ODBase 2006
Hello from Montpellier, France. I’m here attending the ODBase conference and presenting our paper (co-authored with Bijan and Evren) on incremental consistency checking. I actually gave the talk this morning and it went very well. There were about 50 people attending the talk and the audience appeared very interested. The questions which were asked were mainly regarding the approach in general; for example if we restricted the logic (e.g., dis-allow cyclic TBoxes), which we do not. All in all, I was pleased with the way the talk went!.
The conference lasts until Thursday, so I will be attending talks for the next few days; I’ll post again soon regarding some of the more interesting ones. One thing I want to mention was that the opening keynote for the conference was pretty interesting, as it was given by Marie-Christine Rousset - who worked on Carin some years back. Her talk was titled “SomeWhere: a scalable peer-to-peer infrastructure for querying distributed ontologies” and essentially addressed utilizing logic based representation languages (propositional logic and RDFS) in distributed P2P networks. The main technical contribution of the approach appeared to be a query rewriting procedure for query data over the network. The talk was fairly interesting; its main limitation was the (reoccuring) problem of ontology mapping, which was assumed to be known.
Anyway, I’ll post more fun stuff from ODBase soon!
-Christian Halaschek-Wiener
