CS594 "Semantic Web: Models and Query Languages"
Schedule: MW 12:30 - 1:50

This is a special topics graduate course, which will be run like a seminar.

The Semantic Web is about...

"A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities'' (see article by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila in Scientific American)

Some interesting related links:

• The Semantic Web Community Portal
• The First Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS)
• Machines to talk intelligently on Web, by Dan Gillmor
• Semantic Web Road Map, Tim Berners-Lee

Recommended background

An advanced undergraduate course or a graduate course (or equivalent experience) in two or more of the following areas:

• Databases and/or Information Retrieval
• Software engineering
• Artificial Intelligence
• Graphics and/or Multimedia Systems
• Programming Languages
• Networks

Readings

There will be several technical papers and book chapters to read and possibly also a recommended book. The readings and the ability to discuss the research material in them is one of the essential parts of the course.

Evaluation

There will be a final project on an agreed topic between professor and student. There will be additional forms of evaluation (their exact form still under consideration).

Please note that this information is preliminary and subject to change. More details will be posted closer to the beginning of the semester. Therefore, if you have questions about the course before then, please send email to: ifc@cs.uic.edu

Students

List of students.

Related Links

Another course on the Semantic Web taught by Professor Amit Sheth at the University of Georgia.

Isabel F. Cruz
Last Update: December 14, 2001