INS2 PhD Research Summary
George Anadiotis
Michiel Hildebrand
Alia Amin
Kateryna Falkovych
Joost Geurts
Stefano Bocconi
Title
PhD Student: George Anadiotis
Starting time: Februari 2006
Interacting with Typed and Linked Data
PhD Student: Michiel Hildebrand
Starting time: November 2005
Research proposal
The semantic web offers an infrastructure for heterogeneous data collections and aims to provide uniform access to this information. A considerable amount of machine-processable collections are already available. A central question in our research is how we can automate the generation of meaningful presentations about these resources, a process that on the current web depends heavily on human designers and domain specialists.
In this research I focus on the interaction modalities of a presentation, such as search and navigation. Semantic driven interaction aims to improve the process of finding relevant results by exploiting the domain specific knowledge on the semantic web. I will explore different techniques to determine semantic relevance. In particular, I will explore reasoning in hierarchical, spatial and temporal dimensions.
Semantic Design
PhD Student: Alia Amin
Starting time: October 2005
The semantic web has gathered a lot of interest within the web community
because it offers a way for
machines to "read" content and "understand" what kind of content it is.
Research in this area usually covers
topics as information structure or information retrieval. Less attention
has been paid ,however, as to how to
present semantic information automatically but still in a way that humans
can appreciate. Semantic Design
research is about automatic presentation of semantic information in a way
that is perceivable to humans.
This research aims to complement the existing semantic web research by
focusing on the users' perspective.
Some important issues in this research area are information clustering,
information presentation in spatial
and temporal dimensions, aesthetics, user profiles and context awareness.
Title
PhD Student: Kateryna Falkovych
Starting time: November 2002
Title
PhD Student: Joost Geurts
Starting time: June 2002
Intelligent Information Retrieval and Presentation in Public Historical Multimedia Databases (I2RP)
PhD Student: Stefano Bocconi
Starting time: January 2002
The work in I2RP concentrates on multimedia applications that give
computer users access to historical information in large databases. The
ARIA and Adlib databases, developed by the Rijkmuseum in Amsterdam,
contain thousands of images and several hundred thousand textual
database records concerning paintings and works of art. It is not likely
that a single design solution for a WWW-page will suit all possible
types of access to such a database.
The role of the CWI group within this project is to investigate how the
hypermedia content can be rendered in a way that is adapted to the
prevailing constraints within the usage context and the actual system
hardware used. We will investigate appropriate discourse structures to
guide the flow of the presentation and to map these onto hypermedia
presentation patterns. This process is driven by high-level hypermedia
design rules, which also have to be developed. Research is also required
into the realization of the hypermedia patterns in terms of concrete
hypermedia presentation formats, such as the W3C recommendation SMIL.
The proposed research will also leverage on the current international
developments on Web-based agent-technology and ontologies in the context
of the "Semantic Web" (E.g. activities stimulated by European 5th and
6th Framework, DARPA/DAML and W3C). Our research will focus on making
these technologies available for the average user.