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Multi-agent Semantic Web Systems is a Level 10 and Level 11 course given in Semester 2.
The Semantic Web has been held up as an extension of the current Web by Tim Berners-Lee. According to this vision, the Web becomes a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge. For this to happen, Web content needs to be expressed in a form where it can be processed intelligently by software agents.
Some aspects of the Semantic Web have already been developed as specifications and implementations. Other parts are still highly speculative or too challenging to solve yet, but are the subject of considerable research and experimentation. As well as addressing techniques for representing information on the Web, we need to consider techniques for allowing agents to cooperate in using this information, and here we draw on techniques and results from agent-based systems.
Lectures are held on Mondays and Thursdays at 12:10 pm – 1.00 pm, in 7 George Square, Psychology, Room F21. Lectures start on Monday of Week 1 (16th January) of Semester 2.
Please note that the links below point to last year's slides and are provisional in this sense; they will be updated before each lecture. In the Reading column of the following table, 'SWWO' refers to the textbook, Allemang and Hendler (2008) Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, and 'IMS' refers to the book Michael Wooldridge (2009), An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems, second edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
| Week | Date | Topic | Slides | Handouts | Reading | |
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| Week 1 | 16-Jan-12 | 1 | Course Intro | slides | 4up handout | Berners-Lee et al (2001), Shadbolt et al (2006) |
| 19-Jan-12 | No lecture | |||||
| Week 2 | 23-Jan-12 | 2 | Ontologies, Formal and Informal | slides | 4up handout | SWWO Chs 1–2, Folksonomy links |
| 26-Jan-12 | 3 | Resources and Metadata | slides | 4up handout | ||
| Week 3 | 30-Jan-12 | 4 | Resource Description Framework (RDF) | slides | 4up handout | SWWO, Ch3 |
| 2-Feb-12 | 5 | RDF Continued | slides | 4up handout | SWWO, Ch3 | |
| Week 4 | 06-Feb-12 | 6 | RDF Schema | slides | 4up handout, Jena notes | SWWO, Ch4 |
| 09-Feb-12 | 7 | SPARQL | slides | 4up handout, SPARQL guide | SWWO, Ch5, Ch6 | |
| Week 5 | 13-Feb-12 | 8 | Linked Open Data | slides |
4up handout | SWWO, Ch6 |
| 16-Feb-12 | 9 | Kate Byrne: Constructing RDF Datasets | slides |
4up handout |
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| Week 6 | 20-Feb-12 | No lecture: Innovative Learning Week | ||||
| 23-Feb-12 | No lecture: Innovative Learning Week | |||||
| Week 7 | 27-Feb-12 | 9 | William Waites: Indexing and Information Content in Linked Data | slides | 4up handout | |
| 1-Mar-12 | 10 | The Programmable Web | slides | 4up handout | ||
| Week 8 | 5-Mar-12 | 11 | Web Services, Part 1 | slides | 4up handout | |
| 8-Mar-12 | 12 | Web Services, Part 2 | slides | 4up handout | ||
| Week 9 | 12-Mar-12 | 13 | Agent Coordination | slides | 4up handout | |
| 15-Mar-12 | 14 | Agent Communication | slides | 4up handout | IMS, Ch6, Ch7 | |
| Week 10 | 19-Mar-12 | 15 | BDI and Practical Reasoning | slides | 4up handout | |
| 22-Mar-12 | 16 | Steven Lynden: Distributed RDF Data Integration | slides | 4up handout | ||
| Week 11 | 26-Mar-12 | 17 | Fiona McNeill: Ontology Matching | slides | 4up handout | |
| 29-Mar-12 | 18 | Review Topics | slides | 4up handout |
There will be two pieces of coursework for the level 10 course, and three pieces of coursework for the level 11 course. In both cases, the total worth of the coursework is 30%. There is a near-final draft of the coursework assignments for you to look at: [PDF], [HTML]. This will be discussed in class on Monday 23rd Jan.
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