Kenneth Paul Baclawski
Professor Baclawski's primary research area is ontology based computing. This includes research in the Semantic Web, formal (ontology-based) methods for software engineering and software modeling, ontology-based methods in bioinformatics, and high-performance semantically rich information retrieval.
Professor Baclawski holds 10 patents. He has authored over 80 professional articles in such journals and conferences as the National Academy of Science, Information Systems, the International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, and the International Semantic Web Conference. He has served on numerous peer review panels for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Association for Computing Machinery and has served on many program committees of research conferences. He serves as a consultant to companies and government laboratories, and has edited and written several books and research monographs.
Professor Baclawski has been involved in the development of the Semantic Web since it started. The Semantic Web is a layer above the World Wide Web that understands the meaning of information and can make valid inferences about it. See www.daml.org and www.w3.org/2001/sw/. The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is the language of the Semantic Web. He has developed a consistency checker that has the best performance of any consistency checker that supports OWL Full.
He is actively involved in applying ontology-based computing techniques in other domains, such as wireless networks and biomedical research.
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I am currently assigned to teach CS G270 Methods of Software Development in the Fall Semester 2008. The course will focus on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) using Java Web Services.
The Semantic Web: It's not just for searching anymore!
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