Giorgio Orsi

In the recent years, the proliferation of data-intensive information services (e.g., e-commerce portals, yellow and white pages, online public administration services, etc.) along with the development of pervasive technologies (e.g., GPS technology, wireless sensor networks, RFIDs, etc. ) provided new opportunities for dynamic and on-the-fly integration of various information sources. The previously accepted concept of information services as simple aggregators of information (i.e., service providers in a “data-as-service” paradigm) is now shading into a new concept of information sources intended as providers of on-demand and personalized information, which should be not aggregated any longer by the data provider but, instead, directly by user devices (e.g., mobile phones) which know the owner’s intentions, preferences and habits. Read the rest of this entry »

The “Reasoning Web” series of annual Summer Schools was started in 2005 on behalf of the work package “Education and Training (ET)” of the Network of Excellence REWERSE. This year edition will concentrate on the use of semantic technologies to enhance data access on the web. For this reason, courses will present a range of techniques an formalisms which bridge semantic based and data intensive systems.

Summer School Website.