The working group is a joint working group between TC2, WG 2.12, and TC12, WG 12.4. This group’s website is at: http://www.ifipsemanticweb.curtin.edu.au/

Officers

Chair

Prof. Dr. Tharam Dillon, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Vice-Chairs

Prof. Elizabeth Chang, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Prof. Ernesto Damiani, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Crema, Italy, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Secretary

Dr. Omar Hussain, Curtin University, Perth, Australia e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Aim

To study and develop theory and techniques for the semantic web.

Scope

The scope of the Working Group’s activities includes (but is not restricted to) the following:

• Knowledge representation for the web
• Generic and heuristic reasoning methods for the web
• Database Integration Interoperability of web services
• Interoperability of web services
• Ontologies for web content description
• Content-based information and knowledge retrieval
• Metadata and knowledge markup
• Information extraction, automatic and semi-automatic generation of meta data
• Web-based knowledge management and electronic commerce