E-Science: Semantic technologies for information representation, integration and control, and mobile computing: Location-based services and mobile agent systems

Status: Completed

General Objective: Provide the scientific and practical basis on the theoretical, methodological and technological foundations to support the representation, integration, control, distribution and consultation of data from distributed and heterogeneous sources.

Participants:

  • UTPL
  • UCUENCA

Organizers:

  • Victor Saquicela
  • Mauricio Espinoza

Investigation area:

  • E-Semantic Science
  • Information Integration
  • mobile computing
  • Intelligent Agents

Contents:

  • Research Methodology and Scientific Method
  • E-science. Introduction, research objects (research objects), and challenges.
  • Scientific workflows. Current state of the art and scientific and technological challenges
  • Introduction to data integration. Current state of the art and scientific and technological challenges.
  • Data integration. Interoperable, federated databases, knowledge representation, ontologies and reasoners
  • mobile computing. Infrastructure, advantages and problems in data management, mobile data services, location-based services, and mobile agent systems
  • Examples of intelligent distributed systems. OBSERVER, SRS, QueryGen, SHERLOCK.