Triple Space Computing: Large-Scale Integrated Knowledge Applications

Tutorial 1
Triple SpaceComputing: Large-Scale Integrated Knowledge Applications
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Sunday, September 28, AM

Presenters:
Reto Krummenacher I STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, AT
Jacek Kopecky I STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, AT
David de Francisco I TID, ES

In the tutorial, we introduce a newly emerging technology called “Triple Space”, a system which applies the paradigm of space-based computing to realize a coordination middleware managing information formalized using Semantic Web representation languages and coordinating the exchange of machine-readable information among many distributed entities on the Web.  Triple Space Computing is a future solution for high scale knowledge distribution and coordination scenarios. We present the concept and the existing implementation,  guided by a concrete demonstration based on a Digital Asset Marketplace  for a large telecommunications company. Attendees will download and use a Triple Space kernel and learn how to use it as communication and coordination middleware for their Semantic Web applications. 

The need for novel Web service coordination middleware compliant with fundamental architectural principles of the Web -- such as persistent publication and asynchrony -- is identified as essential in the Future Internet. Such middleware will cope with an Internet in which automated, intelligent services will outnumber human users, performing many tasks based on the generation and consumption of knowledge available on the Semantic Web. Without such middleware, the scalability and coordination needs of the Future Internet will not be satisfiable.

The goal of this tutorial is to introduce the Triple Space Computing paradigm and to showcase its use for the development of applications for the Future Internet. The tutorial will provide insights into both theoretical as well as practical aspects of this new paradigm, and aims at familiarizing developers and researchers with the available software and theories that were mostly established in course of the European research project TripCom. Participants will be granted full access to an instance of the Triple Space and learn how to use it for the integration and coordination of their distributed, heterogeneous and large scale (Semantic) Web applications.

Important Dates:
Tutorial Date: September 28, 2008
Time: 09:00 - 13:00