Agents on the World Wide Web.


Host: Craig Knoblock, USC/ISI

Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=02b81710252d4e6cb0ac2fe9726e525b1d

Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Marina del Rey

WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=02b81710252d4e6cb0ac2fe9726e525b1d

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Alma Nava / Information Sciences Institute