February 2012
Corporate Semantic Web @ Massey University New Zealand
2012-02-24 00:22
Date: Feb. 23rd, 2012, 1pm
Location: Computer Science department at Massey University, New Zealand
Title:
(Semantic) Complex Event Processing – Reference Architectures and Design Patterns
Abstract:
Detection, prediction and mastery of complex situations are crucial to the competitiveness of networked businesses and the efficiency of dynamic distributed enterprise infrastructures in manifold domains such as Finance/Banking, Logistics, Automotive, Telco, Life Sciences. Complex Event Processing (CEP) is an enabling technology to extract actionable, situated knowledge from large amounts of event data in near real-time. This real-time behaviour is considered as one of the main prerequisites for many highly relevant technology trends such as predictive business, real-time adaptive enterprise or autonomic systems. CEP is now one of the fastest growing segments in (distributed) enterprise middleware software, with products provided by major software vendors and many start-up companies around the world.
The prospect of combining event processing and semantic technologies in the area of Semantic Complex Event Processing (SCEP) is this: Event processing engines will have (1) a description of what is happening in terms of events and (process) states / situations and (2) a plan for the re/actions and processes they can invoke (often leading to follow-up events). Novel rule-based Event Processing Languages (EPLs) for the Web such as Reaction RuleML employ reaction rules, which have evolved from existing rule-based technologies such as production rules and Event-Condition-Action (ECA) rules. They can use SCEP-generated knowledge to derive further decisions and trigger automated reactions. Moreover, EPLs can exploit the declarative expressiveness of semantic rules as a means to specify knowledge in a way that is understandable by 'the business' and is executable by CEP rule engines.
In this talk I will present the EPTS Reference Architecture for Event Processing and its components. I will cover some of the Reference Architecture subfunctions as design patterns against current CEP implementation languages from major vendors such as IBM, Oracle, TIBCO and open source such as Prova. I will also demonstrate their extension towards more complex semantic CEP patterns.
About the Speaker:
Professor Adrian Paschke is head of the Corporate Semantic Web group (AG-CSW) at the institute of computer science at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (FUB). He is director of RuleML Inc., vice director of the Semantics Technologies Institute Berlin (STI Berlin) and the Berlin Semantic Web Meetup Group. He is Steering-Committee Chair of the RuleML Web Rule Standardization Initiative (RuleML), co-chair of the Reaction RuleML technical group, secretary of the OASIS Legal RuleML TC, founding member of the Event Processing Technology Society (EPTS), co-chair of the EPTS Reference Architecture working group (EPTS RA), voting member of OMG and OASIS, and active member of several W3C groups such as the W3C Health Care and Life Sciences group (W3C HCLS) and the W3C Rule Interchange Format working group (W3C RIF), where he is editor of the W3C RIF standard. Currently, he is general chair of the 6th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2012) which takes place July 16-20 in Berlin, Germany.
Location: Computer Science department at Massey University, New Zealand
Title:
(Semantic) Complex Event Processing – Reference Architectures and Design Patterns
Abstract:
Detection, prediction and mastery of complex situations are crucial to the competitiveness of networked businesses and the efficiency of dynamic distributed enterprise infrastructures in manifold domains such as Finance/Banking, Logistics, Automotive, Telco, Life Sciences. Complex Event Processing (CEP) is an enabling technology to extract actionable, situated knowledge from large amounts of event data in near real-time. This real-time behaviour is considered as one of the main prerequisites for many highly relevant technology trends such as predictive business, real-time adaptive enterprise or autonomic systems. CEP is now one of the fastest growing segments in (distributed) enterprise middleware software, with products provided by major software vendors and many start-up companies around the world.
The prospect of combining event processing and semantic technologies in the area of Semantic Complex Event Processing (SCEP) is this: Event processing engines will have (1) a description of what is happening in terms of events and (process) states / situations and (2) a plan for the re/actions and processes they can invoke (often leading to follow-up events). Novel rule-based Event Processing Languages (EPLs) for the Web such as Reaction RuleML employ reaction rules, which have evolved from existing rule-based technologies such as production rules and Event-Condition-Action (ECA) rules. They can use SCEP-generated knowledge to derive further decisions and trigger automated reactions. Moreover, EPLs can exploit the declarative expressiveness of semantic rules as a means to specify knowledge in a way that is understandable by 'the business' and is executable by CEP rule engines.
In this talk I will present the EPTS Reference Architecture for Event Processing and its components. I will cover some of the Reference Architecture subfunctions as design patterns against current CEP implementation languages from major vendors such as IBM, Oracle, TIBCO and open source such as Prova. I will also demonstrate their extension towards more complex semantic CEP patterns.
About the Speaker:
Professor Adrian Paschke is head of the Corporate Semantic Web group (AG-CSW) at the institute of computer science at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (FUB). He is director of RuleML Inc., vice director of the Semantics Technologies Institute Berlin (STI Berlin) and the Berlin Semantic Web Meetup Group. He is Steering-Committee Chair of the RuleML Web Rule Standardization Initiative (RuleML), co-chair of the Reaction RuleML technical group, secretary of the OASIS Legal RuleML TC, founding member of the Event Processing Technology Society (EPTS), co-chair of the EPTS Reference Architecture working group (EPTS RA), voting member of OMG and OASIS, and active member of several W3C groups such as the W3C Health Care and Life Sciences group (W3C HCLS) and the W3C Rule Interchange Format working group (W3C RIF), where he is editor of the W3C RIF standard. Currently, he is general chair of the 6th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2012) which takes place July 16-20 in Berlin, Germany.
Corporate Semantic Web @ University of Waikato New Zealand
2012-02-09 00:29
Corporate Semantic Web collaborates with University of Waikato in a project on "User Guided Semantic Enrichment". The project is partially funded by the BMBF Unternehmen Region Innoprofile, BMBF Internationales Büro and the Royal Society of New Zealand.
In this project we study the semantic annotation and semantic content enrichment processes in order to improve usability and understandability of semantic annotation tools and methods. This project is a combination of two key approaches - Semantic Web research and user-centered information system design. It uses validated and accepted methodologies from Human Computer Interaction and information system design to evaluate the usability of semantic annotation and editing tools in selected use cases (e.g. tourist information systems).
In this project we study the semantic annotation and semantic content enrichment processes in order to improve usability and understandability of semantic annotation tools and methods. This project is a combination of two key approaches - Semantic Web research and user-centered information system design. It uses validated and accepted methodologies from Human Computer Interaction and information system design to evaluate the usability of semantic annotation and editing tools in selected use cases (e.g. tourist information systems).
CSW @ SemTech 2012 Berlin
2012-02-08 01:21
We presented about Corporate Semantic Web at the Semantic Tech and Business Conference (SemTechBiz 2012), 6-7 February, 2012, Berlin.
Corporate Semantic Web - The Semantic Web Meets the Enterprise
Prof. Dr. Adrian Paschke, Freie Universität Berlin
Nowadays, companies seek more capable approaches for gaining, managing, and utilizing knowledge as well as for automating dynamic services and agile business processes. The Semantic Web offers promising solutions here. The Corporate Semantic Web idea aims at bringing semantic technologies to enterprises. Corporate Semantic Web (CSW) deals with the application of Semantic Web technologies (in particular rules and ontologies) within enterprise settings. It address the technological aspects of engineering and managing semantic enabled IT infrastructure to support (collaborative) workflows, communication, knowledge management, and (business) process management in enterprises. But, it also addresses the pragmatic aspect of actually using Semantic Web technologies in enterprises. This includes learning and training aspects as well as economical considerations - i.e. corporate in the sense of entrepreneurial activities. Incentives need to be provided to encourage in-house adoption and integration of these new Corporate Semantic Web technologies into the existing enterprise information systems, services and business processes. Decision makers on the operational, tactical, and strategic IT management level need to understand the impact of this new technological approach, its adoption costs, and its return on investment.
Want to understand how the semantic web applies to the enterprise arena?
Professor Adrian Paschke is head of the Corporate Semantic Web chair (AG-CSW) at the institute of computer science at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (FUB) and the InnoProfile project Corporate Semantic Web (www.corporate-semantic-web.de), which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the BMBF Innovation Initiative for the New German Laender - Entrepreneurial Regions. He is director of RuleML Inc., vice director of the Semantics Technologies Institute Berlin (STI Berlin) and leads the Berlin Semantic Web Meetup Group. He is Steering-Committee Chair of the RuleML Web Rule Standardization Initiative (RuleML), co-chair of the Reaction RuleML technical group, founding member of the Event Processing Technology Society (EPTS), co-chair of the EPTS Reference Architecture working group (EPTS RA), voting member of OMG, and active member of several W3C groups such as the W3C Health Care and Life Sciences group (W3C HCLS) and the W3C Rule Interchange Format working group (W3C RIF), where he is editor of the W3C RIF standard and is hosting the W3C HCLS KB in Berlin.
Corporate Semantic Web - The Semantic Web Meets the Enterprise
Prof. Dr. Adrian Paschke, Freie Universität Berlin
Nowadays, companies seek more capable approaches for gaining, managing, and utilizing knowledge as well as for automating dynamic services and agile business processes. The Semantic Web offers promising solutions here. The Corporate Semantic Web idea aims at bringing semantic technologies to enterprises. Corporate Semantic Web (CSW) deals with the application of Semantic Web technologies (in particular rules and ontologies) within enterprise settings. It address the technological aspects of engineering and managing semantic enabled IT infrastructure to support (collaborative) workflows, communication, knowledge management, and (business) process management in enterprises. But, it also addresses the pragmatic aspect of actually using Semantic Web technologies in enterprises. This includes learning and training aspects as well as economical considerations - i.e. corporate in the sense of entrepreneurial activities. Incentives need to be provided to encourage in-house adoption and integration of these new Corporate Semantic Web technologies into the existing enterprise information systems, services and business processes. Decision makers on the operational, tactical, and strategic IT management level need to understand the impact of this new technological approach, its adoption costs, and its return on investment.
Want to understand how the semantic web applies to the enterprise arena?
Professor Adrian Paschke is head of the Corporate Semantic Web chair (AG-CSW) at the institute of computer science at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (FUB) and the InnoProfile project Corporate Semantic Web (www.corporate-semantic-web.de), which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the BMBF Innovation Initiative for the New German Laender - Entrepreneurial Regions. He is director of RuleML Inc., vice director of the Semantics Technologies Institute Berlin (STI Berlin) and leads the Berlin Semantic Web Meetup Group. He is Steering-Committee Chair of the RuleML Web Rule Standardization Initiative (RuleML), co-chair of the Reaction RuleML technical group, founding member of the Event Processing Technology Society (EPTS), co-chair of the EPTS Reference Architecture working group (EPTS RA), voting member of OMG, and active member of several W3C groups such as the W3C Health Care and Life Sciences group (W3C HCLS) and the W3C Rule Interchange Format working group (W3C RIF), where he is editor of the W3C RIF standard and is hosting the W3C HCLS KB in Berlin.