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Using Sawsdl For Semantic Service Interoperability, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth May 2007

Using Sawsdl For Semantic Service Interoperability, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.


Semantic Annotations For Wsdl, Amit P. Sheth, Jacek Kopecky May 2007

Semantic Annotations For Wsdl, Amit P. Sheth, Jacek Kopecky

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.


Estimating The Cardinality Of Rdf Graph Patterns, Angela Maduko, Kemafor Anyanwu, Amit P. Sheth, Paul Schliekelman May 2007

Estimating The Cardinality Of Rdf Graph Patterns, Angela Maduko, Kemafor Anyanwu, Amit P. Sheth, Paul Schliekelman

Kno.e.sis Publications

Most RDF query languages allow for graph structure search through a conjunction of triples which is typically processed using join operations. A key factor in optimizing joins is determining the join order which depends on the expected cardinality of intermediate results. This work proposes a pattern-based summarization framework for estimating the cardinality of RDF graph patterns. We present experiments on real world and synthetic datasets which confirm the feasibility of our approach.


Altering Document Term Vectors For Classification - Ontologies As Expectations Of Co-Occurrence, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Amit P. Sheth, Marcos Aguilera, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal May 2007

Altering Document Term Vectors For Classification - Ontologies As Expectations Of Co-Occurrence, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Amit P. Sheth, Marcos Aguilera, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal

Kno.e.sis Publications

In this paper we extend the state-of-the-art in utilizing background knowledge for supervised classification by exploiting the semantic relationships between terms explicated in Ontologies. Preliminary evaluations indicate that the new approach generally improves precision and recall, more so for hard to classify cases and reveals patterns indicating the usefulness of such background knowledge.


Semantic Web: Technologies And Applications For The Real-World, Amit P. Sheth May 2007

Semantic Web: Technologies And Applications For The Real-World, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.


Visualization Of Events In A Spatially And Multimedia Enriched Virtual Environment, Leonidas Deligiannidis, Farshad Hakimpour, Amit P. Sheth May 2007

Visualization Of Events In A Spatially And Multimedia Enriched Virtual Environment, Leonidas Deligiannidis, Farshad Hakimpour, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

Semantic Event Tracker (SET) is a highly interactive visualization tool for tracking and associating activities (events) in a spatially and Multimedia Enriched Virtual Environment. SET provides integrated views of information spaces while providing overview and detail to improve perception and evaluation of complex scenarios. We model an event as an object that describes an action and its location, time, and relations to other objects. Real world event information is extracted from Internet sources, then stored and processed using Semantic Web technologies that enable us to discover semantic associations between events. We use RDF graphs to represent semantic metadata and ontologies. …


An Experiment In Integrating Large Biomedical Knowledge Resources With Rdf: Application To Associating Genotype And Phenotype Information, Satya S. Sahoo, Olivier Bodenreider, Kelly Zeng, Amit P. Sheth May 2007

An Experiment In Integrating Large Biomedical Knowledge Resources With Rdf: Application To Associating Genotype And Phenotype Information, Satya S. Sahoo, Olivier Bodenreider, Kelly Zeng, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

Bridging between genotype and phenotype is generally achieved through the integration of knowledge sources such as Entrez Gene (EG), Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) and the Gene Ontology (GO). Traditionally, such integration implies manual effort or the development of customized software. In this paper, we demonstrate how the Resource Description Framework (RDF) can be used to represent and integrate these resources and support complex queries over the unified resource. We illustrate the effectiveness of our approach by answering a real-world biomedical query linking a specific molecular function, glycosyltransferase, to the disorder congenital muscular dystrophy, which potentially forms a new …


Residual-Based Measurement Of Peer And Link Lifetimes In Gnutella Networks, Xiaoming Wang, Zhongmei Yao, Dmitri Loguinov May 2007

Residual-Based Measurement Of Peer And Link Lifetimes In Gnutella Networks, Xiaoming Wang, Zhongmei Yao, Dmitri Loguinov

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Existing methods of measuring lifetimes in P2P systems usually rely on the so-called create-based method (CBM), which divides a given observation window into two halves and samples users "created" in the first half every Delta time units until they die or the observation period ends. Despite its frequent use, this approach has no rigorous accuracy or overhead analysis in the literature. To shed more light on its performance, we flrst derive a model for CBM and show that small window size or large Delta may lead to highly inaccurate lifetime distributions. We then show that create-based sampling exhibits an inherent …


On Node Isolation Under Churn In Unstructured P2p Networks With Heavy-Tailed Lifetimes, Zhongmei Yao, Xiaoming Wang, Dmitri Loguinov May 2007

On Node Isolation Under Churn In Unstructured P2p Networks With Heavy-Tailed Lifetimes, Zhongmei Yao, Xiaoming Wang, Dmitri Loguinov

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Previous analytical studies [12], [18] of unstructured P2P resilience have assumed exponential user lifetimes and only considered age-independent neighbor replacement. In this paper, we overcome these limitations by introducing a general node-isolation model for heavy-tailed user lifetimes and arbitrary neighbor-selection algorithms. Using this model, we analyze two age-biased neighbor-selection strategies and show that they significantly improve the residual lifetimes of chosen users, which dramatically reduces the probability of user isolation and graph partitioning compared to uniform selection of neighbors. In fact, the second strategy based on random walks on age-weighted graphs demonstrates that for lifetimes with infinite variance, the system …


Semantic Web Applications In Industry, Government, Health Care And Life Sciences, Amit P. Sheth Apr 2007

Semantic Web Applications In Industry, Government, Health Care And Life Sciences, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.


Spatiotemporal And Thematic Semantic Analytics, Matthew Perry Apr 2007

Spatiotemporal And Thematic Semantic Analytics, Matthew Perry

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.


Towards Attack-Resilient Geometric Data Perturbation, Keke Chen, Ling Liu Apr 2007

Towards Attack-Resilient Geometric Data Perturbation, Keke Chen, Ling Liu

Kno.e.sis Publications

Data perturbation is a popular technique for privacy-preserving data mining. The major challenge of data perturbation is balancing privacy protection and data quality, which are normally considered as a pair of contradictive factors. We propose that selectively preserving only the task/model specific information in perturbation would improve the balance. Geometric data perturbation, consisting of random rotation perturbation, random translation perturbation, and noise addition, aims at preserving the important geometric properties of a multidimensional dataset, while providing better privacy guarantee for data classification modeling. The preliminary study has shown that random geometric perturbation can well preserve model accuracy for several popular …


Mining Minimal Distinguishing Subsequence Patterns With Gap Constraints, Xiaonan Ji, James Bailey, Guozhu Dong Apr 2007

Mining Minimal Distinguishing Subsequence Patterns With Gap Constraints, Xiaonan Ji, James Bailey, Guozhu Dong

Kno.e.sis Publications

Discovering contrasts between collections of data is an important task in data mining. In this paper, we introduce a new type of contrast pattern, called a Minimal Distinguishing Subsequence (MDS). An MDS is a minimal subsequence that occurs frequently in one class of sequences and infrequently in sequences of another class. It is a natural way of representing strong and succinct contrast information between two sequential datasets and can be useful in applications such as protein comparison, document comparison and building sequential classification models. Mining MDS patterns is a challenging task and is significantly different from mining contrasts between relational/transactional …


Automatic Composition Of Semantic Web Services Using Process And Data Mediation, Zixin Wu, Ajith H. Ranabahu, Karthik Gomadam, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller Feb 2007

Automatic Composition Of Semantic Web Services Using Process And Data Mediation, Zixin Wu, Ajith H. Ranabahu, Karthik Gomadam, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller

Kno.e.sis Publications

Web service composition has quickly become a key area of research in the services oriented architecture community. One of the challenges in composition is the existence of heterogeneities across independently created and autonomously managed Web service requesters and Web service providers. Previous work in this area either involved significant human effort or in cases of the efforts seeking to provide largely automated approaches, overlooked the problem of data heterogeneities, resulting in partial solutions that would not support executable workflow for real-world problems. In this paper, we present a planning-based approach to solve both the process heterogeneity and data heterogeneity problems. …


Engineering Mathematics Education At Wright State University: Uncorking The First Year Bottleneck, Nathan W. Klingbeil, Kuldip S. Rattan, Michael L. Raymer, David B. Reynolds, Richard Mercer Feb 2007

Engineering Mathematics Education At Wright State University: Uncorking The First Year Bottleneck, Nathan W. Klingbeil, Kuldip S. Rattan, Michael L. Raymer, David B. Reynolds, Richard Mercer

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.


Survey Of Current Sensor Network Data Management Frameworks, Cory Henson, Satya S. Sahoo Jan 2007

Survey Of Current Sensor Network Data Management Frameworks, Cory Henson, Satya S. Sahoo

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.


Semantically Annotating A Web Service, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth Jan 2007

Semantically Annotating A Web Service, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

In the past few years, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has transitioned from a partially formed vision into a widely implemented paradigm, with Web services (WS) being the forerunners to implementing SOA-based solutions. But even though the current trend is to use Web services' standards-based nature to establish static connections between various components, businesses are starting to explore dynamic value-added propositions, such as reuse, interoperability, and agility.


Role Of Semantics In Autonomic & Adaptive Web Services And Processes, Amit P. Sheth Jan 2007

Role Of Semantics In Autonomic & Adaptive Web Services And Processes, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

The emergence of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) has created a new paradigm of loosely coupled distributed systems. In the METEOR-S project, we have studied the comprehensive role of semantics in all stages of the life cycle of service and process-- including annotation, publication, discovery, interoperability/data mediation, and composition. In 2002-2003, we had offered a broad framework of semantics consisting of four types:1) Data semantics, 2) Functional semantics, 3) Non-Functional semantics and 4) Execution semantics. This talk describes the need for the four types of semantics, its standards-based support through WSDL-S/SAWSDL, and the need for such semantic representation to dynamic and …


Data Integration, Meenakshi Nagarajan Jan 2007

Data Integration, Meenakshi Nagarajan

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.


Glycoo Ontology, Christopher Thomas Jan 2007

Glycoo Ontology, Christopher Thomas

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.


Learning To Model Spatial Dependency: Semi-Supervised Discriminative Random Fields, Chi-Hoon Lee, Shaojun Wang, Feng Jiao, Dale Schuurmans, Russell Greiner Jan 2007

Learning To Model Spatial Dependency: Semi-Supervised Discriminative Random Fields, Chi-Hoon Lee, Shaojun Wang, Feng Jiao, Dale Schuurmans, Russell Greiner

Kno.e.sis Publications

We present a novel, semi-supervised approach to training discriminative random fields (DRFs) that efficiently exploits labeled and unlabeled training data to achieve improved accuracy in a variety of image processing tasks. We formulate DRF training as a form of MAP estimation that combines conditional loglikelihood on labeled data, given a data-dependent prior, with a conditional entropy regularizer defined on unlabeled data. Although the training objective is no longer concave, we develop an efficient local optimization procedure that produces classifiers that are more accurate than ones based on standard supervised DRF training. We then apply our semi-supervised approach to train DRFs …


Beyond Sawsdl - A Game Plan For Broader Adoption Of Semantic Web Services, Amit P. Sheth Jan 2007

Beyond Sawsdl - A Game Plan For Broader Adoption Of Semantic Web Services, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

After a flurry of research activities led by the OWL-S, WSMO, SWSF, and WSDL-S groups, we now have taken the first concrete steps toward building a Semantic Web Services (SWS) based solution, in the form of a W3C candidate recommendation SAWSDL [http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/], associated tools and use cases, and initial applications [1]. Where do we go from here? Researchers among us may be fully convinced of the importance and benefit of adding semantics to Web services and impatient to see their research translated into technologies and adapted for real use. However, I believe we may need to be patient and do …


A Unified Approach To Retrieving Web Documents And Semantic Web Data, Trivikram Immaneni, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan Jan 2007

A Unified Approach To Retrieving Web Documents And Semantic Web Data, Trivikram Immaneni, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan

Kno.e.sis Publications

The Semantic Web seems to be evolving into a property-linked web of RDF data, conceptually divorced from (but physically housed in) the hyperlinked web of HTML documents. We discuss the Unified Web model that integrates the two webs and formalizes the structure and the semantics of interconnections between them. We also discuss the Hybrid Query Language which combines the Data and Information Retrieval techniques to provide a convenient and uniform way to retrieve data and documents from the Unified Web. We present the retrieval system SITAR and some preliminary results.


Schema-Driven Relationship Extraction From Unstructured Text, Cartic Ramakrishnan Jan 2007

Schema-Driven Relationship Extraction From Unstructured Text, Cartic Ramakrishnan

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.


Sensor Networks Survey, Cory Andrew Henson, Satya S. Sahoo Jan 2007

Sensor Networks Survey, Cory Andrew Henson, Satya S. Sahoo

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.


Glycomics Project Overview, Satya S. Sahoo Jan 2007

Glycomics Project Overview, Satya S. Sahoo

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.


Sa-Rest: Semantically Interoperable And Easier-To-Use Services And Mashups, Amit P. Sheth, Karthik Gomadam, Jonathan Lathem Jan 2007

Sa-Rest: Semantically Interoperable And Easier-To-Use Services And Mashups, Amit P. Sheth, Karthik Gomadam, Jonathan Lathem

Kno.e.sis Publications

Services based on the representational state transfer (REST) paradigm, a lightweight implementation of a service-oriented architecture, have found even greater success than their heavyweight siblings, which are based on the Web Services Description Language (WSDL.) and SOAP. By using XML-based messaging, RESTful services can bring together discrete data from different services to create meaningful data sets; mashups such as these are extremely popular today.


Measuring Inconsistency For Description Logics Based On Paraconsistent Semantics, Yue Ma, Guilin Qi, Pascal Hitzler, Zuoquan Li Jan 2007

Measuring Inconsistency For Description Logics Based On Paraconsistent Semantics, Yue Ma, Guilin Qi, Pascal Hitzler, Zuoquan Li

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

In this paper, we present an approach for measuring inconsistency in a knowledge base. We first define the degree of inconsistency using a four-valued semantics for the description logic ALC. Then an ordering over knowledge bases is given by considering their inconsistency degrees. Our measure of inconsistency can provide important information for inconsistency handling.


Semantic Matchmaking Of Web Resources With Local Closed-World Reasoning, Stephan Grimm, Pascal Hitzler Jan 2007

Semantic Matchmaking Of Web Resources With Local Closed-World Reasoning, Stephan Grimm, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Ontology languages like OWL allow for semantically rich annotation of resources (e.g., products advertised at on-line electronic marketplaces). The description logic (DL) formalism underlying OWL provides reasoning techniques that perform match-making on such annotations. This paper identifies peculiarities in the use of DL inferences for matchmaking that derive from OWL's open-world semantics, analyzes local closed-world reasoning for its applicability to matchmaking, and investigates the suitability of two nonmonotonic extensions to DL, autoepistemic DLs and DLs with circumscription, for local closed-world reasoning in the matchmaking context. An elaborate example of an electronic marketplace for PC product catalogs from the e-commerce domain …


From “Glycosyltransferase” To “Congenital Muscular Dystrophy”: Integrating Knowledge From Ncbi Entrez Gene And The Gene Ontology, Satya S. Sahoo, Kelly Zeng, Olivier Bodenreider, Amit P. Sheth Jan 2007

From “Glycosyltransferase” To “Congenital Muscular Dystrophy”: Integrating Knowledge From Ncbi Entrez Gene And The Gene Ontology, Satya S. Sahoo, Kelly Zeng, Olivier Bodenreider, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

Entrez Gene (EG), Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) and the Gene Ontology (GO) are three complementary knowledge resources that can be used to correlate genomic data with disease information. However, bridging between genotype and phenotype through these resources currently requires manual effort or the development of customized software. In this paper, we argue that integrating EG and GO provides a robust and flexible solution to this problem. We demonstrate how the Resource Description Framework (RDF) developed for the Semantic Web can be used to represent and integrate these resources and enable seamless access to them as a unified resource. …