[Nepomuk] OASIS at ISWC 2011 - Services addressed to older persons through ontologies and semantic web services

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Press Information

September 7, 2011

OASIS  (www.oasis-project.eu), a research project  partially funded by the 
European Commission under FP7, promises to revolutionize the 
interoperability, quality, breadth and usability of services addressed to 
older persons through ontologies and semantic web services.  

First results will be presented at the 10th International Semantic Web 
Conference (ISWC 2011) in Bonn, Germany (October 23 - 27, 2011).  

How to support holistically the independent living and mobility of the older 
citizens across Europe? How to connect services for the elderly in an 
one-stop-shop fashion and interrelate and integrate those services? 

OASIS (Open architecture for Accessible Services Integration and 
Standardisation), a research project partially funded by the European 
Commission (FP7-ICT, GA# 215754), has developed an open and innovative 
reference architecture, based upon ontologies and semantic web services. 
This architecture enables plug & play and cost effective 
interoperability, seamless connectivity and sharing of content between 
existing and newly developed services in all domains required for the 
independent living of older people and for the enhancement of their Quality 
of Life. 

The project addresses the issue of direct re-usability of information across 
heterogeneous services and devices through the common understanding and 
sharing of contextual information. 

The OASIS platform allows aggregation of different services which offers the 
unique benefit of enhancing each of the services through a synergic exchange 
of information. In consequence, each application can adapt to the specific 
needs of the user 

By fostering interoperability, standardization and organizational / business 
arrangements based on cooperative and aggregating models, OASIS addresses 
some of the main weaknesses in this area. These include fragmentation and 
duplication, poor cooperation among the key players of the value chain and 
lack of sustainable business models. “By these means, OASIS aims to 
contribute to the sustainability and efficiency of social and health care 
systems” says Project Coordinator Silvio Bonfiglio. 

OASIS will moreover boost and improve the competitiveness of the markets for 
innovative products and services, responding to the ageing challenge at both 
EU and global level, thus creating new opportunities for businesses. 

The research work carried out by the OASIS Project in the field of 
ontologies and semantic web services will be discussed during the half-day 
OASIS Symposium (October 25, 2011:14:00-18:00), co-located with the 10th 
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011) in Bonn, Germany ( October 
23 - 27, 2011).  

Press is invited to attend the Symposium. 

Contact: Dagmar Roeller - Email: DRoeller at polisnetwork.eu 

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OASIS Symposium at the ISWC 2011: Hyper-Ontologies and Modularity for 
Semantic Interoperability  

The aim of the OASIS Symposium is to serve as a forum to exchange ideas with 
regard to the realization of a semantic interoperability of services. 

The common vision of the Semantic Web is the achievement of seamless and 
transparent interoperability of services across diverse providers by making 
the meaningful content of those services openly accessible. For content to 
become ‘meaningful’ it must be related to more general information schemes 
for which some semantics has already been provided. Such information schemes 
range from tag collections, which impose an indirect semantics by means of 
induced similarity across tagged entities  to formal ontologies, which 
explicity represent class-subclass relationships, the attributes of such 
classes as well as additional information that may be known about 
combinations of such classes and their instances. Whereas the semantic 
information that is explicitly maintained in ontologies might appear ideal 
for realizing the Semantic Web vision, substantial problems still render 
this goal difficult in practice. The symposium will address these problem 
areas. 

More specifically OASIS addresses:

(i) the inherent complexity of constructing the high quality formal 
specifications necessary for trustworthy reasoning and (ii) the tendency for 
many formal specifications to emerge with little overlap in their coverage, 
modeling styles and intended semantics. 

The solutions being explored involve: the replacement of large-scale 
ontologies by small-scale, application-specific ontologies maintained by 
those who know their data best, the system developers; automatic and 
semi-automatic support tools for allowing system developers to flexibly 
relate their data with re-usable ontologies in their domains of application; 
and the automatic generation of code supporting seamless data transfer 
across and within applications. The resulting framework relies on the well 
supported inter-linking of heterogeneous ‘ontological modules’, which we 
term a hyper-ontology. 

The symposium will present results achieved to date and – through the 
contribution of highly qualified speakers, external to the OASIS Consortium 
- will raise issues in the formal foundations and guidelines for future 
hyper-ontology work and discuss opportunities for new standardization 
initiatives in the area of hyperontology-driven interoperability. 

Specific attention will be devoted to interoperability spanning complex 
services in the areas of Independent Living, Autonomous and Smart Homes and 
Workplaces and to the provision of cross-domain networked ontologies, a goal 
which is itself a substantial research challenge. 

Relevant topics that will be raised during the OASIS Symposium presented by 
renowned experts both internal and external to the OASIS Consortium, 
include: 

Modular Ontology Design
Reasoning over content from multiple sources
Query processing over multiple linked datasets
Creating applications drawing on multiple data sources
Open Ontology Repositories
Information and design quality of ontologies
Semantic Web Services and support tools

The program is completed by a Round Table discussion titled 
“Interoperability, Applications and Hyper-ontologies: the way forward”. 

You can sign up for the OASIS Symposium when registering for the ISWC.

For further information about the OASIS Symposium, please contact 
info at oasis-project.eu or : 

John Bateman – Chair of the Symposium Organizing Committee

E-mail: bateman at uni-bremen.de

Silvio Bonfiglio – OASIS Project Coordinator

Email: Silvio.Bonfiglio at philips.com

Evangelos Bekiaris – OASIS Project Technical Manager

E-mail: abek at certh.gr

For further information about the OASIS Project, please visit the web site  
www.oasis-project.eu  

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