SEMANTIC WEB SYLLABUS(CA5328)

SEMANTIC WEB SYLLABUS(CA5328)

ANNA UNIVERSITY TRICHY

LTPC 

3003

UNIT I FUNDATAMENTALS  

9

Components – Types – Ontological Commitments – Ontological Categories – Philosophical Background – Knowledge Representation Ontologies – Top Level Ontologies – Linguistic Ontologies – Domain Ontologies – Semantic Web – Need – Foundation – Layers – Architecture.

UNIT II LANGUAGES FOR SEMANTIC WEB AND ONTOLOGIES 10

Web Documents in XML – RDF – Schema – Web Resource Description using RDF- RDF Properties – Topic Maps and RDF – Overview – Syntax Structure – Semantics – Pragmatics – Traditional Ontology Languages – LOOM – OKBC – OCML – Flogic Ontology Markup Languages – SHOE – OIL – DAML + OIL – OWL.

UNIT III ONTOLOGY LEARNING FOR SEMANTIC WEB 10

Taxonomy for Ontology Learning – Layered Approach – Phases of Ontology Learning – Importing and Processing Ontologies and Documents – Ontology Learning Algorithms – Evaluation.

UNIT IV ONTOLOGY MANAGEMENT AND TOOLS 9

Overview – Need for management – Development process – Target ontology – Ontology mapping – Skills management system – Ontological class – constraints – issues. Evolution – Development of Tools and Tool Suites – Ontology Merge Tools – Ontology based Annotation Tools.

UNIT V APPLICATIONS 7

Web Services – Semantic Web Services – Case Study for specific domain – Security issues – Current trends.

Total: 45

TEXT BOOKS

1. Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Oscar Corcho, Mariano Fernandez-Lopez, “Ontological Engineering: with examples from the areas of Knowledge Management, e-Commerce and the Semantic Web” Springer, 2004.

2. Grigoris Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen, “A Semantic Web Primer (Cooperative Information Systems)”, The MIT Press, 2004.

REFERENCES

1. Alexander Maedche, “Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web”, Springer; 1 Edition, 2002.

2. John Davies, Dieter Fensel, Frank Van Harmelen, “Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology – Driven Knowledge Management”, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2003.

3. Dieter Fensel (Editor), Wolfgang Wahlster, Henry Lieberman, James Hendler, “Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential”, The MIT Press, 2002.

4. Michael C. Daconta, Leo J. Obrst, Kevin T. Smith, “The Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management”, Wiley, 2003.

5. Steffen Staab (Editor), Rudi Studer, “Handbook on Ontologies (International Handbooks on Information Systems)”, Springer 1st edition, 2004.