5th Reasoning Web Summer School 2009 - call for participation

[Enrico Franconi]

5th REASONING WEB Summer School (RW 2009)
"Semantic technologies for information systems"

http://www.reasoningweb.org/2009/

Brixen-Bressanone (near Bozen-Bolzano), Italy
30 August - 4 September 2008
				
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 10 May 2009

The "Reasoning  Web" series  of annual Summer Schools  was  started in
2005 by the  Network of Excellence REWERSE. This edition will focus on
the use  of semantic technologies to  enhance data access  on the web.
Courses will present a range  of techniques an formalisms which bridge
semantic based and data intensive systems.

COURSES:

1. Description Logics.
  by Franz Baader
2. Ontologies and databases.
  by Diego Calvanese
3. Database theory for RDF.
  by Claudio Gutierrez, Marcelo Arenas, Jorge Perez
4. Database technology for RDF.
  by Souripriya Das (Oracle)
5. Answers-set semantics based tools.
  by Thomas Eiter, Giovambattista Ianni
6. The Semantic Desktop.
  by Siegfried Handschuh, Michael Sintek
7. Logical foundations of XML and XQuery.
  by Maarten Marx

REGISTRATION FEE: €400 (including all lunches and social events).

APPLICATION:

The applications have to be submitted by the  *** 10th of May 2009 ***
according to the instruction in the web site:
http://reasoningweb.org/2009/
Details  on the  registration procedure  will be  available  after the
notification  of  acceptance  of   the  application;  details  on  the
accommodation are already available in the web site.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Thomas Eiter, Vienna Technical University, Austria.
Enrico Franconi (co-chair), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.
Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Siegfried Handschuh, DERI Galway, Ireland.
Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble, France.
Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Sergio Tessaris (co-chair), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

REASONING WEB SCHOOL STEERING COMMITTEE:

Uwe Assmann.
Cristina Baroglio (chair).
François Bry.
Norbert Eisinger.
Nicola Henze.
Massimo Marchiori.
Axel Polleres (deputy chair).

LOCAL ORGANISATION:

Stefano David, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy.
Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.
Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.