Administration
Ontology Languages (Comp321)
Frank Wolter
Times and Location
The module runs in the first semester.
The lectures will be:
- Monday, 11am (Brodie Tower 305)
- Wednesday, 9am (Ashton Building Lecture Theatre)
- Friday, 3am (Ashton Building Lecture Theatre)
Lectures will start 26 September 2011.
Tutorials
Thursdays 4am (Ashton Building Lecture Theatre).
First tutorial October 6, 2012.
Office Hours
If you need to see me individually I will normally be available in my
office (room 114, Ashton Building) at the following days and
times.
Continuous Assessment
There will be two class tests of 50 minutes (worth 20% of the final mark).
Examination
There will be a two hour exam (worth 80% of the final mark).
Syllabus
- Introduction to ontologies and terminologies and their applications (2 lectures)
- Introduction to ontology languages: Description Logics, Rule-based languages, first-order logic (7 lectures)
- Introduction to the design and maintenance of description logics (6 lectures, given by Valentina Tamma)
- Algorithms for reasoning in description logics and their applications (11 lectures)
- Ontologies and databases (4 lectures)