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

Preliminary programme

Monday 18 May

Tutorials

Ontology-based data integration
Diego Calvanese, Professor, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and Guiseppe de Giacomo, Professor, University of Rome, Italy

Enterprise architecture frameworks with semantic models as a foundation for complex networked operations
Enterprise architecture, TOGAF, UPDM
Information and ontology modelling
Process modelling
Service modelling and interoperability
Arne Jørgen Berre, Chief Scientist, SINTEF, Dima Panfilenko, Scientific Assistant, DFKI, Germany and Ulf Larsson, Enterprise Architect, National air traffic center (Luftfartsverket), Sweden <hd>

Tuesday 19 May

Session 1 Keynotes session: Semantic technologies – Needs and solutions

Chair: Nils Sandsmark, General Manager, PCA

Integrated Operations Generation 2 - Potential and opportunities for the oil and gas industry
Richard Sagli, Project Manager, StatoilHydro
Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) and linked data
Thomas Baker, Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable Metadaten (KIM), Germany / Co-chair, W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group
The experience of Web 2.0 Communications and collaboration tools in a global enterprise - The road to 3.0
Rich Gore, Senior IT Manager, Cisco IT, USA
Semantic interoperability for public administrations in Europe – Challenges and solutions
Klaus Reichling, Advisor, IDABC, EU Commission, Belgium
Norwegian experience with meeting public sector interoperability requirements
Kristian Bergem, Senior Adviser, Agency for Public Management and eGovernment

Session 2: Applications of semantic technology

Chair: Terje Aaberge, Researcher, Western Norway Research Institute

Towards an ontology-driven enhanced oil recovery decision support system
Emilio Núñez, Assistant Director for Research Relations, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Ontologies for geological CO₂ storage studies
Jean-Francois Rainaud, Dr., Institut Francais du Pétrole, France
The semantic web promises a smarter electicity grid
Dominique Gabioud, Professor, University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland
Unleashing the power of ontologies in information integration
Diego Calvanese, Associate Professor, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Session 3: Ontology tools

Chair: Jon Atle Gulla, Professor, NTNU

Methods and tools for semi-automatic ontology engineering
Johanna Völker, Research Associate, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
QuOnto: Ontology-based data access and integration using relational technology
Guiseppe de Giacomo, Professor, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Advanced geotemporal reasoning in RDF
Michael Wessel, Dr., Racer Systems, Germany Semantic annotation for web services and their relevance to environmental models
Dumitru Roman, Senior Researcher, Semantic Technologies Institute (STI)/University of Innsbruck, Austria
Systems interoperability through use of semantic technologies
Arne Jørgen Berre, Chief Scientist, SINTEF

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 ISO 9000, 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 to interoperability and quality are addressed with an eye to challenges within defence and public sectors.

0800-0830

Will ISO 9000 be enough to ensure semantic quality?
About 1 million organisations worldwide 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 to 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, Dr. Ing., DNV

0830-0900

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, Enterprise Architect, National air traffic center (Luftfartsverket), Sweden

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, Senior Adviser, The Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority, and Steinar Skagemo, Adviser, 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, Dr., ESIS Norge and Western Norway Research Institute

1000-1030

Coffee break

Session 5: IT architecture for networked organizations

Chair: Arne Jørgen Berre, Chief Scientist, SINTEF

Networked organisations in both the public and industrial sector require an IT architecture and infrastructure that can support different aspects of interoperability. 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, Specialist, 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 implemantation aspects of messages and forms.
- David Norheim, Principal Engineer, Computas, and Geir Jevne, Group Leader, DNV/SERES

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, Head of European Projects Department, 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

Best practices in collaborative ontology engineering
IOHN will be facing the challenge of extending ISO15926 in different directions where several distributed domain experts contribute their knowledge. Rather similar challenges are currently addressed in the German lighthouse research project THESEUS/TEXO which brings together experts in the field of the internet of services. A modular approach to ontology construction is required, where domain experts carry the main responsibility for their corresponding ontology module supported by a collaboration server. Governance methods, modeling guidelines, and best practices are applied to avoid inconsistencies and to arrive at superior design. We report on the findings of the THESEUS/TEXO project.
- Daniel Oberle, Senior Researcher, SAP Research, CEC Karlsruhe, Germany

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, Post Doctor, 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 of 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, and Udo Pletat, Dr., Senior Certified IT Specialist, IBM

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, Principal Specialist, DNV Energy

1530

Summing up
- Thore Langeland, Manager IO, OLF

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