Defeasible Reasoning for the Semantic Web and e-Commerce
Speaker: Prof Grigoris Antoniou, FORTH, University of Crete
When: 2005-09-29 11:00:00
Venue: 78-420
Host: Dr Guido Governatori
Abstract:Defeasible reasoning is a simple nonmonotonic reasoning approach,
which allows reasoning with incomplete and inconsistent information
while still having low computational complexity. This makes it
particularly promising for web applications. In this talk we report
on a semantic web enabled implementation of defeasible reasoning, as
well as on a number of prototype e-commerce applications.
Biography:Grigoris Antoniou is Professor of Computer Science at the University
of Crete, Greece, and Head of the Information Systems Laboratory at
FORTH. Previously he held professorial appointments at Griffith
University, Australia, and the University of Bremen, Germany. His
research interests lie in knowledge representation and its
applications. Particular interests include nonmonotonic reasoning
and semantic web technologties. He has published over 100 technical
articles, and is co-author of "A Semantic Web Primer", MIT Press
2004.
Type: DKE
Contact:Dr Guido Governatori, seminar host (guido@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)