On a rotational basis we offer several courses more or less closely related to the research fields of the group. These courses are shortly described on this page. Notice that these infomation are non-binding and might change. Detailed information (including course plannings, slides, exercise sheets, and so on) about the courses taking place this semester can be accessed via the menu on the left.
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Type of course: Seminar (3 ECTS points)
Evaluation: Oral Presentation and Paper.
Level: Master- and Doctoral Studies
Next Date: FSS 2008
Precondition: Basic knowledge of web technology and SOA.
Description:The Internet of Services is a prerequisite that makes services available on the Internet and tradable like products. Therefore, composability of services into value-added services which are available on the Internet is crucial for the success of service economies. The seminar will cover technical as well as business topics including community-driven service innovation, semantic service engineering and discovery as well as New business models for value-added services.
Type of course: Lecture (8 ECTS points)
Evaluation: Final exam or oral examination, regular excercises.
Level: Hauptstudium
Next Date: FSS 2008
Precondition: Knowledge about algorithms and programming experience (in some language)
Description: The field of artificial intelligence deals with the transfer of human problem solving to its algorithmic implementation in computer programs. An "intelligent" computer program should be able to autonomously solve problems that require some kind of behavior or strategy that we would refer to as intelligent. The lecture is about ways of representing knowledge and how to use this knowledge to find solutions to complex problems.
Type of course: Proseminar (4 ECTS points)
Evaluation: Presentation and Elaboration
Level: Grundstudium
Next Date: FSS 08
Precondition: Willingness for active participation
Description: In this seminar, students will practice the basics of scientific work, in particular the analysis of scientific literature, the presentation of the result in front of an audience and the writing of a technical paper. Content-wise the seminar will focus on Artificial Intelligence methods for game playing. We will look at the principles and rules of classical games such as chess and poker as well as methods for implementing computer players for these games. Student presentations will be accompanied by introductory lectures on literature search, scientific writing and basics of computer game playing.
Semantic Web Technologies
Type of course: Project (4 / 10 / 12 ECTS*)
Evaluation: Final exam / Project Prototype and Documentation
Level: Hauptstudium
Next Date: HWS 2008
Precondition: Programming in JAVA
Description: The term "semantic web" was coined in an article co-authored by Tim Berners-Lee, one of the inventors of the World Wide Web that was published in the magazine 'Scientific American' in 2001. It refered to new ways of using information on the web by making its meanung not only understandable by human users but also by computer programs. For this purpose, semantic web technologies provide advanced languages for representing the contents of information on the web in such a way that it can easily be parsed and interpreted by intelligent search engines as well as methods for creating and using the corresponding representations. Based on these technologies, computer programs are able to find, integrate information from different sources and draw conclusions from this information. In this course basic semantic web technologies are presented. In the practical part, participants will build their own semantic web application using existing tools technologies and test it on real Web data.
* Can be done as practical excercise in the context of the IMI Bachelor (10 ECTS) or as a regular 2+1 Course (4 ECTS) without the project part. The combination of the two amounts to a 2+4 course (12 ECTS).
Digital Libraries
Type of course: Lecture (4 ECTS points)
Evaluation: Oral Examination or Written Exam, Regular Excercises
Level: Hauptstudium
Next Date: HWS 08
Precondition: Interest in the topic
Description: Today, more and more literature, especially in the are of science and technology is available over the Web and people tend to make more and more use of this way of accessing literature due to the connected advanates such as timeliness of the contents and personal convenience. For libraries, e.g. at universities this developments implies the need to change their focus from traditional forms of information provision to the use of information technology as the prime channel of information provision. This lecture is concerned with the organizational and technical aspects. On the organisational side we will focus on legal and economic aspects of electronic document provision. The main part of the course will be devoted to the technical aspects covering topics such as the sue fo metadata and classification systems as well as techniques for document indexing and retrieval.