Semantic Grid Mini-Workshop

Chair: David De Roure
Wednesday 3rd September 2003

Draft Agenda

Order of presentations is subject to change as speakers' other commitments are still in flux.

Note there are also Semantic Grid sessions on Tuesday 2 September: Meta Data & Semantic Grid at 2pm and Ontologies & Semantic Grid at 4pm.

Background

The report "Research Agenda for the Semantic Grid: A Future e-Science Infrastructure" was first circulated within the e-Science community in July 2001. The subsequent two years have seen increasing activity in this area, in the UK, Europe and US, including the formation of the Semantic Grid Research Group at the Global Grid Forum and the recent funding of several new projects under the JISC and EPSRC "Semantic Grid and Autonomic Computing" programme.

This workshop has two main goals:

• Review - to take a look at where we are now, including an update on the Semantic Grid aspects of the original e-Science projects which set out to build "Semantic Grids".
• Community Building - to provide the first opportunity in the UK for researchers to get together from the many e-Science projects which relate to the Semantic Grid.

The featured projects include the three pilots which set out to explore different aspects of the Semantic Grid:

• MyGrid - the use of ontologies in the bioinformatics domain was already established, and myGrid set out to build on this and also to apply semantics within the service-oriented architecture.
• Geodise - developing information and knowledge grid aspects to encapsulate and exploit knowledge so that new engineering designs can be developed more effectively.
• Comb-e-Chem - applying Semantic Grid to automation, the "smart laboratory" and in support of the notion of "publication at source", a new model for scholarly communication in the chemistry field.

The workshop will include updates on the e-Science projects within the Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations (IRCs) which are also addressing aspects of Semantic Grid, including the two projects in the Advanced Knowledge Technologies IRC: CoAKTinG (Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid) and MIAKT (Grid enabled knowledge services: collaborative problem solving environments in medical informatics).