RE: [icom] Invitation to present at the "OWL2: Tools andApplications" virtual panel session - Thu 2010.08.05

[Eric Chan <eric.s.chan@oracle.com>]

Hello Peter,

Thanks for the invitation to present to the Ontolog panel. Below are the title and abstract of the presentation and the bios of the presenters. I have requested Stefan, Deirdre, or Laura to co-present with Zhe and myself. We may update the presenter list and bios subsequently.

Title:  Applying Oracle Database 11g Semantic Technologies to Integrated Enterprise Collaboration Activities 

OASIS Integrated Collaboration Object Model (ICOM) is an interesting application area for semantic database management tools in Oracle Database 11g Release 2. ICOM is a proposed standard ontology to integrate a complete range of collaboration activities for interoperable collaboration environments. It promotes seamless transitions among the collaboration activities to eliminate the fragmentation of collaboration tools. ICOM is defined from the outset for concomitant representations in Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Unified Modeling Language (UML), as well as in relational tables by some customized Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) schemes. Oracle Beehive collaboration service, which is a provider of ICOM, manages the ICOM-compatible data in Oracle Database to achieve high availability and scalability. By generating the ICOM RDF triples from the relational schema, Oracle database semantic technologies complement the ORM solutions to provide access to RDF/OWL and OO representations of the same dataset in RDBMS. Members of ICOM TC, Oracle Beehive Collaboration Technologies, and Oracle Database Semantic Technologies will jointly present the ICOM RDF modeling of the Ontolog forum data, including member profiles, discussion messages, wiki pages, conferences, etc., and demonstrate the Oracle Database support of OWL 2 RL, SPARQL, and SQL query interfaces for faceted search applications of ICOM RDF representations.

Presenters:
	Zhe Wu
	Eric S. Chan

Bios

Zhe Wu (http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AlanWu) 

Zhe (Alan) Wu is a Consultant Member of Technical Staff working on semantic technologies in New England Development Center, Oracle. He leads the development of the inference engine in the database, which supports W3C RDFS and OWL standards, as well as user-defined rules. As an Oracle representative, he is an active participant and contributor in the W3C OWL (OWL 2) working group. Zhe has also served on UDDI standard specification technical committee from August 2003 to September 2005. Zhe received his PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001. He received his BE from the Special Class for Gifted Young, University of Science & Technology of China in 1996. His work and research interests are in Semantic Web technologies, logical inferencing, database, web services, nonlinear optimization, computer security, and computer networks.


Eric S. Chan (http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EricChan)

Eric S. Chan is Object Model Architect for Oracle Collaboration Technologies and Chair of the OASIS Integrated Collaboration Object Model for Interoperable Collaboration Services (ICOM) TC. Besides object modeling, he also counsels the development teams on the architecture, performance, and scalability of Oracle Beehive middle-tier services. Eric has over 20 years of software development experience of which over 11 years are with Oracle Corporation. He co-authored with Murat Tanik the book entitled Fundamentals of Computing for Software Engineers on the application of formal logic, model theory, and semantics in systems specification. His interests include semantic web, collaboration and social networking, content management, identity management, security, and distributed systems.

Regards,
Eric


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Yim [mailto:peter.yim@cim3.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 11:21 AM
To: Eric Chan; Alan Wu
Cc: Ian Horrocks; icom@lists.oasis-open.org; Obrst, Leo J.; Kurt Conrad; Peter Yim
Subject: [icom] Invitation to present at the "OWL2: Tools and Applications" virtual panel session - Thu 2010.08.05

Dear Alan, Eric  and All,


Further to our conversation earlier last week at the ICOM workshop at
Oracle,  I am writing to invite the Oracle and ICOM team to come join
us at the upcoming "OWL2: Tools and Applications" session on Ontolog
Forum, as one of the parties on the panel.

Professor Ian Horrocks will be championing and chairing this program
(I promised Ian that I will take the initiative to contact you.) This
is envisioned as a mini-series of two back-to-back virtual sessions on
"OWL 2." The first session (tentatively scheduled for Thu 2010.07.29)
will cover the OWL 2 standard and specifications, and a second panel
session will follow, featuring "OWL2: Tools and Applications."

This second OWL2 session, which we are looking forward to have your
presence, is tentatively scheduled for Thu 2010.08.05. It will be a 2
hour session, starting at: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 7:30pm CEST /
6:30pm BST / 17:30 UTC. We will be expecting 4 to 6 parties on the
panel and that each party on the panel will be allotted ~15 minutes
for their presentation and/or demo.


Please:

1. acknowledge this message, and confirm your participation.

2. provide a title and a brief abstract of your presentation
(preferably some time this week)

3. Let us have the name and biosketch of the speaker(s) (if the latter
is not already on the OntologWiki)

4. note that we will need your slides by end-of-day two days before
the Thursday session (i.e. by end Tuesday.)

5. review the page:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?VirtualSpeakerSessionTips
... especially on the IPR Policy and the section "For the SPEAKERS."


We shall look forward to your sharing your work and insight with the community.


Thanks & regards.  =ppy

p.s. see our other past Ontolog events
(http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidZ ) like,
Alan's talk at http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_10_18
or a sample recent Panel Session:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2010_03_25
to get an idea on the format of our virtual events.
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