Web Technologies
Web 2.0
As Web technologies have been evolving, the term Web 2.0 emerged to express that the way the Web is used has significantly changed since the beginning of the Internet. Web 2.0 stands for the social Web that allows users to collaborate and interact with one another and covers social platforms, forums, wikis, blogs, etc. However, Web 2.0 also relates to a bunch of new technologies that play a key role for the implementation of such social platforms. For example, the RSS and Atom format are used for information distribution, AJAX technologies allow implementing highly interactive applications running in a browser, and web services are standards to implement for service-oriented architectures on the web.
Semantic Technologies
The Semantic Web (sometimes also called Web 3.0) is an independent development aiming at adding meaning to web content in a formalized manner to enable the automatic processing of the information on the web using technologies from Artificial Intelligence. For this purpose, a set of Semantic Web standards has been developed such as the Resource Description Framework (RDF), the Web Ontology Language (OWL), and the RDF Query Language (SPARQL) that are now becoming more popular as their support in commercial software (like data bases) increases. In the future we will probably see that Web 2.0 and Semantic Web will merge and further evolve to enable networked humans and intelligent agents exchanging semantically annotated content.
For further information, read the following article:
Lassila & Hendler (2007). Embracing Web 3.0. IEEE Internet Computing.
Our competences
We actively research on the use of Web 2.0 and Semantic Web technologies (as well as their integration) for process and knowledge management. In particular, we investigate the idea of using agile workflow management technology within social networks as a means to help users to perform more complex activities and as a means to exchange procedural experience among users. Further, we develop novel methods for information extraction from Web content, which links with our activities in case-based reasoning. Previous work also includes research on intelligent sales support for electronic commerce.
We also apply existing Web technologies as we develop prototypical software systems to demonstrate our research. We also research on semantic web standards for use in case-based reasoning.
- information extraction from Web content
- agile workflows for social networks
- representation and reasoning with semantic workflows
- development of complex graphical user interfaces with Google Web Toolkit
- research on using existing semantic web standards in the context of case-based reasoning and similarity-based retrieval
- intelligent sales support
Projects
Current projects
- since 2010: CAKE III - Collaborative Agent-based Knowledge Engine
- 2009 - 2012: ECM meets Enterprise 2.0
Completed projects
- 2005-2009: WoSeMa - Workflow Semantic Matching Platform
- 2004-2009: Combining matching strategies for medical vocabularies
- 2000-2003: IPQ - IP Qualification for Efficient Design Reuse
- 1998-2002: WebPlan - Dynamic Planning for Domain-Specific Search in the Internet
- 1998-2000: WEBSELL - Intelligent Sales Assistants for the World Wide Web
Completed student projects
- 2010-2011: Memex - Wissensmanagement in der Wirtschaftsinformatik
- 2009-2010: Kinkon
- 2006-2007: SER Portal (Auftraggeber: Firma SER Solutions Deutschland GmbH
- 2004-2005: Wissenssuche in einem WIKI-basierten Wissensportal (Auftraggeber: Firma empolis)
- 2004-2005: Wizard für ein Network Intrusion Detection System (Auftraggeber: Firma infoServe GmbH)
