Overview
SEWASIE is a 36 months research project, started in May 2002. SEWASIE aims at implementing and advanced search engine, which will provide European SMEs with intelligent access to heterogeneous information on the Internet. This will overrun current information retrieving tools, that often are difficult to use and produce pages of links (mostly worthless) from a simple query.
Laying on an architecture that organises information on its semantic values, SEWASIE search engine will detect meaningful data, complying with users’ preferences.
SEWASIE will also provide the system with communication facilities for business contacts. Integrating the searching and negotiating facilities in user-friendly interfaces, SEWASIE will reduce transaction costs for SMEs, powerfully enhancing their access to key technologies and business opportunities.
The SEWASIE architecture, as actually envisaged, is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Architecture of the SEWASIE System
SEWASIE will design and implement an advanced search engine that provides access via a machine-processable semantics of data, which can give the ground to structured web-based communication, overrunning current information retrieving tools. Multilingual ontologies will be created and maintained, with an inference layer grounded in W3C standards (XML, XML Schema, RDF(S)), that are the basis for the advanced search mechanisms.
The system will be an open and distributed architecture based on intelligent agents (brokers, mediators and wrappers) and will accommodate scalability and flexibility issues.
Special Query Agents will support users when querying heterogeneous web information sources. The query agent will move through SEWASIE information nodes and retrieve the information requested by the user. Information nodes are independent components that semantically enrich existing data sources by linking the data to ontologies and other metadata. The system will also be capable of real-life business evaluation of the results, developing tools which solve the problem in a usable, marketable way.
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Pubblications
- D. Beneventano, S. Bergamaschi, F. Guerra, M. Vincini: "Synthesizing an
Integrated Ontology ", IEEE Internet Computing Magazine, September-October 2003,42-51.
- D. Beneventano, S. Bergamaschi, F. Guerra, M. Vincini: "Building an
integrated Ontology within SEWASIE system", in proceedings of the First
International Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases (SWDB), Co-located with VLDB
2003 Berlin, Germany, September 7-8, 2003. Paper (pdf)
- S. Bergamaschi, F. Guerra, M. Vincini: "A peer-to-peer information system
for the semantic web", in proceedings of the International Workshop on Agents
and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC03), held in AAMAS 2003 International Conference on
Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent SystemsMelbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003 Paper (pdf).
- D. Beneventano, S. Bergamaschi, A. Fergnani, F. Guerra, M. Vincini,
D. Montanari : "A Peer-to-Peer Agent Based Semantic Search Engine", Eleventh
Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems Cetraro (CS), Italy, June 24-27, 2003 (SEBD03)
Paper (pdf).
- S. Bergamaschi, M. Vincini: "A semantic approach to access heterogeneous data sources:
the SEWASIE Project", Invited talk at TELEBALT Conference,
"Teleworking for Business, Education, Research and e-Commerce",
Vilnius, Lithuania, 21-22 October 2002.
Paper (pdf)
- S. Bergamaschi: "SEWASIE: a Semantic Search Engine", Invited talk at
EKAW 2002 Workshop on Ontologies for Multi-Agent Systems, 30 September
2002, Siguenza, Spain and Invited talk at
Workshop on Ontologies and Automatic Web Services,
Congresso Annuale AICA2002 - Bari, September 2002.
Slides (pdf)
- S. Bergamaschi, F. Guerra: "Peer to Peer Paradigm for a Semantic Search
Engine", in proceedings of the International Workshop on Agents and
Peer-to-Peer Computing, Bologna, 15 July 2002, LNCS 2530, Springer ISBN 3-540-40538-0
Springer.
Paper (pdf)
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