Knowledge Fusion Research Workshop

November 29 - December 1, 20051

Knowledge Fusion Education

Richard Scherl

Computer Science Department

Monmouth University

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Approaches to Knowledge Fusion Education

Academic Degree Program Course(s) on Knowledge Fusion * * Adding Knowledge Fusion topics to existing

courses. *

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Monmouth University: School of Science, Technology, and Engineering

Department of Computer Science (M.S.)

Tracks:

Intelligent Information Systems

Computer Networks

Telecommunications Department of Software Engineering (M.S.)

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Monmouth University: School of Science, Technology, and Engineering

Center for Rapid Response Database Systems (CRRDS)

Urban Coast Institute Center for Coastal Watershed Management

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CSXXX – Knowledge Fusion

Catalog Description: Fundamental techniques for integrating information from heterogeneous sources to obtain actionable knowledge. The sources of information include databases, files, and web pages. Covered techniques include both those based upon logic and also approaches based on probabilistic reasoning.

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CSXXX – Knowledge Fusion

Prerequisites:

CS517: Database Systems

CS520: Introduction to Intelligent Systems

Materials:

http://www.monmouth.edu/~rscherl

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Syllabus

Overview of Knowledge Fusion, basic issues. Logical Background (syntax, semantics,

inference methods) Background in Probability Datalog Database Information Integration Ontologies and Information Sysems Description Logics

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Syllabus (cont)

XML Query Languages for unstructured data, web

query languages Semantic Web for Information and Services RDF and OWL Agents and Agent Platforms Bayesian Networks Conclusions and Summary

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Some Useful Texts

A Semantic Web Primer by Grigoris Antoniou and Frank van Harmelen 2004

Introduction to Knowledge Representation and Reasoning by R. Brachman and H. Levesque 2004.

Database Systems: The Complete Book by H. Garcia-Molina, J. Ullman, and J. Widom 2002

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Some Issues

Balance of Theoretical and Practical Aspects How to convey more theoretical aspects to

typical student.

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Some Issues (cont)

Programming Language (?) Bayesian Network Software (Hugin) Agent Platform (Jade) Owl Tools

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Python ?

Blank, D.S., Kumar, D., Meeden, L., and Yanco, H. The Pyro Toolkit for AI and robotics. AI Magazine. 2005.

P. Norvig. Python for Lisp Programmers.

http://www.norvig.com Pychinko Parsia, B. Katz, Y., Clark, K.

http://www.mindswap.org

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Adding Knowledge Fusion Topics to Established Classes

Databases but see Alon Halevy Sigmod Record 2003 Artificial Intelligence (undergraduate and graduate) Semantic Web: Logic, Inference Bayesian Networks: Fusion of information to

identify terrorist or an event of terrorism Machine Learning: Identify signature of a category of

event given available information (sensors) Abduction: Identify suspicious behavior

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Thanks!

Knowledge Fusion Center of ARL (Dana Ulery) DAAD-03-2-0034 My Monmouth Students