This topic page is dedicated to Ontologies, Semantic Web and Search Techniques, and Intelligent Information Integration.

February 4, 2004

The Protege System version 2.0 is available:

• The Protege project at Stanford University has a Java-based application for creating ontologies.  Here are some links of interest.

• Users interested in exploring the multiuser capabilities of Protege should see our documentation:

http://protege.stanford.edu/doc/multiuser/

• Users interested in upgrading their current database support to 2.0 should see:

http://protege.stanford.edu/download/release_notes.html#dbUpgrades

• Download Protege 2.0: http://protege.stanford.edu/download/release/index.html

Release notes for 2.0: http://protege.stanford.edu/download/release_notes.html

• Download ontologies, plug-ins, and other applications from the

Contributions Library: http://protege.stanford.edu/plugins.html

Ontology

• "Ontology" Search Results from Google
• Dictionary definitions of Ontology
• The Google Directory - Taxonomy of Terms
• The Open Directory Project and RDF "dump" of Open Directory
• Visit the Onto-Logging Project in Europe.
• Verity, Inc. has interesting papers on mining the WWW

Semantic Web

• DAML - The DARPA Agent Markup Language.
  • DAML Viewer Available
  • DAML Briefings
  • DAML Researchers and Projects
• WC3 Semantic Web Activities
  • Tim Berners-Lee Recent Presentation on the Semantic Web
• Decker, S., Melnik, S., van Harmelen, F., Fensel, D., Klein, M., Broekstra, J., Erdmann, M., and Horrocks, I. (2000). "The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF." IEEE Internet Computing, 4(5), 63-73.
• Scientific American article: The Semantic Web by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila

Search Techniques

• Dr. Wooju Kim's Search References Page
• Lawrence, S., and Giles, C. L. (1999). "Accessibility of Information on the Web." Nature, 400, 107-109.
• Irrational Search, an interesting article from Red Herring Magazine.
• Accelerating toward a better search engine, from Red Herring Magazine, March 6th issue.

WebSifter Papers.

• L. Kerschberg, W. Kim, and A. Scime, Intelligent Web Search via Personalizable Meta-Search Agents, in Submitted for Publication, 2002, pp. 10.
• L. Kerschberg, W. Kim, and A. Scime, Invited Paper,  “A Semantic Taxonomy-Based Personalizable Meta-Search Agent,” presented at NASA/JPL Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts (WRAC), Tysons Corner, Virginia, 2002.
• W. Kim, L. Kerschberg, and A. Scime, Personalization in a Semantic Taxonomy-Based Meta-Search Agent, presented at International Conference on Electronic Commerce 2001 (ICEC 2001), Vienna, Austria, 2001.

• WebSifter II Presentation Slides by Dr. Kim (PPT and ZIPed PPT).
• WebSifter II Paper by Kerschberg, Kim and Scime.
• Scime, A., and Kerschberg, L. (2001)"WebSifter: An Ontological Web-Mining Agent for E-Business," 9th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-9), Hong Kong.

Semantic Information Integration

• L. Kerschberg and D. Weishar, "Conceptual Models and Architectures for Advanced Information Systems," Applied Intelligence, vol. 13, pp. 149-164, 2000. (PDF Version) (ZIPed PDF Version)

• Dr. Kerschberg's Mediation Technology Presentation (PowerPoint and ZIPed PowerPoint versions.
• Len Seligman and Larry Kerschberg, "A Mediator for Approximate Consistency: Supporting "Good Enough" Materialized Views," Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, vol. 8, pp. 203 - 225, 1997.
• GMU's DARPA Advanced Logistics Program Final Report.