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10 April 2002, SIKS/Ontoweb Master Class, Peter Patel-Schneider

, Pat Hayes

Speaker: Peter Patel-Schneider
(Bell Labs Research and Pat Hayes, University of West-Florida)
Pat Hayes (University of West-Florida)
Title: Logical Foundations of the Semantic Web
Date: Wednesday 10 April 2002
Time: 10:00-12:30
Location: Bondsraadzaal Vakbondsmuseum, Henri Polaklaan 9, Amsterdam
(opposite Artis zoo)

The World-Wide Web Consortium has started, as part of its Semantic Web activity, a new working group to develop a web ontology language (see http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/)). The second meeting of this group will be held at CWI in Amsterdam on April 8-9. Ontoweb and SIKS have taken this opportunity to organize a master class on the logical foundations of the semantic web. The two invited speakers, Peter Patel-Schneider and Pat Hayes, are members of the working group and experts in this field.

Preliminary Program

9.30 - 10.00 Arrival and coffee
10.00 - 11.00 Talk by Peter Patel-Schneider
11.00 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 12.30 Talk by Pat Hayes

Registration

Participation in this master class is free, but seating will be limited. To register, send e-mail to with the subject "SIKS/Ontoweb master class" and with your address/affiliation details in the message body.

Organizers

Guus Schreiber, University of Amsterdam
Dieter Fensel, Free University of Amsterdam
Frank van Harmelen, Free University of Amsterdam

Sponsors

Ontoweb (European IST Thematic Network)
SIKS (Dutch Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems)

For more information and registration, see http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/ or http://www.deburcht-vakbondsmuseum.nl/contact.html, or contact .

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