Workshop 2 - Electronic Governance - Technology

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Title

Semantic Technologies in Electronic Government

Date/Time

Thursday 04 December 2008, 14:00 - 16:40

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Description

The workshop provides the opportunity to hear about developments in four aspects of semantic technology for electronic government, concerning: the markup of resources with metadata to facilitate information retrieval; the construction and exploitation of an ontology of goals and services to promote the selection of an appropriate service for a particular goal; issues surrounding the maintenance of semantic metadata supporting multiple points of view, whether of multiple organisations or of one organisation at multiple times; and artificial intelligence techniques for analysing interactions with web-based applications so as to distinguish legitimate traffic from threats to security.

Schedule

Biography

Jim Davies

Jim Davies is Professor of Software Engineering, and the Director of the Software Engineering Programme at the University of Oxford. He leads a group researching into model- and semantics-driven approaches to software development, with a particular interest in medical research informatics. Prior to joining Oxford University, Prof. Davies was a Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Reading (1993-1995). He holds a BA in Mathematics, MSc in Computation and DPhil in Computation (UK BCS/CPHC Distinguished Dissertation Prize) all from the University of Oxford.

Jeremy Gibbons

Jeremy Gibbons CEng CITP MBCS FIAP is Reader in Software Engineering at the University of Oxford, and Deputy Director of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. His research interests are in programming languages and methodology, and particularly in the use of programming language technology to capture and preserve properties of data; recent applications have been to the manipulation of semantic metadata. He has previously held lectureships at Oxford Brookes University and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has a DPhil in Computation from the University of Oxford (1991), and a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh (1987).

Steve Harris

Steve Harris is a Research Officer at Oxford University Computing Laboratory. His research is practical semantics for data: finding ways in which the collection of semantic tools that has been developed over the last decade may be integrated and presented to users and developers so that they may be able to specify, develop and use information systems that gather well-explained, interoperable data. He has been instrumental in the UK "CancerGrid" project, and is currently the lead researcher on "Evolving Health Informatics". Previous posts include being Director of IT for the National Translational Cancer Research Network, Head of Software Development for the Institute for Cancer Studies at the University of Birmingham, and a Software Developer in the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit. He has a BSc and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Birmingham.