Semantic Web Technologies for Terrorist Network Analysis' in Emergent Technologies and Enabling Policies for Counter Terrorism, Jennifer Golbeck and Aaron Mannes and James HendlerRobert Popp and John Yen (ed.), IEEE Press, 2005.
Available at http://mindswap.org/papers/TerrorismChapter.pdf
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Semantic Web Scenario: Designing University Timetable
In this scenario a manager academics agent (MAA) will design a university timetable by taking into account the university’s faculty schedule and free room slots. The MAA will access faculty member’s agent (FMA) one by one and try to find their free time slot from their daily schedule. After retrieving the required information, MAA will save this information in a database specially build for this purpose.
Now, from the database MAA starts retrieving the information and began trying to find a match between available time slots in instructor’s schedule and free room slot. Free rooms are assigned to instructors according to the same floor of the campus where their offices are present. In this regard, it checks from the instructor’s website the course which he is instructing and the floor where his room is present. After matching, it saves this information in an MS Excel sheet.
(The emphasized keywords indicate terms whose semantics, or meaning, were defined for the agent through the Semantic Web.)
Now, from the database MAA starts retrieving the information and began trying to find a match between available time slots in instructor’s schedule and free room slot. Free rooms are assigned to instructors according to the same floor of the campus where their offices are present. In this regard, it checks from the instructor’s website the course which he is instructing and the floor where his room is present. After matching, it saves this information in an MS Excel sheet.
(The emphasized keywords indicate terms whose semantics, or meaning, were defined for the agent through the Semantic Web.)
Resources needed to be Available:
• Instructor’s daily schedule stored in his agent
• A Database and its location
• Instructor’s Website
• MS Excel Sheet and its location
Semantic Web Scenario: Project Coordination
This scenario has nine essential steps.
1. The project statement is posted on the website of the course.
2. Alex receives the project statement, he instructs his Semantic Web agent on his handheld web browser to contact the agent of Keith and inform him of Alex’s schedule or time table for all the days until the project submission deadline.
3. He also tells his agent to decide the meeting place at the University.
4. The agent informs Keith's agent on his handheld web browser of the project submission deadline and asks his agent his schedule for similar days.
5. The agents work out the free time for both the group partners so that they can work together on the project.
6. Then the agents send this schedule to Alex and Keith.
7. Keith had a few problems with the schedule on Thursday because he had to go somewhere at that time so he told his agent to change the schedule on that particular day so the agent worked out a time later in the day by contacting the agent of Alex.
8. Now the agent contacts with the website of the university to check out the time table and works out the availability of a lab at the particular time at which Alex and Keith would meet.
9. The agent now informs about the availability of labs to both the group partners so that they can meet with each other to complete the project within the given deadline.
1. The project statement is posted on the website of the course.
2. Alex receives the project statement, he instructs his Semantic Web agent on his handheld web browser to contact the agent of Keith and inform him of Alex’s schedule or time table for all the days until the project submission deadline.
3. He also tells his agent to decide the meeting place at the University.
4. The agent informs Keith's agent on his handheld web browser of the project submission deadline and asks his agent his schedule for similar days.
5. The agents work out the free time for both the group partners so that they can work together on the project.
6. Then the agents send this schedule to Alex and Keith.
7. Keith had a few problems with the schedule on Thursday because he had to go somewhere at that time so he told his agent to change the schedule on that particular day so the agent worked out a time later in the day by contacting the agent of Alex.
8. Now the agent contacts with the website of the university to check out the time table and works out the availability of a lab at the particular time at which Alex and Keith would meet.
9. The agent now informs about the availability of labs to both the group partners so that they can meet with each other to complete the project within the given deadline.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
What "Semantic Web" means?
The Semantic Web is an evolving development of the World Wide Web in which the meaning (semantics) of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to "understand" and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.It is derived from World Wide Web Consortium director Sir Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge exchange.
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