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The Theory of the Branching Universes


The theory of the branching Universes


The theory of the branching UniversesThe Book about the Rudiverse

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The theory of the branching Universes


Structure of the book

• The work of Rudi in perspective: – Foreword– Part I: Peers

• Illustrating of the scope and range of the work of Rudi:– Part II: Academic Legacy

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Foreword: A History of the Semantic Web

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A History of the Semantic Web

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• 1996: Simple HTML Ontology Extensions (SHOE)

• 1997: Ontobroker

• Dagstuhl seminar in 2000

• DAML

• RDF DAML+OIL OWL

• OIL

• First International Semantic Web Conference in 2002

• First European Semantic Web Conference in 2004


Part I Colleagues and Historical Roots

A Retrospective on Semantics and Interoperability Research – Bernhard Haslhofer and Erich Neuhold

• Interoperability problems arise when

distinct applications communicate and

exchange information objects with

each other.

• Often the structure and semantics of

these objects is defined by autonomous

designers, each having an individual

interpretation of the real world in mind.

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Part I Colleagues and Historical Roots

• Semantic Web and Applied Informatics: Selected Research

Activities in the Institute AIFB– Andreas Oberweis, Hartmut Schmeck, Detlef Seese, Wolffried Stucky, and Stefan Tai

• Effectiveness and Efficiency of Semantics– Peter C. Lockemann

• Knowledge Engineering Rediscovered: Towards Reasoning

Patterns for the SemanticWeb– Frank van Harmelen, Annette ten Teije, and Holger Wache

• Semantic Technology and Knowledge Management– John Davies, Paul Warren, and York Sure

• Tool Support for Ontology Engineering– Ian Horrocks

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Effectiveness and Efficiency of Semantics

• Provides an excellent analysis of the communalities and differences of

database and Ontology technology in terms of efficiency and

effectiveness.

• Even after more than 30 years of existence, relational databases

remain the mainstay of data archiving because they are the most

efficient way to store, select and access data, particularly if the data

are to be interrelated.

• However they make strong assumptions on how data should be

structured …

• Which makes reuse and interoperability more difficult.

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Effectiveness and Efficiency of Semantics

• Semantics can add effectiveness to information retrieval without

loss of efficiency.

• Databases implement the aspect of handling data efficiently with a

computer

• Ontologies/semantics implement the aspect of handling data

effectively in order to achieve a certain goal within a certain domain

and resource boundaries.

• Semantic solutions are always put “on top of” database

solutions!

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Tables versus directed graphs

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Part II Academic Legacy

• Combining Data-Driven and Semantic Approaches for Text Mining

• From SemanticWeb Mining to Social and Ubiquitous Mining

• Towards Networked Knowledge

• Reflecting Knowledge Diversity on theWeb

• Software Modeling Using Ontology Technologies

• Intelligent Service Management—Technologies and Perspectives

• Semantic Technologies and Cloud Computing

• Semantic Complex Event Reasoning—Beyond Complex Event Processing

• Semantics in Knowledge Management

• Semantic MediaWiki

• Real World Application of Semantic Technology

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The theory of the branching UniversesThe Population of the Rudiverse


Size matters!

• Wife

• Secretaries

• Rabbits

• Children

• PhD students

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One (!) Wife

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Mrs. Euro‘er

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Rabbits – How many?

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Children

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50 PhDs

Jürgen AngeleDieter Fensel

Susanne Becher Dieter Landes

Barbara Messing Markus Wiese Robert EngelsThomas Pirlein

50 PhDs

Alexander Maedche

Stefan Decker

York Sure

Raphael VolzAndreas Hotho Andreas Abecker Ljiljana Stojanovic

Michael Erdmann

Transformators

50 PhDs

Alexander Maedche

Stefan Decker

York Sure

Raphael VolzAndreas Hotho Andreas Abecker Ljiljana Stojanovic

Michael Erdmann

50 PhDs

Siegfried Handschuh

Nenad Stojanovic Daniel Oberle

Boris MotikMarc Ehrig Philipp Cimiano Christoph Tempich

Guido Lindner

50 PhDs

Ernst Biesalski

Saartje Brockmans

Peter HaaseJulien Tane Jens Hartmann

Sudhir AgarwalSteffen Lamparter Stephan Grimm

50 PhDs

Stephan Bloehdorn Mark Hefke Kioumars Namiri Christian Drumm

Johanna Völker Valentin Zacharias Ingo Weber Olaf Grebner

50 PhDs

Denny Vrandecic

Jens Lemcke Ivan Markovitch Sebastian Blohm Tuvshintur Tserendorj

Markus Krötzsch Kay-Uwe Schmidt Thanh Duc Tran

50 PhDs

Holger LewenMax Völkel 51st?

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• Ants form one of the biggest super organisms

• Existing now for 50 million years

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Ants


• Biggest super organism: Up to 2 million individuals in a single

colony

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Ants


• Greater biomass than humans

• And significantly more than any other complex species

• Ruling insect species

• Why?

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Ants


Parents Share Caring for Children

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Cooperation

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Distribution of Work

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Stock Farming

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Agriculture

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Why then no Space Travels?

• Ants have reached these achievements now for more than about 50

million years

• Humans only for about 10 000 years

• So why ants were not first on the moon?

• This question is similar to the following: “Why were humans not on

the moon in the 18th century?“

• „It is the information processing, stupid!“.

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The theory of the branching Universes Summary


The RudiUniverse

• In the mid 1990s, Tim Berners-Lee had the idea of developing the

World Wide Web into a „Semantic Web“,

• a web of information that could be interpreted by machines in order

to allow the automatic exploitation of data, which until then had to be

done by humans manually.

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The RudiUniverse

• One of the first people to research topics related to the Semantic Web

was Professor Rudi Studer.

• From the beginning, Rudi drove projects like ONTOBROKER and OIL,

which later resulted in W3C standards such as RDF and OWL.

• By the late 1990s, Rudi had established a research group at the

University of Karlsruhe, which later became the nucleus and breeding

ground for Semantic Web research, …

• … and many of today’s well-known research groups were either founded

by his disciples …

• or benefited from close cooperation with this think tank.

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Lets give Rudi Studer an applause and not the speaker!


Not finished yet! – The epilogue

Dwarfs placed on the shoulders of giants see more than

the giants themselves


The power of evolution


The power of evolution - simplified


Watch the fur!

Prosimian Neuholdonis

HomoErectus Studerus

Homo sapiens Fenselus


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