CS 475/675: Web Information Systems

Abstract

This course covers advanced topics in managing W eh-based resources, with a focus on building applications involving heterogeneous data. It will expose students to the following concept, topics, architectures, techniques, and technologies: • data, metadata, information, knowledge, and ontologies• unstructured, semi-structured, structured, multimodal, multimedia, and sensor data syntax,structural/representational, and semantic aspects of data• architectures: federated databases, mediator, information brokering• integration and analysis of Web-based information• automatic information/metadata extraction (entity identification/recognition, disambiguation)• Web search engines, social networks, Web 2.0• Semantic Web and Web 3.0• relevant Web standards and technologies• real-world examples that have major research projects and commercial product