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Researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’s Facultad de Informática have created an access protocol for data resources (or information sources) that are defined in RDF(S). RDF(S) is a set of web of data recommendations promoted by the W3C consortium for defining metadata (data about data) in the Web.
RDF(S), one of whose promoters is Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Internet, is actually a combination of the RDF language, used to define metadata, and the RDF Schema, an extension of the RDF language used to define vocabularies, which then structure the metadata defined using RDF.
Durante los días 5 al 11 de julio, se ha realizado la séptima edición de la escuela de verano sobre ingeniería ontológica y web semántica (SSSW09) en la residencia de estudiantes del Universidad Politécnica de Madrid en Cercedilla.
Para consultar los resultados obtenidos durante esta semana de intenso trabajo, así como las presentaciones realizadas, podéis hacerlo mediante su página web. En la sección "Invited Speakers & Tutors", podéis descargar las presentaciones y ver los vídeos de todas las charlas realizadas.
La investigadora de la Facultad de Informática de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Asunción Gómez, ha sido entrevistada en un video de madri+d en relación con sus diferentes líneas de investigación.
Asunción Gómez comenta en el video, de cuatro minutos de duración, que para que una máquina sea inteligente debe tener conocimiento del mundo real al igual que tienen los humanos. Asunción Gómez explica asimismo que está dedicada al desarrollo de modelos que permitan a una máquina una conducta inteligente: la denominada Inteligencia Artificial.
On Monday July 7th begins in Cercedilla, Madrid, the Sixth Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW08), organized by the Ontology Engineering Group, Computer Science School at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (School of Computing) and directed by John Domingue (The Open University) and Professor of the Computer Science School Asunción Gómez Pérez.
The summer school will develop its activities throughout the week and involves speakers Mark Greaves (Vulcan, Inc., U.S.), Guus Schreiber (VU University Amsterdam, NL), Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) Natasha Noy (Stanford, U.S.) and Chris Welty (IBM Watson Research Center, U.S.).
El Ontology Engineering Group de la Facultad de Informática de la Universidad Politécnica (FIUPM) de Madrid organiza la V Conferencia Europea sobre web semántica (ESWC 2008) que se desarrolla del 1 al 5 de junio en la isla de Tenerife.
La conferencia presenta los últimos resultados en investigaciones y aplicaciones de tecnologías aplicadas a la web semántica, al mismo tiempo que ofrece un conjunto de actividades paralelas que incluyen programas tutoriales, demostraciones técnicas y talleres.
Researchers from the Ontology Engineering Group at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’s School of Computing (FIUPM) are developing a world fishery stock depletion assessment and early warning system to prevent stock depletion and overfishing. This system will apply ontology networks to rapidly and effectively locate the exact information required from amongst a huge volume of data in the fishery resources domain.
The European Monnet -Multilingual Ontologies for Networked Knowledge- Project (FP7-248458) kicked off on 1 March 2010. Along with other European organizations and higher education institutions, this project is partnered by the Ontology Engineering Group at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's Facultad de Informática, led by Asunción Gómez-Pérez.
The goal of the Monnet project is to build multilingual ontologies to retrieve and present information across languages. The Monnet project aims to meet new industry and government needs to better exploit the information available on the Internet.
Four European higher education institutions, including the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’s Facultad de Informática through the Ontological Engineering Group, are developing an early warning system for natural disasters capable of predicting coastal flooding and forest fires.
The ontology-based system combines information taken from different sources and displays a status map for experts. Using this map, experts will be able to make better decisions on which localities to evacuate or what preventive measures to take to avert the disaster or minimize its effects on people and property.
Tenemos el placer de anunciar el lanzamiento del portal web del proyecto GeoBuddies. El proyecto GeoBuddies está desarrollando una aplicación que proporcionará información y servicios geo-espaciales, en cualquier lugar y en cualquier momento, para los peregrinos del Camino de Santiago. La aplicación soportará el acceso y la interacción móvil, dinámica y dependiente de contexto con un conjunto de recursos y servicios, con el soporte de la información proporcionada por el Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN).
Two articles of the Ontology Engineering Group, School of Computer Science, UPM are among the most cited of the journal IEEE Intelligent Systems, as explained in the article The Most Cited Intelligent Systems Articles, appeared in last August's edition (vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 10-13).
The first article in question is the one signed by Mariano Fernández López and Asunción Gómez, entitled Building a Chemical Ontology designd Environment, published in 1999 in that journal (Vol.14, No. 1, pp. 1937-1946). This article has obtained a total of 206 citations since its publication.
La edición electrónica de la revista Mapping, especializada en Ciencias de la Tierra, publica en su edición de mayo un artículo del investigador cubano Renato Alonso en el que informa del desarrollo de una ontología geoespacial en el dominio forestal de Cuba que se fundamenta en una metodología desarrollada por el Grupo de Ingeniería Ontológica de la Facultad de Informática de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (FIUPM).
La metodología utilizada para la elaboración de esta ontología se llama Methontology y constituye una guía para llevar a cabo todo el desarrollo de ontologías en cualquier dominio a través de la especificación, la conceptualización, la formalización, la implementación y su evaluación.
Spanish researchers have participated in a European Project, called OntoGrid, which has been applied to both the analysis of satellite mission quality and to prevent European motorists from swindling car insurers. These are just two of a long list of other possible applications in the business world. In the final project review, concluded in August 2007, experts from a number of European organizations agreed that the project had achieved outstanding scientific and technological results, as well as having a big impact on technological and user communities.
This technology, which is an extension of the conventional web, allows the computer to analyze the information using ontology and knowledge to speed up computer work. Asunción Gómez, a professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Zaragoza visited to participate in a series of conferences in Ibercaja Zentrum.
You can read the full interview, in spanish, published in the newspaper Heraldo de Aragón on the following link.
