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Time: 18 - 20 May 2009
Venue: Clarion Hotel Stavanger

Preliminary programme

Monday 18 May

Tutorials

1300-1700
Ontology-based data integration
The tutorial explains the benefits of using ontologies expressed in a fragment of OWL and reasoning over such ontologies for data access and integration by, e.g., obtaining uniform access to data distributed over several data base systems using divergent schemata. We will discuss the basic issue underlying ontology-based data access and integration, including how to connect the terms in an OWL ontology to external data sources, e.g., standard relational databases, and how to answer complex queries over these data sources and the ontology in a way that faithfully reflects the OWL axioms in the ontology and the established connections. We will also demonstrate the approach using a Protege plugin, OBDA, for specifying the ontology-to-source mappings, and a specific reasoner, QuOnto, for answering queries by exploiting an underlying relational database engine. A basic understanding of OWL and relational databases is an advantage, but experience in designing or using ontologies is not required.
- Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and Guiseppe de Giacomo, University of Rome
1300-1700
Enterprise architecture frameworks with semantic models as a foundation for complex networked operations
Enterprise architecture frameworks like Zachman, EIF (European Interoperability Framework) DODAF/MODAF/NAF (Defense Architectural Frameworks), TOGAF and others provide an important foundation for the understanding and planning of business models and system models for complex networked operations both in industry, eGovernment and crisis management/defense. This ensures both alignment between business and IT, and also provides a better foundation for system interoperability in networked systems. We will demonstrate the approach using ODM (Ontology Definition Metamodel) with OWL for semantic modeling, BMM (Business Motivation Model) and BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) and ARIS/EPC (Event Process Chains) with a transformation so system and service specification in SoaML (Service oriented architecture Modeling Language) with further realization in heterogenous service oriented architectures (SOA) including Web services, Cloud computing/SaaS(software as a service), P2P/Grid and agents. We will show how semantic annotations from existing system specification to an ontology can support semantic interoperability. A basic understanding of business modeling or system specification is an advantage, but experiences in Enterprise architectures, semantic models or any of the specific technologies that will be presented is not required.
- Arne Jørgen Berre, SINTEF, and Dima Panfilenko, DFKI

Tuesday 19 May

Session 1: Keynotes. Semantic Technologies – Needs and solutions

Chair: Nils Sandsmark, General Manager, PCA

Initiatives like Integrated Operations in the oil and gas industry, Network Based defence in the defence industry and e-Government in the public sector, have greatly increased the needs for web-based data and system integration. This session will provide an overview of requirements from the different sectors and the semantic technologies becoming available to meet these requirements.

0900-0910
Welcome
- Nils Sandsmark, Chairman Programme Committee
0910-0935
Integrated Operations Generation 2 - Potential and opportunities for the oil and gas industry
- Richard Sagli, StatoilHydro
0935-1000
Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) and Linked Data
Thesauri and classification systems reflecting human knowledge cannot always be engineered into precise ontologies. The W3C Candidate Recommendation SKOS provides a language for expressing such "simpler" constructs in RDF.
- Thomas Baker, Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable Metadaten (KIM), Germany / Co-chair, W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group
1000-1030
Coffee break
1030-1100
Semantic interoperability for Public Administrations in Europe – Challenges and solutions
The talk will present the challenges faced by public administrations in Europe with regards to semantic interoperability and how the EU is addressing them, including approaches such as the IDABC EIF, European Interoperabiliy Framework and Semic.eu.
- Aldo Laudi, IDABC, EU Commission
1100-1130
Norwegian Experience with Meeting Public Sector Interoperability Requirements
This talk will present an overview of various activities in Norway related to handling semantic interoperability between various public sector organisations, and between the public sector and the industrial sector. This work will also be related to the similar European activities presented in the previous keynote.
- Kristian Bergem, Agency for Public Management and eGovernment, Norway
1130-1200
Information Management for Interoperability in European Air Traffic Control
The European air traffic control center, EuroControl, has established an architectural framework based on Enterprise Architecture inspired by DODAF/MODAF/NAF as a basis for the future development of networked European air traffic controls. The talk will present the Information management and service architecture approach to cross -European interoperability for this. The architecture is being developed further in the ongoing SESAR project, with partners from the different European countries involved.
- Ulf Larsson, National air traffic center (Luftfartsverket), Sweden
1200-1300
Lunch

Session 2: Applications of semantic technology

Chair: Roar Fjellheim, Director Business Development, Computas

The real value of semantic technologies in the oil&gas and other industries becomes apparent when ontologies, reasoning engines, etc. are applied to help people solve real-world problems. This session will provide early examples of such applications.

1300-1330
Towards an ontology-driven Enhanced Oil Recovery decision support system
Presentation of several ontology pilots used for learning the feasibility of a long-term project to develop a comprehensive Enhanced Oil Recovery decision support system.
- Emilio Núñez, Assistant director for research relations, University of Texas at Austin
1330-1400
Ontologies for geological CO2 storage studies
- Jean-Francois Rainaud, Project Manager, Institut Francais du Pétrole
1400-1430
The semantic web promises a smarter electicity grid
The Smart Grid cooperation requires huge distributed information system. The presentation shows how the semantic web can help managing the distribution and heterogeneity of this information system.
- Dominique Gabioud, Professor, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland
1430-1500
Unleashing the power of ontologies in information integration
Presentation of different studies for the application of novel ontology-based technology for data access and integration. We will illustrate the added value of semantic technologies and also discuss the performance bottlenecks that we encountered.
- Diego Calvanese, Associate professor, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
1500-1530
Coffee break

Session 3: Ontology tools

Chair: Jon Atle Gulla, Professor, NTNU

As an encouraging sign of the maturing of semantic technology, software tools for building industrial strength application are becoming available, both as commercial products and in open source form. In this session we will learn about a representative set of such tools, including ontology construction tools, systems for semantic content management, triple stores for efficient storage of semantic data, etc.

1530-1600
Methods and tools for semi-automatic ontology engineering
Expressive ontologies are an important prerequisite for a growing number of knowledge-intensive applications emerging from semantic web research. This presentation gives an overview of methods and tools for the semi-automatic construction of more expressive ontologies, while at the same time highlighting some of the biggest challenges for future ontology learning and engineering.
- Johanna Völker, Research Associate, University of Karlsruhe
1600-1630
QuOnto: Ontology-based data access and integration using relational technology
QuOnto is an ontology-based system that is capable of reasoning over ontologies that contains large amounts of instances, typically stored in external memory. Besides the usual reasoning services, such as ontology satisfiability, subsumption and instance checking, QuOnto fully supports answering complex queries that involve unrestricted forms of joins and selections (i.e., union of conjunctive queries). In this talk we will present QuOnto, its foundation, and its use for ontology-based data access and for data integration.
- Guiseppe De Giacomo, Professor, Sapienza University of Rome
1630-1700
Advanced geotemporal reasoning in RDF
Enterprises have begun utilizing semantic technologies and standards for knowledge representation, knowledge access and discovery. Combining this with Geotemporal and Social Networking analytics is the next stage of Business Intelligence. In this presentation, we will discuss advances with Geotemporal Reasoning capabilities in RDF and query techniques that include space, time and objects of interest
- Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc.
1700-1730
Semantic annotation for web services
Semantic annotations of services play a key role in automating service related tasks such as service discovery, selection, composition, or mediation. In this context, this presentation will give an overview of existing top-down and bottom-up approaches to semantic annotation for Web services, together with examples of service annotations and their usage in the geospatial and business process management domains.
- Dumitru Roman, Senior Researcher, Semantic Technologies Institute (STI) / University of Innsbruck, Austria
1730
Summing up the day
- Jon Atle Gulla, NTNU
1900
Aperitiff
1930
Dinner

Wednesday 20 May

Session 4: Interoperability and information quality

Chair: Tor Arne Irgens, Commander Senior Grade, Norwegian Defence

One key motivation for semantic techniques is to contribute to increased quality of information. Traditionally information quality has been linked to information standards, like ISO9000, while semantic technologies can contribute to information quality by supporting system interoperability, thereby diminishing important sources of error in information infrastructures. In this session issues related interoperability and quality are addressed with an eye to challenges within defence and public sectors.

0800-0830
Will ISO9000 be enough to ensure semantic quality?
About 1 million organisations world wide have gained acceptance to ISO 9001, Quality Management Systems Requirements, since 1987. This is a tremendous success judged by the initial objectives. First ambition was to establish a common passport to trade. Today we are asking "Continuous Improvement", there are quality policies referring to ultimatums like: "Zero Defects", "Just in Time", "Satisfaction Guaranteed". This contribution will discuss what expectations communicate to the market and what organisations typically produce of information to realise expectations. In short, what quality of information do we need to trust a company, quality-wise?
- Knut Anderssen, DNV
0830-0900
System interoperability through use of semantic technologies
The talk will give an overview of the major challenges related to system interoperability in general and the specific issues related to interoperability on the semantic level. Examples on solution approaches based on use of semantic technology from current European projects will be given.
- Svein Johnsen, Research Scientist, SINTEF
0900-0930
Semantic MyPage
MyPage is an award-winning portal accessible on norway.no that brings public service offerings together in a citizen's own customized page and which thus serves as a tool to find the services needed without any previous knowledge of who is responsible. "Semantic MyPage" is a concept developed in a Master Thesis by Kjetil Helberg and Steinar Skagemo, which enhances the functionality of the MyPage-portal using semantic technologies.
- Kjetil Helberg, The Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority, and Steinar Skagemo, The Agency for Public Management and eGovernment
0930-1000
Best Practices for archive interoperability using semantic standards
The talk presents an approach investigated in the research project SESAM4 to lower the threshold for using semantic technology to attain interoperability on a global scale. The presentation will give you insight into which important issues you will have to face when applying semantic technology in your organisation.
- Robert H. P. Engels, ESIS Norge and Western Norway Research Institute
1000-1030
Coffee break

Session 5: IT architecture for networked organisations

Chair: Arne Jørgen Berre, Chief Research Scientist, SINTEF

Networked organisations in both the public and industrial sector require an IT architecture and infrastructure that can support different aspects of interoperability, from In this session we will present ongoing projects that are addressing IT architectures including considerations for how semantic technologies can support be a part of IT architecture for networked organizations.

1030-1100
Supporting intelligent and automated integrated operations with agent technologies in a services architecture
Complex industrial environments require interoperability between various technologies. Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) provides proven mechanisms and practices. Extending SOA to include use of semantic technologies like semantic web services and agents enables more flexible and resilient solutions supporting Integrated Operations and operational planning processes.
- Einar Landre, StatoilHydro
1100-1130
SERES Metadata repository - Now! - and long term goals
The Brønnøysund Register Centre is deploying a Metadata repository for the SERES Semantic Registry. The Metadata repository will cover creation, structuring and governance of information that supports collaboration between governmental bodies, government and industry, and government and the public. It will cover semantics, structure and implementation aspects of messages and forms.
- David Nordheim, Computas og Geir Jevne DnV/SERES project leader
1130-1200
IT architecture for supporting semantic interoperability through use of semantic annotations
The FUSION and EMPOWER projects have developed an IT architecture for the support of semantic interoperability for information systems, through the use of OWL -based ontologies and use of SAWSDL (Semantic Annotation of WSDL and XML) for semantic annotations from existing services to relevant ontologies. The principal architecture and the support for semantic interoperability will be illustrated through an example.
- Stelios Pantelopoulos, Singular Logic, Greece
1200-1230
Semantic methods for the preservation and interpretation of information over time
Presentation of semantic methods and technologies used to preserve and interpret long term master data. An online pilot is being used to improve both usage of master data and the information governance. The pilot is a part of the Longrec case at Brønnøysund Register Centre.
- Per Myrseth, Principal Researcher, DNV Research & innovation
1230-1330
Lunch

Session 6: Semantic technology for IO Generation 2

Chair: Arild Waaler, Professor, University of Oslo

Integrated Operations is rapidly evolving, and OLF foresees a future Integrated Operations Generation 2 (IO G2) characterized by more intelligent and more automated operations than current IO, as well as much closer integration of operators, vendors and service companies. IO G2 will offer rich opportunities for advanced application of semantic technology. In this session we will present early studies and pilot projects exploring those opportunities, all related to the ongoing joint industry project Integrated Operations in the High North (IOHN).

1330-1400
SAP Research contributions to IOHN
The talk will be about scientific and practical contributions of SAP's global research organization, viz., SAP Research, to the IOHN project. On the one hand, SAP Research will contribute on how to accelerate Business Data Modeling and Integration Issues. Current research results for semantically unambiguous precision of business information interfaces will be evaluated and extended in the IOHN setting. On the other hand, SAP Research will contribute to a holistic sensor ontology in collaboration with SENSEI (currently the largest running EU FP7 project, led by SAP Research, smart items domain).
- Daniel Oberle, SAP
1400-1430
Applying ISO 15926 to drilling control systems
What is the value of implementing ISO 15926? What benefits can we expect from this, apart form just referencing a standardized vocabulary? This talk addresses how the ISO 15926 standard can ease integration and communication of information, illustrated by its use in the drilling and completion pilot of IOHN.
- Kari Anne Haaland Thorsen, research fellow, University of Stavanger
1430-1500
Model driven integration architecture for IO G2
An industrial framework facilitating the connection of real time data across oil and gas enterprises through the implementation a managed and standards based Reference Semantic Model, supporting Condition Monitoring, Production Optimization .and Real Time Visualization, complying with the OLF Reference Architecture for IO G2.
- Frode Myren, Executive IT Architect, IBM Software Solutions
1500-1530
Using semantic technology to represent standards for Operations & Maintenance
IBM's Reference Semantic Model (RSM), a core component of new systems designed for Operations & Maintenance, has recently been aligned with ISO 15926 on two levels: basic ontological notions involve installation structure and measurements, while equipment typing involves integration with the POSC Caesar Reference Data Library (RDL). Benefits to integration using this framework will be discussed. We will also address how semantics can help lifting existing XML standards to more exchange-friendly representations.
- Johan Wilhelm Klüwer, DNV
1530
Summing up
- Thore Langeland, OLF

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